Chapter Summaries

She Yan united Zhou Tong, Nie Wuya, and Jiao Wu around a plan to kill Su Yu by combining blood sacrifice and demonic arts. The conspirators prepared to begin creating a powerful, potentially uncontrollable monster in the Northern Nether Sea.

• She Yan calmed Zhou Tong, Nie Wuya, and Jiao Wu, then urged them to focus on their shared enemy, Su Yu.
• Zhou Tong proposed sacrificing the fallen water yao to summon a Devil King avatar powerful enough to kill Su Yu’s Dao protector.
• Jiao Wu objected to using his warriors’ remains, but Nie Wuya proposed using their resentment and commanders’ souls to create a controllable Demon God Dharma Manifestation that could corrupt Su Yu.
• She Yan suggested combining both methods, using the Devil King’s body as a battle foundation and the Demon God manifestation as its soul and control core.
• Zhou Tong and Nie Wuya showed interest in She Yan’s plan, while Jiao Wu feared the monster would be uncontrollable; She Yan declared that their funeral for Great Qin would begin.

Su Yu spent Slaughter Points to advance the Devil Flame Wisdom King Scripture, breaking through to the ninth level of Body Refinement and creating the Buddha's Fury Devil Lotus. After suppressing the destructive thoughts the technique stirred in his soul, he remained unaware that three King Realm figures had prepared a trap for him near the Crystal Palace.

• Su Yu checked his Slaughter Points after rescuing Lei Yan and Zhao Chengkong, then spent one million points to extrapolate the Devil Flame Wisdom King Scripture.
• The scripture's Buddhist and demonic powers fused into a new destructive will, breaking Su Yu's body refinement cultivation through to the Heaven Realm ninth level.
• Su Yu formed the Buddha's Fury Devil Lotus, alarming Lei Yan and Zhao Chengkong with its immense power.
• Su Yu suppressed whispers urging him to kill and destroy, realizing that his growing power was strengthening a demon within his soul.
• Three figures bearing King Realm pressure gathered above the corpses outside the Crystal Palace and prepared a trap for Su Yu.

She Yan oversaw Zhou Tong and Nie Wuya combining blood Qi and resentment to summon a taboo being from the water demons’ remains. Meanwhile, Great Qin’s Meng Kuo and the Sea-Overturning King clashed their King Realm domains above the border between Nan Province and the Northern Nether Sea, leaving a vast expanse of emptiness in their wake.

• Zhou Tong used the water demons’ corpses to create a blood-red vortex while Nie Wuya gathered their resentment and souls into black vapor.
• Under She Yan’s guidance, the blood-red vortex and the black vapor began merging, alarming Jiao Wu.
• At the border between Nan Province and the Northern Nether Sea, Xun Kuang challenged the Ink Shark King over the Northern Nether Sea’s actions and the death of its prince.
• The Sea-Overturning King challenged Meng Kuo to settle their old rivalry, and Meng Kuo accepted.
• Meng Kuo unleashed his Spear Domain as the Sea-Overturning King deployed his Raging Waves Domain, and the two domains collided, erasing everything within a hundred-li radius.

Meng Kuo and the Sea-Overturning King fought to a standstill while Xun Kuang and the Ink Shark King clashed through their domains. To keep their battle from destroying eastern Nan Province, Meng Kuo and Xun Kuang drew the Northern Nether Sea kings into the void above the nine heavens.

• The Sea-Overturning King attacked Meng Kuo with a massive waterspout, but Meng Kuo’s spear intent pierced through it and shattered eight of the king’s water barriers.
• Meng Kuo and the Sea-Overturning King traded hundreds of blows, their domains eroding each other without either gaining the advantage.
• Xun Kuang and the Ink Shark King confronted each other, deploying the Heavenly Principle Domain and Ink Sea Submersion, whose opposing powers ground against one another.
• As the four King Realm combatants’ domains battered the surrounding land, Meng Kuo and Xun Kuang recognized that the battle could devastate eastern Nan Province.
• Meng Kuo challenged the Sea-Overturning King to fight in the void, and the Sea-Overturning King accepted; the Ink Shark King followed Xun Kuang and Meng Kuo into the sky.

Su Yu sensed a taboo monster being created at the Crystal Palace and learned that three King Realm cultivators were waiting for him in the Black Stone Sea. He went to confront them with Lei Yan and Zhao Chengkong, where they found a vast creature made from water demons’ flesh and vengeful souls.

• Su Yu suppressed the destructive whispers stirred by the Devil Flame Wisdom King Scripture, then sensed a sinister presence forming near the Crystal Palace.
• Elder Jiang warned Su Yu that three King Realm cultivators were lying in wait, but Su Yu said they could not make much of a splash.
• Lei Yan and Zhao Chengkong chose to accompany Su Yu despite their injuries, and the three headed toward the Crystal Palace.
• Su Yu, Lei Yan, and Zhao Chengkong reached the ruined palace and saw a towering mass of flesh assembled from water demons, severed bodies, and vengeful souls.

