Recaps

Su Yu overwhelmed the two Blood Baleful Intent Hall elders with his three cultivation paths and trapped the scarred middle-aged man when he tried to escape. The chapter ended as Su Yu gathered the power of the earth veins into his Palm Abyss technique to finish him.

• The scarred middle-aged man and the gaunt old man attacked Su Yu together with a sword strike and a soul curse.
• Su Yu’s Prohibition Blood Formation suppressed the sword force, while his Acala Body nullified the curse and his Gravity Domain crushed the elders.
• Su Yu killed the gaunt old man with the Eight Desolations Demon-Suppressing Hand and brought down the scarred man with the Great Annihilation Pagoda’s mental suppression.
• The scarred middle-aged man tried to escape using a blood-red jade talisman, but Su Yu erased the teleportation formation with the Yellow Springs Earth Vein Art.
• Su Yu gathered the power of the earth veins into his palm and prepared to strike the scarred middle-aged man with Palm Abyss, World-Burying Mountains and Rivers.

Su Yu killed two Blood Baleful Intent Hall elders with Palm Abyss, then fused his cultivation arts to eliminate the clash between his Buddhist and demonic powers. The chapter left him sensing an approaching danger as Duke Chen, Zhou Tong, and another powerful attendant set out to hunt him.

• Su Yu used Palm Abyss to kill Ghost Hand and Blood Slaughter, then ordered Yao One to erase the evidence.
• Zhou Tong told Chen Xiaotian that both elders' soul lamps had gone out, and they realized they had underestimated Su Yu.
• Chen Xiaotian decided that he and Zhou Tong would pursue Su Yu, and he summoned Attendant Li to join them.
• Su Yu fused the Pagoda Demonic Baleful Intent Art with the Blood Baleful Intent Body Refining Art, creating the Pagoda Blood Baleful Intent Art.
• Su Yu sensed a danger approaching, while the dark gold flood dragon in his sea of consciousness began struggling in terror and excitement.

Su Yu tested the Pagoda Blood Baleful Intent Art against Yao Ming and his Earth Realm Ninth Level giant ape demon servant, discovering that the art converted severe injuries into fuel for rapid recovery. After taunting Yao Ming, Su Yu used his movement and earth techniques to hinder the demon servant and attack its neck.

• Yao Ming arrived atop a giant ape demon servant and attacked Su Yu, destroying the cave and forcing him into the open.
• Su Yu charged into the demon servant’s enormous palm with the Pagoda Blood Baleful Intent Art, but the blow sent him crashing into a mountainside.
• Su Yu emerged with a severe chest injury that rapidly healed as the blood baleful Qi absorbed the dissipating blood Qi.
• Su Yu taunted Yao Ming, who angrily sent the giant ape demon servant to hammer at him with its fists.
• Su Yu evaded the attacks, used the Yellow Springs Earth Vein Art to slow the demon servant, and struck at the back of its neck as it raised a Yao Qi barrier.

Su Yu fought Yao Ming’s Earth Realm Ninth Level demon servants and revealed a range of powerful cultivation arts. After crushing both servants with one strike, he left Yao Ming terrified and desperate to flee.

• Su Yu endured the giant ape demon servant’s attack, healed rapidly, and began overpowering it in close combat.
• Yao Ming summoned a bull-headed Earth Realm Ninth Level demon servant to attack Su Yu alongside the giant ape.
• Su Yu used the Yellow Springs Earth Vein Art, Prohibition Blood Formation, and Great Annihilation Pagoda to restrain the servants and sever Yao Ming’s control briefly.
• Su Yu unleashed Palm Abyss · World-Burying Mountains and Rivers, grievously wounding both demon servants with one strike.
• Yao Ming realized Su Yu was far more dangerous than he had expected and decided to flee.

Su Yu defeated Yao Ming’s demon servants and forced Yao Ming to retreat, then continued toward a Demon God Cult branch. Zhou Tong, Chen Xiaotian, and Li Chunfeng arrived at the battlefield, discovered signs of the clash, and pursued Su Yu, while Yao Ming escaped and stopped to recover.

