Chapter Summaries

Su Yu failed to merge his Buddhist and demonic powers because the Pagoda Demonic Baleful Intent Art was too weak, then learned that Canglan Commandery had fallen to the Northern Nether Sea's Demon Race. Wang Du appointed him supreme commander with authority to execute first and report later, but warned him to beware of the Duke's Residence.

• Su Yu's attempt to merge the Acala Body with the Pagoda Demonic Baleful Intent Art failed, so he concluded he needed to raise the demonic art to the Earth Realm.
• A captain summoned Su Yu to meet Wang Du, who told him that demons had overrun thirteen cities and towns in Canglan Commandery and that the Blood Baleful Intent Hall was helping hunt Demon Suppression Bureau experts.
• Wang Du's injuries prevented him from going to Canglan Commandery, so he gave Su Yu the Demon Suppression Mystic Token and made him supreme commander with authority to execute first and report later.
• Su Yu accepted the order to crush the enemy, and Wang Du warned him to be wary of the Duke's Residence.

Wang Du secretly revealed that he was uninjured and planned to make Su Yu a successor capable of anchoring Qing Province. As Su Yu flew to Canglan Commandery, he suspected the unrest was a trap, while Jiao Wuye, Zhou Tong, and He Yuan discussed their alliance and Wang Du’s apparent weakness.

• After Su Yu left, Wang Du recovered his imposing presence and privately planned to use Su Yu to quell the unrest and eventually succeed him.
• Su Yu flew toward Canglan Commandery and suspected the water demon uprising was meant to draw him away from Qing Province City.
• At the Nu River mouth, Jiao Wuye questioned Zhou Tong about Wang Du’s injuries, while He Yuan mocked his caution.
• Zhou Tong insisted Wang Du was badly injured and argued that sending Su Yu into the conflict proved Wang Du could not protect him.

Su Yu arrived at Yanghe County to find water demons slaughtering its people and the last defenders on the verge of collapse. Invoking the Demon Suppression Mystic Token, he declared himself supreme commander of the Canglan War Zone and used the Yellow Springs Earth Vein Art to impale the demons across the town.

• Jiao Wuye dismissed Zhou Tong and He Yuan’s concerns, intent on turning Canglan Commandery into a feeding ground, while Zhou Tong and He Yuan plotted to direct him against Su Yu.
• Su Yu surveyed the ravaged eastern region of Canglan Commandery and rushed to Yanghe County after sensing a battle.
• Su Yu found water demons overrunning the town as two wounded commandants and the remaining defenders struggled to protect civilians.
• Su Yu used the Demon Suppression Mystic Token to claim command of the Canglan War Zone, seal Yanghe County, and order every nonhuman being killed.
• Su Yu activated the Yellow Springs Earth Vein Art, causing earth spikes to erupt beneath the water demons and impale them.

Su Yu annihilated the water yao inside Yanghe County, then ordered the battered survivors to prepare a counterattack against the vast army outside. As Xia Shijiu threatened the city, Su Yu summoned a colossal thunderstorm and unleashed the World-Destroying Thunder Codex.

• Su Yu used the Demon Suppression Mystic Token to kill the water yao inside Yanghe County with a single attack.
• Zhang Hu and Li Mang reported that only thirty-four Demon Suppression Guards remained and that nearly ten thousand water yao, led by an Earth Realm greater yao, surrounded the city.
• Su Yu ordered the survivors to gather and prepare a counterattack, then flew outside Yanghe County alone.
• Xia Shijiu identified himself as a general under the Seventh Highness of the Northern Nether Sea and threatened to destroy the city.
• Su Yu summoned a vast thundercloud vortex and activated the World-Destroying Thunder Codex, sending a pillar of lightning down toward the yao army.

Su Yu annihilated the water demon army attacking Yanghe County with a devastating lightning technique, then killed Xia Shijiu as he tried to flee. With the county saved, Su Yu turned his attention toward Canglan Commandery, expecting a greater fight ahead.

• Su Yu unleashed a waterfall of lightning through the three rivers, vaporizing the water demons and leaving the defenders stunned.
• Li Mang and Zhang Hu watched the battlefield fall silent and realized Su Yu’s counterattack had been a one-sided slaughter.
• Xia Shijiu fled on his giant sea turtle, but Su Yu caught up with him using Thunder Demon Shadow Trace Steps.
• Su Yu destroyed Xia Shijiu’s attack and devoured him with the Pagoda Demonic Baleful Intent Art, earning 30,000 Slaughter Points.
• Su Yu looked toward Canglan Commandery, regarding the cleanup as only an appetizer.

