Recaps

Yang Kong learned that Su Yu had reached the Mystic Realm in all three paths and received orders from Wang Du to transfer him to Qing Province Headquarters after the Cang County crisis. In Poison Miasma Valley, Liu Ming trapped Lu Cang in a blood formation and intensified the assault to drain his strength.

• Cao Yue told Yang Kong that Lu Cang's distress signal had cut off and that Su Yu had gone alone to Cang County.
• Yang Kong learned that Su Yu had reached the Mystic Realm in Qi refinement, body refinement, and spirit refinement.
• Yang Kong reported Su Yu's talent and the Cang County crisis to Wang Du, who ordered him to save Lu Cang and transfer Su Yu directly to Qing Province Headquarters.
• Liu Ming revealed that he had lured Lu Cang out with a fake distress signal and planned to use his blood Qi to reach the true earth realm.
• Liu Ming ordered his protectors to strengthen the Blood-Transforming Divine Slaughter Formation as blood-colored chains closed in on Lu Cang.

Su Yu arrived at Cang County and used the Purple Firmament Heavenly Thunder Art to destroy nearly the entire water-demon army, saving the besieged commandants. He captured the surviving shrimp demon and demanded to know where Elder Liu Ming was.

• Commandant Hu and Commandant Shen struggled to hold off the water demons while waiting for Lu Cang, and the shrimp demon revealed the attack was a diversion to help Elder Liu Ming ambush Lu Cang.
• The shrimp demon ordered the demons to kill the exhausted commandants, but Su Yu appeared above the battlefield and unleashed a storm of purple-black lightning.
• Su Yu's lightning erased hundreds of water demons in three breaths, leaving only the shrimp demon alive.
• Commandant Shen recognized Su Yu, the young commandant who had joined the Demon Suppression Bureau just over a month earlier.
• Su Yu pinned the shrimp demon to the ground with his foot and asked where Elder Liu Ming was.

Su Yu forced a Mystic Realm Eighth Level shrimp demon to reveal that Liu Ming was using a formation in Poison Miasma Valley to refine Lu Cang’s cultivation and blood Qi, then killed it and raced to intervene. Commandant Shen and Commandant Hu led the battered Demon Suppression Guards after him while ordering a reinforcement signal sent.

• Su Yu used his prison-suppressing will to make the shrimp demon reveal that Liu Ming had set up the Blood-Transforming Divine Slaughter Formation in Poison Miasma Valley to refine Lu Cang and break through to the Earth Realm.
• Su Yu crushed the Mystic Realm Eighth Level shrimp demon with the Eight Desolations Demon-Suppressing Hand and received 40,000 Slaughter Points.
• Su Yu raced east toward Poison Miasma Valley without giving Commandant Hu or Commandant Shen instructions.
• Commandant Shen resolved to rescue Lu Cang, and Commandant Hu ordered the least injured guard to send an urgent reinforcement signal to the commandery city.
• Commandant Hu, Commandant Shen, and the Demon Suppression Guards who could still move set out after Su Yu.

Yang Kong raced to save Lu Cang but was intercepted by the Demon God Cult’s Earth Realm elder, He Yuan, and forced into battle. At Poison Miasma Valley, Su Yu discovered that Liu Ming’s formation was draining Lu Cang to fuel Liu Ming’s breakthrough.

• Yang Kong rushed toward Cang County after receiving Cao Yue’s warning that Lu Cang had lost contact.
• He Yuan appeared in Yang Kong’s path and blocked him from reaching Cang County.
• Yang Kong attacked He Yuan with a powerful sword strike, but she dissolved it with her scarlet power and held him back.
• Su Yu watched Poison Miasma Valley from the forest and sensed Lu Cang weakening inside the Blood-Transforming Divine Slaughter Formation.
• Su Yu realized the formation linked more than a dozen Mystic Realm guardians to a resentful earth-vein node and channeled Lu Cang’s vitality into Liu Ming.

Su Yu infiltrated the Blood-Transforming Divine Slaughter Formation and began killing its protectors to stop it from killing Lu Cang. After eliminating several guards, he faced Liu Ming’s two strongest protectors as they attacked him from both sides.

