Chapter Summaries

Su Yu spent his remaining Slaughter Points mastering Thunder Shadow Wandering Dragon Steps, then hunted demons for three days until he had accumulated 10,500 Slaughter Points. He returned to Tiannan Commandery for the Shadow Guard selection, where Cao Yue explained the Demon Suppression Tower’s rankings and the commandants awaited the trial’s start.

• Su Yu used his last 1,000 Slaughter Points to reach major accomplishment in Thunder Shadow Wandering Dragon Steps.
• Su Yu hunted demons across the Black Blood Plain for three days, killing a Spirit Realm eighth-level armored lizard and building his balance to 10,500 Slaughter Points.
• Su Yu arrived at the Demon Suppression Bureau plaza, where his blood-soaked presence made the other selection candidates wary.
• Cao Yue explained that candidates earned rankings by clearing floors of the ten-story Demon Suppression Tower, though no one in the Great Qin Dynasty had cleared its tenth floor in nearly a century.
• Commandant Hu disparaged Su Yu, Lu Cang defended him, and Commandant Lin urged them to focus on the trial as the commandants awaited the tower’s activation.

Su Yu entered the Demon Suppression Tower and discovered that killing its Yao and demon phantoms earned him Slaughter Points. After clearing the first two floors, he faced ten Spirit Realm fifth-level Iron-Armored Crocodile Yao on the third floor as they unleashed a volley of venom.

• Commandant Lin and Commandant Hu praised Cao Yue’s chances while Lu Cang predicted Su Yu would become a monstrous prodigy.
• Su Yu entered the tower, killed three Spirit Realm third-level Armored Stone Wolves on the first floor, and earned 1,000 Slaughter Points.
• Su Yu realized the tower’s Yao and demon phantoms were a source of Slaughter Points and teleported onward.
• Cao Yue advanced ahead of the other participants, while Commandant Lin explained that the first three floors held fixed remnant souls and the real trial began on the fourth.
• On the third floor, ten Spirit Realm fifth-level Iron-Armored Crocodile Yao surrounded Su Yu and fired venom at him, prompting him to draw his saber.

Su Yu swiftly slaughtered the fourth floor’s ten goat demons, then spent Slaughter Points to advance his Eight Desolations Demon-Suppressing Qi to greater mastery and raise his cultivation to Spirit Realm Third Level. He entered the fifth floor, where a mysterious white-robed sword cultivator awaited him.

• Su Yu killed ten armored crocodile demons and activated the teleportation array to the fourth floor.
• At the Demon Suppression Bureau plaza, Commandant Hu and Commandant Lin doubted Su Yu could overcome the fourth floor’s battle formation, while Lu Cang insisted they underestimated him.
• Su Yu broke through the ten goat demons’ formation with his movement techniques, punches, and saber strikes, killing all ten in a short time.
• Su Yu spent 6,000 Slaughter Points extrapolating Eight Desolations Demon-Suppressing Qi, advancing his cultivation from Spirit Realm First Level to Spirit Realm Third Level.
• Su Yu arrived on the fifth floor and faced a white-robed martial artist whose sword fluctuations surpassed those of the Spirit Realm Sixth Level goat demons.

Su Yu fought the fifth-floor trial’s remnant soul, a Demon Suppression Envoy who wielded the slaughter sword force of an earth realm peak expert, and defeated it with a head-on saber strike. He emerged with a minor wound as the tower registered the remnant soul’s death and awarded him 2,000 Slaughter Points.

• Commandant Hu revealed that the fifth floor held the remnant soul of a Demon Suppression Envoy who had been an earth realm peak expert with slaughter sword force.
• The white-robed sword cultivator charged Su Yu, and Su Yu blocked its attacks with his armor, saber, movement technique, and Prohibition Blood Formation.
• The sword cultivator gathered Sword Qi into a seven-meter giant sword and locked Su Yu in place for a decisive strike.
• Su Yu met the giant sword head-on with Blood Baleful Intent Mad Blade and Spirit Sense Piercing, destroying the attack and piercing the remnant soul’s brow.
• Su Yu healed his shoulder wound, and the tower announced that he had killed the Spirit Realm seventh-level Demon Suppression Envoy’s remnant soul and gained 2,000 Slaughter Points.

