Chapter Summaries

Su Yu met Sun Xin in a mass graveyard, where she revealed that Sun Yao, the Blood Baleful Intent Hall, and the Demon God Cult planned to sacrifice the city’s one hundred thousand residents for their own ends. Sun Xin offered to guide Su Yu to the formation’s core in exchange for help escaping, but he warned her that being the city lord’s daughter might make escape impossible.

• Su Yu destroyed Sun Xin’s letter and arranged to meet her at the western mass graveyard.
• Sun Xin arrived in disguise, and Su Yu appeared behind her without being detected.
• Sun Xin identified herself as Sun Yao’s daughter and explained that the three factions planned to use the blood and resentment of the city’s residents to advance their goals.
• Sun Xin offered to take Su Yu into the City Lord’s Estate and reveal the formation’s weak points and guard passwords if he helped her escape during the chaos.
• Su Yu recognized the slaughter as a vast potential source of Slaughter Points and told Sun Xin that she might not be able to escape as the city lord’s daughter.

Su Yu forced Sun Xin to become his informant inside the city lord’s estate, tasking her with tracking the blood sacrifice plot while he prepared to grow stronger. He planned to let the sacrifice begin before striking, then left to investigate dangerous demon territories near the city.

• Su Yu convinced Sun Xin that her identity as Sun Yao’s daughter left her no path to survival unless she became his inside contact.
• Sun Xin agreed to monitor Sun Yao, the Blood Baleful Intent Hall, and the Demon God Cult and report their preparations for the blood sacrifice.
• Su Yu said he would wait until the grand formation activated before acting, intending to catch everyone in one net.
• Sun Xin told Su Yu about Black Mist Mountain, the Rotting Swamp, and the forbidden Blood Tears Mine as places where powerful demons gathered.
• Su Yu instructed Sun Xin to stay in contact for three days, then disappeared into the darkness of the mass grave.

Su Yu slaughtered the demons of Black Mist Mountain to gain Slaughter Points, then set his sights on a crocodile demon in the Rotting Swamp. Meanwhile, Sun Yao learned that the Blood Baleful Intent Hall planned to use him as the catalyst for a blood sacrifice summoning an evil spirit.

• Su Yu entered Black Mist Mountain and killed the Black Wind Tiger and its demonic beasts with his martial arts, earning 128,000 Slaughter Points.
• Su Yu collected the Black Wind Tiger's demon core and materials, then chose the thousand-year-old crocodile demon in the Rotting Swamp as his next target.
• Blood Cat told Sun Yao that the formation nodes were active and that Sun Jie would deliver a hundred virgin boys and girls for the final blood sacrifice.
• Blood Cat revealed that Sun Yao's bloodline made him the catalyst needed to activate the main formation node, and Sun Yao stopped turning his blood-jade walnuts.

Sun Yao agreed to sacrifice Sun Xin to the Blood Baleful Intent Hall in exchange for power, while demons in the Northern Nether Sea discussed the threat posed by Su Yu. The chapter ended as the chained being in the spatial rift opened its blood-red eyes.

• Blood Cat urged Sun Yao to sacrifice his daughter as the price of joining the Blood Baleful Intent Hall and unleashing the grand formation.
• Sun Yao rejected the idea of sacrificing Sun Jie, then agreed to send Sun Xin to the altar at midnight three days later.
• The demons on the bone island discussed the blood sacrifice in the City of Calamity and Chaos and watched a projection of Su Yu destroying Liu Qingyun and Bone-Eroding's remnant soul.
• The Bone-Eroding Demon General vowed to torture Su Yu when his true body descended.
• The chained being deep within the spatial rift opened its blood-red eyes.

Su Yu hunted demons in the Rotting Swamp until he drew out its Earth Realm First Level master, a thousand-year crocodile demon. His strongest saber strike barely marked its scales, and after the demon trapped him and launched a deadly sphere of energy, Su Yu was left facing imminent danger.

• Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan arrived at the City of Calamity and Chaos to investigate suspected collusion between the Blood Baleful Intent Hall and the city lord's estate.
• Su Yu killed demons in the Rotting Swamp and raised his Slaughter Points to 312,000.
• The thousand-year crocodile demon emerged and used the swamp's terrain to suppress Su Yu.
• Su Yu struck the demon's scales with his saber, but the blow left only a faint mark and its recoil injured his hand.
• The crocodile demon swept at Su Yu with its tail, then trapped him with its power and fired a dark-yellow sphere of energy.

Su Yu trapped the thousand-year-old crocodile demon with the Heavenly Prison Thunder Cage and wounded it with a powerful saber strike. Exhausted and unable to kill the Earth Realm demon, he fled into the marsh as its attack struck from behind.

