Chapter Summaries

Chen Wei defeated the remaining defenders of the underground chamber and prepared to sacrifice them to awaken a sleeping lord and spread the blood mist across Qing Province. As the mist surged outward, Ding Gui ordered everyone outside the Duke's Residence to retreat.

• Abbot Yuanxin rejected Chen Wei's offer and vowed to send him to hell, while Li Ping attacked with her broken sword.
• Chen Wei stopped Li Ping's strike between two fingers and used the sword's force to knock her down; he then told Chen Xiaotian he would personally deal with their old friends.
• Commander Liu and Abbot Yuanxin's monks attacked Chen Wei together, but his body shattered Commander Liu's arm and his wave dispersed their Arhat Demon-Subduing Seal.
• Chen Wei trapped Yuanxin, Li Ping, Commander Liu, and the other survivors in blood cages, intending to sacrifice their souls to awaken a sleeping lord.
• Chen Wei ordered the blood mist to consume all of Qing Province, and Ding Gui sensed its acceleration and ordered everyone outside the Duke's Residence to fall back.

Bloodspawn monsters poured from the blood mist and overwhelmed Ding Gui’s forces as civilians fled Qing Province. Just as Ding Gui was about to die, Su Yu appeared, stopped every monster, and destroyed one with a touch before dismissing the Duke’s Residence’s apparent backing.

• Ding Gui ordered civilians to evacuate as the blood mist spread through Qing Province and dissolved people, buildings, and trees.
• Bloodspawn monsters charged from the mist, and Ding Gui’s defenders discovered that the creatures regenerated unless their crystal cores were destroyed.
• The monsters broke through the defensive line, slaughtered civilians and Demon Suppression Guards, and left Ding Gui surrounded and exhausted.
• An Earth Realm Bloodspawn nearly killed Ding Gui, but every monster on the battlefield suddenly froze when Su Yu appeared.
• Su Yu touched the attacking monster’s forehead and reduced it to dust, then looked toward the Duke’s Residence and said its backing did not look like much.

Su Yu arrived in Qing Province City and used his gravity-manipulating Prohibition Blood Formation to annihilate every Bloodspawn on the street. After ordering Ding Gui to evacuate the civilians, Su Yu entered the bloody mist to face Duke Chen and the resurrected old duke.

• Su Yu crushed all the Bloodspawn, including three Earth Realm monsters, with the Prohibition Blood Formation.
• Ding Gui reported that Wang Du was occupied by a Heaven Realm demon and that three senior fighters had disappeared inside the Duke's Residence.
• Su Yu ordered Ding Gui to organize the guards and evacuate civilians to the eastern city gate.
• Ding Gui reported that civilians from the west and south had been evacuated, and Su Yu gave him a pill before ordering him to continue protecting them.
• Su Yu said Duke Chen was an old friend and entered the bloody mist alone, leaving Ding Gui to guard the civilians.

Su Yu entered the blood mist and erased the bloodspawn monsters in his path, drawing Chen Wei’s attention. Chen Wei sent the puppet Yao Ming and two Earth Realm ninth-level puppets to kill him, and Su Yu faced their attack alongside Yao Ming’s two demon servants.

• Su Yu refused to absorb the impure blood mist and used Prohibition Blood Formation to crush the bloodspawn monsters as he advanced.
• Chen Wei sensed Su Yu erasing his bloodspawn and identified him as an interesting intruder.
• Chen Wei ordered the puppet Yao Ming and two Earth Realm ninth-level puppets to bring him Su Yu’s head.
• Yao Ming confronted Su Yu with two demon servants, while the two puppets joined their attack.
• Su Yu stood motionless before the combined assault and remarked on Yao Ming’s ability to control Earth Realm ninth-level combatants.

Su Yu destroyed Yao Ming and four earth realm ninth level opponents in the blood mist, then confronted Chen Xiaotian, who came after him with two newly created Bloodspawn monsters. The chapter ended as Su Yu and Chen Xiaotian faced off in the passage.

• Su Yu's Acala Body purified the bone dragon's breath and the Hundred-Eyed Demon Spider's poisonous mental light, and he killed one puppet with a single punch.
• Su Yu pinned the bone dragon and the Hundred-Eyed Demon Spider with the Eight Desolations Demon-Suppressing Hand, then drained Yao Ming until he crumbled to ash.
• Chen Wei watched Su Yu approach through the blood mist, while Chen Xiaotian recognized him as the man responsible for his sons' fates and begged his father for revenge.
• Chen Wei summoned two earth realm ninth level peak Bloodspawn monsters and sent Chen Xiaotian with them to kill Su Yu.
• Chen Xiaotian confronted Su Yu in the blood-mist passage, and Su Yu declared that he would send Chen Xiaotian on his way.

