Chapter Summaries

Wang Du crushed the Blood Demon Crocodile and was about to kill Jiao Wuye, but Jiao Wuye shattered his jade slip and summoned his father’s overwhelming consciousness. The ancient flood dragon halted Wang Du’s attack and confronted him across Qing Province.

• Wang Du’s giant lightning hand shattered the Blood Demon Crocodile’s blood domain and crippled the demon with one strike.
• The dying Blood Demon Crocodile urged Jiao Wuye to flee, but Wang Du’s Law of Thunder had sealed the surrounding space.
• Jiao Wuye shattered the jade slip his father had given him, releasing a strand of dark-golden light into the thunderclouds.
• Jiao Wuye’s father manifested as an ancient flood dragon whose presence subdued the Demon Suppression Guards and surviving water demons.
• Wang Du armored himself in lightning as the flood dragon addressed him, and its voice shattered Wang Du’s giant lightning hand.

Wang Du confronted Jiao Guang’s consciousness after Jiao Wuye’s father threatened to destroy Qing Province, and the two clashed with their laws while Wang Du shielded Canglan Commandery City. Jiao Guang bypassed Wang Du’s defense and sent a golden attack toward the wounded Su Yu.

• Jiao Guang broke the spatial seal around Jiao Wuye and threatened to flood Qing Province if his son was killed.
• Wang Du declared that Jiao Wuye would die, then struck Jiao Guang’s consciousness with a thunder saber and gained a slight advantage in their clash of laws.
• Jiao Guang unleashed a soul attack across Canglan Commandery, and Wang Du formed a domain to protect the city.
• Wang Du secretly told Su Yu that he could only hold off Jiao Guang and planned to lure him away to buy time.
• Jiao Guang learned from the Blood Demon Crocodile what Su Yu had done and sent a golden attack toward him, which Wang Du could not intercept in time.

Jiao Guang’s Emperor Realm dragon intent struck Su Yu’s soul, but his cultivation in Qi Refinement, Body Refinement, and Spirit Refinement kept him alive and trapped the will. Jiao Guang withdrew with Jiao Wuye and the Blood Demon Crocodile, while Wang Du found the dragon intent still imprisoned inside Su Yu and growing more substantial.

• Jiao Guang’s golden dragon intent invaded Su Yu’s sea of consciousness and began eroding his soul.
• Su Yu’s Yellow Springs Earth Vein Art, Acala Body, and Pagoda Demonic Baleful Intent Art awakened, while the Purple-Gold Prison-Suppressing Platform and Great Annihilation Pagoda trapped the dragon phantom.
• Wang Du realized Su Yu had survived and ordered Jiao Guang to take Jiao Wuye and leave Qing Province.
• Jiao Guang threatened Wang Du, then withdrew with Jiao Wuye and the gravely wounded Blood Demon Crocodile as the water demons fled the battlefield.
• Wang Du examined Su Yu’s sea of consciousness and found the imprisoned dragon intent transforming into a lifelike miniature flood dragon.

Wang Du saved Su Yu by sealing Jiao Guang’s dragon intent inside his sea of consciousness, but the seal would last only three months. Su Yu had to reach Heaven Realm Spirit Refinement or obtain the Spirit-Nourishing Wood from Duke Chen’s Residence to survive.

• Wang Du ordered Lan Kong and Zhang Kai to secure Canglan Commandery and keep the incident secret before taking Su Yu to a hidden stone chamber.
• Wang Du used his lightning laws to suppress the golden dragon in Su Yu’s sea of consciousness, and Su Yu later woke with severe soul injuries.
• Wang Du explained that Jiao Guang’s dragon intent could eventually seize Su Yu’s soul and that his seal would hold for only three months.
• Wang Du told Su Yu he could survive by reaching Heaven Realm Spirit Refinement or obtaining the Spirit-Nourishing Wood from Duke Chen’s Residence.

