Recaps

Su Yu devoured the Blood Baleful Intent Thorn in a hidden cavern, breaking through two levels to reach the Spirit Realm fourth level. When three Mystic Sword Sect disciples found him in the inner region, he killed their leader with a single saber strike.

• Su Yu hid in a cavern, consumed the Blood Baleful Intent Thorn, and advanced to the Spirit Realm fourth level.
• Chu He ordered the Mystic Sword Sect disciples to search the inner-region boundary and kill Su Yu if he emerged.
• Demon Suppression Captain Lu Cang flew toward Tiannan Commandery on a greatsword.
• Su Yu left the cavern and encountered three Spirit Realm fifth-level Mystic Sword Sect disciples who had entered the inner region to find him.
• The tall, thin disciple attacked Su Yu, who drew his saber and beheaded him with Blood Baleful Intent Mad Blade.

Su Yu killed three Mystic Sword Sect disciples and hunted demonic beasts to gain enough Slaughter Points to upgrade Vajra Demonic Baleful Intent. After forming Demonic Baleful Intent Vajra Armor, he rushed toward the aftermath of the battle between the Earth-Splitting Demon Boar and the Baleful Blood Mystic Serpent.

• Su Yu killed two fleeing Mystic Sword Sect disciples and collected their storage pouches.
• Su Yu hunted an Ironclad Rhinoceros and two Shadow Leopards, raising his total to 3,100 Slaughter Points.
• Su Yu spent 3,000 Slaughter Points to advance Vajra Demonic Baleful Intent and comprehend Demonic Baleful Intent Vajra Armor.
• Su Yu tested the armor and found that it more than doubled his strength and speed, tripled his defense, and repelled nearby poisonous miasma.
• Su Yu reached the devastated valley and saw the badly wounded Earth-Splitting Demon Boar and Baleful Blood Mystic Serpent nearing the end of their fight.

Su Yu ambushed the wounded Earth-Splitting Demon Boar and Baleful Blood Mystic Serpent, killing both Spirit Realm Ninth Level demons. After collecting their cores, he sensed a powerful presence approaching.

• Su Yu emerged from hiding and killed the Earth-Splitting Demon Boar with the Vajra Star-Shattering Seal and Blood Baleful Intent Mad Blade, gaining 1,000 Slaughter Points.
• Su Yu attacked the retreating Baleful Blood Mystic Serpent, endured its venom, pierced its consciousness with Spirit Sense Piercing, and killed it with his saber, gaining another 1,000 Slaughter Points.
• Su Yu collected the demon cores from the two demons, but sensed a powerful presence rapidly approaching.

Su Yu swallowed the Baleful Blood Mystic Serpent’s demon core and used all his Slaughter Points to deduce Vajra Demonic Baleful Intent as two Mystic Sword Sect disciples attacked him. He broke through to Body Refinement Spirit Realm sixth level and activated a greatly strengthened Demonic Baleful Intent Vajra Armor, leaving the fight poised to resume.

• Chu He attacked Su Yu, but two Demon Suppression Bureau Shadow Guards intercepted him and engaged him in battle.
• At Chu He’s order, two Spirit Realm seventh level Mystic Sword Sect disciples advanced on the exhausted Su Yu.
• Su Yu swallowed the Baleful Blood Mystic Serpent’s demon core and spent all 2000 Slaughter Points to deduce Vajra Demonic Baleful Intent.
• The deduced technique absorbed the serpent’s Sha Qi and raised Su Yu’s physical realm by two minor levels, to Body Refinement Spirit Realm sixth level.
• Su Yu’s Prohibition Blood Formation trapped the leading disciple, and his Demonic Baleful Intent Vajra Armor grew heavier and more powerful.

Su Yu turned the tables on the Mystic Sword Sect fighters by swallowing a ninth-level demon core and breaking through during battle, but Chu He nearly killed him before Lu Cang arrived. Lu Cang subdued Chu He and recognized Su Yu as a supreme born killer, leaving Su Yu’s future in the Demon Suppression Bureau in focus.

