Chapter Summaries

Su Yu lured Elder White Fox away from his injured subordinates and revealed the power of his saber technique, forcing her to take him seriously. The old fox then unleashed Divine Soul Purgatory, enveloping the forest as their fight escalated.

• Su Yu repelled Elder White Fox’s mental attack, then raced into the forest with her pursuing him while Yang Jing ordered the Demon Suppression Guards to recover and stand watch.
• In a Heavenly Slaughter Tower hideout, Butcher accepted a contract to kill Su Yu for one hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones and promised to deliver his head within three days.
• Su Yu stopped in a deserted part of the forest and struck Elder White Fox with Blood Sha Mountains and Rivers Slash, narrowly missing her and carving a deep trench in the ground.
• Elder White Fox abandoned her contempt for Su Yu, raised her staff, and unleashed Divine Soul Purgatory, shrouding the forest in deathly gray light.

Su Yu resisted the old fox demon’s Divine Soul Purgatory with the Pagoda Mystic Iron Armor and struck her with Sha Lightning Destroys the World. She escaped as a gravely wounded remnant soul, but Su Yu’s destruction-law mark left her with only one way to delay death: return to him.

• The old fox demon unleashed Divine Soul Purgatory, but Su Yu’s Pagoda Mystic Iron Armor purified its death Qi and protected him.
• The old fox demon intensified her assault, and Su Yu realized he had to kill her with a single strike.
• Su Yu summoned Sha Lightning Destroys the World, which erased the old fox demon’s body and most of her divine soul.
• A remnant of the old fox demon escaped, and Su Yu pursued her until he had to stop because he could not fly.
• Su Yu sensed that his destruction-law mark had wounded the fleeing demon and concluded she would have to return to him to delay her death.

Su Yu recovered from his battle with the old fox demon and planned to use the Ghost Shadow Sect’s secret cache as bait to lure her into a trap in the Black Demon Mountain Range. He sent the injured Demon Suppression Guards back to Tiannan Commandery and entered the forest alone, now confident that he was the hunter.

• Su Yu realized he needed a Mystic Realm movement technique or greater cultivation because he could not fly and was vulnerable to airborne enemies.
• Su Yu gave Cao Yue medicine for the injured Demon Suppression Guards and planned to use the Ghost Shadow Sect’s secret cache to draw out the wounded old fox demon.
• After an hour, Su Yu ordered Cao Yue to lead the group back to Tiannan Commandery and deliver the Nanhe County case files to the commander.
• Su Yu gave Cao Yue a black token to crush if the group encountered trouble, then entered the Black Demon Mountain Range alone.
• Su Yu sensed the forest and its Yao Qi across several li with his Mystic Realm seventh-level divine sense, recognizing that he had entered as a hunter rather than prey.

Su Yu traveled through the Black Demon Mountain Range toward the Ghost Shadow Sect’s secret cache and drew out the assassin following him by confronting a powerful demon. After swiftly killing it, he revealed that he had detected Butcher and called on him to emerge.

• Su Yu ignored an Iron-Backed Azure Wolf and set out for the Ghost Shadow Sect’s cache at Soul Severing Cliff, where an Earth-Splitting Devil Bear was said to dwell.
• Su Yu sensed a skilled observer following him and suspected that Chu He or the Mystic Sword Sect had sent an assassin.
• Su Yu lured the watcher toward a Three-Headed Red-Banded Snake’s lair and endured its venom without injury.
• Su Yu killed the Three-Headed Red-Banded Snake with his saber, collected its demon core, and gained 8,000 Slaughter Points.
• Butcher watched Su Yu’s display of strength, realized his intelligence was wrong, and prepared to retreat before Su Yu called him out.

Su Yu confronted Butcher, an assassin sent to kill him, and crushed the assassin’s opening attack with a single bare-handed punch. Butcher was left injured and his weapon cracked, with the fight still underway.

• Su Yu revealed that he had detected Butcher hiding in the forest and ordered him to come out.
• Butcher leapt down, recognized that he could not escape, and admitted he had been hired to kill Su Yu for a hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones.
• Butcher attacked Su Yu with his Blood Slaughter Three Forms, sending three axe shadows at him.
• Su Yu struck the axe with the Vajra Star-Shattering Seal, cracking the weapon and sending Butcher flying while he spat blood.

Su Yu defeated the fifth-level Mystic Realm assassin Butcher and captured him alive. He took the injured assassin to a secluded mountain recess, where Butcher woke and asked who Su Yu was.

