Chapter Summaries

Su Yu confronted Mu Ying with evidence of a traitor at Black Frost Fort and warned that the Ten Thousand Souls Pit concealed a plot to summon an Emperor Realm powerhouse. He ordered every soldier who had served there to assemble for his personal investigation.

• Mu Ying crippled Commander Li after Su Yu exposed his collusion with the enemy, then ordered guards to take him away for interrogation.
• Mu Ying led Su Yu into Black Frost Fort and admitted that the Northern Frontier's situation was more complicated than he imagined.
• Su Yu identified the Ten Thousand Souls Pit as the site where the Blood Baleful Intent Hall and Demon God Cult were building a Heaven-Reaching Blood Sacrifice Altar.
• Mu Ying said patrols had reported no abnormalities and explained that soldiers returning from the Ten Thousand Souls Pit rested and purified their souls before reassignment.
• Su Yu declared that the soldiers who had served or patrolled the Ten Thousand Souls Pit were corrupted and ordered them to assemble in the central square for investigation.

Su Yu exposed widespread soul erosion among the Demon Suppression Guards stationed at the Ten Thousand Souls Pit, revealing that nearly half had become puppets. Mu Ying learned that the corruption had taken hold because she was too weak to detect or stop it, while Su Yu prepared to confront the hidden force behind it.

• Mu Ying ordered the northern troops to assemble after Su Yu warned that more soldiers might be compromised.
• Three patrol squads killed comrades and tried to flee Black Frost Fort; twelve were killed and three escaped.
• Su Yu inspected the assembled guards with his soul perception and identified those whose souls had been hollowed out.
• Su Yu separated the compromised soldiers from the unaffected troops, revealing that nearly forty percent were puppets.
• Mu Ying asked why her elite soldiers had become puppets, and Su Yu explained that resentment from the Ten Thousand Souls Pit had silently eroded their souls.

Su Yu forced Mu Ying to accept that her power could not protect the Northern Frontier, then promised to save the possessed soldiers. Mu Ying surrendered the Northern Territory Demon Suppression Bureau to his command, and Su Yu prepared to investigate the Ten Thousand Souls Pit as the region’s top experts assembled.

• Su Yu told Mu Ying that the soldiers could be saved by killing the source controlling them, restoring her hope.
• Mu Ying knelt before Su Yu, admitted her failure, and placed all thirty-six thousand soldiers of the Northern Territory Demon Suppression Bureau under his command.
• Su Yu ordered Heaven Realm experts and above to assemble, then announced that he would personally go to the Ten Thousand Souls Pit and destroy the hidden threat.
• Su Yu used the Law of Imprisonment to suppress the soldiers’ soul imprints, and Mu Ying arranged for them to be guarded in a secure location.
• Thirty top Northern Frontier experts, including three King Realm titans, gathered at Black Frost Fort.

Su Yu led the Northern Frontier’s top experts openly toward the Ten Thousand Souls Pit, where the second hall master of the Blood Baleful Intent Hall prepared to face him. The hall master summoned reinforcements and activated a deadly formation, leaving Su Yu’s forces approaching a heavily fortified battlefield.

• Su Yu ordered Mu Ying to assemble the troops and led the Northern Frontier’s elite fighting strength toward the Ten Thousand Souls Pit.
• A commander realized Mu Ying now obeyed Su Yu completely and that his arrival had overturned the Northern Frontier’s established rules.
• A protector warned the second hall master that Su Yu was approaching with the Northern Frontier’s top experts and would arrive within half an hour.
• The second hall master crushed his throne’s armrest, refused to flee, and used a secret teleportation formation to summon Lord Blood Son for reinforcements.
• The second hall master activated the Blood Prison Four Absolutes, raising a hundred-mile blood canopy and four King Realm Ninth Layer Peak Blood Prison Guardians to confront Su Yu.

Su Yu erased the Ten Thousand Souls Blood Prison Grand Formation with his Lightning Punishment Domain, leaving the four Blood Prison Guardians exposed. He ordered Mu Ying and the Northern Frontier experts to stand back and declared that he would fight all four beasts himself.

