Chapter Summaries

Su Yu learned that the Zhao Clan ancestor controlled the monsters in the Bone-Eroding Abyss and tested his new realm by killing three powerful yao servants. The ancestor reacted with interest as something began rising from the swamp.

• Su Yu used the Prison-Suppressing Soul Chain to force Yao One to reveal that the Zhao Clan ancestor controlled the failures and kept stronger yao servants as guards.
• The failures attacked Su Yu and Zhao Chengkong, who summoned an Azure Flood Dragon phantom to fight them.
• Three Earth Realm second-layer yao servants emerged and coordinated the attack against the Azure Flood Dragon.
• Su Yu unleashed the Blood Baleful Intent Heavenly Lightning Invocation and destroyed all three armored yao servants in a single breath.
• The ancient voice remarked on Su Yu's Spirit Refinement incantation, and the ground shook as the swamp began to bulge upward.

An Ink Abyss Bone Crocodile emerged from the swamp and overwhelmed Zhao Chengkong’s azure flood dragon, leaving Su Yu and Zhao Chengkong facing defeat. Zhao Kuohai arrived on his Scarlet Yang Heavenly Eagle and persuaded the ancient ancestor to withdraw the beast, then led them out of the Bone-Eroding Abyss, while Su Yu suspected his arrival was no coincidence.

• The Earth Realm Fifth Level Ink Abyss Bone Crocodile rose from the swamp and scattered Zhao Chengkong’s azure flood dragon phantom, injuring him.
• Su Yu prepared to escape with Zhao Chengkong as the crocodile’s demonic power threatened to crush them.
• Zhao Kuohai appeared on his Scarlet Yang Heavenly Eagle and blocked the crocodile’s power from reaching Su Yu and Zhao Chengkong.
• Zhao Kuohai persuaded the ancient ancestor to withdraw the crocodile, though the ancestor insisted Soul Fusion was Heavenly Evolution Mountain Manor’s only way forward.
• Zhao Kuohai led Su Yu and Zhao Chengkong out of the Bone-Eroding Abyss, and Su Yu wondered whether his arrival had been planned.

Zhao Kuohai explained that Zhao Wuji had returned to the Bone-Eroding Abyss over a decade earlier and claimed Zhao Y ehan had enlisted him to pursue the manor lord position. Su Yu distrusted Zhao Kuohai’s account, and Yao One revealed that someone had periodically delivered supplies to Zhao Wuji despite the manor lord’s claim that he never visited.

• Zhao Kuohai told Zhao Chengkong that Zhao Wuji was a nearly two-hundred-year-old Soul Fusion Faction elder who had disappeared into the Bone-Eroding Abyss and returned over a decade ago.
• Zhao Kuohai claimed Zhao Y ehan had secretly recruited Zhao Wuji and blamed them for the demonized clansmen, then said he would resolve the matter at an elders’ meeting in three days.
• Zhao Chengkong agreed not to act rashly, while Su Yu told Zhao Kuohai he would forget what he had witnessed.
• After Zhao Kuohai left, Su Yu suspected he was manipulating events and asked Yao One about his connection to Zhao Wuji.
• Yao One said Zhao Kuohai had never visited Zhao Wuji’s swamp, but admitted that someone delivered supplies there periodically.

Su Yu learned that Zhao Wuji’s Ancient Soul Fusion Method used living disciples as research materials and concluded that Zhao Kuohai was waiting for outside reinforcements to challenge the grand elder’s faction. On the morning of the elders’ meeting, Azure Sword Manor arrived, led by Li Xi.

• Su Yu forced Yao One to reveal that disciples were sent into the Bone-Eroding Abyss as materials for Zhao Wuji’s research.
• Su Yu reasoned that Zhao Kuohai had saved him to prevent the Demon Suppression Bureau from investigating the manor, while waiting for powerful reinforcements.
• For two days, the grand elder’s branch tightened its hold on the manor as Zhao Chengkong and Su Yu waited for the elders’ meeting.
• On the morning of the third day, dozens of Azure Sword Manor cultivators arrived at the main hall, led by Li Xi.

