Chapter Summaries

After Jing Ze’s departure, Su Yu received a sealed Saint Realm Divine Firmament Dao Seed and resolved to treat the secret realm as his hunting ground. He began slaughtering demons for Slaughter Points and considered upgrading Nirvanic Divine Thunder to kill them more efficiently.

• The purple Dao fruit exploded into inheritance information, which the Slaughter System sealed as a Divine Firmament Dao Seed because Su Yu lacked authorization to analyze it.
• Su Yu reflected on Jing Ze’s warnings about the world’s cage and its master, then set aside his doubts and focused on strength, Slaughter Points, and survival.
• Su Yu raced toward the secret realm’s strongest demonic presence to harvest its resources and convert demons’ lives into Slaughter Points.
• In a valley, Su Yu killed a Heaven Realm Seventh Stage Black-Armored Earth Dragon and faced dozens more, but found single-target attacks too slow.
• Su Yu asked the system about improving Nirvanic Divine Thunder, and it quoted two million Slaughter Points to extrapolate the art to Subtlety.

Su Yu perfected Nirvanic Divine Thunder, used its Myriad Thunder Annihilation Domain to erase demon hordes, and amassed more than ten million Slaughter Points. Drawn by a terrifying presence in the secret realm, he found a two-headed, six-armed demon sleeping on an ancient altar, each head carrying Half-Step King Realm power.

• Su Yu spent two million Slaughter Points to advance Nirvanic Divine Thunder to the Minute Subtlety Realm and comprehend Myriad Thunder Annihilation Domain.
• Su Yu unleashed the annihilation domain on dozens of Black-Armored Earth Dragons and erased them, earning a flood of Slaughter Points.
• Su Yu continued hunting demons, advanced his Spirit Refinement cultivation to Heaven Realm Eighth Level, and raised his Slaughter Points to 10,750,000.
• Su Yu sensed a powerful, intelligent presence in the deepest part of the secret realm and went to confront it.
• Su Yu found a thousand-foot demon sleeping on an ancient bone altar; its two heads each radiated Half-Step King Realm pressure.

Su Yu provoked the six-armed ape guarding the altar and faced the combined power of its two Half-Step King Realm souls. After its attack shattered his lightning pagoda and wounded him, he planned to use the Eye of Heavenly Punishment, then dodged a soul-freezing beam as the battle continued.

• Su Yu found a six-armed giant ape guarding the Prison Realm altar and heard its two demon souls argue over whether to attack him.
• When Su Yu refused to retreat, the lawful soul stopped the chaotic soul from striking first, so Su Yu touched the altar with a strand of lightning to trigger the guardian's attack protocol.
• The two demon souls resonated and attacked together, crushing Su Yu's Nine Heavens Thunder Suppression Pagoda and blasting him into the mountain wall.
• Su Yu assessed the guardian's amplified strength and chose the Eye of Heavenly Punishment as his next technique.
• The giant ape fired a beam that froze souls and life, but Su Yu evaded it with the Thunder Dragon Prison Suppression Step.

Su Yu advanced the Eye of Heavenly Punishment to the Minute Subtlety Realm, breaking through to Heaven Realm ninth level and turning the six-armed giant ape’s twin-soul resonance against it. As Su Yu prepared to kill the crippled ape, a terrifying will awoke from the bone altar and addressed him.

• Su Yu spent 3,500,000 Slaughter Points to extrapolate the Eye of Heavenly Punishment, reaching the Minute Subtlety Realm and breaking through to Heaven Realm ninth level in Spirit Refinement.
• Su Yu used the Eye of Heavenly Punishment to force the giant ape’s orderly and chaotic souls into conflict, causing its six incoming attacks to detonate harmlessly and its armor to crack.
• Su Yu combined his three cultivation foundations with the Law of Thunder and the Law of the Saber, then aimed a finger strike at the giant ape’s brow.
• The bone altar at the center of the mountain range released a blood-colored beam and awakened an ancient will that told Su Yu, “You woke me.”

Su Yu was confronted by the Rock Prison Secret Earth Realm’s spirit, which ordered him to leave or be erased for exceeding the realm’s limits. He killed the Twin-Souled Six-Armed Ape and seized its Prison Realm Core Fragment, then vanished as the erasure countdown ended.

• The realm spirit froze Su Yu and the six-armed giant ape, then reacted with shock when it sensed the Purple-Gold Divine Firmament Dao Seed in Su Yu’s sea of consciousness.
• The realm spirit identified itself as the Rock Prison Secret Earth Realm’s rules administrator and demanded that Su Yu leave or face erasure.
• Su Yu asked what he could gain by killing the guardian, and the realm spirit revealed that the ape carried a Prison Realm Core Fragment containing world origin.
• As the erasure countdown began, Su Yu unleashed Myriad Thunder Annihilation Domain and annihilated the six-armed giant ape.
• Su Yu extracted the Prison Realm Core Fragment, received one million Slaughter Points for killing the Twin-Souled Six-Armed Ape, and vanished when the countdown reached zero.

