Chapter Summaries

Xu Changqing and Bibi Dong traded the Nine Yin Blood Fiend Orchid for the Asura Divine Sword and secured the Slaughter King's help in Slaughter City. Afterward, Xu Changqing learned that Bibi Dong had been reborn as a little girl after eating a fruit, and she reluctantly agreed to stay with him while he investigated her condition and the sword.

• Xu Changqing pulled off Bibi Dong's purple hood and cape, revealing her childlike appearance, and she beat him for laughing at her.
• The Slaughter King arrived, and Bibi Dong asked to borrow his demonic sword.
• Xu Changqing offered soul bones and then the Nine Yin Blood Fiend Orchid, and the Slaughter King exchanged the Asura Divine Sword for the flower and agreed to help Bibi Dong with the Hell Slaughter Arena.
• The Slaughter King asked Xu Changqing and Bibi Dong not to fight in Slaughter City or kill people indiscriminately, then left with the flower.
• Xu Changqing asked Bibi Dong how she had become a child, and she explained that a fruit had made her younger, merged her Twin Martial Souls, and raised her Soul Power to rank 98.
• Xu Changqing said he would research how to help Bibi Dong grow back and examine the Asura Divine Sword, while she demanded her purple cloak back.

Xu Changqing brought Bibi Dong, disguised as a little girl named Zi Xuan, and Hu Liena to a high-rise residence in Slaughter City, where he drove out its occupants and settled in with them. The next day, he watched the Hell Slaughter Arena and learned that stronger opponents would appear as his winning streak grew.

• Xu Changqing and Bibi Dong met Hu Liena outside the Hell Slaughter Arena and chose a tall building as their place to stay.
• Xu Changqing killed Lei Nu and the woman in the building, then took the residence for himself and the two women.
• Xu Changqing introduced the cloaked Bibi Dong to Hu Liena as his orphaned sworn sister, naming her Zi Xuan to conceal her identity.
• Xu Changqing, Bibi Dong, and Hu Liena settled into the residence and discussed the danger posed by Fallen Ones nearby.
• The next day, Bibi Dong explained that the arena would send Xu Changqing tougher opponents as his winning streak increased, and his next match ended in victory number two.

Xu Changqing and Hu Liena were ambushed by dozens of Fallen Ones after leaving the Hell Slaughter Arena, and Xu Changqing protected the disguised Bibi Dong while Hu Liena fought through the attack. The ambush ended with both Soul Douluo leaders dead, and Xu Changqing offered to bandage Hu Liena’s wounds as they headed back.

• Several Soul Douluo discussed ambushing Xu Changqing and Hu Liena, but one woman refused after witnessing the power of Xu Changqing and Bibi Dong.
• Xu Changqing led Hu Liena and Bibi Dong out of the arena, where dozens of Fallen Ones surrounded them and attacked.
• Xu Changqing carried Bibi Dong through the battle while Hu Liena fought the attackers; Bibi Dong told him to let Hu Liena continue until she reached her limits.
• Xu Changqing killed the crew-cut Soul Douluo and pursued the short Soul Douluo, blasting him into a mist of blood.
• Hu Liena killed the remaining attackers, then complained about her wounds as Xu Changqing offered to bandage her when they returned.

Xu Changqing rejected the Asura God position after learning that becoming a law enforcer required severing all emotion, then warned Bibi Dong about its cost. After Bibi Dong used an Immortal Herb to grow slightly, she demanded more from Xu Changqing to speed her recovery.

• Xu Changqing carried the unconscious Hu Liena home and gave Bibi Dong a Scarlet Sunfire Chrysanthemum for her to eat when she woke.
• Xu Changqing contacted the Asura Divine Sword, entered its dark crimson platform, and met the Asura God, who offered him the Asura God Test.
• When Xu Changqing learned that inheriting the position required severing all emotion, he destroyed his spiritual connection to the sword and refused the inheritance.
• Xu Changqing explained the cost to Bibi Dong, who then asked to examine the sword but dropped it after hearing that she could lose her memories and attachments.
• Bibi Dong took an Immortal Herb from Xu Changqing and refined it, growing slightly; she then demanded more herbs to accelerate her recovery.
• Xu Changqing raised his price to ten minutes of head pats per herb and offered to add three Nine-Grade Ginseng Kings, leaving Bibi Dong speechless.

