Chapter Summaries

Yao Ming entered the underground Blood Spirit Formation beneath Duke Chen's Residence and awakened a hidden guardian, while Chen Xiaotian abruptly fled his battle with Su Yu. The cavern's guardian sent four bone-and-metal puppets to confront Yao Ming, including two at the Earth Realm ninth level.

• Yao Ming confirmed Duke Chen's Residence seemed unguarded and descended through a dry well to the underground cavern.
• Yao Ming touched the Blood Spirit Formation's core runes, awakening a hidden presence that demanded to know who had trespassed.
• In Gloomy Wind Valley, Chen Xiaotian began preparing a desperate strike against Su Yu, then suddenly lost his momentum and fled toward Qing Province's prefectural city.
• Su Yu watched Chen Xiaotian escape and sensed that something momentous had happened at Duke Chen's Residence.
• Four bone-and-metal puppets emerged from the cavern passages, and Yao Ming recognized that two were at the Earth Realm ninth level.

Yao Ming was trapped by four puppets guarding the formation beneath the Duke's Residence, while Zhou Tong watched from hiding. After learning the formation suppressed a Blood Demon Imperial Clan descendant, Yao Ming stopped trying to destroy it and began a mysterious seal as the ground shook.

• Yao Ming's divine sense attack failed against the puppets, and they shattered the barrier made from his demon servants' remnant souls.
• Zhou Tong judged that Yao Ming was likely to die, but chose to remain concealed and watch what the Chen Family's hidden force would do.
• The four puppets cornered Yao Ming, and an Earth Realm Ninth Level puppet smashed him into the cavern wall.
• Yao Ming prepared to use the Eye of God Defilement, but the aged voice warned that the formation suppressed a Blood Demon Imperial Clan descendant.
• Yao Ming put away the artifact, realized the formation could help release the blood demon, and formed a special seal as the ground began to tremble.

Yao Ming activated the Blood Spirit Formation, awakening Chen Wei, the old duke believed to have died in battle, while Zhou Tong concealed the formation’s power. The formation overwhelmed the Duke’s Residence, and its blood mist began draining the life from everyone it reached.

• Yao Ming used a forbidden mark to fully activate the Blood Spirit Formation, causing its runes to erupt and the four puppets to stop attacking.
• Zhou Tong contained the formation’s power beneath the Duke’s Residence, though the resulting tremors alerted nearby residents and Demon Suppression Bureau officers.
• Ding Gui sensed a terrifying presence beneath the mansion and ordered his officers to report the disturbance to headquarters.
• Chen Wei, Chen Xiaotian’s father, awoke in the blood mist and willingly followed the chain piercing him deeper into its depths to stand guard.
• The formation broke through Zhou Tong’s suppression, flooding half the Duke’s Residence with blood mist that drained servants and attendants into desiccated corpses.

Chen Wei’s awakened Blood Spirit power devastated the Duke’s Residence, and Zhou Tong tried to exploit the blood mist before realizing the old duke had noticed him. The chapter left Zhou Tong fleeing into the sky as the unseen threat confronted him.

• The blood mist engulfed the Duke’s Residence, killing its inhabitants while Zhou Tong watched from the shadows and sensed its power was unusually ancient and pure.
• Chen Xiaotian arrived and recognized that his father, Chen Wei, was behind the catastrophe, while Zhou Tong decided to steal the power gathering underground.
• In the cavern, Chen Wei disappeared and became an enormous heart that absorbed the blood mist; its halted beat sent the mist into a frenzy that killed the three Earth Realm Attendants.
• The awakened blood mist tried to invade Zhou Tong, and an emotionless voice called him out of hiding.
• Zhou Tong fled toward the sky after realizing Chen Wei had watched him since he entered the residence.

Zhou Tong survived the Chen Family’s attack by warning the possessed puppet that Wang Du was on his way and offering the Blood Baleful Intent Hall’s help. The old duke paused his attack and asked what the hall wanted, opening the way for cooperation.

