Chapter Summaries

Half a year after the tournament, Xia Tianling and Zhu Zhuqing continued cultivating together while teasing each other. Meanwhile, Dai Mubai learned that his damaged Meridians might leave him with less than ten years to live, and he faced an offer from the Seven Great Families to heal him in exchange for helping them weaken the Star Luo royal family.

• Xia Tianling reached level sixty-eight after a year of cultivation, while Zhu Zhuqing had already reached level sixty and teased him about his gifts and cultivation chamber.
• Xia Tianling and Zhu Zhuqing joked with Old Zhang at the cultivation grounds, where Xia Tianling showed off the scratches on his neck.
• A man in black told Dai Mubai that his damaged Meridians could leave him with less than ten years to live and offered to heal him and create a chance to kill Dai Weisi.
• The man in black presented the Seven Great Families' terms, which would reduce the Dai Family's rule to little more than a name, and left Dai Mubai a token to arrange another meeting.
• Dai Mubai returned to Star Luo Palace, suspected it was riddled with the Seven Great Families' informants, and went to ask his teacher for guidance.

Dai Mubai ambushed Dai Weisi in the Star Dou Great Forest, killed him, and absorbed his life force and cultivation. He reached level sixty and claimed the position of Star Luo Crown Prince, then asked the Seven Great Families’ allies to help him hunt his sixth spirit ring.

• Dai Mubai accepted the Seven Great Families’ conditions, and Zhu Zhuyun warned him that Dai Weisi would soon travel to the Star Dou Great Forest for a spirit ring.
• Dai Weisi hired three mercenaries and entered the forest, where he found and began absorbing a Demon God Splendid Tiger’s ten-thousand-year spirit ring.
• Three Men in Black ambushed the mercenaries while Dai Weisi absorbed his ring, and Dai Mubai killed the Soul Saint and drained his life force and cultivation.
• After Dai Weisi completed his absorption, Dai Mubai attacked and killed him, absorbing his life force, bloodline, and cultivation.
• Dai Mubai’s cultivation rose to level sixty, his White Tiger martial spirit transformed into the Rakshasa Evil Tiger, and he asked the Man in Black to help him hunt his sixth spirit ring.

Xia Tianling showed Old Jack and the agricultural team how to operate the research institute’s new Soul Power-driven tractors. After seeing one quickly plow a field, Old Jack tried it himself while Xia Tianling taught the others how to use and maintain the machines.

• Xia Tianling read that Dai Mubai had become the Star Luo Crown Prince and that Dai Weisi had mysteriously disappeared.
• Old Jack brought Xia Tianling to the farmland, where the agricultural team struggled to figure out how to use the new tractors.
• Xia Tianling attached a triangular plow and demonstrated how the tractor started and ran on stored Soul Power.
• Xia Tianling drove the tractor across a field in minutes, impressing Old Jack and the agricultural team.
• Old Jack took the key and tried driving a tractor while Xia Tianling explained its operation and maintenance to the others.

Xia Tianling agreed to attend the Four Attribute Clan Gathering and planned to recruit Yang Wudi’s Breaking Clan by making Tang Hao apologize to them. After healing Tang Hao with an Ancient Secret Medicine, Xia Tianling prepared to take Zhu Zhuqing to the Star Dou Great Forest for her sixth soul ring before meeting the clans.

• Titan and Niu Gao told Xia Tianling that Yang Wudi would consider joining him if Tang Hao knelt and apologized to the Breaking Clan and sought an explanation from the Clear Sky Sect.
• Xia Tianling agreed to attend the gathering in Longxing City but said he would first take Zhu Zhuqing to obtain her sixth soul ring.
• Xia Tianling pulled Dugu Bo away from his laboratory and brought him to Tang Hao, promising Yang Wudi’s family would become his research assistants.
• Tang Hao agreed to apologize to the Breaking Clan in exchange for Xia Tianling healing his internal injuries.
• Tang Hao swallowed Xia Tianling’s Ancient Secret Medicine, expelled his accumulated clotted blood, recovered from his injuries, and rose to Soul Power Level 96.

Xia Tianling helped Zhu Zhuqing obtain a sixty-thousand-year soul ring, then traveled with her to Longxing City, where Bai He met the prosperous Strength and Defense Clans and examined their Hidden Weapons. Bai He wanted to equip the Speed Clan, but recoiled at the cost of two hundred luxury sets.

