Chapter Summaries

Su Yu defeated the woman in red by piercing her brow and breaking the connection that sustained her clones, but she escaped into the abyss. She left him the Blood God Scripture, and after examining the inheritance and his injuries, Su Yu left the ruined Ten Thousand Souls Pit.

• Su Yu pierced the woman in red with the Spear of Judgment, shattering her clones and gravely wounding her soul.
• The woman in red fled into the abyss and tossed Su Yu the Progenitor's Heart crystal, telling him it contained a supreme-grade Emperor-tier martial art.
• Su Yu examined the crystal and received the Blood God Scripture, an inheritance that revealed the primal mysteries of the Dao of blood.
• Su Yu found no hidden will or trap in the crystal but remained suspicious of the woman in red's motives.
• Su Yu assessed his law-inflicted injuries and saw that the altar's destruction had made the Ten Thousand Souls Pit lose its deadly power.
• Su Yu vanished from the abyss, leaving the area behind.

Su Yu returned from the Ten Thousand Souls Pit after destroying its core and the Heaven-Reaching Blood Sacrifice Altar, then issued sweeping orders for the Northern Frontier. Back at Black Frost Fort, he asked the system to find a way to integrate the Blood God Scripture into the Divine Prison Soul Suppression Canon.

• Mu Ying and the officers waited outside the Ten Thousand Souls Pit until Su Yu emerged alive, badly wounded but composed.
• Su Yu declared the pit’s core cleared and the Heaven-Reaching Blood Sacrifice Altar destroyed, and he ordered the site’s patrol classification lowered to Grade B.
• Mu Ying and the officers bowed to Su Yu, who ordered a three-day risk reassessment, a reorganization of patrols, soul examinations for returning personnel, and delivery of Black Frost Fort’s defensive formation diagram.
• Su Yu returned to Black Frost Fort, dismissed everyone, and considered the Blood God Scripture’s power and danger.
• Su Yu asked the system to use Slaughter Points to devise a way to integrate the Blood God Scripture with the Divine Prison Soul Suppression Canon as its core.

After blocking the fusion of the Blood God Scripture, Su Yu ordered a three-day purge that eliminated the Northern Frontier’s demon strongholds and secret outposts. As he prepared to leave for Xianyang, he learned that the Snow Moon Kingdom had invaded and the Great Wall defense was close to collapse.

• Su Yu learned that he needed King Realm Ninth Layer Spirit Refinement to fuse the Blood God Scripture, then ordered the Northern Frontier Demon Suppression Guards to destroy its demon strongholds and the Blood Baleful Intent Hall and Demon God Cult outposts.
• Su Yu’s forces cleared the Blood Baleful Intent Hall branch at Black Wind Canyon after he struck down its three King Realm Fourth Level branch masters.
• Su Yu destroyed an awakened King Realm Eighth Level demon soul threatening the purge squad at the Ice Cave Devil Nest.
• Mu Ying reported that the Northern Frontier’s 372 demon strongholds and 19 secret outposts had been cleared, and Su Yu looked toward Xianyang.
• Mu Ying received urgent news that the Snow Moon Kingdom had broken its peace treaty and attacked with 300,000 troops; Wu Jin and the White Tiger Legion were fighting desperately as the defense line neared collapse.

Su Yu uncovered signs that the Northern Frontier battle was being hidden from Xianyang and ordered Black Frost Fort sealed while he went to the Great Wall with Mu Ying. As the White Tiger Legion faced annihilation, Wu Jin waited desperately for reinforcements from Black Frost Fort.

• Mu Ying asked Su Yu to send Black Frost Fort's thirty thousand elite troops to reinforce the Great Wall, but Su Yu first questioned the fort's provisions and examined the forces involved.
• Su Yu realized that Wu Jin's request had reached only Mu Ying, suggesting someone was concealing the war from military headquarters and Xianyang to test him.
• Su Yu ordered Black Frost Fort into its highest state of readiness, forbade soldiers from leaving, and set out for the defensive line with Mu Ying.
• Mu Ying identified Tuoba Hong as the ninth-layer King Realm commander of the Snow Moon Kingdom's forces, and Su Yu responded with killing intent.
• The Snow Wolf Army and the White Tiger Legion fought a brutal battle at the Great Wall while Wu Jin and Tuoba Hong held each other at bay.
• Wu Jin saw the White Tiger Legion's line being worn down and feared it would fall within half a day as he waited for Mu Ying's reinforcements.

