Recaps

Han Li saved the Wind Wolf Tribe from the Earthbound Spirit, learned that the Holy Temple and Yin Luo Sect were connected to a conspiracy involving Great Jin, and agreed to take the tribe under his protection. After an emergency message revealed that the Star Palace was under attack, he hurried toward the space rift, where Yin Luo Sect cultivators ambushed him for the Void Sky Cauldron’s secrets.

• Han Li disrupted the seal’s rune array and temporarily forced the Earthbound Spirit back underground, saving the Wind Wolf Tribe from immediate destruction.
• Han Li revealed his identity to Wu Mu and learned that the Holy Temple and the Tuwu People had sealed the borders after a deity transformation battle in Great Jin, amid rumors of a Netherworld Land rift and Yin Luo Sect activity.
• Mo Ling told Han Li that the Suanni King had attacked the Star Palace, gravely wounded Ling Yuling, and ambushed Shi Mang, while rumors of Han Li’s death stirred unrest in Heavenly South.
• Wu Mu pledged the Wind Wolf Tribe’s allegiance to Han Li and gave him an Image-Recording Jade Slip showing Yin Luo Sect cultivators trading living souls with a Holy Temple priest beside a Void Sky Cauldron replica.
• Han Li set out for the space rift, but three Yin Luo Sect cultivators blocked his way and demanded the secrets of the Void Sky Cauldron.

Han Li defeated three Yin Luo Sect cultivators in a Space Rift, destroying their treasures and collecting their spoils. He continued north, concluding that a wider conspiracy linked the Yin Luo Sect, Great Jin, and other lands, and resolved to unite the Heavenly South before confronting Great Jin.

• Han Li used the Great Evolutionary Sword Art to damage the gaunt cultivator’s Ten-Thousand-Soul Banner and withstand the three cultivators’ attacks with the Azure Bamboo Sword Formation.
• Han Li pierced the Yin Thunder Pearl cultivator’s defenses and killed him with a strike that destroyed his nascent soul.
• The gaunt cultivator summoned a Soul-Refining Demon God, but Han Li split it with Spacetime Slash and killed the cultivator and his escaping nascent soul.
• Han Li pursued and annihilated the last Yin Luo Sect cultivator with the Azure Bamboo greatsword, then collected the three cultivators’ treasures.
• Han Li entered the Space Rift and resolved to quell the chaos in the Chaotic Star Sea and unite the Heavenly South before challenging Great Jin.

Han Li returned to the Chaotic Star Sea and rescued Ling Yuling and the Star Palace from the Suanni King, the Sea Flood Dragon King, and the Sea Shark Alliance’s Third Prince. He left Ling Yuling in charge while he returned to Heavenly South to prepare for war, promising to settle accounts when he came back.

• Han Li arrived near Tianxing City and discovered the Star Palace under attack, with Ling Yuling fighting the two kings and the Third Prince.
• Han Li shattered the Third Prince’s Ghost-Crying Banner and drove back the Sea Flood Dragon King’s attacks with the Great Evolutionary Sword Art.
• Han Li stopped the Suanni King from killing Ling Yuling and wounded him with Chaos Sword Qi.
• Han Li destroyed the Sea Flood Dragon King’s Mystic Ice Soul, forcing the two kings and the Third Prince to flee.
• Han Li gave Ling Yuling the Nascent Soul Breakthrough Pill and spirit stones, ordered him to oversee the Star Palace with military affairs coordinated through the Three Alliances Joint Council, and departed for Heavenly South.

Han Li returned from the Chaotic Star Sea, reorganized his forces, and led a hundred-thousand-strong army toward the Mulan Grassland to attack the Heavenly Lan Holy Temple. The Heavenly Azure Divine Master mobilized the twelve tribes and activated the grassland’s protective array as the war began.