• Su Yu combined the Prohibition Blood Formation and Great Annihilation Pagoda to slow the death orb, then imprisoned the crocodile demon in a Heavenly Prison Thunder Cage.
• Su Yu used the Blood Sha Mountains and Rivers Slash to cut deep into the crocodile demon's neck.
• The wounded crocodile demon shattered the lightning cage and locked its blood-red eyes on Su Yu as he fell, exhausted.
• Su Yu used Thunder Demon Shadow Trace Steps to flee into the marsh, and the crocodile demon fired a dark yellow pillar of light after him.
• The attack's gale hurled Su Yu away, making him spit blood before he disappeared into the miasma.

Su Yu escaped the Rotting Swamp after wounding the thousand-year-old crocodile demon, then used his slaughter points to advance Asura Blood Sha Slash. He gained the ultimate-realm killing move Asura One Slash just as his communication talisman began vibrating.

• The thousand-year-old crocodile demon abandoned its pursuit of Su Yu and sank into the mire to recover after sensing danger from the City of Calamity and Chaos.
• Su Yu landed a hundred li away, treated his injuries, and concluded that the earth realm was not invincible despite the immense gap in power.
• Su Yu decided to save his Pagoda Demonic Manifestation for a future killing strike and considered how to prepare for the Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation in three days.
• Su Yu spent 300,000 slaughter points to deduce Asura Blood Sha Slash to minute subtlety.
• Su Yu comprehended the ultimate-realm killing move Asura One Slash, and his communication talisman began vibrating.

After learning that the city lord's manor had captured Demon Suppression Bureau captains Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan, Su Yu returned to the City of Calamity and Chaos to take control of events before they disrupted his plans. Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan remained imprisoned, destined to be sacrificed in three days, as Su Yu reached the city and received another communication.

• Sun Xin told Su Yu that the city lord's manor had captured two people from the Demon Suppression Bureau, and Su Yu confirmed their identities with Cao Ping.
• Su Yu decided Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan could not die at anyone else's hands and returned to the City of Calamity and Chaos.
• Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan remained chained in the city lord's dungeon, where Wu Lin suspected a mole had revealed their route into the city.
• Sun Jie told Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan that they would be sacrificed in the central square at midnight three days later.
• Su Yu moved through the blood-soaked city toward the city lord's manor, then connected a communication talisman in a deserted alley.

After learning that two Demon Suppression Guards were being held for sacrifice, Su Yu planned to rescue them despite his severe injuries and the dungeon’s overwhelming defenses. He infiltrated the city lord’s residence, killed a guard during the shift change, and entered the squad in disguise, approaching the stairs to the dungeon.

• Sun Xin told Su Yu that two Demon Suppression Guards were imprisoned on the dungeon’s third level, badly wounded and scheduled to become sacrifices.
• Su Yu decided he had to rescue them himself and considered using the Rotting Swamp as a refuge afterward.
• Su Yu infiltrated the city lord’s residence and observed the guards protecting the dungeon entrance.
• During the guard change, Su Yu silently killed a young guard, took his armor, and joined the squad without being noticed.
• Su Yu followed the squad toward the dungeon stairs while the two guest retainers remained unaware of him.

Su Yu freed Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan from the city lord’s dungeon and fought off their guards with his saber and Purple Firmament Heavenly Thunder Art. As they escaped, Earth Realm Sun Yao awakened and unleashed a crushing Force upon them.

• Su Yu secretly broke the formations sealing Wu Lin’s and Hu Yuanyuan’s cultivation, but Guest Elder Li sensed the disturbance.
• Su Yu killed four city guards with one saber strike, cut open the prisoners’ cell doors, and gave them healing pills.
• Su Yu faced Guest Elders Li and Wang as the dungeon alarm sounded and Earth Realm Sun Yao awakened.
• Su Yu summoned purple lightning that overwhelmed the guards and distracted the two guest elders, then escaped the dungeon with Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan.
• A crushing Force descended on Su Yu and the others as they emerged from the dungeon.

Su Yu confronted Sun Yao to protect the injured Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan, using the Pagoda Demonic Manifestation to resist the Earth Realm expert. He exploited Sun Yao’s need to protect the formation beneath the residence and escaped into spatial turbulence, while Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan fled deeper into the Rotting Swamp.

