Chapter Summaries

Su Yu accompanied Zhao Chengkong back to Heavenly Evolution Mountain Manor after an ominous summons, while the Blood Baleful Intent Hall told Chen Xiaotian that Su Yu was heading there. The chapter left Chen Xiaotian intrigued by the chance to exploit the manor’s internal conflict against Su Yu.

• Zhao Chengkong told Su Yu that Heavenly Evolution Mountain Manor had urgently summoned him with a vague manor lord-grade red talisman, and Su Yu agreed to accompany him.
• Su Yu and Zhao Chengkong rode Crimson-Maned Beasts toward the manor, and Zhao Chengkong warned Su Yu to conceal his Demon Suppression Bureau identity while explaining the manor’s factions and leaders.
• A blood-robed messenger told Chen Xiaotian that Tu Jiu and the three guardians had been killed and delivered a jade slip containing information about Su Yu’s vulnerabilities.
• The messenger revealed that Su Yu was traveling to Heavenly Evolution Mountain Manor, and Chen Xiaotian examined the jade slip and praised the plan.

Zhao Chengyu and Zhao Nan faced pressure from Zhao Chengxiong’s Soul Fusion faction, which planned to force a change in Heavenly Evolution Mountain Manor’s cultivation path. Zhao Chengkong and Su Yu arrived at the manor to find its defenses unusually heavy.

• Zhao Chengxiong cornered Zhao Chengyu, demanded to know when Zhao Chengkong would return, and used Zhao Nan as leverage.
• Zhao Chengyu tried to stop Zhao Chengxiong’s Soul Lodging Palm with a Soul-Binding Cord, but the attack broke through and badly injured him.
• Zhao Chengxiong told Zhao Chengyu that the elders would vote in three days to adopt the Soul Fusion Technique and seal the Soul Control methods, then left with his disciples.
• Zhao Nan told Zhao Chengyu that the communication array might be blocked, while Zhao Chengyu suspected the eldest elder was seizing power and their father had been prevented from responding.
• Zhao Chengkong and Su Yu reached the northern foot of the Jade Screen Mountain Range and spotted three times the usual number of patrols around Heavenly Evolution Mountain Manor.
• Zhao Chengkong recognized that the situation was worse than he had expected, and Su Yu urged them to proceed.

Zhao Chengkong returned to Heavenly Evolution Mountain Manor and learned that the grand elder had taken control while his father remained unseen and his siblings were attacked. After finding Zhao Chengyu gravely wounded, Zhao Chengkong faced Su Yu’s question about whether his father had truly been imprisoned or had chosen to stay hidden.

• Zhao Chengkong and Su Yu entered the manor and found its gates unattended and its grounds watched by black-armored guards.
• Zhao Ming told Zhao Chengkong that the grand elder had sealed the main hall, seized the communication array, and planned to abolish the Soul Control Faction’s techniques.
• Zhao Ming reported that Zhao Chengxiong had injured Zhao Chengyu and slapped Zhao Nan, prompting Zhao Chengkong to crack a stone railing with his grip.
• Su Yu learned that several Soul Fusion Faction disciples were showing signs of dangerous Yao transformation.
• Zhao Chengkong found Zhao Chengyu suffering from a corrosive wound and heard Su Yu warn that he could be crippled within three days without treatment.
• Su Yu asked Zhao Chengkong whether his father had really been imprisoned or had chosen not to come out.

Zhao Chengkong realized the manor lord might be attempting a breakthrough while First Elder Zhao Y ehan maneuvered to seize control, and Su Yu healed Zhao Chengyu's wound. Zhao Chengxiong then confronted Zhao Chengkong over the succession and unleashed the Soul Lodging Palm, leaving both sides poised to fight.