Su Yu used his Blood Baleful Intent Wisdom King Body to destroy Yao Ming and overwhelm Chen Xiaotian’s two Bloodspawn monsters. As Su Yu moved in to strike Chen Xiaotian, the duke called for his father’s help.

• Su Yu summoned a new Eight Desolations Demon-Suppressing Hand and annihilated Yao Ming, earning 90,000 Slaughter Points.
• Su Yu fought off Chen Xiaotian’s two Bloodspawn monsters with Buddhist and demonic power, damaging both.
• Chen Xiaotian attacked Su Yu with a blood-colored demonic saber, but Su Yu dodged and appeared before him.
• Su Yu prepared to pierce Chen Xiaotian’s heart, and Chen Xiaotian laughed and called for his father to save him.

Su Yu rejected Chen Wei’s offer to become his disciple, condemning his cultivation of a city’s victims and his indifference to his grandsons’ deaths. Chen Wei’s fury broke through his composure, and he turned to Chen Xiaotian to lecture him about human nature.

• Chen Wei emerged from the blood mist and stopped Su Yu’s attack from killing Chen Xiaotian, who bowed to his father.
• Chen Wei recognized Su Yu’s unusual cultivation and ability to combine Buddhist and demonic powers, then offered to make him his disciple and guide him toward the King Realm.
• Chen Xiaotian protested that Su Yu had ruined Chen Yu and Chen Hao, but Chen Wei silenced him with a cold glance.
• Su Yu refused Chen Wei, denouncing his blood-soaked path and his disregard for family affection.
• Chen Wei erupted with killing intent, then smiled at Chen Xiaotian and called hatred and familial affection meaningless attachments.

Su Yu endured Chen Wei’s heaven-realm strike and spent all 90,000 Slaughter Points to perfect his Blood Baleful Intent Wisdom King Body. His body refinement cultivation broke through to the earth realm eighth level just as Chen Wei’s gigantic blood palm descended.

• Chen Wei attacked Su Yu with a rule-powered strike, and Su Yu blocked it with his Blood Baleful Intent Wisdom King Body, suffering wounds that quickly healed.
• Chen Wei was astonished that Su Yu absorbed and digested the Blood God’s power, then unleashed a gigantic blood-colored palm.
• Su Yu judged that taking the palm head-on would badly injure him and ordered the system to spend all 90,000 Slaughter Points on his Blood Baleful Intent Wisdom King Body.
• The system raised the body’s mastery to perfection and advanced Su Yu’s body refinement cultivation to the earth realm eighth level as Chen Wei’s palm descended above him.

Su Yu manifested the Blood Baleful Pagoda and devoured Chen Wei’s overwhelming palm strike, then launched a counterattack. At the same time, Wang Du sensed Su Yu’s surging presence while preparing to risk his soul against the tree demon.

• Su Yu summoned the Blood Baleful Pagoda Manifestation, which slowed and consumed Chen Wei’s blood-colored palm strike.
• The system reported that Su Yu’s Blood Baleful Intent Wisdom King Body proficiency had increased slightly.
• Su Yu taunted Chen Wei and attacked him with a dark-red blade ray fired from the Pagoda Manifestation.
• Wang Du battled the tree demon in the Bone-Eroding Abyss as it regenerated and threatened Qing Province City.
• Wang Du prepared to burn his soul for a decisive attack, but sensed Su Yu’s domineering presence and reacted in shock.

Wang Du unleashed his full power to kill the tree demon after sensing Su Yu had gained Heaven Realm-level strength. Beneath the Duke's Residence, Chen Wei sacrificed Chen Xiaotian to complete his bloodline devouring and rose to Heaven Realm Second Level, preparing to attack Su Yu.

• Su Yu's presence surged to the threshold of Heaven Realm First Level, reassuring Wang Du that he could unleash Heaven Realm combat strength from an Earth Realm foundation.
• Wang Du attacked the tree demon with a massive lightning spear, grievously damaging its source power as he hurried to finish the fight and aid Su Yu.
• Su Yu's blade light and Blood Baleful Pagoda Manifestation terrified Chen Wei by devouring the power of his Immaculate Blood God Body.
• Chen Wei seized Chen Xiaotian and drained his blood essence, soul, and cultivation to complete his advancement, leaving him a corpse.
• Chen Wei's power surged to Heaven Realm Second Level, and he thanked Su Yu before declaring that Su Yu would die to celebrate his rebirth.

Su Yu fought Chen Wei after Chen Wei reached Heaven Realm Second Level, but Chen Wei revealed that he was grinding the wills of captured experts to awaken a sleeping lord. The chapter left Su Yu facing a countdown as Abbot Yuanxin’s Buddhist heart began to break.