• Sun Yao attacked Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan, but Su Yu blocked the strike and ordered them to run toward the Rotting Swamp.
• Su Yu used Asura Blood Sha Slash to stop Sun Yao from pursuing them, and Sun Yao sent residence experts after the fugitives.
• Sun Yao used the Earth Realm’s Borrowing Momentum Stage, but Su Yu summoned the Pagoda Demonic Manifestation and pushed back his momentum.
• Su Yu realized Sun Yao was holding back to protect the great formation beneath the residence and attacked repeatedly to keep him from pursuing Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan.
• Su Yu used the recoil from their clash to flee, then sacrificed the damaged manifestation to distract Sun Yao and escaped into spatial turbulence.

Sun Yao ordered the city sealed while Sun Xin helped Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan escape to the Rotting Swamp. Gravely injured after fighting Sun Yao, Su Yu reached them at the swamp’s edge, where Wu Lin recognized the possible connection between him and the explosion at the manor.

• Sun Yao mobilized the manor guards to search the city after the grand formation was damaged.
• Sun Xin led Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan through the backstreets and told them to hide in the Rotting Swamp.
• Blood Cat and Elder Deadwood discussed the unknown fighter who had clashed with Sun Yao and considered what his appearance meant for their plan.
• Su Yu treated his severe injuries, resolved to recover before the Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation activated, and headed for the Rotting Swamp.
• Su Yu reached Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan, and Wu Lin began to ask whether Su Yu had fought Sun Yao.

Su Yu hid in the swamp with Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan, recovered from his injuries, and raised his Spirit Refinement cultivation to the Mystic Realm Seventh Level. After Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan left to report the coming blood sacrifice and a traitor in Linhai Commandery, Su Yu prepared to return to the City of Calamity and Chaos.

• Su Yu showed Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan his Demon Suppression Bureau captain's token and led them to shelter in the swamp.
• Su Yu healed his physical wounds but found his mental power depleted and lacked enough Slaughter Points to advance his Spirit Refinement cultivation.
• Su Yu killed a twelve-man search squad sent by the city lord's manor and gained enough Slaughter Points to reach the Mystic Realm Seventh Level in Spirit Refinement.
• The next morning, Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan left to warn headquarters about the imminent blood sacrifice and a traitor within Linhai Commandery.
• With his injuries healed and his spirit restored, Su Yu turned toward the City of Calamity and Chaos.

Su Yu left the Rotting Swamp for Desolate Ridge to hunt demons and gather Slaughter Points before the Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation began. Meanwhile, Sun Yao inspected the formation with Blood Cat and Elder Deadwood and confirmed the plan to sacrifice the City of Calamity and Chaos’s hundred thousand residents in two days.

• Su Yu assessed his cultivation and concluded that raising his Qi and Spirit Refinement to Mystic Realm Ninth Level could let him truly fight an Earth Realm First Level opponent.
• With less than three days before the Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation and no worthwhile prey left in the Rotting Swamp, Su Yu concealed his presence and set off for Desolate Ridge.
• Blood Cat and Elder Deadwood confronted Sun Yao about the intruder who had escaped his manor, then insisted on inspecting the grand formation.
• Sun Yao stabilized a disrupted formation anchor, while Blood Cat and Elder Deadwood confirmed the formation was ready and its resentment had nearly reached the critical point.
• Sun Yao declared that in two days he would sacrifice the city’s hundred thousand residents to break through his talent’s limits, while Blood Cat and Elder Deadwood would receive what they wanted.

Su Yu hunted demons in Desolate Ridge while Sun Yao, Elder Deadwood, and Blood Cat decided he had to be eliminated before the Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation began. As Wang Xiankun investigated the planned sacrifice and ordered a lockdown, Elder Deadwood tracked Su Yu to Desolate Ridge, where a hostile presence finally locked onto him.

• Su Yu killed a Mystic Realm fourth-level Black-Armored Earth Dragon Beast with Thunder Demon Shadow and Divine Radiance Heart-Piercing Spike, then continued deeper into Desolate Ridge.
• Sun Yao learned his forces had lost Su Yu and a squad, and Blood Cat warned that Su Yu could disrupt the Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation; Elder Deadwood tracked him to Desolate Ridge with a gu insect and set out to kill him.
• Wu Lin and Hu Yuanyuan told Wang Xiankun that Sun Yao planned to sacrifice the City of Calamity and Chaos and that the Demon Suppression Bureau had a mole; Wang ordered them confined and sealed all intelligence about the city.
• After more than half a day of hunting, Su Yu killed a Mystic Realm seventh-level Three-Eyed Demon Wolf and raised his Slaughter Points to 482,000.
• A cold, malicious presence locked onto Su Yu, and he turned toward the direction he had come from.

