Recaps

Su Yu killed the fleeing old fox demon and the crippled Earth-Splitting Devil Bear, collected their demon cores, and took the Mystic Yang Dragon Heart Fruits before retreating to a cave to eat one. Meanwhile, Heavenly Slaughter Tower assassins Ghost Shadow and Soundless tracked him, but their blood-red trail split in two.

• Su Yu pursued the old fox demon and killed her with the Divine Radiance Heart-Piercing Spike, earning 20000 Slaughter Points and taking her demon core.
• Su Yu killed the Earth-Splitting Devil Bear, earned 12000 Slaughter Points, and collected its demon core and the Mystic Yang Dragon Heart Fruit plant.
• Su Yu found a secluded cave and swallowed one of the three Mystic Yang Dragon Heart Fruits.
• Ghost Shadow and Soundless arrived at the site of Su Yu's fight and followed the Sha Qi trail under orders from the Tower Master to kill him.
• The assassins' tracking trail split, with one path leading deeper into the mountains and the other pointing into the sky.

Su Yu absorbed the Mystic Yang Dragon Heart Fruit, advanced to Mystic Realm Sixth Level, and emerged from his cave as Ghost Shadow and Soundless closed in on separate trails. Lu Cang learned that the assassins were hunting Su Yu and ordered a force to seal the Black Demon Mountain Range, while Ghost Shadow launched a lethal attack on Su Yu from behind.

• Ghost Shadow pursued the blood-red trail through the sky while Soundless followed the ground trail into the Black Demon Mountain Range.
• Su Yu absorbed the Mystic Yang Dragon Heart Fruit, advanced to Mystic Realm Sixth Level, and strengthened his Mystic Iron Pagoda Baleful Intent to its middle tier.
• Lu Cang learned that Butcher had died and that Ghost Shadow and Soundless were hunting Su Yu, so he ordered the commandery's captains to seal the mountain range and set out himself.
• Su Yu left his cave, sensed a hidden predator nearby, and deliberately walked with his back to the darkness.
• Ghost Shadow emerged from behind an ancient tree and thrust a dagger toward the fatal point behind Su Yu's heart.

Su Yu survived Ghost Shadow’s assassination attempt and exposed the false intelligence that had underestimated him. As Ghost Shadow unleashed his signature attack, Su Yu identified the real assassin and moved to strike.

• Ghost Shadow’s dagger struck Su Yu’s Pagoda Mystic Iron Armor, and Su Yu countered with a Divine Radiance Heart-Piercing Spike and a punch that shattered an ancient tree.
• Lu Cang told Yang Kong that Ghost Shadow and Soundless had been sent to kill Su Yu in the Black Demon Mountain Range, and Yang Kong ordered a search before deciding to visit the Heavenly Slaughter Tower himself.
• Ghost Shadow re-formed at a distance, recognized that his mission had failed, and unleashed Demon Shadow Thousand Slaughters to attack Su Yu with dozens of copies.
• Su Yu sensed the real Ghost Shadow by the fluctuations in his soul and used Thunder Demon Shadow Trace Steps to move toward him.

Su Yu killed Ghost Shadow, a Mystic Realm Seventh Level assassin, after vanishing behind him and striking him with Blood Sha Mountains and Rivers Slash. Ghost Shadow tried to escape with a Blood Escape Demonic Pill, but Su Yu intercepted and killed him, then collected his storage ring as another presence approached.

• Su Yu appeared behind Ghost Shadow and struck him with Blood Sha Mountains and Rivers Slash, breaking his dagger and gravely wounding him.
• Ghost Shadow’s phantoms dissipated, and he fell into a crater as Sha Qi consumed his vitality.
• Ghost Shadow asked who Su Yu was, then used a Blood Escape Demonic Pill to flee as black mist.
• Su Yu vanished and waited ahead of Ghost Shadow’s escape route, then killed him with another saber strike.
• Su Yu received 35,000 Slaughter Points, saw a prompt to improve his saber technique, and picked up Ghost Shadow’s storage ring as another presence approached.

