Recaps

Chu He led fifty Demon Suppression Guards toward Nine Nether Town for an operation connected to the Heavenly Pride Grand Competition. After rescuing five Green Mountain Sect disciples from bandits, he attacked one disciple and ordered his men to strip all five of their treasures, claiming the sects owed taxes.

• Chu He gathered ten squad leaders and departed for Nine Nether Town with fifty Demon Suppression Guards.
• Zhao Yuan explained that Nine Nether Town was the seat of the Heavenly Origin Sect and hosted a grand competition attended by Yun Province's sects and schools.
• Chu He ordered his guards to kill the bandits pursuing five Green Mountain Sect disciples, and the guards slaughtered them.
• When a young disciple offered Chu He an embroidered handkerchief, Chu He kicked a gray-robed disciple away and ordered his men to take every treasure from the group.
• Chu He justified the seizure by citing the sects' unpaid taxes and left the five disciples stranded in the wilderness.

Chu He received orders to enter Nine Nether Town with absolute arrogance and draw the sects’ attention, then used the inn’s lack of rooms to force its guests to make space for his guards. The diners began offering rooms as his ten-breath countdown continued.

• Chu He received Qian Hao’s order to act boldly in Nine Nether Town and decided to use the mission to gain benefits.
• Inn guests discussed the grand competition and condemned Chu He for killing Wu Yan, unaware that Chu He had arrived.
• Chu He entered the inn with his Demon Suppression Guards, intimidated the diners, and destroyed a table when they fell silent.
• The innkeeper and waiter said they could provide only ten rooms, so Chu ordered the diners to arrange ten superior rooms within ten breaths.
• As Chu He’s countdown continued, the Green Mountain Gang, Nine Origins Sect, and other groups began offering rooms.

Chu He provoked Jian Wu into a dice wager, then raised the stakes with his salary and a Sacred Blood Pill. Sect disciples pooled treasures for Jian Wu and demanded Zhao Yizhi shake the dice, while Chu He inwardly welcomed the wager.

• Chu He confronted the Divine Sword Sect disciples and taunted Jian Wu into accepting a dice wager.
• Chu He proposed that Jian Wu hand over his treasures and crawl out if he lost, while Chu He would apologize to the Divine Sword Sect if he lost.
• Zhao Yizhi offered his Heaven and Earth Dice Cup, and the crowd learned of his grudge against the Demon Suppression Bureau.
• Chu He added ten years of salary and a Sacred Blood Pill to his stake, leaving Jian Wu unable to match it alone.
• Sect disciples contributed treasures to Jian Wu's wager and demanded that Zhao Yizhi shake the dice on Jian Wu's behalf.
• Chu He reluctantly agreed to the demand while thinking that the others had taken his bait.

Chu He defeated Zhao Yizhi in a dice contest, winning the gathered treasures and forcing Jian Wu to crawl out of the inn. After Jian Wu vowed revenge, Chu He ordered an investigation into his possible ties to the White Lotus Cult.

• Chu He accepted Zhao Yizhi's gambling challenge and rolled a total of four with a single shake of the Heaven and Earth Dice Cup.
• Zhao Yizhi shook the cup repeatedly and rolled three points, prompting the sect disciples to accuse him of deliberately helping Chu He.
• Chu He dismissed the disciples' demands for a rematch and ordered Zhao Yuan and the guards to collect the stakes, including the Heaven and Earth Dice Cup.
• Chu He made Jian Wu crawl to the inn's exit to honor their wager, and Jian Wu vowed to repay the humiliation.
• Chu He ordered an investigation into Jian Wu's past, saying he suspected him of colluding with the White Lotus Cult.

Chu He investigated the demons hidden in Nine Nether Town and suspected the Heavenly Origin Sect had gathered them for a scheme targeting the visiting geniuses. He forced Zhao Yizhi to bargain for Blood Spider's life, but made no promise to save her.

• Chu He’s subordinate gave him a dossier listing dozens of demons hidden throughout Nine Nether Town, and Chu He suspected the Heavenly Origin Sect was connected to them.
• Chu He reasoned that the demons and the coming genius competition might be part of a plan to target the competitors or serve another hidden purpose.
• Zhao Yizhi confronted Chu He about Blood Spider, but Chu He knocked him down and revealed that she was imprisoned in the Blood Prison.
• Chu He demanded a tempting treasure from Zhao Yizhi within a month, threatening to have Blood Spider whipped for each day he was late.
• Zhao Yizhi left after agreeing to the terms, while Chu He privately admitted he had never promised to save Blood Spider.