Li Xi joined Su Yu and Zhao Chengkong to investigate the Bone-Eroding Abyss for evidence of Zhao Ye'han and Zhao Wuji's crimes. They uncovered a concealed chamber containing a blood-stained altar built from bones.

• Li Xi arrived at Heavenly Evolution Mountain Manor and went to meet Su Yu in the bamboo courtyard.
• Zhao Chengkong told Li Xi that Zhao Ye'han and Zhao Wuji were using living clansmen for evil arts in the Bone-Eroding Abyss.
• Li Xi, Su Yu, and Zhao Chengkong secretly left the manor and returned to the abyss to seek evidence.
• Su Yu detected and broke through an illusion formation that concealed a cave entrance.
• The three entered the cave and found a bone altar marked with strange runes and fresh blood.

Su Yu, Li Xi, and Zhao Chengkong found a blood-sacrifice altar and were trapped in the chamber by Ghost Hand and four Blood Baleful Intent Hall subordinates. As Ghost Hand overwhelmed Li Xi and reached for her, Su Yu finally moved.

• Yao One warned Su Yu that multiple powerful enemies were outside, and Ghost Hand arrived with four subordinates to block the exit.
• Ghost Hand recognized the altar as a crude Blood Feeding Formation and said he intended to capture Li Xi and Zhao Chengkong alive.
• Zhao Chengkong attacked Ghost Hand with a divine-sense tiger, but Ghost Hand crushed it and wounded him.
• Li Xi struck Ghost Hand with her Flying Catkin Sword Technique, but his blood shield stopped her and his blood mist forced her into retreat.
• Su Yu assessed the fighters and their abilities while Ghost Hand's subordinates attacked Zhao Chengkong and Ghost Hand cornered Li Xi.
• As Li Xi prepared to burn her blood essence, Su Yu finally moved.

Su Yu revealed his overwhelming Spirit Refinement power, killing four Blood Baleful Intent Hall protectors and crippling Ghost Hand. Before Ghost Hand could reveal more about Duke Chen’s plan, the Ink Abyss Bone Crocodile swallowed him, and Zhao Chengkong and Li Xi realized Zhao Wuji had controlled the beast.

• Su Yu unleashed Blood Baleful Intent Heavenly Lightning Invocation and killed four Peak Mystic Realm protectors without moving.
• Ghost Hand tried to flee as blood mist, but Su Yu’s lightning bound him and reduced him to a cripple.
• Su Yu told Ghost Hand that Duke Chen had sent him, and Ghost Hand realized Su Yu knew of the Duke’s Residence’s plan.
• The Ink Abyss Bone Crocodile emerged and swallowed Ghost Hand before he could speak further.
• Zhao Chengkong and Li Xi recognized that Zhao Wuji had controlled the Bone Crocodile to kill Ghost Hand.

Su Yu realized that Zhao Wuji’s blood-feeding altar sustained his failing life and that he could not leave its range or attack freely. After Zhao Chengkong and Li Xi left, Su Yu stayed behind, preparing to confront the ancestor who had tried to drive them away.

• Zhao Chengkong and Li Xi urged Su Yu to retreat from the cave, but he sent them outside while he remained alone.
• Yao One told Su Yu that Zhao Wuji’s soul had briefly weakened after the Ink Abyss Bone Crocodile attacked.
• Su Yu examined the altar and discovered that it converted the sacrifices’ life energy and transmitted it to Zhao Wuji.
• Su Yu deduced that Zhao Wuji was using the altar to prolong his life and could not leave its energy supply or attack without strain.
• Su Yu concluded that Zhao Wuji was unable, rather than unwilling, to kill them, and prepared to deal with him.

Su Yu left the altar and began clearing the yao-transformed monsters in the Bone-Eroding Abyss, while Zhao Wuji revealed his plan to sacrifice everyone in Heavenly Evolution Mountain Manor. After amassing 350,000 Slaughter Points, Su Yu turned toward the abyss’s deepest reaches, ready to show the results of his harvest.