Xu Changqing and Hu Liena continued pursuing one hundred victories in Slaughter City as their accumulated killing intent strained Hu Liena’s control. After Hu Liena won a brutal match, her killing intent suddenly erupted, leaving Xu Changqing and Bibi Dong alarmed.

• Xu Changqing broke through while Hu Liena cooked for him, and he warned her to slow down and adapt to the killing intent building inside her.
• Bibi Dong advised Xu Changqing to have Hu Liena rest, but Hu Liena saw through his excuse and insisted on competing that day.
• Xu Changqing won his seventy-seventh match, earned the name White-Clothed Slaughter God, and froze a spectator who insulted Hu Liena with his killing intent.
• Hu Liena fought nine opponents, killed them all despite suffering serious wounds, and began absorbing the killing intent from her victory.
• Hu Liena’s killing intent surged out of control, and she threatened to come to Xu Changqing’s bed that night and pamper him.

Hu Liena recovered from the effects of absorbing killing intent, and she and Xu Changqing challenged their hundredth consecutive victories in the Hell Slaughter Arena. After Xu Changqing defeated nine Soul Douluos in seconds, the Slaughter King activated the sacrificial formation to open the Hell Road.

• Bibi Dong explained that Hu Liena's killing intent had overwhelmed her mind, so Xu Changqing carried the unconscious Hu Liena back to recover.
• Xu Changqing and Bibi Dong discussed Hu Liena's feelings for him and the complications of choosing a principal wife among his many confidantes.
• The next day, Xu Changqing teased Hu Liena about her drunken declarations before leaving for the Hell Slaughter Arena.
• Hu Liena won her hundredth consecutive match, then Xu Changqing defeated nine Soul Douluos in seven seconds to claim his own hundredth victory.
• The Slaughter King activated the sacrificial formation beneath the arena to open the Hell Road.

Xu Changqing and Hu Liena entered the Hell Road after the Slaughter King sacrificed everyone in the Viewing Platform to open it. They fought their way past the blood bats and the Three-Headed Blood Bat King, then began attacking the Ten-Headed Fiery Sun Serpent’s weak points.

• The Slaughter King drained the killing intent from the Viewing Platform’s crowd, killing them and opening a passage to the Hell Road.
• Xu Changqing and Hu Liena were dragged into the passage, while Bibi Dong remained behind; they landed in the underground world above the Yellow Springs lake.
• Xu Changqing told Hu Liena that Little Zi Xuan would wait for them at the exit, then led her along the narrow path above the lake.
• Xu Changqing froze an attacking swarm of blood bats with his killing intent, and Hu Liena realized he had arranged for her to face weaker opponents in the arena.
• Xu Changqing killed the Three-Headed Blood Bat King with one strike, then he and Hu Liena dodged the Ten-Headed Fiery Sun Serpent’s attack.
• Xu Changqing identified the serpent’s glowing red lumps as weak points, and he and Hu Liena began destroying them.

Xu Changqing and Hu Liena escaped Hell Road after he wounded the Ten-Headed Fiery Sun Serpent and seized its inner core. Xu Changqing completed the first Asura God Test, gained a maximum-strength God of Slaughter Domain, and left with Hu Liena for Heaven Dou Empire.

• Xu Changqing and Hu Liena raced across collapsing paths while the Ten-Headed Fiery Sun Serpent pursued them through Yellow Springs Lake.
• Xu Changqing fought the serpent, destroyed several more of its vital points, knocked it into the lake, and stored its inner core in the System Space.
• Xu Changqing and Hu Liena found the golden exit gate and passed through it, where Xu Changqing endured the killing-intent trial and completed the first Asura God Test.
• Xu Changqing tested his God of Slaughter Domain and learned it already boosted his attributes and weakened enemies by twenty percent, while Hu Liena's domain was weaker.
• Xu Changqing told Hu Liena that he had arranged for Little Zi Xuan to be sent to Heaven Dou City, then summoned a Golden Dragon and set off with her for Heaven Dou Empire.