• Mu Ying warned Su Yu that the blood formation and four King Realm ninth-layer guardians made the Ten Thousand Souls Pit nearly impossible to assault, and offered to lead a sacrificial flank attack.
• Su Yu summoned the Divine Eye of Heavenly Punishment and erased the century-old formation and its vengeful souls with a ripple of divine punishment.
• The Blood Baleful Intent Hall's second hall master roared in disbelief as the formation vanished and the four Blood Prison Guardians awakened.
• Mu Ying ordered the Northern Frontier experts to form ranks and attack the exposed guardians.
• Su Yu stopped them, stepped down toward the four beasts, and said that they should stand and watch while he handled all four.

Su Yu used the Prohibition Blood Formation to pin down the four Blood Prison Guardians and destroyed them with the Eight Desolations Demon-Suppressing Hand. He then fixed his gaze on the second hall master and declared that he was next.

• Su Yu ordered Mu Ying and the Northern Frontier experts to clear the Ten Thousand Souls Pit while he faced the four Blood Prison Guardians alone.
• Su Yu drew blood to trigger the Prohibition Blood Formation, which forced the four Guardians to kneel and left them unable to move.
• Su Yu crushed one Blood Prison Guardian with the Eight Desolations Demon-Suppressing Hand.
• Su Yu summoned three more demon-suppressing hands and annihilated the remaining Guardians and the ground beneath them.
• Su Yu looked toward the terrified second hall master and told him it was his turn.

Su Yu devoured the Second Hall Master after he sacrificed his foundation to reach the half-step Emperor Realm. As Su Yu prepared to destroy the remains, a blood-red spatial vortex opened above the Ten Thousand Souls Pit and someone claiming the Blood Son’s people demanded he come out and die.

• The Second Hall Master fused with the black throne and sacrificed his foundation, embryonic world core, and Dao Path to reach half-step Emperor Realm strength.
• The Second Hall Master charged Su Yu, but Su Yu manifested the first-stage Eternal Devil Prison Dragon God Body, Devil Prison Monarch, and stopped his attack.
• Su Yu’s Demon Prison Throne drained the Second Hall Master’s power, and Su Yu devoured his body, cultivation essence, and soul foundation.
• A blood-red vortex tore open the sky above the Ten Thousand Souls Pit, and a powerful voice demanded to know who had touched the Blood Son’s people.

The Blood Son arrived in his true body and attacked Su Yu, who effortlessly devoured his Blood Prison Divine Spear and seized control of the Blood Son’s blood Dao. Su Yu then stripped the Blood Son’s power and wounded him with a dark-gold spear, leaving the Blood Son shocked and bleeding.

• The Blood Son emerged from the blood vortex, and his pressure severely injured a Northern Frontier ancestor.
• The Blood Son extracted and destroyed the Second Hall Master's remnant soul, then recognized Su Yu as the source of his growing interest.
• The Blood Son attacked Su Yu with the Blood Prison Divine Spear, but Su Yu's Devil Prison Monarch throne devoured it.
• Su Yu called the Blood Son's blood laws crude and took control of the Blood Son's power.
• Su Yu condensed the stripped blood Dao power into a dark-gold spear and pierced the Blood Son's right shoulder.

Blood Son trapped Su Yu inside his Blood God Realm and attacked him with an army of blood soldiers and the Blood Moon Skyfall technique, but Su Yu dodged every strike while analyzing the domain. After spending Slaughter Points to deduce the Law of Blood, Su Yu glimpsed the blood Dao’s fundamental origin, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Blood Son expanded his Blood God Realm around Su Yu, transforming the area into a sea of blood beneath a scarlet moon.
• Blood Son summoned countless Heaven Realm blood soldiers and ordered them to attack Su Yu.
• Su Yu calmly evaded the soldiers and Blood Son’s Blood Moon Skyfall, while realizing the domain relied on borrowed Blood Qi and contained many flaws.
• Su Yu used his Slaughter Points to fully deduce the Law of Blood.
• Su Yu saw the origin of vital blood, the first pulse of life, and the creation runes that shaped living beings.

Su Yu awakened the Blood Origin Domain and completely erased Blood Son’s Blood God Realm, then began extracting the origin given to him by the Blood God Emperor. The Blood God Emperor’s will descended through Blood Son and stopped the extraction, setting up a confrontation with Su Yu.

• Su Yu’s new blood origin law displaced the saber, lightning, and devouring laws within his world core, severing Blood Son’s control over the Blood God Realm.
• Su Yu awakened the Blood Origin Domain and absorbed the shattered realm’s blood-colored power, gravely wounding Blood Son.
• Su Yu spared Blood Son and began forcibly extracting the Blood God Emperor’s bloodline origin from his body.
• An Emperor Realm will descended, halted Su Yu’s devouring, and restored Blood Son’s wounds as the Blood God Emperor took control of his body.
• The Blood God Emperor recognized Su Yu’s transformed origin law and praised his ability to plunder and repurpose others’ power, saying Su Yu was very much like him.