• Su Yu decided not to confront the Ink Abyss Bone Crocodile yet and silently left the white-bone altar.
• Zhao Wuji recovered by refining Ghost Hand’s essence and revealed that he planned to use the Blood River Grand Formation to sacrifice Heavenly Evolution Mountain Manor the next day.
• Su Yu used Blood Baleful Intent Heavenly Lightning Invocation to instantly destroy a group of yao-transformed beings at the edge of the swamp.
• Su Yu spent an hour sweeping through the Bone-Eroding Abyss and accumulated 350,000 Slaughter Points.
• Su Yu looked toward the deepest reaches of the abyss and declared that it was time to show the results.

Su Yu spent his Slaughter Points to perfect his Azure Nether Purple-Gold Spirit Refinement Record, awakening a soul-killing technique and advancing to the Earth Realm third layer. Zhao Wuji discovered Su Yu had wiped out his monster herd and sent the Ink Abyss Bone Crocodile to kill him, while Su Yu prepared to test his new move.

• Su Yu spent 350000 Slaughter Points to advance his Azure Nether Purple-Gold Spirit Refinement Record to Subtlety and awaken Prison-Illuminating Divine Punishment.
• Su Yu broke through to the Earth Realm third layer as his divine sense surged.
• Zhao Wuji sensed Su Yu's breakthrough, discovered that the monsters in the Bone-Eroding Abyss were gone, and flew into a rage.
• Zhao Wuji commanded the Ink Abyss Bone Crocodile to charge at Su Yu with its full Earth Realm fifth-layer power.
• Su Yu faced the charging crocodile and began forming the Prison-Illuminating Divine Seal between his brows.

Su Yu discovered that the Ink Abyss Bone Crocodile was an empty puppet and destroyed it with blood-colored heavenly lightning. In the deepest cavern, Zhao Wuji suffered a devastating backlash through their soul link and fell to the verge of the Earth Realm First Level.

• Su Yu used the Mirror of Nether Illumination and found that the Ink Abyss Bone Crocodile had no complete soul to judge.
• Su Yu summoned Blood Baleful Intent Heavenly Lightning and blasted through the crocodile's demonic shield.
• Dozens of blood-colored thunderbolts disintegrated the Ink Abyss Bone Crocodile in ten breaths.
• Zhao Wuji spat black blood as the destroyed servant's backlash struck his soul through their link.
• Zhao Wuji's cultivation collapsed from the Earth Realm Fifth Level to the verge of the Earth Realm First Level.

Su Yu pursued Zhao Wuji after destroying his bone crocodile, but a mysterious being guided Zhao Wuji into a mist that blocked divine sense. Suspecting the mist concealed a powerful entity, Su Yu stayed to investigate rather than retreat.

• Zhao Wuji suffered a severe backlash when his bone crocodile was destroyed and fled through the cavern using his vital blood essence.
• Su Yu chased Zhao Wuji at high speed, closing in on him as Zhao Wuji despaired.
• A mysterious voice guided Zhao Wuji into thick gray-white mist that shredded Su Yu's divine sense and concealed Zhao Wuji.
• Zhao Wuji threatened Su Yu from within the mist before his voice faded away.
• Su Yu reasoned that the voice's master might be in the heaven realm or higher, then sat before the mist and sent strands of divine sense into it.

At Heavenly Evolution Mountain Manor’s elders’ council, Zhao Y ehan challenged Zhao Kuohai for control of the manor, but Zhao Kuohai revealed his Earth Realm Fifth Level Scarlet Yang Heavenly Eagle. Zhao Y ehan then fused two Earth Realm Fourth Level demonic servants into himself, and the two men’s powers collided, threatening to destroy the hall.