• Xia Tianling and the others killed a sixty-thousand-year spirit beast, and Zhu Zhuqing absorbed its soul ring to reach Soul Emperor Level Sixty-Two and gain Netherworld Possession.
• The group arrived in Longxing City, where Niu Gao and Titan prepared to host the gathering of the Single Attribute Four Sects.
• Bai He arrived with Bai Chenxiang and learned that Titan's clan earned around one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins monthly while Niu Gao's clan had received one million for construction work.
• After hearing that the major client would pay two hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins for the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng, Bai He agreed to sell the clan heirloom.
• Titan demonstrated Hidden Weapons and offered Bai He two hundred luxury sets for four hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, prompting Bai He to protest that the Speed Clan could not afford them.

Xia Tianling confronted Bai He over the Speed Clan’s claimed value and rejected recruiting them, while demonstrating that their supposed scouting expertise was inadequate. The chapter left Bai He stunned by the telescopes and forced to reconsider what use his clan could offer.

• Titan explained that a stripped-down Hidden Weapon set would cost eight hundred Gold Soul Coins, and Bai He agonized over whether to spend his family’s money equipping the clan.
• Bai He asked to meet the major client, but Xia Tianling arrived and said he had no interest in recruiting the Speed Clan.
• Bai He recognized Xia Tianling as Spirit Hall’s Holy Son and accused Niu Gao and Titan of becoming Spirit Hall’s lapdogs.
• Xia Tianling challenged Bai He to explain basic scouting, counter-tracking, infiltration, and mapmaking, exposing that Bai He knew none of those skills.
• Xia Tianling compared the clan’s speed and eyesight unfavorably to specialized horses and telescopes, then showed Bai He how a telescope magnified distant soldiers.
• Xia Tianling again demanded that Bai He explain the Speed Clan’s usefulness and said he was only considering them because Niu Gao and Titan had begged him.

Xia Tianling confronted Bai He over the Speed Clan’s grievances against Spirit Hall, and Bai He learned that the conflict with Clear Sky Sect had begun because of Tang Hao’s wife, Ah Yin. After reconsidering the clan’s interests, Bai He accepted Xia Tianling’s offer and prepared to bring the Speed Clan into Spirit Hall, where he was assigned a possible courier job.

• Xia Tianling summoned Tang Hao, and Bai He beat him for joining Spirit Hall before Xia Tianling stopped the fight and explained why Spirit Hall had fought Clear Sky Sect.
• Xia Tianling criticized Bai He’s pride and reminded him that the Speed Clan had benefited from Spirit Hall’s services while suffering few losses in the conflict.
• After the others explained the history and urged him to consider his clan’s welfare, Bai He decided that joining Spirit Hall was the best choice.
• At dinner, Bai He learned that Spirit Hall’s chefs had prepared the meal and accepted that he had misjudged the organization.
• The next morning, Bai He brought Xia Tianling the Crystal Dragon Blood Ginseng and accepted two hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, along with instructions for joining Spirit Hall.
• Xia Tianling suggested that Bai He work as a newspaper courier, and Bai He eagerly promised that the Speed Clan would complete its assignments.

Xia Tianling welcomed Yang Wudi and the Breaking Clan into Spirit Hall after proving he possessed the Aromatic Silk Beauty. Yang Wudi agreed to relocate the clan to Spirit City, and Xia Tianling questioned whether they should abandon their networks in Star Luo.

• Tang Hao knelt and apologized to Yang Wudi, who felt satisfied with his self-criticism.
• Xia Tianling greeted Yang Wudi and showed him the Aromatic Silk Beauty, which Yang Wudi recognized and excitedly examined.
• Dugu Bo joked with Xia Tianling about Yang Wudi joining the research lab, prompting the others to laugh at the thought of him studying chemistry and biology.
• Yang Wudi and the other clan leaders agreed that the Breaking Clan would join Spirit Hall, reuniting the Single Attribute Four Sects under its banner.
• Yang Wudi said the Breaking Clan would leave for Spirit City after lunch, and Xia Tianling asked whether they should give up their intelligence, social, and sales networks in Star Luo.

