Chapter Summaries

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.