• Su Yu returned to the bamboo courtyard, where Li Xi and Zhao Chengkong confirmed he was safe, and he said he had cleared away some trash.
• At the elders’ council, Zhao Y ehan demanded that Zhao Kuohai be deposed and that he take command of the manor.
• Zhao Kuohai revealed his Earth Realm Fifth Level Scarlet Yang Heavenly Eagle, stunning the Soul Fusion Faction and Zhao Chengkong.
• Zhao Y ehan fused the souls of two Earth Realm Fourth Level demonic servants into his body, strengthening himself enough to challenge Zhao Kuohai.
• Zhao Y ehan attacked Zhao Kuohai, whose Scarlet Yang Heavenly Eagle met the blow with a torrent of crimson-gold flames, and their clash cracked the hall.

Zhao Kuohai defeated Zhao Y ehan after the grand elder's fused demonic powers began to tear his body apart. Before Zhao Y ehan could be taken into custody, he activated a blood-colored jade talisman, awakening a sacrificial formation beneath Heavenly Evolution Mountain Manor.

• Zhao Y ehan used his fused frost and shadow powers to overwhelm Zhao Kuohai's Scarlet Yang Heavenly Eagle and alarm the Soul Control Faction.
• Zhao Y ehan's conflicting demonic powers began consuming each other, giving Zhao Kuohai an opening to strike with the Heaven-Burning Claw.
• Zhao Kuohai's attack shattered Zhao Y ehan's body, leaving him broken and near death as the Soul Control Faction celebrated.
• Zhao Kuohai offered Zhao Y ehan a place in the manor, but Zhao Y ehan crushed a blood-colored jade talisman instead.
• Blood-colored runes lit across Heavenly Evolution Mountain Manor, consuming its spiritual veins as a vast sacrificial formation began to activate.

The Blood Baleful Intent Hall activated the Blood River Grand Formation around Heavenly Evolution Mountain Manor, trapping everyone inside and revealing its plan to channel the manor’s energy to the Bone-Eroding Abyss. As two Earth Realm Fourth Level protectors attacked Su Yu, he calmly challenged them.

• A shattered blood-colored jade talisman activated the Blood River Grand Formation and sealed Heavenly Evolution Mountain Manor beneath a scarlet barrier.
• Xue Mingzi introduced himself as an elder of the Blood Baleful Intent Hall and declared that the trapped manor residents were offerings to a lord and the hall master.
• Elder Qingyue attacked the barrier with seven flying swords, but the formation corroded their spiritual light and repelled them.
• Su Yu recognized that the formation drew energy from the manor’s earth veins and living creatures to supply the Bone-Eroding Abyss.
• Xue Mingzi ordered two Earth Realm Fourth Level protectors to break Su Yu’s limbs and extract his soul, and Su Yu faced them without drawing his saber.

Su Yu killed two Earth Realm Fourth Level protectors of the Blood Baleful Intent Hall with a single burst of divine sense, then realized the Blood River Grand Formation was harvesting energy from everyone in Heavenly Evolution Mountain Manor to feed an unknown being. As four more attackers rushed him on Elder Xue Mingzi’s orders, Xue Mingzi suddenly froze in fear.

• Su Yu killed two Blood Baleful Intent Hall protectors with invisible divine-sense spears, leaving their bodies intact but destroying their souls.
• Zhao Chengkong, Li Xi, the Soul Fusion Faction clansmen, and the fighters across the hall were stunned by Su Yu’s display.
• Elder Qingyue fought Elder Xue Mingzi while Li Xi battled a Blood Baleful Intent Hall follower elsewhere in the hall.
• Outside the manor, Zhao Wuji activated the Blood River Grand Formation, which absorbed the fighters’ energy and sent it toward the Bone-Eroding Abyss while restoring his strength.
• Su Yu realized the formation was using everyone in the manor as fuel for an unknown existence.
• Elder Xue Mingzi ordered four Peak Mystic Realm followers to attack Su Yu, then abruptly froze in fear.

