Chapter Summaries

Lu Cang tested Su Yu's strength, drove Shen Yang and his injured companions out of Nanhe County, and warned Su Yu that the Demon God Cult had placed a bounty of three thousand mid-grade spirit stones on his head. Su Yu decided to head for Tiannan Commandery after his system finished updating, while Tang Shan resolved to seek help for revenge.

• Lu Cang arrived at the training ground, overwhelmed the Demon Suppression Guards with his spiritual pressure, and sent Shen Yang flying with a cold snort.
• Lu Cang rebuked Shen Yang for hiding during the Cloud Wolf Mountain crisis and tested Su Yu, who stood his ground under the commandant's pressure.
• Lu Cang praised Su Yu, revealed the bounty on his head, and offered him a chance to qualify for the Shadow Guard; he then ordered Shen Yang and his companions back to Tiannan Commandery.
• Lin Xiao warned Su Yu about the dangers awaiting him in the commandery city, but Su Yu decided the bounty hunters would provide Slaughter Points and prepared to leave once his system update finished.
• Tang Shan resolved to borrow someone else's strength to pursue revenge, while Su Yu packed supplies and decided to ask the captain about places to find Sha Qi.

Su Yu used a hundred-year-old Black Baleful Intent Vine to break through to Body Refining, Spirit Realm First Level, and gained powerful physical defenses. Tang Shan offered him two valuable cultivation treasures in exchange for killing Zhou Tong, the Earth Realm master of the Blood Demon Hall, and Su Yu accepted before his system update completed.

• Su Yu asked Lin Xiao for treasures containing Sha Qi, and Lin Xiao gave him a hundred-year-old Black Baleful Intent Vine while warning that a bounty had made him a target.
• Su Yu absorbed the vine’s Sha Qi, reached Body Refining, Spirit Realm First Level, and tested his new resistance to blades.
• Tang Shan brought Su Yu a supreme-grade Spirit Realm saber technique and a high-grade Mystic Realm spirit-refining cultivation technique, asking him to kill Zhou Tong for slaughtering the Tang Family.
• Su Yu accepted the jade slips and said Zhou Tong would die one day, despite being unable to kill an Earth Realm cultivator yet.
• After Tang Shan left, Su Yu’s system update completed, and he looked forward to facing the hunters and geniuses of Tiannan Commandery.

Su Yu fused Vajra Fist and Star-Shattering Finger into the Vajra Star-Shattering Seal, then set out for Tiannan Commandery. After killing the Demon God Cult assassin Zhao Ke, he chose to detour to the Black Demon Mountain Range to gather Slaughter Points before entering the city.

• Su Yu spent 500 Slaughter Points to fuse Vajra Fist and Star-Shattering Finger into the supreme-grade Spirit Realm martial art Vajra Star-Shattering Seal.
• Su Yu rode out toward Tiannan Commandery as Lin Xiao warned him of its dangers, while Tang Shan hoped he would avenge the Tang Family.
• Liu Qingyun learned that Su Yu had killed his father and ordered Zhao Ke to intercept Su Yu and bring him back alive.
• Zhao Ke ambushed Su Yu on the road, but Su Yu trapped him with Prohibition Blood Formation and killed him with Vajra Star-Shattering Seal.
• Su Yu saw Tiannan Commandery City ahead, then turned toward the Black Demon Mountain Range to stock up on Slaughter Points.

Su Yu entered the Black Demon Mountain Range to hunt demons and gather Slaughter Points, then killed three Mystic Sword Sect disciples who recognized him as Chu Jie’s killer. After a day of slaughter, he had 5,000 Slaughter Points and sealed himself inside a cave, ready to use them.

• Su Yu entered the Black Demon Mountain Range and killed three Spirit Realm Second Level Black-Armored Wild Boars for their demon cores and Slaughter Points.
• He overheard Mystic Sword Sect disciples discussing a 5,000-spirit-stone bounty for information about Chu Jie’s killer.
• Su Yu killed a Spirit Realm Third Level venomous crocodile with one slash, then revealed that he had killed Chu Jie.
• When Li Yun reached for a voice-transmission jade slip, Su Yu used Spirit Sense Piercing to disable all three disciples and killed them, taking their belongings.
• Su Yu hunted demons and armed cultivators through the day until he had 5,000 Slaughter Points, then sealed himself inside a secluded cave.