Chu He and the Demon Suppression Guards rode toward Nine Nether Town to begin a dangerous mission, leaving onlookers struck by their resolve. At the town gates, sect disciples registered for the Prodigy Assembly, and rumors spread that Chu He had humiliated Jian Wu after killing his senior brother.

• Chu He gathered Zhao Yuan and the Demon Suppression Guards and set out for Nine Nether Town, warning that the real conflict would begin there.
• A fair-skinned woman asked Chu He to speak privately, but he refused and led the guards away shouting, “Suppress demons!”
• The imposing man praised the Demon Suppression Guards as protectors of Great Qian, while he and his companion agreed to leave Yun Province after the prodigy tournament.
• At Nine Nether Town, Heavenly Origin Sect outer disciples opened the gates and registered arriving sects, including Jian Wu of the Divine Sword Sect.
• Onlookers discussed Jian Wu’s anger and learned that Chu He had killed his senior brother, taken his treasures, and forced him to crawl out of the inn.

Chu He forced his way into Nine Nether Town, making his arrogance and reputation the talk of the town. At the Heavenly Origin Sect’s quarters, Tian Liu and cloaked demons discussed a plan to kill Qian Hao and carry out their wider scheme in Yun Province.

• Chu He and his Demon Suppression Guards reached Nine Nether Town, where the patrol captain tried to stop them from entering without registering.
• Chu He wrote “Order” on a sheet of paper, declared anyone who obstructed them a demon, and led his guards into town.
• Word of Chu He’s forceful entry and his reputation as a powerful prodigy spread throughout Nine Nether Town.
• Tian Liu ordered his disciples not to interfere with Chu He, while telling cloaked figures that Qian Hao was arriving with six Demon Suppression Guard camps.
• Tian Liu agreed to handle Qian Hao personally as the cloaked demons planned to deal with the guards and other sects, then revealed their nonhuman bodies as they left.

Chu He took the seat of honor at the Heavenly Pride Grand Competition and ordered Tian Yuan to begin, while suspecting the Heavenly Origin Sect was concealing a plot. As the contestants fought below, Chu He dismissed their matches as children fighting.

• Tian Yun welcomed the faction leaders to the arena, and Chu He arrived with fifty Demon Suppression Guards.
• Chu He sat in the seat reserved for Tian Yuan and claimed he was watching on behalf of the Battalion Commander.
• Tian Yuan accepted Chu He's claim and announced the competition's prizes, while privately resolving to kill him later.
• Chu He suspected the Heavenly Origin Sect was waiting for its scheme to unfold during the matches and decided to use the situation to kill demons and grow stronger.
• Bai Hao and Gou Dongxi began the fights, which continued as Heavenly Origin Sect disciples scored the competitors.
• Dao Buer asked whether Chu He found the fights dull, and Chu He called them a bunch of children fighting.

Chu He recognized that the bouts in Nine Nether Town were meant to exhaust the third-rank fighters, then dodged an assassination attempt as Tian Yuan and Dao Buer revealed their alliance with hundreds of demons. As the town descended into chaos, Chu He sent Zhao Yuan’s guards toward their base and began hunting demons.

• The competition ended with Dao Feng, Liu Ju, and Wu Kai as the top three, while Tian Yun persuaded the remaining third-rank experts to fight until they were exhausted.
• Tian Yuan attacked two fighters after their bout, and Dao Buer threw a dagger at Chu He, who dodged and wounded Dao Buer with a coin.
• Dao Buer summoned hundreds of demons, and Tian Yuan admitted that the Heavenly Origin Sect had colluded with them.
• Demons attacked Nine Nether Town, killing many martial artists and at least ten guards from another Demon Suppression Banner, while Chu He’s warned unit suffered few losses.
• Chu He ordered Zhao Yuan to lead the guards east to their base, then leaped onto a rooftop and prepared to hunt the demons.

Chu He killed a wounded second-rank peak demon and rescued a group of disciples after Wang Mengde abandoned them to escape. When the young woman blamed him for Uncle Lan’s death, Chu He rejected her moral appeal and warned the group not to challenge him again.

• Wang Mengde tricked the disciples into buying him time, then escaped on a paper bird and left them surrounded by demons.
• Uncle Lan wounded the leading dog-headed demon with a desperate punch, but the demon mortally injured him and lunged at him and the young woman.
• Chu He ambushed and killed the wounded demon, earning 50 Demon Points.
• The young woman begged Chu He to save Uncle Lan, but he said only a fifth-rank pill could help and refused to provide one.
• The young woman accused Chu He of failing his duty, and he said the sects were elements of disorder before warning the disciples he would kill them if they challenged him again.

