Chapter Summaries

Su Yu used Slaughter Points to reach the Mortal Realm Ninth Layer and perfect Suppressing Prisons and Subduing Demons. At Nanhe County’s gate, he crippled Liu Ang with one punch and held a blade to his neck, demanding to know whose rules governed the county.

• Su Yu spent Slaughter Points to advance to the Mortal Realm Ninth Layer and perfect Suppressing Prisons and Subduing Demons.
• Tang Shan told Su Yu that everything was packed, and Su Yu rode back toward Nanhe County.
• Liu Ang blocked the city gate with over a hundred guards and demanded to know where Liu Ying was; Su Yu said she was dead.
• Liu Ang attacked Su Yu and sent Tang Shan flying, but Su Yu shattered Liu Ang’s right arm with one punch and knocked him into the guards.
• Su Yu crushed Liu Ang’s left shoulder, forced him to his knees, and pressed his saber to Liu Ang’s neck as he challenged Liu Ang’s claim to rule Nanhe County.

Su Yu beheaded Liu Ang at Nanhe County’s city gate and helped Lin Xiao expose the Liu Family’s collusion with demons. As Su Yu rode to the Demon Suppression Bureau, Liu Tianjue ordered his black-robed ally to unleash a creature in the city.

• Su Yu evaded the Liu Family archers and killed Liu Ang with Wind Falls Silent, Leaving No Trace.
• Su Yu killed Liu Hu and cut down Liu Family guards, causing the remaining soldiers to flee.
• Lin Xiao arrived, accepted Su Yu’s bloodstained letters, and ordered the Liu Family to surrender as traitors.
• Su Yu impaled Liu Ang’s head on the city gate and rode toward the Demon Suppression Bureau with 580 Slaughter Points.
• Liu Tianjue demanded Su Yu’s death, and the black-robed figure sent his creature into the city.
• A green-haired claw emerged from a dry well in the south of the city as chewing sounds rose from below.

Su Yu used Slaughter Points to cultivate the Spirit-Seizing Art, break through to the Spirit Realm, and gain divine sense. When a demon puppet attacked the Demon Suppression Bureau, he killed it and turned his attention toward the Liu Family mansion.

• Su Yu spent 500 Slaughter Points deducing the Spirit-Seizing Art and reached the Spirit Realm First Level, gaining divine sense with a three-meter range.
• Tang Shan told Su Yu that a monster was attacking the Demon Suppression Bureau’s training grounds while Chief Lin and most of the guards were away surrounding the Liu Family.
• Su Yu rushed to the training grounds and identified the attacker as a Half-Step Spirit Realm demon puppet that had killed the guards left behind.
• Su Yu used his divine sense to read the demon puppet’s movements, then defeated it with Vajra Demon-Subduing Fist by striking its core in the forehead.
• After gaining 100 Slaughter Points from the kill, Su Yu looked toward the Liu Family mansion.

Su Yu arrived at the Liu Family estate and found Liu Tianjue using a Demon God Cult ritual to turn Su Daqiang's corpse into a weapon. The chapter ended with Liu Tianjue taunting Su Yu to fight his reanimated father.

• Lin Xiao confronted Liu Tianjue over the Liu Family's alleged collusion with the Demon God Cult, and Liu Tianjue summoned two black-robed figures and raised corpses from the ground.
• Su Yu arrived as Liu Tianjue activated a blood-thread barrier that drained the Demon Suppression Guards and fired a beam of blood-colored light at him.
• Su Yu blocked Liu Tianjue's attack with his saber and recognized the black-robed figure as Su Daqiang.
• Lin Xiao explained that the Demon God Cult had used Corpse Fiend Rebirth to turn Su Daqiang's body into a soulless Spirit Realm First Level killing weapon.
• Liu Tianjue taunted Su Yu, saying he would have to kill his father or be torn apart by him.

