Chapter Summaries

Liu Yi and Heaven Dou Royal Academy defeated Spirit Hall Academy to win the tournament, and Liu Yi received three soul bones before rejecting Bibi Dong’s offer to join the Pope’s Hall. Bibi Dong then ordered Gui Mei and Yue Guan to seize Tang San and Liu Yi, but Chen Xin intervened as Spirit Hall surrounded the arena.

• Liu Yi shattered Yan’s Fifth Soul Skill and defeated Hu Liena and Xie Yue’s Bewitching Phantom, while Yang Tianlong and the Heaven Dou team overwhelmed their opponents.
• Hu Liena surrendered after consulting Bibi Dong, and the Platinum Bishop declared Heaven Dou Royal Academy the winner.
• Bibi Dong awarded Liu Yi three soul bones and invited him to join the Pope’s Hall, but Liu Yi refused and said he was interested only in her position.
• Bibi Dong ordered Gui Mei and Yue Guan to seize Tang San and Liu Yi, but Chen Xin blocked them and threatened to kill anyone who touched his nephew.
• Spirit Hall’s forces surrounded the arena, and Grandmaster presented his Pope Token and demanded to know what was happening.

Bibi Dong attacked Liu Yi and the Shrek Academy group, but Tang San ambushed Liu Yi with Yama's Invitation and Ling Feng died saving his teacher. Tang San blamed Liu Yi for his grievances and declared he could escape, leaving the group divided against him amid Spirit Hall's assault.

• Bibi Dong cited Tang San's Clear Sky Sect origin and Liu Yi's Pope Token as reasons to attack, then ordered Spirit Hall's Soul Masters to strike.
• Dugu Bo and Chen Xin confronted Spirit Hall's Titled Douluo while Bibi Dong revealed her hundred-thousand-year soul ring and crushed the Golden Saint Dragon fusion skill.
• Tang San launched Yama's Invitation at Liu Yi, and Ling Feng teleported in front of the attack and died protecting him.
• Liu Yi mourned Ling Feng as Qi Luo, Lin Mengyao, and the others grieved, while Tang San cursed Ling Feng for ruining his ambush.
• The Grandmaster and Flender condemned Tang San, who accused Liu Yi of mistreating him and taking people from him before claiming he could escape.

After Tang San revealed that Liu Yi had injured him and broken his arms, Liu Yi attacked him for killing Ling Feng, but Tang Hao arrived and rescued his son. Tang Hao battled Bibi Dong and Spirit Hall before escaping, leaving Liu Yi and the others facing his threats of revenge.

• Tang San accused Liu Yi of causing his back wounds and breaking both his arms, then Liu Yi placed Ling Feng's body in Qi Luo's arms and vowed to kill Tang San for killing his student.
• Liu Yi struck Tang San, shattering his ribs and badly injuring him, while Grandmaster stopped himself from intervening and Bibi Dong let the fight continue.
• Tang Hao appeared above Pope's Hall, revealed his immense power and red soul ring, and declared that he had returned to Spirit Hall.
• Tang Hao summoned the Haotian Hammer and attacked Bibi Dong, Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and Spirit Hall's elders as they fought back.
• A massive explosion destroyed the surrounding buildings, and Tang Hao escaped after threatening Liu Yi, Grandmaster, and Flender with future revenge.

After escaping Spirit City, Liu Yi parted from his companions and traveled to Slaughter City to temper himself. There, he heard a dying man speak of the Killing Gods before ordering a Bloody Mary in a tavern.

• Bibi Dong abruptly released Liu Yi and the others after an unseen voice threatened her and injured her.
• Liu Yi left Spirit City alone for five years, while his companions separated and Ling Feng was buried in the Heaven Dou Empire mausoleum.
• A month later, Liu Yi arrived at Slaughter City, having reached level seventy-four while concealing his strength and aura.
• A dying man outside a tavern spoke of the Road of Death and the Killing Gods, then died after Liu Yi gave him a recovery pill.
• Liu Yi entered the tavern and ordered a Bloody Mary as the armed patrons watched him.

Liu Yi entered Slaughter City after slaughtering the men in a tavern and defeating its gatekeeper, Scott. He received identity token 931 and was escorted inside, where a veiled woman welcomed him.