Xia Tianling demonstrated his spear technique to Yang Wudi and defeated him in a contest without Soul Power, awakening Yang Wudi’s fledgling Spear Intent. He taught Yang Wudi twenty-four spear forms, and Yang Wudi pledged to serve him, but Xia Tianling immediately pulled him up and refused to let him kneel.

• Dugu Bo explained to Yang Wudi that Spirit Hall could handle Breaking Clan’s distributors and mass-produce its medicine, leaving Yang Wudi to focus on research.
• Yang Wudi asked Xia Tianling to guide his spear technique, and Xia Tianling challenged him to a contest using neither Soul Power nor soul skills.
• Xia Tianling overwhelmed Yang Wudi with the Lone Goose Leaving the Flock Spear Technique, shattered his Soul Breaking Spear, and held Dragon Gall at his throat.
• Yang Wudi developed a faint Spear Intent and admitted his spear technique had been wrong, asking Xia Tianling to teach him.
• Xia Tianling passed twenty-four spear forms to Yang Wudi, who pledged himself to Xia Tianling and knelt; Xia Tianling pulled him up and ordered him not to kneel.

After returning to Spirit City, Xia Tianling oversaw the research institute and welcomed the Speed Clan, Breaking Clan, and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect researchers into a demanding school program. Spirit Hall then announced a continent-wide art troupe tour and celebrated the first railway’s completion with a successful trial run, while a system notification sounded for Xia Tianling.

• Xia Tianling arranged for the Breaking Clan’s trade contacts and inspected the Rubber Beast plantation and Spirit Research Institute construction near Spirit City.
• Bai He, Yang Wudi, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect research group arrived in Spirit City and were assigned classes, where Dugu Bo taught Yang Wudi and Tang San gave him study materials.
• Spirit Hall Monthly announced the Spirit Hall Art Troupe’s tour across the Two Great Empires, with its first performance planned for Nuoding City and VIP tickets already sold out.
• Huyan Zhen completed the railway to Spirit City, obtained an over-eighty-thousand-year soul ring, and became a Titled Douluo.
• Bibi Dong attended the railway ribbon-cutting, and the Era One train carried passengers on its first trial run before returning to the station.
• A system notification sounded in Xia Tianling’s mind as he watched the train.

Xia Tianling learned that Spirit Hall had no food-supply pact with the City of Slaughter and revealed that Tang Chen had been overtaken by the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King. He told Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu he planned to enter the City of Slaughter with others and undo the corrupted system left by the Rakshasa God and the bat king.

• Xia Tianling asked Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu whether Spirit Hall supplied food to the City of Slaughter, and they said their pact only covered sending prisoners and non-aggression.
• Xia Tianling revealed that Tang Chen had become the King of Slaughter decades earlier and was now suppressed by the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King after the Rakshasa God tampered with his Asura trial.
• Qian Daoliu mourned Tang Chen’s fate and briefly wondered if he might still pursue Bo Saixi, but Xia Tianling teased him and reminded him that Bo Saixi had never loved him.
• Bibi Dong asked whether Xia Tianling intended to train in the City of Slaughter, and he said he wanted to bring more people there.
• Xia Tianling argued that the Rakshasa God and the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King had corrupted the Asura God’s test by making Hell Road require mass sacrifice.

Xia Tianling proposed exploiting the Slaughter City and Hell Road to obtain Divine Slaughter's Domains for Spirit Hall, and the Elder Council approved his plan. He began selecting soldiers for the expedition by testing their resolve in an illusion battle, where the First Division killed a simulated Titled Douluo at the cost of heavy casualties.

• Xia Tianling outlined a plan to build a research institute in the City of Slaughter, pressure the King of Slaughter, and create a route through Hell Road so Spirit Hall soldiers could obtain Divine Slaughter's Domains.
• Bibi Dong supported the plan, and the Elder Council unanimously approved it and began organizing the expedition.
• Xia Tianling selected soldiers from the reformed Spirit Legion and announced that volunteers would face powerful Spirit Masters, including Titled Douluos, to earn domains.
• Xia Tianling and several Spirit Masters created a large illusion formation to test the First Division's courage and combat readiness.
• Li Dahu and the First Division fought a simulated Titled Douluo, endured more than sixty-five percent casualties, and killed him with coordinated crossbow and close-range attacks.

