Chapter Summaries

Wang Yu outmaneuvered Zhuo Shouyun, killed Jian Nanxing, and seized his Heavenly Metal Spiritual Root, but Zhuo Shouyun struck him with the Blood God Heart Control Great Art as he entered Yin Erosion Hall. Wang Yu fled deeper into the hall while Zhuo Shouyun and his followers pursued him through its dangerous restrictions.

• Wang Yu escaped the blood-lock trap with the Soul Destroying Death Light and Gleaming Ice Heart Pagoda, then used the Yin Fiend Corpse and Thunder Corpse to deceive Zhuo Shouyun.
• Wang Yu’s true body emerged from the Blood Demon Sea after suppressing Jian Nanxing and devouring his Demonic Fetus, gaining the Heavenly Metal Spiritual Root.
• Zhuo Shouyun opened a path to Yin Erosion Hall, and Wang Yu rushed toward it after the two men agreed to settle their contest after entering.
• Su Yulong ambushed Wang Yu at the hall entrance, but Wang Yu killed him with a Frost Sword and took his Golden Core.
• Zhuo Shouyun’s Blood God Heart Control Great Art marked Wang Yu’s newly grown heart, so Wang Yu escaped into Yin Erosion Hall and filled the entrance with black ice to slow his pursuers.

Wang Yu crossed Yin Erosion Hall, using the Earth Mother Scripture to disrupt the Nine Palaces formations and hinder Zhuo Shouyun’s group as they followed. He reached Blood Slaughter Hall, found Yan Ling among the crowd gathered around the Blood Slaughter Stele, and took her aside to ask about it.

• Wang Yu entered Yin Crafting Hall, found its furnaces empty, and reversed the Nine Palaces arrangement with blank Formation Flags before leaving for Lady Monarch Hall.
• Zhuo Shouyun’s followers triggered the altered furnace formation, which burned several cultivators to ash, and they later lost six more people in Lady Monarch Hall.
• Zhuo Shouyun’s remaining followers accused him of misleading them and demanded their promised payment, so he offered to lead the way himself.
• Wang Yu arrived at Blood Slaughter Hall and found more than three hundred cultivators gathered around the Blood Slaughter Stele.
• Wang Yu met Yan Ling and Jiang Mingxin, then took Yan Ling outside and asked whether the crowd had gathered because of the stele.

Wang Yu entered the Blood Slaughter Stele to pursue the Netherworld Blood Fruit and used its trials to refine his killing intent and Mind Dao. In the eighth trial, he relived his time as a Spirit Slave, recognized that hiding had always been his strength, and then confronted memories of Guiling City as he began to understand how to pass.

• Yan Ling warned Wang Yu that the Netherworld Blood Fruit would be difficult to keep, and a Blood God Heart Control Removal Talisman descended before them.
• Wang Yu inspected the talisman, inferred that the control art was rooted in blood, and drained and regenerated his blood to erase most of its runes.
• Wang Yu entered the Blood Slaughter Stele and passed its first seven mind trials, gaining insights into controlling killing intent and forming an Asura Domain.
• Wang Yu reached the previously unbeaten eighth trial and found himself back in his weakened days as a Spirit Slave.
• Wang Yu killed a gatekeeper, realized he had grown arrogant and forgotten that hiding was his strength, then faced a memory of his confrontation with Jin Miaoshan in Guiling City and understood the eighth trial’s method.

Wang Yu passed the eighth and ninth trials of the Blood Slaughter Stele, advancing his mind realm and defeating a powerful mirror image in the Azure Sky Realm. He returned with five sealed Heavenly Demon Larvae as the Netherworld Blood Fruit appeared, and a Blood Pavilion cultivator reached for it.

• Wang Yu entered the Emptiness Realm, passed the eighth trial, and received the Blood Slaughter Heart Rend Sword divine power.
• The Blood Slaughter Stele granted inheritances to qualified disciples, while Yan Ling sensed a terrifying presence from Wang Yu.
• Wang Yu fought his mirror image in the Azure Sky Realm and used repeated Demon Seeds to weaken and immobilize it.
• Wang Yu captured five Heavenly Demon Larvae, sealed them in ice coffins, and destroyed the mirror image to pass the ninth trial.
• The Netherworld Blood Fruit appeared above the Blood Slaughter Stele, and a Blood Pavilion cultivator reached into its pillar of light to seize it.