• Liu Yi spat out the Bloody Mary, provoking the tavern’s patrons, then revealed his Seven Kill Sword and killed everyone who had witnessed it.
• Liu Yi found the hidden entrance to Slaughter City beneath the tavern and jumped down into its blood-red passage.
• Scott challenged Liu Yi to prove he could enter Slaughter City, and Liu Yi cut Scott and his Akhal-Teke Horse in half with one swing.
• A guard gave Liu Yi identity token 931 after he passed the trial, and Liu Yi approached Slaughter City’s gate.
• A veiled woman welcomed Liu Yi and guided him into Slaughter City, where he saw its blue-violet streets and residents dressed in black.

Liu Yi entered Slaughter City, learned its rules, and defied the Slaughter Envoy by rescuing a girl from attackers. The Slaughter King ordered the Envoy to take him to the Slaughter Arena, where Liu Yi learned that escaping through Hell Road required one hundred consecutive victories.

• The Slaughter Envoy guided Liu Yi through Slaughter City and explained that its residents fought without soul skills and faced no rules beyond survival.
• A red-robed old man and his subordinates watched Liu Yi and planned to kill him after his newcomer protection ended.
• Liu Yi killed the men assaulting a girl and told her to flee to the outer district, despite the Slaughter Envoy warning him not to interfere.
• The Slaughter King ordered the Slaughter Envoy to take Liu Yi to the Slaughter Arena and threatened anyone who harmed him.
• The Slaughter Envoy explained that Liu Yi would need one hundred consecutive victories to break through Hell Road.

Liu Yi entered the Slaughter Arena and won his first match, killing nine Soul Elders and being recognized as the Sword Emperor. After learning the arena’s rules, he heard that the Hell Envoy was competing and wondered if the figure was Hu Liena.

• The Slaughter Envoy vanished after explaining the rules, and Liu Yi drove away a Black-Clothed Person who had threatened him.
• Liu Yi entered match 931 and killed two contestants with his Seven Kill Sword before someone in the stands recognized him as the Sword Emperor and Chen Xin’s nephew.
• Liu Yi swiftly killed the remaining contestants, winning the match as their corpses disappeared into white smoke.
• The Slaughter Envoy explained that Liu Yi could fight once a day, needed a victory each year to remain in the city, and had to use Bloody Mary to enter or watch matches.
• After a day of cultivation, Liu Yi heard that the Hell Envoy had won dozens of matches and asked whether the Hell Envoy was a yellow-haired woman.

Liu Yi killed a man who insulted him, borrowed Bloody Mary from a bald Soul Emperor, and went to watch the Hell Envoy fight. After seeing Hu Liena win, he entered the arena for his next match, where a boastful Soul Emperor challenged him.

• Liu Yi killed the Black-Clothed Man with a pebble after the man shoved him and tried to flee.
• Liu Yi forced the bald Soul Emperor to hand over three cups of Bloody Mary, then stored them in his Soul Guidance Device.
• Liu Yi heard spectators spread wild rumors about the Sword Emperor and scared them off when he identified himself.
• Liu Yi watched Hu Liena defeat nine opponents and recognized her as the Hell Envoy.
• Liu Yi entered the next match, where a small Soul Emperor bragged that he would break through one hundred matches.

Liu Yi slaughtered the fighters who challenged him in Slaughter City, then discovered that the girl he had saved had been killed and abused by a powerful black-robed man. Enraged, Liu Yi unleashed a terrifying killing-intent domain and struck at the army surrounding him.

• Liu Yi tore off a Soul Emperor’s arms and killed him with the Seven Kill Sword, then swiftly beheaded the eight remaining challengers.
• An Old Man watched Liu Yi’s fight and wondered whether he could complete a hundred matches.
• Several hundred black-clothed men surrounded Liu Yi, and their Black-Robed Man leader threw him the corpse of the little girl Liu Yi had saved.
• Liu Yi closed the girl’s eyes, but they opened again, and he unleashed killing intent so powerful that it spread across Slaughter City and alarmed the Slaughter King.
• The Black-Robed Man offered a barrel of Bloody Mary to whoever killed Liu Yi, and Liu Yi answered the charging crowd with a devastating sword strike that carved a blood-filled trench through them.

Liu Yi defeated Slaughter City’s attackers and became its feared Sword Emperor, then joined forces with Hu Liena after seducing her. The next day, he prepared to fight for his hundredth victory and enter the Hell Road with her.

• Liu Yi slaughtered the attackers around him, forcing Slaughter City’s residents to submit and hail him as the Sword Emperor.
• After recovering and winning matches for a year, Liu Yi reached ninety-nine victories and heard Hu Liena propose an alliance to face the Hell Road together.
• Liu Yi agreed to cooperate with Hu Liena on the condition that she be his girlfriend, and they spent the night together.
• The next morning, Liu Yi received a 50,000-year Left Leg Soul Bone, then prepared for his final match as Hu Liena agreed to challenge the Hell Road with him.
• At the Slaughter Arena, Liu Yi faced a powerful opponent in his hundredth match.