Su Yu arrived above the besieged White Tiger Pass and refused to waste Great Qin soldiers in a direct assault, instead confronting Snow Moon Kingdom's commander Tuoba Hong. He gave the Snow Wolf Army ten breaths to leave Great Qin's territory and demonstrated his power by erasing a thousand soldiers and the ground beneath them.

• In his command tent, Tuoba Hong celebrated the impending fall of White Tiger Pass while Elder Li revealed that the battle was meant to draw out Su Yu.
• Su Yu and Mu Ying appeared above the battlefield, and Mu Ying urged him to reinforce the crumbling western line.
• Su Yu explained that killing foot soldiers would cost Great Qin lives and pointed out that the Snow Wolf Army would not scatter until its commander died.
• Su Yu unleashed his power across the battlefield, identified himself to Tuoba Hong, and ordered the Snow Wolf Army to leave Great Qin within ten breaths.
• Su Yu's black lightning erased a thousand Snow Wolf soldiers and a vast section of frozen ground, and he warned that otherwise not a blade of grass would remain.

Su Yu faced four King Realm Ninth Layer refined corpses controlled by Elder Li and used the Divine Prison Soul Suppression Canon to strike at her soul. Elder Li screamed, and the corpses froze in midair as their control faltered.

• A vast crater left by Su Yu’s power stunned both armies and horrified Tuoba Hong.
• Elder Li revealed four King Realm Ninth Layer refined corpses that trapped Su Yu and Mu Ying in a killing formation.
• Mu Ying tried to cover Su Yu’s retreat, but Su Yu dismissed the danger and stayed to fight.
• The four corpses attacked together, but Su Yu escaped their strikes with Thunder Dragon Prison Suppression Step.
• Su Yu used Divine Prison Soul Suppression Canon to attack Elder Li’s soul, making her scream and leaving the four corpses frozen in the air.

Su Yu defeated Situ Fu by severing his soul bond with the White Bone Demon God, then devoured Situ Fu and uncovered Cao Yuan’s plan to lure and kill Qin Emperor Ying Lin. He headed for Ice Demon Ravine to confront the emperor-slaying scheme.

• Su Yu used the Divine Prison Soul Suppression Canon to sever Situ Fu’s connection to the White Bone Demon God, causing the demon god to collapse into a finger bone.
• Su Yu collected the finger bone and three longswords, then devoured Situ Fu’s blood essence, cultivation, remnant soul, and memories.
• Su Yu learned from Situ Fu’s memories that Cao Yuan intended to lure Qin Emperor Ying Lin to the King-Burying Great Formation and kill him.
• Situ Fu’s body turned to ash, while the surviving Iron Sword Sect members knelt before Su Yu.
• Su Yu set out for Ice Demon Ravine and vanished using Thunder Asura Instant Void.

Shangguan Xi learned that Situ Fu had died and began recovering from the soul brand that had imprisoned her for a century. At Ice Demon Ravine, Cao Yuan and Zhang Quan prepared their King-Burying Great Formation to trap Su Yu and lure Great Qin’s emperor, Ying Lin, while Su Yu arrived eager to devour the accumulated resentment.

• Shangguan Xi discovered that Situ Fu’s death had broken the soul brand binding her and began to regain her sealed cultivation.
• Cao Yuan and Zhang Quan saw Situ Fu’s life flame go out and noted that Su Yu had devoured the blood fiend resentment from the sects they had targeted.
• Cao Yuan explained that the King-Burying Great Formation was marking Su Yu with soul coordinates so it could bind him at Ice Demon Ravine and later ensnare Ying Lin.
• Su Yu analyzed Situ Fu’s memories and realized Cao Yuan planned to use his death to draw Ying Lin into an emperor-slaying trap.
• Su Yu reached Ice Demon Ravine, sensed the resentment of more than ten thousand fallen Heaven Realm experts, and called it a first-rate feast.