Wang Yu claimed the Netherworld Blood Fruit, triggering a chaotic battle in which Zhuo Shouyun attacked under the influence of a strange compulsion and Wang Yu unleashed the Asura Killing Heart. After Xie Xie An escaped with the Rakshasa Heavenly Demon Bell and the massacre stopped, Wang Yu left the Blood Slaughter Hall rather than challenge the remaining halls.

• Zhuo Shouyun devoured the blood and Golden Cores of nearby disciples, surged to peak Core Formation, and attacked Wang Yu, whose Blood Slaughter Stele protection revealed him as the ninth-trial passer.
• The Netherworld Blood Fruit flew to Wang Yu, and he stored it in his Ocean Heart Ring as cultivators launched a mass attack and tried to seal the hall.
• Jiang Mingxin sent his Zombie King against Wang Yu, drawing the crowd’s attacks onto him, while Yan Ling and other powerful disciples withdrew from the fight.
• Wang Yu activated the Asura Killing Heart and tore through the hall as cultivators slaughtered one another; he defeated Zhuo Shouyun, but Xie Xie An escaped with Zhuo Shouyun and the Rakshasa Heavenly Demon Bell when a bell froze everyone.
• Wang Yu gave Zhuo Shouyun a Blood Pattern Unbinding Talisman and an Image Recording Stone, then left the Blood Slaughter Hall to return the way he had come.

Wang Yu left the Yin Erosion Hall with the Netherworld Blood Fruit, then used it to break through to Fourth Tier Early Stage divine sense. He settled in Cape Cliff Cave and prepared to search the Blood Demon Sea for Demon Persons and news of Yin Erosion Hall.

• Jiang Mingxin blamed Wang Yu for the deaths in the Blood Slaughter Hall, but Yan Ling accused other cultivators of stealing and looting, and Zhuo Shouyun revealed that an Image Recording Stone had captured the events.
• Wang Yu left Zhuo Shouyun behind to draw away their pursuers, then traveled north across the Blood Demon Sea and settled in Cape Cliff Cave.
• Wang Yu dissolved the incomplete Blood Talisman, rearranged his Placement Slots, and placed the Earth Hatred Puppet Refinement Secret Art as he prepared to refine the Yellow Springs Demon Bone.
• Wang Yu consumed the Netherworld Blood Fruit, expanded his Divine Sense more than ninefold, and used the Nine-Nine Return to Origin Divine Method to reach Fourth Tier Early Stage divine sense and unlock Placement Slot Seven.
• Wang Yu left Snow Jade in Cape Cliff Cave to guard the Yellow Springs Demon Bone, then used a Sound Transmission Jade Talisman to contact Wei Hao.

Wei Hao joined forces with Wang Yu to ambush Jiang Mingxin, who revealed that Xie Xie An had taken the Blood Infant Fruit. Wang Yu grew suspicious of Jiang Mingxin’s account and accused him of lying.

• Wei Hao recruited Wei Shan Ze to help him seek revenge on Jiang Mingxin and arranged to meet Wang Yu, who asked the Wei Clan for information on Demon Person gathering points.
• Jiang Mingxin learned his subordinates had gone missing and was attacked by Wei Hao’s Blood Shadow Demon Corpse.
• Wei Hao challenged Jiang Mingxin’s Corpse King while Wang Yu killed Jiang Mingxin’s two remaining subordinates.
• Jiang Mingxin begged Wang Yu for mercy and claimed Xie Xie An had seized the Blood Infant Fruit.
• Jiang Mingxin explained that he suspected Xie Xie An using Heavenly Corpse Peak’s Olfactory Identification Secret Art, but Wang Yu accused him of lying.

After killing Jiang Mingxin, Wang Yu received a Blood Fiend Gourd from Wei Hao and spent ten years cultivating in the Blood Abyss, greatly increasing his Magic Power and stabilizing his body refinement. He decided to move to the Blood Hell Ice Plains, but stayed to finish forging the Yellow Springs Earth Hatred Puppet, whose emergence drew attention from the forbidden palace.

• Wang Yu helped Wei Hao kill Jiang Mingxin, and Wei Hao gave him a Blood Fiend Gourd while keeping Jiang Mingxin's gourd for himself.
• Wang Yu returned to Cape Cliff Cave and used the Blood Fiend Gourd to gather Blood Fiend Crystals while hunting Demon Persons and cultivating for ten years.
• Wang Yu increased his Magic Power by 1,020 strands, stabilized his Peak Third Tier Body Refinement, and decided to leave the Blood Demon Sea for the Blood Hell Ice Plains.
• Wang Yu postponed his move to finish refining the Yellow Springs Earth Hatred Puppet using the Yellow Springs Demon Bone and other materials.
• After another half year, a turbid yellow pillar of light rose from Wang Yu's seclusion, and a figure in the forbidden palace noticed it and exclaimed at his good fortune.