Liu Yi defeated nine powerful opponents and completed his hundredth victory, while Hu Liena also reached one hundred wins. The Slaughter King sent them onto the Hell Road, where they encountered a swarm of bats as they began their journey.

• Liu Yi spotted a weakness in the formation of nine challengers, killed two Soul Douluos, then wiped out the remaining fighters with his condensed killing intent.
• Hu Liena completed her hundredth match, and the Slaughter King congratulated her and Liu Yi before sacrificing the arena’s spectators to open the Hell Road.
• The Slaughter King bound Liu Yi and Hu Liena with blood-red ropes and dragged them to the Hell Road entrance.
• Liu Yi woke Hu Liena, explained the warning written beside a pile of bones, and led her onward across the narrow paths above the Bloody Mary.
• Liu Yi noticed a swarm of bats approaching, and the bats swooped down as he continued forward with Hu Liena.

Liu Yi and Hu Liena advanced through the trials on Hell Road, where Liu Yi defeated the Three-Headed Evil Dragon and Hu Liena fought the Ten-Headed Fiery Sun Serpent. After Hu Liena was nearly knocked into the magma, Liu Yi took over and began cutting apart the serpent’s red tumors to claim its inner core.

• Liu Yi destroyed the bats attacking him, and the Slaughter King vowed to give the pair more suffering.
• As the heat and magma surged, Qin Feng appeared and Liu Yi defeated the Three-Headed Evil Dragon by blasting its heads apart.
• Liu Yi recognized the Ten-Headed Fiery Sun Serpent and told Hu Liena to destroy the red tumors on its back.
• Hu Liena pierced one tumor but was struck toward the magma, and Liu Yi’s domain caught her before she fell.
• Liu Yi faced the serpent, intending to take its inner core, then sliced apart its red tumors with his Seven Kill Sword.

Liu Yi defeated the Ten-Headed Fiery Sun Serpent, escaped Slaughter City with Hu Liena, and poisoned the city's bloody lava with a Snow-Colored Swan Kiss. After swearing he would not abandon her, he fled when Chrysanthemum Ghost Douluo approached, leaving Hu Liena behind.

• Liu Yi stole the Ten-Headed Fiery Sun Serpent's inner core and smashed the beast into the ground when it attacked.
• Liu Yi used his Head Soul Bone's Saint Dragon True Form to carry Hu Liena past the collapsing Hell Road and out of Slaughter City.
• Liu Yi tossed a Snow-Colored Swan Kiss into the bloody lava, poisoning the Bloody Mary drinkers in Slaughter City.
• Liu Yi told Hu Liena he had several women and swore he would never abandon any of them.
• Liu Yi sensed Chrysanthemum Ghost Douluo approaching and vanished, leaving Hu Liena as Gui Mei asked whom she had called Husband.

Liu Yi absorbed two soul bones and rose to level seventy-six before Qin Feng revealed the ancient enemy connected to his death. In the Inner World, Liu Yi witnessed Zhang Ying’s followers massacre villages and learned that the scene was an illusion from ten thousand years ago.

• Hu Liena accepted Gui Mei and Yue Guan’s congratulations on obtaining the God of Slaughter Domain, then left Slaughter City carrying Liu Yi’s jade pendant.
• Liu Yi absorbed two soul bones in a cave and advanced from level seventy-three to level seventy-six.
• Qin Feng explained his plan for Liu Yi to create his own godhood and raise all his soul rings to 100,000 years.
• Qin Feng showed Liu Yi a vision of Zhang Ying, an evil Soul Master who had once controlled Slaughter City.
• Liu Yi watched Zhang Ying’s men massacre villages and threw his Seven Kill Sword at them, but Qin Feng explained that the scene was an illusion from ten thousand years earlier.

Liu Yi and Qin Feng became trapped in the Ancient Battlefield illusion, where Zhang Ying revealed that he could perceive them across ten thousand years and tried to recruit Liu Yi. Liu Yi refused, and Zhang Ying began to unleash a terrifying attack before a mysterious sword suddenly struck at him.