• Su Yu killed a Demon God Cult protector and learned that every formation core had to be eliminated before the formation could be safely broken.
• Su Yu killed two more protectors, destroying one with Purple Firmament and killing the other with Prison-Suppressing True Intent.
• Su Yu advanced through the poisonous miasma while Liu Ming noticed the formation’s power nodes going dark.
• Liu Ming sent Blood Eagle and Bone Baleful Intent, both Mystic Realm Seventh Level Peak protectors, to kill Su Yu.
• Blood Eagle attacked Su Yu with two wolf-shaped punches as Bone Baleful Intent brought his ghastly white saber down on him.

Su Yu killed Blood Slaughter with a punch and crushed Bone Baleful Intent’s soul with a glance, revealing his mastery of both body and spirit refinement. When Liu Ming summoned a nearly limitless blood demon, Su Yu perfected the Purple Firmament Heavenly Thunder Art and called down overwhelming thunderclouds, leaving the demon pinned beneath his heavenly might.

• Su Yu killed Blood Slaughter with a single punch, then destroyed Bone Baleful Intent’s soul with prison-suppressing true intent.
• Lu Cang and Liu Ming realized Su Yu had reached the Mystic Realm in both body and spirit refinement.
• Liu Ming activated the Blood-Transforming Divine Slaughter Formation, forming a hundred-foot blood demon with power comparable to the Mystic Realm ninth-level peak.
• Su Yu’s lightning strike damaged the demon, but the formation restored it, so he spent 120,000 Slaughter Points to perfect the Purple Firmament Heavenly Thunder Art.
• Su Yu summoned vast purple-gold thunderclouds that forced the blood demon to its knees and left Liu Ming terrified.
• Su Yu turned his palm downward and declared, “By decree,” as the thunderclouds burst open.

Su Yu unleashed a river of purple-gold lightning that erased the blood demon and destroyed the Blood-Transforming Divine Slaughter Formation in Poison Miasma Valley. As the lightning faded, Liu Ming launched a Divine Soul Blood Curse at Su Yu, leaving the blood thread inches from his brow.

• Su Yu's lightning purified the blood demon, shattered the Blood-Transforming Divine Slaughter Formation, and killed the Demon God Cult protectors anchoring it.
• Liu Ming and Lu Cang realized the overwhelming scale of Su Yu's power, while Commandant Hu, Commandant Shen, and the others watched in stunned disbelief from outside the valley.
• After the lightning dispersed, Su Yu descended and looked at the defeated Liu Ming.
• Liu Ming used the Forbidden Art: Blood God Scripture: Divine Soul Blood Curse, sending a thread of blood toward the spot between Su Yu's brows.
• Lu Cang stopped in horror as the blood thread appeared less than half an inch from Su Yu.

Su Yu erased Liu Ming’s Divine Soul Blood Curse and killed him, then pursued and slaughtered the surviving Demon God Cult members in the valley. Lu Cang and the other Demon Suppression Bureau officers watched as Su Yu’s strength and the scale of the victory became clear.

• Liu Ming unleashed his Divine Soul Blood Curse, but Su Yu’s Prison-Suppressing Intent and Purple-Gold Prison-Suppressing Platform bound and destroyed it.
• Su Yu crushed Liu Ming with the Eight Desolations Demon-Suppressing Hand, earning 50,000 Slaughter Points.
• Lu Cang and the distant commandants watched in shock as Su Yu stood unharmed and Liu Ming lay dead.
• The surviving Demon God Cult members fled, and Su Yu chased them down with lightning, martial arts, and his demon-suppressing hand.
• Lu Cang celebrated the victory and thought Su Yu could help the Demon Suppression Bureau dominate the demons for the next hundred years.

Yang Kong returned to Poison Miasma Valley expecting disaster, but found Su Yu had destroyed the Demon God Cult stronghold and saved Lu Cang. After witnessing Su Yu erase Liu Ming’s lingering soul curse, Yang Kong recognized him as a rare prodigy whose talent surpassed what Tiannan Commandery could contain.

