Chapter Summaries

Dai Weisi agreed to meet Dugu Yan, despite realizing she had used feigned sorrow to win his answer. He was left caught between regret and a flutter of excitement.

• Dai Weisi struggled to reject Dugu Yan when he saw the sorrow in her expression.
• Dai Weisi thought of the couples' martial art, Jade Maiden Heart Swordplay, and agreed to her request.
• Dugu Yan fixed the meeting for the night after tomorrow before Dai Weisi could take back his answer.
• Dai Weisi realized Dugu Yan had been pretending to look sorrowful and felt both troubled and excited by her attention.

Dai Weisi fought four Spirit Hall attackers, using his flying swords, close-combat skills, and a precise sword technique to overcome their ambush. He killed two Soul Sages and pierced a Soul Douluo through the heart, while the other Soul Douluo remained in the fight.

• Dai Weisi endured attacks from two Soul Douluo and countered with his Sixth Soul Skill, then seized two charging Soul Sages with Shaolin Dragon Claw Hand and shattered their wrists.
• Dai Weisi redirected his flying swords to force the Soul Douluo to retreat, then killed the captured Soul Sages with the swords.
• Dai Weisi charged one Soul Douluo and used his Golden Constant Sky Suppressing Pillar to control him briefly, while the other Soul Douluo intercepted the flying swords and suffered arm wounds.
• The Fire Cloud Vulture Soul Douluo launched his Eighth Soul Skill at close range, but Dai Weisi dispelled the flame arrow with How Dai Zong Is.
• Dai Weisi followed through with his Golden Radiance Sword and pierced the Fire Cloud Vulture Soul Douluo's heart.

Dai Weisi watched Dugu Yan die from a wound through her heart after she saved him, while Li Fu crippled the fleeing Shadow Leopard Soul Douluo. A Jade Maiden Heart Swordplay card appeared on its own, and its effect gave Dai Weisi a sudden idea.

• Dai Weisi ordered Li Fu to stop the Shadow Leopard Soul Douluo, and Li Fu severed both of the fleeing assassin’s legs with his eighth soul skill.
• Dai Weisi held the mortally wounded Dugu Yan and searched his system storage for something that could save her, but found nothing.
• Dugu Yan tried to reach for the Little White Tiger lantern, and Dai Weisi drew it to her only to find it mangled by the battle.
• Dai Weisi shed his first tear in this world as Dugu Yan tried to wipe it away.
• A Jade Maiden Heart Swordplay card appeared in Dai Weisi’s hand without being summoned, and its effect gave him a sudden idea.

Dai Weisi stopped Li Fu from stomping the captive Shadow Leopard Soul Douluo to death while holding Dugu Yan. The captive remained at their mercy as Dai Weisi's gentle attention toward Dugu Yan gave way to a fierce glare.

• Li Fu grew angry at the captive for interrupting Dai Weisi and Dugu Yan and stomped the Shadow Leopard Soul Douluo again.
• Dai Weisi stood up with Dugu Yan in his arms and asked Li Fu to stop before the captive died.
• Dugu Yan blushed when she noticed Li Fu, buried her face in Dai Weisi's chest, and kept her arms around his neck.
• Dai Weisi looked at Dugu Yan gently, then turned a sharp, tyrannical gaze on the captive.

After an assassination attempt, Dai Weisi returned home with Dugu Yan and reunited with Sword Douluo and Dugu Bo. He revealed that Spirit Hall had targeted him because his future actions would obstruct its plan to conquer the Two Empires, leaving the elders to confront the scale of the threat.

• Li Fu calmed Dugu Bo and persuaded him to wait until they returned to Dai Weisi's residence before discussing Dugu Yan's wounds.
• Dai Weisi found Sword Douluo waiting in the reception hall, where Chen Xin apologized to Dugu Yan for frightening her with his killing intent.
• Dugu Yan learned that Chen Xin was Dai Weisi's teacher, grew more fascinated with Dai Weisi, then left the elders to discuss serious matters.
• Dai Weisi told Chen Xin and Dugu Bo that Spirit Hall had attempted to assassinate him because his future self would block its plan to destroy the Two Empires and unite the continent.
• Dai Weisi explained Spirit Hall's military strength and popular support, as well as how Qian Daoliu's control of the Worship Hall kept Bibi Dong from wielding its full power.

