Recaps

After a blood-written plea revealed that Nanhe County had been sealed by the Demon God Cult and its people were turning into blood demons, Su Yu abandoned his planned leave to lead a rescue force. He set out for Nanhe County with Cao Yue, Yang Jing, Zhang He, and fifty Demon Suppression Guards.

• Su Yu requested leave to search the Black Demon Mountain Range, but a wounded guard arrived with an urgent plea for aid from Nanhe County.
• Lu Cang learned that the Demon God Cult had trapped Nanhe County in blood mist and that civilians and martial artists were becoming blood demons.
• Su Yu volunteered to go, and Lu Cang assigned Cao Yue, Yang Jing, Zhang He, and fifty Demon Suppression Guards to accompany him.
• Su Yu arrived at the drill grounds in his Mystic Tiger Uniform, took command, and ordered the force to move out.
• Su Yu led the Demon Suppression Guards through Tiannan Commandery's gates toward Nanhe County.

Su Yu's column was intercepted on the imperial road by a masked mystic realm fourth level assassin sent to kill him. Su Yu faced the attacker alone and caught his Azure Wood Mystic Transformation Sword between two fingers.

• Su Yu led over fifty Demon Suppression Guards toward Nanhe County, while Zhang He resented being placed under his command.
• A masked man in a blue-green robe appeared on the road and announced that he had orders to kill Su Yu.
• Zhang He formed the guards into a defensive circle, but Su Yu ordered Cao Yue and Yang Jing to stand back and faced the assassin alone.
• The attacker unleashed his powerful True Qi, but Su Yu stood unaffected as the pressure broke against an invisible force around him.
• The masked man formed an Azure Wood Mystic Transformation Sword and thrust it at Su Yu, who caught its tip between two fingers.

Su Yu effortlessly shattered a Mystic Realm Fourth Level assassin’s sword and defeated him with one punch on the official road. As the dying assassin tried to self-detonate, Su Yu calmly pressed a hand to his forehead.

• Su Yu caught the blue-green-robed assassin’s sword between two fingers and shattered it with a slight twist.
• Su Yu crossed the distance in an instant, broke through the assassin’s Azure Wood Protection, and struck him into the roadside bushes with one punch.
• Zhang He and the Demon Suppression Guards stood stunned as Su Yu approached the mortally wounded assassin.
• The assassin asked what Su Yu was, then tried to self-detonate when Su Yu reached for his storage pouch.
• Su Yu calmly redirected his hand and pressed it against the assassin’s forehead.

Su Yu killed an assassin sent after him and continued toward Nanhe County, while Duke Chen learned that Concubine Wang’s son had practiced the Blood Demon Art and confined her. In Nanhe County, wounded Lin Xiao and the surviving guards faced a Demon God Cult protector as he struck at Lin Xiao.

• Su Yu killed the assassin with a light touch, and Zhang He and the Demon Suppression Guards followed him in fear and reverence.
• Duke Chen confronted Concubine Wang for sending an assassin to kill a Demon Suppression Bureau captain and ordered her confined while he tried to suppress news of Chen Yu’s Blood Demon Art.
• In blood-shrouded Nanhe County, Lin Xiao and the surviving guards protected clerks and family members from a Demon God Cult protector.
• The protector attacked Lin Xiao with his curved saber as Lin Xiao, gravely wounded, struggled to defend himself.

Liu Qingyun revealed that he had used Nanhe County’s blood essence to break through to the Mystic Realm Fifth Level and ordered Lin Xiao and the surviving guards imprisoned. Su Yu arrived outside the city with over fifty riders and ordered an attack on the Blood Demons.

• Liu Qingyun stopped a Demon God Cult protector from killing Lin Xiao, then revealed his Mystic Realm Fifth Level strength and said Lin Xiao was being saved for an honored guest.
• Liu Qingyun ordered Zhang Qiang to imprison Lin Xiao, Tang Shan, and the surviving Demon Suppression Guards, while sending men to guard Nanhe County’s gates.
• As Lin Xiao was dragged through the city, he saw its empty streets and caged commoners who had been driven to madness.
• Su Yu and more than fifty riders reached Nanhe County and saw Blood Demons occupying the walls.
• After the Blood Demons taunted the Demon Suppression Bureau’s forces, Su Yu raised his hand and ordered his riders to kill.

Su Yu broke through Nanhe County’s gate with one punch and led the Demon Suppression Guards into the city, where they slaughtered the Blood Demons. As Su Yu prepared to head for the county office and confront Liu Qingyun, a powerful presence emerged from a dark alley.

