Recaps

Han Li confronted the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect with evidence that Elder Wang had colluded with the demonic path and captured him when he resisted. He spared the sect from destruction but imposed strict reforms and alliance oversight, leaving the demonic path’s response uncertain.

• The Flowing Cloud Sect’s leaders debated how to respond to the Alliance Treasury’s requisition, while Elder Li questioned Elder Wang about his suspicious late-night departure.
• Han Li arrived at Flowing Cloud Mountain with alliance forces and demanded that the sect surrender Elder Wang for betraying the alliance.
• Bamboo Viper and Black Bear presented evidence that Elder Wang had exchanged information and accepted payment from the demonic path.
• Han Li immobilized Elder Wang when he tried to resist, and Earth Division cultivators seized him for interrogation.
• The Flowing Cloud Sect Master accepted punishment, and Han Li ordered alliance control of the sect’s formation, resource oversight, loyalty inspections, and a thirty-percent annual levy.

Han Li’s interrogation of Shadow Fox exposed a conspiracy by the Ghost Spirit Sect, Joyful Union Sect, and Demonflame Sect, while tensions among the demonic sects grew. Rather than reveal the evidence openly, Han Li ordered Li Qing to spread altered reports and deepen their suspicions of one another.

• Black Bear and Bamboo Viper tortured Shadow Fox until he confessed that he was an operative of the Thousand Mechanisms Pavilion who had helped coordinate the attack on Han Li and the Dao Inquiry Pavilion.
• Shadow Fox identified Fairy Lianhua, a Ghost Spirit Sect emissary, and Elder Yan Luo as contributors to the conspiracy, and disclosed that the three sects had used Wang Lun and interference talismans.
• Venerable Bone Nether, Fairy Lianhua, and Yan Luo reacted to Shadow Fox’s capture by blaming one another and preparing to protect their own sects.
• Han Li rejected Li Qing’s suggestion to publicize the evidence and ordered him to leak altered testimony that would intensify distrust among the three demonic sects.

Fabricated rumors deepened mistrust among the Five Demonic Sects as Han Li consolidated the Righteous Path Alliance and united more than thirty factions into an anti-demon coalition. Han Li was unanimously elected supreme Alliance Leader and ordered the coalition to march against the Ghost Spirit Sect in ten days.

• Elder Fire Crow showed Yan Luo a doctored confession blaming the Joyful Union Sect and Ghost Spirit Sect for the failed attack, and Yan Luo grew furious with his allies.
• Fairy Lianhua learned that Venerable Bone Nether had criticized her sect while praising two others, and suspected the Ghost Spirit Sect was plotting to abandon her.
• Beast Venerable and Dream Illusion Scholar grew wary of the alliance, while rumors and delays worsened divisions among the Five Demonic Sects.
• Han Li strengthened the Righteous Path Alliance's military, defenses, intelligence network, and supplies on Star-Magnetic Peak.
• Han Li presented the Anti-Demon Proclamation, and more than thirty factions signed a pact forming a coalition under his command.
• Han Li ordered the coalition to assemble in ten days and named the Ghost Spirit Sect as its first target.

Han Li led the Righteous Path Alliance in swearing a blood oath and setting out with an army of 180,000 cultivators to attack the Ghost Spirit Sect Headquarters Altar at the Nether Abyss. As the army advanced, Han Li and the alliance’s leaders flew toward the battlefield’s forefront.

• The Righteous Path Alliance assembled 180,000 cultivators beneath Star-Magnetic Peak, with Han Li and more than thirty Nascent Soul cultivators overseeing the army.
• Han Li declared the alliance’s purpose and swore that its forces would not return until the demonic path was destroyed; the gathered cultivators echoed his oath.
• Han Li and the alliance’s leaders sealed the oath by adding their essence blood to spirit wine, which the army drank before marching.
• Han Li ordered the Heaven Division to lead, the Earth Division to guard the flanks, and the allied forces to advance toward the Nether Abyss.
• Han Li mounted the Magnetic Essence Griffin and flew toward the front of the advancing army, followed by Nangong Wan, Lu Yun, and the other leaders.

The Righteous Path Allied Army launched a probing assault on the Ghost Spirit Sect’s defenses at Ghost Gate Pass, fighting through the Corpse Swamp and forcing the demonic coalition to consider committing its reserves. The chapter ended as Venerable Bone Nether ordered the Netherworld Ghost Gate opened to summon the Yin Fiend Ghost King.