• Zhao Chengyu recalled that the manor lord had told him to compile young disciples' cultivation records and stay away from the rear mountain, leading Zhao Chengkong to suspect a breakthrough was underway.
• Su Yu purified the Yao Qi in Zhao Chengyu's wound and told him to rest for two days.
• Zhao Chengxiong entered the courtyard with six followers and taunted Zhao Chengkong about the elders' council and the young manor lord position.
• Zhao Chengkong criticized Zhao Chengxiong's Soul Fusion Technique, and Zhao Chengxiong replied that strength mattered more than looking human.
• Zhao Chengxiong unleashed the Soul Lodging Palm as Zhao Chengkong prepared to counter with three soul-controlling threads.

Zhao Chengkong returned to Heavenly Evolution Mountain Manor and used his Soul Control Technique to subdue Zhao Chengxiong’s six attackers, then confronted Zhao Chengxiong’s three-soul attack. His needle-thin thread pierced the yao faces on Zhao Chengxiong’s fist, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Zhao Chengkong invoked his authority as young manor lord, but Zhao Chengxiong ordered six disciples to attack him.
• Zhao Chengkong controlled all six attackers with Soul-Binding Cords in less than two breaths.
• Su Yu noticed the fused yao souls resisting Zhao Chengkong’s control, while Zhao Chengnan felt reassured by her eldest brother’s return.
• Zhao Chengxiong revealed his pseudo half-step Earth realm strength, amplified by at least three fused yao souls, and launched his Three-Soul Resonance Fist.
• Zhao Chengkong pierced the center of the three yao faces on Zhao Chengxiong’s fist with a single fine thread, making the faces scream soundlessly.

Zhao Chengkong defeated Zhao Chengxiong after exposing the weakness in his fused demon souls and summoning a black leopard demon servant. As Zhao Chengxiong lay beaten, an immense presence awakened in the main hall and Zhao Chengkong’s eldest grandpa addressed him.

• Zhao Chengkong used a Soul Control Needle to exploit the gaps where Zhao Chengxiong’s demon souls were fused into his soul, forcing Zhao Chengxiong to stop his attack.
• Zhao Chengxiong tore through the seals on his demon souls and transformed into a powerful monster, then lunged at Zhao Chengkong.
• Zhao Chengkong summoned his Half-Step Earth Realm black leopard demon servant and controlled it with mental-power threads to drive Zhao Chengxiong back.
• Zhao Chengkong pierced the remnants of the demon souls inside Zhao Chengxiong with a Soul Control Needle, then had the black leopard knock him into a crater.
• Su Yu watched Zhao Chengkong’s victory as a powerful presence awakened in the main hall and Zhao Chengkong’s eldest grandpa asked why he had not announced his return.

Zhao Chengkong brought Su Yu to meet his eldest uncle, Zhao Kuohai, after Zhao Chengxiong’s demonic transformation was stopped. Zhao Kuohai emerged from seclusion and acknowledged Zhao Chengkong’s return, then asked who Su Yu was.

• Zhao Kuohai’s voice transmission suppressed the courtyard, then he ordered Zhao Chengkong to settle in and authorized Jade Heart Pills for Zhao Chengyu and Zhao Nan.
• Zhao Chengkong checked Zhao Chengxiong and sent him to the medicine lodge for treatment of demon soul backlash.
• Zhao Chengkong led Su Yu and his siblings toward the main hall, where the Heaven Evolution Barrier opened for them.
• Zhao Chengkong and Su Yu entered the hall and found Zhao Kuohai waiting there after seven days in seclusion.
• Zhao Kuohai reassured Zhao Chengkong and asked about Su Yu.

Su Yu and Zhao Chengkong left Zhao Kuohai’s hall and settled in Zhao Chengkong’s courtyard while waiting for the elders’ meeting. There, Su Yu sensed an unusual presence in a painting left by Zhao Chengkong’s father, suggesting the azure flood dragon might connect to the larger mystery at Heavenly Evolution Mountain Manor.

• Zhao Kuohai told Zhao Chengkong to wait for the elders’ meeting in three days, leave the guards to him, and keep himself safe.
• Zhao Chengkong took Su Yu to his courtyard and sent Zhao Chengyu and Zhao Nan to collect the Jade Heart Pills and return home.
• Su Yu examined the painting Zhao Chengkong’s father had left behind and sensed a faint fluctuation of Spiritual Qi in its azure flood dragon.
• Su Yu’s divine sense touched the scroll, making its clouds seem to move and the dragon’s eyes appear to blink.
• Su Yu reflected on the clues surrounding the manor and suspected the painting might be a crucial link.