Su Yu used Slaughter Points to advance Prison-Burning Star-Shattering Seal and his Spirit Refinement cultivation while hiding from the tracker. His improved perception revealed Elder Deadwood was tracking him and that strange insects were closing in on his hiding place.

• Su Yu evaded his unseen pursuer by sending an afterimage deeper into Desolate Ridge and hiding in a crevice.
• Su Yu spent 300,000 Slaughter Points to raise Prison-Burning Star-Shattering Seal to Minute Subtlety and comprehended Prison Fire Exploding Star.
• Su Yu spent 130,000 Slaughter Points to raise his Spirit Refinement cultivation from Mystic Realm seventh level to ninth level.
• Su Yu's heightened perception revealed that Elder Deadwood had attached a tracking thread to his soul and was guiding something toward him.
• Eyeless, human-faced insects surrounded the crevice, and one crawled onto Su Yu's boot.

Su Yu confronted Elder Deadwood, who tried to recruit him into the Demon God Cult before unleashing his Ten Thousand Poisons Soul-Devouring Gu. Su Yu emerged unharmed and destroyed much of the swarm, leaving Elder Deadwood terrified.

• Su Yu crushed Elder Deadwood's tracking Gu and drew the hidden Elder Deadwood out of hiding.
• Elder Deadwood denied being sent by Sun Yao and urged Su Yu to join the Holy Cult, which Su Yu recognized as the Demon God Cult.
• Su Yu rejected Elder Deadwood's offer and threatened to kill him.
• Elder Deadwood sent thousands of Ten Thousand Poisons Soul-Devouring Gu to engulf Su Yu.
• Su Yu's protective arts neutralized the poison and death Qi, and his surging Qi and blood burst apart over half the Gu swarm.
• Su Yu emerged unhurt and told Elder Deadwood that his insects did not seem very effective, while Elder Deadwood trembled in fear.

Su Yu overwhelmed Elder Deadwood’s poisons and physical attacks, then destroyed his body with the Pagoda Demonic Manifestation and Purple Firmament Heavenly Thunder Art. Elder Deadwood fled as a divine soul, but Su Yu summoned soul chains to catch him.

• Su Yu shrugged off Elder Deadwood’s Gu insects and broke his arm with a punch.
• Elder Deadwood’s Soul-Corroding Dagger failed to pierce Su Yu, so he used a talisman to flee into Desolate Ridge.
• Su Yu summoned his Pagoda Demonic Manifestation and Purple Firmament Heavenly Thunder to destroy Elder Deadwood’s body.
• Elder Deadwood escaped as a divine soul, but Su Yu cast Prison-Suppressing Soul Chain toward him.

Su Yu killed Elder Deadwood by crushing his divine soul with the Prison-Suppressing Platform, earning Slaughter Points and triggering a major system upgrade. The Demon God Cult discovered Deadwood’s death, and Vice Cult Leader Nie Wuya began to suspect Wang Du or his Demon-Suppressing Commanders.

• Su Yu ignored Elder Deadwood’s pleas and curses, then dragged his divine soul into his sea of consciousness and ground it into ownerless mental power with the Prison-Suppressing Platform.
• The system awarded Su Yu 100000 Slaughter Points for killing an Earth Realm expert and began a major upgrade expected to take twenty-four hours.
• A soul lamp representing Elder Deadwood shattered in the Demon God Cult’s Soul Hall, and the black-robed deacon sent word of the elder’s death to the leadership.
• Vice Cult Leader Nie Wuya sensed the news and wondered whether Wang Du or his Demon-Suppressing Commanders had killed Deadwood.

Nie Wuya responded to Kumu’s death by sending He Yuan to kill the unknown Mystic Realm cultivator and arranging a coastal demon uprising to distract Qing Province’s Demon Suppression Bureau. As the bureau’s forces rushed to defend the coast, He Yuan reached the area near Desolate Ridge and tracked the traces of the battle.

• Nie Wuya learned that an unknown Mystic Realm cultivator had killed Kumu in Desolate Ridge and ordered He Yuan to hunt the killer, offering Kumu’s soul essence and gu worms as a reward.
• Nie Wuya persuaded Jiao Wuye to attack towns and cities along the coasts of Linhai Commandery and Tiannan Commandery in exchange for the flesh, blood, and souls of the City of Calamity and Chaos’s inhabitants.
• Water demons surged ashore, prompting the Demon Suppression Bureau’s commanders across Qing Province to abandon their watch on the City of Calamity and Chaos and rush to the coastal battlefields.
• He Yuan arrived near Desolate Ridge, used a compass to locate the area, and sensed Kumu’s death Qi and the cultivator’s lingering power.