Su Yu learned he had to reach the Heaven Realm in Spirit Refinement within three months and went to the Merit Hall to seek a suitable technique. After earning over a million merit points for the battle at Canglan Commandery, he requested a Heaven Realm Spirit Refinement technique.

• Wang Du told Su Yu that he needed to reach the Heaven Realm in Spirit Refinement within three months and said the Spirit-Nourishing Wood at Duke Chen's Residence was one possible aid.
• Wang Du warned Su Yu against targeting Duke Chen's Residence and ordered him to recuperate in the Demon Suppression Bureau while his divine sense remained sealed.
• After Wang Du left, Su Yu ignored the order to rest and went to the Merit Hall to settle his battle merits.
• The Merit Hall's formation calculated Su Yu's total as 1,034,700 merit points, including foremost credit for helping Wang Du repel Jiao Wuye's army.
• Su Yu asked the stunned old man to exchange his merit points for a Heaven Realm Spirit Refinement technique.

After the Demon Suppression Bureau could not provide a Heaven Realm Spirit Refinement technique, Su Yu spent his merit on Body Refinement treasures and intelligence about hostile groups. He broke through to Earth Realm Fourth Level and set out to slaughter his way through Qing Province within a month.

• Su Yu learned that Heaven Realm Spirit Refinement techniques were available only at headquarters in the imperial capital and required at least three million merit points.
• Su Yu exchanged nearly all of his million merit points for high-grade Body Refinement treasures.
• After consuming the treasures over three days, Su Yu recovered from his injuries and advanced to Earth Realm Fourth Level, though the pain in his soul remained.
• Su Yu secretly left the Demon Suppression Bureau and used his remaining merit to obtain a map marking hostile groups across Qing Province.
• Su Yu headed for the nearest marked location, intending to spend one month killing his way through Qing Province.

Chen Xiaotian learned that Su Yu was alive but badly weakened and agreed with Zhou Tong to have him killed. Meanwhile, Su Yu annihilated Black Wind Stronghold and headed toward his next target, beginning a wider slaughter.

• Chen Xiaotian feared Su Yu’s strength until Zhou Tong told him that Wang Du had sealed Su Yu’s spiritual sense and left him with less than a tenth of his strength.
• Chen Xiaotian and Zhou Tong decided to send a high-level Earth Realm expert to kill Su Yu.
• Su Yu arrived at Black Wind Stronghold and crushed its Spirit Realm ninth-level chief and more than a dozen bandits with his blood and Qi.
• Su Yu destroyed the entire stronghold and the cliff beneath it, earning Slaughter Points.
• Su Yu checked the next red dot on his map and flew off to continue his slaughter.

Su Yu traced the Demon God Cult’s corruption of Yu County’s earth vein to an altar beneath the county magistrate’s residence and attacked the ritual chamber. He killed the cultists with the power of the earth veins, leaving Elder Qinghei alive as the evil altar stirred a reaction in Su Yu’s soul.

• Su Yu judged the Black Wind Stronghold’s slaughter points insufficient and headed for Yu County, where the Demon God Cult was his main target.
• Su Yu sensed that Yu County’s vitality had been cut off and used the Yellow Springs Earth Vein Art to find a corrupted node beneath the town.
• Su Yu entered the county magistrate’s underground chamber as Elder Qinghei prepared to sacrifice captured Demon Suppression Guards to summon a divine emissary.
• Elder Qinghei ordered the cultists to kill Su Yu, but Su Yu used Earth Vein Resonance to impale the Spirit Realm attackers and crush the Mystic Realm cultists.
• Su Yu’s earth-vein power left Elder Qinghei trembling under pressure, while Su Yu focused on the altar and felt the golden dragon in his soul react to its evil presence.

Su Yu killed Elder Qinghei and stopped the black mist from escaping the altar, allowing Yao One to consume it and break through to the earth realm third layer peak. After learning that the altar was one of seven peripheral sites weakening Qing Province’s earth veins, Su Yu asked where the hidden central altar was.