Dai Weisi planned to enlist Sword Douluo’s help in reaching Tang Hao and restoring his will to fight against Spirit Hall. He then summoned Gu Shouchang, pleased with his progress and ready to help him improve further.

• Dai Weisi decided Tang Hao’s Divine Slaughter's Domain and strength could help him and Dugu Yan escape the City of Slaughter and aid the resistance against Spirit Hall.
• Dai Weisi prepared a Minor Returning Pill and asked Sword Douluo to take him to Holy Spirit Village to meet Tang Hao.
• Dai Weisi summoned Gu Shouchang after learning that his Soul Power had reached level 42 and he had maintained an undefeated record in Soul Ancestor-level matches.
• Dai Weisi recognized that Gu Shouchang’s grappling had improved beyond the point where he could offer much guidance and planned to give him another push.

Sword Douluo and Dai Weisi found Tang Hao broken by grief and alcohol, and Sword Douluo challenged his lost courage. Dai Weisi asked whether Tang Hao would act if the Blue Silver Emperor could be resurrected.

• Sword Douluo and Dai Weisi arrived at Tang Hao’s cabin and found him drunk, injured, and living with Tang San.
• Tang Hao recognized Sword Douluo and was ashamed, then stared in disbelief at Dai Weisi’s Soul Emperor cultivation.
• Sword Douluo criticized Tang Hao for letting grief break his spirit and tried to leave with Dai Weisi to face Spirit Hall themselves.
• Tang Hao admitted that he no longer had the courage to challenge Spirit Hall after Ah Yin’s death.
• Dai Weisi asked Tang Hao what he would do if the Blue Silver Emperor could be resurrected.

Tang Hao thanked Dai Weisi for the extra payment and wondered about the young man’s identity. He chose not to ask, believing Dai Weisi would become famous after leaving the City of Slaughter.

• Tang Hao thanked Dai Weisi for the additional gift.
• Tang Hao considered Dai Weisi’s strength, talent, intelligence network, wealth, and gift of a Minor Returning Pill.
• Tang Hao did not question Dai Weisi about his identity.
• Tang Hao expected Dai Weisi to become widely known after emerging from the City of Slaughter.

Dai Weisi revealed that Spirit Hall had framed him by claiming he was Clear Sky Douluo Tang Hao, but the real Tang Hao appeared and attacked Yue Guan. Tang Hao pursued Gui Mei while Dai Weisi faced Spirit Hall’s battered survivors at the inn.

• Dai Weisi told Yue Guan and Gui Mei that Clear Sky Douluo had given him the courage to defy Spirit Hall, alarming both men.
• Yue Guan accused Dai Weisi of bluffing, but Tang Hao struck Yue Guan with his hammer and sent him flying through the inn window.
• Gui Mei fled and ordered his subordinates to delay Tang Hao, and Tang Hao battered the Spirit Hall soul masters who surrounded him.
• Tang Hao left Dai Weisi to handle the survivors and pursued Gui Mei, while a masked Sword Douluo waited along Yue Guan’s escape route.
• Dai Weisi faced the remaining Spirit Hall fighters, whose courage had been broken by Tang Hao’s attack.

Dai Weisi and Dugu Yan entered the City of Slaughter after proving their bond to Dugu Bo and fighting their way through the tavern entrance. Meanwhile, Spirit Hall’s false report that Ghost Face Swordsman had died pushed Emperor Dai Zhen toward war until Empress Zhu Zitang and the supposedly dead Consort Lian intervened.

• Dai Weisi and Dugu Yan used a combined sword strike to convince Dugu Bo to let Dugu Yan accompany Dai Weisi into the City of Slaughter.
• Tang Hao led Dai Weisi and Dugu Yan to the City of Slaughter’s tavern, where Dai Weisi killed its fifteen occupants and received the Tongxi Earth-Spirit Pill from the system.
• Dai Weisi refused the Bloody Mary, revealed the entrance beneath the tavern’s shattered bar, and leaped into the City of Slaughter with Dugu Yan.
• Bibi Dong rewarded the returning survivors and issued a notice claiming Ghost Face Swordsman had been killed while Tang Hao escaped injured.
• Dai Zhen nearly prepared for war against the Heaven Dou Empire after hearing the report, but Zhu Zitang and the supposedly dead Consort Lian urged him to restrain his anger.