• Han Li planned a coordinated first assault using War Puppets, spirit beasts, talismans, and protective formations to test the Ghost Spirit Sect’s defenses.
• The alliance vanguard attacked through the Corpse Swamp, while the Ghost Spirit Sect answered with cannons, undead forces, and ghostly weapons.
• Lu Yun led the Azure Edge Battalion against a middle-stage Ghost Spirit Sect elder as the Giant Que Battalion and Army Breaker Battalion guarded the flanks.
• The Righteous Path Allied Army broke through the swamp and advanced within three li of Ghost Gate Pass, while Fairy Lianhua and the other allied sect leaders held back their reinforcements.
• Venerable Bone Nether ordered the Netherworld Ghost Gate activated to summon the Yin Fiend Ghost King, and a vast vortex opened in the ghost mist.

The Yin Fiend Ghost King emerged from the Nether Abyss, and the five demonic sects unleashed their reserves against the allied army. As the battlefield descended into chaos, Han Li sought a way to turn the tide while the Ghost King remained the greatest threat.

• Venerable Bone Nether awakened the Yin Fiend Ghost King, whose overwhelming pressure battered the allied army and forced Nangong Wan to reinforce its protective formation.
• The four other demonic sects unleashed their treasures, beasts, flames, and illusions, engulfing the allied army in a massive battle.
• Lu Yun and the Giant Que Battalion checked the Ghost King's attack, while Han Li and Nangong Wan struck Venerable Bone Nether and seriously injured him.
• The Magnetic Essence Griffin broke through the illusion trapping Han Li, and the Griffin and Han Li wounded the Vajra Demon Ape as allied troops attacked it and the Poison Dragons.
• Han Li fought across the battlefield while searching for the force directing the enemy, recognizing that the allied army had to eliminate the Ghost King to avoid catastrophic losses.

Han Li destroyed the Yin Fiend Ghost King by severing its spiritual connections to Venerable Bone Nether, turning the battle in the righteous army’s favor. He ordered the army to crush the Demonflame Sect and Ghost Spirit Sect while allowing the other three demonic sects to retreat.

• The Yin Fiend Ghost King shattered the Five-Element Spirit-Guarding Array, and its attack devastated the Giant Que Battalion and Azure Edge Battalion.
• Han Li spotted the spiritual power umbilical cords connecting the Ghost King to Venerable Bone Nether and charged the monster with Magnetic Essence Griffin while Lu Yun and Nangong Wan held Bone Nether back.
• Han Li severed three connections with the Great Evolutionary Sword Art, then struck the Ghost King’s exposed weakness and destroyed it from within.
• The Ghost King’s destruction left Venerable Bone Nether gravely wounded and plunged the demonic forces into chaos as the Five Demonic Sects turned against one another or prepared to retreat.
• Han Li ordered the righteous army to encircle the Demonflame Sect and Ghost Spirit Sect, offering the other three sects a chance to withdraw, and the army launched its assault.

After the Yin Fiend Ghost King’s destruction shattered the demonic alliance, Han Li directed the righteous army’s pursuit and annihilation of the fleeing Five Demonic Sects. At dawn, he ordered the 180,000-strong army to invade the Nether Abyss and raze the Ghost Spirit Sect’s headquarters.

• The Ghost Spirit Sect’s disciples fled after the Ghost King was destroyed and Venerable Bone Nether was gravely wounded, while Lu Yun blocked their escape with the Giant Sword Soaring-Heavens Formation.
• Yan Luo attacked Bone Nether and covered the Demonflame Sect’s retreat, while Fairy Lianhua, the Beast Venerable, and the Dream Illusion Scholar led their sects in separate escapes.
• Han Li issued orders for Lu Yun, Nangong Wan, Black Bear, Bamboo Viper, and Shi Mang to pursue and destroy the fleeing demonic sects.
• Griffin slowed Yan Luo’s Fire Crow with a Divine Sense Wave, allowing Lu Yun to sever one of its wings as Yan Luo fled northwest with the Demonflame Sect remnants.
• The righteous forces slaughtered Ghost Spirit Sect remnants and pursued the other sects throughout a day-and-night battle, leaving the Ghost Spirit Sect nearly annihilated.
• At dawn, Han Li ordered the army to advance into the Nether Abyss and raze the Ghost Spirit Sect’s headquarters altar.

Han Li and the Righteous Path Allied Army destroyed the Five Demonic Sects after Han Li and Griffin defeated Ancestor Ghost Wither and the Ghost Spirit Sect’s ancient treasure. In the Nether Abyss, Han Li found the third Heavenly Star Token Core Fragment and glimpsed a threat beyond the starry sky before ordering the victorious army home.