Su Yu cleared the seventh floor of the Demon Suppression Tower by killing thirty Spirit Realm Eighth Level Lava Giant Lizards, reaching 40,000 Slaughter Points before entering the eighth floor. As he arrived, a voice in the shadows asked whether someone had already come.

• Su Yu's light went out on the fifth-floor marker after he slew its guardian, stunning the commandants and eliminated contestants watching outside.
• Cao Yue survived the fifth-floor guardian's attack, earned a low-grade Earth Realm sword art, and paused to heal before attempting the sixth floor.
• Su Yu appeared on the seventh floor and used his martial arts and formation to kill the Lava Giant Lizards.
• Su Yu gained 40,000 Slaughter Points and stepped into the formation leading to the eighth floor.
• A voice from the eighth floor's shadows asked Su Yu if someone had arrived already.

Su Yu advanced Thunder Shadow Wandering Dragon Steps to the subtle realm and used its new killing move to shatter Jiao Wang’s spine with a kick. As Jiao Wang transformed and surged toward him, Su Yu advanced Blood Baleful Intent Mad Blade and unleashed Blood Prison Heaven-Slaughtering, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Su Yu fought Jiao Wang on the eighth floor, but the demon’s speed let him wound Su Yu despite his armor and gravity field.
• Su Yu spent 5,000 Slaughter Points to advance Thunder Shadow Wandering Dragon Steps to the subtle realm and comprehend Reverse Scale Flash.
• Su Yu dodged Jiao Wang’s charge and kicked him a hundred feet into a wall, badly dislocating his spine.
• Jiao Wang began a berserk transformation that pushed his cultivation toward the Mystic Realm.
• Su Yu spent another 5,000 Slaughter Points to advance Blood Baleful Intent Mad Blade and comprehend Blood Prison Heaven-Slaughtering.
• Su Yu unleashed the saber strike as Jiao Wang charged, and its force collided with the demon’s giant palm.

Su Yu killed Jiao Wang, then used Slaughter Points to record and extrapolate the ninth floor’s Extreme Dao saber force. As Cao Yue reached the ninth floor and officials sealed the trial’s events, Su Yu’s saber light broke through the tower’s boundary and carried him into the long-unopened tenth floor.

• Su Yu killed Jiao Wang’s remnant soul on the eighth floor, but the burst of power left him badly wounded and shattered his saber.
• Su Yu entered the ninth floor and spent 10,000 Slaughter Points to record and forcibly extrapolate the incomplete Extreme Dao saber force.
• After Jiao Wang’s light vanished from the stele, Commandant Hu and Commandant Lin recognized Su Yu’s peerless rating, and Lu Cang classified the tower’s events as a military secret.
• Cao Yue entered the eighth-floor prison, survived Jiao Wang’s assault until the array rescued her, and advanced to the ninth floor.
• Su Yu’s saber light cleaved through the ninth-floor boundary, opened the sealed tenth-floor doors, and carried him inside.

Su Yu cleared the Demon Suppression Tower’s tenth floor, extrapolated the first move of a long-lost Heaven Realm saber art, and was secretly rated Monster by He Zhanfeng. He returned to the square with the public stele showing that he had stopped at the ninth floor, while Lu Cang gave him a Shadow Guard token and summoned him for a meeting that night.

