Five years passed in the blink of an eye.
In front of the ruins of the ancient village, a fierce wind whipped across the martial arena.
Han Yu moved like a swimming dragon. As her fists shot out, her blood qi transformed into layers of violent, viscous fist force that clung to her like marrow-eating poison.
She had already mastered the second style of the Ji Dao Five Styles, Bone Entangler!
Immediately after, her footwork shifted abruptly. She threw a punch at a ten-thousand-jin boulder in front of her. A sharp, air-tearing wail erupted from her knuckles, and the boulder exploded into fine powder with a deafening boom!
The third style, Ravage, minor mastery!
Han Yu withdrew her fists and stood straight, wiping the fine sweat from her forehead.
She turned around and leaped onto a distant peak, once again gazing from afar toward the ancient cave shrouded deep within the thick fog.
Moss had already spread across the cave entrance, and a thick layer of fallen leaves completely buried the stone steps.
Inside the ancient cave, Su Yueli still sat cross-legged. Her body was covered in dust and cobwebs, and her skin was as dull as decayed wood. There was not the slightest trace of breath or life in her, making her look like a withered stone statue that had stood there for thousands of years.
Looking at her master's unchanging figure, Han Yu let out a soft sigh. “It's been five years... I wonder how much longer Master will take.”
Withdrawing her worried gaze, she turned and walked down the mountain, throwing herself back into her day-after-day bitter cultivation.
Meanwhile, deep within the ancient cave, Su Yueli's soul was immersed in an endless expanse of void and darkness.
The Fourteenth Realm...
She wanted to break through this barrier, but in the current world, she could not even perceive where this barrier lay.
The road ahead was boundless, with nothing but endless white fog and void.
Impatience, anxiety... all sorts of negative emotions had once surged from the depths of her soul.
Yet during this long, dry meditation, the accumulation of her endless years allowed Su Yueli to forcefully suppress each and every one of these waves.
She let her state of mind slowly return to the dead silence of a still well, like a patient pioneer, testing and feeling her way forward inch by inch in this dark night devoid of any reference points.
Her blood qi washed over her withered meridians again and again. Every inch of her muscle's transformation and the slight growth of her soul and Martial Soul were accompanied by a bone-deep, agonizing pain.
It was an indescribable torment and loneliness.
Outside, the wind howled and snow fell; inside the cave, all was dead silent.
Time flowed ruthlessly, carrying with it a coldness that erased all the clamor of the mortal world.
Another ten years quietly slipped away.
On this day, a light snow drifted from the sky.
Han Yu flew in from afar with an anxious expression, hurriedly landing on the peak outside the ancient cave.
However, when she saw Su Yueli inside the cave, still as motionless as an ancient boulder, she abruptly pulled back her outstretched foot.
Her master was at the most critical juncture of breaking through to the Fourteenth Realm; she must not be disturbed under any circumstances!
Han Yu paced back and forth on the peak, her face tense, her beautiful eyes filled with conflict and helplessness.
Ultimately, she grit her teeth, took out a pre-written letter from her robe, sealed it with care, and placed it on the most prominent stone platform outside the cave. Then, she took one last deep look at the silhouette inside the cave before turning to vanish into the swirling wind and snow.
The wind and snow howled, quickly burying her footprints.
Time flew by, and another five years of vicissitudes passed.
A full twenty years had passed in total, and these barren mountains remained as silent as if they had been forgotten by heaven and earth.
Until this day—
Crack...
Inside the ancient cave, a very faint cracking sound suddenly came from the dust-covered "stone carving" that had been silent for twenty-five years!
Su Yueli slowly opened her eyes.
Within those dark eyes, a terrifying, forbidden light akin to the destruction of stars and the evolution of all creation actually swirled!
Boom—!!
In an instant, a scarlet rainbow of blood qi pierced through heaven and earth, soaring straight into the clouds and completely tearing apart the vast skies!
The Fourteenth Realm of Ji Dao, broken!
A vast pressure that surpassed the laws of nature and reigned supreme over heaven and earth erupted from the ancient mountain, sweeping out in all directions like an apocalyptic tsunami!
Within ten thousand miles, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth instantly froze, and the void cracked inch by inch!
Su Yueli slowly stood up, the dust and cobwebs on her body instantly evaporating into nothingness.
She gently clenched her fists. In the grand scheme of things, she could clearly sense that the laws of this world no longer held any sway over her.
The blood qi within her body was as vast as the boundless sea. It felt as though she could collapse this entire world with a single punch at her whim!
It was a sense of supreme control, truly standing at the absolute peak of the martial path, unprecedented and unmatched!
Su Yueli looked at her fists and pondered for a moment.
“The Fourteenth Realm shall be named: Supreme!”
...
At the exact same moment Su Yueli broke through.
Across the entire Great Li Dynasty.
Every peak expert, secluded ancestor, and sect giant felt their souls shake violently!
Deep within the Great Li imperial palace.
The Fourteenth Realm ancestor of the royal family, who was currently in seclusion, suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood. He abruptly opened his eyes and stared in the direction of the barren mountains, his body trembling violently.
“This... what kind of power is this?! It doesn't contain a single shred of the world's spiritual energy... Just the purest law of blood qi? How... how could such a terrifying physical monster exist in this world?!”
Within the Blue Moon Sect, the Sect Master and Shen Huai'an flew into the clouds at the same time.
Gripping his violently trembling sword at his waist, Shen Huai'an stared at the scarlet light piercing the sky in the far distance. He felt the spiritual energy in his body stall, and an uncontrollable surge of wild restlessness rose in his heart.
“What... realm is this? Has someone truly broken the legend?”
The Sect Master of the Blue Moon Sect muttered to himself, eventually shaking his head. “No, impossible. It can't be the Fifteenth Realm. That hasn't appeared for tens of thousands of years.”
Then, sensing something, he led Shen Huai'an toward the back mountain of the Blue Moon Sect.
There, a white-haired old man stood atop the peak of the back mountain.
Shen Huai'an froze. Wasn't that...
The Sect Master quickly cupped his hands in greeting, bringing Shen Huai'an along. “Ancestor.”
The old man stared into the distance and only spoke after a long silence. “Have any major events occurred in the sect recently?”
The Sect Master shook his head. “Nothing has happened. Everything is normal in the sect.”
Hearing this, the old man frowned.
Such a powerful aura, yet without any spiritual energy fluctuations...
He had a faint feeling that the winds of change were about to sweep through the Great Li Dynasty.
As countless secluded ancestors were startled awake from their coffins, they stared in the direction of the barren mountains, their eyes filled with shock and disbelief.
Many ancestors of first-rate sects made rare exits from their seclusion to investigate.
The world changed colors, and all the heroes trembled!
Yet at the source of all this commotion, Su Yueli had already retracted her towering blood qi.
Walking out of the ancient cave with a calm expression, she took a single step and landed on the ruins of the old village.
However, there was no one around. The familiar figure was nowhere to be seen.
“Yu'er?”
Su Yueli's cold gaze swept over the surroundings, her brow furrowing slightly.
In the next moment, her gaze fell upon the letter on the stone platform, which had already gathered a bit of dust.
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