Su Yu effortlessly suppressed the Offspring of Gods and Devils, a monster Jiao Wu and the others had made from the remains of a hundred thousand soldiers. He condemned their crude creation and began combining Buddhist essence and demonic flames to show them what true fusion looked like.

• The Offspring of Gods and Devils unleashed a soul-shaking roar, but Su Yu remained unaffected while Zhao Chengkong and Lei Yan suffered.
• Jiao Wu, She Yan, Zhou Tong, and Nie Wuya watched from the Crystal Palace as the monster charged at Su Yu.
• Su Yu manifested the Wisdom King Prison-Subduing Aspect and seized the monster, purifying its vengeful souls and burning away its Blood Baleful Intent.
• Su Yu addressed Jiao Wu through the mystic light mirror and criticized the monster as a crude, ugly creation made from the dead soldiers.
• Su Yu formed a golden Buddhist lotus in one hand and a demonic red lotus in the other, then brought his hands together to demonstrate true fusion.

Su Yu erased the Offspring of Gods and Devils with his Buddha's Fury Devil Lotus, but Zhou Tong and Nie Wuya revealed that it could regenerate from the resentment and blood of the sacrificed water demons. As the monster reformed, Su Yu realized its endless regeneration made it fuel.

• Su Yu struck the Offspring of Gods and Devils with the Buddha's Fury Devil Lotus, erasing its body and clearing a vast abyss in the Black Stone Sea.
• Jiao Wu, Zhou Tong, and Nie Wuya watched the Mystic Light Mirror shatter under the lotus's aftershock, while Zhao Chengkong and Lei Yan marveled at Su Yu's power.
• Zhou Tong and Nie Wuya explained that the monster's root was the resentment and blood of a hundred thousand sacrificed water demons, so destroying its form could not kill it.
• Black-and-red mist gathered across the Black Stone Sea and rebuilt the Offspring of Gods and Devils, which returned more violent and fixed its gaze on Su Yu.
• Su Yu understood that the monster regenerated through resentment and blood Qi and called it fuel.

Su Yu studied the Nirvanic Divine Thunder jade slip while dodging the Offspring of Gods and Devils, intending to purify its resentment and claim the gathered soul power. As the monster unleashed its all-out soul attack, Su Yu finished comprehending the art and prepared to counter it with chaotic lightning.

• Jiao Wu ordered the Offspring of Gods and Devils to attack Su Yu with resentment blood spheres, but Su Yu dodged while pressing a lightning jade slip to his forehead and studying it.
• Su Yu relied on the instincts of the Devil Flame Wisdom King Scripture to evade the monster's attacks while comprehending Nirvanic Divine Thunder, aided by his mastery of the Law of Thunder.
• Elder Jiang realized that Su Yu intended to purify the resentment and claim the monster's gathered soul power and blood vitality.
• The Offspring of Gods and Devils gathered its flesh and resentment into its crown of white bones and unleashed the Elegy of Ten Thousand Souls, knocking Zhao Chengkong and Lei Yan unconscious.
• Su Yu opened his eyes as the jade slip crumbled, then formed a strand of chaotic lightning and prepared to counter the soul shock wave.

Su Yu used Nirvanic Divine Thunder to purify the Offspring of Gods and Devils, but its regeneration continued. He spent one million Slaughter Points to raise the art to minor accomplishment and prepared to finish the monster.

• Su Yu's chaos lightning pierced Jiao Wu's Elegy of Ten Thousand Souls and purified the resentful souls within it.
• Su Yu struck the Offspring of Gods and Devils with Nirvanic Divine Thunder, burning away its flesh and slowing its regeneration.
• Nie Wuya declared that the monster was immortal and would outlast Su Yu, while Su Yu judged his lightning's power insufficient.
• Su Yu spent one million Slaughter Points to advance Nirvanic Divine Thunder to minor accomplishment, gaining control over its powers of purification and termination.
• Su Yu pointed his finger at the recovering monster and said, "Time to end this."

Su Yu used Nirvanic Divine Thunder and his suppressive treasures to refine the Offspring of Gods and Devils, made from a hundred thousand resentful souls, into pure soul power. After absorbing it, he advanced to Spirit Refinement Heaven Realm Fourth Level and addressed the four King Realm cultivators in the Crystal Palace.