Wang Yu completed the Fourth Tier Early Stage Yellow Springs Earth Hatred Puppet and traveled to the Blood Hell Ice Plains to hunt and seek an Ice Blood Pool for Snow Jade. There he rescued Song Yun, who gave him directions to a nearby pool, and Wang Yu reached the peculiar peak he had described.

• Wang Yu finished refining the Yellow Springs Earth Hatred Puppet and considered how to use its powers and fuel it.
• Wang Yu entered the Blood Hell Ice Plains to gather resources and cultivate amid its extreme cold, while searching for an Ice Blood Pool for Snow Jade.
• After hunting Blood Demon Men for half a month, Wang Yu sensed a familiar cultivator in danger and rushed to rescue Song Yun from an Evil Sword Peak disciple.
• Wang Yu learned that Song Yun had been chased from the Blood Demon Sea after speaking against the pursuer, then traveled with him and heard about local cultivation routes.
• Song Yun described how to find an Ice Blood Pool near a peak resembling a Husband-Watching Stone, and Wang Yu headed northeast until he saw the mountain.

Wang Yu helped Snow Jade break through to Third Tier, where she became an Earth Grade Five-Tailed Snow Fox with new divine abilities, then took her to Red Snow Mountain to cultivate. After five years there, his Yellow Springs Great Handprint and Demonic Dragon Fist reached perfection, and he reorganized his Placement Slots as the Blood Abyss neared its end.

• Wang Yu put Snow Jade in the Ice Blood Pool while he refined ice-attribute Blood Cores, which proved far more effective than those made in the Blood Demon Sea.
• Snow Jade endured her Thunder Tribulation, advanced to Earth Grade, grew two tails, and awakened the Snow Fox Garment and Heavenly Fox Five Transformations.
• Wang Yu and Snow Jade traveled to Red Snow Mountain, where she cultivated in the Soul Freezing Wind and Wang Yu absorbed cold qi while refining Blood Cores and hunting Frozen Blood Demon Men.
• Over five years at Red Snow Mountain, Wang Yu completed the Yellow Springs Great Handprint and Demonic Dragon Fist, then reassigned his Placement Slots to focus on his cultivation, divine powers, escape technique, and Nascent Soul Pill Formula.
• Wang Yu decided to leave the mountain and resume his plans as the Blood Abyss approached its end.

Wang Yu used Song Yun’s intelligence to find a Blood Scorpion Rift Valley, where he tested the Yellow Springs Earth Hatred Puppet by killing a Fourth Tier Blood Scorpion King. After returning to Red Snow Mountain, he was visited by Yan Ling, who had come to stay away from the gathering storm rather than pursue the Blood Infant Fruit.

• Wang Yu heard Song Yun and the other elders planned to seek the Blood Infant Fruit with Princess Yan Ling’s help, then accepted Song Yun’s map of the Blood Hell Ice Plains.
• Wang Yu followed the map to a deadly rift valley, where he used the Spotless Jade Toad to absorb the blood scorpions’ poisonous mist as he slaughtered them.
• Wang Yu sent the Yellow Springs Earth Hatred Puppet to fight the Fourth Tier Blood Scorpion King and helped it defeat the beast with his own abilities.
• Wang Yu collected the battlefield spoils and returned to Red Snow Mountain to repair and replenish the puppet.
• Yan Ling visited Wang Yu, who realized she had come to keep away from the eye of the storm rather than to pursue the Blood Infant Fruit.

Wang Yu interrogated Xue Ying about her Heavenly Ice Spiritual Root and her reasons for approaching him, then killed her and devoured her spiritual root. Yan Ling witnessed the killing, while Wang Yu took Xue Ying’s storage ring and left their relationship unexplained.

• Yan Ling told Wang Yu that Jiang Mingxin had been killed by Wei Hao and offered him a future opportunity if he recovered a Saint-character token from Jiang Mingxin’s storage ring.
• Wang Yu spent nearly two years cultivating and exchanging bouts with Yan Ling before Xue Ying arrived with her.
• Wang Yu restrained Xue Ying inside the Gleaming Ice Heart Pagoda and forced her to reveal that liquid Heavenly Frost Qi from Eternal Frozen Mountain had transformed her spiritual root.
• Wang Yu deduced that Xue Ying suspected he had killed her great-grandfather, True Person Flying Snow, and destroyed her mind with the Asura Slaughter Fist.
• Wang Yu devoured Xue Ying’s life essence and Heavenly Ice Spiritual Root, then took her storage ring and burned her corpse as Yan Ling watched from nearby.