• Su Yu destroyed Yao Ming’s puppet and gravely injured his two demon servants, then headed for Severed Dragon Cliff to continue hunting.
• Yao Ming emerged from his escape badly injured and sensed Zhou Tong, Chen Xiaotian, and Li Chunfeng approaching, so he concealed his condition in black mist.
• Zhou Tong asked Yao Ming whether he had seen a young man, but Yao Ming concealed his encounter with Su Yu and tried to leave.
• Li Chunfeng tried to stop Yao Ming, but Chen Xiaotian ordered him to let Yao Ming go so they could focus on finding Su Yu.
• Chen Xiaotian examined the battlefield and concluded that Su Yu had fought Yao Ming and forced him to retreat, then led the others after Su Yu.
• Yao Ming stopped behind a secluded waterfall, his injuries worsened but his eyes shining with excitement.

Yao Ming seized the chance to slip into Duke Chen's Residence and take control of the Blood Spirit Formation while Su Yu continued destroying Demon God Cult strongholds. As Chen Xiaotian and Zhou Tong pursued Su Yu, Zhou Tong secretly followed Chen Xiaotian, leaving the outcome of their pursuit uncertain.

• Yao Ming realized Chen Xiaotian and Li Chunfeng had left Duke Chen's Residence, then fled toward Qing Province to seize the Blood Spirit Formation beneath it.
• Su Yu destroyed the Demon God Cult's stronghold at Severed Dragon Cliff, spent 100000 Slaughter Points to upgrade the Pagoda Blood Baleful Intent Art, and grew more wary of how easily his targets fell.
• Chen Xiaotian, Li Chunfeng, and Zhou Tong arrived at the ruined stronghold, and Zhou Tong secretly sent a message before proposing that they split up to trap Su Yu at Gloomy Wind Valley.
• After Chen Xiaotian and Li Chunfeng departed, Zhou Tong changed course and secretly followed Chen Xiaotian instead of heading to Gloomy Wind Valley.
• Yao Ming entered Duke Chen's Residence without alerting its guards and slipped toward the Blood Spirit Formation.

Zhou Tong learned from Nie Wuya that the Blood Spirit Formation lay beneath Duke Chen’s Residence and could summon a legendary great blood demon, then set off to pursue it. Meanwhile, Su Yu waited at the ruins of a Demon God Cult base for Chen Xiaotian and Attendant Li, greeting them with a taunt as they arrived.

• Zhou Tong contacted Nie Wuya and learned that the Blood Spirit Formation beneath Duke Chen’s Residence connected to Qing Province’s earth veins and could summon a great blood demon.
• Nie Wuya explained that Yao Ming had come to take control of the formation, and Zhou Tong decided to head to Duke Chen’s Residence.
• Su Yu noticed that the Demon God Cult base had been too easy to destroy, so he stopped at the ruins and waited instead of pursuing another target.
• Chen Xiaotian and Attendant Li arrived at the ruins and found Su Yu calmly waiting for them.
• Su Yu rose and told Chen Xiaotian, “You’re late. I was getting a little impatient waiting.”

Su Yu fought Li Chun in Gloomy Wind Valley and gradually overwhelmed him with his saber and blood baleful intent. As Su Yu trapped Li Chun and struck at his chest, Chen Xiaotian rushed in to rescue his attendant.

• Li Chun attacked Su Yu with his sword, but Su Yu met the strike with his saber and fought him at close quarters.
• Su Yu's powerful saber and blood baleful intent steadily suppressed Li Chun despite Su Yu's lower cultivation level.
• In an underground cavern, Zhou Tong and the Zhou Tong in the mirror discussed using Su Yu to distract Chen Xiaotian while Yao Ming approached Duke Chen's Residence.
• Su Yu used Earth Vein Resonance to immobilize Li Chun, then moved in with a powerful punch.
• Chen Xiaotian broke his composure and rushed to save Li Chun.

Su Yu crippled Li Chun while blocking Chen Xiaotian’s attack, then revealed that his Pagoda Blood Baleful Intent Art could devour Blood Demon Qi and heal his wounds. As Chen Xiaotian and Li Chun joined forces against him, Su Yu transformed his Great Annihilation Pagoda into a terrifying Blood Pagoda and prepared to face them both.