• Chen Wei struck Su Yu with a punch that shattered the Blood Baleful Pagoda Manifestation and wounded him.
• Su Yu used the Yellow Springs Earth Vein Art to recover and attacked Chen Wei with Palm Abyss · World-Burying Mountains and Rivers.
• Su Yu redirected himself toward the blood spheres imprisoning Yuanxin, Li Ping, Liu Yi, and the other defeated Earth Realm experts.
• Chen Wei blocked Su Yu and explained that the Soul-Refining Blood Prison ground the captives’ wills into soul essence to prepare for a lord’s descent.
• Abbot Yuanxin’s Buddhist heart began to crack, and Chen Wei counted down from ten as Su Yu confronted him.

Su Yu drained the blood sphere holding Abbot Yuanxin, transformed his Blood Baleful Intent Wisdom King Body into the Pagoda Demonic Manifestation, and turned the fight against Chen Wei. As Su Yu moved to free the others, a heartbeat sounded from the shriveled heart and an ancient hungry will awakened.

• Su Yu ignored Chen Wei and used the Myriad Dharma Furnace to devour the blood baleful intent from Yuanxin's prison.
• The absorbed power transformed Su Yu's nine-story Blood Baleful Pagoda Manifestation into the Pagoda Demonic Manifestation, which burst Yuanxin's blood sphere.
• Su Yu caught Yuanxin, gave him a medicinal pill, and sent him to safety.
• Chen Wei attacked Su Yu, but the Pagoda Demonic Manifestation blocked his punch and forced him back.
• Su Yu turned toward the blood spheres holding Li Ping, Commander Liu, and the others, but a heartbeat sounded from the shriveled heart as an ancient hungry will filled the underground space.

Su Yu rescued the Earth Realm experts by draining Chen Wei’s blood spheres, growing stronger as the ancient heart awakened. A hand emerged from the heart and pointed at Su Yu and Chen Wei, asking which of them would feed it first.

• The heart’s heartbeat awakened it and sent Chen Wei into shock as Su Yu seized the chance to act.
• Su Yu drained the blood spheres imprisoning Commander Liu, Li Ping, and the other Earth Realm experts, while the Pagoda Demonic Manifestation grew stronger.
• Chen Wei attacked Su Yu, but the Pagoda Demonic Manifestation blocked his strike as Su Yu continued freeing the captives.
• Su Yu’s body refinement cultivation broke through to Earth Realm Ninth Level after he drained the final blood sphere.
• A fissure opened in the enormous heart, and a pale, marked hand emerged, unleashing pressure that forced the rescued experts and Chen Wei to their knees.
• The hand pointed at Su Yu and Chen Wei and asked which of them would feed it first.

Chen Wei seized control of the Blood Spirit Formation and forced the great demon back through the closing rift, despite the backlash. Now empowered beyond the heaven realm third level, he turned his attention to Su Yu and threatened to tear him and his manifestation apart.

• The awakened great demon asked whether Chen Wei or Su Yu would feed it first, revealing that Chen Wei had been only preparing a meal for it.
• Chen Wei used an ancient seal to draw the Blood Spirit Formation's accumulated power into himself and resist the demon's pressure.
• Chen Wei used his authority over the formation to push the demon's reaching hand back into the rift and seal it shut.
• The effort left Chen Wei injured, but he claimed the blood-and-flesh furnace as his own and threatened Su Yu and his Pagoda Demonic Manifestation.

Chen Wei overwhelmed Su Yu and nearly destroyed his Pagoda Demonic Manifestation, but Su Yu chose to devour the blood formation’s vast energy instead of defending himself. As Su Yu’s body began to collapse under the power, the damaged manifestation suddenly roared.

• Chen Wei struck the Pagoda Demonic Manifestation with a punch that drove it backward and tore away half its body with a second blow.
• Chen Wei attacked Su Yu directly, but Su Yu sat cross-legged in midair and opened the Myriad Dharma Furnace.
• Su Yu began devouring the entire blood formation, drawing its immense, impure energy into himself and stopping Chen Wei’s punch.
• Su Yu’s body cracked under the energy’s burden, while Chen Wei increased the formation’s output to make him burst apart.
• As Su Yu neared collapse, the nearly destroyed Pagoda Demonic Manifestation roared and released a surge of blood baleful power.

Su Yu redirected the flesh-and-blood furnace’s torrent into his Pagoda Demonic Manifestation, restoring it and driving it to Heaven Realm second level. As it battled Chen Wei, Su Yu’s own body fell dangerously out of balance between Buddhist essence and demonic Baleful Intent, leaving his foundation at risk of collapse.

