Recaps

Su Yuan deflected Lin Yonghua’s accusation with Transport Commissioner Fan’s backing, then learned the requirements for direct promotion to fifth rank. He planned to earn the merit, public approval, and Spirit Coins himself, and said he would raise the money from those who had it.

• Lin Yonghua accused Su Yuan of misusing a hundred thousand jin of Spirit Beast Meat, but Su Yuan claimed he had eaten it all.
• Transport Commissioner Fan defended Su Yuan, ordered Lin Yonghua dragged away and slapped, and then warmly invited Su Yuan to dine with him.
• At Zuixian Restaurant, Commissioner Fan asked about Su Yuan’s plans, and Su Yuan said he aimed to reach Principal Fifth Rank within a year before rising to Subordinate Fourth Rank.
• Commissioner Fan outlined the three requirements for direct promotion to fifth rank: major merit, approval from at least eighty percent of the people, and three million Spirit Coins.
• Su Yuan said he would meet the requirements without relying on the forces behind him and planned to raise the money from those who had it.

Su Yuan accepted the Heavenly Patrol Envoy post in Cold Plum World after Transport Commissioner Fan tested his background and warned him about its dangers. Back in Longcheng County, Su Yuan told his officials to investigate the local power brokers and raise their taxes.

• Transport Commissioner Fan explained how difficult it would be for Su Yuan to reach Principal Fifth Rank in East Continent and offered him a vacant Heavenly Patrol Envoy post in Cold Plum World.
• Fan revealed that the Golden Core Peak cultivator Yan He had founded a rising faction in Cold Plum World, and Su Yuan recognized him as the man he had killed in Absolute Sword World.
• Su Yuan accepted the post and told Fan he would investigate Yan He, convincing Fan that he had powerful connections in Cold Plum World.
• After Fan left Longcheng County, Su Yuan told Ying Ding and the other officials that someone had denounced him, while Chief Clerk Liu explained that the local families and sects had pooled nine hundred thousand Spirit Coins for him.
• Su Yuan ordered his officials to investigate the Four Great Families and Six Great Sects and raise their taxes.

Su Yuan completed his first month as Longcheng County magistrate, claimed a demonic art that could rewrite cultivators’ common sense, and arranged for Chen Nuoyi to join him. He then told Captain Zhang he planned to raise three million Spirit Coins in six months by taxing the Four Great Families and Six Great Sects at least ninety-four percent and fighting pirates, hoping to reach the Cold Plum World before summer vacation.

• Su Yuan’s embellished reputation spread through Longcheng County, while the Four Great Families and Six Great Sects stayed quiet after Lin Yonghua was slapped.
• Su Yuan completed his task and claimed Demonic Art: Finger Technique, which could twist the common sense of up to one hundred Golden Core cultivators.
• Su Yuan chose Chen Nuoyi as the first Mai Gou Plan operative to join him and explained that he could summon her using the Holy Sect Blood Sacrifice Array.
• Su Yuan asked Captain Zhang about the three million Spirit Coins needed for promotion and declared that he would raise the money within six months by taxing the clans at least ninety-four percent and fighting pirates.
• Su Yuan said he wanted to explore and develop the Cold Plum World with his master during summer vacation, and Captain Zhang offered help, but Su Yuan said he already had a plan.

Su Yuan used his demonic art to make Lin Yanluo accept a 94-percent tax contract for the Lin Family and ordered Qi Junxiang to summon Longcheng County’s other powerful families and sects. Lin Yanluo returned home treating the tax as common sense and demanded the treasury key from her father.

• Su Yuan summoned Lin Yanluo and presented her with a contract imposing a 94-percent tax on the Lin Family’s wealthy members and other high earners.
• Lin Yanluo initially refused to sign, but Su Yuan’s words altered her common sense, and she signed the contract and promised to pay the family’s unpaid taxes within seven days.
• Qi Junxiang witnessed Lin Yanluo’s sudden change and feared Su Yuan could alter his own common sense, then agreed to summon the county’s other powerful families and the Six Great Sects.
• Su Yuan considered the tax collection just and decided not to waste his limited mind-altering ability on his own officials.
• Lin Yanluo returned to the Lin Family and scolded Lin Yonghua for disrespecting Su Yuan before demanding the treasury key to get money.

Lin Yonghua mistook Su Yuan’s tax collection for a plot to control Longcheng County’s powerful families, then fled overseas with the Lin Family’s treasure. Su Yuan revealed that he had expected the escape and planned to use Lin Yonghua to draw the pirates into a conflict, while counting the collected taxes toward his promotion target.