• Four bone-and-metal puppets surrounded Zhou Tong and attacked him with the power of the Blood Spirit Formation.
• The old duke possessed an Earth Realm ninth-level puppet, raising its strength to the threshold of the Heaven Realm and suppressing Zhou Tong.
• Zhou Tong warned that Wang Du would arrive soon, and Chen Xiaotian pleaded with his father to avoid facing the Demon Suppression Envoy.
• The old duke stopped his attack and asked what the Blood Baleful Intent Hall wanted.
• Zhou Tong proposed that the hall send someone to hold off Wang Du and other Demon Suppression Bureau experts.

Zhou Tong agreed to cooperate with the old duke’s puppet, accepting a plan to seize half the blood food in Qing Province in exchange for targeting Wang Du. Wang Du mobilized the Demon Suppression Bureau against Duke Chen’s Residence and ordered the extermination of the entire Chen clan.

• Zhou Tong agreed to cooperate with the old duke’s puppet, and the puppet assigned him Wang Du as a target while demanding that no Earth Realm commander remain in Qing Province.
• Zhou Tong withdrew from the Duke’s Residence as the puppet’s four guards vanished into the blood mist.
• Wang Du learned that the power at Duke Chen’s Residence was approaching the Heaven Realm and summoned the Demon Suppression Bureau’s forces.
• Wang Du showed the assembled guards evidence that the Chen clan had used Qing Province’s earth veins and its people to rear a Blood Demon, then ordered Ding Gui, Li Mu, and Zhao Qian to surround the residence.
• Wang Du halted on his way to Duke Chen’s Residence and issued a province-wide command for reinforcements, ordering them to wipe out the entire Chen clan and leave no one alive.

Su Yu delayed his return to Qing Province City and fused the Pagoda Blood Baleful Intent Art with the Demon Bone Body Refinement Art, gaining greater strength and the ability to devour negative energies. He then considered fusing his new art with the Acala Body, wondering what kind of monster Buddha and demon united would create.

• Su Yu received Wang Du’s order to return to Qing Province City and quell the rebellion.
• Su Yu sensed a terrifying presence in the Duke’s Residence and decided to wait until he could intervene on his own terms.
• Su Yu ordered Yao One to guard the valley entrance and fused the Pagoda Blood Baleful Intent Art with the Demon Bone Body Refinement Art.
• Su Yu gained the Demon Baleful Intent Pagoda Art, which strengthened his body and let him devour Yao Qi, Sha Qi, and other negative energies.
• Su Yu looked at his Acala Body and considered fusing it with the Demon Baleful Intent Pagoda Art.

Su Yu risked his life to fuse the Acala Body with the Demon Baleful Intent Pagoda Art, creating the supreme-grade Earth Realm Blood Baleful Intent Wisdom King Body. After learning it could devour and refine many kinds of power, he headed toward Qing Prefecture City when Yao One sensed someone beyond the Earth Realm.

• Su Yu used the system to force a fusion of Buddhist essence and demon baleful Qi, burning his blood and Qi to make up for insufficient Slaughter Points.
• The system consumed 500,000 Slaughter Points to break down and recombine the two powers, nearly grinding away Su Yu's consciousness in the process.
• Su Yu gained the supreme-grade Earth Realm Blood Baleful Intent Wisdom King Body, with the ability to manifest Buddhist and demonic aspects and briefly merge them.
• Su Yu discovered the art's Myriad Dharma Furnace trait, which could devour and refine various powers and might analyze opponents' arts.
• Yao One warned Su Yu that someone beyond the Earth Realm was in the direction of Qing Province Prefecture, and Su Yu set off toward Qing Prefecture City.

Three Earth Realm Ninth Level commanders entered the blood mist around the Duke’s Residence and confronted Chen Xiaotian, who revealed two powerful puppets. The puppets swiftly defeated two commanders, leaving Commander Liu alone before Chen Xiaotian and the killing machines.