• Su Yu shattered Nanhe County’s ironwood gate with one punch, killing Blood Demons with the flying debris.
• Zhang He rallied the Demon Suppression Guards and led them through the gate into the city.
• Zhang He and the guards formed battle lines and fought the Blood Demons while Su Yu killed attackers barehanded without slowing down.
• After the street was cleared, Su Yu sensed Liu Qingyun near the county office and turned toward the city center.
• Su Yu paused at a dark alley as a presence nearing the mystic realm emerged, its scarlet eyes glowing in the darkness.

Su Yu killed a half-step Mystic Realm Blood Beast with one palm and led his troops toward the county office. Liu Qingyun sensed Su Yu’s Mystic Realm Fourth Level strength and prepared his forces, then confronted him across the square.

• Su Yu crushed the Blood Beast’s skull into its chest with one palm, stunning Zhang He and the other Demon Suppression Guards.
• At the county office, Liu Qingyun learned that Su Yu had arrived with roughly fifty riders and ordered captured Demon Suppression Bureau survivors prepared for a blood sacrifice.
• Liu Qingyun sensed the Blood Beast’s death, scanned the county town, and discovered Su Yu approaching with the presence of a body-tempering Mystic Realm Fourth Level martial artist.
• Su Yu told his stunned subordinates to keep up and led them through the city to the county office, where more than a hundred cult followers and Blood Demons awaited.
• Liu Qingyun faced Su Yu across the square and demanded confirmation that he had reached the Mystic Realm Fourth Level.

Su Yu faced Liu Qingyun in Nanhe County after Liu ordered the Demon God Cult to attack the Demon Suppression Bureau group. Liu revealed his Earth Realm demon bloodline, but Su Yu responded by awakening his Eight Desolations Demon-Suppressing Qi and forming the Pagoda Mystic Iron Armor.

• Liu Qingyun ordered Zhang Qiang to kill Su Yu's companions while claiming Su Yu as his own opponent.
• Zhang He intercepted Zhang Qiang and fought him fiercely, holding him off despite being wounded.
• Liu Qingyun attacked Su Yu with Blood God Bind, but the blood serpents evaporated against Su Yu's body.
• Liu Qingyun transformed through his Earth Realm demon bloodline, releasing a terrifying presence that injured Zhang He and stunned Cao Yue and Yang Jing.
• Su Yu awakened his Eight Desolations Demon-Suppressing Qi, summoned the Pagoda Mystic Iron Armor, and crushed the air with his armored fist.

Su Yu blocked Liu Qingyun’s Earth Realm attack with the Pagoda Mystic Iron Armor and overwhelmed him with a single punch. As the battle spread across the square, Su Yu prepared a finishing technique against the badly injured Liu Qingyun.

• Liu Qingyun charged Su Yu with his strongest attack, but the Pagoda Mystic Iron Armor absorbed the blow without moving Su Yu.
• Zhang Qiang attacked the Demon Suppression Guards, and Zhang He confronted him while Cao Yue and Yang Jing led the other guards against the Demon God Cult members and Blood Demons.
• Su Yu seized Liu Qingyun’s horn and struck his abdomen, grievously injuring him and sending him crashing into the county office steps.
• Zhang He severed Zhang Qiang’s claws and wounded his shoulder after Zhang Qiang lost focus at Liu Qingyun’s defeat.
• Su Yu approached the terrified Liu Qingyun and gathered power for the Vajra Star-Shattering Seal.

Su Yu faced the Bone-Eroding Demon General, who took over Liu Qingyun’s body and overwhelmed him with Earth Realm power. Su Yu spent twenty thousand Slaughter Points to master a lightning art and summoned destructive Sha lightning, leaving the battle poised to begin.

• A remnant soul within Liu Qingyun revealed itself as the Bone-Eroding Demon General, blocked Su Yu’s attack, and declared that he wanted Su Yu’s body.
• The Bone-Eroding Demon General attacked Su Yu from the shadows, sending him flying and corroding his Pagoda Mystic Iron Armor.
• Su Yu recognized that the demon general’s incomplete soul was his weakness and used twenty thousand Slaughter Points to advance Firmament Lightning Descent Art.
• Su Yu learned Sha Lightning Destroys the World, a killing move that summoned destructive source lightning capable of shattering souls.
• As the Bone-Eroding Demon General lunged at him again, Su Yu called down ominous tribulation clouds and invoked Sha lightning, destroy the world.