• Lin Yanluo took the Lin vault key and collected ninety-four percent taxes from her family, alarming Lin Yonghua, who believed Su Youlin had twisted her mind.
• Lin Yonghua tried to warn the other family and sect leaders, but found them summoned to the Yamen and saw them return willingly to pay taxes; he also watched the Liuyang Sect leader undergo the same change.
• Fearing Lin Yanluo would expose him, Lin Yonghua looted more than five hundred thousand Spirit Coins’ worth of goods from the Lin vault and escaped overseas.
• Wang De reported Lin Yonghua’s flight, and Su Yuan ordered the county navy to prepare to capture him; Lin Yanluo apologized, but Su Yuan assured her the taxes were already collected.
• Su Yuan disclosed that he had let Lin Yonghua flee to drive him toward the pirates, then calculated that he had collected two million Spirit Coins and allocated five hundred thousand to government bonuses and tax relief.
• Su Yuan considered how his position as Heavenly Patrol Envoy helped conceal Old Man Taibai’s outsider status while he worked toward his promotion target.

Su Yuan eased Longcheng County’s tax burden and investigated the people’s living conditions, then used Chen Nuoyi’s worn boots in a blood-sacrifice array to summon her to his bedroom. Chen Nuoyi arrived safely and explained that Qi Hanyua and the other Yuan Sect Cadres had asked her to check whether Su Yuan had a fever.

• Su Yuan confirmed that Longcheng County’s taxes had been reduced and told Ying Ding why he wanted to ease the people’s hardship.
• Su Yuan walked through the county town, inspected prices and living conditions, and urged local businesses and officials to act responsibly.
• Su Yuan prepared a Holy Sect Blood Sacrifice Array using Chen Nuoyi’s worn boots as its anchor and confirmed with Captain Zhang that she had arrived aboard the Guanyu Ship.
• Su Yuan activated the array and summoned Chen Nuoyi, who quickly stored her boots after noticing them.
• Chen Nuoyi checked Su Yuan’s forehead and told him that Qi Hanyua and the other Yuan Sect Cadres had asked her to verify whether he had a fever.

Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi planned a cover identity that would let her enter the Tianluo World openly and become the Pirate Queen of Lu Hai. After Su Yuan faked going into seclusion, they secretly escaped Longcheng County and flew toward the sea.

• Su Yuan cultivated beside Chen Nuoyi until around four in the morning, benefiting from his [Dragon Prince Consort] title.
• Su Yuan proposed that Chen Nuoyi impersonate Feng Chuanxiang, the surviving daughter of a clan destroyed by Sea Yaksha Wu Sheng, and build her reputation by killing him.
• Su Yuan planned to alter Wu Sheng's perception, let him escape their first encounter, and later help Chen Nuoyi become Pirate Queen of Lu Hai.
• Chen Nuoyi asked how she could join Su Yuan ashore, and Su Yuan suggested Longcheng County would recruit her after a pirate-suppression campaign, possibly giving her an official position or making her his personal guard.
• Su Yuan announced he was entering seclusion, then used his Dazzling Divine Ability to meet Chen Nuoyi outside the Meditation Room and escape Longcheng County with her.
• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi flew toward Lu Hai on their flying swords.

Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi tracked Sea Yaksha Wu Sheng to Blood Mist Island, a pirate stronghold protected by an illusion array and tied to the Blood God Cult. After the system issued missions to subjugate the Nascent Soul-led cult and steal its leader’s broken crown, they infiltrated the island and learned Wu Sheng was at the Cloud Whale Tavern; Chen Nuoyi said she intended to kill him.

• Chen Nuoyi used her dragon might to question sea creatures, which revealed that Wu Sheng’s fleet had gone to a pirate gathering place two days earlier.
• Guided by a great white shark, Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi traveled over a thousand kilometers to Blood Mist Island and spotted its blood-red mist and powerful illusion array.
• The system identified the Blood God Cult as a subjugatable demonic sect and issued missions to conquer it and steal its leader’s broken crown.
• Su Yuan suspected the crown was an incomplete Crown of Corruption but decided he could not risk confronting the Nascent Soul Sect Leader.
• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi entered the island’s port town in stealth and found a busy cultivator market filled with pirates.
• Chen Nuoyi asked a passerby where Wu Sheng was, learned he was drinking at the Cloud Whale Tavern, and said she had come to kill him.