• Chen Xiaotian attacked Su Yu to save Li Chun, but Su Yu used the Eight Desolations Demon-Suppressing Hand to block Chen’s claw while striking Li Chun with his fist.
• Su Yu shattered Li Chun’s protective sword force and badly injured him, while Chen Xiaotian’s attack wounded Su Yu’s shoulder.
• Su Yu’s Pagoda Blood Baleful Intent Art devoured the Blood Demon Qi and rapidly healed his wound, and he accused Chen Xiaotian’s residence of colluding with the Blood Baleful Intent Hall.
• Chen Xiaotian revealed his full Blood Demon Qi and summoned a powerful demonic silhouette, then called on the weakened Li Chun to help kill Su Yu.
• Su Yu summoned the Great Annihilation Pagoda and transformed it into a blood-soaked Blood Pagoda that faced Chen Xiaotian’s demonic silhouette.

Su Yu crushed Li Chun’s ambush and helped the Blood Pagoda wound Chen Xiaotian’s Blood Demon Shadow in Gloomy Wind Valley. Meanwhile, Yao Ming found the Blood Spirit Formation beneath Duke Chen’s Residence, where Zhou Tong watched from outside, preparing to act.

• Chen Xiaotian’s Blood Demon Shadow attacked the Blood Pagoda, but the Pagoda crushed and repelled its Demon Qi.
• Li Chun launched a last-ditch attack on Su Yu, but Su Yu trapped and erased him with Palm Abyss · World-Burying Mountains and Rivers.
• Chen Xiaotian’s shock at Li Chun’s death created an opening, and the Blood Pagoda pierced the Blood Demon Shadow’s chest with two beams of divine light.
• Yao Ming infiltrated Duke Chen’s Residence and found the dry well concealing the Blood Spirit Formation’s entrance.
• Zhou Tong returned and watched Yao Ming from outside the residence, declaring that it was time for him to enter the stage.

Yao Ming entered the underground Blood Spirit Formation beneath Duke Chen's Residence and awakened a hidden guardian, while Chen Xiaotian abruptly fled his battle with Su Yu. The cavern's guardian sent four bone-and-metal puppets to confront Yao Ming, including two at the Earth Realm ninth level.

• Yao Ming confirmed Duke Chen's Residence seemed unguarded and descended through a dry well to the underground cavern.
• Yao Ming touched the Blood Spirit Formation's core runes, awakening a hidden presence that demanded to know who had trespassed.
• In Gloomy Wind Valley, Chen Xiaotian began preparing a desperate strike against Su Yu, then suddenly lost his momentum and fled toward Qing Province's prefectural city.
• Su Yu watched Chen Xiaotian escape and sensed that something momentous had happened at Duke Chen's Residence.
• Four bone-and-metal puppets emerged from the cavern passages, and Yao Ming recognized that two were at the Earth Realm ninth level.

Yao Ming was trapped by four puppets guarding the formation beneath the Duke's Residence, while Zhou Tong watched from hiding. After learning the formation suppressed a Blood Demon Imperial Clan descendant, Yao Ming stopped trying to destroy it and began a mysterious seal as the ground shook.

• Yao Ming's divine sense attack failed against the puppets, and they shattered the barrier made from his demon servants' remnant souls.
• Zhou Tong judged that Yao Ming was likely to die, but chose to remain concealed and watch what the Chen Family's hidden force would do.
• The four puppets cornered Yao Ming, and an Earth Realm Ninth Level puppet smashed him into the cavern wall.
• Yao Ming prepared to use the Eye of God Defilement, but the aged voice warned that the formation suppressed a Blood Demon Imperial Clan descendant.
• Yao Ming put away the artifact, realized the formation could help release the blood demon, and formed a special seal as the ground began to tremble.

Yao Ming activated the Blood Spirit Formation, awakening Chen Wei, the old duke believed to have died in battle, while Zhou Tong concealed the formation’s power. The formation overwhelmed the Duke’s Residence, and its blood mist began draining the life from everyone it reached.