• Su Yu shattered one Mystic Sword Sect disciple’s sword and killed him with the Vajra Star-Shattering Seal, then used Dragon Concealment and the Blood Baleful Intent Mad Blade to kill the second disciple.
• Chu He attacked Su Yu with Mystic Realm Third Level sword power, while the two Shadow Guards tried to shield Su Yu and were knocked aside by Chu He’s strike.
• A massive edgeless greatsword crashed down on Chu He, breaking his Gang Qi and pinning him in the ground as Lu Cang arrived.
• The injured Shadow Guards bowed to Lu Cang and left, while Chu He realized he could not kill Su Yu with Lu Cang present.
• Lu Cang examined Su Yu’s strength and the battlefield, judged him a supreme born killer, and clapped him on the shoulder.

Lu Cang defeated Chu He and prepared to execute him, but Chu Yuan intervened and offered compensation to settle the Mystic Sword Sect’s crimes. Lu Cang demanded valuable sect resources instead, leaving the two ninth-level powerhouses on the brink of battle.

• Lu Cang tested Su Yu’s cultivation, then moved to execute the wounded Chu He for colluding with demons and attacking fellow comrades.
• Chu Yuan arrived after killing the Mystic Realm tiger demon and stopped Lu Cang’s sword, though Chu He lost his left arm.
• Chu Yuan examined Su Yu, restrained his killing intent, and offered the tiger demon’s corpse and sect resources as compensation.
• Lu Cang rejected the offer and demanded two upper-grade Mystic Realm sword martial arts and two Mystic Realm Breakthrough Pills in exchange for Chu He’s life.
• Chu Yuan threatened all-out war, and Lu Cang challenged him to draw his sword.

Lu Cang defeated Chu Yuan and forced the Mystic Sword Sect elder to surrender two sword-technique inheritances before fleeing with Chu He. Back at the Tiannan Commandery Demon Suppression Bureau, Su Yu asked whether its Demon Suppression Pavilion held the Spirit Realm volume of Suppressing Prisons and Subduing Demons, and the air froze around them.

• Lu Cang overwhelmed Chu Yuan with his heavy sword until Chu Yuan surrendered the Azure Lightning Sword Art and Dividing Shadow Sword Formation and promised to deliver realm-breaking pills in three days.
• Chu Yuan escaped with the unconscious Chu He and the Mystic Sword Sect remnants, while Su Yu recognized how far he remained below Mystic Realm Ninth Layer powerhouses.
• Lu Cang gave the jade slips to Su Yu, and Su Yu's system detected both as recordable upper-grade Mystic Realm techniques.
• Lu Cang led Su Yu and the Shadow Guards back to Tiannan Commandery's Demon Suppression Bureau as Su Yu struggled to contain the medicinal power in his meridians.
• Su Yu asked Lu Cang whether the Demon Suppression Pavilion had the Spirit Realm volume of Suppressing Prisons and Subduing Demons, causing the surrounding guards to tense.

Su Yu revealed that he had cultivated Suppressing Prisons and Subduing Demons to its minute subtlety realm, stunning Lu Cang and Hei Yu. Lu Cang brought Su Yu to the Demon Suppression Pavilion, where Su Yu obtained the Spirit Realm chapter, Eight Desolations Demon-Suppressing Qi.

• Su Yu acknowledged cultivating Suppressing Prisons and Subduing Demons, then released its Prohibition Blood Formation to show his mastery.
• Lu Cang realized Su Yu had reached the technique’s minute subtlety realm and agreed to take him to the Spirit Realm chapter.
• Lu Cang used his commander's token to open the Demon Suppression Pavilion and directed Su Yu to its third floor.
• Su Yu found the dark golden jade slip containing Eight Desolations Demon-Suppressing Qi and grasped it.
• The Spirit Realm chapter’s energy merged with Su Yu’s Mortal Realm cultivation, and its knowledge appeared in his mind.

Su Yu used an inheritance jade slip and Slaughter Points to break through to the first level of Qi refinement, completing his cultivation of all three paths into the spirit realm. Lu Cang told him about the upcoming Shadow Guard selection, and Su Yu received a squad captain’s waist token after completing the formalities.

