Recaps

Su Yu trapped the thousand-year-old crocodile demon with the Heavenly Prison Thunder Cage and wounded it with a powerful saber strike. Exhausted and unable to kill the Earth Realm demon, he fled into the marsh as its attack struck from behind.

• Su Yu combined the Prohibition Blood Formation and Great Annihilation Pagoda to slow the death orb, then imprisoned the crocodile demon in a Heavenly Prison Thunder Cage.
• Su Yu used the Blood Sha Mountains and Rivers Slash to cut deep into the crocodile demon's neck.
• The wounded crocodile demon shattered the lightning cage and locked its blood-red eyes on Su Yu as he fell, exhausted.
• Su Yu used Thunder Demon Shadow Trace Steps to flee into the marsh, and the crocodile demon fired a dark yellow pillar of light after him.
• The attack's gale hurled Su Yu away, making him spit blood before he disappeared into the miasma.

Su Yu escaped the Rotting Swamp after wounding the thousand-year-old crocodile demon, then used his slaughter points to advance Asura Blood Sha Slash. He gained the ultimate-realm killing move Asura One Slash just as his communication talisman began vibrating.

• The thousand-year-old crocodile demon abandoned its pursuit of Su Yu and sank into the mire to recover after sensing danger from the City of Calamity and Chaos.
• Su Yu landed a hundred li away, treated his injuries, and concluded that the earth realm was not invincible despite the immense gap in power.
• Su Yu decided to save his Pagoda Demonic Manifestation for a future killing strike and considered how to prepare for the Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation in three days.
• Su Yu spent 300,000 slaughter points to deduce Asura Blood Sha Slash to minute subtlety.
• Su Yu comprehended the ultimate-realm killing move Asura One Slash, and his communication talisman began vibrating.

After learning that the city lord's manor had captured Demon Suppression Bureau captains Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan, Su Yu returned to the City of Calamity and Chaos to take control of events before they disrupted his plans. Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan remained imprisoned, destined to be sacrificed in three days, as Su Yu reached the city and received another communication.

• Sun Xin told Su Yu that the city lord's manor had captured two people from the Demon Suppression Bureau, and Su Yu confirmed their identities with Cao Ping.
• Su Yu decided Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan could not die at anyone else's hands and returned to the City of Calamity and Chaos.
• Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan remained chained in the city lord's dungeon, where Wu Lin suspected a mole had revealed their route into the city.
• Sun Jie told Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan that they would be sacrificed in the central square at midnight three days later.
• Su Yu moved through the blood-soaked city toward the city lord's manor, then connected a communication talisman in a deserted alley.

After learning that two Demon Suppression Guards were being held for sacrifice, Su Yu planned to rescue them despite his severe injuries and the dungeon’s overwhelming defenses. He infiltrated the city lord’s residence, killed a guard during the shift change, and entered the squad in disguise, approaching the stairs to the dungeon.

• Sun Xin told Su Yu that two Demon Suppression Guards were imprisoned on the dungeon’s third level, badly wounded and scheduled to become sacrifices.
• Su Yu decided he had to rescue them himself and considered using the Rotting Swamp as a refuge afterward.
• Su Yu infiltrated the city lord’s residence and observed the guards protecting the dungeon entrance.
• During the guard change, Su Yu silently killed a young guard, took his armor, and joined the squad without being noticed.
• Su Yu followed the squad toward the dungeon stairs while the two guest retainers remained unaware of him.

Su Yu freed Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan from the city lord’s dungeon and fought off their guards with his saber and Purple Firmament Heavenly Thunder Art. As they escaped, Earth Realm Sun Yao awakened and unleashed a crushing Force upon them.

• Su Yu secretly broke the formations sealing Wu Lin’s and Hu Yuanyuan’s cultivation, but Guest Elder Li sensed the disturbance.
• Su Yu killed four city guards with one saber strike, cut open the prisoners’ cell doors, and gave them healing pills.
• Su Yu faced Guest Elders Li and Wang as the dungeon alarm sounded and Earth Realm Sun Yao awakened.
• Su Yu summoned purple lightning that overwhelmed the guards and distracted the two guest elders, then escaped the dungeon with Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan.
• A crushing Force descended on Su Yu and the others as they emerged from the dungeon.

Su Yu confronted Sun Yao to protect the injured Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan, using the Pagoda Demonic Manifestation to resist the Earth Realm expert. He exploited Sun Yao’s need to protect the formation beneath the residence and escaped into spatial turbulence, while Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan fled deeper into the Rotting Swamp.