Su Yu advanced his spirit-refining cultivation and unleashed Baleful Intent Lightning, obliterating the Bone-Eroding Demon General and Liu Qingyun. As the surviving cultists fled, Su Yu killed Zhang Qiang and ordered the Demon Suppression Guards to clear the square.

• Su Yu spent 9,000 Slaughter Points to advance his spirit-refining cultivation from Spirit Realm Fifth Level to Spirit Realm Seventh Level.
• Su Yu called down Baleful Intent Lightning, which erased the Bone-Eroding Demon General, his Earth Realm demon remnant soul, and Liu Qingyun's consciousness.
• The Demon God Cult members and Blood Demons panicked and fled after Liu Qingyun vanished.
• Zhang Qiang forced Zhang He back and fled, but Su Yu caught him and crushed his head.
• Su Yu ordered the Demon Suppression Guards to clear the square, and they pursued the fleeing cultists.

Su Yu rescued Lin Xiao and Tang Shan after defeating the Demon God Cult, then searched Liu Qingyun’s belongings and discovered that the Mystic Sword Sect had supplied intelligence about him. He resolved to respond to the sect’s betrayal.

• Su Yu used his divine sense to locate Lin Xiao, Tang Shan, and surviving guards imprisoned beneath the county office.
• Su Yu broke open the prison, healed Lin Xiao with a pill, and told him and Tang Shan that the enemies had been cleared out.
• Su Yu returned to his old courtyard in Nanhe County and broke the Bone-Eroding Demon General’s imprint on Liu Qingyun’s storage ring.
• Su Yu found and memorized the Mystic Realm cultivation art Demon God Summoning, which nourished the soul by sacrificing living beings.
• Su Yu discovered a letter showing that the Mystic Sword Sect had given Liu Qingyun intelligence about him and decided to act against the sect.

After learning that the Mystic Sword Sect had helped the Demon God Cult target him, Su Yu restrained his urge for revenge and prepared to return to Tiannan Commandery. Meanwhile, Chu He learned that Su Yu had killed Liu Qingyun and hired the Heavenly Slaughter Tower to assassinate him.

• Su Yu remembered the Mystic Sword Sect’s past attempt to kill him, but judged himself too weak to attack the sect and decided to leave Nanhe County after his companions recovered.
• Chu He learned Liu Qingyun was dead, then discovered Su Yu had become a Demon Suppression Bureau captain and killed Liu in battle.
• Fearing Su Yu would soon destroy the Mystic Sword Sect, Chu He offered nearly a hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones to the Heavenly Slaughter Tower to kill him.
• After recovering overnight, Su Yu received Zhang He’s report that Lin Xiao and the others were out of danger, then ordered preparations to leave for Tiannan Commandery.
• Su Yu told Lin Xiao and Tang Shan that Zhang He would handle the remaining Nanhe County affairs and instructed them to recover before departing.

Su Yu fused several Spirit Realm saber techniques into the Mystic Realm martial art Blood Sha Mountains and Rivers Slash while riding toward Tiannan Commandery. As his group passed through a narrow valley, he sensed an ambush and warned the Demon Suppression Guards, but an unseen enemy revealed themselves and threatened him.

• Su Yu reviewed his cultivation and decided he needed a stronger martial art to face Chu He and the Mystic Sword Sect.
• Su Yu spent 15,000 Slaughter Points to fuse Blood Baleful Intent Mad Blade with Mountain-Splitting Saber, Wind-Chasing Slash, and Hundred Battles Saber Technique.
• The fusion produced the middle-grade Mystic Realm martial art Blood Sha Mountains and Rivers Slash, and Cao Yue and Yang Jing sensed Su Yu's intimidating presence.
• Su Yu sensed enemies surrounding the column in a narrow valley and shouted a warning, prompting the Demon Suppression Guards to form a defensive formation.
• An unseen attacker praised Su Yu for detecting their presence and said they would kill him ahead of time.

Su Yu faced the old fox demon, who attacked his mounted party with overwhelming spiritual pressure. After using all his Slaughter Points to advance the Blood Sha Mountains and Rivers Slash, he resisted her divine-sense assault and met her first killing strike with a purple barrier.

• The old fox demon appeared in the valley and pinned Su Yu and the Demon Suppression Guards beneath her spiritual pressure.
• Su Yu spent all 17,000 Slaughter Points advancing the Blood Sha Mountains and Rivers Slash to minor accomplishment.
• The old fox demon’s pressure forced the Demon Suppression Guards and their horses to their knees, but Su Yu’s blood Qi blocked it.
• Su Yu dismounted with Soul Severing as his blood-red Sha Qi scattered the old fox demon’s pressure.
• The old fox demon sent a deadly spike of spiritual sense at Su Yu, and his seven droplets of Spirit Realm seventh level divine sense formed a purple barrier that stopped it.