• Ding Gui warned Commanders Liu, Zhang, and Han that the blood mist was expanding, powerful enemies were inside the Duke’s Residence, and Wang Du was missing.
• The three commanders charged into the blood mist and found Chen Xiaotian waiting among the corpses.
• Chen Xiaotian summoned two Earth Realm Ninth Level puppets and ordered them to attack.
• Commander Zhang was severely wounded by one puppet, while the other broke Commander Han’s sword and blasted him underground.
• Commander Liu was left alone as Chen Xiaotian declared that his father’s power could overwhelm the order the commanders served.

Chen Xiaotian ordered the Demon Suppression commanders taken as sacrifices for the Blood Spirit Formation, but Abbot Yuanxin and monks from Xuankong Temple intervened. Yuanxin destroyed one of the Earth Realm Ninth Level puppets with his Acala Body-Wisdom King True Body, and the voice underground warned that his actions would destroy Xuankong Temple’s centuries-old foundation.

• Chen Xiaotian ordered the two puppets to kill Commander Liu and the other surviving commanders, but his father stopped him and demanded that they be taken alive as blood sacrifices.
• Chen Xiaotian sent the commanders to the blood pool, but Abbot Yuanxin arrived with more than a dozen Xuankong Temple monks and condemned him.
• Chen Xiaotian ordered the puppets to attack Yuanxin and the monks, who formed the Arhat Formation to block one puppet.
• Yuanxin manifested his Acala Body-Wisdom King True Body and shattered the other puppet with a single punch.
• The voice underground told Yuanxin that his actions would utterly destroy Xuankong Temple’s centuries-old foundation.

Abbot Yuanxin fought Chen Xiaotian, Yao Ming, and their demonic forces at the Duke's Residence while Chen Wei controlled the battle from underground. As Yuanxin's defenses collapsed and a puppet struck at him, a sword rang out at the last moment.

• Chen Wei rejected Yuanxin's appeal and sent the controlled Yao Ming and two restored demon servants to attack him alongside Chen Xiaotian.
• Yuanxin fought off the attackers but was wounded when Yao Ming struck the Wisdom King True Body with a Divine Soul Thorn.
• Zhou Tong summoned the Blood Baleful Intent Hall's followers, intending to use the Chen Family's blood calamity to turn Qing Province into a furnace of flesh and blood.
• Yuanxin burned his Buddhist essence to blast back Chen Xiaotian and the demon servants, but the Wisdom King True Body shattered and left him near collapse.
• The Earth Realm Ninth Level puppet broke free from Xuankong Temple's formation and swung at Yuanxin, as Chen Xiaotian taunted him.
• A clear sword cry rang out just before the puppet's fist reached Yuanxin's forehead.

Li Ping and Azure Sword Manor joined the battle against Chen Xiaotian and Yao Ming, while Chen Wei revealed that the conflict was bait to draw in more forces. Su Yu tested his newly gained Blood Baleful Intent Wisdom King Body on Blood Baleful Intent Hall followers and learned through a soul search that Zhou Tong planned to harvest blood food across Qing Province amid the chaos.

• Li Ping and Azure Sword Manor destroyed Chen Wei’s puppet and attacked Chen Xiaotian and Yao Ming to avenge slain disciples.
• Chen Wei said the fighting was bait, and Blood Baleful Intent Hall operatives across Qing Province received orders to assemble at the prefectural capital.
• Su Yu encountered a Blood Baleful Intent Hall party on the road and killed a Mystic Realm attacker with a single punch.
• Su Yu’s Blood Baleful Intent Wisdom King Body absorbed the group’s attacks, and the followers tried to flee.
• Su Yu soul-searched the Earth Realm Seventh Level deacon and discovered Zhou Tong’s plan to harvest blood food while Qing Province’s factions fought.