Su Yu fought Liu Tianjue’s Spirit Realm puppet while Lin Xiao and the Demon Suppression Guard struggled against the black-robed man and green-haired zombies. He destroyed the puppet by striking the corpse-controlling talisman, then turned his attention to Liu Tianjue.

• Liu Tianjue ordered Su Daqiang to kill Su Yu, while the black-robed man intercepted Lin Xiao and the green-haired zombies attacked the Demon Suppression Guard.
• Su Yu dodged Su Daqiang’s powerful attacks and learned the puppet was a pain-insensitive Body Refinement Spirit Realm foe.
• Su Yu met the puppet’s claws with Vajra Demon-Subduing Fist, injuring his own hand while breaking three of its fingernails.
• After Lin Xiao was wounded and urged him to finish the fight, Su Yu used Spirit-Seizing Art to briefly disrupt the corpse-controlling talisman.
• Su Yu used perfected Wandering Dragon Steps to reach Su Daqiang’s back and pierced its third vertebra, destroying the talisman and disabling the puppet.
• Su Yu gained 100 Slaughter Points and looked toward Liu Tianjue.

Su Yu defeated Yin Jiuyou by turning his Blood Spirit Gu against him, then killed him and confronted Liu Tianjue. Just as Lin Xiao declared the Liu Family finished, a huge red-haired claw emerged from the dry well amid a surge of black Qi.

• Liu Tianjue watched in shock as Su Yu defeated his puppet, then ordered Yin Jiuyou to kill him.
• Yin Jiuyou sent his Blood Spirit Gu at Su Yu, but Su Yu used divine sense to stun it and redirect it toward Yin Jiuyou.
• The Blood Spirit Gu attacked its master, and Su Yu seized the opening to kill Yin Jiuyou with his saber.
• Su Yu turned to Liu Tianjue as Lin Xiao joined him and reported that the Demon Suppression Guards had gained control of the fight.
• Liu Tianjue refused to surrender, and a massive red-haired claw appeared at the dry well as black Qi surged into the sky.

Su Yu advanced Suppressing Prison and Subduing Demons to the subtle realm, gaining the ultimate killing move Absolute Prohibition Blood Formation. He used its oppressive field to slow Liu Tianjue and struck him with Vajra Demon-Subduing Fist, leaving Liu Tianjue crushed beneath the ruins as the red-haired monster was still emerging from the well.

• Lin Xiao and Su Yu attacked Liu Tianjue, but his Vajra Demonic Baleful Intent repelled their blows and his counterattack drove them back.
• Tang Shan knocked down a panicking Demon Suppression Guard and urged the others to grip their sabers and stand firm.
• Su Yu spent 400 Slaughter Points to advance Suppressing Prison and Subduing Demons to the subtle realm and comprehended Absolute Prohibition Blood Formation.
• Su Yu activated the formation, increasing the gravity around him and trapping Liu Tianjue as he tried to attack.
• Su Yu struck Liu Tianjue in the chest with Vajra Demon-Subduing Fist, shattering his defenses and sending him through three courtyard walls into the ruins.

Su Yu defeated and killed Liu Tianjue, who warned that his son Qingyun would seek revenge through the Demon God Cult. A sealed Spirit Realm Fifth Level demon emerged from the well and overwhelmed the courtyard, leaving the Demon Suppression Guards facing a desperate retreat.

• Su Yu approached the mortally wounded Liu Tianjue and learned that Qingyun was the personal disciple of a Demon God Cult elder.
• Su Yu struck Liu Tianjue with his saber, then beheaded him and gained 300 Slaughter Points.
• The demon burst from the dry well, and its black slime dissolved a Demon Suppression Guard.
• Lin Xiao ordered the guards to retreat and attacked the Spirit Realm Fifth Level demon, but it shattered his sword and knocked him unconscious.