After returning from Slaughter City, Xu Changqing reunited with Xue Qinghe, Ning Fengzhi, and Gelong Marshal as Heaven Dou prepared for an imminent war with Star Luo. He proposed fighting a Commercial War to cripple Star Luo, leaving the others to hear his plan.

• Xu Changqing parted from Hu Liena near Lima Plain and sent her back to Spirit City while he continued to Heaven Dou.
• Xue Qinghe, Ning Fengzhi, and Gelong Marshal discussed Star Luo’s growing strength and learned its army was already moving toward the border.
• Xu Changqing arrived in Heaven Dou City on a Golden Dragon and reunited with Xue Qinghe and Ning Fengzhi, then met Gelong Marshal.
• After hearing about the coming war, Xu Changqing proposed a Commercial War that could leave Star Luo without soldiers and make the empire collapse without an invasion.

Xu Changqing proposed using grain purchases and destruction to weaken the Star Luo Empire, then learned that Xue Qinghe had secured his appointment as Heaven Dou’s Divine Firmament King. He toured his new residence and tried on his robes as Xue Qinghe prepared a public celebration and awaited Rongrong and the others.

• Xu Changqing outlined a plan to buy Star Luo grain at inflated prices, destroy stored supplies and fields, then sell grain back at a profit, and Ning Fengzhi and Gelong Marshal helped refine the scheme.
• After dinner, Xu Changqing stayed the night with Xue Qinghe, who told him his appointment as Divine Firmament King had passed unanimously and that she had arranged a three-day national celebration.
• Xue Qinghe took Xu Changqing to his newly rebuilt residence, which had once belonged to Snow Star Prince, and he admired its grounds and her preparations.
• Xu Changqing tried on the king’s robes and preferred the white martial-style outfit, while Xue Qinghe said the ceremony would take place in seven days and Rongrong and the others were on their way.

Xu Changqing prepared for a lavish banquet marking his appointment as Heaven Dou's Godly Firmament King while the empire began a campaign to cripple Star Luo's grain supplies. At the banquet, he welcomed old allies and gathered guests, then hurried to greet a familiar friend waiting at the corner of the street.

• Xue Qinghe insisted that Xu Changqing's succession banquet be a grand affair, and Xu Changqing agreed to let him invite nobles, sects, Spirit Hall, and academies.
• Xu Changqing reunited with Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing, and they discussed bringing Shui Bing'er and Huo Wu to Heaven Dou.
• While Xu Changqing stayed at his residence, Xue Qinghe reported that Heaven Dou had begun buying up Star Luo grain and planned to burn its major grain-producing regions.
• On the day of the banquet, Xu Changqing dressed in ceremonial robes as guests gathered outside his residence, including Prince Xue Si, Salas, and a man seeking to see Tang Hao's killer.
• Xu Changqing welcomed Xue Qinghe, Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, Bone Douluo, and Dugu Bo, then greeted other guests, including Hu Liena, Shui Bing'er, and Huo Wu.
• After addressing the assembled guests, Xu Changqing hurried toward a familiar figure at the corner of the street.

At Xu Changqing’s celebration banquet, Bibi Dong attended in disguise as his sworn sister, while Davis challenged Heaven Dou over grain merchants buying grain in Star Luo. The banquet ended on a new confrontation when a guest asked Xu Changqing whether he had killed Tang Hao.

• Davis traded insults with Heaven Dou nobles while Xu Changqing went to greet the cloaked Bibi Dong and brought her inside.
• Xu Changqing introduced Bibi Dong as his shy sworn sister, and the guests took their seats according to rank before the banquet began.
• Xue Qinghe asked about Bibi Dong, and Xu Changqing called her Zi Xuan and explained that her martial soul could not be exposed to light.
• Davis accused Heaven Dou grain merchants of disrupting Star Luo’s market by buying grain at twice the usual price, and Xu Changqing and the nobles mocked him.
• Davis concluded that the merchants were profiteers and planned to persuade his father to sell Star Luo’s grain reserves to them.
• An unidentified speaker asked Xu Changqing whether he had killed Tang Hao.

