Chapter Summaries

Dai Xueyi escaped toward Jialing Pass after Dai Tiehu sacrificed himself, while Emperor Xue Sheng returned to ruined Heaven Dou City and handed the throne to Xue Ye. After revealing Sea God Island’s alliance with the empire, Xue Sheng died alone in the sealed Secret Chamber.

• Dai Tiehu severed his limbs, gave Dai Xueyi his Soul Bones, and told her to warn the Crown Prince to retreat before he died.
• Dai Xueyi stored Dai Tiehu’s remains and the bloodstained soil, then set out for Jialing Pass.
• Emperor Xue Sheng returned to Heaven Dou City and found evidence that Xue Zhan had been killed by the same person who had attempted to assassinate him.
• Emperor Xue Sheng passed the crown to Xue Ye and revealed that Sea God Island had secretly allied with the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Xue Ye sealed Emperor Xue Sheng inside the Secret Chamber, where the poisoned emperor sang his favorite song and died.

Tian Hao discovered Emperor Xue Sheng’s remains and took his armor and complete set of Soul Bones before waiting in the Secret Chamber for Xue Ye. When Xue Ye arrived, Dugu Bo rescued him from Tian Hao, but left behind the Heaven Dou royal crown, which Tian Hao seized before escaping.

• Tian Hao emerged into a Secret Chamber, identified Emperor Xue Sheng’s armor, and found six Soul Bones among the remains.
• Tian Hao took the Soul Bones and armor, sealed his entrance, and waited in hiding, suspecting the poison had been prepared by the Breaking Clan.
• Xue Ye learned that Gai Zongheng had collected most of the fallen soldiers’ armor, then went to the sleeping palace to retrieve Emperor Xue Sheng’s Soul Bones.
• Tian Hao attacked Xue Ye in the Secret Chamber, but Dugu Bo used Time Freeze and rushed to defend him.
• Tian Hao broke through Time Freeze with the Slaughtering Domain, damaged one of Dugu Bo’s Soul Rings, and forced Dugu Bo to flee with Xue Ye.
• Dugu Bo dropped Xue Ye’s inherited royal crown as they escaped, and Tian Hao took it before retreating through his tunnel.

Tian Hao escaped Heaven Dou City after a failed teleport forced him to flee through a tunnel, then reunited with Chen Xin and Guang Ling. After learning that Gu Rong had interfered with Tian Hao’s Soul Skill, Chen Xin flew to confront the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect while Guang Ling and Tian Hao stayed at their meeting place.

• Xue Ye and Dugu Bo discovered that their inheritance crown and Spirit Ring were gone, and Xue Ye collapsed after finding the palace chamber empty and its escape passage blocked.
• Tian Hao escaped underground, teleported to a forest outside Heaven Dou City, and reached the meeting point where Chen Xin was waiting.
• Chen Xin and Tian Hao flew to another meeting place, where Guang Ling arrived after searching for Tian Hao in the city.
• Guang Ling explained that the Clear Sky Sect and Heaven Dou Imperial Family were hunting Tian Hao, and Tian Hao recounted how someone had interfered with his teleportation Soul Skill.
• Guang Ling identified Gu Rong as the likely culprit and prepared to attack the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, but Tian Hao stopped him and asked Chen Xin to handle the matter.
• Chen Xin flew to confront Gu Rong, while Guang Ling and Tian Hao discussed the risks of the plan and Ning Fengzhi’s unexpected intervention.

Chen Xin confronted the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect over Ning Fengzhi’s mistake, defeated Gu Rong but spared him, and accepted Ning Fengzhi’s compensation. After the sect’s elders disciplined Ning Fengzhi, he decided to visit the Heaven Dou Old Capital as the sect considered relocating.

• Chen Xin attacked Gu Rong with his Seven Kill Sword, broke through his Bone Dragon defenses, and left him injured while sparing his life.
• Ning Fengzhi apologized to Chen Xin and handed him a prepared Storage Soul Tool, and Chen Xin revealed he was half a step from Level 99.
• The Old Clan Master removed Ning Fengzhi as acting sect master and postponed his formal succession by ten years.
• Ning Fengzhi decided to visit the Heaven Dou Old Capital, believing it could become the empire’s new capital and that the sect should move away from Sunset Forest.