Su Yuan discovered that the Yaksha Pirate Group planned to help the Blood God Cult sacrifice one million people in Longcheng County, so Chen Nuoyi attacked the pirates at Cloud Whale Tavern. She nearly killed Wu Sheng with the Five Dragon Heavenly Heart Sword, and he recognized her as Feng Chuanxiang, the Feng Clan Patriarch's daughter.

• Wu Sheng agreed to join Lin Yonghua's plan to attack Longcheng County after learning the Blood God Cult had approved the slaughter and intended to sacrifice one million people.
• Su Yuan scouted Cloud Whale Tavern, heard Wu Sheng and his crew discussing the planned sacrifice, and told Chen Nuoyi the pirates were beyond redemption.
• Chen Nuoyi kicked in the tavern door and unleashed her killing intent as the pirates challenged her.
• Wu Sheng tried to use the cold-eyed man as a shield and flee, but Chen Nuoyi's Five Dragon Heavenly Heart Sword killed the man and badly wounded Wu Sheng.
• Wu Sheng survived the attack and recognized Chen Nuoyi as Feng Chuanxiang, the Feng Clan Patriarch's daughter from ten years earlier.

Chen Nuoyi revealed herself as Feng Chuanxiang, defeated Wu Sheng, and destroyed the Yaksha Pirate Group on Blood Mist Island. She announced the founding of the Fengxiang Pirate Group and began recruiting, while Su Yuan decided to feed Wu Sheng’s remains to his Corrupting Spore.

• Chen Nuoyi confronted Wu Sheng at the Cloud Whale Tavern, but he fled after she struck him down.
• Chen Nuoyi killed more than a hundred Yaksha pirates, and Su Yuan absorbed the tavern’s blood mist into a Corrupting Spore.
• Chen Nuoyi caught Wu Sheng in the sky and killed him with Blessing of Star Shattering.
• The story of Feng Chuanxiang’s return spread across Blood Mist Island as Wu Sheng’s remains rained down on its streets.
• Chen Nuoyi declared the Yaksha Pirate Group destroyed, established the Fengxiang Pirate Group, and invited people to join her at the flagship.
• Su Yuan decided to use Wu Sheng’s remains as fertilizer for the Corrupting Spore instead of rebuilding him as a puppet.

Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi waited aboard the Yaksha to draw out the Blood God Cult after learning of its coming ritual to sacrifice a million people. As they struggled to recruit a crew and no cult members appeared, Su Yuan’s night-raid radar detected a nearby target.

• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi learned from Wu Sheng that the Blood God Cult planned a Blood Sacrifice Ritual in thirty-five days and discussed trying to stop it.
• Su Yuan agreed to stand with Chen Nuoyi and began cultivating, hoping to reach the seventh layer of Foundation Establishment before the ritual.
• Saintess Mo learned that Feng Chuanxiang had killed Wu Sheng and wondered aloud who she was if Feng Chuanxiang was real.
• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi failed to recruit anyone for the Yaksha and saw no sign of the Blood God Cult for three days.
• Su Yuan sensed that his night-raid radar had detected a target nearby.

Su Yuan intercepted Motis, the Blood God Cult’s Saintess, but discovered she could multiply into a hundred powerful copies. He trapped them in the Jieyue Space, where they mistook him for an evil demon and attacked despite his claim that he was an Immortal Official.

• Su Yuan used Night Raid Must Succeed to locate a lone Blood God Cult intruder and left Chen Nuoyi to capture her.
• Su Yuan confronted Motis, who revealed that she was the Blood God Cult’s Saintess and had come to question him about Feng Chuanxiang.
• Su Yuan restrained Motis with the Heavenly Sha Sword Technique, but she produced dozens of identical copies that broke free together.
• Su Yuan activated the Jieyue Pearl and transported himself and the hundred Motises into the corrupted Jieyue Space.
• The Motises accused Su Yuan of being an evil demon, and the original Motis called him a corrupt official after he presented his county magistrate seal.

Su Yuan fought Motis, the real Feng Chuanxiang, inside Jieyue Space and tried to persuade her that they shared a goal. He brought Motis, Red Hat Motis, and the other heads outside, where the Blood God Cult Saintess met Chen Nuoyi for the first time.