• Ancestor Ghost Wither awakened the Nine Nether Yellow Springs Token and unleashed its giant ghost hand against the allied army, killing thousands of front-line disciples.
• Han Li split the ghost hand with the Great Evolutionary Sword Art, while Griffin shattered the Bone Talisman and Han Li killed Ancestor Ghost Wither.
• The allied forces killed the leaders of the Demonflame Sect, Joyful Union Sect, Spirit Controlling Sect, and Thousand Illusions Sect, ending the Five Demonic Sects.
• Han Li found the third Heavenly Star Token Core Fragment in the Ghost Spirit Sect’s forbidden ground and saw a mural hinting at the Other Side of the Starry Sky.
• Han Li ordered the fallen honored and buried before commanding the Righteous Path Allied Army to return in triumph.

Han Li led the Righteous Path Alliance home in triumph after destroying the Five Demonic Sects, then used the victory ceremony to expose and punish the Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s ties to demonic remnants. He warned his inner circle that more powerful forces might have orchestrated the conflict and ordered them to consolidate Heavenly South and investigate the threats ahead.

• Han Li returned from the Nether Abyss at the head of the allied army as crowds celebrated, while he noticed wary and possibly hostile gazes among the onlookers.
• At the triumph ceremony, Han Li announced rewards for the soldiers and support for fallen fighters’ families, then warned that demonic agents and foreign enemies still threatened Heavenly South.
• Han Li exposed an Azure Mist Branch steward for selling Marrow-Eroding Poison Pills to demonic remnants and confiscated the Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s Heavenly South holdings for three years instead of killing its master.
• Han Li told his inner circle that the Five Demonic Sects might have been pawns or nourishment for Ancient Beings and other hidden forces.
• Han Li ordered the Righteous Path Alliance to absorb the Five Demonic Sects’ territories, strengthen its governing power, and send Shadow Sentinels to investigate Myriad Demon Valley, the Earth Abyss, and the Far Western Desert.

After the Five Demonic Sects’ destruction, Han Li used their vast spoils and the promise of supreme cultivation inheritances to bring the Heavenly South’s righteous factions under the Star Palace. More than thirty factions agreed to join, while Han Li prepared to confront threats beyond the region.

• Shi Mang and other stewards reported the enormous wealth and cultivation resources confiscated from the Five Demonic Sects.
• Han Li announced that joining the Star Palace would let eligible disciples exchange merit points for the first four levels of the Great Evolutionary Sword Art, while major contributors could gain access to the Star Essence Soul-Refining Art.
• Han Li promised to help improve existing faction techniques and give Star Palace members priority in resource allocations.
• More than thirty faction representatives pledged to join the Star Palace and follow Han Li’s commands.
• Han Li ordered the factions to coordinate their integration and redirect pooled resources toward the front lines, elite cultivation, and external threats.

Han Li welcomed envoys from the Heavenly Dao Alliance and Nine Nations Alliance to the Star Palace’s founding ceremony, recognizing that they had come to assess his new power. He prepared a display of the Palace’s military strength and planned a spar between Mo Ling and Jian Wuxin, while offering selected alliance members a glimpse of two supreme cultivation arts.

• Han Li used a Form-Transformation Pill to turn the Magnetic Essence Griffin into a young man and named him Mo Ling.
• Jian Wuxin of the Heavenly Dao Alliance and Wei Wuya of the Nine Nations Alliance arrived to congratulate the Star Palace and requested to attend its founding ceremony.
• Han Li scheduled the ceremony for three days later and resolved to use it to demonstrate the Star Palace’s strength and set its terms.
• Lu Yun and Nangong Wan warned Han Li about Jian Wuxin’s swordsmanship and Wei Wuya’s formidable cultivation.
• Han Li ordered the divisions to prepare a military display and instructed Mo Ling to spar with Jian Wuxin without injuring him.
• Han Li gave Lu Yun and Nangong Wan Jade Slips containing portions of the Great Evolutionary Sword Art and Star Essence Soul-Refining Art to show selected alliance representatives after the ceremony.

The Star Palace held its founding ceremony and presented its wealth and military strength to the gathered factions of Heavenly South. Han Li sent Mo Ling to face the Ancient Sword Sect, and Mo Ling’s victory left Jian Wuxin and Wei Wuya wary of the Star Palace’s hidden power.

