Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao brought the Blue Silver Emperor to the ancient forest, where the Blue Silver King sacrificed itself and the Blue Silver Grass offered their life force to restore A Yin to human form. A Yin chose to leave with Huo Yuhao so her people’s sacrifices would not be wasted.

• Huo Yuhao followed the Blue Silver Grass’s spiritual call to the Blue Silver King and promised to find a safer home for the Blue Silver Emperor.
• The Blue Silver King sacrificed its life and cultivation, while the Blue Silver Grass offered their strength to restore the Blue Silver Emperor.
• Huo Yuhao used his divine power and a Blue Silver Emperor soul bone to help A Yin fuse with the soul bone and regain human form.
• The Blue Silver King’s remains yielded Life Gold, and Huo Yuhao explained to A Yin who she was and how she had been reborn.
• Huo Yuhao urged A Yin to leave the unsafe forest, and she agreed after the Blue Silver Grass pleaded with her to go.
• A Yin said farewell to the Blue Silver Grass and followed Huo Yuhao, the Ice Empress, and Snow Woman out of the forest.

Tang San followed Tang Hao to the Blue Silver King’s forest, hoping to raise the age of his Blue Silver Grass Soul Rings, but found the king missing. As Tang San and Tang Hao knelt and pleaded, the Blue Silver Grass told Tang San that the old king had departed and the new emperor had returned.

• Tang Hao sent Tang San into the ancient forest to follow his instincts while he rested at its edge.
• Tang San sensed spiritual fluctuations in the Blue Silver Grass and followed them to a vast clearing with a deep pit at its center.
• Tang Hao found Tang San cultivating and revealed that the forest was Tang San’s mother’s homeland and that the missing Blue Silver King could have raised his Soul Ring age limits.
• Tang Hao knelt and begged to see the Blue Silver King, and Tang San joined him.
• As the sun set, Tang San heard the Blue Silver Grass say that the old king had departed and the new emperor had returned.

Huo Yuhao left Ah Yin in Bi Ji’s care in the Star Dou Great Forest, clashed with Di Tian, and promised Qiu’er he would return for her. Back in Spirit City, he reunited with Bibi Dong and began questioning how much control she had over Spirit Hall’s branch in the Star Luo Empire.

• Huo Yuhao entrusted Ah Yin to Bi Ji, then confronted Di Tian about his use of divine power and warned him not to interfere with his affairs.
• Huo Yuhao considered seeking the Asura God’s inheritance mark and reassured Qiu’er that he would not kill Di Tian unless Di Tian harmed those around him.
• Huo Yuhao left the forest with Ice Empress and Snow Woman, promising Qiu’er he would return for her while Ah Yin watched him depart.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Spirit City and reunited with Bibi Dong on the balcony of Pope Hall.
• Huo Yuhao asked Bibi Dong how much control she had over Spirit Hall’s Holy Church in the Star Luo Empire, prompting her to ask what he had discovered there.

Huo Yuhao discussed the Star Luo Empire and the Mystic Water Pill with Bibi Dong before insisting on going to Slaughter City despite her warnings. He revealed that he had reached Soul King and hinted that he planned to bring overwhelming firepower, then asked Bibi Dong to show him the way.

• Huo Yuhao told Bibi Dong that Ye Liwei was capable and that the Star Luo Empire was easier to manipulate than the disorganized Heaven Dou Empire.
• Bibi Dong asked about the Mystic Water Pill, but Huo Yuhao said he had used them all and could not obtain more.
• Huo Yuhao asked about Slaughter City, and Bibi Dong warned him that it was a deadly place with a rule that no one could leave.
• Huo Yuhao revealed his five Soul Rings and said he still intended to enter Slaughter City, despite Bibi Dong warning that his abilities would be restricted there.
• Huo Yuhao hinted that he could bring a weapon to overwhelm Slaughter City with firepower, then asked Bibi Dong for directions; she told him to get lost.

Huo Yuhao agreed to Bibi Dong’s preparations for his eventual trip to Slaughter City, including restricted sparring and ambush drills. During his first spar against a team of Soul Saints, he used a Soul Tool spear to defeat his opening opponent in one strike, leaving Spirit Hall’s gathered members stunned.

• Bibi Dong required Huo Yuhao to train without Soul Ring Skills, endure nonlethal ambushes, and practice abstinence before entering Slaughter City, and he accepted the conditions.
• Huo Yuhao told Bibi Dong that his friend would not accompany him and agreed to begin sparring three days later.
• Bibi Dong, Chrysanthemum, Gui Mei, Xie Yue, Hu Liena, Yan, and members of Spirit Hall’s halls gathered to watch Huo Yuhao face a rotating team of Soul Saints.
• Li Hao gave Huo Yuhao a silver spear, and Huo Yuhao used it to knock the first Soul Saint off the arena with one strike.
• Gui Mei and the assembled Spirit Hall members recognized the spear’s power as a demonstration of Soul Tools.

Huo Yuhao dominated Spirit Hall’s trial field, defeating fourteen Soul Saints and then a full team before Bibi Dong ended the sparring trial. On the way home, he fought off a staged ambush and told the Ice Empress he planned to face the next trial alone, asking her and the Snow Woman to wait for him in the Far North Land.

• Huo Yuhao used the Life Watch Blade to defeat successive Soul Saints, then revealed golden butterfly wings and a soul-bone skill during the sparring trials.
• Huo Yuhao defeated fourteen Soul Saints and ultimately an entire team, while the Golden Generation Trio watched in stunned awe.
• Bibi Dong ended the sparring trial and announced that another round would take place in three days.
• A Soul Emperor and several hidden attackers ambushed Huo Yuhao on his way back, but he quickly subdued them and warned their concealed companion.
• Huo Yuhao explained that Bibi Dong had arranged the ambush as a trial and told the Ice Empress he intended to go alone, asking her and the Snow Woman to wait for him in the Far North Land.