The Star Luo Empire’s armies became trapped in the Four Kingdoms as sabotage, counterattacks, and reinforcements intensified the war, while Spirit Hall sheltered fleeing civilians. In the Heaven Dou Old Capital, Xue Ye suspected the Clear Sky Sect’s Breaking Clan had poisoned and robbed the nobles but chose to keep the accusation quiet, and he ordered Xue Zhan’s rescued family watched rather than killed.

• The Star Luo Crown Prince ordered a retreat, but destroyed roads and repeated surprise attacks trapped his army and the other invading forces in the Four Kingdoms.
• The Four Kingdoms reorganized their forces and blocked the Star Luo armies, while Spirit Hall evacuated and supplied refugees near Spirit City.
• The Four Kingdoms refused Xue Ye’s offer of Heaven Dou troops, and he ordered his army to guard the borders while the war continued.
• Noble representatives told Xue Ye they had been poisoned and robbed; Xue Xing suspected mixed poison had been used and said Storage Soul Tools and Soul Bones were missing.
• Xue Ye suspected the Breaking Clan but ordered Xue Xing to keep quiet, saying they could not afford to break with the Clear Sky Sect.
• Xue Xing reported that a Masked Person, likely Hai Liuyun, had rescued Xue Zhan’s wife and children, and Xue Ye ordered them watched instead of killed.

Xue Ye learned that Sea God Island would support the Heaven Dou Empire against Spirit Hall and offer Soul Masters God's Trials. In Spirit City, Tian Hao distributed treasures taken from the Heaven Dou Imperial Family to Qian Xunji and several Spirit Hall elders, strengthening their regard for him.

• Sea Dragon Douluo told Xue Ye that the High Priestess was a Level 100 God who would protect the Heaven Dou Empire from destruction and grant ten Soul Masters God's Trials every five years.
• Xue Ye considered the Sea God's Trials unsuitable for his Swan Martial Soul and vowed to make Gai Zongheng repay what he had taken.
• Tian Hao gave Qian Xunji the Heaven Dou Imperial Family's Inheritance Crown, and Qian Xunji warned him not to take such risks again.
• Tian Hao gifted Golden Crocodile Douluo and Mighty Lion Douluo fine wine and gave Qing Luan Douluo a compatible 90,000-year Wind Attribute Soul Bone.
• After Falling Devil Douluo asked for a gift, Tian Hao gave him a dragon-type Soul Bone and gave Qian Jun Douluo a Strength Attribute Soul Bone.
• Falling Devil Douluo promised to help Tian Hao whenever needed, while Mighty Lion Douluo reflected that their generation had reached Super Douluo and could aspire to become gods.

Tian Hao advised Qian Jun Douluo and Falling Devil Douluo on ways to overcome their cultivation bottlenecks, including pursuing Man-Staff Unity and exploring different kinds of Fusion Skills. The brothers considered his ideas, while Tian Hao left them with a broader theory of how humans and soul beasts could fuse.

• Guang Ling teased Qian Jun Douluo and Falling Devil Douluo about needing to advance before the planned attack on Slaughter City.
• Falling Devil Douluo realized Tian Hao might help the brothers advance and asked him for cultivation advice.
• Tian Hao suggested the brothers cultivate Man-Staff Unity to gain control of their martial souls and eventually develop a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Tian Hao explained several categories of Fusion Skills, including spiritual power, qi-blood, Spirit Rings, Soul Bones, and domains.
• Tian Hao proposed that soul masters and soul beasts could fuse, and Falling Devil Douluo accepted his comparison to refining Spirit Rings and Soul Bones.

Tian Hao proposed several new cultivation paths to Qian Jun Douluo, Jiangmo, and the other elders, including Staff Intent and the Martial Soul Split Technique. The elders welcomed his ideas, and Tian Hao began to introduce one final suggestion that might be unpleasant to hear.