• Su Yu spent twenty thousand Slaughter Points to extrapolate the first move of the incomplete Demon Suppression World-Annihilating Slash, then inscribed its trajectory on the beast-hide scroll to clear the tenth floor.
• He Zhanfeng saw Su Yu’s blood-written saber art through the capital headquarters’ formation and secretly erased his tenth-floor record, locking his final rating as Monster to protect him from assassination attempts.
• The Tiannan Commandery stele settled on the ninth floor, and Su Yu was teleported back to the square badly wounded and exhausted.
• Lu Cang gave Su Yu a Shadow Guard token marked Monster and privately told him to meet that night.
• Cao Yue was teleported out after Su Yu, and Lu Cang announced his Peerless rating as the Shadow Guard selection trial ended.

After earning a monstrous prodigy rating, Su Yu received powerful cultivation resources and became a Shadow Guard under the codename Blood Slaughter. Lu Cang warned him to keep his achievement concealed and assigned him a mission involving water demons and a secret investigation.

• Cao Yue reflected on Su Yu's tower performance and resolved to treat him as a mountain she had to surpass.
• Su Yu reviewed his combat weaknesses and went to the Demon Suppression Bureau's main hall to claim his rewards.
• Lu Cang and the two commandants gave Su Yu a Realm-Breaking Mystic Pill and the supreme-grade Spirit Realm body-refinement art Gold and Jade Pagoda Scroll.
• Lu Cang told Su Yu that Commander He had concealed his entry into the tenth floor to protect him from powerful clans and demons.
• Lu Cang made Su Yu an official Shadow Guard, gave him a white-based mask, and accepted Blood Slaughter as his codename.
• Lu Cang ordered Su Yu to help investigate water demons near Qingjiang County and secretly investigate Qinghe County's Demon Suppression Bureau.

Su Yu learned about the three paths of spirit refinement and was sent to investigate demonic unrest and suspected corruption in Qingjiang County. On the way, he crushed Yang Jing’s attempt to assert authority with his divine sense, and the group arrived at the county walls.

• Lu Cang gave Su Yu a spirit-refinement master’s notes describing artifact control, demon servants, and incantations, and warned him that Qingjiang County’s Demon Suppression Bureau might be compromised.
• Su Yu met Zhang He and Yang Jing outside the southern city gate before their mission to Qingjiang County.
• Yang Jing demanded that Su Yu follow her orders, but Su Yu shattered her divine-sense defenses and knocked her from her horse.
• Su Yu broke Yang Jing’s whip beneath his horse and ordered the group to move out; Zhang He followed him while Yang Jing rode after them.
• Su Yu, Zhang He, and Yang Jing reached Qingjiang County, where a middle-aged Demon Suppression Guard spotted them from the city wall.

Su Yu arrived in famine-stricken Qingjiang County and learned that a powerful water snake demon had killed the county captain. He refused to let his companions confront the corrupt Wang Lin, then discovered Wang Lin was secretly working with the demons to lure them into a trap at Cloud Shadow Creek.

• Wang Lin welcomed Su Yu and his companions with a lavish banquet while starving people suffered outside, but Su Yu demanded information about the water demons instead.
• Wang Lin reported that a Spirit Realm Eighth Level water snake demon had killed Captain Chen and wiped out seven villages, and Su Yu decided to visit Cloud Shadow Creek in the morning.
• Zhang He and Yang Jing warned Su Yu that Wang Lin was suspicious, and Yang Jing proposed interrogating him, but Su Yu forbade them from acting that night.
• At midnight, Wang Lin secretly met a snake woman in an abandoned City God temple and told her the three visitors had entered their trap.
• Wang Lin described Su Yu as a Body Refinement Spirit Realm Seventh Level martial artist and promised to lead the group into Cloud Shadow Creek's deathtrap the next morning.

Wang Lin lured Su Yu and the Demon Suppression Guards into Cloud Shadow Creek, where water demons ambushed them. Su Yu faced three demons and Wang Lin, who planned to kill him, while one demon wanted him alive for her amusement.