• Su Yu killed Elder Qinghei with one punch and approached the bone altar.
• A black mist escaped from the shattered crystal, but Su Yu trapped it in an Earth Qi cage.
• Yao One swallowed the black mist and broke through to the earth realm third layer peak.
• Liu Mang told Su Yu that the altar was one of seven sites in the Demon God Cult’s Blood Feeding Formation Diagram and warned that a central altar could turn Qing Province’s Earth Vein Qi into Death Qi.
• Su Yu asked Liu Mang where the central main altar was.

Su Yu resolved the crisis in Yu County and headed for another Demon God Cult stronghold, but two Blood Baleful Intent Hall elders ambushed him in the mountains. Though they believed his sealed spiritual sense left him helpless, Su Yu shattered one elder’s attack with a single punch.

• Liu Mang gave Su Yu a map marking three outer Demon God Cult strongholds, and Su Yu ordered him to report the Yu County events and eliminate the remaining followers.
• Su Yu traveled toward the next stronghold with Yao One and examined the Blood Baleful Intent Body Refining Art, planning to fuse it with his existing arts.
• Two Earth Realm eighth level Blood Baleful Intent Hall elders confronted Su Yu, declaring that Chen Xiaotian and Zhou Tong had ordered his death.
• The gaunt elder mocked Su Yu over his sealed spiritual sense and attacked with Soul-Tearing Blood Claw.
• Su Yu countered with his Yellow Springs Earth Vein Art and Acala Body, shattered the ghost claw, and sent the gaunt elder flying with a powerful punch.

Su Yu overwhelmed the two Blood Baleful Intent Hall elders with his three cultivation paths and trapped the scarred middle-aged man when he tried to escape. The chapter ended as Su Yu gathered the power of the earth veins into his Palm Abyss technique to finish him.

• The scarred middle-aged man and the gaunt old man attacked Su Yu together with a sword strike and a soul curse.
• Su Yu’s Prohibition Blood Formation suppressed the sword force, while his Acala Body nullified the curse and his Gravity Domain crushed the elders.
• Su Yu killed the gaunt old man with the Eight Desolations Demon-Suppressing Hand and brought down the scarred man with the Great Annihilation Pagoda’s mental suppression.
• The scarred middle-aged man tried to escape using a blood-red jade talisman, but Su Yu erased the teleportation formation with the Yellow Springs Earth Vein Art.
• Su Yu gathered the power of the earth veins into his palm and prepared to strike the scarred middle-aged man with Palm Abyss, World-Burying Mountains and Rivers.

Su Yu killed two Blood Baleful Intent Hall elders with Palm Abyss, then fused his cultivation arts to eliminate the clash between his Buddhist and demonic powers. The chapter left him sensing an approaching danger as Duke Chen, Zhou Tong, and another powerful attendant set out to hunt him.

• Su Yu used Palm Abyss to kill Ghost Hand and Blood Slaughter, then ordered Yao One to erase the evidence.
• Zhou Tong told Chen Xiaotian that both elders' soul lamps had gone out, and they realized they had underestimated Su Yu.
• Chen Xiaotian decided that he and Zhou Tong would pursue Su Yu, and he summoned Attendant Li to join them.
• Su Yu fused the Pagoda Demonic Baleful Intent Art with the Blood Baleful Intent Body Refining Art, creating the Pagoda Blood Baleful Intent Art.
• Su Yu sensed a danger approaching, while the dark gold flood dragon in his sea of consciousness began struggling in terror and excitement.

Su Yu tested the Pagoda Blood Baleful Intent Art against Yao Ming and his Earth Realm Ninth Level giant ape demon servant, discovering that the art converted severe injuries into fuel for rapid recovery. After taunting Yao Ming, Su Yu used his movement and earth techniques to hinder the demon servant and attack its neck.