Su Yu faced Soundless, an eighth-level Mystic Realm assassin whose perfected Soundless Bone-Dissolving Palm broke through Su Yu’s defenses. After spending his Slaughter Points to perfect his movement and saber techniques, Su Yu vanished from Soundless’s attack and launched a powerful counterstrike.

• Soundless arrived after Su Yu killed Ghost Shadow and identified himself as a Heavenly Slaughter Tower assassin.
• Soundless struck Su Yu with his palm force, penetrating the Pagoda Mystic Iron Armor and injuring him.
• Su Yu spent all 67,000 Slaughter Points to perfect Thunder Demon Shadow Trace Steps and Blood Sha Mountains and Rivers Slash.
• Su Yu vanished as Soundless’s massive palm imprint struck the ground, then appeared above him with a blood-red saber raised for a downward strike.

Su Yu killed the Heavenly Slaughter Tower assassin Soundless, while the tower’s Tiannan branch destroyed itself and Xu Lei escaped after learning the Demon Suppression Bureau had uncovered the assassination plot. Su Yu recovered Soundless’s martial art and token in a hidden cave, where he vowed to repay Heavenly Slaughter Tower.

• Su Yu defeated and killed Soundless with the perfected Blood Sha Mountains and Rivers Slash, then looted his storage ring and erased his corpse.
• Lu Cang learned that Heavenly Slaughter Tower’s Tiannan branch had activated its self-destruct formation and that Xu Lei’s whereabouts were unknown.
• Xu Lei recalled how his father, Xu Qiujiang, had warned him that Lu Cang and Yang Kong were moving against the tower, and he fled Tiannan Commandery by flying boat.
• Su Yu recovered in a secluded cave, reviewed his strengthened cultivation and martial arts, and recorded the Soundless Bone-Dissolving Palm from Soundless’s spoils.
• Su Yu examined Ghost Shadow’s Heavenly Slaughter Tower token and vowed to remember the debt.

Su Yu raised his spirit-refining cultivation to the Spirit Realm Ninth Level and reached Soul Severing Valley, where he discovered that Mystic Sword Sect disciples had arrived before him. As they prepared to take the Nether Shadow Spirit-Eroding Art, Su Yu drew his saber from the shadows.

• Su Yu spent 20,000 Slaughter Points to reach the Spirit Realm Ninth Level and expanded his divine sense to three hundred zhang.
• Lu Cang left the Black Demon Mountain Range to answer Cang County’s request for aid, ordering Lin Quan and the Demon Suppression Guards to keep searching for Su Yu.
• Su Yu traveled to Soul Severing Valley, using his enhanced divine sense and Thunder Demon Shadow Trace Steps to avoid demons.
• Su Yu found fresh tracks and traces of broken formations at the valley entrance, then crept inside and spotted three Mystic Sword Sect disciples by a half-open stone gate.
• The disciples said the Heavenly Slaughter Tower had failed and Su Yu had killed Butcher, then revealed their order to obtain the Nether Shadow Spirit-Eroding Art and return to the sect.
• Su Yu drew his crimson saber in the shadows as the three Mystic Sword Sect disciples stood by the secret cache.

Su Yu watched three former Mystic Sword Sect elders attack the hidden trove’s Ghost Shadow restriction while Wang Du destroyed the Heavenly Slaughter Tower’s headquarters in Qing Province. The chapter left the elders’ assault underway, with the restriction’s fate unknown.

• Su Yu hid in the gorge and let Elder Heavenly Mystery, Lijian, and Panshi reach the stone door before deciding to watch them clear the way.
• Elder Heavenly Mystery identified the Ghost Shadow Heart-Locking Restriction and warned that breaking it by force would take an hour and risk attracting demons.
• Yang Kong told Wang Du about the Heavenly Slaughter Tower’s attempt to assassinate Su Yu, and Wang Du went to the tower’s headquarters.
• Wang Du ignored Xu Qiujiang’s offer of compensation and destroyed the Heavenly Slaughter Tower’s fortress, declaring that Qing Province would have no tower from then on.
• Elder Heavenly Mystery directed Lijian and Panshi to strike the restriction together with their strongest attacks.