• Su Yu absorbed the Eight Desolations Demon-Suppressing Qi from the jade slip, spent five hundred Slaughter Points, and condensed liquid spiritual power to reach Qi refinement spirit realm first level.
• Su Yu left the Demon Suppression Pavilion, where Hei Yu recognized his breakthrough and Lu Cang confirmed he had it under control.
• Lu Cang explained that the Shadow Guard selection would begin in three days and described its ratings, rewards, and the benefits of joining.
• Su Yu decided that the Shadow Guard’s independent authority suited his needs and assessed his chances of earning a high rating.
• Lu Cang took Su Yu to complete the formalities and gave him a squad captain’s waist token.

Su Yu used his new Demon Suppression Bureau rank to access a Spirit Realm movement technique and fused it with Wandering Dragon Steps. He tested the resulting Thunder Shadow Wandering Dragon Steps in his courtyard, gaining a major advantage ahead of the Shadow Guard selection trial.

• Su Yu assessed the limits of his public squad captain role and decided he needed a stronger movement technique before the Shadow Guard selection trial.
• Su Yu selected Shadow Thunder Flash from the Demon Suppression Pavilion and used his merit points to unlock it.
• Su Yu fused Shadow Thunder Flash with Wandering Dragon Steps, creating the Spirit Realm Supreme Grade Thunder Shadow Wandering Dragon Steps.
• Su Yu spent Slaughter Points to raise the new technique to minor accomplishment.
• Su Yu tested the technique in his courtyard and found it three times faster than Wandering Dragon Steps, with a deceptive afterimage.

Su Yu spent his remaining Slaughter Points mastering Thunder Shadow Wandering Dragon Steps, then hunted demons for three days until he had accumulated 10,500 Slaughter Points. He returned to Tiannan Commandery for the Shadow Guard selection, where Cao Yue explained the Demon Suppression Tower’s rankings and the commandants awaited the trial’s start.

• Su Yu used his last 1,000 Slaughter Points to reach major accomplishment in Thunder Shadow Wandering Dragon Steps.
• Su Yu hunted demons across the Black Blood Plain for three days, killing a Spirit Realm eighth-level armored lizard and building his balance to 10,500 Slaughter Points.
• Su Yu arrived at the Demon Suppression Bureau plaza, where his blood-soaked presence made the other selection candidates wary.
• Cao Yue explained that candidates earned rankings by clearing floors of the ten-story Demon Suppression Tower, though no one in the Great Qin Dynasty had cleared its tenth floor in nearly a century.
• Commandant Hu disparaged Su Yu, Lu Cang defended him, and Commandant Lin urged them to focus on the trial as the commandants awaited the tower’s activation.

Su Yu entered the Demon Suppression Tower and discovered that killing its Yao and demon phantoms earned him Slaughter Points. After clearing the first two floors, he faced ten Spirit Realm fifth-level Iron-Armored Crocodile Yao on the third floor as they unleashed a volley of venom.

• Commandant Lin and Commandant Hu praised Cao Yue’s chances while Lu Cang predicted Su Yu would become a monstrous prodigy.
• Su Yu entered the tower, killed three Spirit Realm third-level Armored Stone Wolves on the first floor, and earned 1,000 Slaughter Points.
• Su Yu realized the tower’s Yao and demon phantoms were a source of Slaughter Points and teleported onward.
• Cao Yue advanced ahead of the other participants, while Commandant Lin explained that the first three floors held fixed remnant souls and the real trial began on the fourth.
• On the third floor, ten Spirit Realm fifth-level Iron-Armored Crocodile Yao surrounded Su Yu and fired venom at him, prompting him to draw his saber.

Su Yu swiftly slaughtered the fourth floor’s ten goat demons, then spent Slaughter Points to advance his Eight Desolations Demon-Suppressing Qi to greater mastery and raise his cultivation to Spirit Realm Third Level. He entered the fifth floor, where a mysterious white-robed sword cultivator awaited him.