• The Star Palace proclaimed its dominion at Star-Magnetic Peak as Han Li stood with Nangong Wan, Lu Yun, Zhou Tong, and Mo Ling before the assembled factions.
• Han Li offered cooperation to the Heavenly Dao Alliance and the Nine Nations Alliance, then displayed seven top-grade spirit stones.
• The Heaven Division battalions demonstrated their coordinated sword formations before Han Li challenged the Ancient Sword Sect to a friendly exchange.
• Jian Wuxin sent Elder Qing Song to face Mo Ling, who broke Qing Song’s Ancient Sword Communion Art with a single finger strike.
• Jian Wuxin and Wei Wuya recognized Mo Ling as a Star Palace trump card, while Han Li watched their reactions with a faint smile.

Han Li received a system quest to conquer the Mulan Grassland within five years and offered the Brahma Saint True Demonic Art as a reward for joining the campaign. He secured the Heavenly Dao Alliance and Nine Nations Alliance’s agreement to form a joint expedition, leaving the Star Palace preparing to march north toward Mulan and Great Jin.

• Han Li’s system assigned him a five-year quest to conquer the Mulan Grassland, whose twelve tribes had over a hundred Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Han Li told Jian Wuxin and Wei Wuya that Mulan bordered Great Jin and offered the first three layers of the Brahma Saint True Demonic Art as a campaign reward.
• Jian Wuxin and Wei Wuya raised concerns about Mulan’s strength, its shamanic arts, and how the allied army and rewards would be managed.
• Han Li proposed a Northern Heaven Expeditionary Army, a Three Alliances Joint Council, his temporary supreme command, and rewards distributed by merit.
• Jian Wuxin agreed on behalf of the Heavenly Dao Alliance, and Wei Wuya agreed on behalf of the Nine Nations Alliance.
• Han Li resolved to conquer Mulan and reach Great Jin, suspecting the system’s reward might also guide him toward a greater purpose.

Han Li used the Star Palace’s postwar recovery to bind Heavenly South’s factions through shared resources, cultivation inheritances, and military service while planning a three-year buildup before marching north. The chapter ended with him watching the prosperous altar and waiting to see which hidden enemies would reveal themselves.

• Shi Mang reported that the Star Palace had restored its forces, reorganized the former Five Demonic Sects’ resources, and opened selected inheritances to allied disciples.
• Mo Ling trained new elites from the Star Palace, the Heavenly Dao Alliance, and the Nine Nations Alliance in battle formations and cultivation.
• Jian Wuxin agreed to exchange Ancient Sword Seeds for access to the Great Evolutionary Sword Art and expeditionary army positions, while Wei Wuya sent the Transformation Intent Sect’s outer disciples and affiliated clans into the army for access to the Brahma Saint True Demonic Art.
• The Star Palace offered Merit Tokens and cultivation benefits to smaller sects and clans that joined the Northern Heaven Expeditionary Army’s support and resource-gathering efforts.
• Han Li planned to spend three years consolidating resources, training troops, and preparing Mo Ling before marching north, while watching for schemers to emerge.

During the Star Palace’s three-year recovery period, its allies refined their skills and prepared supplies for the coming campaign against Mulan. Han Li focused on strengthening his spiritual sense while ordering Mo Ling to quietly investigate suspicious buyers of Mulan goods.

• Zhou Tong oversaw the Yellow Division Pill Hall’s production of pills and recorded an improved Essence Condensation Pill formula for the army.
• Jian Wuxin opened the Ancient Sword Mound to selected alliance disciples, and Feng Wuhen worked to combine the Great Evolutionary Sword Art with the Ancient Sword Sect’s techniques.
• Wei Wuya sent Yun Miao and ten disciples to deliver pills to the Star Palace, observe its Pill Dao, and obtain the fourth level of the Star Essence Soul-Refining Art.
• Han Li studied the Star Essence Soul-Refining Art and resolved to perfect its sixth level over three years before confronting Mulan.
• Mo Ling reported that unknown parties were paying for Mulan-specific goods, and Han Li ordered the Mystic Division to let the transactions continue while watching the middlemen.

Han Li left Heavenly South and crossed the dangerous Space Rift Zone to reach the Outer Sea of the Chaotic Star Sea, intending to meet Ling Yuling and recover what belonged to the Star Palace. After Han Li sent word of his arrival, Ling Yuling urgently welcomed him to Heavenly Star Island.