Xu Changqing admitted that he had killed Tang Hao and challenged Tang Xiao to a one-on-one battle to the death. Before they left Heaven Dou City to fight, Liu Erlong questioned Xu Changqing about Yu Xiaogang’s murder, which he denied committing while expressing no regret over Yu Xiaogang’s death.

• Tang Xiao identified himself as the Clear Sky Sect’s master and demanded to know whether Xu Changqing had killed Tang Hao.
• Xu Changqing confirmed that he had killed Tang Hao, then challenged Tang Xiao to a fair battle to the death, and Tang Xiao accepted.
• Xu Changqing and Tang Xiao agreed to fight outside Heaven Dou City, away from its buildings.
• Liu Erlong asked where Xu Changqing had been two months earlier and told him that Yu Xiaogang had been brutally murdered with Xu Changqing’s name left at the scene.
• Xu Changqing denied killing Yu Xiaogang, insulted him and Liu Erlong, then declared that he would slay Tang Xiao to set his kingly name right.

Xu Changqing challenged Tang Xiao to a life-and-death battle outside Heaven Dou City, while Xue Qinghe and the assembled nobles watched. After trading blows, Xu Changqing revealed two domains that sharply weakened Tang Xiao, leaving the Clear Sky Sect master shocked as the fight turned serious.

• Xu Changqing and Tang Xiao left the royal hall to fight outside Heaven Dou City, and Xue Qinghe led the nobles to witness their battle.
• Hu Liena tried to take Zi Xuan to watch, but Xue Qinghe insisted that Xu Changqing had entrusted the child to him, making Hu Liena withdraw.
• The battle drew a massive crowd, and the Royal Fighting Team reunited on Heaven Dou City's walls as Xue Qinghe reminded them of their promise not to scatter.
• Davis mocked the team, but Xue Qinghe defended his former teammates and reaffirmed their bond with Xu Changqing as captain.
• Xu Changqing and Tang Xiao paused after exchanging physical blows, and Tang Xiao realized Xu Changqing had matched him without using soul skills.
• Xu Changqing summoned two domains that weakened Tang Xiao, who was stunned that someone below Soul Saint possessed such powerful domains.

Xu Changqing defeated and killed Tang Xiao with the Yin Yang Five Elements Seal, earning the people’s respect as Heaven Dou’s Godly Firmament King. After returning to the city, he declined a celebration banquet and announced that he would enter seclusion to absorb a powerful treasure and pursue a breakthrough.

• Xu Changqing used his stacked domains to overpower Tang Xiao, while Sword Douluo predicted Tang Xiao’s defeat to the gathered nobles.
• Xu Changqing summoned the Yin Yang Five Elements Seal and crushed Tang Xiao’s desperate counterattack, killing him.
• Xu Changqing returned to Heaven Dou City as the crowd cheered, and Xue Qinghe warned the princes and ministers to stop impeaching him.
• Xu Changqing joked with Xue Qinghe, declined a celebration banquet, and said he planned to enter seclusion to pursue a breakthrough to level seventy.
• Shui Bing’er welcomed Xu Changqing back and asked whether he had missed her, while Huo Wu teased him for his teasing remarks.

At the celebration after the battle, Xu Changqing and the younger generation drank and joked until Feng Xiaotian drunkenly performed his promised handstand peeing. As the night ended, Xu Changqing carried the others to bed and stayed with Hu Liena, who had secretly been pretending to be drunk.

• Xiao Wu and the others teased Huo Wu and joked about Feng Xiaotian’s promise to pee while doing a handstand.
• The nobles left the banquet, and Davis departed in disgrace while vowing to attack the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Xu Changqing hosted a late-night gathering at his residence, where the younger generation drank, played music, and watched Shui Bing'er dance.
• Drunken Feng Xiaotian performed his handstand peeing beside the lake, and Xiao Wu complained that he was polluting the residence.
• Xu Changqing and Bibi Dong carried the drunken guests away, while Hu Liena muttered that Qian Renxue was bullying her.
• Xu Changqing took Hu Liena to a guest room, where she pretended to be unconscious and held his wrist; he stayed with her as Feng Xiaotian slept outside beneath the tree.