After Yanghe County fell, Su Yu sent the survivors to seek reinforcements and went east to kill demons, rapidly earning the Demon Suppression Bureau code name “Cleaner.” The chapter ends as an octopus demon brings alarming news to Jiao Wuye at the Nu River mouth.

• Su Yu ordered Li Mang to lead Yanghe County’s survivors west to Canglan Commandery’s seat while he went east to collect the blood debt.
• Su Yu arrived at Bashui County, where a water demon army was attacking the walls, and killed its Earth Realm First Level snake demon with one stomp.
• Su Yu slaughtered the remaining water demons outside Bashui County and continued attacking demon sites across Canglan Commandery, raising his Slaughter Points to 695,000.
• The Demon Suppression Bureau’s internal intelligence network gave Su Yu the code name “Cleaner.”
• At an underwater palace at the Nu River mouth, an octopus demon rushed to Jiao Wuye with news of a disaster.

Jiao Wuye learned that Su Yu had destroyed five demon armies and ordered his forces to converge on Canglan. He Yuan then found the Demon God Cult’s outside reinforcement, who prepared to face Su Yu and take revenge for their past encounters.

• Jiao Wuye learned from a memory crystal that Su Yu had annihilated five armies and their commanders.
• Jiao Wuye ordered all Earth Realm generals to abandon secondary targets and gather to besiege Canglan Commandery.
• He Yuan traveled to Ghost Cry Reef and entered the cavern where the Demon God Cult’s outside reinforcement was waiting.
• The reinforcement absorbed the blood baleful Qi from the formation and vowed to drag Su Yu into purgatory.

Su Yu found a town massacred by water demons and slaughtered every demon there before confronting the Bone-Eroding Demon General, whose true body had come seeking revenge. The general's powerful strike shattered against Su Yu's fist, leaving their battle poised to escalate.

• Su Yu discovered that water demons had killed nearly all the town's civilians and used his divine sense to annihilate more than a hundred of them.
• Su Yu purged the remaining demons, told the survivors to head west to the Canglan Commandery seat, and went to draw an approaching threat away from them.
• The Bone-Eroding Demon General recognized Su Yu and vowed to avenge the destruction of his Dharma body in the City of Calamity and Chaos.
• The Bone-Eroding Demon General attacked with a Myriad Ghost Hand, but Su Yu combined the Yellow Springs Earth Vein Art and Pagoda Demonic Baleful Intent Art to shatter it with one punch.
• Su Yu taunted the stunned general, questioning whether his escaped soul had helped him improve.

Su Yu spent 300,000 Slaughter Points to advance his Blood Baleful Intent Heavenly Lightning Invocation, break through to the Earth Realm fourth level, and learn Myriad Tribulations Blood Thunder Burial. He unleashed the killing move against the Bone-Eroding Demon General, whose devil god apparition shattered as Su Yu’s attack struck his true body.

• The Bone-Eroding Demon General surged to the Earth Realm ninth level and threatened to torture Su Yu.
• Su Yu used 300,000 Slaughter Points to advance his martial art, break through to the Earth Realm fourth level, and comprehend Myriad Tribulations Blood Thunder Burial.
• The Bone-Eroding Demon General attacked Su Yu with All-Encompassing Devil Prison: Myriad Ghosts Devour the Soul.
• Su Yu formed a ten-mile Blood Lightning Burial Domain that reduced the charging devil shadows to ash and tore through the Bone-Eroding Demon General’s Devil Qi.
• The Bone-Eroding Demon General summoned a black devil god apparition, but Su Yu’s collapsing blood lightning shattered it and struck the demon general’s true body.

Su Yu struggled against the Bone-Eroding Demon General’s true form and realized he needed a power that could attack its divine soul. He spent 700,000 Slaughter Points to raise Myriad Tribulations Thunder Prison as the Demon General’s spear closed in on his brow.

• The Bone-Eroding Demon General emerged from its destroyed human shell in a powerful demonic body and attacked Su Yu.
• Su Yu dodged and counterattacked, but his techniques could not pierce the Demon General’s defenses, and he was gradually overwhelmed.
• Su Yu identified Myriad Tribulations Thunder Prison as a potential way to target the Demon General’s divine soul and source.
• Su Yu used the system to spend 700,000 Slaughter Points and raise Myriad Tribulations Thunder Prison to Subtlety.
• The Demon General’s spear came within three inches of Su Yu’s brow as the power-up began transforming his sea of consciousness.

Su Yu advanced Myriad Tribulations Thunder Prison to Perfection, broke through to the peak of Earth Realm Sixth Level, and used it to destroy the Bone-Eroding Demon General. At Canglan Commandery City, He Yuan suddenly coughed blood, signaling that something had happened to the demon general.