Su Yu spent Slaughter Points to perfect his Spirit-Seizing Art, Spirit Sense Piercing, and Vajra Demonic Baleful Intent, raising his spirit refining and body refinement realms. Three Mystic Sword Sect fighters arrived to claim the bounty on him, leaving Su Yu ready to test his strengthened body against them.

• Su Yu perfected Spirit-Seizing Art, breaking through to Spirit Realm Fourth Level and expanding his divine sense.
• Su Yu perfected Spirit Sense Piercing, learning to launch and sharply redirect twelve invisible short spears.
• Su Yu perfected Vajra Demonic Baleful Intent, but a lack of Sha Qi limited his body refinement breakthrough to Spirit Realm Second Level.
• Su Yu sensed three powerful humans approaching his cave and prepared for a fight.
• Xiang Kui and two Mystic Sword Sect disciples smashed the boulder blocking the cave and confronted Su Yu over the death of the grand elder's youngest son.
• Su Yu assessed the three attackers and decided they would test the strength of his newly hardened body.

Su Yu fought three Mystic Sword Sect attackers in the Black Demon Mountain Range, killing them with upgraded martial arts and divine sense before searching the burly man's storage pouch. A cracked black-and-red jade talisman then released a huge ghostly silhouette into the night sky.

• Su Yu used his gravity field and Vajra Star-Shattering Seal to withstand the burly man's hammer and counterattack.
• Su Yu upgraded Vajra Star-Shattering Seal and killed one Spirit Realm Fourth Level disciple with a single strike.
• Su Yu pierced the burly man's sea of consciousness with Spirit Sense Piercing and killed him with a strike to the throat.
• The last disciple fled, but Su Yu caught and killed him with Wind Falls Silent, Leaving No Trace, gaining Slaughter Points.
• Su Yu took the burly man's storage pouch, and a cracked black-and-red jade talisman flew out and formed an enormous ghostly silhouette in the sky.

Su Yu discovered a Ghost Shadow Sect treasure map, then initiated the Blood Baleful Intent Mad Blade and tested it on three demonic tigers. A Spirit Realm Ninth Level Three-Eyed Scarlet Tiger tracked him down, and after blinding it with a surprise strike, Su Yu fled.

• Su Yu memorized the Ghost Shadow Sect map revealed by Xiang Kui's dying talisman and took Xiang Kui's token and heavy hammer.
• Chu He arrived at the cave, found Xiang Kui and the Mystic Sword Sect disciples dead, and headed for a great demon to help hunt Su Yu.
• Su Yu spent 500 Slaughter Points to initiate the Blood Baleful Intent Mad Blade.
• Su Yu killed three Spirit Realm Second Level Black-Spined Spotted Tigers, whose blood Qi strengthened his saber technique.
• A Spirit Realm Ninth Level Three-Eyed Scarlet Tiger tracked Su Yu to his hiding place, and Su Yu pierced its vertical eye with the Vajra Star-Shattering Seal.
• The injured tiger struck Su Yu with a powerful force, and Su Yu used the recoil to flee.

Su Yu escaped into the forest after blinding the Three-Eyed Scarlet Tiger, but the Mystic Sword Sect and the mountain demons launched a coordinated hunt for him. After killing two pursuing disciples and treating his injuries, he decided his only chance of survival was to enter the forbidden inner region of the Black Demon Mountain Range.

• Su Yu fled into the forest as the wounded Three-Eyed Scarlet Tiger rampaged behind him.
• Chu He arrived, learned Su Yu had blinded the tiger, and ordered the Mystic Sword Sect disciples to search the southern region while the mountain demons began a sweeping hunt.
• Two Mystic Sword Sect disciples found Su Yu’s cave, but Su Yu killed them with his saber and gained 800 slaughter points.
• Su Yu treated his internal injuries and sensed the organized search closing around him.
• Su Yu concluded the exits were sealed and chose to head into the inner region of the Black Demon Mountain Range.