Zhao Chengkong’s hidden demonic servant emerged as the Azure Nether Ancient Flood Dragon, overwhelming the Blood Baleful Intent cultists and revealing itself as a power near the Heaven Realm. It then began devouring the Blood River Grand Formation, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Zhao Chengkong lost control as the Azure Nether Ancient Flood Dragon’s Demonic Power erupted from his body.
• The Azure Nether Ancient Flood Dragon killed the four Blood Baleful Intent cultists with a blast of Demonic Power.
• Zhao Kuohai recognized the dragon as the demonic servant his second brother, Zhao Kuojiang, had hidden in the painting for Zhao Chengkong.
• Xue Mingzi tried to persuade the Azure Nether Ancient Flood Dragon not to interfere by invoking the Blood Baleful Intent Hall’s backer.
• The Azure Nether Ancient Flood Dragon ignored Xue Mingzi and inhaled, tearing torrents of power from the Blood River Grand Formation.

After the Blood River Grand Formation shattered, Su Yu pursued the crippled Zhao Wuji while the battle at Heavenly Evolution Mountain Manor turned against Blood Baleful Intent Hall. Just as Su Yu was about to kill Zhao Wuji, an ancient presence awakened in the Bone-Eroding Abyss, froze the world, and reached for Su Yu’s soul.

• The Azure Nether Ancient Flood Dragon devoured the Blood River Grand Formation, causing Zhao Wuji to suffer a backlash that reduced him to the brink of death.
• Su Yu seized the opening and raced after Zhao Wuji as Elder Qingyue and Zhao Kuohai fought Xue Mingzi and the fleeing Blood Baleful Intent Hall followers.
• Zhao Wuji used Blood Escape to flee toward the Bone-Eroding Abyss, but Su Yu struck him with Blood Baleful Intent Heavenly Lightning Invocation.
• An ancient will from the forbidden zone froze Su Yu, Zhao Wuji, and the lightning bolt, then called Zhao Wuji trash and declared its intent to consume Su Yu’s soul.
• A colossal hand formed from gray-white mist reached out from the Bone-Eroding Abyss toward Su Yu.

Wang Du arrived at Bone-Eroding Abyss and broke the King Realm expert’s Deathly Silence Domain, leaving him to fight the hidden enemy. Su Yu killed Zhao Wuji and turned toward the remaining Blood Baleful Intent Hall fiends, ready to join the slaughter.

• Wang Du shattered the gray-white hand that had trapped Su Yu and explained that Su Yu’s actions had helped him locate the enemy’s true body.
• Wang Du charged into the mist-shrouded forbidden zone to fight the hidden expert, while Su Yu pursued Zhao Wuji.
• Zhao Wuji burned his remaining origin blood essence and attacked Su Yu with a bone shield and curse seals, but Su Yu’s body and punch overwhelmed both defenses.
• Su Yu killed Zhao Wuji and received 80,000 Slaughter Points from the system.
• Su Yu turned toward the battle at Heavenly Evolution Mountain Manor, where Xue Mingzi and the remaining Blood Baleful Intent Hall fiends were surrounded by Elder Qingyue, Zhao Kuohai, and the Azure Flood Dragon.

Su Yu rapidly killed Blood Baleful Intent Hall followers, then used Prison Illumination Divine Punishment to slay an Earth Realm Fifth Level elder. Xue Mingzi fled, and Su Yu turned his attention to the Azure Nether Ancient Flood Dragon.

• Su Yu used the Pagoda Demonic Baleful Intent Art to kill two Earth Realm Third Layer followers and gained 60,000 Slaughter Points.
• Su Yu used Prison Illumination Divine Punishment to destroy the soul of a Blood Baleful Intent Hall elder at Earth Realm Fifth Level, saving Zhao Kuohai's Scarlet Yang Heavenly Eagle.
• Xue Mingzi realized the battle had turned against him and escaped using Blood God Scripture: Shadow Transformation Escape.
• Su Yu stopped Elder Qingyue from pursuing Xue Mingzi, noting that the fleeing elder would be difficult to catch.
• Su Yu received 50,000 Slaughter Points, bringing his total to 160,000, then met the gaze of the Azure Nether Ancient Flood Dragon.