Su Yu hid while Elder Tianji, Elder Lijian, and Panshi broke the Ghost Shadow Heart-Locking Restriction, then dashed through the stone gate ahead of them. The chapter left him alone in the dark passage beyond the gate as the three elders raged outside.

• Su Yu watched from hiding as Elder Tianji, Elder Lijian, and Panshi attacked the restriction and decided to let them clear the way.
• Tower Master Xu Qiujiang fled the Heavenly Slaughter Tower's ruins, blaming Chu He and Su Yu for its destruction and vowing to remember the blood debt.
• Elder Tianji, Elder Lijian, and Panshi combined their attacks to destroy the restriction around the stone gate.
• Su Yu used his speed to slip past the three elders and enter the gate before they could stop him.
• The stone gate closed behind Su Yu, leaving him in a dark passage while the three elders shouted and struck at it from outside.

Su Yu fled deeper into the Ghost Shadow Sect’s underground prison as three Mystic Realm Eighth Level former Mystic Sword Sect elders attacked the stone door behind him. He discovered a blood-red formation sustaining a chained presence in the darkness, whose scarlet eyes opened when it sensed him.

• Tianji rallied Lijian and Panshi to attack the weakened stone door before its restriction repaired itself.
• Su Yu rejected a direct fight and used Thunder Demon Shadow Trace Steps to race deeper into the passage, evading a poisoned crossbow trap.
• Su Yu searched empty prison cells, found a broken black saber blade, and continued through increasingly dense death Qi and Sha Qi.
• Su Yu reached a vast underground plaza littered with drained bones and discovered a blood-red formation connected to eight chained bronze pillars.
• When Su Yu probed the darkness with his divine sense, a powerful surge of Sha Qi repelled him, and a pair of scarlet eyes opened in the abyss.

Su Yu fled an Earth Realm demon’s remnant soul and found a hidden chamber, where a recording revealed the Ghost Shadow Sect had imprisoned the demon and fed it martial artists. As the chamber began to fail, the Mystic Sword Sect’s three elders arrived, and the demon turned its attention to their powerful flesh.

• Su Yu evaded the demon’s tentacles by finding a hidden gap in the formation and slipping into a secret chamber.
• Su Yu found Feng Bujue’s recording, which explained that the Ghost Shadow Sect had built a blood-extraction formation to feed an Earth Realm demon until it corrupted the sect and took control.
• The chamber’s isolation restriction began to collapse as the demon attacked, leaving Su Yu trapped with the demon outside.
• Elder Bedrock, Elder Sharp Sword, and Elder Heavenly Mystery entered the underground plaza seeking the supposed treasure, and the demon fixed its gaze on them.
• The demon’s tentacle pierced Elder Bedrock’s right shoulder and lifted him into the air.

Su Yu used all his Slaughter Points to advance Blood Sha Mountains and Rivers Slash and comprehend Blood Sha Burst while the demon overwhelmed the three Mystic Sword Sect elders. With his escape blocked and the elders close to death, Su Yu decided he had to join forces with them to survive.

• Elder Bedrock, Elder Sharp Sword, and Elder Heavenly Mystery fought off the demon’s tentacles with an array, but the tentacles pierced Bedrock and battered the shield.
• Su Yu spent all 32,000 Slaughter Points to raise Blood Sha Mountains and Rivers Slash to the minute subtlety realm and comprehended Blood Sha Burst.
• The demon shattered the elders’ array, and Elder Sharp Sword burned his blood essence to shield the three with an azure lotus.
• Elder Heavenly Mystery called to Su Yu, offering him the Ghost Shadow Sect’s hidden treasures if he helped slay the demon.
• Su Yu judged that he could not escape or face the demon alone, and resolved to join forces with the elders.

Su Yu emerged from the collapsing chamber and defended the Mystic Sword Sect elders from the demon’s tentacles and its army of bone puppets. He destroyed a Mystic Realm puppet with one slash, leaving Panshi stunned as the battle continued.