Su Yu entered the inner region of the Black Demon Mountain Range, where a Baleful Blood Mystic Serpent offered him a deal involving a Blood Baleful Intent Thorn. After learning the Mystic Sword Sect had forced Su Yu into danger, Lu Cang ordered the Demon Suppression Bureau to rescue him and threatened to attack Chu He and the sect.

• Su Yu crossed into the inner region and witnessed dark red tendrils drain an Ironclad Rhinoceros of its life.
• A Baleful Blood Mystic Serpent confronted Su Yu, then offered to lure away a demon guarding the Blood Baleful Intent Thorn if Su Yu retrieved it.
• Mystic Sword Sect disciples sealed off the mountain and drove away Rogue Cultivators while observers reported the sect's actions to the Demon Suppression Bureau.
• A Shadow Guard told Lu Cang that Chu He had forced Su Yu into the inner region by joining forces with a tiger demon to trigger a beast tide.
• Lu Cang ordered nearby Shadow Guards to keep Su Yu alive and threatened to kill Chu He and raze the Mystic Sword Sect if Su Yu was harmed.

Su Yu used a newly mastered saber technique to kill the Earth-Splitting Demon Boar’s guards and uproot the Blood Baleful Intent Thorn. The furious demon boar turned on the Baleful Blood Mystic Serpent, while Su Yu escaped deeper into the Black Demon Mountain Range.

• Su Yu spotted the Blood Baleful Intent Thorn guarded by two Spirit Realm fifth-level Earth-Splitting Demon Boars while the Baleful Blood Mystic Serpent kept their ninth-level peak leader occupied.
• Su Yu spent all his Slaughter Points to reach major mastery in Blood Baleful Intent Mad Blade, then used Spirit Sense Piercing and the saber technique to kill both guards.
• Su Yu uprooted the Blood Baleful Intent Thorn and blocked the ninth-level demon boar’s boulder attack with Vajra Star-Shattering Seal.
• The Earth-Splitting Demon Boar realized the Mystic Serpent had distracted it and charged the serpent in a furious attack.
• Su Yu escaped into the inner reaches of the Black Demon Mountain Range as the two peak demons fought to the death.

Su Yu devoured the Blood Baleful Intent Thorn in a hidden cavern, breaking through two levels to reach the Spirit Realm fourth level. When three Mystic Sword Sect disciples found him in the inner region, he killed their leader with a single saber strike.

• Su Yu hid in a cavern, consumed the Blood Baleful Intent Thorn, and advanced to the Spirit Realm fourth level.
• Chu He ordered the Mystic Sword Sect disciples to search the inner-region boundary and kill Su Yu if he emerged.
• Demon Suppression Captain Lu Cang flew toward Tiannan Commandery on a greatsword.
• Su Yu left the cavern and encountered three Spirit Realm fifth-level Mystic Sword Sect disciples who had entered the inner region to find him.
• The tall, thin disciple attacked Su Yu, who drew his saber and beheaded him with Blood Baleful Intent Mad Blade.

Su Yu killed three Mystic Sword Sect disciples and hunted demonic beasts to gain enough Slaughter Points to upgrade Vajra Demonic Baleful Intent. After forming Demonic Baleful Intent Vajra Armor, he rushed toward the aftermath of the battle between the Earth-Splitting Demon Boar and the Baleful Blood Mystic Serpent.

• Su Yu killed two fleeing Mystic Sword Sect disciples and collected their storage pouches.
• Su Yu hunted an Ironclad Rhinoceros and two Shadow Leopards, raising his total to 3,100 Slaughter Points.
• Su Yu spent 3,000 Slaughter Points to advance Vajra Demonic Baleful Intent and comprehend Demonic Baleful Intent Vajra Armor.
• Su Yu tested the armor and found that it more than doubled his strength and speed, tripled his defense, and repelled nearby poisonous miasma.
• Su Yu reached the devastated valley and saw the badly wounded Earth-Splitting Demon Boar and Baleful Blood Mystic Serpent nearing the end of their fight.