After the realm spirit vanished and the giant ape crumbled, Su Yu used 4,500,000 Slaughter Points to raise his Qi Refinement cultivation from Heaven Realm Third Level to Sixth Stage. Outside the secret realm, Zheng Xuan remained at his post on Ying Lin’s orders, while Zhou Tong and the Sixth Hall Master suspected Su Yu had survived and prepared to attack Zheng Xuan.

• The realm spirit disappeared, releasing its hold on time and space, and the shattered giant ape dissolved into motes; Su Yu kept the Prison Realm Core Fragment.
• Su Yu spent 4,500,000 Slaughter Points to advance his Eightfold Heavenly Dragon Prison cultivation, breaking through three Qi Refinement levels and leaving 2,750,000 points.
• Zheng Xuan refused to leave the secret realm exit despite three requests from his imperial guard captains, obeying Ying Lin’s command to wait for Su Yu.
• The Sixth Hall Master learned that Zheng Xuan had ordered his men to remain indefinitely, and Zhou Tong concluded that Ying Lin believed Su Yu was still alive.
• The Sixth Hall Master decided to attack Zheng Xuan rather than wait at the cavern.

Zhou Tong attacked Zheng Xuan beneath the abyss while the Sixth Hall Master ambushed the imperial guards protecting the area. The Sixth Hall Master killed all seven guards, and Zhou Tong’s next attack began cracking Zheng Xuan’s Thick Earth Domain.

• Zhou Tong left the Sixth Hall Master to draw out Zheng Xuan, while the Sixth Hall Master sensed seven guards nearby.
• Zheng Xuan recognized Zhou Tong and defended against his dark, annihilating sword strike with the Thick Earth Domain.
• The Sixth Hall Master appeared beside Zheng Xuan’s seven personal guards and killed them with blood threads.
• Zhou Tong formed a vortex of darkness and pressed his palm toward Zheng Xuan, causing the Thick Earth Domain to crack.

Zheng Xuan reinforced his Thick Earth Domain with the power of Nan Province’s earth veins and drove Zhou Tong back, but the Sixth Hall Master joined the fight and the two Kings began crushing his defense together. With his domain on the verge of breaking, Zheng Xuan watched the sealed rock strata behind him as a violent spatial tremor shook the world.

• Zhou Tong cracked Zheng Xuan’s Thick Earth Domain, but Zheng Xuan invoked the earth veins and struck him back into a rock wall.
• The Sixth Hall Master crossed the abyss and attacked Zheng Xuan with his Blood River Domain.
• Zhou Tong and the Sixth Hall Master launched a simultaneous assault that made Zheng Xuan’s fortified domain tremble.
• Zheng Xuan spent his remaining strength and lifeblood defending the sealed rock strata as his domain neared destruction.
• A violent spatial tremor rang through the world.

Su Yu emerged from the secret realm as Zheng Xuan faced death and purified the Sixth Hall Master's blood attack with his thunder power. The Sixth Hall Master unleashed his full Blood River Domain, while Zhou Tong blocked Zheng Xuan from reaching Su Yu.

• Su Yu stepped through the ocher gate as Zheng Xuan urged him to return, and the Sixth Hall Master redirected his blood torrent toward him.
• Su Yu snapped his fingers and used dark-golden Heavenly Dragon Sacred Power to purify the blood torrent and release the wronged souls within it.
• Su Yu taunted the Sixth Hall Master, who admitted he had underestimated Su Yu and unleashed his full Blood River Domain.
• Zheng Xuan tried to activate his damaged Thick Earth Domain and help Su Yu, but Zhou Tong appeared and blocked his path.

Su Yu unleashed his Lightning Punishment Domain against the Sixth Hall Master's Blood River Domain after his Heavenly Dragon Thunder Prison was shattered. His new domain proved the blood law’s natural enemy, cleaving the blood sea apart and leaving the Sixth Hall Master’s attack in ruins.

• Su Yu used the Eightfold Heavenly Dragon Prison to resist the Sixth Hall Master's King Realm Eighth Level Blood River Domain, but the blood sea overwhelmed his Thunder Prison and injured him.
• As the Sixth Hall Master's blood sea descended to kill him, Su Yu said the probing was over and summoned the Lightning Punishment Domain by invoking lightning.
• Purple-black divine lightning poured through fissures in the world's laws and began purifying the Blood River Domain.
• The Sixth Hall Master drove the blood sea into a counterattack, but Su Yu invoked punishment and sent a waterfall of lightning crashing into it.
• Su Yu's lightning split the Blood River Domain in two, erasing its blood pythons and releasing the tormented souls within.