• Han Li returned to Star-Magnetic Peak and showed Lu Yun recordings of his victories in the Mulan Grassland and the Chaotic Star Sea.
• Lu Yun reported that the expeditionary army had been reorganized, with Wu Mu agreeing to serve as its vanguard.
• Han Li ordered the army to march in three days and named the Heavenly Lan Holy Temple as its target.
• Han Li led a hundred thousand cultivators north with Nangong Wan, Mo Ling, Lu Yun, Shi Mang, Wu Mu, and Bater.
• The Heavenly Azure Divine Master learned that the Wind Wolf Tribe had rebelled and ordered the twelve tribes to activate the Heavenly Azure Protective Grand Array.

Han Li confronted the Mulan forces at Blackstone Pass as Lu Yun’s vanguard began its assault. While the armies clashed, three peak late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators and a still more powerful presence approached from the grassland.

• Han Li arrived alone before Blackstone Pass and suppressed the Mulan shaman forces with his late-stage Nascent Soul aura.
• Han Li sensed twelve powerful witchpower fluctuations converging on the pass, including an aura that seemed to belong to a Deity Transformation cultivator.
• Mo Ling arrived and asked whether they should support the vanguard, but Han Li told him to let Lu Yun’s troops fight first.
• Lu Yun led the ten-thousand-strong vanguard in a Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin attack against Blackstone Pass.
• The Mulan defenders fired their Witchpower Catapults and Soul-Piercing Arrows, and the two armies collided in a bloody battle.
• Han Li watched as three peak late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators and a vast ancient aura advanced from the north.

Han Li faced the Heavenly Azure Divine Master and the Holy Temple’s two champions outside Blackstone Pass, repelling their attacks with overwhelming swordsmanship and spiritual sense. When the Divine Master began sacrificing Mulan warriors, Han Li unleashed the Azure Bamboo Peak Range, leaving the battle at the moment his sword strike silenced heaven and earth.

• The Heavenly Azure Divine Master arrived with the Ice Soul Witch Emperor and the Ghost Soul Witch Venerable, and Han Li stopped Mo Ling from attacking them.
• The three champions used the Three Talents Witch Fiend Formation to attack Han Li, but his spiritual sense disrupted the Ghost Soul Witch Venerable and his sword qi shattered and redirected the Ice Soul Witch Emperor’s icicles.
• The Heavenly Azure Divine Master summoned the Demon Suppression Altar and struck at Han Li, who deflected the seal with his Sword Domain Unification and destroyed Blackstone Pass with the redirected blow.
• Han Li offered to spare the Mulan Grassland if it submitted to the Star Palace, but the Heavenly Azure Divine Master refused and began sacrificing the Mulan warriors.
• Han Li drew the Water-Magnetic Sword and unleashed the Great Evolutionary Sword Art: Azure Bamboo Peak Range as the sacrificial witchcraft filled the sky.

After Han Li’s victory at Blackstone Pass, the Mulan forces retreated behind the Heavenly Chasm Wind Wall, stalling the Heavenly South army’s advance. Han Li chose blockade, counter-infiltration, and covert schemes to trap the Mulan tribes and prevent their escape into Great Jin.

• Granny Witchbone ordered the Mulan tribes to retreat behind the Heavenly Chasm Wind Wall and activate its deadly formation.
• Lu Yun reported that the wind wall resisted the allied army’s probes, while Nangong Wan warned of an underground river leading to Great Jin.
• Mo Ling proposed a forced assault, but Han Li rejected it and ordered a prolonged blockade with new supply routes.
• Han Li ordered Nangong Wan to lay formations around the wind wall and monitor the underground river, while Lu Yun and Mo Ling organized hunting squads to ambush Mulan infiltrators.
• Han Li directed the Mystic Division to spread rumors of an alliance between the Mulan and Star Palace and of his injury, and ordered it to secretly track Granny Witchbone if she fled toward Great Jin.

Mo Ling ambushed and killed a squad of Shadow Wolf assassins and a Yin Luo Sect Nascent Soul cultivator, then relayed orders to withdraw and prepare a formation. Han Li used the Star-Magnetic Compass to tighten a hundred-li net around covert Mulan Sacred Temple and Yin Luo Sect agents moving toward Soulfall Valley.