• Sun Yao attacked Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan, but Su Yu blocked the strike and ordered them to run toward the Rotting Swamp.
• Su Yu used Asura Blood Sha Slash to stop Sun Yao from pursuing them, and Sun Yao sent residence experts after the fugitives.
• Sun Yao used the Earth Realm’s Borrowing Momentum Stage, but Su Yu summoned the Pagoda Demonic Manifestation and pushed back his momentum.
• Su Yu realized Sun Yao was holding back to protect the great formation beneath the residence and attacked repeatedly to keep him from pursuing Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan.
• Su Yu used the recoil from their clash to flee, then sacrificed the damaged manifestation to distract Sun Yao and escaped into spatial turbulence.

Sun Yao ordered the city sealed while Sun Xin helped Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan escape to the Rotting Swamp. Gravely injured after fighting Sun Yao, Su Yu reached them at the swamp’s edge, where Wu Lin recognized the possible connection between him and the explosion at the manor.

• Sun Yao mobilized the manor guards to search the city after the grand formation was damaged.
• Sun Xin led Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan through the backstreets and told them to hide in the Rotting Swamp.
• Blood Cat and Elder Deadwood discussed the unknown fighter who had clashed with Sun Yao and considered what his appearance meant for their plan.
• Su Yu treated his severe injuries, resolved to recover before the Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation activated, and headed for the Rotting Swamp.
• Su Yu reached Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan, and Wu Lin began to ask whether Su Yu had fought Sun Yao.

Su Yu hid in the swamp with Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan, recovered from his injuries, and raised his Spirit Refinement cultivation to the Mystic Realm Seventh Level. After Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan left to report the coming blood sacrifice and a traitor in Linhai Commandery, Su Yu prepared to return to the City of Calamity and Chaos.

• Su Yu showed Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan his Demon Suppression Bureau captain's token and led them to shelter in the swamp.
• Su Yu healed his physical wounds but found his mental power depleted and lacked enough Slaughter Points to advance his Spirit Refinement cultivation.
• Su Yu killed a twelve-man search squad sent by the city lord's manor and gained enough Slaughter Points to reach the Mystic Realm Seventh Level in Spirit Refinement.
• The next morning, Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan left to warn headquarters about the imminent blood sacrifice and a traitor within Linhai Commandery.
• With his injuries healed and his spirit restored, Su Yu turned toward the City of Calamity and Chaos.

Su Yu left the Rotting Swamp for Desolate Ridge to hunt demons and gather Slaughter Points before the Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation began. Meanwhile, Sun Yao inspected the formation with Blood Cat and Elder Deadwood and confirmed the plan to sacrifice the City of Calamity and Chaos’s hundred thousand residents in two days.

• Su Yu assessed his cultivation and concluded that raising his Qi and Spirit Refinement to Mystic Realm Ninth Level could let him truly fight an Earth Realm First Level opponent.
• With less than three days before the Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation and no worthwhile prey left in the Rotting Swamp, Su Yu concealed his presence and set off for Desolate Ridge.
• Blood Cat and Elder Deadwood confronted Sun Yao about the intruder who had escaped his manor, then insisted on inspecting the grand formation.
• Sun Yao stabilized a disrupted formation anchor, while Blood Cat and Elder Deadwood confirmed the formation was ready and its resentment had nearly reached the critical point.
• Sun Yao declared that in two days he would sacrifice the city’s hundred thousand residents to break through his talent’s limits, while Blood Cat and Elder Deadwood would receive what they wanted.

Su Yu hunted demons in Desolate Ridge while Sun Yao, Elder Deadwood, and Blood Cat decided he had to be eliminated before the Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation began. As Wang Xiankun investigated the planned sacrifice and ordered a lockdown, Elder Deadwood tracked Su Yu to Desolate Ridge, where a hostile presence finally locked onto him.

• Su Yu killed a Mystic Realm fourth-level Black-Armored Earth Dragon Beast with Thunder Demon Shadow and Divine Radiance Heart-Piercing Spike, then continued deeper into Desolate Ridge.
• Sun Yao learned his forces had lost Su Yu and a squad, and Blood Cat warned that Su Yu could disrupt the Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation; Elder Deadwood tracked him to Desolate Ridge with a gu insect and set out to kill him.
• Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan told Wang Xiankun that Sun Yao planned to sacrifice the City of Calamity and Chaos and that the Demon Suppression Bureau had a mole; Wang ordered them confined and sealed all intelligence about the city.
• After more than half a day of hunting, Su Yu killed a Mystic Realm seventh-level Three-Eyed Demon Wolf and raised his Slaughter Points to 482,000.
• A cold, malicious presence locked onto Su Yu, and he turned toward the direction he had come from.