Xia Tianling led the newly formed Slaughter Legion into the City of Slaughter, intending to establish a foothold there with soldiers, researchers, and supplies. At the entrance, he confronted Terror Knight Scott and ordered the Legion to attack.

• Xia Tianling selected 1,500 elite soldiers from 100,000 tested troops and formed them into the Slaughter Legion, with Li Dahu among them.
• Xia Tianling gathered Bibi Dong, Tang Hao, Dugu Bo, researchers, and equipment for the expedition, while Tang San helped Yang Wudi prepare thousands of Qingling Pills.
• Bibi Dong led the expedition around the Heavenly Dou Empire to Slaughter Town, where Xia Tianling had the Legion demolish the tavern and build a widened, illuminated passage into the City of Slaughter.
• Xia Tianling ordered the soldiers not to drink Bloody Mary and led them through the passage, where the construction crew studied the City's ventilation and sound amplification.
• Terror Knight Scott confronted the Legion at the City of Slaughter's entrance, and Xia Tianling declared that truth existed within a weapon's range before ordering the soldiers to kill.

Xia Tianling’s Slaughter Legion annihilated Scott’s Black Armored Army with no losses and entered the City of Slaughter, where Xia Tianling found that many powers remained usable despite the city’s restrictions. As the legion advanced inward, he recognized and killed Zhang Fuchun, reflecting that his attitude toward killing had changed.

• Xia Tianling ordered the Slaughter Legion to fire its Enhanced Zhuge Divine Crossbows, killing Scott and the Black Armored Army in two volleys without casualties.
• The legion cleared the battlefield, and Xia Tianling found Hu Liena and Tang San’s identity plaques on Scott’s corpse.
• Xia Tianling led the legion into the City of Slaughter and demonstrated that he could use his Fourth Spirit Skill, domains, Soul Bone Skills, and other powers there.
• Xia Tianling ordered the soldiers to reload Explosive Armor-Piercing Arrows as they advanced toward the inner city, where they expected to face powerful enforcers.
• Xia Tianling caught Zhang Fuchun, a criminal he had sent to the City of Slaughter years earlier, and killed him after confronting him about his past crimes.

Xia Tianling and the Slaughter Legion entered the City of Slaughter, where their crossbows annihilated a Spirit Douluo and forced the Black Armored Army to back down. After revealing Tang Hao and Bibi Dong as Slaughter Gods, Xia Tianling demanded that the King of Slaughter come to him, and the King finally appeared while Xia and his companions were eating.

• Xia Tianling challenged the Black Armored Army at the inner city gate, and the soldiers killed a charging Spirit Douluo with volleys of Explosive Armor-Piercing Arrows.
• Xia Tianling told Tang Hao that fear came from insufficient firepower, then Tang Hao revealed Divine Slaughter's Domain and Bibi Dong revealed hers, making the black-armored Titled Douluo recognize them as Slaughter Gods.
• Xia Tianling ordered the Slaughter Legion to secure the outer city and begin preparing a research institute and temporary camp while the soldiers cooked a meal.
• Xia Tianling refused the King of Slaughter's invitation to his palace and demanded that he come to the outer city, threatening to attack if he did not arrive.
• The King of Slaughter swallowed his anger and came to Xia Tianling's tent, where Xia offered him a seat and food.

Xia Tianling negotiated with the King of Slaughter for Spirit Hall to establish a research institute and gain access to Hell Road, then learned how its trials powered Divine Slaughter's Domain. He left the King of Slaughter waiting while he arranged experiments to test whether slaughtering livestock or killing people in an illusion could produce the domain.

• The King of Slaughter reluctantly ate with Xia Tianling and Bibi Dong, then agreed to let Spirit Hall establish a research institute, create a passage into the City of Slaughter, and move through the city freely.
• The King of Slaughter explained that he could not directly open Hell Road, described how he had changed its sacrificial rules, and warned that weak murderous intent produced a nearly useless Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• Xia Tianling learned that Hell Road's transmission required murderous intent for protection and that a potent domain normally required the deaths of at least 999 people in the Slaughter Arena.
• Xia Tianling left the King of Slaughter and Bibi Dong waiting, then contacted Grandpa Ghost, Zhuqing, and Old Feng to arrange experiments involving experienced butchers and an illusion of ten thousand soldiers.
• Xia Tianling returned to the City of Slaughter and considered mass-producing Slaughter Domains through livestock slaughter and battles staged in the Illusion Array.