Su Yu confronted the Snow Wolf Army and the Half-Step Emperor Realm puppet, exposing how the Snow Moon Kingdom had used Mu Changfeng’s corpse as a weapon. He stirred Mu Changfeng’s lingering soul to resist Shi Qianrou’s control, then prepared to grant him release.

• Su Yu challenged Tuoba Hong, who suppressed his grief and ordered the Snow Wolf Army to attack, though his soldiers hesitated.
• Shi Qianrou revealed that Cult Leader Cao had arranged the trap and that the puppet was meant to kill Su Yu.
• Su Yu addressed the puppet as Mu Changfeng and condemned the Snow Moon Kingdom for desecrating his remains and forcing the Snow Wolf Army to fight its former protectors.
• As Shi Qianrou drove the puppet to unleash its full power, Su Yu called on Mu Changfeng’s honor and faith, making the puppet’s raised hand freeze and its knees buckle.
• Shi Qianrou lost control of the puppet for the first time, and Su Yu gathered Destruction Saber Intent and promised Mu Changfeng complete release.

Shi Qianrou sacrificed her life blood to erase Mu Changfeng’s remaining will and turn him into a flawless killing weapon, forcing Su Yu into a desperate battle against the puppet’s overwhelming ice domain. As Mu Changfeng raised his ultimate technique, Glacier · Burial, Su Yu stood locked in place and faced the coming strike.

• Shi Qianrou poured her life blood into Mu Changfeng’s puppet, extinguishing the last trace of his independent will and restoring its power.
• Mu Changfeng shattered Su Yu’s destruction saber intent and trapped him inside the Thousand Ice Blade Domain, freezing and crushing his domains.
• Mu Changfeng struck Su Yu with an ordinary saber slash, sending him flying and leaving his fist wounded and covered in frost.
• Mu Changfeng gathered the domain’s ice blades into a hundred-zhang saber and prepared his ultimate technique, Glacier · Burial.
• Su Yu remained calm as the devastating strike was about to fall, watching the lifeless face of the hero behind the puppet.

Su Yu repeatedly faced Mu Changfeng’s Half-Step Emperor Realm puppet head-on, enduring devastating injuries while absorbing and comprehending its Glacier Law. He left the battlefield charging again without defenses, determined to awaken Mu Changfeng’s heroic soul.

• Su Yu took the puppet’s first full-force ice-blade strike, suffering grievous wounds, while Shi Qianrou and Tuoba Hong assumed he was finished.
• Mu Ying rushed to help Su Yu, but Tuoba Hong intercepted her; then Wu Jin arrived with two deputy generals and challenged the Snow Moon Kingdom.
• Su Yu rose from the crater and ordered everyone not to act, then challenged the puppet to keep attacking.
• Su Yu evaded the puppet’s next strike narrowly, used Divine Prison Soul Suppression to disrupt Shi Qianrou’s control, and struck the puppet’s neck, but it counterattacked and smashed him into the ice.
• Su Yu realized his Eternal Devil Prison Dragon God Body was suppressing and absorbing the puppet’s Glacier Law with each clash, letting him learn its power despite his injuries.
• Su Yu called the puppet’s attacks too weak to awaken Mu Changfeng’s heroic soul, discarded his defenses, and charged at it again.

Su Yu survived the Mu Changfeng puppet’s near-fatal strike by absorbing its half-step Emperor Realm laws, breaking through to King Realm Seventh Level and reaching the Minute Subtlety Realm. He unveiled Sovereign’s Fire and sent it into the puppet to burn away Shi Qianrou’s control, leaving the result of the attack unresolved.

• Su Yu willingly dropped his defenses and took the Mu Changfeng puppet’s devastating ice-blade strike, which nearly cleaved him in two.
• As Shi Qianrou and the others believed Su Yu had died, a strange force began devouring her vital lifeblood from the puppet.
• Su Yu rose from the pit as his wounds healed, using the puppet’s glacial laws to break through the Eternal Devil Prison Dragon God Body’s shackles and reach King Realm Seventh Level.
• Su Yu revealed Sovereign’s Fire and sent it into the puppet between its brows.
• Black purgatorial flames ignited in the puppet’s eyes, burning the soul imprints and restrictions Shi Qianrou had placed within it.