• Tian Hao advised Jiangmo and Qian Jun Douluo to develop a Soul Power Fusion Technique using their domain-type soul skills as a foundation.
• Tian Hao demonstrated how Sword Intent could be adapted into Blade Intent and spear techniques, then explained how Spirit Attributes could be cultivated into Will Attributes such as Staff Intent and Battle Intent.
• Jiangmo, Qian Jun Douluo, Golden Crocodile Douluo, and Mighty Lion Douluo considered cultivating Battle Intent.
• Tian Hao proposed the Martial Soul Split Technique, which could let Qian Jun Douluo and Jiangmo temporarily separate their fused Coiling Dragon Staff into Twin Martial Souls and develop them further.
• Guang Ling recognized the technique's potential, while Jiangmo regretted not seeking Tian Hao's advice sooner and accidentally hurt his shoulder with a forceful slap.
• Tian Hao began to introduce a final suggestion for Second Grandpa and the others, and Golden Crocodile Douluo and Mighty Lion Douluo assured him they would hear him out.

Tian Hao warned Spirit Hall’s elders that changing times and divine enemies demanded humility, caution, and serious preparation. After a goddess punished his careless remark about age, the elders dispersed, while Tian Hao considered the war’s progress and Spirit Hall’s need to keep developing rather than rush to conquer the empires.

• Tian Hao told the elders that Soul Power rankings could not measure future enemies, who might wield divine power and artifacts, and urged them to abandon arrogance and kill confirmed enemies without hesitation.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo agreed that the times had changed, and Tian Hao suggested the elders stop calling themselves old before an Angel Divine Power Crystal smashed him into the ground.
• Tian Hao thanked the goddess for the crystal, and Guang Ling asked to study a captured Mirror Martial Soul Soul Master to develop space-based swordsmanship.
• Tian Hao advised Guang Ling to seek Yue Guan’s Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew medicinal power to cultivate the Perspective Eye, and Guang Ling left to find him.
• The elders made excuses to leave after realizing the goddess had been listening, while Tian Hao assessed the Star Luo Empire’s reinforcements and concluded Spirit Hall should continue developing instead of rushing to conquer the empires.

Tian Hao studied the captured Titled Douluo and discovered that the Strength Clan Patriarch’s Thousand Jun Ant Soul Rings could be fused into his Soul Bone. After strengthening it with all nine Soul Ring Origins and power from the Thousand Jun Ant Emperors, he stored the unstable Soul Bone in the Blue Silver Divine Tree and went to ask Qian Daoyi to find a soul master with a Thousand Jun Ant Martial Soul.

• Tian Hao confirmed that the Star Luo Imperial Family and Zhu Family’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill was inherited through their complementary recessive bloodlines, then had the Evil God Tiger devour the pair.
• Tian Hao studied two other Titled Douluo’s Martial Souls and soul skills, then examined the Strength Clan Patriarch and identified his Soul Rings as originating from Thousand Jun Ants.
• Tian Hao found a dark-gold upper-arm Soul Bone in the Strength Clan Patriarch and fused its original skill, Source of Power, with the origins of all nine Soul Rings.
• Tian Hao added blood and Soul Power from the three Thousand Jun Ant Emperors to stabilize the overburdened Soul Bone, then stored it in the Blue Silver Divine Tree for nourishment.
• Tian Hao left the Mirror Martial Soul Titled Douluo unstudied and went to the Angel Clan Grounds to ask Qian Daoyi to find a soul master with a Thousand Jun Ant Martial Soul.

Tian Hao extracted a Thousand Jun Ant Soul King’s Martial Soul and bloodline to refine a Soul Bone, gaining a strength-amplifying skill that his current bone could support up to threefold. He then returned to researching a female Titled Douluo’s Mirror Martial Soul, hoping to strengthen his Teleportation Soul Bone and explore using Space Power through his eyes.

• Tian Hao offered to fulfill the paralyzed Thousand Jun Ant Soul King’s final wish and promised to recommend his talented grandson to Golden Crocodile Douluo.
• Tian Hao explained to Qian Daoyi that the grandson could eventually use the three hundred-thousand-year Thousand Jun Ant Emperors’ Spirit Rings to evolve his Martial Soul.
• Tian Hao extracted the old man’s Martial Soul Origin and bloodline and fused them into a Soul Bone, then refined it into his arm.
• Tian Hao discovered that the Soul Bone’s Ninefold Power Source skill could amplify his strength up to ninefold, though the bone currently endured only a threefold amplification.
• Tian Hao resumed examining the Mirror Martial Soul Titled Douluo to seek ways to strengthen his Teleportation Soul Bone and channel Space Power into his eyes.