• Yao Ming arrived atop a giant ape demon servant and attacked Su Yu, destroying the cave and forcing him into the open.
• Su Yu charged into the demon servant’s enormous palm with the Pagoda Blood Baleful Intent Art, but the blow sent him crashing into a mountainside.
• Su Yu emerged with a severe chest injury that rapidly healed as the blood baleful Qi absorbed the dissipating blood Qi.
• Su Yu taunted Yao Ming, who angrily sent the giant ape demon servant to hammer at him with its fists.
• Su Yu evaded the attacks, used the Yellow Springs Earth Vein Art to slow the demon servant, and struck at the back of its neck as it raised a Yao Qi barrier.

Su Yu fought Yao Ming’s Earth Realm Ninth Level demon servants and revealed a range of powerful cultivation arts. After crushing both servants with one strike, he left Yao Ming terrified and desperate to flee.

• Su Yu endured the giant ape demon servant’s attack, healed rapidly, and began overpowering it in close combat.
• Yao Ming summoned a bull-headed Earth Realm Ninth Level demon servant to attack Su Yu alongside the giant ape.
• Su Yu used the Yellow Springs Earth Vein Art, Prohibition Blood Formation, and Great Annihilation Pagoda to restrain the servants and sever Yao Ming’s control briefly.
• Su Yu unleashed Palm Abyss · World-Burying Mountains and Rivers, grievously wounding both demon servants with one strike.
• Yao Ming realized Su Yu was far more dangerous than he had expected and decided to flee.

Su Yu defeated Yao Ming’s demon servants and forced Yao Ming to retreat, then continued toward a Demon God Cult branch. Zhou Tong, Chen Xiaotian, and Li Chunfeng arrived at the battlefield, discovered signs of the clash, and pursued Su Yu, while Yao Ming escaped and stopped to recover.

• Su Yu destroyed Yao Ming’s puppet and gravely injured his two demon servants, then headed for Severed Dragon Cliff to continue hunting.
• Yao Ming emerged from his escape badly injured and sensed Zhou Tong, Chen Xiaotian, and Li Chunfeng approaching, so he concealed his condition in black mist.
• Zhou Tong asked Yao Ming whether he had seen a young man, but Yao Ming concealed his encounter with Su Yu and tried to leave.
• Li Chunfeng tried to stop Yao Ming, but Chen Xiaotian ordered him to let Yao Ming go so they could focus on finding Su Yu.
• Chen Xiaotian examined the battlefield and concluded that Su Yu had fought Yao Ming and forced him to retreat, then led the others after Su Yu.
• Yao Ming stopped behind a secluded waterfall, his injuries worsened but his eyes shining with excitement.

Yao Ming seized the chance to slip into Duke Chen's Residence and take control of the Blood Spirit Formation while Su Yu continued destroying Demon God Cult strongholds. As Chen Xiaotian and Zhou Tong pursued Su Yu, Zhou Tong secretly followed Chen Xiaotian, leaving the outcome of their pursuit uncertain.

• Yao Ming realized Chen Xiaotian and Li Chunfeng had left Duke Chen's Residence, then fled toward Qing Province to seize the Blood Spirit Formation beneath it.
• Su Yu destroyed the Demon God Cult's stronghold at Severed Dragon Cliff, spent 100000 Slaughter Points to upgrade the Pagoda Blood Baleful Intent Art, and grew more wary of how easily his targets fell.
• Chen Xiaotian, Li Chunfeng, and Zhou Tong arrived at the ruined stronghold, and Zhou Tong secretly sent a message before proposing that they split up to trap Su Yu at Gloomy Wind Valley.
• After Chen Xiaotian and Li Chunfeng departed, Zhou Tong changed course and secretly followed Chen Xiaotian instead of heading to Gloomy Wind Valley.
• Yao Ming entered Duke Chen's Residence without alerting its guards and slipped toward the Blood Spirit Formation.