Su Yu fought the red-haired monster despite exhausting his spiritual power, while an unknown spirit-refining expert arrived and restrained the creature. The expert urged everyone to retreat, but Su Yu remained intent on using the brief opening to kill it.

• Su Yu used Wandering Dragon Steps to evade the monster, struck its mind with an invisible blade, and wounded its left armpit with his saber.
• Tang Shan and the Demon Suppression Guards regained hope as Su Yu held the monster’s attention, but the creature healed and charged him again.
• With his strength nearly spent, Su Yu considered risking a spirit-refining breakthrough rather than abandoning the guards and Lin Xiao.
• A masked woman with Spirit Realm third-level spirit-refining cultivation pinned the monster down with psychic power and told the survivors to retreat.
• Su Yu refused to leave, determined to use the expert’s brief restraint to kill the monster.

Su Yu broke through to spirit realm second level and killed the spirit realm fifth level demon puppet with a single punch. Afterward, he faced off with the masked woman, who warned him that the Demon God Cult would come after him and offered him a Shadow Guard invitation token.

• Su Yu killed the green-haired zombies and spent 500 Slaughter Points to advance his Spirit-Seizing Art, breaking through to spirit realm second level.
• Su Yu used his divine sense to cripple the demon puppet’s consciousness, then shattered its heart with the Vajra Demon-Subduing Fist.
• Su Yu killed the spirit realm fifth level demon puppet, leaving Tang Shan and the Demon Suppression Guards stunned.
• The masked woman approached Su Yu and warned that the Demon God Cult would investigate the Liu Family, urging him to go to the commandery or provincial city.
• The masked woman offered Su Yu a Shadow Guard invitation token, and Lin Xiao woke beneath the rubble and recognized it.

After White Cat invited Su Yu to join the Shadow Guard, he learned the position could coexist with his Demon Suppression Bureau rank. Lin Xiao ordered the Liu Family estate confiscated, and Su Yu entered its treasure vault to claim his first pick.

• White Cat invited Su Yu to join the Shadow Guard and told him to go to Tiannan Commandery.
• Su Yu admitted that he had killed Yue Rao, while Lin Xiao concealed the truth by reporting that she had died during an ambush.
• Tang Shan recognized the token as a Shadow Guard Invitation Token, and Lin Xiao explained that Shadow Guard service did not conflict with a public Bureau position.
• Lin Xiao declared that the Demon Suppression Bureau would confiscate the Liu Family's wealth and promised Su Yu first pick from the treasure pavilion.
• Su Yu sent Su Daqiang's body back to the Demon Suppression Bureau, then entered the Liu Residence and headed for the treasure vault.

After taking Vajra Demonic Baleful Intent from the Liu Family treasury, Su Yu used Slaughter Points to cultivate it and unite his body, Qi, and spirit refinement paths. As the county exposed the Liu Family’s crimes, two demons infiltrated Nanhe County to investigate its strength, while Su Yu planned to exchange his merits for more martial arts.

• Su Yu retrieved Vajra Demonic Baleful Intent and several bottles of pills from the Liu Family treasury.
• Su Yu consumed Body Tempering Pills and spent Slaughter Points to raise Vajra Demonic Baleful Intent to minor accomplishment, bringing his body, Qi, and spirit refinement paths together.
• Su Yu gave Tang Shan a bottle of Body Tempering Pills after Tang Shan told him that Chief Lin had summoned him.
• Lin Xiao ordered the guards to spare no Liu Family member involved in colluding with the Demon God Cult, and officials announced Liu Tianjue’s execution and the family’s confiscation.
• A dog demon and a Blood Wolf approached Nanhe County to probe its strength; the dog demon slipped in through the sewers while the Blood Wolf disguised itself as an old farmer and headed for the Demon Suppression Bureau.
• Su Yu returned to the Demon Suppression Bureau and planned to exchange his merits for martial arts, including checking for the Spirit Realm section of Suppressing Prisons and Subduing Demons.