• A snake woman gave Wang Lin Water God's Blood in exchange for leading Su Yu and his companions to their deaths.
• Wang Lin pretended to repent and offered to lead Su Yu, Zhang He, and Yang Jing into Cloud Shadow Creek.
• Dense fog separated the group, and Yang Jing received Su Yu's instruction to protect Zhang He.
• Su Yu continued alone to a deep pool, where three demons sprang out and Wang Lin revealed himself.
• The snake demon demanded that the others spare Su Yu so she could have fun with him, and Su Yu refused her.

Su Yu killed the snake woman’s two water crab allies and then the mutated azure python at Cloud Shadow Creek. Wang Lin fled in terror, but Su Yu caught up and asked why he was running.

• The snake woman transformed into an azure python while her two allies became water crab demons and attacked Su Yu.
• Su Yu used Thunder Shadow Wandering Dragon and Blood Prison Heaven-Slaughtering to kill the first water crab demon.
• Su Yu dismembered the second water crab demon before the azure python tried to escape into the pool.
• Su Yu withstood the python’s venom with his Vajra Demonic Baleful Intent Armor and killed it with a saber strike.
• Wang Lin ran from the scene, but Su Yu approached him and asked why he was running.

Su Yu uncovered Wang Lin's betrayal and killed him before rushing to Cloud Shadow Creek, where Yang Jing and Zhang He were losing to a Half-Step Mystic Realm shrimp demon. Su Yu arrived as the shrimp demon turned its attention toward him.

• Wang Lin confessed that he had lured refugees and martial artists to Cloud Shadow Creek for the demons, then offered Su Yu a black scale and the county treasury's spirit stones.
• After a distant explosion revealed a powerful demon's presence, Su Yu killed Wang Lin and gained 800 Slaughter Points.
• At Cloud Shadow Creek, Zhang He lay gravely injured and Yang Jing's divine-sense attack failed against the giant shrimp demon.
• The Half-Step Mystic Realm shrimp demon sensed three allied demons had vanished, abandoned Yang Jing, and faced the fog where Su Yu was approaching.
• Su Yu emerged from the fog with his saber bloodied and stopped ten zhang from the shrimp demon.

Su Yu fought the Half-Step Mystic Realm giant shrimp and killed the four Spirit Realm Eighth Level crab demons to build his killing power. He turned his attention back to the giant shrimp, still facing a formidable opponent at Deadwater Marsh.

• Su Yu blocked the giant shrimp’s pincer strike, then evaded its next attack after his saber failed to penetrate its shell.
• Su Yu used Thunder Shadow Wandering Dragon to attack the giant crabs, revealing saber momentum that Yang Jing recognized as True Intent of the Martial Dao.
• Su Yu killed the first crab with Vajra Star-Shattering Seal and Blood Prison Heaven-Slaughtering, gaining 1,000 Slaughter Points.
• Su Yu resisted the remaining crabs’ venom and killed a second crab with a downward saber strike.
• Su Yu killed the last two crabs in quick succession as the giant shrimp charged to stop him, raising his Slaughter Points to 7,500.

Su Yu used greater accomplishment saber force to kill a half-step Mystic Realm shrimp demon in one strike, then claimed its demon core despite its threats about Jiao Wuye. With Yang Jing and the injured Zhang He surviving, Su Yu headed toward the outskirts of Cloud Shadow Creek.

• Su Yu invested Slaughter Points in saber force and unleashed his greater accomplishment saber force against the giant shrimp demon.
• Su Yu killed the half-step Mystic Realm demon with Heaven-Collapse Bloodfall, splitting its shell and body in two.
• The dying shrimp demon revealed that it served Jiao Wuye in Qing Province's Northern Nether Sea, but Su Yu killed it and took its demon core.
• Yang Jing recovered enough to help Zhang He, who had suffered severe injuries, and both saw Su Yu approach through the wreckage.
• Su Yu asked whether Zhang He could walk, then turned and headed toward the outskirts of Cloud Shadow Creek.