Su Yu discovered that Zhao Chengkong’s inherited painting reacted to his divine sense and entered the world within the scroll. After answering the azure flood dragon’s test of his resolve, he received a flash of azure light, leaving the inheritance’s nature yet to be revealed.

• Su Yu told Zhao Chengkong that the painting’s dragon scales looked fresh and that the scroll had reacted to his divine sense, prompting Zhao Chengkong to let him study it.
• Su Yu and Zhao Chengkong discussed the manor’s political crisis and the dangers posed by Zhao Yehan and the demonized disciples before Zhao Chengkong left to check on Chengyu and sound out the elders.
• Su Yu used his divine sense to enter the scroll and confronted the immense azure flood dragon in a sea of clouds.
• Su Yu resisted the flood dragon’s oppressive presence with his prison-suppressing true intent as the dragon questioned what he pursued.
• Su Yu answered that he sought to suppress evil and subdue demons, and the flood dragon sent a point of deep azure light into his mind.

Su Yu obtained the upper-grade Earth Realm Clear Nether Spirit Refinement Art from Zhao Chengkong’s father’s painting and learned it also contained a powerful demon servant bound to the Zhao bloodline. He passed the art to Zhao Chengkong and left him preparing to oppose Zhao Y ehan’s plan at the elders’ meeting in three days.

• Su Yu received the Clear Nether Spirit Refinement Art and fragments of memories from the painting, which suggested the demon servant would impart only the art to someone outside the Zhao bloodline.
• Su Yu told Zhao Chengkong that the painting held a demon servant whose power was at least Heaven Realm, and revealed the cultivation art was suited to Zhao Chengkong.
• Su Yu transferred the art and the method for entering the painting to Zhao Chengkong, who accepted them and vowed to remember Su Yu’s kindness.
• Su Yu and Zhao Chengkong discussed the elders’ meeting in three days and Zhao Y ehan’s effort to impose the Soul Fusion Technique and abolish the Soul Control cultivation arts.
• Zhao Chengkong declared that he would not let Zhao Y ehan destroy the Soul Control Faction, warning that the Soul Fusion Technique could turn the manor’s disciples into half-human, half-demon monsters.

Su Yu fused the Clear Nether Spirit Refinement Art with the Purple-Gold Prison-Suppressing Scripture, then used his Slaughter Points to reach the Earth Realm First Level. As Su Yu consolidated his new power, Zhao Chengkong continued probing the painting that concealed a powerful demonic servant, with three days remaining before the coming confrontation.

• Zhao Chengkong considered the danger of controlling the Heaven Realm demonic servant hidden in his father's painting and sat down to probe it after Su Yu left.
• Su Yu fused the Clear Nether Spirit Refinement Art and the Purple-Gold Prison-Suppressing Scripture into the Azure Nether Purple-Gold Spirit Refinement Record.
• Su Yu spent his remaining Slaughter Points to master the new technique and broke through to the Earth Realm First Level in Spirit Refinement.
• Su Yu sensed Zhao Chengkong struggling with the painting and judged that his new strength was still insufficient for the coming threat.
• Zhao Chengkong continued probing the painting as the three-day countdown approached.

Su Yu cleared demons in the Bone-Eroding Abyss to gather Slaughter Points while Zhao Chengkong continued probing the landscape scroll. After Grand Elder Zhao Y ehan arranged with the Blood Baleful Intent Hall to eliminate Su Yu, several unknown cultivators approached him in the abyss.