Su Yu learned that Nanhe County lacked the Spirit Realm continuation of Suppressing Prisons and Subduing Demons, then selected two Spirit Realm martial arts from the pavilion. He left for the next stage of his plans as Blood Wolf waited in disguise behind the Demon Suppression Bureau.

• Su Yu demonstrated his Prohibition Blood Formation to the pavilion's old man and asked for the Spirit Realm section of Suppressing Prisons and Subduing Demons.
• The old man explained that the technique's later sections were held at higher-level Demon Suppression Bureau offices, leaving Su Yu to consider traveling to Tiannan Commandery.
• Su Yu chose Spirit Sense Piercing and Star-Shattering Finger to strengthen his spirit and body-refining combat skills.
• The old man warned Su Yu that the Demon God Cult would seek revenge for its emissary's death, but Su Yu dismissed the threat and left the pavilion.
• Blood Wolf waited disguised as an old farmer in the back alley behind the Demon Suppression Bureau.

Su Yu killed two Spirit Realm demons who infiltrated the Demon Suppression Bureau and learned that the dog demon and blood wolf clans on Cloud Wolf Mountain threatened Nanhe County. He left after declaring he would wipe out Cloud Wolf Mountain that night.

• A blood wolf disguised as an old farmer waited near the Demon Suppression Bureau for nightfall while a dog demon hid in a drainage ditch.
• Su Yu sensed the blood wolf outside his room and killed it with one saber strike after trapping it in his Prohibition Blood Formation.
• Su Yu used his divine sense to kill the fleeing dog demon, then collected both demons’ cores and had Tang Shan take away their corpses.
• Lin Xiao told Su Yu that the blood wolf and dog demon clan leaders were at Spirit Realm Third Level and had fewer than ten Spirit Realm demons among them.
• Su Yu left the side hall, determined to attack Cloud Wolf Mountain that night.

Su Yu entered Cloud Wolf Mountain alone, killing yao and demons and using Slaughter Points to deduce Spirit Sense Piercing. Meanwhile, Chu Jie and four sect disciples were ambushed by a powerful mutated blood wolf, and Su Yu burst from the trees as Chu Jie faced its attack.

• Su Yu killed four dog yao at the edge of Cloud Wolf Mountain and continued deeper into the forest.
• The blood wolf chief ordered an attack on Nanhe County for the following night and sent blood wolves after the sect disciples intruding on the mountain.
• Chu Jie and four other sect disciples defeated a pack of blood wolves and headed toward the summit.
• Su Yu accumulated 650 Slaughter Points, deduced Spirit Sense Piercing, and killed a night owl yao with the technique.
• A mutated blood wolf overwhelmed Chu Jie and his companions, and Su Yu rushed out of the trees as it lunged at Chu Jie.

Su Yu killed a mutated blood wolf with a single blow, then confronted Chu Jie, who tried to claim the beast’s core. When the blood wolf leader appeared, Su Yu used his Slaughter Points to advance the Spirit-Seizing Art and broke through to Spirit Realm Third Level in spirit refinement.

• Su Yu used the Prohibition Blood Formation to halt the airborne mutated blood wolf, smashed its spine with his sheathed saber, and took its yao core.
• Chu Jie accused Su Yu of stealing the Mystic Sword Sect’s prey and demanded the yao core, while Su Yu advanced toward him.
• The blood wolf leader emerged from the rubble and threatened everyone, and Chu Jie tried to blame Su Yu for killing its subordinate.
• Su Yu warned Chu Jie to be quiet, then spent 650 Slaughter Points extrapolating the Spirit-Seizing Art to greater mastery.
• Su Yu’s spirit-refining cultivation broke through to Spirit Realm Third Level, shocking Chu Jie and drawing a sinister look from him.

Su Yu killed the Blood Wolf leader and the three disciples who had witnessed the fight, then took Chu Jie's storage pouch and the demon core. As he finished looting, a powerful stranger in a white fox mask emerged from the forest and locked onto him.