Su Yu lured Elder White Fox away from his injured subordinates and revealed the power of his saber technique, forcing her to take him seriously. The old fox then unleashed Divine Soul Purgatory, enveloping the forest as their fight escalated.

• Su Yu repelled Elder White Fox’s mental attack, then raced into the forest with her pursuing him while Yang Jing ordered the Demon Suppression Guards to recover and stand watch.
• In a Heavenly Slaughter Tower hideout, Butcher accepted a contract to kill Su Yu for one hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones and promised to deliver his head within three days.
• Su Yu stopped in a deserted part of the forest and struck Elder White Fox with Blood Sha Mountains and Rivers Slash, narrowly missing her and carving a deep trench in the ground.
• Elder White Fox abandoned her contempt for Su Yu, raised her staff, and unleashed Divine Soul Purgatory, shrouding the forest in deathly gray light.

Su Yu resisted the old fox demon’s Divine Soul Purgatory with the Pagoda Mystic Iron Armor and struck her with Sha Lightning Destroys the World. She escaped as a gravely wounded remnant soul, but Su Yu’s destruction-law mark left her with only one way to delay death: return to him.

• The old fox demon unleashed Divine Soul Purgatory, but Su Yu’s Pagoda Mystic Iron Armor purified its death Qi and protected him.
• The old fox demon intensified her assault, and Su Yu realized he had to kill her with a single strike.
• Su Yu summoned Sha Lightning Destroys the World, which erased the old fox demon’s body and most of her divine soul.
• A remnant of the old fox demon escaped, and Su Yu pursued her until he had to stop because he could not fly.
• Su Yu sensed that his destruction-law mark had wounded the fleeing demon and concluded she would have to return to him to delay her death.

Su Yu recovered from his battle with the old fox demon and planned to use the Ghost Shadow Sect’s secret cache as bait to lure her into a trap in the Black Demon Mountain Range. He sent the injured Demon Suppression Guards back to Tiannan Commandery and entered the forest alone, now confident that he was the hunter.

• Su Yu realized he needed a Mystic Realm movement technique or greater cultivation because he could not fly and was vulnerable to airborne enemies.
• Su Yu gave Cao Yue medicine for the injured Demon Suppression Guards and planned to use the Ghost Shadow Sect’s secret cache to draw out the wounded old fox demon.
• After an hour, Su Yu ordered Cao Yue to lead the group back to Tiannan Commandery and deliver the Nanhe County case files to the commander.
• Su Yu gave Cao Yue a black token to crush if the group encountered trouble, then entered the Black Demon Mountain Range alone.
• Su Yu sensed the forest and its Yao Qi across several li with his Mystic Realm seventh-level divine sense, recognizing that he had entered as a hunter rather than prey.

Su Yu traveled through the Black Demon Mountain Range toward the Ghost Shadow Sect’s secret cache and drew out the assassin following him by confronting a powerful demon. After swiftly killing it, he revealed that he had detected Butcher and called on him to emerge.

• Su Yu ignored an Iron-Backed Azure Wolf and set out for the Ghost Shadow Sect’s cache at Soul Severing Cliff, where an Earth-Splitting Devil Bear was said to dwell.
• Su Yu sensed a skilled observer following him and suspected that Chu He or the Mystic Sword Sect had sent an assassin.
• Su Yu lured the watcher toward a Three-Headed Red-Banded Snake’s lair and endured its venom without injury.
• Su Yu killed the Three-Headed Red-Banded Snake with his saber, collected its demon core, and gained 8,000 Slaughter Points.
• Butcher watched Su Yu’s display of strength, realized his intelligence was wrong, and prepared to retreat before Su Yu called him out.

Su Yu confronted Butcher, an assassin sent to kill him, and crushed the assassin’s opening attack with a single bare-handed punch. Butcher was left injured and his weapon cracked, with the fight still underway.

• Su Yu revealed that he had detected Butcher hiding in the forest and ordered him to come out.
• Butcher leapt down, recognized that he could not escape, and admitted he had been hired to kill Su Yu for a hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones.
• Butcher attacked Su Yu with his Blood Slaughter Three Forms, sending three axe shadows at him.
• Su Yu struck the axe with the Vajra Star-Shattering Seal, cracking the weapon and sending Butcher flying while he spat blood.