• Yao Ming used a forbidden mark to fully activate the Blood Spirit Formation, causing its runes to erupt and the four puppets to stop attacking.
• Zhou Tong contained the formation’s power beneath the Duke’s Residence, though the resulting tremors alerted nearby residents and Demon Suppression Bureau officers.
• Ding Gui sensed a terrifying presence beneath the mansion and ordered his officers to report the disturbance to headquarters.
• Chen Wei, Chen Xiaotian’s father, awoke in the blood mist and willingly followed the chain piercing him deeper into its depths to stand guard.
• The formation broke through Zhou Tong’s suppression, flooding half the Duke’s Residence with blood mist that drained servants and attendants into desiccated corpses.

Chen Wei’s awakened Blood Spirit power devastated the Duke’s Residence, and Zhou Tong tried to exploit the blood mist before realizing the old duke had noticed him. The chapter left Zhou Tong fleeing into the sky as the unseen threat confronted him.

• The blood mist engulfed the Duke’s Residence, killing its inhabitants while Zhou Tong watched from the shadows and sensed its power was unusually ancient and pure.
• Chen Xiaotian arrived and recognized that his father, Chen Wei, was behind the catastrophe, while Zhou Tong decided to steal the power gathering underground.
• In the cavern, Chen Wei disappeared and became an enormous heart that absorbed the blood mist; its halted beat sent the mist into a frenzy that killed the three Earth Realm Attendants.
• The awakened blood mist tried to invade Zhou Tong, and an emotionless voice called him out of hiding.
• Zhou Tong fled toward the sky after realizing Chen Wei had watched him since he entered the residence.

Zhou Tong survived the Chen Family’s attack by warning the possessed puppet that Wang Du was on his way and offering the Blood Baleful Intent Hall’s help. The old duke paused his attack and asked what the hall wanted, opening the way for cooperation.

• Four bone-and-metal puppets surrounded Zhou Tong and attacked him with the power of the Blood Spirit Formation.
• The old duke possessed an Earth Realm ninth-level puppet, raising its strength to the threshold of the Heaven Realm and suppressing Zhou Tong.
• Zhou Tong warned that Wang Du would arrive soon, and Chen Xiaotian pleaded with his father to avoid facing the Demon Suppression Envoy.
• The old duke stopped his attack and asked what the Blood Baleful Intent Hall wanted.
• Zhou Tong proposed that the hall send someone to hold off Wang Du and other Demon Suppression Bureau experts.

Zhou Tong agreed to cooperate with the old duke’s puppet, accepting a plan to seize half the blood food in Qing Province in exchange for targeting Wang Du. Wang Du mobilized the Demon Suppression Bureau against Duke Chen’s Residence and ordered the extermination of the entire Chen clan.

• Zhou Tong agreed to cooperate with the old duke’s puppet, and the puppet assigned him Wang Du as a target while demanding that no Earth Realm commander remain in Qing Province.
• Zhou Tong withdrew from the Duke’s Residence as the puppet’s four guards vanished into the blood mist.
• Wang Du learned that the power at Duke Chen’s Residence was approaching the Heaven Realm and summoned the Demon Suppression Bureau’s forces.
• Wang Du showed the assembled guards evidence that the Chen clan had used Qing Province’s earth veins and its people to rear a Blood Demon, then ordered Ding Gui, Li Mu, and Zhao Qian to surround the residence.
• Wang Du halted on his way to Duke Chen’s Residence and issued a province-wide command for reinforcements, ordering them to wipe out the entire Chen clan and leave no one alive.

Su Yu delayed his return to Qing Province City and fused the Pagoda Blood Baleful Intent Art with the Demon Bone Body Refinement Art, gaining greater strength and the ability to devour negative energies. He then considered fusing his new art with the Acala Body, wondering what kind of monster Buddha and demon united would create.

