Recaps

After Yanghe County fell, Su Yu sent the survivors to seek reinforcements and went east to kill demons, rapidly earning the Demon Suppression Bureau code name “Cleaner.” The chapter ends as an octopus demon brings alarming news to Jiao Wuye at the Nu River mouth.

• Su Yu ordered Li Mang to lead Yanghe County’s survivors west to Canglan Commandery’s seat while he went east to collect the blood debt.
• Su Yu arrived at Bashui County, where a water demon army was attacking the walls, and killed its Earth Realm First Level snake demon with one stomp.
• Su Yu slaughtered the remaining water demons outside Bashui County and continued attacking demon sites across Canglan Commandery, raising his Slaughter Points to 695,000.
• The Demon Suppression Bureau’s internal intelligence network gave Su Yu the code name “Cleaner.”
• At an underwater palace at the Nu River mouth, an octopus demon rushed to Jiao Wuye with news of a disaster.

Jiao Wuye learned that Su Yu had destroyed five demon armies and ordered his forces to converge on Canglan. He Yuan then found the Demon God Cult’s outside reinforcement, who prepared to face Su Yu and take revenge for their past encounters.

• Jiao Wuye learned from a memory crystal that Su Yu had annihilated five armies and their commanders.
• Jiao Wuye ordered all Earth Realm generals to abandon secondary targets and gather to besiege Canglan Commandery.
• He Yuan traveled to Ghost Cry Reef and entered the cavern where the Demon God Cult’s outside reinforcement was waiting.
• The reinforcement absorbed the blood baleful Qi from the formation and vowed to drag Su Yu into purgatory.

Su Yu found a town massacred by water demons and slaughtered every demon there before confronting the Bone-Eroding Demon General, whose true body had come seeking revenge. The general's powerful strike shattered against Su Yu's fist, leaving their battle poised to escalate.

• Su Yu discovered that water demons had killed nearly all the town's civilians and used his divine sense to annihilate more than a hundred of them.
• Su Yu purged the remaining demons, told the survivors to head west to the Canglan Commandery seat, and went to draw an approaching threat away from them.
• The Bone-Eroding Demon General recognized Su Yu and vowed to avenge the destruction of his Dharma body in the City of Calamity and Chaos.
• The Bone-Eroding Demon General attacked with a Myriad Ghost Hand, but Su Yu combined the Yellow Springs Earth Vein Art and Pagoda Demonic Baleful Intent Art to shatter it with one punch.
• Su Yu taunted the stunned general, questioning whether his escaped soul had helped him improve.

Su Yu spent 300,000 Slaughter Points to advance his Blood Baleful Intent Heavenly Lightning Invocation, break through to the Earth Realm fourth level, and learn Myriad Tribulations Blood Thunder Burial. He unleashed the killing move against the Bone-Eroding Demon General, whose devil god apparition shattered as Su Yu’s attack struck his true body.

• The Bone-Eroding Demon General surged to the Earth Realm ninth level and threatened to torture Su Yu.
• Su Yu used 300,000 Slaughter Points to advance his martial art, break through to the Earth Realm fourth level, and comprehend Myriad Tribulations Blood Thunder Burial.
• The Bone-Eroding Demon General attacked Su Yu with All-Encompassing Devil Prison: Myriad Ghosts Devour the Soul.
• Su Yu formed a ten-mile Blood Lightning Burial Domain that reduced the charging devil shadows to ash and tore through the Bone-Eroding Demon General’s Devil Qi.
• The Bone-Eroding Demon General summoned a black devil god apparition, but Su Yu’s collapsing blood lightning shattered it and struck the demon general’s true body.

Su Yu struggled against the Bone-Eroding Demon General’s true form and realized he needed a power that could attack its divine soul. He spent 700,000 Slaughter Points to raise Myriad Tribulations Thunder Prison as the Demon General’s spear closed in on his brow.