Dai Zhen and Zhu Zitang discussed Spirit Hall’s attacks on their son, then read Dai Weisi’s plans for the royal family and the continent. The chapter ended with Dai Weisi’s proposal to secretly send Dai Mubai to Shrek Academy under the pretext of exile.

• Dai Zhen argued that his anger over the assassinations would help persuade Heaven Dou’s envoys and convince Spirit Hall that the two nations had fallen out.
• Consort Lian reminded Zhu Zitang about the gifts, and Zhu Zitang presented Dai Zhen with two spiritual herbs that could strengthen their light and dark attributes.
• Dai Zhen, Zhu Zitang, and Consort Lian read Dai Weisi’s letter, which described his divine inheritance and urged Star Luo to maintain a public standoff with Heaven Dou while secretly cooperating through the Wanjin Chamber of Commerce.
• Dai Weisi asked Dai Zhen to gather soul masters and mounts for a cavalry regiment, leave the Heavenly Strategy Mansion alone, and let the news of his apparent death spur his teammates to grow stronger.
• Dai Weisi proposed that Dai Zhen exile Dai Mubai and secretly send him to Shrek Academy, where Flender and Yu Xiaogang could help protect him from Spirit Hall.

Dai Weisi and Dugu Yan entered the City of Slaughter, where Dai Weisi used his strength to secure their identity tokens and chose to head straight for the inner city. After seeing its lawless violence, he reached the Hell Slaughter Arena, where he questioned the guide about the city’s population.

• Dai Weisi resisted the City of Slaughter’s murderous intent and held Dugu Yan’s hand as they advanced, using dual cultivation to strengthen them both.
• Dai Weisi defeated the Terror Knight and forced him to give identity tokens to both Dai Weisi and Dugu Yan.
• A black-veiled woman explained the City of Slaughter’s rules, and Dai Weisi asked her to take them directly to the inner city.
• Dai Weisi saw the inner city’s violence and disorder, then followed the woman to the Hell Slaughter Arena.
• Dai Weisi asked how the city remained populated despite the arena’s deadly matches, and the woman explained that identity tokens were reclaimed from the dead and redistributed each year.

Dai Weisi discovered that the killing intent in the Hell Slaughter Arena greatly accelerated his soul cultivation, making the arena a valuable training ground. After Dugu Yan beheaded Ghost Tiger, the crowd feared the pair, and Dai Weisi sat down to cultivate while the Hell Envoy waited silently.

• Dai Weisi learned that his identity number reflected the City of Slaughter’s population count from seven months earlier and found the arena’s killing intent strengthened his soul tempering.
• Dai Weisi asked to register for the Hell Slaughter Arena, and the woman in black gauze said the fee was a cup of Bloody Mary.
• Ghost Tiger tried to ram Dai Weisi, but Dugu Yan drew her sword and fatally cut his neck; Dai Weisi took his Bloody Mary.
• The arena’s killing intent became active after Ghost Tiger’s death, and Dai Weisi found his visualization cultivation was twenty times faster there.
• Dai Weisi sat cross-legged to cultivate, while the frightened Hell Envoy waited and the other arena patrons decided to leave.

Dai Weisi faced the eight remaining arena fighters after killing Viper with one sword strike. The eight joined forces and attacked him, while the crowd cheered for the fight.

• Dai Weisi felt disgusted by the crowd’s cheers as the remaining fighters despaired over his strength.
• The eight fighters lowered their guards against one another and agreed to attack Dai Weisi together.
• The fighters split into two groups and charged Dai Weisi from both sides.
• The spectators cheered as they watched the fighters try to kill Dai Weisi.

After a rumor spread that the King of Slaughter would reward whoever killed him, Dai Weisi found the City of Slaughter turning against him and chose to fight its inhabitants head-on. He and Dugu Yan faced a growing ambush as the city's villains launched a mass attack.

• A rumor claimed Dai Weisi planned to feed the Seven Kill Sword with the city's sinful blood, and the King of Slaughter offered a reward to whoever killed him.
• Dai Weisi noticed that the people around him now watched him with fear, greed, and hatred as he went to register for his seventy-first match.
• Dai Weisi drew the Golden Radiance Sword and, with Dugu Yan's support, challenged the ambushers to attack.
• Thirty or forty fighters rushed Dai Weisi, but his Mount Song Swordplay technique, Eternal Man Dragon, sent more than half flying and wounded the rest.
• Dai Weisi struck a man with the Talisman of Life and Death, leaving him screaming and clawing at himself as the villains rallied to attack together.
• More than a hundred attackers launched arrows, blades, stones, and lime-filled jars at Dai Weisi from all directions.