• Liu Yi froze under the Black-Robed Man’s gaze, and Qin Feng poured Soul Power into him to bring him back to normal.
• Qin Feng lost control of the Ancient Battlefield illusion as the million-strong army returned, and Zhang Ying revealed that he could watch people from ten thousand years in the future.
• Zhang Ying offered Liu Yi power and riches if he joined his king, but Liu Yi refused and condemned him as the leader of the Evil Soul Masters.
• Zhang Ying threatened to trap Liu Yi in terror, and Liu Yi challenged him to try.
• As Zhang Ying raised his hand to attack, lightning filled the sky and a mysterious sword shot toward him, forcing him to retreat.

Liu Yi witnessed a memory of Qin Feng’s battle against Zhang Ying and learned how betrayal helped bring about Qin Feng’s defeat. After leaving the cave, Liu Yi survived an attack that destroyed the mountain and confronted the Black-Clothed Old Man, who had tried to kill him.

• Qin Feng and his allies confronted Zhang Ying in the past, while Qin Feng led Liu Yi away from the battle.
• Qin Feng told Liu Yi that the Asura King and other God Kings attacked him after he was wounded, and that the Haotian Sect Master betrayed him.
• Qin Feng warned Liu Yi that Zhang Ying had survived and might still be hiding on the continent, then vanished after Liu Yi absorbed the soul bones.
• The Black-Clothed Old Man destroyed the mountain, believing Liu Yi was inside, but Liu Yi escaped and faced him.

Liu Yi faced Carnier, a level ninety-five Titled Douluo, and his Soul Saint and Soul Douluo subordinates in a battle beneath the rising sun. Though Carnier’s power weakened in daylight, three Soul Douluo unleashed a Martial Soul Fusion Skill and left Liu Yi facing a deadly giant tiger.

• Carnier introduced himself as the Earth God and revealed that he had been waiting for sunrise, which reduced his Soul Power by sixty percent.
• Carnier’s Soul Saints attacked Liu Yi, but Liu Yi broke through their ranks and nearly struck Carnier with his Seven Kill Sword.
• Three peak Soul Douluo joined the fight and used their combined Soul Power to summon a gigantic blood-red tiger through a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• The tiger charged Liu Yi and snapped at him after its claws left a massive imprint beneath him.

Qin Feng took control of Liu Yi and defeated Carnier and the other Soul Masters, but a mysterious shadow escaped after Carnier was consumed by flames. Qin Feng vowed to destroy the shadow, then left Liu Yi's body.

• Qin Feng took control of Liu Yi after the Martial Soul Fusion Skill wounded him, and his Killing God aura broke the three Soul Douluo's fusion skill.
• Qin Feng struck Carnier, ripped off his arm, and killed the Soul Masters who charged at him with a Seven Kill Sword.
• Qin Feng deduced that Carnier's Level 95 cultivation depended on external power and demanded the location of his king in exchange for his life.
• Flames consumed Carnier, but his ashes gathered into a shadow that spoke with Qin Feng before vanishing into the forest.
• Qin Feng vowed to destroy the shadow, left Liu Yi's body, and Liu Yi gasped for breath.

Liu Yi traveled to Holy Soul Village to find Tang Hao’s wife, A Yin, and discovered a diary revealing Tang Hao’s ambitions. After burning Tang Hao’s house, Liu Yi followed the diary’s clues to the Blue Silver Emperor.

• Liu Yi remembered that A Yin was in Holy Soul Village and flew there while Tang Hao was away training Tang San.
• Old Jack led Liu Yi to Tang Hao’s home and told him that Tang San had not returned for a long time.
• Liu Yi found Tang Hao’s diary, which described A Yin’s sacrifice and Tang Hao’s plan to destroy Spirit Hall and the two empires.
• Liu Yi burned Tang Hao’s house and followed the diary’s clues to an open area with signs of life.
• Liu Yi found an enormous Blue Silver Grass beneath a large tree and recognized its blue-gold radiance.

Liu Yi and Qin Feng took the Blue Silver Emperor from Holy Soul Village, and Tang Hao returned to find her gone. Enraged, Tang Hao slaughtered the village, and days later Liu Yi learned of the massacre while eating at a tavern.

• Liu Yi tried to persuade the Blue Silver Emperor to leave, but she formed a cocoon and sent a warning to Tang Hao.
• Qin Feng shattered the Blue Silver Emperor’s protective cocoon, and Liu Yi uprooted her and placed her in his Soul Guidance Device.
• Tang Hao arrived after Liu Yi and Qin Feng had left, found his home destroyed, and learned from Old Jack that a man in white robes had come.
• Tang Hao killed Old Jack and massacred the people of Holy Soul Village while Tang San watched without intervening.
• Days later, Liu Yi heard people discussing the massacre in a tavern and asked them what had happened.