Su Yu returned to Qingjiang County with Wang Lin’s severed head, took over the Demon Suppression Bureau, and killed Magistrate Wu Huairen after uncovering his ties to the Northern Nether Sea. He then turned his attention to hunting the lesser water demons still lurking around Cloud Shadow Creek.

• Su Yu arrived at Qingjiang County’s southern gate with Yang Jing and Zhang He, threw Wang Lin’s head onto the wall, and announced that he was taking over the Demon Suppression Bureau.
• Su Yu entered the bureau compound and decided to eliminate Wu Huairen rather than follow official procedure.
• Su Yu sneaked into Wu Huairen’s study, found a secret letter to the Northern Nether Sea, and forced him to reveal a hidden stash of spirit stones and blood ginseng.
• Su Yu took the supplies and letter, then killed Wu Huairen and returned to the Demon Suppression Bureau.
• Su Yu recalled the low-ranking water demons around Cloud Shadow Creek and set out to hunt them for Slaughter Points.

Su Yu arrived at Deadwater Marsh and destroyed Wang Xuan’s Half-Step Mystic Realm puppet before killing Wang Xuan. Wen Ting’er survived the encounter, left staring at the masked Shadow Guard from Tiannan Commandery.

• Wen Ting’er attacked Wang Xuan with five pillars of purple lightning, but his dark gold puppet absorbed the strike.
• Wang Xuan ordered the puppet to attack Wen Ting’er and blocked her escape, forcing her to prepare her last Five-Thunder Blast Talisman.
• Su Yu descended into the battlefield and split the puppet’s arm and shoulder with his saber before destroying its central formation hub with a punch.
• Wang Xuan sacrificed his blood essence and fled, but Su Yu caught up and severed his head with a saber strike.
• Wen Ting’er watched Su Yu kill Wang Xuan and recognized him as a Shadow Guard from Tiannan Commandery.

Su Yu defeated Wang Xuan and his Demon-Severing Puppet, then accepted Wen Ting'er’s gift of the Firmament Lightning Descent Art. He plunged into Cloud Shadow Creek to hunt its water demons and continued slaughtering powerful river monsters in the central waters.

• Su Yu killed Wang Xuan and destroyed the Half-Step Mystic Realm Demon-Severing Puppet, revealing his martial and spiritual abilities to Wen Ting'er.
• Wen Ting'er gave Su Yu the supreme-grade Spirit Realm Firmament Lightning Descent Art and warned that the Demon God Cult would seek revenge.
• Wen Ting'er left to find a place to heal, while Su Yu entered the marsh and slaughtered packs of low-level water demons for Slaughter Points.
• Su Yu cleared the outskirts of Cloud Shadow Creek and entered the central waters, where he killed a giant snapping turtle with the Vajra Star-Shattering Seal.
• Su Yu fought the remaining high-level river monsters, cutting them down as the waters of Deadwater Marsh turned red with blood.

Su Yu returned from Cloud Shadow Creek with evidence that Qingjiang County officials had colluded with the Northern Nether Sea's Jiao Wuye, and arranged for the county's defenses and seized spoils to be sent to Tiannan Commandery. He reported the threat to Lu Cang, who realized the matter could endanger the entire commandery.

• Su Yu killed the last Blackwater Mystic Serpent in Deadwater Marsh and left to report the danger to Tiannan Commandery.
• Su Yu gave Yang Jing a parchment naming Jiao Wuye and the Northern Nether Sea, and told her to request reinforcements from Lu Cang.
• Zhao Mang arrived with fifty Demon Suppression Guards to take over Qingjiang County's defenses, and Su Yu ordered the confiscated treasures sent to Tiannan Commandery.
• Su Yu escorted the treasures back to Tiannan Commandery with Yang Jing and Zhang He.
• Su Yu told Lu Cang that Wu Huairen and Wang Lin had colluded with Cloud Shadow Creek's demons under Jiao Wuye, and Lu Cang reacted with alarm at the Northern Nether Sea's power.