Su Yu rejected the Blood God Emperor’s offer and treated the Emperor as a potential source of power to devour. After the Emperor’s will withdrew, Blood Son realized he had only served as a link between them and begged Su Yu for mercy, but Su Yu declared he had no use for pawns.

• The Blood God Emperor dismissed Blood Son as expendable and offered Su Yu power and a path toward the Saint Realm in exchange for his allegiance and perfect vessel.
• Su Yu asked whether the Emperor’s Dao was worth devouring, provoking the Emperor’s interest before his projected will faded and promised to await Su Yu at the Blood God Ancient Land.
• Blood Son regained control of himself, saw Su Yu unharmed, and realized his master had withdrawn without defeating him.
• Blood Son begged Su Yu to spare him and offered the secrets of the Blood God Lineage and service as a spy.
• Su Yu told Blood Son that he never kept other people as pawns and that there was no reason to keep a useless piece like him.

Su Yu killed Blood Son with a single Eight Desolations Demon-Suppressing Hand and ordered the remaining Blood Baleful Intent Hall members eliminated. When a primordial presence stirred beneath the Ten Thousand Souls Pit, Su Yu ordered everyone to withdraw and plunged into the abyss alone.

• Su Yu crushed Blood Son, annihilating his body and soul with the Eight Desolations Demon-Suppressing Hand.
• Su Yu ordered Mu Ying and the Northern Frontier experts to kill every surviving member of the Blood Baleful Intent Hall.
• Mu Ying reported that the remnants had been eliminated and that three Heaven Realm elders had been captured alive.
• Blood and Blood Son's remains flowed into the pit as an ancient presence stirred below, frightening the assembled experts.
• Su Yu ordered everyone to retreat a hundred li, then entered the abyss alone.

Su Yu descended to the bottom of the Ten Thousand Souls Pit, where he defeated a remnant soul guarding the Progenitor's Heart and uncovered the source of the pit's Blood Qi. He claimed the ancient heart for himself, declaring that it would bear the surname Su.

• Su Yu reached the bottom of the Ten Thousand Souls Pit, where darkness and pressure concealed an enormous living presence.
• A tomb guardian's remnant soul ambushed Su Yu, but his Divine Prison Soul Suppression Canon trapped and subdued it.
• Su Yu questioned the remnant soul, which identified itself as the guardian of the Progenitor's Heart and accused him of cutting off its Blood Qi nourishment.
• Su Yu saw the gigantic Progenitor's Heart absorbing Blood Qi through channels that also bound it in place.
• Su Yu recognized the heart's ancient blood Dao essence and declared that its surname was Su from then on.

Su Yu killed the tomb guardian remnant soul with the Lightning Punishment Heavenly Palace, provoking the Progenitor's Heart to unleash a horde of vicious remnant souls against him. He trapped and devoured them in his Divine Prison Domain, rapidly advancing his soul cultivation as the Progenitor's Heart tried to make them self-destruct.

• Su Yu erased the thousand-year-old tomb guardian remnant soul with divine lightning from the Lightning Punishment Heavenly Palace.
• The Progenitor's Heart accused Su Yu of obstructing its revival and awakened more than a hundred remnant souls to attack him.
• Su Yu activated the Divine Prison Soul Suppression Canon and shackled the soul horde within his Divine Prison Domain.
• Su Yu dragged the remnant souls to the Divine Prison Soul-Suppressing Stone Stele, which extracted and purified their power to strengthen his soul.
• The Progenitor's Heart tried to force the captured souls to detonate, but Su Yu looked toward it and said, "Thank you for the feast."

After consuming the remnant souls, Su Yu’s soul power broke through to King Realm Third Level, allowing him to probe the Progenitor’s Heart and discover its ancient core guarded by two King Realm Ninth Layer forces. When the heart sent two blood war gods to attack, Su Yu met them with his Wisdom King Dharma Aspect and overwhelming physical strength, leaving one crushed into a distant wall and the other restrained.