• Motis absorbed ninety-eight of her avatars and used their combined powers to attack Su Yuan, who survived and healed.
• Su Yuan dodged Motis's punch and transferred intense bodily sensitivity to her, but Motis switched places with Red Hat Motis to avoid his Black Mud.
• Red Hat Motis was corrupted by the Black Mud and called her main body Feng Chuanxiang, leading Su Yuan to realize that the real Feng Chuanxiang was Motis.
• Su Yuan tried to explain that he and his companion had stolen Motis's identity to stop the Blood Sacrifice Ritual, but Motis refused to trust him.
• Su Yuan sensed Chen Nuoyi approaching and used the Jieyue Pearl to bring himself, Motis, Red Hat Motis, and the heads outside.
• Motis and Chen Nuoyi met for the first time.

Su Yuan, Chen Nuoyi, and Motis cleared up their suspicions and agreed to work together to stop the Blood Sacrifice Ritual. Motis proposed infiltrating the Blood God Cult by presenting Su Yuan as her close friend, leaving Chen Nuoyi worried about what that cover would imply.

• Chen Nuoyi vouched for Su Yuan, and Motis trusted her explanation after Red-Hat Motis revealed that Motis could see people's true nature.
• Chen Nuoyi explained their campaign against the pirates and their plan to follow Wu Sheng and stop the Blood Sacrifice Ritual; Motis questioned Su Yuan about accusations made by Lin Yonghua, and Su Yuan admitted they were mostly true.
• Motis revealed that she had survived the Feng Family's destruction, developed the Corpse Immortal Demon Body, created multiple avatars, and infiltrated the Blood God Cult as Saintess Mo to seek revenge and stop the ritual.
• Su Yuan proposed that they work together to save a million people, and Motis identified his abilities as useful for infiltrating the Blood God Cult and suggested taking him to meet Blood Soul True Monarch.
• Motis proposed that Su Yuan enter the Blood God Cult as her kindred spirit and close friend, while Chen Nuoyi silently worried that the plan would make her look like a cuckold.

Su Yuan agreed to infiltrate the Blood God Cult with Motis and arranged for Qi Hanyua to take over as County Magistrate under Su Youlin’s identity. After summoning the other executors to the Yaksa, he prepared to leave for the Blood God Cult.

• Su Yuan accepted Motis’s proposal and planned safeguards for his undercover mission, including a way for Chen Nuoyi to summon him back to the Yaksa.
• Su Yuan chose Qi Hanyua to replace him as County Magistrate and said he would leave with Motis after three days of handing over his duties.
• Motis offered twenty avatars to crew the Yaksa and relay information from the Blood God Cult, and Chen Nuoyi accepted.
• After three days, Su Yuan summoned Leng Qianliu, Zhu Tianqing, Xuan Haoran, and Qi Hanyua to the Yaksa using the Holy Sect Blood Sacrifice Array.
• Qi Hanyua appeared disguised as Su Youlin, and Su Yuan told her to take the official robe and seal and act cool before county officials.
• Motis realized that Su Yuan’s group had a deeper purpose but kept her thoughts to herself.

Su Yuan joined Motis in entering the Blood God Cult’s headquarters, where he faced Blood Soul True Lord’s suspicion and a test meant to expose him as a spy. The chapter left Su Yuan claiming he had mastered the Blood-Melting Divine Blade after studying it once.

• Su Yuan and Chen Nuoyi confirmed their plan to fight the Blood God Cult’s pirates while protecting the common people, then Su Yuan left for Holy Island with Motis.
• Su Yuan and Motis reached the Nine Lotus Cult in Sanyuan Prefecture and entered the Blood God Cult’s hidden headquarters.
• Motis introduced Su Yuan to Blood Soul True Lord as a wandering cultivator and asked her master to accept him into the cult.
• Blood Soul True Lord threatened Su Yuan and ordered him to master the Blood-Melting Divine Blade within three days as a test.
• Su Yuan studied the jade slip and told Blood Soul True Lord that he had already mastered the divine ability.

Su Yuan convinced Blood Soul True Monarch of his exceptional talent by demonstrating the Blood-Melting Divine Blade and quickly grasping the principles of another demonic technique. Blood Soul True Monarch offered to take Su Yuan as his personal disciple, leaving Motis wondering what would happen to him.

• Su Yuan used the Blood-Melting Divine Blade to cut through Blood Soul True Monarch's Air Wall, shocking him with proof that he had mastered the technique.
• Su Yuan claimed his rapid mastery came from his talent for the Path of Flesh and Blood, while privately recognizing the technique's connection to the Blood Corrupting Sword and Corrupting Devil Lord's inheritance.
• Blood Soul True Monarch tested Su Yuan by giving him a jade slip containing the Heavenly Demon Parasitic Technique, a Soul Dao art that corrupted and assimilated other souls.
• Su Yuan identified the technique's need for a source of soul corruption and said he could master it within a day without using the cult's Nether Ghost Pool.
• Blood Soul True Monarch asked to take Su Yuan as his personal disciple, prompting Motis to wonder what would happen to him.