Su Yu revealed a saint-grade Lightning Punishment Domain and overpowered the Sixth Hall Master despite his King Realm Eighth Level cultivation. He then turned his attention to Zhou Tong and asked which of the two would die first.

• The Sixth Hall Master’s Blood River Domain was torn apart, while Zheng Xuan and Zhou Tong recognized Su Yu’s domain as saint-grade.
• The Sixth Hall Master unleashed more than a dozen blood-red malicious ghosts, but Su Yu erased them with divine lightning.
• Su Yu’s Lightning Punishment Domain purified the Blood River Domain and drove the Sixth Hall Master into agony and retreat.
• Su Yu stopped advancing against the Sixth Hall Master and turned his attention to Zhou Tong.
• Su Yu pointed at the two King Realm experts and asked which of them would die first.

Su Yu unleashed the full power of his sacred-grade domain and cultivation art to destroy the combined attack of the Sixth Hall Master and Zhou Tong, then escaped with Zheng Xuan. The two wounded King Realm experts burned their essence and pursued them toward the abyss’s exit.

• The Sixth Hall Master and Zhou Tong combined their domains to form an annihilating demonic spear and attack Su Yu.
• Su Yu secretly ordered Zheng Xuan to prepare to retreat, then insisted they escape together.
• As the spear neared Su Yu, he gathered his sacred power and the Lightning Punishment Domain into a devastating palm strike.
• Su Yu’s strike destroyed the demonic spear, grievously wounded the Sixth Hall Master, and shattered Zhou Tong’s black hole and right arm.
• Su Yu grabbed Zheng Xuan and used Thunder Asura Instant Void to escape through the interstices of space.
• The Sixth Hall Master and Zhou Tong burned their essence and pursued Su Yu and Zheng Xuan.

Su Yu defeated two King Realm Eighth Level invaders with his Lightning Punishment Domain, then returned to the Demon Suppression Headquarters badly weakened and went into seclusion to recover. Zheng Xuan reported the battle to Emperor Ying Lin, who reacted to the revelation that Su Yu had a sacred-grade domain with quiet approval.

• The Sixth Hall Master raged over his defeat while Zhou Tong concluded that he and the Sixth Hall Master would likely die if they faced Su Yu again.
• Su Yu and Zheng Xuan returned to the Demon Suppression Headquarters, where Su Yu revealed that using his domain had severely exhausted him.
• Su Yu thanked Zheng Xuan for holding off the invaders, then sent him to report the battle to Emperor Ying Lin.
• Su Yu examined his depleted cultivation and damaged Lightning Punishment Domain before returning to his private chamber to recuperate in seclusion.
• Zheng Xuan reported the battle to Ying Lin and described Su Yu’s domain as seemingly sacred-grade.
• Ying Lin placed a game piece on his star-sea sand table and praised the outcome, declaring, “Heaven blesses our Great Qin!”

After reaching the peak of the Heaven Realm in all three cultivation paths, Su Yu searched the Demon Suppression Pavilion for a king-grade Spirit Refinement method that could match his Lightning Punishment Domain. He found two seemingly impossible paths and decided they offered him an unprecedented road to heaven.

• Su Yu recovered from his battle and reached the peak of the Heaven Realm in Qi Refinement, Body Refinement, and Spirit Refinement, leaving him one step from the King Realm.
• Su Yu went to the Demon Suppression Pavilion to find a king-grade Spirit Refinement method suited to his saint-grade Lightning Punishment Domain.
• Su Yu rejected the orthodox methods on the seventh floor because they conflicted with his path or could not unleash his domain's power.
• Su Yu discovered the incomplete Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Dao Canon and the deadly Prison God Scripture among the discarded fragments.
• Su Yu recognized that both dangerous methods could complement his cultivation and resolved to turn their apparent dead ends into a road to heaven.

Su Yu chose the forbidden Nine Heavens Divine Lightning Dao Scripture fragment and Prison God Scripture, prompting Li Ning to decide not to interfere with his dangerous path. Li Ning delivered Su Yu the Northern Nether Sea's ransom, the Black Flood Dragon Hegemon Body and Northern Nether Profound Body Art, as his spoils.

• Su Yu exchanged for the Nine Heavens Divine Lightning Dao Scripture: King Realm Fragment and the Prison God Scripture, leaving the puppet elder in apparent confusion.
• Li Ning learned Su Yu had chosen both forbidden arts and rejected his official's suggestion to dissuade him.
• Li Ning ordered that the Northern Nether Sea's ransom be delivered directly to Su Yu, overriding the usual procedures with the Emperor's tacit approval.
• Su Yu prepared to study the two arts in cultivation chamber A when Li Ning arrived with the ransom.
• Li Ning handed Su Yu the Black Flood Dragon Hegemon Body and Northern Nether Profound Body Art, and Su Yu calmly accepted them.