• Su Yu shattered Butcher’s axe with his fist and sent him crashing through the trees.
• Butcher abandoned his axe and tried to flee, using Demonic Shadow Escape to burn his blood essence for speed.
• Su Yu intercepted Butcher and struck him with a shock wave that broke his armor and bones, leaving him near death.
• Su Yu removed Butcher’s human-skin mask, gave him a pill to keep him alive, and carried him into the forest.
• Su Yu brought Butcher to a secluded mountain recess, where Butcher awoke and asked who Su Yu was.

Su Yu tortured Butcher into revealing that Chu He of the Mystic Sword Sect had hired the Heavenly Slaughter Tower to kill him. After learning the tower’s formidable strength, Su Yu killed Butcher, erased his remains, and left with the assassin’s spoils.

• Su Yu identified the Heavenly Slaughter Tower from Butcher’s reaction and tortured him until he revealed his identity as the assassin codename Butcher.
• Butcher confessed that Chu He had paid a hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones for Su Yu’s head and described the tower’s Earth Realm experts and Mystic Realm assassins.
• Su Yu assessed the Heavenly Slaughter Tower as a dangerous enemy but saw its assassins as a source of Slaughter Points.
• Butcher begged Su Yu to spare him and offered to serve him, but Su Yu killed him.
• Su Yu dissolved Butcher’s body with blood-colored Sha Qi, collected the storage ring and broken Blood Slaughter Axe, and vanished into the night.

Su Yu took Demonic Shadow Escape from Butcher’s storage ring and fused it with Thunder Shadow Wandering Dragon Steps, creating Thunder Demon Shadow Trace Steps. After spending his remaining Slaughter Points to improve the new technique, he tested its speed and stealth and concluded that he could escape even a late-stage Mystic Realm opponent.

• Su Yu searched Butcher’s storage ring and found spirit stones, poisons, disguises, maps of Heavenly Slaughter Tower strongholds, and the Demonic Shadow Escape technique.
• Su Yu recorded Demonic Shadow Escape with the system, which offered to fuse it with Thunder Shadow Wandering Dragon Steps.
• Su Yu endured the clashing lightning and Demonic Qi during the fusion until a purple-black force formed and stabilized his meridians.
• The system fused the techniques into Thunder Demon Shadow Trace Steps, and Su Yu spent all 12,000 remaining Slaughter Points to raise it to minor accomplishment.
• Su Yu tested the new technique by moving swiftly and silently through the forest, then decided he could escape a late-stage Mystic Realm opponent.

Su Yu detected a rare herb in a secluded valley and went to investigate before pursuing the old fox demon. Meanwhile, Heavenly Slaughter Tower learned that Butcher had died and sent two stronger assassins after Su Yu; the chapter left Su Yu watching over a mist-shrouded basin containing a tree with three golden fruits.

• Su Yu sensed the old fox demon near an Earth-Splitting Devil Bear, then chose to investigate a potent medicinal scent in a secluded valley first.
• A guard discovered that Butcher's life tablet had shattered and reported his death to Xu Lei.
• Xu Lei confronted Chu He about the false intelligence, accepted the Azure Lotus Sword Canon as compensation, and ordered Ghost Shadow and Soundless to assassinate Su Yu.
• Su Yu reached the valley and spotted a leafless tree bearing three pulsing golden fruits.

Su Yu entered the mist-covered valley and took a Mystic Yang Dragon Heart Fruit, then faced the Earth-Splitting Devil Bear sent ahead by the wounded old fox demon. He broke the bear’s paw and knee in a brief fight, while the fox demon watched from afar and waited for a chance to seize the remaining fruits.

• Su Yu sensed the Earth-Splitting Devil Bear approaching with the old fox demon’s remnant soul nearby and silently dropped into the valley’s mist.
• The old fox demon urged the bear to flush Su Yu out so she could take the Mystic Yang Dragon Heart Fruits.
• Su Yu emerged with one fruit, drawing the bear’s charge and the old fox demon’s attention.
• Su Yu blocked the bear’s Earth-Splitting Claw with a Vajra Star-Shattering Seal punch and shattered its right paw.
• Su Yu used Thunder Demon Shadow Trace Steps to get behind the bear and broke its left knee with another punch, sending it crashing to the ground.

Su Yu killed the fleeing old fox demon and the crippled Earth-Splitting Devil Bear, collected their demon cores, and took the Mystic Yang Dragon Heart Fruits before retreating to a cave to eat one. Meanwhile, Heavenly Slaughter Tower assassins Ghost Shadow and Soundless tracked him, but their blood-red trail split in two.