• Yang Kong reached Poison Miasma Valley and found Lu Cang alive, the valley scorched, and the Demon God Cult’s forces defeated.
• Su Yu killed the last standing protector and confirmed that no Demon God Cult member remained alive.
• Su Yu used Prison-Suppressing True Intent and the Purple-Gold Prison-Suppressing Platform to erase Liu Ming’s hidden soul-curse brand.
• Lu Cang, Commandant Hu, Commandant Shen, and the others rose and saluted Yang Kong.
• Yang Kong questioned Su Yu about the soul curse, then realized Su Yu had reached the Mystic Realm in all three paths.
• Yang Kong concluded that Su Yu was a true dragon and that Tiannan Commandery could not contain him.

After the battle in Poison Miasma Valley, Su Yu received orders to report to Qing Province Headquarters and set out at once. On the journey, he spent 300,000 Slaughter Points developing Myriad Manifestations Prison-Suppressing Intent to minute mastery, transforming his Prison-Suppressing Platform and strengthening his True Qi.

• Yang Kong ordered Lu Cang to clear the battlefield, tally casualties, and report everything to headquarters.
• Yang Kong told Su Yu that the Demon Suppression Envoy had ordered him to report immediately to Qing Province Headquarters, and Su Yu accepted.
• Yang Kong gave Su Yu a jade token and directed him to find a Shadow Guard named Lone Wolf, warning him to keep a low profile in Qing Province.
• Su Yu left Poison Miasma Valley on a scaled horse, carrying 339,000 Slaughter Points toward Qing Province Headquarters.
• Su Yu spent 300,000 Slaughter Points developing Myriad Manifestations Prison-Suppressing Intent to minute mastery, solidifying the Purple-Gold Prison-Suppressing Platform and transforming his True Qi.

Su Yu advanced toward the Qing Province Headquarters and killed Blood Baleful Intent Hall attackers who were threatening Lin Ruo. He took her Blood-Colored Secret Realm token and continued toward Qing Province.

• Su Yu's Myriad Manifestations Prison-Suppressing Intent reached the Minute Subtlety Realm, awakening the Great Annihilation Pagoda, and his Qi Refinement cultivation rose to Mystic Realm Third Level.
• Residual power from Su Yu's advancing technique killed his horse, so he ran toward Qing Province using Thunder Demon Shadow Trace Steps.
• In a thread-of-sky gorge, Su Yu found Blood Baleful Intent Hall martial artists attacking Lin Ruo and crushed them with the Prohibition Blood Formation.
• Lin Ruo offered Su Yu a token for entering the Blood-Colored Secret Realm, and he took the box after learning she belonged to the Qing Province Lin Clan.
• Su Yu left the gorge for Qing Province while Lin Ruo remained among the attackers' corpses.

Su Yu entered Qing Province City under the protection of Shadow Guard Lone Wolf, who revealed that the Demon Suppression Envoy had secured him a place in the Blood-Colored Secret Realm. Su Yu reached the gathering at the blood-colored mountains, where the other entrants noticed him and a young man identified him as the one who had taken Wang Chong’s place.

• Su Yu presented his identification at Qing Province City’s gate, where Lone Wolf arrived and escorted him past the guards.
• Lone Wolf took Su Yu outside the city and told him the Demon Suppression Envoy had obtained him a place in the Blood-Colored Secret Realm, warning that both demons and humans might try to kill him.
• Lone Wolf gave Su Yu a blood-colored entry token and warned him not to trust anyone inside the secret realm.
• Su Yu headed for the blood-colored mountains, eager for the Slaughter Points he could gain from those who wanted to kill him.
• Su Yu arrived among more than a hundred Mystic Realm cultivators, and a young man in black robes pointed him out as the one who had taken Wang Chong’s place.

Su Yu killed Chen Hu with one punch after Chen Hao’s guard attacked him, shocking the gathered elites. When the Blood-Colored Secret Realm opened, Chen Hao threatened Su Yu and rushed toward it, and Su Yu followed after the others entered.