• Mo Ling intercepted nine Shadow Wolf assassins near Soulbreak Cliff and killed their leader before they could reach the granary.
• Mo Ling killed a second assassin, then discovered a hidden Soul-Splitting Restriction and a Nascent Soul Early Stage attacker from the Yin Luo Sect.
• Mo Ling crushed the Yin Luo Sect cultivator's Bone Shield and destroyed his nascent soul with Chaos Sword Qi, ending the battle in under ten breaths.
• Mo Ling ordered the counter-hunting squads to retreat toward Soulfall Valley and told the lookout to inform Lu Yun and Nangong Wan to activate the Nine-Palace Lost Track Formation early.
• Han Li watched the enemy movements on the Star-Magnetic Compass and ordered the Heaven Division Third Battalion and Earth Division formations to close a vast net around the covert agents.

The allied army lured Granny Witchbone and two Yin Luo Sect cultivators into its trap at Soulfall Valley, where Mo Ling revealed his true form and defeated them. Han Li ordered the army to rest for three days before marching on the Heavenly Lan Holy Temple.

• Nangong Wan and the allied army prepared a vast formation around Soulfall Valley to weaken and trap their enemies.
• Granny Witchbone led two Yin Luo Sect cultivators and a Witch God phantom into the valley, where they attacked Mo Ling.
• Nangong Wan activated the Yin-Yang Chaos Annihilation Formation, disrupting the attackers’ strikes and spiritual power.
• Mo Ling transformed into his Magnetic Essence Griffin form, overcame the Witch God’s bloodlight, and killed one Yin Luo Sect cultivator.
• Han Li used the Great Evolutionary Sword Art to stop the second cultivator’s escape, and Mo Ling killed him before approaching the weakened Granny Witchbone.
• Han Li ordered the army to rest for three days, then march on the Heavenly Lan Holy Temple.

After the Mulan Holy Temple’s defeat, its Saintess emerged from three centuries of seclusion with power nearing Deity Transformation. Han Li sensed the threat, learned of her ancestral spirit bloodlines, and ordered his army to march on the Holy Temple in three days.

• The Sky Wolf Tribe chief rallied the despairing Mulan cultivators by reminding them that the Saintess remained in seclusion at the Heavenly Azure Eye.
• The Saintess shattered the twelve Witch Power Cores, absorbed their power, and emerged from the abyss with an aura approaching Deity Transformation.
• Han Li detected the Saintess’s awakening and ordered his army to prepare for combat while summoning Wu Mu for information.
• Wu Mu explained that the Saintess possessed silver-moon and crimson-gold ancestral spirit bloodlines and might awaken the Primordial Sky Wolf.
• Han Li ordered the army to march on the Heavenly Lan Holy Temple in three days so he could face the Saintess himself.

The Heavenly South allied army reached the Heavenly Lan Holy Temple, where Yue Li emerged from seclusion and challenged Han Li to withdraw. Han Li refused, and Yue Li began summoning the Ancestral Spirit as their battle became inevitable.

• Han Li led the hundred-thousand-strong allied army across the Mulan Grassland, defeating tribes that tried to stop its advance.
• Granny Witchbone pleaded for the Holy Maiden to act as the Bone-Eroding Wind Wall and Heavenly Lan Holy Temple fell into ruin.
• Yue Li emerged from the Heavenly Azure Eye, revealed herself as the three hundred and sixty-fifth Holy Maiden, and demanded that Han Li withdraw from Mulan.
• Han Li rejected Yue Li's terms, declared that he would conquer the Mulan Grassland, and rallied his army to attack.
• Yue Li invoked her Silver Moon Scarlet Eyes and summoned the Ancestral Spirit, unleashing a power that stirred the grassland's earth veins.