• Su Yu pursued the old fox demon and killed her with the Divine Radiance Heart-Piercing Spike, earning 20000 Slaughter Points and taking her demon core.
• Su Yu killed the Earth-Splitting Devil Bear, earned 12000 Slaughter Points, and collected its demon core and the Mystic Yang Dragon Heart Fruit plant.
• Su Yu found a secluded cave and swallowed one of the three Mystic Yang Dragon Heart Fruits.
• Ghost Shadow and Soundless arrived at the site of Su Yu's fight and followed the Sha Qi trail under orders from the Tower Master to kill him.
• The assassins' tracking trail split, with one path leading deeper into the mountains and the other pointing into the sky.

Su Yu absorbed the Mystic Yang Dragon Heart Fruit, advanced to Mystic Realm Sixth Level, and emerged from his cave as Ghost Shadow and Soundless closed in on separate trails. Lu Cang learned that the assassins were hunting Su Yu and ordered a force to seal the Black Demon Mountain Range, while Ghost Shadow launched a lethal attack on Su Yu from behind.

• Ghost Shadow pursued the blood-red trail through the sky while Soundless followed the ground trail into the Black Demon Mountain Range.
• Su Yu absorbed the Mystic Yang Dragon Heart Fruit, advanced to Mystic Realm Sixth Level, and strengthened his Mystic Iron Pagoda Baleful Intent to its middle tier.
• Lu Cang learned that Butcher had died and that Ghost Shadow and Soundless were hunting Su Yu, so he ordered the commandery's captains to seal the mountain range and set out himself.
• Su Yu left his cave, sensed a hidden predator nearby, and deliberately walked with his back to the darkness.
• Ghost Shadow emerged from behind an ancient tree and thrust a dagger toward the fatal point behind Su Yu's heart.

Su Yu survived Ghost Shadow’s assassination attempt and exposed the false intelligence that had underestimated him. As Ghost Shadow unleashed his signature attack, Su Yu identified the real assassin and moved to strike.

• Ghost Shadow’s dagger struck Su Yu’s Pagoda Mystic Iron Armor, and Su Yu countered with a Divine Radiance Heart-Piercing Spike and a punch that shattered an ancient tree.
• Lu Cang told Yang Kong that Ghost Shadow and Soundless had been sent to kill Su Yu in the Black Demon Mountain Range, and Yang Kong ordered a search before deciding to visit the Heavenly Slaughter Tower himself.
• Ghost Shadow re-formed at a distance, recognized that his mission had failed, and unleashed Demon Shadow Thousand Slaughters to attack Su Yu with dozens of copies.
• Su Yu sensed the real Ghost Shadow by the fluctuations in his soul and used Thunder Demon Shadow Trace Steps to move toward him.

Su Yu killed Ghost Shadow, a Mystic Realm Seventh Level assassin, after vanishing behind him and striking him with Blood Sha Mountains and Rivers Slash. Ghost Shadow tried to escape with a Blood Escape Demonic Pill, but Su Yu intercepted and killed him, then collected his storage ring as another presence approached.

• Su Yu appeared behind Ghost Shadow and struck him with Blood Sha Mountains and Rivers Slash, breaking his dagger and gravely wounding him.
• Ghost Shadow’s phantoms dissipated, and he fell into a crater as Sha Qi consumed his vitality.
• Ghost Shadow asked who Su Yu was, then used a Blood Escape Demonic Pill to flee as black mist.
• Su Yu vanished and waited ahead of Ghost Shadow’s escape route, then killed him with another saber strike.
• Su Yu received 35,000 Slaughter Points, saw a prompt to improve his saber technique, and picked up Ghost Shadow’s storage ring as another presence approached.

Su Yu faced Soundless, an eighth-level Mystic Realm assassin whose perfected Soundless Bone-Dissolving Palm broke through Su Yu’s defenses. After spending his Slaughter Points to perfect his movement and saber techniques, Su Yu vanished from Soundless’s attack and launched a powerful counterstrike.

• Soundless arrived after Su Yu killed Ghost Shadow and identified himself as a Heavenly Slaughter Tower assassin.
• Soundless struck Su Yu with his palm force, penetrating the Pagoda Mystic Iron Armor and injuring him.
• Su Yu spent all 67,000 Slaughter Points to perfect Thunder Demon Shadow Trace Steps and Blood Sha Mountains and Rivers Slash.
• Su Yu vanished as Soundless’s massive palm imprint struck the ground, then appeared above him with a blood-red saber raised for a downward strike.

Su Yu killed the Heavenly Slaughter Tower assassin Soundless, while the tower’s Tiannan branch destroyed itself and Xu Lei escaped after learning the Demon Suppression Bureau had uncovered the assassination plot. Su Yu recovered Soundless’s martial art and token in a hidden cave, where he vowed to repay Heavenly Slaughter Tower.