Su Yu fused the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Dao Canon and the Prison God Scripture despite the risk of his soul shattering. The fusion created the peak King-tier Divine Prison Soul Suppression Canon and transformed his sea of consciousness.

• Li Ning told Su Yu that he could decide what to do with the cultivation techniques and offered headquarters' alchemy chamber and formation hall for support.
• Su Yu set aside the body refinement techniques and chose to fuse the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Dao Canon with the Prison God Scripture.
• Su Yu endured the clashing divine lightning and infernal powers, then used his Lightning Punishment rune to force them into alignment.
• Su Yu's sea of consciousness collapsed and was reborn as a realm with a lightning palace, nine levels of infernos, and a Divine Prison Soul Suppression stele.
• The system announced the successful creation of the peak King-tier Divine Prison Soul Suppression Canon, and Su Yu sensed his soul had been transformed.

Su Yu rebuilt his soul by cultivating the Divine Prison Soul Suppression Canon, reaching its introductory stage and removing the King Realm barrier on his path of Spirit Refinement. He released his newly forged Divine Prison Will outside Xianyang, provoking a spectacular King Realm tribulation that he openly defied.

• Su Yu stripped the Nine Heavens Thunder Control True Art from his soul and spent one million Slaughter Points to advance the Divine Prison Soul Suppression Canon to its introductory stage.
• Over three days, Su Yu fused divine lightning and Nine Nether karmic fire, transforming his soul into an independent world and realizing he could break through to the King Realm.
• Su Yu left the Demon Suppression Headquarters and traveled to a desolate region outside Xianyang, where he unleashed his Divine Prison Will and annihilated nearby demons and evil spirits.
• Li Ning, Ying Lin, and Meng Kuo sensed the immense power and saw the sky split into divine-punishment and hellish manifestations, recognizing a King Realm tribulation unlike any they had known.
• Su Yu faced the tribulation without fear and declared that a mere King Realm tribulation had no right to judge him.

Ying Lin secured the battlefield while Su Yu faced a lethal heavenly tribulation of lightning and ghostly power. Su Yu absorbed both punishments and, disappointed by the first wave, demanded that the heavens strike him again.

• Ying Lin arrived and used his imperial majesty to drive away the watching beings within ten thousand li.
• Ying Lin ordered Zheng Xuan and three hundred imperial guards to seal the battlefield with the Heaven-Severing Formation.
• The heavenly tribulation sent a lightning spear and a Nine Netherworlds ghost claw at Su Yu, leaving Zheng Xuan convinced the attack was fatal.
• Su Yu caught the lightning spear and absorbed its power, while his purgatory swallowed the ghost claw's soul-devouring force.
• Ying Lin observed that Su Yu was using the Heavenly Dao's laws to build his own Great Dao.
• Su Yu called the tribulation nourishment for his divine kingdom and ordered the heavens to strike again.

Su Yu completed his breakthrough to the King Realm by overpowering a catastrophic heavenly tribulation and absorbing its ultimate strike into his Divine Prison World. With his divine soul perfected, he sensed a familiar presence filled with hatred beneath the distant northern sea.

• The Heavenly Dao fused judgment and damnation into nine chains of law, alarming Zheng Xuan and revealing to Ying Lin that Su Yu’s King Realm breakthrough carried the form of an Emperor Realm trial.
• Su Yu summoned the embryonic Divine Prison World, seized the chains, and dragged the chaos millstone toward himself.
• The Heavenly Dao opened its Annihilation Divine Eye and attacked Su Yu, but his Divine Prison World swallowed the strike and reforged it into a pillar that perfected his Dao Fruit.
• The tribulation vanished, and the system announced that Su Yu had reached Spirit Refinement · King Realm First Level.
• Su Yu gained the ability to see the laws within all things and sensed a familiar, venomous hatred beneath the far northern sea.

Jiao Guang attempted to kill Su Yu after the youth's breakthrough, but Ying Lin blocked him and invoked Great Qin's claim over its Demon Suppression Envoy. Jiao Guang attacked both emperors, while Su Yu observed the clash for insight into the Emperor Realm.

• Jiao Guang learned that Su Yu had survived the dragon seal and broken through to the King Realm, then decided to kill him before he could grow stronger.
• Jiao Guang tore through space and appeared above the forest where Su Yu had undergone his tribulation.
• Ying Lin arrived and warned Jiao Guang that attacking Great Qin's Demon Suppression Envoy would mean war with Great Qin.
• Jiao Guang rejected the warning and declared that he would bury Great Qin's future, then unleashed a destructive dragon-claw strike at Ying Lin and Su Yu.
• Su Yu calmly studied the laws and weaknesses in Jiao Guang's attack as Ying Lin raised his palm and declared that even an emperor must coil up within his domain.