Su Yu defeated the fifth-level Mystic Realm assassin Butcher and captured him alive. He took the injured assassin to a secluded mountain recess, where Butcher woke and asked who Su Yu was.

• Su Yu shattered Butcher’s axe with his fist and sent him crashing through the trees.
• Butcher abandoned his axe and tried to flee, using Demonic Shadow Escape to burn his blood essence for speed.
• Su Yu intercepted Butcher and struck him with a shock wave that broke his armor and bones, leaving him near death.
• Su Yu removed Butcher’s human-skin mask, gave him a pill to keep him alive, and carried him into the forest.
• Su Yu brought Butcher to a secluded mountain recess, where Butcher awoke and asked who Su Yu was.

Su Yu tortured Butcher into revealing that Chu He of the Mystic Sword Sect had hired the Heavenly Slaughter Tower to kill him. After learning the tower’s formidable strength, Su Yu killed Butcher, erased his remains, and left with the assassin’s spoils.

• Su Yu identified the Heavenly Slaughter Tower from Butcher’s reaction and tortured him until he revealed his identity as the assassin codename Butcher.
• Butcher confessed that Chu He had paid a hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones for Su Yu’s head and described the tower’s Earth Realm experts and Mystic Realm assassins.
• Su Yu assessed the Heavenly Slaughter Tower as a dangerous enemy but saw its assassins as a source of Slaughter Points.
• Butcher begged Su Yu to spare him and offered to serve him, but Su Yu killed him.
• Su Yu dissolved Butcher’s body with blood-colored Sha Qi, collected the storage ring and broken Blood Slaughter Axe, and vanished into the night.

Su Yu took Demonic Shadow Escape from Butcher’s storage ring and fused it with Thunder Shadow Wandering Dragon Steps, creating Thunder Demon Shadow Trace Steps. After spending his remaining Slaughter Points to improve the new technique, he tested its speed and stealth and concluded that he could escape even a late-stage Mystic Realm opponent.

• Su Yu searched Butcher’s storage ring and found spirit stones, poisons, disguises, maps of Heavenly Slaughter Tower strongholds, and the Demonic Shadow Escape technique.
• Su Yu recorded Demonic Shadow Escape with the system, which offered to fuse it with Thunder Shadow Wandering Dragon Steps.
• Su Yu endured the clashing lightning and Demonic Qi during the fusion until a purple-black force formed and stabilized his meridians.
• The system fused the techniques into Thunder Demon Shadow Trace Steps, and Su Yu spent all 12,000 remaining Slaughter Points to raise it to minor accomplishment.
• Su Yu tested the new technique by moving swiftly and silently through the forest, then decided he could escape a late-stage Mystic Realm opponent.

Su Yu detected a rare herb in a secluded valley and went to investigate before pursuing the old fox demon. Meanwhile, Heavenly Slaughter Tower learned that Butcher had died and sent two stronger assassins after Su Yu; the chapter left Su Yu watching over a mist-shrouded basin containing a tree with three golden fruits.

• Su Yu sensed the old fox demon near an Earth-Splitting Devil Bear, then chose to investigate a potent medicinal scent in a secluded valley first.
• A guard discovered that Butcher's life tablet had shattered and reported his death to Xu Lei.
• Xu Lei confronted Chu He about the false intelligence, accepted the Azure Lotus Sword Canon as compensation, and ordered Ghost Shadow and Soundless to assassinate Su Yu.
• Su Yu reached the valley and spotted a leafless tree bearing three pulsing golden fruits.

Su Yu entered the mist-covered valley and took a Mystic Yang Dragon Heart Fruit, then faced the Earth-Splitting Devil Bear sent ahead by the wounded old fox demon. He broke the bear’s paw and knee in a brief fight, while the fox demon watched from afar and waited for a chance to seize the remaining fruits.

• Su Yu sensed the Earth-Splitting Devil Bear approaching with the old fox demon’s remnant soul nearby and silently dropped into the valley’s mist.
• The old fox demon urged the bear to flush Su Yu out so she could take the Mystic Yang Dragon Heart Fruits.
• Su Yu emerged with one fruit, drawing the bear’s charge and the old fox demon’s attention.
• Su Yu blocked the bear’s Earth-Splitting Claw with a Vajra Star-Shattering Seal punch and shattered its right paw.
• Su Yu used Thunder Demon Shadow Trace Steps to get behind the bear and broke its left knee with another punch, sending it crashing to the ground.