Dai Weisi and Dugu Yan fought their way through a citywide siege in the City of Slaughter while the King of Slaughter watched from above. The King revealed that if the trap failed to kill them, he would help them complete their hundred victories and leave through the Hell Road rather than risk the wrath of those watching from the heavens.

• Dai Weisi used his movement technique to evade the attackers while Dugu Yan stayed close beside him.
• Dai Weisi fought as he ran, stretching the battle line and killing enemies to conserve his strength.
• The King of Slaughter watched the siege from the top floor of the Hell Slaughter Arena and admired the bloodshed.
• The captain of the guard asked what would happen if the attackers failed to corner the Peerless Sword Demon.
• The King of Slaughter said he would help Dai Weisi and Dugu Yan complete their hundred victories and leave through the Hell Road if the trap failed.

The King of Slaughter watched Dai Weisi abandon the hunt to embrace Dugu Yan, then ordered him sent away after witnessing his extraordinary swordsmanship and Martial Soul Fusion Skill. He killed the guard captain and ordered the city’s dead to be turned into Bloody Mary.

• Dai Weisi pulled Dugu Yan into his arms and kissed her instead of pursuing the others.
• The King of Slaughter fumed at Dai Weisi’s swordsmanship and use of a Martial Soul Fusion Skill in the City of Slaughter.
• The King of Slaughter ordered that Dai Weisi be sent away and killed the guard captain.
• The King of Slaughter ordered the several hundred corpses gathered and delivered to the blood pool to be made into Bloody Mary.

Dai Weisi and Dugu Yan fought their way through Hell Road, killing its remaining powerful beasts and collecting their inner cores. They reached the final cliff and began climbing toward the light above.

• Dai Weisi killed the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King and took its dark gold inner core as he and Dugu Yan escaped the Blood Red Bats.
• Dai Weisi split the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent’s fiery breath with his sword, then joined forces with Dugu Yan to sever its head and collect its inner core.
• Dai Weisi considered whether Dugu Yan or Liu Yunying would be better suited to absorb the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent’s inner core.
• Dai Weisi used his Indestructible Vajra Body to carve footholds into the nearly vertical cliff while Dugu Yan climbed using his body as a ladder.
• Dai Weisi neared the top of the cliff and saw an opening filled with light.

Dai Weisi received the Asura God’s first trial, which required him to obtain a Hundred-Thousand-Year seventh soul ring alone. He found a Seven-Leaf Golden Lotus but chose not to kill its innocent spirit, and the spirit stopped him, saying he was the person the Goddess of Life had spoken of.

• Dai Weisi learned that the Asura God Trial had begun and that its first task was to obtain a Hundred-Thousand-Year seventh soul ring alone.
• Dai Weisi sensed that a suitable soul beast lay northeast and followed the feeling to a golden lake.
• Dai Weisi discovered that the Hundred-Thousand-Year soul beast was a Seven-Leaf Golden Lotus with a golden sprite as its vulnerable main body.
• Dai Weisi decided not to attack the trusting sprite and warned it to conceal its aura before turning to leave.
• The golden sprite grabbed Dai Weisi’s finger and said he was the person the Goddess of Life had spoken of.

Dai Weisi gained Ultimate Gold, a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone, greatly increasing his combat power and recovery. After completing the Asura First Trial, he received the Second Trial: defeat a full-strength Titled Douluo in a one-on-one frontal battle.

• Dai Weisi gained the White Tiger True Body and Indestructible Golden Body skills from his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Dai Weisi absorbed the Seven-Leaf Golden Lotus head Soul Bone, strengthening his sea of consciousness and gaining Golden Lotus Divine Light and Golden Lotus Healing Light.
• Dai Weisi’s Soul Power reached rank 76, and his strength surpassed that of most Titled Douluo.
• Dai Weisi completed the Asura First Trial, increasing all his Soul Rings’ ages by 500 years and his Asura God affinity by 5%.
• Dai Weisi received the Asura Second Trial, which required him to defeat a full-strength Titled Douluo in a one-on-one frontal battle.