• Su Yu reversed the Myriad Dharma Furnace and poured the furnace’s energy into his damaged Pagoda Demonic Manifestation instead of letting it consume his body.
• The Pagoda Demonic Manifestation regenerated and advanced from Earth Realm ninth level peak to Heaven Realm second level.
• The Pagoda Demonic Manifestation charged Chen Wei and forced him back, then overwhelmed him with relentless attacks.
• Su Yu sensed that demonic Baleful Intent was overpowering the Buddhist essence in his Blood Baleful Intent Wisdom King Body.
• The system warned Su Yu that he needed equivalent-level Buddhist pure Yang energy or his foundation could collapse and he could fall onto the demonic path.

Su Yu neared demonic transformation as he struggled to control the impure blood baleful intent powering the Pagoda Demonic Manifestation. Yuanxin sacrificed Xuankong Temple’s Golden Body Bodhi to help him, and Su Yu fused Buddhist essence with blood baleful intent, awakening a new technique as he turned his attention to Chen Wei.

• Chen Wei fought the Pagoda Demonic Manifestation while Su Yu’s body and Buddhist nature were overwhelmed by blood baleful intent.
• Commander Liu realized Su Yu was close to demonic transformation, and Li Ping identified the imbalance between his Yin baleful intent and Yang Qi.
• Yuanxin gave Su Yu Xuankong Temple’s Golden Body Bodhi, pouring its Buddhist essence into his meridians despite Li Ping’s warning about the temple’s inheritance.
• The opposing powers collided inside Su Yu, but he transformed them into a yin-yang millstone that purified the blood baleful intent and forged his Buddhist essence.
• Su Yu advanced his Blood Baleful Intent Wisdom King Body to Subtlety and comprehended the Blood Wisdom King Manifestation.
• Su Yu opened his eyes, with Buddha and demon united within them, and fixed his gaze on Chen Wei.

Su Yu fused Buddhist essence and demonic baleful power into the Blood Wisdom King Manifestation, overwhelming Chen Wei in their fight. As the manifestation prepared to finish him, Su Yu declared that Chen Wei was the feast’s main course.

• Su Yu’s eyes opened as he faced Chen Wei, and the battered Pagoda Demonic Manifestation abruptly stopped fighting.
• Golden Buddhist light transformed the Pagoda Demonic Manifestation into the Blood Wisdom King Manifestation, uniting Buddhist essence and demonic baleful power.
• Chen Wei attacked with his Blood God Nirvana Fist, but the manifestation’s golden palm purified its power and left him injured.
• The manifestation’s demonic claw seized Chen Wei and began corroding his Immaculate Blood God Body.
• Su Yu announced Chen Wei’s defeat as the manifestation raised its weapons to strike.

Su Yu killed Chen Wei, but the Blood God power gathered into the resurrecting heart and unleashed a greater threat. Wang Du defeated a tree demon, saved Heavenly Evolution Mountain Manor, and raced toward Qing Province’s prefectural city after sensing Su Yu and the ancient blood presence.

• Su Yu used the Blood Wisdom King Manifestation to annihilate Chen Wei’s body and soul, earning 150,000 Slaughter Points.
• After Chen Wei’s death, scattered Blood Qi flowed into the giant heart, which revived and released a mightier primordial presence.
• Wang Du grievously wounded the Heaven Realm Fifth Level tree demon with the Demon Suppression Saber and left the Bone-Eroding Abyss.
• Wang Du destroyed the Earth Realm demons attacking Heavenly Evolution Mountain Manor with a bolt of lightning, saving Zhao Kuohai and the others.
• Wang Du sensed Su Yu’s Buddha-and-demon presence and the ancient blood baleful intent at the Duke’s Residence, then hurried toward Qing Province’s prefectural city.

After Chen Wei’s death, the heart revived and unleashed a force far beyond the Heaven Realm, threatening Su Yu and the survivors. Wang Du arrived and wounded the emerging monster with golden lightning, but Su Yu sensed that Wang Du was gravely weakened, and the monster declared that it would devour both of them.

• The heart absorbed the power released by Chen Wei’s death, recovered, and began to split open as its awakening pressure pinned Su Yu and the survivors to the ground.
• A pale claw tore through the heart, and the awakened monster reached for the helpless survivors while speaking of its hunger.
• A streak of golden lightning struck the claw, wounding it and forcing it back into the heart.
• Wang Du appeared, dismissed the survivors’ salutes, and confronted the heart while Su Yu noticed that Wang Du’s presence was unstable and his body was failing.
• Wang Du challenged the monster to reveal itself, and it mocked his weakness and named him and Su Yu as its opening feast.