• Su Yu killed ten armored crocodile demons and activated the teleportation array to the fourth floor.
• At the Demon Suppression Bureau plaza, Commandant Hu and Commandant Lin doubted Su Yu could overcome the fourth floor’s battle formation, while Lu Cang insisted they underestimated him.
• Su Yu broke through the ten goat demons’ formation with his movement techniques, punches, and saber strikes, killing all ten in a short time.
• Su Yu spent 6,000 Slaughter Points extrapolating Eight Desolations Demon-Suppressing Qi, advancing his cultivation from Spirit Realm First Level to Spirit Realm Third Level.
• Su Yu arrived on the fifth floor and faced a white-robed martial artist whose sword fluctuations surpassed those of the Spirit Realm Sixth Level goat demons.

Su Yu fought the fifth-floor trial’s remnant soul, a Demon Suppression Envoy who wielded the slaughter sword force of an earth realm peak expert, and defeated it with a head-on saber strike. He emerged with a minor wound as the tower registered the remnant soul’s death and awarded him 2,000 Slaughter Points.

• Commandant Hu revealed that the fifth floor held the remnant soul of a Demon Suppression Envoy who had been an earth realm peak expert with slaughter sword force.
• The white-robed sword cultivator charged Su Yu, and Su Yu blocked its attacks with his armor, saber, movement technique, and Prohibition Blood Formation.
• The sword cultivator gathered Sword Qi into a seven-meter giant sword and locked Su Yu in place for a decisive strike.
• Su Yu met the giant sword head-on with Blood Baleful Intent Mad Blade and Spirit Sense Piercing, destroying the attack and piercing the remnant soul’s brow.
• Su Yu healed his shoulder wound, and the tower announced that he had killed the Spirit Realm seventh-level Demon Suppression Envoy’s remnant soul and gained 2,000 Slaughter Points.

Su Yu cleared the seventh floor of the Demon Suppression Tower by killing thirty Spirit Realm Eighth Level Lava Giant Lizards, reaching 40,000 Slaughter Points before entering the eighth floor. As he arrived, a voice in the shadows asked whether someone had already come.

• Su Yu's light went out on the fifth-floor marker after he slew its guardian, stunning the commandants and eliminated contestants watching outside.
• Cao Yue survived the fifth-floor guardian's attack, earned a low-grade Earth Realm sword art, and paused to heal before attempting the sixth floor.
• Su Yu appeared on the seventh floor and used his martial arts and formation to kill the Lava Giant Lizards.
• Su Yu gained 40,000 Slaughter Points and stepped into the formation leading to the eighth floor.
• A voice from the eighth floor's shadows asked Su Yu if someone had arrived already.

Su Yu advanced Thunder Shadow Wandering Dragon Steps to the subtle realm and used its new killing move to shatter Jiao Wang’s spine with a kick. As Jiao Wang transformed and surged toward him, Su Yu advanced Blood Baleful Intent Mad Blade and unleashed Blood Prison Heaven-Slaughtering, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Su Yu fought Jiao Wang on the eighth floor, but the demon’s speed let him wound Su Yu despite his armor and gravity field.
• Su Yu spent 5,000 Slaughter Points to advance Thunder Shadow Wandering Dragon Steps to the subtle realm and comprehend Reverse Scale Flash.
• Su Yu dodged Jiao Wang’s charge and kicked him a hundred feet into a wall, badly dislocating his spine.
• Jiao Wang began a berserk transformation that pushed his cultivation toward the Mystic Realm.
• Su Yu spent another 5,000 Slaughter Points to advance Blood Baleful Intent Mad Blade and comprehend Blood Prison Heaven-Slaughtering.
• Su Yu unleashed the saber strike as Jiao Wang charged, and its force collided with the demon’s giant palm.

Su Yu killed Jiao Wang, then used Slaughter Points to record and extrapolate the ninth floor’s Extreme Dao saber force. As Cao Yue reached the ninth floor and officials sealed the trial’s events, Su Yu’s saber light broke through the tower’s boundary and carried him into the long-unopened tenth floor.