• Zhao Chengkong felt a trace of power from the scroll inheritance and returned to practicing the Clear Nether Spirit Refinement Art.
• Su Yu entered the Bone-Eroding Abyss alone and killed demons with his mental attacks and Prison-Suppressing True Intent.
• Grand Elder Zhao Y ehan learned that the Blood Baleful Intent Hall had sent people to the mountains and agreed to ensure Su Yu disappeared before the elders' meeting.
• Su Yu accumulated 286,700 Slaughter Points after nearly four hours of fighting and prepared to leave the abyss.
• Su Yu sensed at least three unknown cultivators moving through the fog toward him and realized they were coming for him.

Su Yu confronted an assassination attempt by Du Ming and two Blood Baleful Intent Hall subordinates, using his newly strengthened spirit-refinement arts to overwhelm them. After killing the two assassins, he trapped and killed Du Ming, leaving the valley silent.

• Su Yu detected Du Ming and two assassins in the fog and forced them out of hiding with a barrage of divine sense spikes.
• Du Ming tried to distract Su Yu before striking with Blood Soul Spike, but Su Yu's Purple-Gold Prison-Suppressing Platform shattered the attack and wounded him through soul backlash.
• Su Yu spread Azure Nether mist across the valley, severing Du Ming's connection to his subordinates and blunting their divine sense.
• Su Yu killed the two peak Mystic Realm assassins with dark-gold spirit attacks that destroyed their souls.
• Du Ming burned his blood essence and tried to flee, but Su Yu immobilized him with the mist and killed him with a spirit attack that dragged his soul into the prison platform.

After killing Du Ming and the other attackers, Su Yu fused the Blood Baleful Intent Invocation with the World-Destroying Thunder Codex, creating an earth realm upper-grade technique. He tested it in the Bone-Eroding Abyss, gathered enough slaughter points to improve his cultivation, and looked toward the coming elders' meeting at Heavenly Evolution Mountain Manor.

• Su Yu searched Du Ming's storage ring, found the Blood Baleful Intent Invocation, and fused it with the World-Destroying Thunder Codex.
• The system created the earth realm upper-grade Blood Baleful Intent Heavenly Lightning Invocation, which could lock onto targets and attack their flesh and souls.
• Su Yu burned the three corpses and entered the depths of the Bone-Eroding Abyss to hunt demons.
• Su Yu killed an Abyss Rotter with his new technique and continued hunting, accumulating 482000 slaughter points.
• As dusk approached, Su Yu looked toward Heavenly Evolution Mountain Manor and anticipated the elders' meeting and the confrontation with Zhao Y ehan and Duke Chen.

After Du Ming died attempting to assassinate Su Yu, Zhou Tong sent Ghost Hand to take over the mission. Hiding in the Bone-Eroding Abyss, Su Yu advanced his Spirit Refinement cultivation to Earth Realm Second Layer and discovered humanlike monsters in the forbidden depths whose power resembled the Soul Fusion Technique.

• Zhou Tong learned that Du Ming had died and ordered Ghost Hand to kill Su Yu at Heavenly Evolution Mountain Manor.
• Su Yu avoided returning to the manor, carved a cave in the Bone-Eroding Abyss, and used Slaughter Points to cultivate Blood Baleful Intent Heavenly Lightning Invocation.
• The martial art catalyzed a breakthrough in Su Yu's Spirit Refinement cultivation to Earth Realm Second Layer.
• Su Yu spread his divine sense across nearly the entire abyss and sensed more than a dozen monsters in its forbidden depths.
• Su Yu recognized that the monsters carried power resembling a fusion of Yao Qi and human mental power and suspected they were failed products of the Soul Fusion Technique.

Su Yu discovered a human-looking figure with overwhelming Yao Qi among the failed Soul Fusion Technique subjects in the Bone-Eroding Abyss and fought him. The figure unleashed a powerful defense against Su Yu’s Blood Baleful Intent Heavenly Lightning Invocation, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Su Yu observed the humanoid monsters feeding on Yao beast carcasses and identified a young man who appeared human but contained immense, pure Yao Qi.
• The young man sensed Su Yu’s divine sense, attacked him, and was driven back when Su Yu countered with Myriad Manifestations Prison-Suppressing Intent.
• The young man praised Su Yu’s strength and tried to seize his body, then summoned chains of Yao Qi with the Yao Binding Seal.
• Su Yu released Blood Baleful Intent Heavenly Lightning, causing the surrounding Yao Qi and monsters to recoil in fear as the lightning destroyed the chains.
• The young man formed a thick cyan Yao power shield against the lightning as it approached his brow.