• The Bone-Eroding Demon General emerged from its destroyed human shell in a powerful demonic body and attacked Su Yu.
• Su Yu dodged and counterattacked, but his techniques could not pierce the Demon General’s defenses, and he was gradually overwhelmed.
• Su Yu identified Myriad Tribulations Thunder Prison as a potential way to target the Demon General’s divine soul and source.
• Su Yu used the system to spend 700,000 Slaughter Points and raise Myriad Tribulations Thunder Prison to Subtlety.
• The Demon General’s spear came within three inches of Su Yu’s brow as the power-up began transforming his sea of consciousness.

Su Yu advanced Myriad Tribulations Thunder Prison to Perfection, broke through to the peak of Earth Realm Sixth Level, and used it to destroy the Bone-Eroding Demon General. At Canglan Commandery City, He Yuan suddenly coughed blood, signaling that something had happened to the demon general.

• Su Yu spent 700,000 Slaughter Points to advance Myriad Tribulations Thunder Prison to Perfection and reached the peak of Earth Realm Sixth Level.
• Su Yu trapped the Bone-Eroding Demon General in Myriad Tribulations Thunder Prison and summoned nine lightning tribulations.
• Su Yu's ninth lightning tribulation annihilated the Bone-Eroding Demon General's body and soul, leaving behind a black crystal.
• Su Yu gained 100,000 Slaughter Points, collected the crystal, and looked toward Canglan Commandery City.
• Outside Canglan Commandery City, He Yuan clutched her chest and coughed dark red blood as Jiao Wuye watched the city's protective formation.

After learning that Su Yu had killed the Bone-Eroding Demon General, Jiao Wuye ordered an assault on Canglan Commandery City while Zhou Tong planned to kill Su Yu. Su Yu rushed toward the besieged city, where the assassin Ghost Hand attacked him, but Su Yu caught the dagger and unleashed lightning into the void.

• He Yuan reported the Bone-Eroding Demon General’s death to Jiao Wuye, then fled Qing Province through a teleportation formation.
• Jiao Wuye told Zhou Tong that Su Yu had killed the demon general, and Zhou Tong insisted he would kill Su Yu while Jiao Wuye stormed the city.
• Jiao Wuye ordered his army to break Canglan Commandery City’s formation and slaughter the city.
• Su Yu absorbed the demon general’s crystal, reached the peak of the Earth Realm sixth level, and headed toward Canglan Commandery City.
• Ghost Hand ambushed Su Yu with a poisoned dagger, but Su Yu caught and cracked the blade before blasting lightning into the void.

Chen Xiaotian learned that Su Yu had killed the Bone-Eroding Demon General, while Zhou Tong assured him that the Blood Baleful Intent Hall’s assassin Ghost Hand would kill Su Yu. Su Yu swiftly killed Ghost Hand instead and then turned his attention toward Canglan Commandery to meet the Northern Nether Sea’s Seventh Highness.

• Chen Xiaotian was shocked to hear from Zhou Tong that Su Yu had killed the Bone-Eroding Demon General with lightning arts.
• Zhou Tong told Chen Xiaotian that he had dispatched Ghost Hand to assassinate Su Yu while Su Yu was supposedly weakened.
• Ghost Hand’s soul crystal shattered in the stone hall, revealing that the assassin had died.
• Ghost Hand attacked Su Yu, but Su Yu blasted him from hiding, destroyed his dagger, and prevented him from escaping into the void.
• Su Yu killed Ghost Hand with a lightning-wreathed palm, earned 100000 Slaughter Points, and looked toward Canglan Commandery to meet the Northern Nether Sea’s Seventh Highness.

After Zhou Tong and Chen Xiaotian chose to let Su Yu provoke Jiao Wuye rather than warn him, Wang Du ordered Qing Province’s Demon Suppression Guards to prepare for battle and headed toward Canglan Commandery City. At dawn, Su Yu arrived above the besieged city and faced Jiao Wuye and his demon army.