Yue Li summoned the Silver Moon Red-Eyed Heavenly Wolf and used the Grasslands’ earth-vein power to trap Han Li in an Ice-Fire Millstone. Han Li cut through her domain and wounded the ancestral spirit, but Yue Li vowed that the Mulan Sacred Temple had more reserves to draw on.

• Yue Li summoned the Silver Moon Red-Eyed Heavenly Wolf’s projection and formed an Ice-Fire Absolute Domain around the Holy Temple.
• Han Li countered with the Great Evolutionary Sword Art, raising Azure Bamboo Peak against Yue Li’s domain.
• Yue Li turned the domain into an Ice-Fire Millstone and used the Grasslands’ earth veins to crush Han Li’s sword formation.
• Han Li fused the Seventy-Two Azure Bamboo Cloud-Hive Swords with Azure Bamboo Peak and cleaved the millstone apart with Sword Evolution Returning to One.
• Han Li’s sword strike shattered the ancestral spirit’s claws and wounded its chest, weakening Yue Li through their connection.
• Han Li prepared another Chaos Sword Qi strike as Yue Li warned that the Mulan Sacred Temple had further reserves.

Yue Li awakened the Origin Bright Lamp, whose purifying power overwhelmed Han Li and Mo Ling and routed the Heavenly South allied army. Han Li escaped to Blackstone Pass and vowed to return after reaching deity transformation to kill Yue Li and take the lamp.

• Yue Li sacrificed her essence blood to awaken the Origin Bright Lamp beneath the Heavenly Lan Holy Temple, suppressing the allied army and Han Li’s powers.
• Han Li and Mo Ling attacked the lamp with a spacetime sword strike and a chaos light pillar, but its radiance purified both attacks and wounded them.
• Han Li ordered the army to retreat, while Nangong Wan and Lu Yun’s forces tried and failed to hold back the lamp’s advancing ripples.
• Yue Li’s power devastated the retreating army, and fewer than sixty percent of its hundred thousand soldiers reached Heavenly South’s border.
• Han Li reached Blackstone Pass with the gravely wounded Mo Ling and vowed to return after entering deity transformation to kill Yue Li and seize the Origin Bright Lamp.

After the disastrous defeat on the Mulan Grassland, Han Li assessed his injuries and the Star Palace’s losses, then resolved to pursue Deity Transformation by cultivating the Brahma Saint True Demonic Art. He ordered the Star Palace sealed and its allies summoned while he prepared for seclusion.

• Lu Yun, Nangong Wan, and the surviving Star Palace forces tended the wounded and mourned their losses at the Headquarters Altar while Mo Ling remained gravely injured.
• Han Li examined the lingering Dao injury left by the Origin Bright Lamp and recognized that its purification power approached the level of rules.
• Han Li decided to cultivate the First Three Layers of the Brahma Saint True Demonic Art to strengthen himself and seek a breakthrough to Deity Transformation.
• Han Li ordered the Star Palace Main Altar sealed, placed Nangong Wan, Lu Yun, Zhou Tong, and Shi Mang in charge of its affairs, and directed Zhou Tong to treat Mo Ling.
• Han Li ordered letters sent to Wei Wuya and Jian Wuxin, inviting them to discuss strategy against Mulan and warning that he would defend the Heavenly South.
• Han Li returned to the quiet chamber and began preparing to cultivate the Brahma Saint True Demonic Art.

Han Li began cultivating the Brahma Saint True Demonic Art in seclusion, using demon cores and the Heavenly Star Token Core Fragments to heal and strengthen himself. As the Star Palace faced growing threats and rival forces waited for Han Li to falter, he neared completion of the art’s first layer and saw a possible path to Deity Transformation.