Chu He punished Meng Chuan, broke through to the Second Rank Middle Stage by spending Demon Points, and headed north to hunt more demons. At the city gate, he watched sect disciples struggle against two Third Rank wolf demons and waited for the battle to intensify.

• Chu He used soul power to inflict pain on Meng Chuan, then left her and the others to face Uncle Lan’s death.
• Chu He killed a wounded Second Rank Peak Stage demon and spent two hundred Demon Points to advance the Dragon Elephant Prison Suppression Art and reach the Second Rank Middle Stage.
• Chu He killed another demon, realized he needed many more Demon Points, and chose to head north toward the city gate in search of Third Rank demons.
• Several hundred sect disciples tried to escape through the city gate while Sect Master Zhang fought two Third Rank wolf demons.
• Chu He watched from a rooftop and urged the slaughter below to grow fiercer.

Chu He rescued a third rank martial artist by killing two third rank demons, then used the demon points he earned to advance to second rank late stage. He headed toward more fighting, still dissatisfied with his progress.

• Chu He watched the sect disciples battle the demons and suspected the Demon Suppression Guard had delayed its intervention to weaken the sects.
• A third rank martial artist wounded one demon but lost an arm, and Chu He killed the demon holding him with a copper-coin soul attack before finishing the wounded demon with a broken sword.
• The rescued white-robed old man thanked Chu He, while Chu He warned the woman who had offered to marry him to stop making eyes at him.
• Chu He gained demon points for killing the two third rank demons and rushed toward nearby fighting to earn enough points for an upgrade.
• Chu He spent four hundred demon points to advance his Dragon Elephant Prison Suppression Art and break through to second rank late stage.

Chu He decided to join the battle east of Nine Nether Town, where the Demon Suppression Guards fought the White Lotus Cult and its demons. Qian Hao confronted the traitor Tian Liu above the town, and Tian Liu revealed that their plan included delaying Commander Zhou.

• Chu He assessed his strength and resolved to fight alongside the Demon Suppression Guards to earn more Demon Points.
• Zhang Wei battled Bai Sha as the Demon Suppression Guards pushed back the demons, and Bai Sha warned that a greater crisis was approaching.
• Qian Hao confronted Tian Liu, who admitted collaborating with the White Lotus Cult and threatened the six battalions' survival.
• Qian Hao's Demon-Suppressing Sword wounded Tian Liu, and the two continued fighting amid the collapsing buildings below.
• Tian Liu said he was stalling Qian Hao and called for someone to come out, claiming Commander Zhou could be delayed.

A fourth rank late stage tiger-headed demon joined the battle and threatened the Demon Suppression Guards, while Chu He revealed his increased strength by killing three third rank demons in quick succession. The battle continued with the Guards stunned by Chu He's sudden breakthrough and the system chiming in his mind.

• Tian Liu sent the tiger-headed demon to slaughter the Demon Suppression Guards, while Qian Hao failed to stop him.
• The tiger-headed demon attacked Zhang Wei, who survived his strike but suffered grievous injuries; the demon accidentally crushed Bai Sha and ate him.
• Chu He killed a third rank demon attacking a hundred-household commander and swiftly killed two more demons with his saber and copper coin.
• The Demon Suppression Guards recognized Chu He and reacted in disbelief at his second rank late stage cultivation and combat strength.
• Chu He ignored their astonishment as the system's voice rang in his mind.

Sun Shang saved Zhang Wei from the tiger-headed demon and fought alongside him, but died protecting him when the demon struck. As Qian Hao and Tian Liu arrived at the battlefield, Chu He reflected on the danger of assuming his enemies would wait for him to act.

• Sun Shang rescued Zhang Wei from the tiger-headed demon, then joined him in a coordinated attack.
• A Demon Suppression Hundred Household Commander told Chu He that Sun Shang and Zhang Wei had once been close friends, but Sun Nai'er's death had made them enemies.
• Chu He resumed hunting wounded demons for Demon Points and refused Hundred Household Commander Ji's accusation that he was stealing credit.
• Qian Hao and Tian Liu arrived above the battlefield and urged the fighters to end the battle quickly.
• The tiger-headed demon attacked Zhang Wei, and Sun Shang shoved him aside before being torn in half.

Chu He used the forbidden Nine Demonic Latent Arts to confront the wounded tiger-headed demon as the Demon Suppression Guards faced slaughter. He managed to injure the demon, but its Tiger Roar blasted him backward and shattered his uniform.