• Su Yu charged through the blood-red tentacles and used his completed saber force and precise Blood Sha Mountains and Rivers Slash to sever more than a dozen of them.
• Su Yu landed before the Mystic Sword Sect elders, ordered them to follow his commands, and Elder Heavenly Mystery accepted.
• The demon recognized Su Yu as another saber wielder and sent scaled tentacles and more than a dozen Mystic Realm bone puppets into the square.
• An axe-wielding puppet targeted the wounded Panshi while other puppets trapped Elder Sharp Sword and surrounded Elder Heavenly Mystery.
• Su Yu appeared before Panshi and split the puppet and its axe in half with a single saber slash.

Su Yu used his perfected Thunder Demon Shadow Trace Steps and Blood Sha Burst to destroy the puppets attacking the Mystic Sword Sect elders. After realizing the puppets yielded large amounts of Slaughter Points, he abandoned his plan to escape and began hunting them, leaving the elders to recognize that they might be prey too.

• Su Yu killed a Mystic Realm seventh-level puppet, and Elder Heavenly Mystery realized Su Yu wielded saber force at greater accomplishment.
• The demon sent four puppets to trap Su Yu in a battle formation, but Su Yu evaded them with Thunder Demon Shadow Trace Steps and destroyed one with Blood Sha Burst.
• Su Yu saw the Slaughter Points the puppets awarded and decided to stay and kill them rather than escape.
• Su Yu moved among the puppets and cut them down one by one, using his saber technique to annihilate their Sha Qi cores.
• Elder Bedrock, Elder Sharp Sword, and Elder Heavenly Mystery watched Su Yu's massacre and realized he might regard them as prey as well.

Su Yu used his Slaughter Points to raise his saber force and Thunder Demon Shadow Trace Steps to the minute subtlety realm, then effortlessly destroyed the remaining puppets and severed the Earth Realm demon’s tentacles. He confronted the demon in the plaza, declaring that it was the hidden treasure.

• The enraged Earth Realm demon sent its tentacles and remaining puppets to attack Su Yu.
• Su Yu spent 100,000 Slaughter Points to raise his saber force to the minute subtlety realm and 30,000 to raise Thunder Demon Shadow Trace Steps to the minute subtlety realm.
• Su Yu appeared to occupy multiple positions at once, and the charging Mystic Realm puppets split apart and crumbled into black powder.
• Su Yu swept his saber through the demon’s tentacles, making hundreds of them vanish where they touched a black line.
• Su Yu crossed the plaza to face the demon and told it that it was the hidden treasure.

Su Yu forced the three Mystic Sword Sect elders to attack the formation feeding the Earth Realm demon, then struck the demon’s soul origin with his saber. The demon was badly wounded but began rapidly repairing itself.

• Su Yu’s saber force terrified the Earth Realm demon and left Elder Sharp Sword, Elder Bedrock, and Elder Heavenly Mystery unable to fight.
• Su Yu ordered the elders to serve him, and Elder Heavenly Mystery agreed on behalf of himself, Panshi, and Lijian.
• Su Yu told the three elders to attack the eight bronze pillars, and their attacks disrupted the formation feeding the demon.
• As the demon diverted its power to protect the pillars, Su Yu stepped into the darkness and slashed its soul origin.
• The demon screamed in pain and terror, while the elders were injured by the psychic shriek; Su Yu sensed the demon was already repairing itself.

Su Yu trapped the Earth Realm demon’s remnant soul inside Thunder Prison Demon Abyss and erased it with countless saber lines. After the darkness vanished, a black heart with a scarlet eye emerged where it had been.

• Su Yu ordered Panshi, Elder Sharp Sword, and Elder Heavenly Mystery to keep attacking the bronze pillars, and they cracked one of them despite their exhaustion.
• The demon diverted its attention to repairing the pillar, and Su Yu unleashed Thunder Prison Demon Abyss, severing its connection to the pillars and sealing it inside a domain.
• Su Yu turned the domain into a blade with Minute Subtlety Saber Force and cut the demon’s remnant soul apart as it begged for mercy.
• The demon’s darkness disappeared, but a black heart with a scarlet vertical pupil emerged in its place.