• Chen Xiaotian persuaded Zhou Tong not to alert Jiao Wuye, hoping Su Yu would make an enemy of the Northern Nether Sea.
• Wang Du learned that Su Yu had killed the Bone-Eroding Demon General and Ghost Hand, then ordered the Demon Suppression Guards into the highest state of battle readiness.
• Wang Du set out for Canglan Commandery City, saying he would not let the two youngsters overturn the board.
• As dawn broke, Jiao Wuye waited outside Canglan Commandery City while its defensive formation weakened and its defenders despaired.
• Su Yu arrived above the city and confronted Jiao Wuye, and their killing intent clashed.

Su Yu faced Jiao Wuye’s two Earth Realm Ninth Level guards, the Black and White Mystic Snakes, and repelled their coordinated attacks with lightning and a soul strike. He announced that the warm-up was over and turned his attention to his Spirit Refinement cultivation, while the battle remained poised to escalate.

• Jiao Wuye recognized Su Yu’s youth and strength, judged him a threat, and ordered the Black and White Mystic Snakes to kill him.
• The two guards attacked Su Yu together, but he used Thunder Demon Shadow Trace Steps to evade their opening strike and whip net.
• Su Yu blasted the white-clad woman’s silver whip with the World-Destroying Thunder Codex, then stopped the black-clad woman’s bone spike with a Divine Sense Thorn.
• Su Yu considered using the fight to strengthen his Pagoda Demonic Baleful Intent Art and declared that the warm-up was over.
• Su Yu focused on his Spirit Refinement cultivation, which was at Earth Realm Sixth Level.

Su Yu spent two hundred thousand Slaughter Points to advance his Spirit Refinement cultivation from Earth Realm Sixth Level to Eighth Level, overwhelming Jiao Wuye’s Black and White Mystic Snakes. He seized both guards and declared that he would take them, leaving Jiao Wuye facing Su Yu’s challenge.

• Su Yu used all two hundred thousand Slaughter Points to break through two Spirit Refinement levels, reaching Earth Realm Eighth Level.
• Su Yu’s azure-gold divine sense disrupted the Black and White Mystic Snakes’ coordinated attacks, and he used the white-robed woman to knock the black-robed woman from her attack.
• The Demon Suppression Bureau commanders and guards on Canglan Commandery’s walls recognized Su Yu as Captain Su and watched him defeat the two Earth Realm Ninth Level snake women.
• Su Yu seized both women by the necks, suppressed their demonic power, and told Jiao Wuye that he would take his two guards.

Su Yu was trapped in the Blood Demon Crocodile’s Heaven Realm domain but used its crushing force and the Bone-Eroding Demon General’s essence to transform his body. He broke free and faced the Blood Demon Crocodile, leaving the battle between them poised to begin.

• Su Yu threatened to kill Jiao Wuye’s black and white mystic serpents, prompting Jiao Wuye to summon the Blood Demon Crocodile.
• The Blood Demon Crocodile trapped Su Yu and the serpents in its Flesh and Blood Millstone domain, then released the serpents from the blood cage.
• Inside the domain, Su Yu crushed the Bone-Eroding Demon General’s essence and used the pressure to temper and strengthen his body.
• Su Yu tore open the domain and emerged in a towering, dark-gold form, then fixed his gaze on the Blood Demon Crocodile.

Su Yu’s Pagoda Demonic Manifestation gained overwhelming strength after absorbing the Bone-Eroding Demon General’s origin, but its power exceeded his control and began eroding his reason. It repeatedly charged the Blood Demon Crocodile, rebuilding itself after devastating attacks, while Su Yu remained trapped inside his sea of consciousness watching the rampage.