• Su Yu spent 700,000 Slaughter Points to advance Myriad Tribulations Thunder Prison to Perfection and reached the peak of Earth Realm Sixth Level.
• Su Yu trapped the Bone-Eroding Demon General in Myriad Tribulations Thunder Prison and summoned nine lightning tribulations.
• Su Yu's ninth lightning tribulation annihilated the Bone-Eroding Demon General's body and soul, leaving behind a black crystal.
• Su Yu gained 100,000 Slaughter Points, collected the crystal, and looked toward Canglan Commandery City.
• Outside Canglan Commandery City, He Yuan clutched her chest and coughed dark red blood as Jiao Wuye watched the city's protective formation.

After learning that Su Yu had killed the Bone-Eroding Demon General, Jiao Wuye ordered an assault on Canglan Commandery City while Zhou Tong planned to kill Su Yu. Su Yu rushed toward the besieged city, where the assassin Ghost Hand attacked him, but Su Yu caught the dagger and unleashed lightning into the void.

• He Yuan reported the Bone-Eroding Demon General’s death to Jiao Wuye, then fled Qing Province through a teleportation formation.
• Jiao Wuye told Zhou Tong that Su Yu had killed the demon general, and Zhou Tong insisted he would kill Su Yu while Jiao Wuye stormed the city.
• Jiao Wuye ordered his army to break Canglan Commandery City’s formation and slaughter the city.
• Su Yu absorbed the demon general’s crystal, reached the peak of the Earth Realm sixth level, and headed toward Canglan Commandery City.
• Ghost Hand ambushed Su Yu with a poisoned dagger, but Su Yu caught and cracked the blade before blasting lightning into the void.

Chen Xiaotian learned that Su Yu had killed the Bone-Eroding Demon General, while Zhou Tong assured him that the Blood Baleful Intent Hall’s assassin Ghost Hand would kill Su Yu. Su Yu swiftly killed Ghost Hand instead and then turned his attention toward Canglan Commandery to meet the Northern Nether Sea’s Seventh Highness.

• Chen Xiaotian was shocked to hear from Zhou Tong that Su Yu had killed the Bone-Eroding Demon General with lightning arts.
• Zhou Tong told Chen Xiaotian that he had dispatched Ghost Hand to assassinate Su Yu while Su Yu was supposedly weakened.
• Ghost Hand’s soul crystal shattered in the stone hall, revealing that the assassin had died.
• Ghost Hand attacked Su Yu, but Su Yu blasted him from hiding, destroyed his dagger, and prevented him from escaping into the void.
• Su Yu killed Ghost Hand with a lightning-wreathed palm, earned 100000 Slaughter Points, and looked toward Canglan Commandery to meet the Northern Nether Sea’s Seventh Highness.

After Zhou Tong and Chen Xiaotian chose to let Su Yu provoke Jiao Wuye rather than warn him, Wang Du ordered Qing Province’s Demon Suppression Guards to prepare for battle and headed toward Canglan Commandery City. At dawn, Su Yu arrived above the besieged city and faced Jiao Wuye and his demon army.

• Chen Xiaotian persuaded Zhou Tong not to alert Jiao Wuye, hoping Su Yu would make an enemy of the Northern Nether Sea.
• Wang Du learned that Su Yu had killed the Bone-Eroding Demon General and Ghost Hand, then ordered the Demon Suppression Guards into the highest state of battle readiness.
• Wang Du set out for Canglan Commandery City, saying he would not let the two youngsters overturn the board.
• As dawn broke, Jiao Wuye waited outside Canglan Commandery City while its defensive formation weakened and its defenders despaired.
• Su Yu arrived above the city and confronted Jiao Wuye, and their killing intent clashed.

Su Yu faced Jiao Wuye’s two Earth Realm Ninth Level guards, the Black and White Mystic Snakes, and repelled their coordinated attacks with lightning and a soul strike. He announced that the warm-up was over and turned his attention to his Spirit Refinement cultivation, while the battle remained poised to escalate.

• Jiao Wuye recognized Su Yu’s youth and strength, judged him a threat, and ordered the Black and White Mystic Snakes to kill him.
• The two guards attacked Su Yu together, but he used Thunder Demon Shadow Trace Steps to evade their opening strike and whip net.
• Su Yu blasted the white-clad woman’s silver whip with the World-Destroying Thunder Codex, then stopped the black-clad woman’s bone spike with a Divine Sense Thorn.
• Su Yu considered using the fight to strengthen his Pagoda Demonic Baleful Intent Art and declared that the warm-up was over.
• Su Yu focused on his Spirit Refinement cultivation, which was at Earth Realm Sixth Level.