Tian Hao helped Guang Ling fuse a captured Ninth Soul Skill’s Soul Ring Origin into his Head Soul Bone, giving him a path to develop a space-based ability. Guang Ling set off to find a Heaven Dou Imperial Family member whose Soul Ring could stabilize the fusion, while Falling Devil told Tian Hao that Second Brother had leads on his Qi-Blood cultivation method.

• Yue Guan discussed a potential Yin-Yang Domain Fusion Skill with the Qian Jun Jiangmo brothers, who realized their contrasting temperaments might help them master it.
• Tian Hao extracted the Soul Ring Origin of Aunt’s Ninth Soul Skill and fused it into Guang Ling’s Head Soul Bone after merging Guang Ling’s Fifth Soul Ring into the bone.
• Tian Hao explained that Guang Ling would need to refine the Soul Ring Origin with spiritual power and balance it with his Soul Bone’s space power.
• Guang Ling recalled a Heaven Dou Imperial Family member whose Soul Ring came from the same kind of Soul Beast and flew off to find him with Third Priest.
• Falling Devil told Tian Hao that Second Brother had found leads on the Qi-Blood cultivation method.

Tian Hao learned that Golden Crocodile Douluo had activated his qi-blood and proposed a shortcut to help others cultivate it. The chapter left Tian Hao, Golden Crocodile Douluo, and Guang Ling considering how to transform their skeletons into soul bones.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo showed Tian Hao the qi-blood he had activated, and they spent two days discussing ways to cultivate it.
• Qing Luan and Guang Ling arrived with an unconscious Soul Douluo, whose soul ring Tian Hao fused into Guang Ling's Head Soul Bone to balance its two soul skills.
• Tian Hao suggested sealing activated qi-blood inside a soul bone so others could study the Blood Qi Secrets and awaken their own qi-blood.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo gave portions of his Bloodline Power to Tian Hao, Guang Ling, and Qing Luan, who carried one portion to the High Priest.
• Tian Hao proposed transforming their own skeletons into soul bones with qi-blood, and Golden Crocodile Douluo and Guang Ling agreed the idea warranted study.

Tian Hao prepared a massive Clear Sky Heavy Sword and learned that Tang Chen had entered Slaughter City, clearing the way for Tian Hao to carry out his plan there. The chapter ended with the group still uncertain whether Slaughter City’s divine inheritance belonged to the Asura God-King.

• Tian Hao promised Golden Crocodile Douluo’s grandson a gift from his grandfather once the youth reached level 70, inspiring him to train harder.
• Tian Hao worked with Yue Guan and the Qian Jun Jiangmo brothers to reshape the Clear Sky Sword and seal the Asura Seven Kill Sword inside it, creating a 2,000-jin heavy sword.
• Tian Hao used a strength-type Soul Bone Skill to wield the sword and explained that Clear Sky Soul Power made it easier to activate the Thousand Jun Ant Soul Bone’s Source of Power skill.
• Qian Daoyi reported that the Clear Sky Sect was secretly investigating Tang Jian’s identity, so Tian Hao decided he was ready to leave for Slaughter City.
• Qian Daoliu confirmed that Tang Chen had entered Slaughter City and had not returned, though the group did not know whether its divine inheritance belonged to the Asura God-King.

Tian Hao set off for Slaughter City while the Clear Sky Sect debated finding Tang Jian and Tang Zhen threatened Tang Yuehua over her refusal to marry Xue Ye. Meanwhile, the Star Luo Crown Prince fled toward the border with his unconscious son, only to encounter someone waiting ahead.

• Tian Hao left for the entrance to Slaughter City after Qian Daoliu carried him out of Spirit City.
• Tang Zhen and the Clear Sky Sect elders decided to find Tang Jian, whose Mutated Martial Soul might combine traits of the Clear Sky Heavy Sword and Seven Kill Sword.
• Tang Yuehua urged Tang Zhen to abandon his alliance with Xue Ye, but Tang Zhen ordered her to marry Xue Ye and threatened to kill the young man she cared about.
• Tang Yuehua concluded that her father and the Clear Sky Sect elders had become mad demons and feared they were leading the sect to ruin.
• The Star Luo Crown Prince fled through a forest with his unconscious son and froze when he saw someone waiting near the border.

The Star Luo Crown Prince accepted a deal after being shown a recording that appeared to implicate Tang Zhen in framing the Star Luo Empire, and was promised more evidence against Xue Ye in exchange for a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone. After the prince left, Jiang Mo and Qing Luan Douluo revealed the recording was staged as part of a plan to deepen distrust among the empires and sects.