Su Yu destroyed the Earth Realm demon remnant soul despite its attempts to bargain and turn the Mystic Sword Sect elders against him. After earning 50,000 Slaughter Points, he turned toward Panshi and Elder Sharp Sword, whose attempted attack stalled as his presence transformed and surged.

• The demon remnant soul attacked Su Yu with Sha Qi, but the Purple Mansion Divine Pearl neutralized it.
• Su Yu struck the black heart with his Blood Sha Mountains and Rivers Slash, leaving the demon remnant soul near death.
• The demon pleaded with Su Yu and urged the three Mystic Sword Sect elders to attack him, prompting Panshi and Lijian to prepare to strike.
• Su Yu dismissed the demon's attempt to sow discord and destroyed the black heart, earning 50,000 Slaughter Points.
• Panshi and Elder Sharp Sword froze when Su Yu's presence surged after the kill, and he turned his icy gaze on them.

Su Yu killed Panshi, Lijian, and Elder Heavenly Mystery, then discovered that the Mystic Sword Sect had been searching for the Nether Shadow Spirit-Eroding Art. After finding it hidden in Feng Bujue’s storage ring, he fused it with the Purple Mansion Spirit-Nurturing Art to create the Purple Mansion Prison-Suppressing Scripture.

• Su Yu used his overwhelming speed to kill Panshi and Lijian, then stabbed Elder Heavenly Mystery after learning he was no longer useful.
• Su Yu looted the three elders’ storage rings and discovered a voice transmission from the Mystic Sword Sect’s sect master asking about the Nether Shadow Spirit-Eroding Art.
• Su Yu searched Feng Bujue’s remains and found a hidden storage ring containing the Nether Shadow Spirit-Eroding Art.
• Su Yu used the system to fuse the Nether Shadow Spirit-Eroding Art with the Purple Mansion Spirit-Nurturing Art, eliminating the soul-devouring backlash.
• Su Yu obtained the supreme-grade Mystic Realm spirit-refining art called the Purple Mansion Prison-Suppressing Scripture.

After fusing the Purple Mansion Divine Pearl, Su Yu used Slaughter Points to perfect the Purple Mansion Prison-Suppressing Scripture and advanced his spirit-refining cultivation to the Mystic Realm third level. Recognizing that his Qi refinement and lightning arts were falling behind, he brought out the incomplete Purple Firmament Heavenly Thunder Invocation.

• Su Yu comprehended the Purple Mansion Prison-Suppressing Scripture and decided to spend Slaughter Points to strengthen it.
• Su Yu used 20,000 Slaughter Points to reach minor accomplishment, formed the Purple-Gold Prison-Suppressing Platform, and broke through to the Mystic Realm first level.
• Su Yu spent another 150,000 Slaughter Points to perfect the scripture and advance his spirit-refining cultivation to the Mystic Realm third level.
• Su Yu tested his newly transformed soul power, which let him perceive and control details throughout the underground square.
• Su Yu concluded that his Spirit Realm Qi cultivation art and lightning techniques could no longer keep pace with his enemies.
• Su Yu summoned the incomplete Purple Firmament Heavenly Thunder Invocation scroll from his storage ring.

Su Yu completed the Purple Firmament Heavenly Thunder Invocation and fused it with the Firmament Lightning Descent Art to create the supreme-grade Purple Firmament Heavenly Thunder Art. After escaping the buried plaza, he encountered three Mystic Sword Sect shadow guards, and the chapter ended as their leader lunged at him and Su Yu raised his lightning-charged fingers.

• Su Yu spent 100,000 Slaughter Points to complete the Purple Firmament Heavenly Thunder Invocation and extrapolate it to perfection.
• Su Yu fused the completed art with the Firmament Lightning Descent Art for 20,000 Slaughter Points, creating the supreme-grade Purple Firmament Heavenly Thunder Art.
• Su Yu blasted a passage through the blocked exit with purple-black lightning and escaped as the underground plaza collapsed.
• Su Yu returned to the surface and sensed three Mystic Sword Sect shadow guards waiting in the forest to capture him.
• The shadow guard leader leaped at Su Yu, who raised two fingers and began invoking the Purple Firmament Heavenly Thunder Art.