Su Yu ambushed the wounded Earth-Splitting Demon Boar and Baleful Blood Mystic Serpent, killing both Spirit Realm Ninth Level demons. After collecting their cores, he sensed a powerful presence approaching.

• Su Yu emerged from hiding and killed the Earth-Splitting Demon Boar with the Vajra Star-Shattering Seal and Blood Baleful Intent Mad Blade, gaining 1,000 Slaughter Points.
• Su Yu attacked the retreating Baleful Blood Mystic Serpent, endured its venom, pierced its consciousness with Spirit Sense Piercing, and killed it with his saber, gaining another 1,000 Slaughter Points.
• Su Yu collected the demon cores from the two demons, but sensed a powerful presence rapidly approaching.

Su Yu swallowed the Baleful Blood Mystic Serpent’s demon core and used all his Slaughter Points to deduce Vajra Demonic Baleful Intent as two Mystic Sword Sect disciples attacked him. He broke through to Body Refinement Spirit Realm sixth level and activated a greatly strengthened Demonic Baleful Intent Vajra Armor, leaving the fight poised to resume.

• Chu He attacked Su Yu, but two Demon Suppression Bureau Shadow Guards intercepted him and engaged him in battle.
• At Chu He’s order, two Spirit Realm seventh level Mystic Sword Sect disciples advanced on the exhausted Su Yu.
• Su Yu swallowed the Baleful Blood Mystic Serpent’s demon core and spent all 2000 Slaughter Points to deduce Vajra Demonic Baleful Intent.
• The deduced technique absorbed the serpent’s Sha Qi and raised Su Yu’s physical realm by two minor levels, to Body Refinement Spirit Realm sixth level.
• Su Yu’s Prohibition Blood Formation trapped the leading disciple, and his Demonic Baleful Intent Vajra Armor grew heavier and more powerful.

Su Yu turned the tables on the Mystic Sword Sect fighters by swallowing a ninth-level demon core and breaking through during battle, but Chu He nearly killed him before Lu Cang arrived. Lu Cang subdued Chu He and recognized Su Yu as a supreme born killer, leaving Su Yu’s future in the Demon Suppression Bureau in focus.

• Su Yu shattered one Mystic Sword Sect disciple’s sword and killed him with the Vajra Star-Shattering Seal, then used Dragon Concealment and the Blood Baleful Intent Mad Blade to kill the second disciple.
• Chu He attacked Su Yu with Mystic Realm Third Level sword power, while the two Shadow Guards tried to shield Su Yu and were knocked aside by Chu He’s strike.
• A massive edgeless greatsword crashed down on Chu He, breaking his Gang Qi and pinning him in the ground as Lu Cang arrived.
• The injured Shadow Guards bowed to Lu Cang and left, while Chu He realized he could not kill Su Yu with Lu Cang present.
• Lu Cang examined Su Yu’s strength and the battlefield, judged him a supreme born killer, and clapped him on the shoulder.

Lu Cang defeated Chu He and prepared to execute him, but Chu Yuan intervened and offered compensation to settle the Mystic Sword Sect’s crimes. Lu Cang demanded valuable sect resources instead, leaving the two ninth-level powerhouses on the brink of battle.

• Lu Cang tested Su Yu’s cultivation, then moved to execute the wounded Chu He for colluding with demons and attacking fellow comrades.
• Chu Yuan arrived after killing the Mystic Realm tiger demon and stopped Lu Cang’s sword, though Chu He lost his left arm.
• Chu Yuan examined Su Yu, restrained his killing intent, and offered the tiger demon’s corpse and sect resources as compensation.
• Lu Cang rejected the offer and demanded two upper-grade Mystic Realm sword martial arts and two Mystic Realm Breakthrough Pills in exchange for Chu He’s life.
• Chu Yuan threatened all-out war, and Lu Cang challenged him to draw his sword.