• After the Bone-Eroding Demon General’s origin crystal shattered, the Pagoda Demonic Manifestation’s strength surged and it resisted the Blood Demon Crocodile’s domain.
• Lan Kong and Zhang Kai celebrated when Su Yu stopped the heaven realm demon’s attack, but Lan Kong warned that the fight was far from over.
• The manifestation’s power tore at Su Yu’s body and its slaughtering instincts began taking over, then it charged the Blood Demon Crocodile without his command.
• The Blood Demon Crocodile wounded the manifestation with a claw strike, but it healed in the Nu River and attacked again with a Prison-Suppressing Baleful Spear.
• After the Blood Demon Crocodile blasted apart half its body and struck it into a hill, the manifestation reconstructed itself and kept advancing.
• Su Yu watched from his sea of consciousness, protected by the Purple-Gold Prison-Suppressing Platform, and admitted that he had lost control.

The Blood Demon Crocodile destroyed Su Yu’s Pagoda Demonic Manifestation, leaving him gravely weakened and falling toward the Nu River. A Demon Suppression Bureau middle-aged man saved him and confronted Jiao Wuye, declaring that he had crossed the line.

• The Blood Demon Crocodile trapped the Pagoda Demonic Manifestation with Heaven Realm laws and erased it with a condensed orb of Demonic Power.
• The backlash sent Su Yu’s cultivation crashing to the peak Mystic Realm, and he fell toward the Nu River.
• Jiao Wuye ordered the Black and White Mystic Snakes to kill Su Yu, and the white-clad snake woman pursued him with a poisoned bone spike.
• A middle-aged man in a Demon Suppression Bureau cloak appeared, swept the white-clad snake woman into the river, and caught Su Yu.
• The middle-aged man faced Jiao Wuye and told him, “Little fellow from the Northern Nether Sea, you've crossed the line.”

Wang Du arrived at Canglan Commandery and saved Su Yu after the young commandant held off the demon army. He crushed the Blood Demon Crocodile and Jiao Wuye despite their threats, declaring that he alone would bear the consequences.

• Wang Du stopped the demon army’s advance and wounded the Blood Demon Crocodile with a single slash as it tried to flee with Jiao Wuye.
• Wang Du stabilized Su Yu’s condition, gave him a healing pill, and credited him with the foremost merit for defending Canglan Commandery.
• The Blood Demon Crocodile and Jiao Wuye invoked the Demon Emperor and the Northern Nether Sea to threaten Wang Du.
• Wang Du unleashed a giant hand of lightning that engulfed the Blood Demon Crocodile, Jiao Wuye, and the white-bone throne, then said he alone would bear the consequences.

Wang Du crushed the Blood Demon Crocodile and was about to kill Jiao Wuye, but Jiao Wuye shattered his jade slip and summoned his father’s overwhelming consciousness. The ancient flood dragon halted Wang Du’s attack and confronted him across Qing Province.

• Wang Du’s giant lightning hand shattered the Blood Demon Crocodile’s blood domain and crippled the demon with one strike.
• The dying Blood Demon Crocodile urged Jiao Wuye to flee, but Wang Du’s Law of Thunder had sealed the surrounding space.
• Jiao Wuye shattered the jade slip his father had given him, releasing a strand of dark-golden light into the thunderclouds.
• Jiao Wuye’s father manifested as an ancient flood dragon whose presence subdued the Demon Suppression Guards and surviving water demons.
• Wang Du armored himself in lightning as the flood dragon addressed him, and its voice shattered Wang Du’s giant lightning hand.

Wang Du confronted Jiao Guang’s consciousness after Jiao Wuye’s father threatened to destroy Qing Province, and the two clashed with their laws while Wang Du shielded Canglan Commandery City. Jiao Guang bypassed Wang Du’s defense and sent a golden attack toward the wounded Su Yu.

• Jiao Guang broke the spatial seal around Jiao Wuye and threatened to flood Qing Province if his son was killed.
• Wang Du declared that Jiao Wuye would die, then struck Jiao Guang’s consciousness with a thunder saber and gained a slight advantage in their clash of laws.
• Jiao Guang unleashed a soul attack across Canglan Commandery, and Wang Du formed a domain to protect the city.
• Wang Du secretly told Su Yu that he could only hold off Jiao Guang and planned to lure him away to buy time.
• Jiao Guang learned from the Blood Demon Crocodile what Su Yu had done and sent a golden attack toward him, which Wang Du could not intercept in time.