Su Yu revealed that he could use both powerful Spirit Refinement curse arts and formidable Body Refinement Demonic Baleful Intent, overwhelming the young man. When the young man transformed into a giant demonic tiger and charged, Su Yu summoned his Pagoda Demonic Manifestation to strike back.

• Su Yu’s blood-colored lightning broke through the young man’s demonic-power shield and forced him backward.
• The young man rushed Su Yu, but Su Yu revealed his Demonic Baleful Intent armor and resisted the attack with his body.
• Su Yu slashed the young man’s chest, sending him crashing into a rock wall and leaving a wound that Demonic Sha Qi kept from healing.
• The young man transformed into a gigantic blue demonic tiger and charged at Su Yu.
• Su Yu unleashed the Pagoda Demonic Manifestation, which raised a hand to slap the charging tiger.

Su Yu defeated the disguised Yao Spirit, bound him with a soul chain, and renamed him Yao One. After leaving the Bone-Eroding Abyss, Su Yu reached Zhao Chengkong’s courtyard and found him probing the painting with his divine sense.

• Su Yu crushed the azure demonic tiger with the Pagoda Demonic Manifestation and weakened the Yao Spirit with blood lightning until the young man fell and begged for mercy.
• The young man revealed that he was a Yao Spirit created by Zhao Y ehan using the Ancient Soul Fusion Method and offered to serve Su Yu.
• Su Yu bound the young man’s soul with the Prison-Suppressing Soul Chain and named him Yao One.
• Yao One concealed himself as an azure tattoo on Su Yu’s wrist, while Su Yu left the failed specimen monsters alive and departed the Bone-Eroding Abyss.
• Su Yu arrived at Zhao Chengkong’s courtyard and sensed Zhao Chengkong probing the painting while struggling against the azure flood dragon will.

Su Yu told Zhao Chengkong that the Blood Baleful Intent Hall and Duke Chen’s Residence were tied to the Soul Fusion Technique’s monsters. They headed for the Bone-Eroding Abyss, while Grand Elder Zhao Y ehan discovered that his ally Qinghu had stopped responding.

• Su Yu returned and told Zhao Chengkong he had encountered Blood Baleful Intent Hall members and Soul Fusion monsters in the Bone-Eroding Abyss.
• Su Yu confirmed that the Duke’s Residence was involved and described the monsters, enraging Zhao Chengkong.
• Zhao Chengkong decided to investigate the Bone-Eroding Abyss, and Su Yu joined him.
• A guard informed Zhao Y ehan that Zhao Chengkong and Su Yu were heading to the abyss, prompting him to warn Qinghu to erase all traces.
• Zhao Y ehan received no response from Qinghu and realized that his most powerful ally was out of contact.

Zhao Y ehan learned that the Bone-Eroding Abyss might be exposed and asked his mysterious lord to intervene, while Zhao Chengkong discovered that missing Heavenly Evolution Mountain Manor disciples had been transformed into flesh-eating monsters. Zhao Chengkong called for them all to be killed, but a mocking voice challenged his resolve.

• Zhao Y ehan contacted his mysterious lord and warned that the secret of the Bone-Eroding Abyss might be exposed.
• Zhao Y ehan asked the lord to spare Zhao Chengkong, and the lord agreed because Zhao Chengkong belonged to the Zhao Clan.
• Su Yu and Zhao Chengkong found more than a dozen monsters devouring a demonic beast in the Bone-Eroding Abyss.
• Zhao Chengkong recognized belongings worn by the monsters and realized they were missing disciples of Heavenly Evolution Mountain Manor.
• Zhao Chengkong blamed Zhao Y ehan and told Su Yu to kill them all, leaving none alive.
• An unseen speaker mocked Zhao Chengkong for ordering the deaths of his own clansmen.