• Chen Hao ordered Chen Hu to attack Su Yu, but Su Yu stood firm under Chen Hu’s pressure.
• Su Yu killed Chen Hu with the Vajra Star-Shattering Seal, earning 35,000 Slaughter Points and stunning the crowd.
• Chen Hao ordered his guards to cripple Su Yu, but they were too frightened to move.
• The Blood-Colored Secret Realm opened, drawing the crowd toward its entrance.
• Chen Hao threatened to kill Su Yu inside the secret realm and led his guards away; Su Yu followed after most of the others had entered.

Su Yu followed the other martial artists into the Blood-Colored Secret Realm after killing Chen Hu. Outside, onlookers discussed the four great prodigies expected to compete for the Blood-Veined Fruit and assumed Chen Hao would kill Su Yu; the realm then sealed for three days.

• Su Yu entered the Blood-Colored Secret Realm after most of the others had gone inside.
• Chief Qian and the guards discussed Su Yu's killing of Chen Hu, and Chief Qian predicted Chen Hao would target him.
• A rogue cultivator named Chen Hao, Huikong, Li Xi, and Zhao Chengkong as Qing Province's four great prodigies.
• The onlookers dismissed Su Yu as an easy target for Chen Hao and expected him to serve as a stepping stone.
• The Blood-Colored Secret Realm's vortex vanished, sealing the entrants inside for three days.

Su Yu entered the blood-soaked secret realm and discovered that he could absorb the slaughtering essence left by slain demons, turning them into a source of rapid cultivation. After Li Xi noticed evidence of his strength, Su Yu confronted a pack of Blood-Claw Apes and began to unleash his power.

• Su Yu killed a Mystic Realm Sixth Level Blood-Claw Ape with one punch and absorbed the blood-colored crystal formed from its remains, finding that its power loosened his cultivation bottleneck.
• Li Xi and two Azure Sword Manor disciples killed a Mystic Realm Seventh Level Earth-Walking Blood Lizard and cautioned against touching its crystal core recklessly.
• Li Xi discovered a Blood-Claw Ape corpse with a single fist wound and no crystal core, and suspected a powerful Body Refinement expert had absorbed its essence.
• Su Yu spotted seven Blood-Claw Apes in a basin, including a Mystic Realm Seventh Level Peak ape king, and dropped toward them.
• As six Blood-Claw Apes rushed to attack, Su Yu spread his hand over the basin and commanded, "Descend."

Su Yu killed the Blood-Claw Apes and three assassins sent by Duke Chen's Residence, then used his gains to advance his cultivation and headed toward the Blood-Veined Fruit. Chen Hao learned the Three Blood Shadow Fiends had died and planned to use the coming struggle over the fruit, along with a Thunderstorm Pearl, to kill Su Yu.

• Su Yu crushed the ape king and six Blood-Claw Apes with the Eight Desolations Demon-Suppressing Hand, absorbed their crystal cores, and advanced to Mystic Realm Fourth Level.
• Duke Chen revealed that he had sent the Three Blood Shadow Fiends to kill Su Yu, while protecting Chen Hao with an earth-grade secret treasure.
• The Three Blood Shadow Fiends ambushed Su Yu, but his Great Annihilation Pagoda broke their martial wills and his Purple Mansion Divine Radiance Heart-Piercing Spike killed them.
• Su Yu found a token bearing the character Chen, gained over a hundred thousand Slaughter Points, advanced his Body-Tempering cultivation to Mystic Realm Seventh Level, and raced toward the secret realm's depths.
• Chen Hao learned the Three Blood Shadow Fiends had died and planned to wait for Su Yu and the other contenders to be weakened before using his Thunderstorm Pearl.

Su Yu raced toward the Blood-Veined Fruit as Huikong reached it first and killed the four demons guarding the crater. Li Xi, Zhao Chengkong, and Chen Hao also hurried toward the site, and Su Yu arrived just as Huikong was about to take the fruit.