• Su Yu defeated and killed Soundless with the perfected Blood Sha Mountains and Rivers Slash, then looted his storage ring and erased his corpse.
• Lu Cang learned that Heavenly Slaughter Tower’s Tiannan branch had activated its self-destruct formation and that Xu Lei’s whereabouts were unknown.
• Xu Lei recalled how his father, Xu Qiujiang, had warned him that Lu Cang and Yang Kong were moving against the tower, and he fled Tiannan Commandery by flying boat.
• Su Yu recovered in a secluded cave, reviewed his strengthened cultivation and martial arts, and recorded the Soundless Bone-Dissolving Palm from Soundless’s spoils.
• Su Yu examined Ghost Shadow’s Heavenly Slaughter Tower token and vowed to remember the debt.

Su Yu raised his spirit-refining cultivation to the Spirit Realm Ninth Level and reached Soul Severing Valley, where he discovered that Mystic Sword Sect disciples had arrived before him. As they prepared to take the Nether Shadow Spirit-Eroding Art, Su Yu drew his saber from the shadows.

• Su Yu spent 20,000 Slaughter Points to reach the Spirit Realm Ninth Level and expanded his divine sense to three hundred zhang.
• Lu Cang left the Black Demon Mountain Range to answer Cang County’s request for aid, ordering Lin Quan and the Demon Suppression Guards to keep searching for Su Yu.
• Su Yu traveled to Soul Severing Valley, using his enhanced divine sense and Thunder Demon Shadow Trace Steps to avoid demons.
• Su Yu found fresh tracks and traces of broken formations at the valley entrance, then crept inside and spotted three Mystic Sword Sect disciples by a half-open stone gate.
• The disciples said the Heavenly Slaughter Tower had failed and Su Yu had killed Butcher, then revealed their order to obtain the Nether Shadow Spirit-Eroding Art and return to the sect.
• Su Yu drew his crimson saber in the shadows as the three Mystic Sword Sect disciples stood by the secret cache.

Su Yu watched three former Mystic Sword Sect elders attack the hidden trove’s Ghost Shadow restriction while Wang Du destroyed the Heavenly Slaughter Tower’s headquarters in Qing Province. The chapter left the elders’ assault underway, with the restriction’s fate unknown.

• Su Yu hid in the gorge and let Elder Heavenly Mystery, Lijian, and Panshi reach the stone door before deciding to watch them clear the way.
• Elder Heavenly Mystery identified the Ghost Shadow Heart-Locking Restriction and warned that breaking it by force would take an hour and risk attracting demons.
• Yang Kong told Wang Du about the Heavenly Slaughter Tower’s attempt to assassinate Su Yu, and Wang Du went to the tower’s headquarters.
• Wang Du ignored Xu Qiujiang’s offer of compensation and destroyed the Heavenly Slaughter Tower’s fortress, declaring that Qing Province would have no tower from then on.
• Elder Heavenly Mystery directed Lijian and Panshi to strike the restriction together with their strongest attacks.

Su Yu hid while Elder Tianji, Elder Lijian, and Panshi broke the Ghost Shadow Heart-Locking Restriction, then dashed through the stone gate ahead of them. The chapter left him alone in the dark passage beyond the gate as the three elders raged outside.

• Su Yu watched from hiding as Elder Tianji, Elder Lijian, and Panshi attacked the restriction and decided to let them clear the way.
• Tower Master Xu Qiujiang fled the Heavenly Slaughter Tower's ruins, blaming Chu He and Su Yu for its destruction and vowing to remember the blood debt.
• Elder Tianji, Elder Lijian, and Panshi combined their attacks to destroy the restriction around the stone gate.
• Su Yu used his speed to slip past the three elders and enter the gate before they could stop him.
• The stone gate closed behind Su Yu, leaving him in a dark passage while the three elders shouted and struck at it from outside.

Su Yu fled deeper into the Ghost Shadow Sect’s underground prison as three Mystic Realm Eighth Level former Mystic Sword Sect elders attacked the stone door behind him. He discovered a blood-red formation sustaining a chained presence in the darkness, whose scarlet eyes opened when it sensed him.

• Tianji rallied Lijian and Panshi to attack the weakened stone door before its restriction repaired itself.
• Su Yu rejected a direct fight and used Thunder Demon Shadow Trace Steps to race deeper into the passage, evading a poisoned crossbow trap.
• Su Yu searched empty prison cells, found a broken black saber blade, and continued through increasingly dense death Qi and Sha Qi.
• Su Yu reached a vast underground plaza littered with drained bones and discovered a blood-red formation connected to eight chained bronze pillars.
• When Su Yu probed the darkness with his divine sense, a powerful surge of Sha Qi repelled him, and a pair of scarlet eyes opened in the abyss.