Wang Yu hunted down an Ice Blood Flood Dragon to obtain its crystal core, then used Myriad Spirit Blood Essence to advance to Core Formation Eighth Layer. With four years left in the Blood Abyss Training, he headed to the Blood Demon Sea to cultivate and strengthen his Twin Corpses.

• News reached Wang Yu that Xie Xie An had become known as the Rakshasa Great Demon after killing over a hundred Core Formation cultivators while escaping with the Blood Infant Fruit.
• Wang Yu traveled to the western Blood Hell Ice Plains and fought an Ice Blood Flood Dragon with the Yellow Springs Earth Hatred Puppet and his own techniques.
• Wang Yu killed the Ice Blood Flood Dragon, took its Blood Beast Crystal Core, and collected Myriad Spirit Blood Essence, though repairing the damaged puppet would cost over a million Spirit Stones.
• After several months of secluded cultivation at Red Snow Mountain, Wang Yu consumed the Myriad Spirit Blood Essence and broke through to Core Formation Eighth Layer.
• With four years remaining, Wang Yu returned to the Blood Demon Sea and released the Twin Corpses to absorb blood-fiend energy.

Wang Yu watched Xie Xie An devastate the Blood Abyss Training and cultivated until the training ended, then learned from Yan Ling that the Saint Token opened the Saint Lord Heavenly Palace. As Wang Yu left the Blood Abyss, Blood Axe Demon Lord gave him a map to a body-refinement site.

• Xie Xie An used the Heavenly Demon Bell to injure hundreds of cultivators and entered the Purity Realm, while Wang Yu watched from afar and continued cultivating.
• Wang Yu reached 3,593 strands of magic power and met Wei Hao at Blood Gorge, where Wei Hao handed over the Saint Token.
• Yan Ling explained that the Saint Token was a map and key to the Saint Lord Heavenly Palace, which would open in two hundred years and attract powerful competitors.
• Wang Yu and Yan Ling agreed to consider entering the Heavenly Palace together if Wang Yu reached Nascent Soul.
• As Wang Yu left the Blood Abyss, Blood Axe Demon Lord praised his physique and gave him a map to a body-refinement site.

After leaving the Blood Abyss, Wang Yu learned that the Twin Zhuo Conflict had turned against Zhuo Shouqing, leaving him and Zhuo Yuanshen in the Ghost Region. Wang Yu began protecting his own position on Cold Blood Peak and sent Situ Hong to prepare Guiling City for a possible change in power.

• Blood Axe gave Wang Yu a Talisman Paper pointing to a potential breakthrough opportunity and told him to keep their affairs secret.
• Wang Yu left the Blood Abyss and hurried to the Law Enforcement Hall, where Situ Hong told him Zhuo Shouqing had been ambushed at Cloudtop City and fled to the Ghost Region with Zhuo Yuanshen.
• Wang Yu concluded that Zhuo Shouyun had likely outmaneuvered the other brothers and decided to secure a seat among Cold Blood Peak's Twelve Elders before Zhuo Shouyun could influence the clan's support.
• Wang Yu sent Situ Hong to Guiling City to extract its value quickly, then planned to ask Cold Blood Mountain Lord to initiate the Succession Battle for a Twelve Elders position.
• Wang Yu kept watch for contact from Zuoqiu Ming and resolved to help him despite the end of their contract.

Wang Yu visited the Cold Blood Mountain Master to discuss the Blood Pool Baptism and found himself pressured to abandon the Cold Blood Four Clans and join the Mountain Master's faction in exchange for a possible Elder Council seat. He delayed his answer while seeking Zuoqiu Ming's support, then welcomed the unexpected arrival of Senior Huang Jiu.

• Wang Yu showed the Jade Book Elder memories involving Song Yun, prompting the elder to rush off and investigate.
• The Cold Blood Mountain Master urged Wang Yu to end his pill-making arrangements with the Cold Blood Four Clans, expand his work for Yan Ling, and join the Master-Disciple Faction.
• Wang Yu realized that securing an Elder Council seat depended on finding factional backing, so he asked for three days to decide.
• Wang Yu contacted Wei Hao to ask about the Blood Pool Baptism and request help reaching Zuoqiu Ming.
• Two days later, Senior Huang Jiu arrived, and Wang Yu greeted him with delight.