Su Yu killed three Shadow Guards with the Purple Firmament Heavenly Thunder Art and reunited with Lin Quan at the edge of the Black Demon Mountain Range. He returned to Tiannan Commandery City and found that the Mystic Realm section of Suppressing Prisons and Subduing Demons, Myriad Manifestations Prison-Suppressing Intent, had arrived.

• Su Yu killed the Shadow Guard leader with a focused bolt of purple-black lightning, then struck down the two fleeing guards with heavenly lightning.
• Lin Quan and his exhausted Demon Suppression Guards met Su Yu as he emerged from the mountains, and Lin Quan told him that Wang Du had destroyed Heavenly Slaughter Tower's headquarters and its Qing Province bases.
• Su Yu regretted losing the Slaughter Points he might have gained from the assassins, then agreed with Lin Quan to return to the commandery city.
• Su Yu reached Tiannan Commandery City and learned that Lu Cang had gone to Cang County to suppress water demons.
• Su Yu found that the Mystic Realm section of Suppressing Prisons and Subduing Demons, Myriad Manifestations Prison-Suppressing Intent, had arrived.

After receiving the Mystic Realm cultivation method from Cao Yue, Su Yu used Slaughter Points to raise his Qi refinement cultivation and cultivate Myriad Manifestations Prison-Suppressing Intent. He broke through to the Mystic Realm First Level, and his oppressive true intent forced a patrolling Demon Suppression Guard to his knees.

• Cao Yue gave Su Yu the dark jade slip containing the Mystic Realm volume, which Commandant Lu had instructed her to deliver.
• Su Yu entered a secluded chamber and spent 5,000 Slaughter Points to raise his Qi refinement cultivation to the Spirit Realm Ninth Level.
• Su Yu absorbed the Myriad Manifestations Prison-Suppressing Intent method and used Slaughter Points to extrapolate it.
• Su Yu refined his Demon-Suppressing Spiritual Qi into Prison-Suppressing True Intent and broke through to the Mystic Realm First Level.
• Su Yu's newly formed true intent overwhelmed a patrolling Spirit Realm Demon Suppression Guard, who fell to his knees.

Su Yu refined his newly formed prison-suppressing true intent and spent 90,000 slaughter points to advance it to major accomplishment, pushing his Qi-refining cultivation to Mystic Realm Second Stage. He left the secluded chamber as Cao Yue realized his presence had caused Old Zhang’s terror, and Su Yu’s gaze made the guard faint again.

• Su Yu withdrew the leaked prison-suppressing intent after it nearly broke Old Zhang’s soul, then examined his new embryonic domain and checked his cultivation panel.
• Su Yu spent 90,000 slaughter points to advance Myriad Manifestations Prison-Suppressing Intent to major accomplishment and broke through to Mystic Realm Second Stage.
• Cao Yue questioned Old Zhang, who described feeling trapped in hell and judged by an irresistible force that threatened to chain his soul.
• Cao Yue suspected Su Yu was behind the phenomenon and watched as he opened the secluded chamber door and stepped out.
• Su Yu’s gaze met Old Zhang’s, and the guard fainted from fright.

After all three paths reached the Mystic Realm, Su Yu accepted an urgent mission to reinforce Cang County and demonstrated that he could walk through the air. Cao Yue contacted Yang Kong as Su Yu raced toward the crisis, while Yang Kong received her transmission at the Qing Province headquarters.

• Su Yu’s new Prison-Suppressing True Intent nearly slipped out of control as he examined Cao Yue, and he decided to seek a battle to master his strength.
• A Shadow Guard reported that Cang County’s Demon Suppression Bureau had sent a highest-level distress signal that cut off after three breaths, requesting Mystic Realm reinforcements.
• Cao Yue prepared to contact Yang Kong, but Su Yu stopped her and said he would take the mission himself.
• Su Yu stepped into the air, then flew toward Cang County in a streak of purple-black lightning, stunning Cao Yue and the Shadow Guard.
• Cao Yue activated her crimson voice-transmission jade talisman, and Yang Kong received the signal in his meditation chamber at the Qing Province Demon Suppression Headquarters.