• Sun Shang died protecting Zhang Wei, while the tiger-headed demon pulled the sword from its chest and charged toward the eastern battlefield.
• The Demon Suppression Guards formed a defensive line to protect the residents and fought the tiger-headed demon, while Tian Liu kept Qian Hao from intervening.
• Chu He rejected the chance to flee and activated the Nine Demonic Latent Arts, despite its lethal cost.
• Chu He attacked the tiger-headed demon, whose head began to hurt after their clashes, and continued pressing the assault.
• The tiger-headed demon unleashed its innate Tiger Roar, driving Chu He back a hundred meters and destroying his flying-fish uniform.

Chu He pushed his body past its limits to fight the fourth-rank tiger-headed demon while the people of Nine Nether Town watched in awe. As Zhou Cang arrived and the White Lotus Cult forces retreated, Chu He beheaded the demon but was knocked over a cliff.

• The residents praised Chu He for enduring terrible pain to protect them, while Hundred Household Commander Ji struck himself in shame for having mocked him.
• Chu He charged the tiger-headed demon and exchanged rapid blows as his wounds worsened, while Zhao Yuan and the other Demon Suppression Guards fought to help him.
• Tian Liu taunted Qian Hao and watched as blood across Nine Nether Town seeped into the earth as part of the White Lotus Cult's plan.
• Zhou Cang approached, prompting Tian Liu to order a retreat, and Chu He realized that Zhou Cang's arrival could leave him unable to finish the fight in time.
• Chu He forced more mental power into his body, beheaded the fleeing tiger-headed demon, and was struck by its tail over a cliff.

After Zhou Cang arrived and learned that Chu He had apparently fallen to his death, he ordered a search and posthumously awarded him the brocade red robe for his sacrifice. As Chu He plunged down the cliff, the system rewarded him for killing a fourth-rank demon, letting him break through to middle third grade and revive before he reached the bottom.

• Zhou Cang arrived and killed the remaining demons with a single display of force.
• Zhou Cang told Qian Hao that the White Lotus Cult might be conducting a sacrificial ritual and ordered a search of Nine Nether Town.
• After Qian Hao explained Chu He's role in killing the tiger-headed demon, Zhou Cang posthumously honored Chu He and ordered his body searched for below the cliff.
• As Chu He fell, the system awarded him demon points for killing a fourth-rank demon, and he spent them to reach middle third grade.
• Chu He revived in midair, drove his Demon-Suppressing Saber into the cliff, and stopped his fall hundreds of meters above the bottom.

After falling from the cliff, Chu He found a blood-devouring black mirror and survived its attempt to possess him because of the system. He escaped down the cliff and into the river, while the Demon Suppression Guards assumed he had died, though Zhao Yuan and the others recognized his secret signal.

• Chu He reflected on his rapid breakthrough and explained that he had jumped from the cliff to hide his recovery and new strength from Zhou Cang.
• Chu He entered a cave and found a black mirror absorbing blood, which he identified as the secret treasure behind the White Lotus Cult's plan.
• An ancient presence inside the mirror tried to possess Chu He, but the system destroyed it, and Chu He took the mirror.
• Chu He descended the cliff, erased his tracks, left his bloody shoes by the river, and swam away.
• Zhang Wei led over a hundred Demon Suppression Guards in searching for Chu He and ordered them to find his body after discovering the shoes.
• Lu Feng and the others doubted Chu He was dead, while Zhao Yuan and the others knew he had survived because they had seen his secret signal.

The White Lotus Cult’s altar was destroyed before its sacred ancestor could awaken, so the holy maiden ordered Chu He’s family killed to intimidate the Demon Suppression Bureau. At the Chu estate, Chu Nan reached peak first grade and exposed a disguised monster posing as the steward.

• The White Lotus Cult’s altar shattered, and the old woman killed most of the demons present to keep the failure secret.
• The holy maiden decided to rebuild the branch’s strength by targeting the Demon Suppression Bureau and ordered Elder Ghost to slaughter Chu He’s family.
• Chu Nan reached peak first grade with Elder Meng’s help, though Elder Meng warned that Chu He could not safely use the same method.
• Chu Nan smelled something wrong in the meal the steward brought and attacked the supposed steward with a hidden sword.
• The steward transformed into a tentacled monster and demanded to know how Chu Nan had seen through its disguise.

Chu Nan killed a Second Rank demon with Vast Righteous Qi, then faced a stronger White Lotus Cult demon at the Chu estate. Just as Elder Meng prepared to burn his soul to save him, Hai Pig arrived and drove the demon back with a warhammer.