Su Yu ambushed a group of Blood Baleful Intent Hall followers heading toward Qing Province City and killed them without letting their blood Baleful Intent consume him. He began hunting the Hall’s other groups across Qing Province before the battle at the Duke’s Residence, where the factions remained unaware of his actions.

• Su Yu stopped a group of Blood Baleful Intent Hall followers in the forest and killed their Earth Realm leader with a single punch.
• Su Yu used the Blood Baleful Intent Wisdom King Body to kill the remaining followers as they fled.
• Su Yu suppressed his urge to absorb the dead men’s blood Baleful Intent and reflected that he needed to keep his Buddhist and demonic powers in balance.
• Su Yu learned that Zhou Tong had sent more groups toward Qing Province’s prefectural capital to deepen the chaos.
• Su Yu chose to hunt the Blood Baleful Intent Hall groups before entering the fray at the Duke’s Residence.

Wang Du confronted a Heaven Realm Fifth Level tree demon in the Bone-Eroding Abyss while demons attacked Heavenly Evolution Mountain Manor. After the tree demon trapped him in its Ten Thousand Trees Prison domain, Wang Du revealed the full force of his Law of Thunder and called down lightning.

• Zhao Kuohai led Heavenly Evolution Mountain Manor’s disciples against demons pouring out of the Bone-Eroding Abyss after Wang Du warned him to hold the gates.
• Wang Du faced the Heaven Realm Fifth Level tree demon, which said Zhou Tong had awakened it and promised to remove Wang Du as an obstacle.
• The tree demon attacked with tens of thousands of branches, but Wang Du sliced through them with his saber and the Law of Thunder.
• The tree demon expanded its Ten Thousand Trees Prison domain around Wang Du, seeking to suppress his strength and gain the advantage.
• Wang Du smiled, unleashed a terrifying presence, and summoned dark clouds and powerful lightning before commanding it to fall.

Wang Du tore open the tree demon’s domain with a storm of law-powered lightning while the battle at Duke Chen’s Residence remained deadlocked and the spreading blood mist threatened the city. A hundred li away, Zhou Tong discovered that his scattered Blood Baleful Intent Hall teams were being systematically eliminated and demanded to know who was hunting them.

• Wang Du unleashed a sea of purple-black lightning that severely wounded the tree demon and tore open its domain.
• Li Ping, Abbot Yuanxin, Commander Liu, and their allies fought Chen Xiaotian’s forces while the blood mist continued to spread and consume life.
• Zhou Tong watched the battle from an underground stone hall and waited for his Blood Baleful Intent Hall teams to gather outside the prefectural city.
• Zhou Tong received no response from his teams, and the jade pendant’s points of light began going out one by one.
• Zhou Tong realized an unknown enemy was hunting his men, smashed the bloodlight mirror, and demanded to know who was responsible.

Su Yu spent his Slaughter Points to raise the Blood Baleful Intent Wisdom King Body to major accomplishment and broke through to Earth Realm Seventh Level. Zhou Tong arrived to find his followers dead, and after seeing Su Yu wield both Buddhist and demonic powers, he demanded Su Yu reveal his secrets.

• Su Yu spent 500,000 Slaughter Points to advance the Blood Baleful Intent Wisdom King Body and reached Earth Realm Seventh Level in Body Refinement.
• Su Yu sensed Zhou Tong approaching and waited for him in the clearing.
• Zhou Tong arrived, found his followers dead, and accused Su Yu of killing them.
• Zhou Tong attacked Su Yu with Soul-Seizing Blood Claw, but Su Yu blocked it with Buddhist light and wounded Zhou Tong with a devouring demonic claw.
• Zhou Tong realized Su Yu had destroyed his plans and killed his subordinates, then demanded Su Yu reveal his secrets as he unleashed his full power.