Su Yuan became the Blood God Cult’s Holy Son and learned that Blood Soul True Lord used the Crown of Corruption to power the upcoming Blood Sacrifice Ritual. After Blood Soul True Lord sent Su Yuan and Motis to gather sacrificial victims, Su Yuan resolved to scout the altar and steal the crown before leaving.

• Su Yuan pretended to be grateful as he became Blood Soul True Lord’s disciple and the Blood God Cult’s Holy Son, with Motis named his senior sister.
• Blood Soul True Lord showed Su Yuan and Motis the damaged Crown of Corruption hidden beneath his study and explained that sacrificing a million people let him draw on its power.
• Su Yuan recognized the crown’s connection to his quests and realized he needed to steal it and obtain its forging method to restore it.
• Blood Soul True Lord ordered Su Yuan and Motis to gather a million sacrificial offerings from one or two counties over the next month.
• Motis privately warned Su Yuan that Blood Soul True Lord’s warmth was suspicious, and Su Yuan decided to scout the altar and try to steal the crown soon.

Su Yuan secretly refined the Crown of Corruption over three nights, completing the quest to steal it without alerting Blood Soul True Monarch. After learning the God-Made Outer Core Forging Method, he found hope for saving the hundreds of thousands of captives, but knew he needed to plan carefully.

• Su Yuan used Night Raid Must Succeed to enter Blood Soul True Monarch's study and reach the Crown of Corruption unnoticed.
• Su Yuan used the Corrupting Divine Kingdom to resist the Crown's influence, connected with the treasure, and learned it could steal a chosen target's talent.
• Su Yuan began refining the Crown of Corruption in secret, making progress at night while cultivating the Heavenly Demon Parasitic Technique by day to deceive Blood Soul True Monarch.
• Su Yuan finished refining the Crown on the third night and completed the [Stealing the Crown] quest.
• Su Yuan claimed the God-Made Outer Core Forging Method and realized it might offer a way to save the captives, but decided to plan before taking the Crown away.

Su Yuan and Motis arranged a staged clash with the Blood God Cult’s pirate forces to weaken the cult without provoking Blood Soul True Monarch. Their plan turned deadly when Chen Nuoyi destroyed a pirate flagship, leaving Su Yuan to face the surviving captains’ suspicions.

• Su Yuan told Motis he would coordinate with the Fengxiang Pirate Group and the Longcheng County navy to disrupt the cult’s efforts to gather Sacrificial Offerings, and Motis agreed to stage a naval battle.
• Su Yuan contacted Chen Nuoyi, then met Captain Jin and Lin Yonghua aboard the Gold-Seeking, where Motis ordered the cult’s major pirate groups to unite against Feng Chuanxiang.
• After six pirate groups surrounded the Yaksa, Su Yuan sent Xue Mang aboard to capture Chen Nuoyi, but she killed him and his crew, then destroyed the Giant Serpent with Purple Gold Dragon Qi and Vibration Force.
• The surviving pirate captains suspected Su Yuan had caused Xue Mang’s death, but Su Yuan dismissed their complaints and refused to take responsibility.

Su Yuan manipulated three Golden Core pirates into following his orders as they attacked Feng Chuanxiang, who was actually Chen Nuoyi. Chen Nuoyi overwhelmed them in close combat while Su Yuan caught Lin Yonghua and urged the others to keep fighting.

• Motis refused to interfere, so Su Yuan ordered three Golden Core pirates to surround Feng Chuanxiang and insisted on joining them.
• Lin Yonghua, Wei Chenghai, and Qin Jin were selected, and Su Yuan secretly altered their perceptions so they would obey his battle orders.
• Su Yuan directed Lin Yonghua to attack head-on and Wei Chenghai and Qin Jin to flank Feng Chuanxiang in close combat.
• Chen Nuoyi used her Dragon Emperor True Body to strike Lin Yonghua with a devastating punch, and Su Yuan caught him as he flew backward.
• Chen Nuoyi withstood Wei Chenghai and Qin Jin's attacks, then seized them and battered them with Vibration Force after Su Yuan ordered them to charge again.

Su Yuan’s manipulation helped Chen Nuoyi capture Wei Chenghai and weaken the Blood God Cult, while he blamed the failed battle on the pirate captains and refused to direct their next move. Longcheng County’s navy arrived under Su Youlin, setting the stage for the planned joint attack on the Blood God Cult.