Zhou Tong learned from Nie Wuya that the Blood Spirit Formation lay beneath Duke Chen’s Residence and could summon a legendary great blood demon, then set off to pursue it. Meanwhile, Su Yu waited at the ruins of a Demon God Cult base for Chen Xiaotian and Attendant Li, greeting them with a taunt as they arrived.

• Zhou Tong contacted Nie Wuya and learned that the Blood Spirit Formation beneath Duke Chen’s Residence connected to Qing Province’s earth veins and could summon a great blood demon.
• Nie Wuya explained that Yao Ming had come to take control of the formation, and Zhou Tong decided to head to Duke Chen’s Residence.
• Su Yu noticed that the Demon God Cult base had been too easy to destroy, so he stopped at the ruins and waited instead of pursuing another target.
• Chen Xiaotian and Attendant Li arrived at the ruins and found Su Yu calmly waiting for them.
• Su Yu rose and told Chen Xiaotian, “You’re late. I was getting a little impatient waiting.”

Su Yu fought Li Chun in Gloomy Wind Valley and gradually overwhelmed him with his saber and blood baleful intent. As Su Yu trapped Li Chun and struck at his chest, Chen Xiaotian rushed in to rescue his attendant.

• Li Chun attacked Su Yu with his sword, but Su Yu met the strike with his saber and fought him at close quarters.
• Su Yu's powerful saber and blood baleful intent steadily suppressed Li Chun despite Su Yu's lower cultivation level.
• In an underground cavern, Zhou Tong and the Zhou Tong in the mirror discussed using Su Yu to distract Chen Xiaotian while Yao Ming approached Duke Chen's Residence.
• Su Yu used Earth Vein Resonance to immobilize Li Chun, then moved in with a powerful punch.
• Chen Xiaotian broke his composure and rushed to save Li Chun.

Su Yu crippled Li Chun while blocking Chen Xiaotian’s attack, then revealed that his Pagoda Blood Baleful Intent Art could devour Blood Demon Qi and heal his wounds. As Chen Xiaotian and Li Chun joined forces against him, Su Yu transformed his Great Annihilation Pagoda into a terrifying Blood Pagoda and prepared to face them both.

• Chen Xiaotian attacked Su Yu to save Li Chun, but Su Yu used the Eight Desolations Demon-Suppressing Hand to block Chen’s claw while striking Li Chun with his fist.
• Su Yu shattered Li Chun’s protective sword force and badly injured him, while Chen Xiaotian’s attack wounded Su Yu’s shoulder.
• Su Yu’s Pagoda Blood Baleful Intent Art devoured the Blood Demon Qi and rapidly healed his wound, and he accused Chen Xiaotian’s residence of colluding with the Blood Baleful Intent Hall.
• Chen Xiaotian revealed his full Blood Demon Qi and summoned a powerful demonic silhouette, then called on the weakened Li Chun to help kill Su Yu.
• Su Yu summoned the Great Annihilation Pagoda and transformed it into a blood-soaked Blood Pagoda that faced Chen Xiaotian’s demonic silhouette.

Su Yu crushed Li Chun’s ambush and helped the Blood Pagoda wound Chen Xiaotian’s Blood Demon Shadow in Gloomy Wind Valley. Meanwhile, Yao Ming found the Blood Spirit Formation beneath Duke Chen’s Residence, where Zhou Tong watched from outside, preparing to act.

• Chen Xiaotian’s Blood Demon Shadow attacked the Blood Pagoda, but the Pagoda crushed and repelled its Demon Qi.
• Li Chun launched a last-ditch attack on Su Yu, but Su Yu trapped and erased him with Palm Abyss · World-Burying Mountains and Rivers.
• Chen Xiaotian’s shock at Li Chun’s death created an opening, and the Blood Pagoda pierced the Blood Demon Shadow’s chest with two beams of divine light.
• Yao Ming infiltrated Duke Chen’s Residence and found the dry well concealing the Blood Spirit Formation’s entrance.
• Zhou Tong returned and watched Yao Ming from outside the residence, declaring that it was time for him to enter the stage.