Su Yu used Slaughter Points to advance Prison-Burning Star-Shattering Seal and his Spirit Refinement cultivation while hiding from the tracker. His improved perception revealed Elder Deadwood was tracking him and that strange insects were closing in on his hiding place.

• Su Yu evaded his unseen pursuer by sending an afterimage deeper into Desolate Ridge and hiding in a crevice.
• Su Yu spent 300,000 Slaughter Points to raise Prison-Burning Star-Shattering Seal to Minute Subtlety and comprehended Prison Fire Exploding Star.
• Su Yu spent 130,000 Slaughter Points to raise his Spirit Refinement cultivation from Mystic Realm seventh level to ninth level.
• Su Yu's heightened perception revealed that Elder Deadwood had attached a tracking thread to his soul and was guiding something toward him.
• Eyeless, human-faced insects surrounded the crevice, and one crawled onto Su Yu's boot.

Su Yu confronted Elder Deadwood, who tried to recruit him into the Demon God Cult before unleashing his Ten Thousand Poisons Soul-Devouring Gu. Su Yu emerged unharmed and destroyed much of the swarm, leaving Elder Deadwood terrified.

• Su Yu crushed Elder Deadwood's tracking Gu and drew the hidden Elder Deadwood out of hiding.
• Elder Deadwood denied being sent by Sun Yao and urged Su Yu to join the Holy Cult, which Su Yu recognized as the Demon God Cult.
• Su Yu rejected Elder Deadwood's offer and threatened to kill him.
• Elder Deadwood sent thousands of Ten Thousand Poisons Soul-Devouring Gu to engulf Su Yu.
• Su Yu's protective arts neutralized the poison and death Qi, and his surging Qi and blood burst apart over half the Gu swarm.
• Su Yu emerged unhurt and told Elder Deadwood that his insects did not seem very effective, while Elder Deadwood trembled in fear.

Su Yu overwhelmed Elder Deadwood’s poisons and physical attacks, then destroyed his body with the Pagoda Demonic Manifestation and Purple Firmament Heavenly Thunder Art. Elder Deadwood fled as a divine soul, but Su Yu summoned soul chains to catch him.

• Su Yu shrugged off Elder Deadwood’s Gu insects and broke his arm with a punch.
• Elder Deadwood’s Soul-Corroding Dagger failed to pierce Su Yu, so he used a talisman to flee into Desolate Ridge.
• Su Yu summoned his Pagoda Demonic Manifestation and Purple Firmament Heavenly Thunder to destroy Elder Deadwood’s body.
• Elder Deadwood escaped as a divine soul, but Su Yu cast Prison-Suppressing Soul Chain toward him.

Su Yu killed Elder Deadwood by crushing his divine soul with the Prison-Suppressing Platform, earning Slaughter Points and triggering a major system upgrade. The Demon God Cult discovered Deadwood’s death, and Vice Cult Leader Nie Wuya began to suspect Wang Du or his Demon-Suppressing Commanders.

• Su Yu ignored Elder Deadwood’s pleas and curses, then dragged his divine soul into his sea of consciousness and ground it into ownerless mental power with the Prison-Suppressing Platform.
• The system awarded Su Yu 100000 Slaughter Points for killing an Earth Realm expert and began a major upgrade expected to take twenty-four hours.
• A soul lamp representing Elder Deadwood shattered in the Demon God Cult’s Soul Hall, and the black-robed deacon sent word of the elder’s death to the leadership.
• Vice Cult Leader Nie Wuya sensed the news and wondered whether Wang Du or his Demon-Suppressing Commanders had killed Deadwood.

Nie Wuya responded to Kumu’s death by sending He Yuan to kill the unknown Mystic Realm cultivator and arranging a coastal demon uprising to distract Qing Province’s Demon Suppression Bureau. As the bureau’s forces rushed to defend the coast, He Yuan reached the area near Desolate Ridge and tracked the traces of the battle.

• Nie Wuya learned that an unknown Mystic Realm cultivator had killed Kumu in Desolate Ridge and ordered He Yuan to hunt the killer, offering Kumu’s soul essence and gu worms as a reward.
• Nie Wuya persuaded Jiao Wuye to attack towns and cities along the coasts of Linhai Commandery and Tiannan Commandery in exchange for the flesh, blood, and souls of the City of Calamity and Chaos’s inhabitants.
• Water demons surged ashore, prompting the Demon Suppression Bureau’s commanders across Qing Province to abandon their watch on the City of Calamity and Chaos and rush to the coastal battlefields.
• He Yuan arrived near Desolate Ridge, used a compass to locate the area, and sensed Kumu’s death Qi and the cultivator’s lingering power.