• Han Li studied the Brahma Saint True Demonic Art and began refining eighth-tier demon cores with true demon qi, enduring severe pain as his body transformed.
• Nangong Wan, Lu Yun, Zhou Tong, and Shi Mang worked to maintain the Star Palace, while plunder, assassinations, and defections threatened its weakened position.
• Wei Wuya and Jian Wuxin ordered their alliances to prepare and avoid provoking the Star Palace while they waited to see whether Han Li survived.
• Ling Yuling approached a breakthrough as the Suanni King, the Sea Flood Dragon King, and the Sea Shark Alliance continued probing the Chaotic Star Sea.
• An elder of the Yin Luo Sect ordered agents to watch Yue Li, Han Li, the Mulan Grassland, and the Heavenly South, planning to act when the time was right.
• Han Li refined three demon cores, strengthened his body and healing Dao foundation, and anticipated completing the first layer and reaching toward Deity Transformation.

Han Li completed the first level of the Brahma Saint True Demonic Art and used a strand of sword qi to defend a Star Palace spirit mine, warning off hostile forces. As he prepared to advance to the second level, Ling Yuling warned Zhou Tong that a traitor was hidden in the Star Palace Main Altar’s Pill Hall.

• Han Li finished Flesh and Skin Refining, restoring much of his body and gaining initial control of true demon qi.
• Han Li sent sword qi to the spirit mine, where it killed three Core Formation raiders and deterred further attacks on Star Palace holdings.
• Wei Wuya and Jian Wuxin heard of Han Li’s strike and arranged to visit him, while the Yin Luo Sect ordered closer surveillance and activated a hidden pawn.
• Ling Yuling sent Zhou Tong a warning about a traitor in the Star Palace Main Altar as he tended to the unconscious Mo Ling.
• Zhou Tong searched the Pill Hall and guards, realizing a concealed enemy might be operating inside the Star Palace.

Han Li endured the dangerous bone-tempering stage of the Brahma Saint True Demonic Art while Zhou Tong uncovered signs of an infiltrator targeting the Star Palace’s earth veins. A disturbance in the Heavenly Star Token fragment triggered a demonic backlash in Han Li, who discovered a fading imprint and identified the Yin Luo Sect as the culprit.

• Han Li used Brahma Saint intent and the Spacetime Dao Fruit to control the painful transformation of his bones as true demon qi spread through his body.
• Zhou Tong investigated the Heaven-Grade storeroom and ordered a covert inquiry into Elder Shi Mang and Zhao Kui after learning Zhao Kui had guarded a shipment of deep-sea dark ice iron.
• Zhou Tong sensed an abnormality in the Purefire Channel, realized an infiltrator might be approaching the Palace Master's seclusion through the earth veins, and sounded the Star Palace alarm.
• A disturbance in the third core fragment of the Heavenly Star Token sent Han Li’s true demon qi surging toward his sea of consciousness and triggered a demonic backlash.
• Han Li sensed a fading, alien imprint on the fragment and recognized it as belonging to the Yin Luo Sect.

Lu Yun ambushed Zhao Kui as he infiltrated the earth veins with a plan to endanger Han Li, but Zhao Kui escaped into the molten cavern and triggered a crisis beneath the Star-Gazing Pavilion. As Han Li battled demonic backlash intensified by the surging earthfire, Mo Ling’s spiritual sense helped him resist, and the earth veins suddenly reversed or detonated beneath him.

• Zhao Kui led two men through the Purefire Channel toward the Heavenly Pivot Earth Eye, intending to use a concealed object to disrupt the earth veins and attack Han Li.
• Lu Yun ambushed Zhao Kui, fought him in the passage, and watched him escape into the Earthfire Molten Cavern using a restriction-breaking Bone Talisman.
• Lu Yun warned Nangong that Zhao Kui had infiltrated the earth veins, prompting the Earth Division to raise the alarm and seal the earth-vein nodes.
• Han Li’s demonic nature overwhelmed him as the earth veins shook and torrents of earthfire fiend qi surged into the Star-Gazing Pavilion.
• Mo Ling reached Han Li through their spiritual connection, and the awakened Heavenly Star Token fragment helped him rally his will and suppress the demonic flames.
• A tremendous energy storm erupted around Han Li as Zhao Kui cried out that the earth veins were flowing backward, followed by an even more violent tremor beneath the pavilion.