• Su Yu received Wang Du’s order to return to Qing Province City and quell the rebellion.
• Su Yu sensed a terrifying presence in the Duke’s Residence and decided to wait until he could intervene on his own terms.
• Su Yu ordered Yao One to guard the valley entrance and fused the Pagoda Blood Baleful Intent Art with the Demon Bone Body Refinement Art.
• Su Yu gained the Demon Baleful Intent Pagoda Art, which strengthened his body and let him devour Yao Qi, Sha Qi, and other negative energies.
• Su Yu looked at his Acala Body and considered fusing it with the Demon Baleful Intent Pagoda Art.

Su Yu risked his life to fuse the Acala Body with the Demon Baleful Intent Pagoda Art, creating the supreme-grade Earth Realm Blood Baleful Intent Wisdom King Body. After learning it could devour and refine many kinds of power, he headed toward Qing Prefecture City when Yao One sensed someone beyond the Earth Realm.

• Su Yu used the system to force a fusion of Buddhist essence and demon baleful Qi, burning his blood and Qi to make up for insufficient Slaughter Points.
• The system consumed 500,000 Slaughter Points to break down and recombine the two powers, nearly grinding away Su Yu's consciousness in the process.
• Su Yu gained the supreme-grade Earth Realm Blood Baleful Intent Wisdom King Body, with the ability to manifest Buddhist and demonic aspects and briefly merge them.
• Su Yu discovered the art's Myriad Dharma Furnace trait, which could devour and refine various powers and might analyze opponents' arts.
• Yao One warned Su Yu that someone beyond the Earth Realm was in the direction of Qing Province Prefecture, and Su Yu set off toward Qing Prefecture City.

Three Earth Realm Ninth Level commanders entered the blood mist around the Duke’s Residence and confronted Chen Xiaotian, who revealed two powerful puppets. The puppets swiftly defeated two commanders, leaving Commander Liu alone before Chen Xiaotian and the killing machines.

• Ding Gui warned Commanders Liu, Zhang, and Han that the blood mist was expanding, powerful enemies were inside the Duke’s Residence, and Wang Du was missing.
• The three commanders charged into the blood mist and found Chen Xiaotian waiting among the corpses.
• Chen Xiaotian summoned two Earth Realm Ninth Level puppets and ordered them to attack.
• Commander Zhang was severely wounded by one puppet, while the other broke Commander Han’s sword and blasted him underground.
• Commander Liu was left alone as Chen Xiaotian declared that his father’s power could overwhelm the order the commanders served.

Chen Xiaotian ordered the Demon Suppression commanders taken as sacrifices for the Blood Spirit Formation, but Abbot Yuanxin and monks from Xuankong Temple intervened. Yuanxin destroyed one of the Earth Realm Ninth Level puppets with his Acala Body-Wisdom King True Body, and the voice underground warned that his actions would destroy Xuankong Temple’s centuries-old foundation.

• Chen Xiaotian ordered the two puppets to kill Commander Liu and the other surviving commanders, but his father stopped him and demanded that they be taken alive as blood sacrifices.
• Chen Xiaotian sent the commanders to the blood pool, but Abbot Yuanxin arrived with more than a dozen Xuankong Temple monks and condemned him.
• Chen Xiaotian ordered the puppets to attack Yuanxin and the monks, who formed the Arhat Formation to block one puppet.
• Yuanxin manifested his Acala Body-Wisdom King True Body and shattered the other puppet with a single punch.
• The voice underground told Yuanxin that his actions would utterly destroy Xuankong Temple’s centuries-old foundation.

Abbot Yuanxin fought Chen Xiaotian, Yao Ming, and their demonic forces at the Duke's Residence while Chen Wei controlled the battle from underground. As Yuanxin's defenses collapsed and a puppet struck at him, a sword rang out at the last moment.

• Chen Wei rejected Yuanxin's appeal and sent the controlled Yao Ming and two restored demon servants to attack him alongside Chen Xiaotian.
• Yuanxin fought off the attackers but was wounded when Yao Ming struck the Wisdom King True Body with a Divine Soul Thorn.
• Zhou Tong summoned the Blood Baleful Intent Hall's followers, intending to use the Chen Family's blood calamity to turn Qing Province into a furnace of flesh and blood.
• Yuanxin burned his Buddhist essence to blast back Chen Xiaotian and the demon servants, but the Wisdom King True Body shattered and left him near collapse.
• The Earth Realm Ninth Level puppet broke free from Xuankong Temple's formation and swung at Yuanxin, as Chen Xiaotian taunted him.
• A clear sword cry rang out just before the puppet's fist reached Yuanxin's forehead.

