Recaps

Su Yu strengthened his body-refining cultivation, killed Gu Li and the fox yao who invaded the Demonic Mist Forest, and acquired rare treasures at the Tiannan Auction. The arc ended with Lu Cang promoting him to demon-suppression captain and preparing to present his new uniform and saber.

• Su Yu exchanged his breakthrough pills for merit, selected Mystic Iron True Body, and fused it with Vajra Pagoda Baleful Intent to create Mystic Iron Pagoda Baleful Intent.
• Su Yu accepted the mission to investigate the Demonic Mist Forest and killed Gu Li after resisting her attacks, then returned with her core and earned the merit to buy the Earth Sha Black Iron Heart.
• Su Yu used the Earth Sha Black Iron Heart to reach the Body-Tempering Mystic Realm Second Stage before Lu Cang sent him back to the forest with Lin Quan, Li Tie, and elite guards.
• Su Yu defeated Gu Rui and the scholar fox demon, helped drive off the old woman, and joined the guards in killing the remaining fox yao.
• At the Tiannan Auction, Su Yu won hundred-year cold marrow and the incomplete Purple Firmament Heavenly Thunder Invocation, then Shen Tao stopped Shen Lingyun from robbing him and compensated him with spirit stones.
• Su Yu used the cold marrow and Slaughter Points to perfect Mystic Iron Pagoda Baleful Intent, reach Mystic Realm Fourth Level, and awaken Pagoda Mystic Iron Armor.
• Lu Cang promoted Su Yu to demon-suppression captain despite objections from other captains and ordered his Mystic Tiger Robes and Soul-Severing Saber brought to the assembly hall.

Su Yu led the rescue of Nanhe County, destroyed Liu Qingyun and the Bone-Eroding Demon General, then survived an assassination attempt and hunted down Butcher. He entered the Black Demon Mountain Range, where a wounded fox demon and an Earth-Splitting Devil Bear pursued the Mystic Yang Dragon Heart Fruits.

• Su Yu led the Demon Suppression Guards to Nanhe County, broke through the gate, and killed Liu Qingyun, the Bone-Eroding Demon General, Zhang Qiang, and the cult forces threatening the county.
• Su Yu rescued Lin Xiao, Tang Shan, and the surviving guards, then found evidence that the Mystic Sword Sect had supplied Liu Qingyun with intelligence about him.
• Su Yu learned that Chu He had hired the Heavenly Slaughter Tower to kill him, then defeated Elder White Fox with Sha Lightning Destroys the World, though part of her soul escaped.
• Su Yu entered the Black Demon Mountain Range alone and exposed Butcher, who confessed that Chu He had paid for Su Yu’s assassination before Su Yu killed him.
• Su Yu learned Thunder Demon Shadow Trace Steps by fusing techniques from Butcher’s storage ring and raised the new movement art to minor accomplishment.
• Xu Lei ordered Ghost Shadow and Soundless to assassinate Su Yu after Butcher’s death, while Su Yu found three Mystic Yang Dragon Heart Fruits in a secluded valley.
• Su Yu seized one fruit as the Earth-Splitting Devil Bear attacked, then shattered its right paw and left knee with successive punches.

Su Yu killed the assassins hunting him, entered Soul Severing Valley, and destroyed the Earth Realm demon hidden beneath it. After gaining new cultivation and techniques, he left Tiannan Commandery to answer Cang County’s distress signal.

• Su Yu killed Ghost Shadow and Soundless, then recovered and pursued the Nether Shadow Spirit-Eroding Art in Soul Severing Valley.
• Su Yu entered the underground ruins ahead of the Mystic Sword Sect elders and found the Earth Realm demon fed by a blood-extraction formation.
• Su Yu joined forces with the elders, destroyed the demon and its black heart, then killed the elders and claimed the Nether Shadow Spirit-Eroding Art.
• Su Yu fused the art with the Purple Mansion Spirit-Nurturing Art to create the Purple Mansion Prison-Suppressing Scripture, then advanced his spirit-refining cultivation.
• Su Yu completed and fused lightning techniques into the Purple Firmament Heavenly Thunder Art, escaped the collapsing ruins, and killed three Mystic Sword Sect shadow guards.
• Su Yu returned to Tiannan Commandery, learned that Lu Cang was in Cang County, and advanced his Qi refinement into the Mystic Realm using Myriad Manifestations Prison-Suppressing Intent.
• After a distress signal came from Cang County, Su Yu stopped Cao Yue from contacting Yang Kong and flew there himself in purple-black lightning.

Su Yu saved Lu Cang from Liu Ming’s formation and was summoned to Qing Province, where he entered the Blood-Colored Secret Realm. He claimed its treasures and fought its strongest challengers, ending with a demonic soul trapped in his thunder cage and under interrogation.

• Yang Kong sent Su Yu to rescue Lu Cang, and Su Yu destroyed Liu Ming’s formation and killed him before erasing the soul-curse brand Liu Ming had left behind.
• Yang Kong ordered Su Yu to report to Qing Province Headquarters, where Su Yu met Lone Wolf and received a token to enter the Blood-Colored Secret Realm.
• Su Yu killed Chen Hu before entering the secret realm, then absorbed blood-colored crystals from demons and advanced his cultivation as Chen Hao plotted against him.
• Su Yu killed the Three Blood Shadow Fiends and raced toward the Blood-Veined Fruit, arriving as Huikong tried to claim it.
• Su Yu defeated Huikong, absorbed the Blood-Veined Fruit, and fought off the Blood Demon Octopus before improving his techniques with Slaughter Points.
• Chen Hao failed to recruit Huikong or Zhao Chengkong and used an ink-black jade talisman to summon a demonic presence that took hold of him.
• When Chen Hao challenged Su Yu for the final Blood-Veined Fruit, the demonic soul killed the guardian eagle and drained Chen Hao’s guard.
• Su Yu used his Prison-Suppressing Soul Chain to pull the demonic soul out of Chen Hao, trapped them both in a Heavenly Prison Thunder Cage, and began questioning the soul about the Demon God Cult.