• Su Yu killed Jiao Wang’s remnant soul on the eighth floor, but the burst of power left him badly wounded and shattered his saber.
• Su Yu entered the ninth floor and spent 10,000 Slaughter Points to record and forcibly extrapolate the incomplete Extreme Dao saber force.
• After Jiao Wang’s light vanished from the stele, Commandant Hu and Commandant Lin recognized Su Yu’s peerless rating, and Lu Cang classified the tower’s events as a military secret.
• Cao Yue entered the eighth-floor prison, survived Jiao Wang’s assault until the array rescued her, and advanced to the ninth floor.
• Su Yu’s saber light cleaved through the ninth-floor boundary, opened the sealed tenth-floor doors, and carried him inside.

Su Yu cleared the Demon Suppression Tower’s tenth floor, extrapolated the first move of a long-lost Heaven Realm saber art, and was secretly rated Monster by He Zhanfeng. He returned to the square with the public stele showing that he had stopped at the ninth floor, while Lu Cang gave him a Shadow Guard token and summoned him for a meeting that night.

• Su Yu spent twenty thousand Slaughter Points to extrapolate the first move of the incomplete Demon Suppression World-Annihilating Slash, then inscribed its trajectory on the beast-hide scroll to clear the tenth floor.
• He Zhanfeng saw Su Yu’s blood-written saber art through the capital headquarters’ formation and secretly erased his tenth-floor record, locking his final rating as Monster to protect him from assassination attempts.
• The Tiannan Commandery stele settled on the ninth floor, and Su Yu was teleported back to the square badly wounded and exhausted.
• Lu Cang gave Su Yu a Shadow Guard token marked Monster and privately told him to meet that night.
• Cao Yue was teleported out after Su Yu, and Lu Cang announced his Peerless rating as the Shadow Guard selection trial ended.

After earning a monstrous prodigy rating, Su Yu received powerful cultivation resources and became a Shadow Guard under the codename Blood Slaughter. Lu Cang warned him to keep his achievement concealed and assigned him a mission involving water demons and a secret investigation.

• Cao Yue reflected on Su Yu's tower performance and resolved to treat him as a mountain she had to surpass.
• Su Yu reviewed his combat weaknesses and went to the Demon Suppression Bureau's main hall to claim his rewards.
• Lu Cang and the two commandants gave Su Yu a Realm-Breaking Mystic Pill and the supreme-grade Spirit Realm body-refinement art Gold and Jade Pagoda Scroll.
• Lu Cang told Su Yu that Commander He had concealed his entry into the tenth floor to protect him from powerful clans and demons.
• Lu Cang made Su Yu an official Shadow Guard, gave him a white-based mask, and accepted Blood Slaughter as his codename.
• Lu Cang ordered Su Yu to help investigate water demons near Qingjiang County and secretly investigate Qinghe County's Demon Suppression Bureau.

Su Yu learned about the three paths of spirit refinement and was sent to investigate demonic unrest and suspected corruption in Qingjiang County. On the way, he crushed Yang Jing’s attempt to assert authority with his divine sense, and the group arrived at the county walls.

• Lu Cang gave Su Yu a spirit-refinement master’s notes describing artifact control, demon servants, and incantations, and warned him that Qingjiang County’s Demon Suppression Bureau might be compromised.
• Su Yu met Zhang He and Yang Jing outside the southern city gate before their mission to Qingjiang County.
• Yang Jing demanded that Su Yu follow her orders, but Su Yu shattered her divine-sense defenses and knocked her from her horse.
• Su Yu broke Yang Jing’s whip beneath his horse and ordered the group to move out; Zhang He followed him while Yang Jing rode after them.
• Su Yu, Zhang He, and Yang Jing reached Qingjiang County, where a middle-aged Demon Suppression Guard spotted them from the city wall.

Su Yu arrived in famine-stricken Qingjiang County and learned that a powerful water snake demon had killed the county captain. He refused to let his companions confront the corrupt Wang Lin, then discovered Wang Lin was secretly working with the demons to lure them into a trap at Cloud Shadow Creek.