Lu Cang defeated Chu Yuan and forced the Mystic Sword Sect elder to surrender two sword-technique inheritances before fleeing with Chu He. Back at the Tiannan Commandery Demon Suppression Bureau, Su Yu asked whether its Demon Suppression Pavilion held the Spirit Realm volume of Suppressing Prisons and Subduing Demons, and the air froze around them.

• Lu Cang overwhelmed Chu Yuan with his heavy sword until Chu Yuan surrendered the Azure Lightning Sword Art and Dividing Shadow Sword Formation and promised to deliver realm-breaking pills in three days.
• Chu Yuan escaped with the unconscious Chu He and the Mystic Sword Sect remnants, while Su Yu recognized how far he remained below Mystic Realm Ninth Layer powerhouses.
• Lu Cang gave the jade slips to Su Yu, and Su Yu's system detected both as recordable upper-grade Mystic Realm techniques.
• Lu Cang led Su Yu and the Shadow Guards back to Tiannan Commandery's Demon Suppression Bureau as Su Yu struggled to contain the medicinal power in his meridians.
• Su Yu asked Lu Cang whether the Demon Suppression Pavilion had the Spirit Realm volume of Suppressing Prisons and Subduing Demons, causing the surrounding guards to tense.

Su Yu revealed that he had cultivated Suppressing Prisons and Subduing Demons to its minute subtlety realm, stunning Lu Cang and Hei Yu. Lu Cang brought Su Yu to the Demon Suppression Pavilion, where Su Yu obtained the Spirit Realm chapter, Eight Desolations Demon-Suppressing Qi.

• Su Yu acknowledged cultivating Suppressing Prisons and Subduing Demons, then released its Prohibition Blood Formation to show his mastery.
• Lu Cang realized Su Yu had reached the technique’s minute subtlety realm and agreed to take him to the Spirit Realm chapter.
• Lu Cang used his commander's token to open the Demon Suppression Pavilion and directed Su Yu to its third floor.
• Su Yu found the dark golden jade slip containing Eight Desolations Demon-Suppressing Qi and grasped it.
• The Spirit Realm chapter’s energy merged with Su Yu’s Mortal Realm cultivation, and its knowledge appeared in his mind.

Su Yu used an inheritance jade slip and Slaughter Points to break through to the first level of Qi refinement, completing his cultivation of all three paths into the spirit realm. Lu Cang told him about the upcoming Shadow Guard selection, and Su Yu received a squad captain’s waist token after completing the formalities.

• Su Yu absorbed the Eight Desolations Demon-Suppressing Qi from the jade slip, spent five hundred Slaughter Points, and condensed liquid spiritual power to reach Qi refinement spirit realm first level.
• Su Yu left the Demon Suppression Pavilion, where Hei Yu recognized his breakthrough and Lu Cang confirmed he had it under control.
• Lu Cang explained that the Shadow Guard selection would begin in three days and described its ratings, rewards, and the benefits of joining.
• Su Yu decided that the Shadow Guard’s independent authority suited his needs and assessed his chances of earning a high rating.
• Lu Cang took Su Yu to complete the formalities and gave him a squad captain’s waist token.

Su Yu used his new Demon Suppression Bureau rank to access a Spirit Realm movement technique and fused it with Wandering Dragon Steps. He tested the resulting Thunder Shadow Wandering Dragon Steps in his courtyard, gaining a major advantage ahead of the Shadow Guard selection trial.

• Su Yu assessed the limits of his public squad captain role and decided he needed a stronger movement technique before the Shadow Guard selection trial.
• Su Yu selected Shadow Thunder Flash from the Demon Suppression Pavilion and used his merit points to unlock it.
• Su Yu fused Shadow Thunder Flash with Wandering Dragon Steps, creating the Spirit Realm Supreme Grade Thunder Shadow Wandering Dragon Steps.
• Su Yu spent Slaughter Points to raise the new technique to minor accomplishment.
• Su Yu tested the technique in his courtyard and found it three times faster than Wandering Dragon Steps, with a deceptive afterimage.