As the Northern Nether Sea demons invaded Qing Province, Wang Du sent Cao Ping to preserve Su Yu even if the City of Calamity and Chaos had to be abandoned. Su Yu spent his Slaughter Points to raise his Qi cultivation to the Mystic Realm ninth level, uniting his three paths of cultivation before sensing an unknown observer in the mountains.

• Wang Du connected the coastal invasion to a blood sacrifice plot in the City of Calamity and Chaos and ordered Cao Ping to keep Su Yu alive, allowing him to abandon the city if necessary.
• Su Yu hunted demons in Desolate Ridge and accumulated 502,000 Slaughter Points.
• Su Yu spent his Slaughter Points to raise his Qi refinement from the Mystic Realm fifth level to the ninth level, bringing his body, soul, and Qi cultivation into unity.
• Su Yu sensed a watchful presence in the mountains opposite the City of Calamity and Chaos.

Su Yu continued hunting in the Desolate Ridge while waiting for Cao Ping, an Earth Realm Fifth Level reinforcer, and He Yuan discovered his extraordinary mastery of all three cultivation systems. Ordered by Nie Wuya to kill Su Yu before Cao Ping arrived, He Yuan attacked him, and Su Yu unleashed his Pagoda Demonic Manifestation to meet her strike.

• Su Yu received Cao Ping's message that he would arrive outside the City of Calamity and Chaos within two hours, then continued hunting in the Desolate Ridge.
• He Yuan watched Su Yu kill a Mystic Realm Seventh Level Lava Giant Lizard with a saber strike that erased its martial will.
• He Yuan recognized that Su Yu had reached Mystic Realm Ninth Level in Body Refinement, Qi Refinement, and Spirit Refinement, and Nie Wuya ordered her to kill him before Cao Ping arrived.
• He Yuan surged toward Su Yu with Earth Realm Third Layer power and struck at him with a giant poisonous blood-red hand.
• Su Yu activated the Prohibition Blood Formation and summoned his ten-zhang Pagoda Demonic Manifestation, which smashed He Yuan's blood-red hand.

Su Yu was trapped by He Yuan’s Earth Realm blood sea and fused two lightning arts to create and rapidly advance the World-Destroying Thunder Codex. He prepared to unleash its new killing move, World Destruction, Lightning Punishment, against her.

• Su Yu summoned the Pagoda Demonic Manifestation, which shattered He Yuan’s Surging Blood River attack.
• He Yuan created the Boundless Blood Sea, binding and corroding the manifestation while Su Yu realized her Earth Realm domain was overwhelming him.
• Su Yu fused the Firmament Lightning Descent Art with the Purple Firmament Heavenly Thunder Art to obtain the Half-Step Earth Realm World-Destroying Thunder Codex.
• Su Yu spent all his Slaughter Points to advance the codex to the Minute Subtlety Realm and transform Heavenly Prison Thunder Cage into World Destruction, Lightning Punishment.
• Su Yu raised his hand toward the sky and declared, “By decree!”

Su Yu injured He Yuan with the World-Exterminating Thunder Punishment, but she burned the source of her domain and destroyed his Pagoda Demonic Manifestation. As He Yuan moved to kill Su Yu, Cao Ping’s immense presence arrived and shook her blood prison.

• Su Yu summoned the World-Exterminating Thunder Punishment, which vaporized He Yuan’s blood wave, damaged her, and broke her hold on the Pagoda Demonic Manifestation.
• He Yuan burned the source of her domain and compressed its power into a blood prison that overwhelmed Su Yu’s remaining defenses.
• The blood prison destroyed the Pagoda Demonic Manifestation, leaving Su Yu injured and exposed.
• He Yuan appeared before Su Yu and raised a finger to kill him.
• Cao Ping’s powerful presence arrived at Desolate Ridge, unsettling He Yuan and shaking her blood prison.

Cao Ping rescued Su Yu from He Yuan, whose failed attack ended in a blood escape. After witnessing Cao Ping’s Saber Intent, Su Yu used his Slaughter Points to master the introductory level of the Demon Suppression saber art and headed deeper into Desolate Ridge.

• He Yuan tried to kill Su Yu, but Cao Ping arrived and severed her arm with a slash that also split a distant mountain.
• He Yuan escaped using the Blood Escape secret art, and Cao Ping pursued her after telling Su Yu to find a safe place to heal.
• Su Yu healed his wounds and realized Cao Ping’s slash had demonstrated Saber Intent beyond his own saber technique.
• Su Yu used all 57,000 Slaughter Points to deduce the Demon Suppression saber art to its introductory level.
• Su Yu tested the art with a hand-saber strike that cut a deep fissure into the ground, then headed deeper into Desolate Ridge.