Han Li survived the destruction of the Star-Gazing Pavilion by absorbing the magma and earth-vein fiend energy, perfecting the second level of the Brahma Saint True Demonic Art and crushing the Star Palace’s attackers. With his demonic nature worsening and deity transformation still out of reach, he delegated the Star Palace’s defense and unrest to his allies before entering seclusion to seek a breakthrough.

• Han Li absorbed the magma and earth-vein fiend energy, overcame the demonic backlash, and perfected Sinew and Bone Tempering.
• Han Li killed a Core Formation intruder with his bare hand and used the Great Evolutionary Sword Art to kill a fleeing rogue cultivator.
• Han Li learned from Nangong Wan and Lu Yun that the Star Palace had lost more than half its forces and faced unrest, Mulan, and uncertain alliances.
• Han Li ordered Nangong Wan to act as palace master, Lu Yun to reorganize the army, and Zhou Tong and Shi Mang to repair the altar and refine pills.
• Han Li announced that he would enter seclusion to refine his true demon qi and seek a path to deity transformation.

Han Li struggled to condense a true demon seed while his demonic qi corroded his divine soul, and rival factions plotted to exploit his vulnerability. Forced from seclusion during an attack on the Star Palace, he killed Zhao Kui and ordered an assault on the Blood Fiend Sect remnants.

• Han Li attempted to gather his true demon qi into a seed, but it began cracking the barriers of his sea of consciousness despite his soul-refining art and the Spacetime Dao Fruit fragment.
• Zhou Tong intercepted a Yin Luo Sect message revealing a plan to sabotage the Pill Hall's earth vein and endanger Han Li's seclusion, so he secretly enlisted Lu Yun to prepare an ambush.
• A Blood Fiend Sect leader chose to let Star Palace enemies attack first, while Ling Yuling also waited to strike until Han Li and his opponents had weakened each other.
• Lu Yun and Zhou Tong's forces trapped Zhao Kui at the Purefire Channel, but his Meridian-Exploding Talisman battered their defenses and let him try to escape.
• Han Li interrupted his cultivation, crushed Zhao Kui and devoured his nascent soul, then ordered Lu Yun, Zhou Tong, and the guards to keep the incident secret and wipe out the Blood Fiend Sect remnants.

Han Li led the Heaven Division to Black Wind Valley and destroyed the Blood Fiend Sect, but using his true demon qi stirred his unstable demonic nature. After the massacre, he set his sights on visiting the Mulan Saintess.

• Han Li ordered Lu Yun to lead three thousand Heaven Division elites to Black Wind Valley while Nangong Wan and Zhou Tong guarded the headquarters.
• Vile Fiend confronted Han Li with the Blood Fiend Grand Formation, but Han Li shattered the formation and killed him with the True Demon Finger.
• Lu Yun and the Heaven Division pursued and slaughtered the fleeing Blood Fiend Sect disciples, wiping out the sect.
• Han Li's true demon qi grew restless after absorbing Vile Fiend's nascent soul and the valley's baleful energy, forcing him to suppress his demonic nature.
• Han Li declared that he would visit the Mulan Saintess next.

Han Li persuaded Wei Wuya and Venerable Zhiyang to join the Star Palace against Yue Li by warning that her power and the Origin Bright Lamp threatened the Nine Nations Alliance. The factions agreed to meet at Soul-Severing Slope in three days, while Wei Wuya secretly ordered vigilance toward the Star Palace.

• Han Li warned Wei Wuya and Venerable Zhiyang that Yue Li could attack the Nine Nations Alliance and potentially open a route to Great Jin.
• Han Li offered the two elders a Nascent Soul-Breaking Pill, a fragment of the Brahma Saint True Demonic Art, and a share of Mulan’s resources, including the Heavenly Azure Eye.
• Han Li said Mo Ling could confront Yue Li while he personally tested the Origin Bright Lamp with his sword arts.
• Wei Wuya agreed to the alliance and promised to assemble the Nine Nations Alliance’s elites at Soul-Severing Slope in three days.
• Han Li returned toward the Star Palace, eager to face Yue Li, while Wei Wuya ordered his disciples to watch the Star Palace’s movements.