Li Ping and Azure Sword Manor joined the battle against Chen Xiaotian and Yao Ming, while Chen Wei revealed that the conflict was bait to draw in more forces. Su Yu tested his newly gained Blood Baleful Intent Wisdom King Body on Blood Baleful Intent Hall followers and learned through a soul search that Zhou Tong planned to harvest blood food across Qing Province amid the chaos.

• Li Ping and Azure Sword Manor destroyed Chen Wei’s puppet and attacked Chen Xiaotian and Yao Ming to avenge slain disciples.
• Chen Wei said the fighting was bait, and Blood Baleful Intent Hall operatives across Qing Province received orders to assemble at the prefectural capital.
• Su Yu encountered a Blood Baleful Intent Hall party on the road and killed a Mystic Realm attacker with a single punch.
• Su Yu’s Blood Baleful Intent Wisdom King Body absorbed the group’s attacks, and the followers tried to flee.
• Su Yu soul-searched the Earth Realm Seventh Level deacon and discovered Zhou Tong’s plan to harvest blood food while Qing Province’s factions fought.

Su Yu ambushed a group of Blood Baleful Intent Hall followers heading toward Qing Province City and killed them without letting their blood Baleful Intent consume him. He began hunting the Hall’s other groups across Qing Province before the battle at the Duke’s Residence, where the factions remained unaware of his actions.

• Su Yu stopped a group of Blood Baleful Intent Hall followers in the forest and killed their Earth Realm leader with a single punch.
• Su Yu used the Blood Baleful Intent Wisdom King Body to kill the remaining followers as they fled.
• Su Yu suppressed his urge to absorb the dead men’s blood Baleful Intent and reflected that he needed to keep his Buddhist and demonic powers in balance.
• Su Yu learned that Zhou Tong had sent more groups toward Qing Province’s prefectural capital to deepen the chaos.
• Su Yu chose to hunt the Blood Baleful Intent Hall groups before entering the fray at the Duke’s Residence.

Wang Du confronted a Heaven Realm Fifth Level tree demon in the Bone-Eroding Abyss while demons attacked Heavenly Evolution Mountain Manor. After the tree demon trapped him in its Ten Thousand Trees Prison domain, Wang Du revealed the full force of his Law of Thunder and called down lightning.

• Zhao Kuohai led Heavenly Evolution Mountain Manor’s disciples against demons pouring out of the Bone-Eroding Abyss after Wang Du warned him to hold the gates.
• Wang Du faced the Heaven Realm Fifth Level tree demon, which said Zhou Tong had awakened it and promised to remove Wang Du as an obstacle.
• The tree demon attacked with tens of thousands of branches, but Wang Du sliced through them with his saber and the Law of Thunder.
• The tree demon expanded its Ten Thousand Trees Prison domain around Wang Du, seeking to suppress his strength and gain the advantage.
• Wang Du smiled, unleashed a terrifying presence, and summoned dark clouds and powerful lightning before commanding it to fall.

Wang Du tore open the tree demon’s domain with a storm of law-powered lightning while the battle at Duke Chen’s Residence remained deadlocked and the spreading blood mist threatened the city. A hundred li away, Zhou Tong discovered that his scattered Blood Baleful Intent Hall teams were being systematically eliminated and demanded to know who was hunting them.

• Wang Du unleashed a sea of purple-black lightning that severely wounded the tree demon and tore open its domain.
• Li Ping, Abbot Yuanxin, Commander Liu, and their allies fought Chen Xiaotian’s forces while the blood mist continued to spread and consume life.
• Zhou Tong watched the battle from an underground stone hall and waited for his Blood Baleful Intent Hall teams to gather outside the prefectural city.
• Zhou Tong received no response from his teams, and the jade pendant’s points of light began going out one by one.
• Zhou Tong realized an unknown enemy was hunting his men, smashed the bloodlight mirror, and demanded to know who was responsible.