Jiao Guang’s Emperor Realm dragon intent struck Su Yu’s soul, but his cultivation in Qi Refinement, Body Refinement, and Spirit Refinement kept him alive and trapped the will. Jiao Guang withdrew with Jiao Wuye and the Blood Demon Crocodile, while Wang Du found the dragon intent still imprisoned inside Su Yu and growing more substantial.

• Jiao Guang’s golden dragon intent invaded Su Yu’s sea of consciousness and began eroding his soul.
• Su Yu’s Yellow Springs Earth Vein Art, Acala Body, and Pagoda Demonic Baleful Intent Art awakened, while the Purple-Gold Prison-Suppressing Platform and Great Annihilation Pagoda trapped the dragon phantom.
• Wang Du realized Su Yu had survived and ordered Jiao Guang to take Jiao Wuye and leave Qing Province.
• Jiao Guang threatened Wang Du, then withdrew with Jiao Wuye and the gravely wounded Blood Demon Crocodile as the water demons fled the battlefield.
• Wang Du examined Su Yu’s sea of consciousness and found the imprisoned dragon intent transforming into a lifelike miniature flood dragon.

Wang Du saved Su Yu by sealing Jiao Guang’s dragon intent inside his sea of consciousness, but the seal would last only three months. Su Yu had to reach Heaven Realm Spirit Refinement or obtain the Spirit-Nourishing Wood from Duke Chen’s Residence to survive.

• Wang Du ordered Lan Kong and Zhang Kai to secure Canglan Commandery and keep the incident secret before taking Su Yu to a hidden stone chamber.
• Wang Du used his lightning laws to suppress the golden dragon in Su Yu’s sea of consciousness, and Su Yu later woke with severe soul injuries.
• Wang Du explained that Jiao Guang’s dragon intent could eventually seize Su Yu’s soul and that his seal would hold for only three months.
• Wang Du told Su Yu he could survive by reaching Heaven Realm Spirit Refinement or obtaining the Spirit-Nourishing Wood from Duke Chen’s Residence.

Su Yu learned he had to reach the Heaven Realm in Spirit Refinement within three months and went to the Merit Hall to seek a suitable technique. After earning over a million merit points for the battle at Canglan Commandery, he requested a Heaven Realm Spirit Refinement technique.

• Wang Du told Su Yu that he needed to reach the Heaven Realm in Spirit Refinement within three months and said the Spirit-Nourishing Wood at Duke Chen's Residence was one possible aid.
• Wang Du warned Su Yu against targeting Duke Chen's Residence and ordered him to recuperate in the Demon Suppression Bureau while his divine sense remained sealed.
• After Wang Du left, Su Yu ignored the order to rest and went to the Merit Hall to settle his battle merits.
• The Merit Hall's formation calculated Su Yu's total as 1,034,700 merit points, including foremost credit for helping Wang Du repel Jiao Wuye's army.
• Su Yu asked the stunned old man to exchange his merit points for a Heaven Realm Spirit Refinement technique.

After the Demon Suppression Bureau could not provide a Heaven Realm Spirit Refinement technique, Su Yu spent his merit on Body Refinement treasures and intelligence about hostile groups. He broke through to Earth Realm Fourth Level and set out to slaughter his way through Qing Province within a month.

• Su Yu learned that Heaven Realm Spirit Refinement techniques were available only at headquarters in the imperial capital and required at least three million merit points.
• Su Yu exchanged nearly all of his million merit points for high-grade Body Refinement treasures.
• After consuming the treasures over three days, Su Yu recovered from his injuries and advanced to Earth Realm Fourth Level, though the pain in his soul remained.
• Su Yu secretly left the Demon Suppression Bureau and used his remaining merit to obtain a map marking hostile groups across Qing Province.
• Su Yu headed for the nearest marked location, intending to spend one month killing his way through Qing Province.