• Su Yuan ordered Chen Nuoyi’s opponents into mistakes, and Chen Nuoyi knocked out and captured Wei Chenghai before defeating Qin Jin and Lin Yonghua more easily.
• Su Yuan withdrew the surviving Golden Core Cultivators and secretly reversed his changes to their perceptions as the pirate captains demanded that he rescue Wei Chenghai.
• Su Yuan blamed the captured Wei Chenghai on the captains’ poor teamwork and refused to command the next battle, leaving them angry and determined to prove themselves.
• Longcheng County’s warships arrived, and Lin Yonghua recognized the government soldiers as young members of the Four Great Families who had been captured and reshaped.
• Su Yuan recognized that the navy’s arrival followed his plan to weaken the Blood God Cult before joining forces with the Fengxiang Pirate Group, then told Captain Jin that the pirates must decide what to do.

Su Yuan used the Longcheng County Navy to crush the pirates in battle, then cowed the surviving captains into obeying his plan to keep Feng Chuanxiang and Su Youlin from interfering with the Blood Sacrifice Ritual. He left with Motis to report, while she promised to stand up for him before Blood Soul True Monarch.

• Su Yuan blamed the pirate captains for their earlier defeat, and they rallied their crews to engage the Longcheng County Navy.
• Qi Hanyua ordered the fleet to fire, and its cannons destroyed Wei Chenghai's Giant Serpent and devastated the pirate ships.
• Qi Hanyua offered bounties for pirate heads as the navy's soldiers fought the boarders; Chen Nuoyi, Wang De, and Qi Hanyua held off the Golden Core captains, and Qi Hanyua captured Qin Jin.
• The surviving pirates fled after hours of pursuit, and Su Yuan revealed that he had let them believe they had escaped before ordering them to hold off Feng Chuanxiang and Su Youlin.
• Su Yuan forced two pirate captains to their knees with his power, then left aboard Motis's Bone Flying Boat as Motis promised to support him before Blood Soul True Monarch.

Su Yuan and Motis were assigned to destroy hostile Demonic Cult strongholds while the Blood God Cult prepared its Blood Sacrifice Ritual. They arrived at the Holy Island with Blood Soul True Monarch, where he began arranging the altar and bringing out more than five hundred thousand captive commoners as offerings.

• Blood Soul True Monarch questioned Su Yuan about the disastrous naval battle, then sent Su Yuan and Motis to eliminate hostile Demonic Cult strongholds.
• Su Yuan and Motis cleared the strongholds, making sure their targets were genuine Demonic Cultivators and using the bodies and souls for their own purposes.
• Feng Chuanxiang and Su Youlin's fleets pursued the pirates, preventing them from capturing more people before the Blood Sacrifice Ritual.
• More than twenty days later, Su Yuan and Motis returned to the Blood God Cult headquarters, where Blood Soul True Monarch revealed he had stored over five hundred thousand offerings in his jade bracer.
• Blood Soul True Monarch led the cult leaders by teleportation to the Holy Island, carrying the damaged Crown of Corruption and warning everyone to keep their distance from it.
• After his followers cleaned the altar, Blood Soul True Monarch placed the Crown of Corruption at its center, spread blood across the altar, and released the bound, unconscious commoners from his jade bracer.

Su Yuan turned Blood Soul True Monarch’s Blood Sacrifice Ritual against him, taking the Crown of Corruption and using it to drain the Blood God Cult’s leaders. As the ritual strengthened Su Yuan, Blood Soul True Monarch attacked him in fury.

• Blood Soul True Monarch invited Su Yuan and Motis to stand beside him, then activated the Crown of Corruption to target them as sacrifices.
• Su Yuan asked Blood Soul True Monarch to leave him the crown and the Blood God Cult after his death, completing the system’s submission mission through the Sect Leader’s promise.
• The crown’s light focused on Su Yuan and Motis, revealing Blood Soul True Monarch’s plan to sacrifice his disciples and unsettling the watching leaders.
• Su Yuan seized the Crown of Corruption, expanded the altar’s array with blood from the Jieyue Pearl, and redirected the ritual toward Blood Soul True Monarch and the senior leaders.
• Blood Soul True Monarch attacked Su Yuan, but Su Yuan dodged as the crown drained the leaders and boosted his cultivation.
• Blood Soul True Monarch grew enraged and vowed to destroy Su Yuan’s whole body.