• Su Yu's bolt of nothingness separated the Offspring of Gods and Devils' soul from its body, turning the monster into a gray statue.
• Su Yu summoned the Prison-Suppressing Platform, the nine-story Prison Suppression Pagoda, and Emperor Realm Dragon Intent to suppress the statue and form a pill furnace.
• Su Yu unleashed Nirvanic Divine Thunder, purifying the resentful souls into a river of pure soul power as Jiao Wu, Nie Wuya, and Zhou Tong watched in horror.
• The statue crumbled into ash, and Su Yu swallowed the soul power, advancing to Spirit Refinement Heaven Realm Fourth Level.
• Su Yu looked toward the four King Realm cultivators in the Crystal Palace and told them, "Thanks for the hospitality."

After Su Yu absorbed the power of Jiao Wu’s hundred thousand naval troops, Jiao Wu flew into a rage and attacked him. A mysterious elder froze Jiao Wu with the Law of Space, leaving him pleading for his life and invoking his father, the Jiao Emperor.

• Jiao Wu realized Su Yu had used his troops as fuel for cultivation and charged out of the Crystal Palace to kill him.
• Zhou Tong and Nie Wuya let Jiao Wu go, hoping his death would provoke the Jiao Emperor and ignite a war against Great Qin.
• Su Yu sensed that his soul power had grown more than tenfold and that he had gained a trace of annihilation lightning intent.
• Jiao Wu attacked Su Yu with the Sea-Overturning Seal, but an aged voice halted the attack by freezing space around him.
• The elder shattered the space around Jiao Wu and grievously wounded him, forcing him to plead with Su Yu and reveal that his father was the Jiao Emperor.

Su Yu watched Elder Jiang cripple and capture Jiao Wu instead of killing him, turning the Northern Nether Sea prince into a bargaining chip for Great Qin. After Elder Jiang warned that two more Northern Nether Sea King Realm experts had reached Nan Province, Su Yu set out to claim the battlefield for himself.

• Jiao Wu invoked his father, the Flood Dragon Emperor, but Su Yu ignored him and checked whether Zhao Chengkong and Lei Yan could walk.
• When Jiao Wu tried to attack, Elder Jiang used spatial power to torture him and crush his demonic core, leaving him barely alive and crippled.
• Elder Jiang explained that a living prince would be a valuable bargaining chip, then sent Jiao Wu to Great Qin's Xianyang headquarters.
• Elder Jiang warned Su Yu that Meng Kuo and Xun Kuang were in Nan Province and that Ink Shark and Sea-Overturning had also arrived from the Northern Nether Sea.
• Su Yu thanked Elder Jiang, then headed toward Nan Province, determined to reap the battlefield's rewards himself.

Li Ning imprisoned the captured King Realm prince Jiao Wu in Demon Suppression Headquarters, and Qin Emperor Ying Lin summoned the Northern Nether Flood Dragon Emperor to Xianyang to negotiate for his son. Jiao Guang answered the ultimatum with fury, sending the Northern Nether Sea into upheaval.

• Li Ning found Jiao Wu, Jiao Guang's third son, severely injured on the ninth floor of the Demon Suppression Tower and bound him with chains of law.
• Li Ning realized Elder Jiang had brought Jiao Wu from Nan Province and suspected Su Yu had caused the capture.
• Ying Lin praised Su Yu and Elder Jiang, then ordered Jiao Guang to come to Xianyang within three days if he wanted to see his son again.
• Ying Lin's decree reached the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Dragon Court, where Jiao Guang erupted in fury and destroyed his frost-crystal throne.

Elder Jiang sent Jiao Wu away and forced the Crystal Palace’s allies to retreat, allowing Su Yu and his companions to head back toward Sea Suppression City. They found the city under siege by sea yao, and Su Yu prepared to enter the battle.

• Elder Jiang used the Law of Space to send Jiao Wu away, exhausting much of his origin power.
• Nie Wuya, Zhou Tong, and She Yan retreated after realizing Elder Jiang could kill them with ease.
• Su Yu, Zhao Chengkong, and Lei Yan traveled toward Sea Suppression City, while Zhao Chengkong silently reflected on the dangers they had faced.
• Su Yu and his companions saw Sea Suppression City under attack by an enormous sea yao army, with its defenders close to being overwhelmed.
• Su Yu gripped Karma Severing and ordered his companions to prepare to clear the field.

Su Yu, Zhao Chengkong, and a third fighter arrived at Sea Suppression City and broke the demon siege with overwhelming force. As Jing Tao charged Su Yu, Su Yu announced that he could clear the battlefield alone and unleashed countless black saber fissures.

• Jing Tao mocked his demon troops for failing to breach Sea Suppression City's defenses and expected the Sea-Overturning King and Ink Shark King to defeat Great Qin's reinforcements.
• Su Yu arrived with two companions and erased thousands of sea demons with a single saber stroke, leaving a ten-li stretch of empty battlefield.
• Yang Jiang and the defenders saw Su Yu strike again as Zhao Chengkong's Azure Flood Dragon and the third fighter's lightning attacks helped halt the demon assault.
• Jing Tao charged Su Yu, who ignored him, declared that he alone could clear the battlefield, and swung Karma Severing to unleash countless black fissures in every direction.