Wang Yu spoke with Zuoqiu Ming through a magical mirror, learned more about Zhuo Shouyun's schemes, and secured a Zuoqiu Clan seat on Cold Blood Peak's Elder Council. After sharing intelligence with Huang Jiu, he set out with him to meet the clan elders, while Yu Tang Tang and Tantai Chan waited at his residence.

• Huang Jiu brought Wang Yu a mirror that let him speak with Zuoqiu Ming, who explained his restored spiritual root and Zhuo Shouyun's involvement in the secret art.
• Wang Yu suspected Zhuo Shouyun, Zhuo Shouqing, and Zhuo Yuanshen were entangled in a plot involving the Blood Demon Body, and told Zuoqiu Ming to focus on cultivation.
• Wang Yu asked Zuoqiu Ming for a Cold Blood Peak Elder Council seat, and Zuoqiu Ming arranged for Huang Jiu to use his mother's token to grant it.
• Zuoqiu Ming asked about Zhuo Shouqing, and Wang Yu said he would try to keep him alive if he had enough room to protect himself.
• Huang Jiu complained about Zhuo Shouqing abandoning him at Cloudtop City and shared what he knew about Fu Xiao's combat abilities while drinking with Wang Yu.
• Yu Tang Tang and Tantai Chan arrived at Wang Yu's residence, and Wang Yu left with Huang Jiu to meet the Zuoqiu Clan elders.

Wang Yu claimed the Seventh Elder’s seat by defeating Zuoqiu Bo in a succession battle, gaining greater authority over Cold Blood Peak and a say in the upcoming Blood Pool Baptism. Back at his Cave Abode, he reunited with Tantai Chan and Yu Tang Tang and received a list of alchemy work to handle.

• Huang Jiu asked Zuoqiu Bo to yield the Seventh Elder’s seat to Wang Yu, and Zuoqiu Bo agreed to let the Elder Council’s succession procedure decide the matter.
• The Elder Council assembled on Cold Blood Peak, and Wang Yu fought Zuoqiu Bo, breaking his illusion and overpowering him with his killing and ice techniques.
• The Grand Elder stopped Wang Yu from delivering a final blow, declared him the victor, and gave him the Seventh Elder’s Identity Ring and an updated Ice Crown.
• The Cold Blood Mountain Lord reconsidered Wang Yu’s prospects and began considering ways to mend their relationship ahead of the Blood Pool Baptism.
• Wang Yu saw Huang Jiu off, then returned to his Cave Abode, where he reunited with Tantai Chan and Yu Tang Tang and received a pill list from Yu Tang Tang.

Wang Yu negotiated for rare Yin- and Ice-attribute treasures, pursued new alchemy partnerships, and acquired several demonic alchemy inheritances to study. After reviewing the severely incomplete ancient Demon Refining Art, he placed it in the Placement Slot and discovered that completing even its First Tier would take a year, suggesting it was an exceptionally high-grade inheritance.

• Wang Yu asked Yu Tang Tang to seek Fourth Tier pill-refining work from the Blood-Eyed Demon Flood Dragon’s side and spent the day with Tantai Chan.
• Wang Yu used his Seventh Elder authority at the Technique Transmission Hall to select the Human Pill Technique and Blood Pill Technique, then memorized the ancient Demon Refining Art.
• Wang Yu renewed annual pill-trading agreements with representatives of the Ji Clan, Qiao Clan, Snow, and Chu Clan, accepting only Yin- and Ice-attribute treasures and materials.
• Wang Yu studied the incomplete Demon Refining Art and placed it in the Placement Slot, where its First Tier completion was estimated to require a year.

Wang Yu negotiated with Frost Demon Monarch over alchemy commissions, then attended Cold Blood Peak’s meeting to set the Blood Pool Baptism quota. He gained major improvements to his Magic Power and physique from the baptism and returned to his Cave Abode, while an author’s note promised another chapter after breakfast.

• Wang Yu agreed to increase alchemy cooperation with the Ji Family but said he had to finish a commission from Blood-Eyed Demon Flood Dragon first.
• Cold Blood Peak’s elders negotiated with the other peaks and set their Blood Pool Baptism upper limit at 8,999 Blood Beast Crystal Cores per person.
• The Blood God Guard Commander arranged separate pools for the Nine Peaks and ordered the cultivators to enter after contributing their crystal cores.
• Wang Yu spent a month in the blood pool, gaining nearly eight hundred strands of Magic Power and raising his physical strength limit by thirty percent.
• Wang Yu left the baptism and returned to his Cave Abode; the author’s note said the second chapter would follow after breakfast.