• Han Li entrusted Nangong Wan, Lu Yun, Zhou Tong, and their fellow Daoists with Heavenly South’s affairs while he went to the Chaotic Star Sea.
• Han Li crossed the Space Rift Zone alone and reached the Outer Sea after five dangerous days.
• Han Li concealed most of his aura on a deserted island and sent Ling Yuling a message announcing his arrival.
• Ling Yuling contacted Han Li, welcomed him back, and urged him to come to Heavenly Star Island.
• Han Li set out for Heavenly Star Island, sensing from Ling Yuling’s urgency that the Chaotic Star Sea faced trouble.

Han Li returned to Heavenly Star Island and entrusted Ling Yuling with Mo Chenzi’s remnant soul. He used his strength to quell opposition within the Star Palace and left its hall masters cowed, while Ling Yuling secured his support for the Star Palace and his campaign against the Mulan Grassland.

• Han Li arrived at Tianxing City and gave Ling Yuling the Soul-Nourishing Jade Box containing Mo Chenzi’s remnant soul.
• Ling Yuling explained that the Star Palace was weakened and its hall masters were forming factions against his authority, then asked Han Li to help restore order.
• Han Li agreed to meet the Star Palace elders and hall masters before deciding whether to help Ling Yuling.
• The Heavenly Pivot Hall Master questioned Han Li’s strength, so Han Li destroyed a starfall iron pillar with the Great Evolutionary Sword Art: Star-Pointing.
• Han Li warned the hall masters not to obstruct his campaign or disrespect Ling Yuling, and they fell silent as Ling Yuling asserted his authority.

Han Li exposed the Three Halls’ corruption and forced their masters to choose between joining his campaign against the Mulan Grassland or being relocated to Heavenly South. Ling Yuling accepted Han Li’s plan to purge the Star Palace and prepare its forces for the expedition.

• Han Li spent three months investigating the Star Palace and discovered that the Three Halls had become powerful, corrupt factions undermining Ling Yuling’s authority.
• Han Li convened a secret meeting with Ling Yuling and the Three Halls Masters, then announced his plan to campaign against the Mulan Grassland and open a route to Great Jin.
• Ling Yuling presented detailed evidence of the Three Halls’ fraud and illicit dealings, while Han Li offered their masters a choice between joining the expedition and being relocated with their families to Heavenly South.
• The Heavenly Jade Hall Master accepted the expedition proposal, and the other hall masters followed after Han Li explained the troops’ role and promised posts for those who rendered meritorious service.
• Ling Yuling agreed to send the Three Halls’ elites and the families of uncooperative elders to Heavenly South within three months, backing Han Li’s reorganization plan.

Han Li exchanged treasures with Ling Yuling, then led three thousand Star Palace elites from the Chaotic Star Sea toward Heavenly South. At their first stop on Cold Abyss Island, he encountered suspicious local powers and ordered his force to remain on high alert as the journey home began.

• Han Li gave Ling Yuling a Nascent Soul Breakthrough Pill, nine top-grade spirit stones, and falling star iron mother in exchange for spirit stones, demon cores, and the Heavenly Star Token.
• Ling Yuling handed over thirty percent of the Chaotic Star Sea’s reserves and granted Han Li access to troops and teleportation arrays.
• Han Li departed Tianxing City with three thousand Three Halls elites, the three hall masters, seven nascent soul elders, and Mo Ling.
• Han Li used the Heavenly Star Token to teleport his force to Cold Abyss Island, where the Mystic Ice Palace Master and two suspicious Heavenly South cultivators awaited him.
• Han Li gave the Mystic Ice Palace Master a storage bag of spirit stones and pills, then ordered his troops to kill anyone who obstructed their journey.

Han Li crossed the dangerous Space Rifts alone and reached a barren island where the Sea Shark Alliance and Mulan Hunting Envoys ambushed him. He swiftly defeated them and continued toward the Star Palace’s secret Teleportation Array, aware that the Mulan Grassland had extended its influence into the Chaotic Star Sea.

• Han Li traversed the Space Rifts for five days, using the Great Evolutionary Sword Art and his spatial instincts to evade hazards and kill a Void Predator Beast.
• Han Li arrived on a barren island and met Alliance Leader Cang Jing, the Sea Shark Alliance cultivators, and three Mulan Hunting Envoys.
• Cang Jing attacked Han Li with a Bone Spear as the Mulan Hunting Envoys struck at his Divine Soul with their Witch Drums.
• Han Li wounded one Mulan Hunting Envoy, killed another, and destroyed the Sea Shark Alliance’s Blood Shark Array before defeating Cang Jing.
• Han Li warned the surviving attackers and left for the Star Palace’s secret Teleportation Array.