• Chu Nan blinded the Second Rank Middle Stage demon with chili powder and killed it by striking its back with his weasel-hair brush infused with Vast Righteous Qi.
• Elder Meng urged Chu Nan to open his Confucian Palace, but Chu Nan searched the silent Chu estate for other demons instead.
• A ghost-faced demon ambushed Chu Nan at the courtyard entrance, and Chu Nan burned its hand with poison on his folding fan.
• The late third-rank demon attacked Chu Nan while Elder Meng prepared to burn part of his soul to rescue him.
• Hai Pig descended on a warhammer, blasted the ghost-faced demon away, and paid his respects to Second Master.

Hai Pig defeated and killed the ghost-faced demon that had attacked Chu Nan, then left him to handle the aftermath. At the Demon Suppression Bureau headquarters, Zhang Wei remained unable to find Chu He’s body as the martyrs’ memorial approached.

• Hai Pig revealed that he had been inside the courtyard before the formation was raised and attacked the ghost-faced demon with his war hammer.
• Hai Pig overwhelmed the demon, stopped it from escaping, and crushed it to death after asking whether the White Lotus Holy Mother had sent it.
• Hai Pig told Chu Nan that the demons in the city had been dealt with and left, suggesting Chu Nan plant a fruit tree in the pit over the demon’s remains.
• Chu Nan ordered the guards to keep the incident quiet, repair the courtyard, and plant a peach tree in the pit.
• At Demon Suppression Bureau headquarters, Zhang Wei berated Lu Feng because they still had not found Chu He’s body, while Lu Feng said they had drained the river without finding him.

At Heroes' Tomb, the Yunzhou Demon Suppression Guards honored Chu He and his fallen comrades, believing Chu He had died in battle. Chu He arrived just as they prepared to bury his robe, revealing that he had survived and reporting back to Qian Hao and Zhang Wei.

• Zhang Wei ordered a company commander's uniform placed in Chu He's coffin as a cenotaph.
• At Heroes' Tomb, Qian Hao remembered the many Demon Suppression Guards who had died and began the memorial ceremony for Sun Shang, Zhang Yuan, and Chu He.
• Zhang Wei announced Chu He's posthumous honors, and the Demon Suppression Guards raised their sabers and vowed that demon suppression would endure forever.
• As the guards opened Chu He's cenotaph, Chu He appeared and told them to wait before they buried the robe.
• Lu Feng and the other guards rejoiced at Chu He's return, and Chu He greeted Qian Hao and Zhang Wei with, "Company Commander Chu He, reporting back!"

Chu He returned to the Demon Suppression Bureau after surviving the battle at Nine Nether Town, explained his recovery with a fabricated story about a Black God Fruit, and was appointed Hundred Household Commander of the Sixth Battalion. At the Bureau’s regular meeting, Zhou Cang announced the appointment and new orders to deal harshly with powerful groups and anyone who colluded with demons or abused the people.

• Qian Hao welcomed Chu He back, restored his merit points, and gave him time to reunite with his subordinates before reporting in.
• Chu He told Qian Hao and Zhang Wei that he had recovered after eating a humanoid black fruit, and they identified it as a rare Black God Fruit.
• Qian Hao appointed Chu He Hundred Household Commander of the Sixth Battalion to fill a vacancy left by the losses at Nine Nether Town.
• Zhang Wei congratulated Chu He, and Chu He pledged to support him in return for his past care.
• At the regular meeting, Zhou Cang ordered the Third Army to kill those who provoked the Bureau, colluded with demons, or abused the people, then announced Chu He's appointment.

Chu He returned to the Demon Suppression Bureau as a Third Rank Hundred Household Commander and was assigned to Green Mountain Commandery. There, the Qinghai Gang moved to undermine the Chu residence’s banquet for Chu Nan, but Chu Nan insisted it proceed as planned.

• Chu He reported for duty as the Sixth Camp’s Hundred Household Commander, received his token from Zhou Cang, and joined the guards in shouting, “Demon suppression, everlasting!”
• Qian Hao told Chu He that the Sixth Camp would rotate to Green Mountain Commandery and that he was free to make a show of his return.
• The Chu residence prepared a grand banquet after Chu Nan passed the provincial examination, while rumors spread that Chu He was dead and the Qinghai Gang’s Eighth Young Master had also passed.
• Chu Nan ordered the steward to hold the banquet at Chushan Restaurant after learning the Qinghai Gang had invited the same guests to a rival banquet across the street.
• Wang Long declared the Chu residence a stepping stone for the Qinghai Gang’s rise and ordered that anyone attending Chu Nan’s banquet would become its enemy.