Su Yu spent two hundred thousand Slaughter Points to advance his Spirit Refinement cultivation from Earth Realm Sixth Level to Eighth Level, overwhelming Jiao Wuye’s Black and White Mystic Snakes. He seized both guards and declared that he would take them, leaving Jiao Wuye facing Su Yu’s challenge.

• Su Yu used all two hundred thousand Slaughter Points to break through two Spirit Refinement levels, reaching Earth Realm Eighth Level.
• Su Yu’s azure-gold divine sense disrupted the Black and White Mystic Snakes’ coordinated attacks, and he used the white-robed woman to knock the black-robed woman from her attack.
• The Demon Suppression Bureau commanders and guards on Canglan Commandery’s walls recognized Su Yu as Captain Su and watched him defeat the two Earth Realm Ninth Level snake women.
• Su Yu seized both women by the necks, suppressed their demonic power, and told Jiao Wuye that he would take his two guards.

Su Yu was trapped in the Blood Demon Crocodile’s Heaven Realm domain but used its crushing force and the Bone-Eroding Demon General’s essence to transform his body. He broke free and faced the Blood Demon Crocodile, leaving the battle between them poised to begin.

• Su Yu threatened to kill Jiao Wuye’s black and white mystic serpents, prompting Jiao Wuye to summon the Blood Demon Crocodile.
• The Blood Demon Crocodile trapped Su Yu and the serpents in its Flesh and Blood Millstone domain, then released the serpents from the blood cage.
• Inside the domain, Su Yu crushed the Bone-Eroding Demon General’s essence and used the pressure to temper and strengthen his body.
• Su Yu tore open the domain and emerged in a towering, dark-gold form, then fixed his gaze on the Blood Demon Crocodile.

Su Yu’s Pagoda Demonic Manifestation gained overwhelming strength after absorbing the Bone-Eroding Demon General’s origin, but its power exceeded his control and began eroding his reason. It repeatedly charged the Blood Demon Crocodile, rebuilding itself after devastating attacks, while Su Yu remained trapped inside his sea of consciousness watching the rampage.

• After the Bone-Eroding Demon General’s origin crystal shattered, the Pagoda Demonic Manifestation’s strength surged and it resisted the Blood Demon Crocodile’s domain.
• Lan Kong and Zhang Kai celebrated when Su Yu stopped the heaven realm demon’s attack, but Lan Kong warned that the fight was far from over.
• The manifestation’s power tore at Su Yu’s body and its slaughtering instincts began taking over, then it charged the Blood Demon Crocodile without his command.
• The Blood Demon Crocodile wounded the manifestation with a claw strike, but it healed in the Nu River and attacked again with a Prison-Suppressing Baleful Spear.
• After the Blood Demon Crocodile blasted apart half its body and struck it into a hill, the manifestation reconstructed itself and kept advancing.
• Su Yu watched from his sea of consciousness, protected by the Purple-Gold Prison-Suppressing Platform, and admitted that he had lost control.

The Blood Demon Crocodile destroyed Su Yu’s Pagoda Demonic Manifestation, leaving him gravely weakened and falling toward the Nu River. A Demon Suppression Bureau middle-aged man saved him and confronted Jiao Wuye, declaring that he had crossed the line.

• The Blood Demon Crocodile trapped the Pagoda Demonic Manifestation with Heaven Realm laws and erased it with a condensed orb of Demonic Power.
• The backlash sent Su Yu’s cultivation crashing to the peak Mystic Realm, and he fell toward the Nu River.
• Jiao Wuye ordered the Black and White Mystic Snakes to kill Su Yu, and the white-clad snake woman pursued him with a poisoned bone spike.
• A middle-aged man in a Demon Suppression Bureau cloak appeared, swept the white-clad snake woman into the river, and caught Su Yu.
• The middle-aged man faced Jiao Wuye and told him, “Little fellow from the Northern Nether Sea, you've crossed the line.”

Wang Du arrived at Canglan Commandery and saved Su Yu after the young commandant held off the demon army. He crushed the Blood Demon Crocodile and Jiao Wuye despite their threats, declaring that he alone would bear the consequences.

• Wang Du stopped the demon army’s advance and wounded the Blood Demon Crocodile with a single slash as it tried to flee with Jiao Wuye.
• Wang Du stabilized Su Yu’s condition, gave him a healing pill, and credited him with the foremost merit for defending Canglan Commandery.
• The Blood Demon Crocodile and Jiao Wuye invoked the Demon Emperor and the Northern Nether Sea to threaten Wang Du.
• Wang Du unleashed a giant hand of lightning that engulfed the Blood Demon Crocodile, Jiao Wuye, and the white-bone throne, then said he alone would bear the consequences.