• A black-clothed man showed the Star Luo Crown Prince a recording of Tang Zhen planting Defense Maps in a Star Luo camp, inflaming the prince’s anger over the empire’s losses.
• The black-clothed man offered a Recording Crystal supposedly showing Xue Ye and Tang Zhen conspiring, in exchange for a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone within ten days.
• The Star Luo Crown Prince accepted the terms and hurried back across the border, unaware that the black-clothed man had returned with several companions.
• Jiang Mo admitted that actors had staged the recording, and Qing Luan Douluo told him to avoid exposing flaws in their plan.
• Mighty Lion Douluo and Guang Ling discussed drawing the Upper Three Sects into conflict, while Qing Luan warned them not to underestimate the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

Falling Devil traded the Star Luo Emperor a recording exposing the Heaven Dou Crown Prince’s schemes in exchange for a dragon-type Soul Bone. The Star Luo leaders blamed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and planned to exploit the recording later, unaware that Soul Tools had captured their discussion.

• Falling Devil exchanged a recording of the Heaven Dou Crown Prince conspiring with Tang Zhen for the Star Luo Emperor’s 100,000-Year Earth Dragon Soul Bone.
• The Star Luo Emperor and the Nether Duke concluded that Bone Douluo and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had arranged the recording to undermine the Clear Sky Sect and profit from the war.
• The Star Luo Emperor ordered the Nether Duke to withhold the recording until the Heaven Dou Crown Prince took the throne and told the trapped army to cause destruction in Heaven Dou territory.
• Falling Devil and Mighty Lion Douluo’s group watched the Soul Tools’ recording of the Star Luo leaders, while Azure Luan ordered Guang Ling to retrieve the devices and leave no traces.

Tian Hao arrived at the town outside Slaughter City disguised as Sword Demon Tang Jian and sought entry without agreeing to kill the tavern’s patrons. The waitress offered him a dangerous examination outside the rules, and he jumped into the hidden passage toward Slaughter City.

• Tian Hao used his changed physique, hair, and mask to conceal his identity as he entered the town outside Slaughter City.
• He visited a tavern filled with people bearing Killing Intent, declined the waitress’s Bloody Mary, and drank blood he had brought himself.
• When the waitress said he had to kill everyone in the tavern to enter Slaughter City, Tian Hao refused and asked for another examination.
• The waitress opened a hidden passage and warned Tian Hao that its examination was more dangerous and offered little chance of survival.
• Tian Hao thanked the waitress and jumped into the passage, while she wondered whether he might become the next Slaughter God.

Tian Hao entered Slaughter City and defeated its Enforcement Squad, then noticed signs that the city’s name had been changed. He pressed his guide, the Black Silk Lady, to reveal what Slaughter City had been called before, but she did not know.

• Tian Hao sensed an unusually dense evil aura and confirmed that the passage to Slaughter City crossed an independent secret realm.
• The Guan Dao Knight and a hundred Blade Warriors confronted Tian Hao, but he charged at them and battered the Knight into the ground with his Clear Sky Heavy Sword.
• Tian Hao overpowered the Blade Warriors, mounted the Knight’s warhorse, and rode toward the city gates.
• The Black Silk Lady welcomed Tian Hao and gave him an identification token, while he noticed inconsistencies in the carving of the words “Slaughter City.”
• Tian Hao asked what the city had been called before, leaving the Black Silk Lady unable to answer.

Tian Hao entered Slaughter City, questioned the Black Silk Lady about its history and rules, and suspected that the city had once belonged to the Rakshasa God. After learning that Death Bringer had won eighty-nine matches, he headed for the tallest building to find his Little Teacher.

• Tian Hao challenged the Black Silk Lady's account of Slaughter City's origins, restrictions, and Purple Moon, but she could not answer his questions.
• Tian Hao guessed that Slaughter City had originally been the Rakshasa God's territory and that the Asura God had seized it.
• Tian Hao forced a burly man to answer his questions, then insulted the Black Silk Lady by calling her fat.
• The Black Silk Lady explained Slaughter City's rules and left after Tian Hao accused her of lying.
• Tian Hao learned that Death Bringer had eighty-nine victories and rode toward the tallest building to find his Little Teacher.