Chen Xiaotian learned that Su Yu was alive but badly weakened and agreed with Zhou Tong to have him killed. Meanwhile, Su Yu annihilated Black Wind Stronghold and headed toward his next target, beginning a wider slaughter.

• Chen Xiaotian feared Su Yu’s strength until Zhou Tong told him that Wang Du had sealed Su Yu’s spiritual sense and left him with less than a tenth of his strength.
• Chen Xiaotian and Zhou Tong decided to send a high-level Earth Realm expert to kill Su Yu.
• Su Yu arrived at Black Wind Stronghold and crushed its Spirit Realm ninth-level chief and more than a dozen bandits with his blood and Qi.
• Su Yu destroyed the entire stronghold and the cliff beneath it, earning Slaughter Points.
• Su Yu checked the next red dot on his map and flew off to continue his slaughter.

Su Yu traced the Demon God Cult’s corruption of Yu County’s earth vein to an altar beneath the county magistrate’s residence and attacked the ritual chamber. He killed the cultists with the power of the earth veins, leaving Elder Qinghei alive as the evil altar stirred a reaction in Su Yu’s soul.

• Su Yu judged the Black Wind Stronghold’s slaughter points insufficient and headed for Yu County, where the Demon God Cult was his main target.
• Su Yu sensed that Yu County’s vitality had been cut off and used the Yellow Springs Earth Vein Art to find a corrupted node beneath the town.
• Su Yu entered the county magistrate’s underground chamber as Elder Qinghei prepared to sacrifice captured Demon Suppression Guards to summon a divine emissary.
• Elder Qinghei ordered the cultists to kill Su Yu, but Su Yu used Earth Vein Resonance to impale the Spirit Realm attackers and crush the Mystic Realm cultists.
• Su Yu’s earth-vein power left Elder Qinghei trembling under pressure, while Su Yu focused on the altar and felt the golden dragon in his soul react to its evil presence.

Su Yu killed Elder Qinghei and stopped the black mist from escaping the altar, allowing Yao One to consume it and break through to the earth realm third layer peak. After learning that the altar was one of seven peripheral sites weakening Qing Province’s earth veins, Su Yu asked where the hidden central altar was.

• Su Yu killed Elder Qinghei with one punch and approached the bone altar.
• A black mist escaped from the shattered crystal, but Su Yu trapped it in an Earth Qi cage.
• Yao One swallowed the black mist and broke through to the earth realm third layer peak.
• Liu Mang told Su Yu that the altar was one of seven sites in the Demon God Cult’s Blood Feeding Formation Diagram and warned that a central altar could turn Qing Province’s Earth Vein Qi into Death Qi.
• Su Yu asked Liu Mang where the central main altar was.

Su Yu resolved the crisis in Yu County and headed for another Demon God Cult stronghold, but two Blood Baleful Intent Hall elders ambushed him in the mountains. Though they believed his sealed spiritual sense left him helpless, Su Yu shattered one elder’s attack with a single punch.

• Liu Mang gave Su Yu a map marking three outer Demon God Cult strongholds, and Su Yu ordered him to report the Yu County events and eliminate the remaining followers.
• Su Yu traveled toward the next stronghold with Yao One and examined the Blood Baleful Intent Body Refining Art, planning to fuse it with his existing arts.
• Two Earth Realm eighth level Blood Baleful Intent Hall elders confronted Su Yu, declaring that Chen Xiaotian and Zhou Tong had ordered his death.
• The gaunt elder mocked Su Yu over his sealed spiritual sense and attacked with Soul-Tearing Blood Claw.
• Su Yu countered with his Yellow Springs Earth Vein Art and Acala Body, shattered the ghost claw, and sent the gaunt elder flying with a powerful punch.