At Soul-Severing Slope, Han Li, Wei Wuya, and Venerable Zhiyang confronted the Mulan Saintess Yue Li as the armies of Heavenly South and Mulan faced off. Yue Li’s Origin Bright Lamp overwhelmed Wei Wuya and suppressed Han Li’s techniques, but Mo Ling’s attack gave Han Li an opening to unleash a True Demon Finger at her.

• Yue Li challenged Heavenly South’s forces, and Venerable Zhiyang charged her with the Scarlet Sun Heavenburn Hammer.
• Yue Li stopped Zhiyang’s strike with her Ancestral Spirit’s Claw, Silver Moon Frost, and Han Li intervened with Star-Pointing to disrupt her wolf-spirit summoning.
• Han Li fought Yue Li with the Water-Magnetic Sword while Wei Wuya used Thousand-Faced Illusions to attack her from every direction.
• Yue Li summoned the Origin Bright Lamp, which erased Wei Wuya’s phantoms and spells and weakened Han Li’s sword techniques.
• Mo Ling attacked Yue Li in his Magnetic Essence Griffin form, drawing the lamp’s purification beam and creating an opening for Han Li.
• Han Li unleashed his Brahma Saint True Demonic Art and fired a True Demon Finger at Yue Li, forcing her to turn the Origin Bright Lamp toward him too late.

Han Li used true demon qi to defeat the Mulan leaders and claim the Origin Bright Lamp, ending the war in a costly victory for the Heavenly South. He took the unconscious Yue Li toward the Star Palace Main Altar, already looking ahead to Great Jin.

• Han Li's demonic attack wounded Yue Li and disrupted her ancestral spirit, while Lu Yun led the Heavenly South allied army in an assault on Mulan.
• Yue Li used her essence blood to strengthen the Origin Bright Lamp, but Han Li began drawing the relic toward himself as Wei Wuya's phantoms restrained her.
• Venerable Zhiyang struck Yue Li, but Han Li stopped his follow-up attack, then crushed and devoured Zhiyang when he charged again; Wei Wuya fled.
• Han Li seized the shattered Origin Bright Lamp, sealed Yue Li's cultivation, and ordered the army to spare Mulan survivors who surrendered and exterminate the clans of those who refused.
• Han Li carried Yue Li toward the Star Palace Main Altar while the Heavenly South forces defeated Mulan, and he turned his thoughts toward Great Jin.

Han Li tortured Yue Li to uncover the Origin Bright Lamp’s secrets and learned that the Yin Luo Sect planned to use Mulan to supply mystic yin death qi for an Evil Formation in Great Jin. With the Mulan Grassland subdued and Wei Wuya retreating, Han Li forced Yue Li to teach him how to control the lamp and declared he would confront the Yin Luo Sect himself.

• Han Li used True Demon Threads to invade Yue Li’s divine soul and search her memories while she was chained in the dungeon.
• Han Li learned that the Origin Bright Lamp’s Ancestral Spirit Crystal Core relied on mystic yin death qi from the Yin Luo Sect, which intended to turn Mulan into a ghost-raising ground for an Evil Formation in Great Jin.
• Nangong Wan told Lu Yun, Zhou Tong, and Shi Mang that Venerable Zhiyang had fallen, Wei Wuya had returned to the Nine Nations Alliance, and its forces had withdrawn from the Mulan Grassland.
• Han Li kept Yue Li alive with a pill and declared that Mulan was now dependent on the Star Palace and that he would confront the Yin Luo Sect in Great Jin.
• Han Li ordered Yue Li to reveal how to control the Origin Bright Lamp and threatened to corrupt the sacred treasure with true demon qi if she withheld anything.