Xu Changqing absorbed the Ten-Headed Fiery Sun Serpent Inner Core, broke through to Level 70, and triggered the System’s final upgrade before beginning to evolve the Dragon Soul Divine Firmament Lyre. The upgrade bound a new Supreme God King Cultivation System to Shui Bing'er, who discovered its rewards and tasks and wondered what its most mysterious mission meant.

• While Xu Changqing remained in seclusion, Zhu Zhuqing read Xue Qinghe’s letter describing a grain operation against the Star Luo Empire and the Arson Squad’s imminent plans.
• Xu Changqing finished refining the Ten-Headed Fiery Sun Serpent Inner Core, broke through to Level 70, and found his Soul Power control temporarily unstable.
• Xu Changqing selected Normal Difficulty for his seventh Servant System and learned that Shui Bing'er had been bound to it.
• The System upgraded to its Final Version: Above God King, multiplying existing Servant System rewards and adding new ones, and Xu Changqing began evolving the Dragon Soul Divine Firmament Lyre.
• Shui Bing'er’s Supreme God King Cultivation System bound to her, and she verified its Soul Ring reward by completing the task to lie flat for one minute.
• Shui Bing'er reviewed the System’s missions, wondered whether Xu Changqing and the others also had Systems, and puzzled over the meaning of “Applause for Love.”

Shui Bing'er sought Huo Wu’s advice on pursuing someone, then tricked her into accepting a massage that would let her complete a spanking task. In Heaven Dou City, Xu Changqing’s Martial Soul evolved, and he discovered Tang San’s Nightmare Difficulty tasks and the source of his negative status effects.

• Shui Bing'er asked Huo Wu how to pursue someone, and Huo Wu advised her to break his legs before chasing him.
• Shui Bing'er persuaded Huo Wu to lie face down for an Ice and Fire Dual Heavens massage so she could complete her task.
• Heaven Dou City residents debated whether the Clear Sky Sect would retaliate against Xu Changqing, then witnessed his Nine Dragons Surrounding Jade Zither rise into the sky.
• Xu Changqing examined his upgraded Divine Firmament Dragon Taming Lyre and found that its abilities and domain had grown stronger.
• Xu Changqing inspected Tang San’s System, saw his negative effects and punishing Nightmare Difficulty weekly tasks, and learned that a Divinity Fragment could contribute toward God King-level divinity.

Xu Changqing learned how divine ranks worked and decided to try fusing with a low-grade one, while the Clear Sky Sect debated how to respond to Tang Xiao’s death. Tang San offered the elders a path to godhood, as strange events and fires marked a restless night across the continent.

• Xu Changqing learned that divine ranks could be replaced at the cost of severe injuries and decided to synthesize a Divine Official Level rank to test fusion.
• The Clear Sky Sect’s elders argued over whether to avenge Tang Xiao, while First Elder and Second Elder urged them to wait for an opportunity.
• Tang San returned to the Clear Sky Sect and offered to help the seven elders embark on the Path to Godhood.
• A strange phenomenon involving the Nine Dragons Surrounding Jade Zither appeared in Heaven Dou, and fires erupted across the Star Luo Empire.

After Star Luo’s grain fields were burned, Davis persuaded the Star Luo Emperor to send him to Heaven Dou to negotiate a hundred-year peace treaty, while the team at the Divine Firmament King Residence punished Xu Changqing and Shui Bing’er with a mountain of laundry. Left alone together, Shui Bing’er revealed she had arranged the punishment to spend time with Xu Changqing and asked him to join her for some Applause for Love.

• The Star Luo Emperor condemned Davis after Heaven Dou’s agents burned most of Star Luo’s nearly ripe grain fields, and Davis proposed taking Heaven Dou’s grain by force.
• Star Luo’s nobles argued over war and a peace treaty, and the Star Luo Emperor approved Davis’s plan to travel to Heaven Dou as an envoy.
• At lunch, Huo Wu accused Xu Changqing and Shui Bing’er of conspiring to beat her, and Shui Bing’er confirmed Xu Changqing had told her to do it.
• Xue Qinghe held a vote that sent Xu Changqing and Shui Bing’er to wash the team’s clothes for a month, and the others unanimously supported the punishment.
• After everyone else left, Shui Bing’er told Xu Changqing she had wanted time alone with him and invited him to join her for some Applause for Love.