Su Yu tested his newly mastered Demon Suppression saber intent by killing three Mystic Realm demon wolves, then faced an Earth Realm Black Ridge Demon Goat seeking revenge for its offspring. Meanwhile, He Yuan trapped Cao Ping in the Blood Soul Bewildering Array, and Su Yu drew his saber to strike the greater demon.

• Su Yu killed three Mystic Realm sixth-level demon wolves with invisible saber intent and gained 75,000 Slaughter Points.
• An Earth Realm first-level Black Ridge Demon Goat confronted Su Yu, blamed him for killing its offspring, and used the earth veins to crush him with pressure.
• Cao Ping followed He Yuan's trail into a gorge, where she trapped him inside a Blood Soul Bewildering Array set by her elder brother, He Fei.
• Cao Ping realized the Demon God Cult's deputy cult leader had masterminded the attempt on Su Yu and unleashed his full power to break the array.
• Su Yu drew Demon Suppression, dispelled the demon goat's earth pressure with his saber intent, and brought his blade down on the greater demon.

Su Yu killed the Black Ridge Demon Goat with a trap and learned that a powerful being had awakened in Desolate Ridge. He spent nearly all his Slaughter Points to improve his Demon Suppression saber technique and raced toward the City of Calamity and Chaos to kill Sun Yao, who was preparing a blood-sacrifice formation with Sun Xin imprisoned nearby.

• Su Yu wounded the Black Ridge Demon Goat, restrained it with the Prohibition Blood Formation, and killed it with a saber strike combining Demon Suppression and Asura Slash.
• The system rewarded Su Yu with 100000 Slaughter Points, but a presence far stronger than Cao Ping awakened deep in Desolate Ridge and pinpointed his location.
• Su Yu decided to flee toward the City of Calamity and Chaos and kill Sun Yao while the city was in turmoil.
• Su Yu spent 200000 Slaughter Points to advance Demon Suppression to the Minor Accomplishment Realm, then raced toward the city.
• Beneath the city lord's manor, Sun Yao stood beside the blood-sacrifice formation while Sun Xin remained chained to a pillar.

Sun Yao prepared to sacrifice Sun Xin to complete a blood formation and claim power over Qing Province, while Su Yu’s return seemed unlikely. News that someone had split the north gate with one saber strike made Sun Yao suspect Su Yu had returned, and he stopped just short of killing Sun Xin.

• Sun Yao told Sun Xin that her sacrifice would help him ascend and bring glory to the Sun Lineage, but she pleaded with him to remember their family bond.
• A Blood Baleful Intent Hall steward reported that the blood sacrifice was ready and said Su Yu was believed to be injured and unable to interfere.
• A guard reported that someone had split the City of Calamity and Chaos’s north gate with a single saber strike, and Sun Yao realized Su Yu might have returned.
• Sun Yao accused Sun Xin of conspiring with Su Yu and lunged to kill her, but the steward stopped him because she was essential to the blood sacrifice.

Blood Cat learned that Su Yu had returned and was attacking the City of Calamity and Chaos, while Sun Yao tried to kill Sun Xin underground. Blood Cat stopped him, convinced him to stay and protect the Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation, and went to confront Su Yu herself.

• A subordinate told Blood Cat that Su Yu had breached the north gate and was advancing toward the city lord's manor.
• A massive crash shook the city and underground secret hall, and Sun Yao realized Su Yu had reached the manor.
• Sun Yao renewed his attempt to kill Sun Xin, but Blood Cat appeared and stopped his flaming claw with one finger.
• Blood Cat warned Sun Yao that serious injury would cause the Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation to collapse, and he agreed to remain underground.
• Blood Cat left the secret hall to confront Su Yu.

Su Yu stormed the City Lord’s manor, cut through its defenders, and overwhelmed Blood Cat with his saber and domain abilities. As Blood Cat fled with her left arm severed, Sun Yao’s Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation began trembling violently.

• Su Yu cleaved a vast slash through the City Lord’s manor, and Blood Cat recognized him as the dangerous hunter she had underestimated.
• Su Yu killed more than a dozen elite guards with one casual saber swing as Blood Cat halted her attack in shock.
• Su Yu used his Gravity Domain and Great Annihilation Pagoda to suppress Blood Cat and sever her left arm.
• Blood Cat retreated in terror while Sun Yao watched the Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation begin to tremble in the underground secret hall.