• Su Yu used Thunder Demon Shadow Trace Steps to race toward the Blood-Veined Fruit, anticipating a fight with the secret realm’s strongest combatants.
• Huikong reached the crater, killed the four Mystic Realm Ninth Level Peak demons guarding the fruit, and prepared to claim it.
• Li Xi hurried toward the crater, determined to stop Huikong from obtaining the fruit.
• Zhao Chengkong rode a half-step Earth Realm black panther toward the crater, while Chen Hao followed with guards and a Thunderstorm Pearl.
• Huikong reached for the Blood-Veined Fruit, but a streak of purple-black lightning cut through the air above the crater.

Su Yu crushed the Blood-Veined Fruit to absorb its blood vitality, then challenged the gathered prodigies to attack him together. As Huikong prepared to fight again, Su Yu used the fruit’s power to form Pagoda Mystic Iron Armor.

• Su Yu struck Huikong with Vajra Star-Shattering Seal, broke his arm bones, and knocked him into a deep pit.
• Li Xi, Zhao Chengkong, and Chen Hao arrived and saw Su Yu standing beside the Blood-Veined Fruit.
• Su Yu plucked and crushed the Blood-Veined Fruit, absorbing its blood vitality before daring everyone to attack him together.
• Huikong climbed out of the pit and vowed to punish Su Yu, while Li Xi held back, Zhao Chengkong watched, and Chen Hao concealed his suspicions.
• Su Yu fused Mystic Iron Pagoda Baleful Intent under the fruit’s power and formed Pagoda Mystic Iron Armor.

Su Yu used the Blood-Veined Fruit’s power to defeat Huikong with his physical strength alone, breaking through to Body-Tempering Mystic Realm Eighth Level. After Su Yu challenged him, Chen Hao fled with the Thunderstorm Pearl, while Su Yu chose to wait before pursuing him.

• Su Yu stopped circulating True Qi and let Huikong’s attacks strike his Pagoda Mystic Iron Armor, then knocked Huikong back with a punch.
• Huikong unleashed his Acala Dharma seal, but Su Yu shattered it with a single punch and left Huikong motionless in the rubble.
• The Blood-Veined Fruit’s potency finished tempering Su Yu’s bones, advancing him to Body-Tempering Mystic Realm Eighth Level.
• Su Yu pointed at Chen Hao and told him he was next, but Chen Hao fled with the Thunderstorm Pearl and his guards followed.
• Su Yu let Chen Hao escape, deciding to wait until his enemies scattered before hunting them one by one.

Su Yu defeated the crater's human challengers, absorbed the blood Qi from four demons, and awakened the true guardian beneath the magma: a Blood Demon Octopus at Half-Step Earth Realm. The octopus targeted Su Yu as a source of blood Qi that could help it break through to the Earth Realm.

• Zhao Chengkong withdrew with his black panther, and Li Xi sheathed her sword and stepped aside rather than challenge Su Yu.
• Su Yu left Huikong alive, absorbed the blood fiend crystal cores from four demons, and stabilized his Body-Tempering Mystic Realm Eighth Level cultivation.
• The magma beneath the crater churned and erupted, sending a crimson tentacle at Su Yu.
• Su Yu struck the tentacle with his Vajra Star-Shattering Seal, shattering its scales and drawing the Blood Demon Octopus out of the magma.
• Li Xi recognized the octopus's Half-Step Earth Realm strength but stayed concealed to watch Su Yu.
• The Blood Demon Octopus spoke, fixed its eye on Su Yu, and decided to devour his rich blood Qi to reach the Earth Realm.

Su Yu killed the half-step Earth Realm Blood Demon Octopus in the volcanic crater and claimed its crystal core and Slaughter Points. As he prepared to absorb the core, a masked attacker emerged from the forest and launched a deadly strike at Li Xi.

• Su Yu charged the Blood Demon Octopus and punched through two of its tentacles.
• Su Yu pierced the demon’s lone eye with the Purple Mansion Divine Radiance Heart-Piercing Spike, then wounded its head with Blood Sha Burst.
• The Blood Demon Octopus unleashed hundreds of fire dragons, but Su Yu destroyed them and killed it with Sha Lightning Destroys the World.
• Su Yu collected the demon’s crystal core and received 100000 Slaughter Points.
• A sword-wielding attacker wearing a savage wolf mask struck at Li Xi from behind, and Su Yu spotted him.