• Su Yu absorbed the remnant souls and advanced his soul power to the peak of King Realm Third Level.
• Su Yu probed the Progenitor’s Heart and found two dormant King Realm Ninth Layer presences surrounding a weaker, ancient source core.
• The Progenitor’s Heart sensed Su Yu’s intrusion and formed two blood-colored war gods, both at Body Refinement King Realm Ninth Layer.
• Su Yu manifested the Wisdom King Prison-Subduing Aspect and knocked one war god’s spear aside with a punch while catching the other’s spear with a Buddhist palm.
• Su Yu yanked the restrained spear to pivot and struck the first war god with a karmic-fire whip kick, sending it into a rock wall.
• Su Yu turned toward the remaining war god as it struggled against the Wisdom King’s restraint.

Su Yu destroyed both king realm ninth layer blood-colored war gods with his Eternal Devil Prison Dragon God Body. The Progenitor's Heart transformed into a blood-colored crystal and awakened an ancient will that confronted him for touching the Source of Bloodlines.

• Su Yu dismissed his Wisdom King Dharma Aspect and faced the two war gods as they attacked from both sides.
• Su Yu activated his Eternal Devil Prison Dragon God Body, crushed one war god's spear tip, shattered the other's spear, and grievously wounded it.
• Su Yu crushed the remaining war god's head, destroying both war gods within ten breaths.
• Su Yu declared the warm-up over and turned his attention to the Progenitor's Heart.
• The Progenitor's Heart stopped beating, transformed into a crystal, and released an ancient will that addressed Su Yu for touching the Source of Bloodlines.

Su Yu challenged the blood-colored crystal heart with Nirvanic Divine Thunder, but it summoned a powerful woman in red who struck him into a rock wall. After she questioned why he carried a trace of her presence, Su Yu punched her into the opposite wall.

• Su Yu unleashed Nirvanic Divine Thunder at the blood-colored crystal heart, but the heart swallowed the attack and erupted in crimson light.
• A woman in red appeared and kicked Su Yu into a distant rock wall, though his body quickly began to recover.
• Su Yu assessed the woman as a near-emperor-level opponent and faced her as she hovered in the abyss.
• The woman sensed a trace of her presence on Su Yu and questioned him at close range.
• Su Yu answered by punching the woman in the face and sending her crashing into the opposite rock wall.

Su Yu overwhelmed the woman in red by seizing control of her blood-origin spears and turning them against her, then tried to devour the source in her dantian. She healed herself before he could reach her core, and the chapter ended as a crushing will descended over the underground abyss.

• Su Yu dodged the woman in red’s surprise attack and taunted her blood-origin power as weak.
• The woman in red summoned a storm of blood spears, but Su Yu awakened his Blood Origin Domain and turned them against her.
• The spears pierced the woman in red, and Su Yu began to devour the source within her dantian.
• The woman in red dissolved the spears and healed her wounds, then demanded to know where Su Yu’s blood-origin power came from.
• Su Yu claimed he could use any law that existed, and an immense will descended over the underground abyss.

Su Yu fought the red-robed woman, matching her strength and healing while her reserves dwindled. She unleashed the Progenitor’s Heart to split into three forms, then attacked him with a coordinated assault.

• The woman’s supreme divine authority struck Su Yu’s sea of consciousness, but the Divine Prison Soul-Suppressing Stone Stele repelled it.
• Su Yu and the woman clashed in close combat, and his physical strength sent her reeling.
• They traded injuries, but both healed rapidly as the woman’s origin reserves began to run low.
• The woman released the Progenitor’s Heart and summoned two forms, dividing her power among blood, flesh, and soul.
• The three forms sealed off Su Yu’s escape routes and attacked together, with the original body unleashing a soul storm.

Su Yu fought the red-robed woman and her two clones, surviving their coordinated assault before discovering a tiny delay between their attacks. He exploited that weakness to strike the woman’s vertical eye with his Spear of Judgment, leaving all three attackers frozen at the brink of their blows.

• The red-robed woman’s clones used soul suppression, a blood-law spear, and a crushing punch to attack Su Yu, but he broke the sensory seal and endured their strikes.
• The three figures launched a relentless second assault, leaving Su Yu grievously wounded despite his body’s powerful self-healing.
• Su Yu noticed a brief delay as the woman and her clones switched between their Spirit, Qi, and Body Refinement attacks.
• Su Yu abandoned defense and charged the woman, concentrating his power into the Divine Prison Soul Suppression Spear of Judgment.
• Su Yu’s lightning spear pierced the vertical eye between the woman’s brows, and her clones’ attacks froze just before hitting him.