Su Yu confronted Zhou Tong to avenge Tang Shan, revealing Buddhist and demonic powers that overwhelmed the Blood Baleful Intent Hall master. Zhou Tong invoked Blood God Descent, raising the battle to a near-heaven-realm level as Su Yu prepared to meet him.

• Zhou Tong attacked Su Yu with Blood Prison Imprisonment and Slaughter after learning Su Yu had come to avenge Tang Shan.
• Su Yu purified Zhou Tong’s blood net with his Wisdom King halo, then charged forward with Thunder Demon Shadow Trace Steps.
• Su Yu broke Zhou Tong’s fingers and used Myriad Dharma Furnace to drain his blood baleful intent, forcing him to retreat.
• Zhou Tong suppressed his fear and invoked Blood God Descent, gaining power approaching the heaven realm.
• Su Yu summoned the Blood Baleful Intent Wisdom King phantom, with Buddhist light and demonic flames, and challenged Zhou Tong to witness a true demon.

Su Yu defeated Zhou Tong with his Pagoda Blood Manifestation and crippled him, avenging Tang Shan. Zhou Tong vanished into a blood-red signal that suggested he might survive, and Su Yu vowed to kill him again if he returned.

• Su Yu transformed his Blood Baleful Intent Wisdom King into the far more powerful Pagoda Blood Manifestation, terrifying Zhou Tong.
• Zhou Tong attacked Su Yu with the strength of a Half-Step Heaven Realm, but Su Yu shattered his defenses and punched him into a mountainside.
• Su Yu used the Yellow Springs Earth Vein Art and Prohibition Blood Formation to pin Zhou Tong in a crater and seal his power.
• Su Yu struck Zhou Tong with the Eight Desolations Demon-Suppressing Hand, breaking his body and destroying his cultivation.
• Zhou Tong began to self-detonate but instead dispersed into blood-red motes that formed a thread of light and vanished into the distance.
• Su Yu suspected Zhou Tong might not be dead and vowed to kill him again if he returned.

Zhou Tong’s original body learned that Su Yu had killed his clone and took interest in him, while the defenders of the Duke’s Residence broke through to discover Chen Wei’s enormous heart at the center of the Blood Spirit Formation. Their attacks fed the heart, and Chen Wei revealed that they had completed its final nurturing.

• Zhou Tong’s original body sensed his clone’s death and identified Su Yu as an unexpected threat worth watching.
• Su Yu headed toward Qing Province City after killing Zhou Tong’s clone and clearing out Blood Baleful Intent Hall squads.
• Li Ping, Abbot Yuanxin, Commander Liu, and the others broke through the defenders and pushed deeper into the Duke’s Residence.
• The group found Chen Wei’s enormous heart drawing vital essence from Qing Province City and realized it powered the Blood Spirit Formation.
• Commander Liu, Li Ping, and the Xuankong Temple monks attacked the heart, but it absorbed their strikes.
• Chen Wei thanked the attackers, saying they had completed the heart’s final nurturing.

Chen Wei emerged from the blood mist in a youthful body after using Qing Province’s million living beings and the fighters’ strength to forge an Immaculate Blood God Body. He declared himself a god, demonstrated his power by killing an Earth Realm seventh level elder with one finger, and offered Yuanxin eternal life in exchange for submission.

• Li Ping and Abbot Yuanxin launched their final attacks against the blood sphere, but it swallowed both strikes without effect.
• The blood sphere dissolved into the blood mist, and the enormous heart withered as Chen Wei emerged looking as young as he had a hundred years earlier.
• Chen Wei told Li Ping, Yuanxin, and Liu Yi that he had used Qing Province’s million living beings and their strength to forge his Immaculate Blood God Body.
• Chen Wei killed an Earth Realm seventh level elder of Azure Sword Manor with a single finger, drawing the man’s blood into himself from hundreds of feet away.
• Chen Wei claimed that he controlled life and death within the Flesh and Blood Furnace, then offered Yuanxin healing and eternal life if he knelt and became his divine emissary.