• Wang Lin welcomed Su Yu and his companions with a lavish banquet while starving people suffered outside, but Su Yu demanded information about the water demons instead.
• Wang Lin reported that a Spirit Realm Eighth Level water snake demon had killed Captain Chen and wiped out seven villages, and Su Yu decided to visit Cloud Shadow Creek in the morning.
• Zhang He and Yang Jing warned Su Yu that Wang Lin was suspicious, and Yang Jing proposed interrogating him, but Su Yu forbade them from acting that night.
• At midnight, Wang Lin secretly met a snake woman in an abandoned City God temple and told her the three visitors had entered their trap.
• Wang Lin described Su Yu as a Body Refinement Spirit Realm Seventh Level martial artist and promised to lead the group into Cloud Shadow Creek's deathtrap the next morning.

Wang Lin lured Su Yu and the Demon Suppression Guards into Cloud Shadow Creek, where water demons ambushed them. Su Yu faced three demons and Wang Lin, who planned to kill him, while one demon wanted him alive for her amusement.

• A snake woman gave Wang Lin Water God's Blood in exchange for leading Su Yu and his companions to their deaths.
• Wang Lin pretended to repent and offered to lead Su Yu, Zhang He, and Yang Jing into Cloud Shadow Creek.
• Dense fog separated the group, and Yang Jing received Su Yu's instruction to protect Zhang He.
• Su Yu continued alone to a deep pool, where three demons sprang out and Wang Lin revealed himself.
• The snake demon demanded that the others spare Su Yu so she could have fun with him, and Su Yu refused her.

Su Yu killed the snake woman’s two water crab allies and then the mutated azure python at Cloud Shadow Creek. Wang Lin fled in terror, but Su Yu caught up and asked why he was running.

• The snake woman transformed into an azure python while her two allies became water crab demons and attacked Su Yu.
• Su Yu used Thunder Shadow Wandering Dragon and Blood Prison Heaven-Slaughtering to kill the first water crab demon.
• Su Yu dismembered the second water crab demon before the azure python tried to escape into the pool.
• Su Yu withstood the python’s venom with his Vajra Demonic Baleful Intent Armor and killed it with a saber strike.
• Wang Lin ran from the scene, but Su Yu approached him and asked why he was running.

Su Yu uncovered Wang Lin's betrayal and killed him before rushing to Cloud Shadow Creek, where Yang Jing and Zhang He were losing to a Half-Step Mystic Realm shrimp demon. Su Yu arrived as the shrimp demon turned its attention toward him.

• Wang Lin confessed that he had lured refugees and martial artists to Cloud Shadow Creek for the demons, then offered Su Yu a black scale and the county treasury's spirit stones.
• After a distant explosion revealed a powerful demon's presence, Su Yu killed Wang Lin and gained 800 Slaughter Points.
• At Cloud Shadow Creek, Zhang He lay gravely injured and Yang Jing's divine-sense attack failed against the giant shrimp demon.
• The Half-Step Mystic Realm shrimp demon sensed three allied demons had vanished, abandoned Yang Jing, and faced the fog where Su Yu was approaching.
• Su Yu emerged from the fog with his saber bloodied and stopped ten zhang from the shrimp demon.

Su Yu fought the Half-Step Mystic Realm giant shrimp and killed the four Spirit Realm Eighth Level crab demons to build his killing power. He turned his attention back to the giant shrimp, still facing a formidable opponent at Deadwater Marsh.

• Su Yu blocked the giant shrimp’s pincer strike, then evaded its next attack after his saber failed to penetrate its shell.
• Su Yu used Thunder Shadow Wandering Dragon to attack the giant crabs, revealing saber momentum that Yang Jing recognized as True Intent of the Martial Dao.
• Su Yu killed the first crab with Vajra Star-Shattering Seal and Blood Prison Heaven-Slaughtering, gaining 1,000 Slaughter Points.
• Su Yu resisted the remaining crabs’ venom and killed a second crab with a downward saber strike.
• Su Yu killed the last two crabs in quick succession as the giant shrimp charged to stop him, raising his Slaughter Points to 7,500.