Han Li returned to the Heavenly South Star Palace with three thousand cultivators from the Chaotic Star Sea and ordered preparations for a campaign against the Mulan Grassland. As the Star Palace reorganized its forces and strengthened its defenses, Han Li returned to cultivation while ordering more intelligence gathering.

• Han Li arrived at Star-Magnetic Peak with three thousand Chaotic Star Sea cultivators, where Nangong Wan, Lu Yun, Zhou Tong, Shi Mang, and the Heaven Division welcomed him.
• Han Li assigned Lu Yun to combine the Heaven Division with the Chaotic Star Sea troops and train them into an obedient Northern Heaven Expeditionary Army.
• Han Li ordered Shi Mang to use the fifty million High-Grade Spirit Stones and Demon Cores to supply the army, and directed Nangong Wan to improve formations and establish a Pure World Lotus Formation.
• Han Li ordered Black Bear and Bamboo Viper to expand surveillance of the Mulan Grassland and keep the detained Chaotic Star Sea hall masters under watch.
• Han Li told Mo Ling to prioritize intelligence on the Mulan Grassland, then returned to the Quiet Chamber to cultivate the Star Essence Soul-Refining Art.

Han Li assigned the Star Palace’s leaders four major tasks to prepare the Northern Heaven Expeditionary Army while he disguised himself as a low-level traveling merchant and departed for the Mulan Grassland on a reconnaissance mission. He left Mo Ling in charge, and the palace’s preparations for war continued under strict discipline.

• Han Li told Mo Ling he would travel alone to the Mulan Grassland and ordered Mo Ling to command the Headquarters Altar and reorganize the army’s mixed units.
• Han Li ordered Nangong Wan to connect the regions’ spirit veins and adapt the army’s formations and strongholds to the grassland’s conditions.
• Han Li ordered Shi Mang to produce standardized pills, weapons, and armor, and instructed the three hall masters to support Mo Ling and monitor their dependents.
• Han Li used the Thousand Faces Transformation Talisman to disguise himself as an old Foundation Establishment late-stage traveling merchant and left Star-Magnetic Peak.
• Mo Ling took command and warned the assembled core members that anyone who obstructed the war preparations would die.

Disguised as an old merchant, Han Li infiltrated Mulan territory and learned that the Wind Wolf Tribe’s altar was tied to unrest beneath the grassland. After reaching the tribe and secretly saving a girl from a cursed warrior, he was spotted by the late-stage Nascent Soul high priest.

• Han Li entered Blackstone Pass disguised as an elderly Foundation Establishment merchant and met Bater, the Wind Wolf Tribe high priest’s grandson, while trading for Wolfblood Rice and Wind Wolf Hide Talismans.
• Bater warned Han Li that the tribe’s shamans were tense, spies had been caught, and something underground seemed close to awakening.
• Han Li studied and dismantled Wind Wolf Shamanic Arts with his sword qi, then crossed the Blackwind Plain while evading a Mulan patrol.
• Han Li reached the Wind Wolf Tribe’s settlement and hid near its altar, where he sensed the late-stage Nascent Soul high priest and eight late-stage Core Formation shamans.
• When a warrior afflicted by the Blood Wolf Curse attacked a tribal girl, Han Li struck the warrior with sword qi and stopped him.
• The high priest sensed Han Li’s hidden position and confronted him with overwhelming shamanic pressure.

Han Li, disguised as an elderly traveling merchant, resisted the Wind Wolf Tribe high priest’s attack and used the Great Evolutionary Sword Art to stop the tribe’s altar from collapsing. He offered to inspect the altar further in exchange for supplies and information about the border of Great Jin.

• The high priest questioned Han Li and attacked him with Soul-Seizing Light, but Han Li’s Star Essence Soul-Refining Art neutralized it.
• A beast’s remnant soul began awakening beneath the Wind Altar, shaking the valley and threatening to break the seal.
• Han Li stepped onto a weak point in the Wind Barrier and used Star-Pointing to sever a vital rune node, redirecting the beast’s force and restoring the seal.
• The high priest thanked Han Li and asked his name, but Han Li maintained his merchant disguise and declined to identify himself.
• Han Li offered to inspect the altar’s foundations in exchange for Wind Wolf Grass, earth vein stone marrow, and rumors about the border of Great Jin.