Su Yu annihilated the Yao army attacking Sea Suppression City and ordered the defenders to assess the damage and investigate uprisings across Nan Province. With the city cheering his victory, he turned his attention to gathering intelligence for the next stage of the campaign.

• Su Yu unleashed countless saber rifts that erased Jing Tao and tens of thousands of Yao outside Sea Suppression City.
• Su Yu struck down the fleeing Mystic Realm greater Yao with divine lightning, ending the uprising.
• The defenders celebrated Su Yu’s victory, while Yang Jiang recognized his power and thanked him for saving the city.
• Su Yu ordered Yang Jiang to tally casualties, treat the wounded, and collect Yao cores and materials according to military merit.
• Su Yu ordered scouts to investigate Yao uprisings and Yao Kings across Nan Province, and to send a battle report to the central bureau in Xianyang.

Su Yu split his forces to relieve two besieged commanderies, then reached Tiandu Commandery and erased its fifty-thousand-demon army with one slash. As he prepared to leave, a King Realm presence descended from the northern horizon and confronted him about the missing Third Prince.

• Su Yu ordered Zhao Chengkong, Lei Yan, and Yang Jiang to take three thousand Demon Suppression Guards to Qingyang Commandery while he went alone to Tiandu Commandery.
• Su Yu leapt from the gate tower and ordered that no demons be left alive on the battlefield.
• At Tiandu Commandery, Zhang Cheng'an learned that reinforcements could not reach the city, while Elephant King realized that several demon forces had gone silent.
• Su Yu appeared above Tiandu Commandery and killed Elephant King and all fifty thousand demons with a single saber slash.
• As Su Yu prepared to leave, a King Realm presence descended from the north and asked whether he had made the Third Prince disappear.

She Ming attacked Su Yu in Tiandu Commandery and trapped him and Elder Jiang inside his Shadow Domain. As Meng Kuo, Xun Kuang, the Sea-Overturning King, and the Ink Shark King arrived, Su Yu revealed that he had sent Jiao Wu to Xianyang as a guest.

• She Ming appeared above Tiandu Commandery and confronted Su Yu over the disappearance of the Third Highness.
• Elder Jiang shielded Su Yu and prepared to teleport him away, but She Ming's Shadow Domain disrupted the spatial passage.
• Meng Kuo and Xun Kuang arrived to aid Su Yu, while the Sea-Overturning King and the Ink Shark King joined She Ming.
• The Sea-Overturning King demanded to know where Jiao Wu was, and Su Yu stepped forward and said he had sent him to Xianyang as a guest.

Su Yu stood at the center of a standoff between Great Qin’s King Realm experts and three demon kings from the Northern Nether Sea. The Ink Shark King sent a demand to his emperor, threatening Nan Province if Third Highness was not returned within three days.

• The Sea-Overturning King attacked Su Yu, but Meng Kuo blocked the strike with a single punch.
• The Ink Shark King and She Ming tried to kill Su Yu, but Xun Kuang erased their attacks with a boundary formed by his law domain.
• Meng Kuo, Xun Kuang, and Elder Jiang faced off against the three demon kings as their King Realm powers threatened Tiandu Commandery.
• The Sea-Overturning King accused Great Qin of provoking war, and Meng Kuo declared that anyone who entered Nan Province would die.
• The Ink Shark King sent a token carrying a message to the Northern Nether Sea’s tribes, threatening that Nan Province need not remain if Third Highness was not safely returned within three days.

Su Yu was teleported from the battle in Nan Province to Great Qin’s Demon Suppression Headquarters while the three Great Qin experts fought the Northern Nether Sea kings. Li Ning told Su Yu that the Northern Nether Flood Dragon Emperor had demanded him by name, and relayed the Emperor’s order to use him against the Northern Nether Sea.

• Elder Jiang, Meng Kuo, and Xun Kuang battled the Ink Shark King, Sea-Overturning King, and She Ming as the fight threatened Tiandu Commandery’s protective formation.
• Elder Jiang teleported Su Yu away from the battlefield, and Xun Kuang blocked the demons from tracing his spatial trail.
• Su Yu arrived in the forbidden area of Great Qin’s Demon Suppression Headquarters, where Li Ning greeted him.
• Li Ning told Su Yu that the Northern Nether Flood Dragon Emperor had sent an Emperor Realm will to Xianyang and demanded Su Yu by name.
• Li Ning said the Emperor had turned the will back and ordered that Great Qin’s newly forged blade be used against the Northern Nether Sea.