Xia Tianling analyzed the Slaughter Arena’s crude teleportation mechanism and built a new formation to reach the Hell Road. After revealing his immense killing aura to the King of Slaughter, he and Zhu Zhuqing teleported there and began setting up a permanent return route.

• Xia Tianling scanned the Slaughter Arena, discovered how the Asura God’s formation worked, and spent Fate Power on materials for a teleportation formation.
• Xia Tianling’s preparations continued while researchers began studying God-Forbidden Stone and Zhu Zhuqing completed her killing trial in an illusion.
• Xia Tianling showed the King of Slaughter his enormous killing aura, and Zhu Zhuqing drew her Assassin's Claws, persuading him to activate the Hell Road’s teleportation.
• Xia Tianling poured pig blood into the arena’s formation and teleported with Zhu Zhuqing to the Hell Road, protected from the blood light by their abilities.
• Xia Tianling and Zhu Zhuqing arrived on a circular platform above the abyss, and Xia Tianling began building a permanent teleportation formation.

Xia Tianling and Zhu Zhuqing advanced along Hell Road, defeating its major guardians and collecting the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's Inner Core for Little Fatty. They continued toward the end while Xia Tianling recorded environmental data and Zhu Zhuqing shielded herself from the rising heat and killing aura.

• Xia Tianling tested the teleportation array, then led Zhu Zhuqing along Hell Road and killed a swarm of blood-red bats with his spirit skill.
• Zhu Zhuqing used her sword techniques and the God of Assassins' inheritance to kill the Three-Headed Dark Gold Bat King in two moves.
• Xia Tianling and Zhu Zhuqing discussed her swordsmanship, and Zhu Zhuqing told him she would make him train after they returned to Spirit City.
• Xia Tianling killed the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent with Soul Judgment, took its Inner Core, and saved it for Little Fatty's Seventh Spirit Ring.
• Xia Tianling recorded Hell Road's environmental conditions as they continued, while Zhu Zhuqing used her killing intent to shield herself from the growing aura.

Xia Tianling and Zhu Zhuqing cleared Hell Road, where Xia purified the Molten Blood River and collected samples, then discovered that Zhu Zhuqing had received the Asura Domain and been tasked with obtaining the Asura Demon Sword. After returning to the City of Slaughter, Xia organized work to farm killing intent and plan a safe sightseeing route through Hell Road.

• Xia Tianling collected samples from the Molten Blood River and poured Evil Pure Water into it to remove its toxins and evil aura.
• Xia Tianling flew with Zhu Zhuqing over the blood lake, and they passed through the exit of Hell Road.
• Xia Tianling gained two Dawnbreaker Artifacts that could activate Divine Slaughter's Domain, while Zhu Zhuqing awakened the Asura Domain and was instructed to obtain the Asura Sword.
• Xia Tianling explained the Asura Demon Sword and the path to godhood to Zhu Zhuqing, then took her back toward the City of Slaughter.
• Xia Tianling contacted Yan, Xie Yue, and Bibi Dong, then assigned the Slaughter Legion and researchers to farm killing intent and gave construction leaders data for planning the Hell Road route.

Xia Tianling’s successful God-Forbidden Stone experiment brought Qian Daoliu and Bibi Dong to the City of Slaughter, where they learned Zhu Zhuqing had gained the Asura God’s recognition. The group confronted the King of Slaughter to demand the Asura Demon Sword, leaving him forced to consider Xia Tianling’s request.

• The construction crew discovered God-Forbidden Stone could be used in bricks and concrete, and Qian Daoliu rushed to the City of Slaughter after hearing Xia Tianling’s experiment had succeeded.
• Xia Tianling explained that the King of Slaughter was controlled by the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King and that Zhu Zhuqing needed the Asura Demon Sword to begin her god trial.
• Bibi Dong learned Zhu Zhuqing had received the Asura God’s recognition, welcomed her as family, and promised to protect her from Xia Tianling.
• Xia Tianling, Bibi Dong, Qian Daoliu, and Zhu Zhuqing went to the King of Slaughter’s palace, where Xia Tianling demanded the Asura Demon Sword.