After Lone Wolf warned Li Xi that Duke Chen's Residence posed a serious threat in the secret realm, Su Yu used his Slaughter Points to raise his Spirit Refinement cultivation and learn a new soul-binding technique. He reached the Mystic Realm fifth level and began upgrading the Purple Firmament Heavenly Thunder Art.

• Lone Wolf appeared behind Li Xi, tested her reflexes, and warned her that four Blood-Veined Fruits were tied to half-step Earth Realm guardian demons and that Chen Hao was the real threat.
• Lone Wolf suspected Duke Chen's Residence had ulterior motives for offering entry slots, then left with Li Xi.
• Su Yu examined his 519000 Slaughter Points and spent 100000 to upgrade the Purple-Gold Prison-Suppressing Scripture.
• The upgrade raised Su Yu's Spirit Refinement cultivation from Mystic Realm third level to fifth level and taught him the Prison-Suppressing Soul Chain.
• Su Yu formed the purple-gold spiritual chain and began adding points to the Purple Firmament Heavenly Thunder Art.

Su Yu advanced his Purple Firmament Heavenly Thunder Art, absorbed a Blood Baleful Intent Crystal Core, and prepared to seek more targets in the secret realm. Chen Hao failed to recruit Huikong or Zhao Chengkong to help kill Su Yu, then summoned another helper by crushing a black jade talisman.

• Su Yu spent 100,000 Slaughter Points to advance his Purple Firmament Heavenly Thunder Art and comprehended Heavenly Prison Thunder Cage.
• Su Yu absorbed the Blood Baleful Intent Crystal Core and broke through the bottleneck of the eighth level of the Body-Tempering Mystic Realm.
• Chen Hao asked the wounded Huikong to join forces against Su Yu, but Huikong refused and said Su Yu had held back when he struck him.
• Chen Hao tried to recruit Zhao Chengkong, who refused to join him and left with his black panther.
• Left isolated, Chen Hao crushed an ink-black jade talisman to call on another helper.

Chen Hao shattered a black jade talisman and became host to a chaotic demonic power, then rushed to confront Su Yu for the final Blood-Veined Fruit. On the cliff, a towering shadow emerged from Chen Hao, devoured his guard, and demanded Su Yu's body.

• Chen Hao broke the black jade talisman, and its black Qi invaded his meridians, leaving him with red eyes and a voice that spoke alongside an ancient presence.
• Over two days, an unknown Demon Suppression Guard defeated Huikong and swiftly killed a half-step Earth Realm Netherworld Giant Python to claim the second Blood-Veined Fruit, frightening Zhao Chengkong and Li Xi into avoiding him.
• When the final Blood-Veined Fruit appeared, Chen Hao ignored his guard's warnings and hurried toward it, driven by the power inside him.
• Su Yu reached the cliff and waited near the fruit, guarded by a three-headed demon eagle, as Chen Hao emerged from the forest to challenge him.
• Chen Hao summoned a towering shadow that killed the demon eagle and drained his guard to a corpse before targeting Su Yu and demanding his body.

Su Yu captured the demonic soul possessing Chen Hao with the Prison-Suppressing Soul Chain and sealed it inside a Heavenly Prison Thunder Cage. He began to interrogate the Demon God Cult soul, which was consumed by purple-gold radiance.

• The demonic soul offered to spare Su Yu if he surrendered his body, while Chen Hao watched with a crazed smile.
• Su Yu used the Prison-Suppressing Soul Chain to drag the demonic soul out of Chen Hao, leaving Chen Hao unconscious.
• Su Yu summoned a Heavenly Prison Thunder Cage that trapped Chen Hao and the demonic soul.
• Su Yu seized the demonic soul and began questioning it about the Demon God Cult.
• The demonic soul cried out as purple-gold radiance ignited its soul body.