• The Blazing Fire Sect disciples abandoned their offer to help Su Yu after Chu Jie threatened them on behalf of the Mystic Sword Sect.
• Su Yu used his Prohibition Blood Formation, Spirit-Seizing Art, and divine sense to expose the Blood Wolf leader's weakness, then killed it with one Vajra Demon-Subduing Fist.
• Chu Jie and the two disciples fled, but Su Yu caught them and killed all three despite Chu Jie's threats about his father and the Mystic Sword Sect.
• Su Yu took Chu Jie's storage pouch and extracted a demon core from the Blood Wolf leader's corpse.
• A stranger wearing a white fox mask and black trench coat appeared from the forest, releasing pressure far beyond the spirit realm third level.

Su Yu ignored White Fox’s warning to leave Cloud Wolf Mountain, hunted the dog demons, and accumulated enough Slaughter Points to trigger a system update. After the update countdown began, a Mystic Realm puppet awakened on the mountain’s summit, and Su Yu fled downhill.

• White Fox examined the corpses and warned Su Yu that the seal on Cloud Wolf Mountain had broken and a Mystic Realm puppet was about to awaken.
• Su Yu collected spirit stones from his storage pouch, destroyed the Mystic Sword Sect sword manuals, and hunted dog demons in the Chaotic Stone Forest.
• Su Yu killed three Spirit Realm first level dog demons with Spirit Sense Piercing, then decapitated their leader with his saber.
• Su Yu reached 2,000 Slaughter Points, triggering a system update with a 24-hour countdown, and took the dog demon leader’s demon core.
• A blood-red pillar erupted from Cloud Wolf Mountain’s summit as the Mystic Realm puppet awakened, and Su Yu sprinted down the mountain.

Su Yu escaped Cloud Wolf Mountain after its Mystic Realm puppet awakened, then used his blood formation and divine sense to overwhelm a Blazing Fire Sect elder who tried to stop him. He reached Nanhe County, washed away the mountain’s traces, and watched the system update countdown continue.

• Su Yu fled Cloud Wolf Mountain as the Mystic Realm puppet awakened and the system began a twenty-four-hour update countdown.
• A gray-robed Blazing Fire Sect man and two disciples blocked Su Yu’s path, demanding his belongings and information about Chu Jie.
• Su Yu used the Prohibition Blood Formation and Spirit-Seizing Art to crush the gray-robed man’s resistance and frighten the disciples.
• Su Yu escaped through the gap and continued toward Nanhe County, while the gray-robed man fled with his disciples.
• Su Yu reached his courtyard, washed blood and mud from himself, and checked that the system had 22 hours and 45 minutes left to update.

Su Yu went to the Demon Suppression Bureau training grounds after a Tiannan Commandery commandant summoned him, where Shen Yang demanded his Shadow Guard Invitation Token and attacked him. Su Yu crippled Shen Yang’s companions and disarmed Shen Yang before a voice from the inner hall ordered them to stop.

• Tang Shan told Su Yu that a blood-colored monster had emerged from Cloud Wolf Mountain and been killed by a commandant from Tiannan Commandery.
• At the training grounds, Shen Yang confronted Su Yu and demanded the Shadow Guard Invitation Token, while his companions challenged Su Yu’s place in the Shadow Guard.
• When Tang Shan tried to intervene, a tall man struck him down, and Su Yu asked Shen Yang what a Tiannan Commandery captain had to do with Nanhe County.
• Shen Yang launched a lightning attack, but Su Yu used the Prohibition Blood Formation and swiftly broke the red-clad woman’s arm and slammed the tall man to the ground.
• Shen Yang attacked Su Yu with his sword, but Su Yu knocked the weapon away and sent Shen Yang crashing into his chair.
• A voice from behind the inner hall’s bronze doors said, “Enough.”