After proving his strength in Spirit Hall’s trials, Huo Yuhao parted from Ice Empress and Snow Woman before returning to Spirit Hall to enter Slaughter City. Bibi Dong opened a special passage for him and warned him to win one hundred battles and beware of Bloody Mary; Huo Yuhao entered, leaving Bibi Dong wondering what he had experienced in the Star Luo Empire.

• Huo Yuhao dominated the ten-man trial matches with a carving knife, earning the defeated Soul Sage teams’ respect.
• Huo Yuhao left Spirit Hall with Ice Empress and Snow Woman, then parted from them at the Far North Land after promising to return.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Spirit Hall, and Bibi Dong asked if he had decided to enter Slaughter City.
• Bibi Dong opened the exclusive Slaughter God passage with Divine Slaughter's Domain and warned Huo Yuhao not to trust anyone and to beware of Bloody Mary.
• Huo Yuhao cautioned Bibi Dong against acting rashly with Soul Tools, then entered the passage to Slaughter City.
• Bibi Dong watched Huo Yuhao disappear and wondered what he had experienced in the Star Luo Empire.

Huo Yuhao entered Slaughter City, discovered that its purple moon suppressed his soul ring skills, and used his soul bones to reach the city unseen. A Slaughter Envoy named Black Lotus recognized him, gave him an Identity Token, and began explaining how the outer and inner districts worked.

• Huo Yuhao emerged from the passage into a dark landscape beneath a blood-red sky and found that he could not use his soul ring skills.
• Huo Yuhao used his Dragon Bone armor and Netherworld Stealth soul bone skill to approach Slaughter City's gates.
• The captain and guards failed to detect the invisible Huo Yuhao, but Black Lotus identified him after he entered the city.
• Black Lotus explained that entering without an Identity Token revealed Huo Yuhao's presence, and the Seventh Captain handed him token 9126.
• As Black Lotus guided Huo Yuhao through the outer district, she explained the food offerings and the unrestricted violence of the inner city.

Huo Yuhao learned the rules for leaving Slaughter City and entered its inner city with the Black Skirt Girl. He lost his newcomer protection after killing four men who tried to provoke him.

• The Black Skirt Girl explained that only a champion with one hundred Slaughter Arena victories who cleared Hell Road could leave Slaughter City freely, and Huo Yuhao asked her to take him to the inner city.
• The Black Skirt Girl warned Huo Yuhao that newcomer protection only applied while he stayed within five steps of her and did not provoke anyone first.
• At the inner-city boundary, a burly man and his companions taunted Huo Yuhao and tried to lure him across the boundary.
• Huo Yuhao used his Star Bracelet to retrieve a crossbow and killed all four men with bolts.
• The Black Skirt Girl told Huo Yuhao that he had lost newcomer protection, and he stepped into the inner city.

Huo Yuhao explored Slaughter City’s inner city and learned how the Slaughter Arena worked. He entered the arena hall as a deadly match unfolded below.

• Huo Yuhao used his Spiritual Eye to trace the Blood Evil Aura to the central building and identified the Slaughter King’s temple above it.
• Huo Yuhao walked through the inner city with Black Skirt Girl, ignoring its violence and corruption as she kept watch over him.
• Huo Yuhao reached the central district and learned from Black Skirt Girl that the Upper Court was forbidden unless the Slaughter King summoned someone.
• Black Skirt Girl explained that each Slaughter Arena match involved ten people and only the last survivor could leave alive.
• Huo Yuhao entered the Slaughter Arena hall and saw competitors fighting while spectators cheered.

Huo Yuhao entered the Slaughter Arena and used a powerful Soul Tool to kill all nine opponents, drawing the Slaughter King’s attention. The Slaughter King invited him to the Upper Court, where Huo Yuhao hoped to uncover Slaughter City’s secrets.

• Huo Yuhao entered the Slaughter Arena after the registrar arranged his match with Black Lotus’s approval.
• The nine other participants targeted Huo Yuhao as the apparent weakest and charged at him.
• Huo Yuhao fired the Silver Honeycomb Soul Tool, killing all nine opponents in a fiery explosion.
• The Slaughter King arrived, praised Huo Yuhao’s methods, and asked him to explain the Soul Tool at the Upper Court.
• The Slaughter King ordered Black Lotus to escort Huo Yuhao to the Upper Court, and Huo Yuhao accepted the invitation.

Huo Yuhao met the Slaughter King in Slaughter City and negotiated permission to use his first four Soul Rings in exchange for surrendering his Soul Tools. The Slaughter King agreed, and Huo Yuhao watched for a chance to remove the restrictions on his other Soul Rings as well.

• Black Lotus escorted Huo Yuhao to the Black Peak Hall, where the Slaughter King tested him with Divine Slaughter's Domain, but Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Eye and icy aura resisted it.
• Huo Yuhao told the Slaughter King he had come to temper himself and showed him the Soul Tools he had received from Spirit Hall.
• The Slaughter King barred Huo Yuhao from bringing his Soul Tools into the Slaughter Arena, saying he had to fight personally.
• Huo Yuhao asked the Slaughter King to lift the restrictions on his first four Soul Rings in exchange for giving up his Soul Tools.
• The Slaughter King granted Huo Yuhao's request, and Huo Yuhao watched closely to learn how the authorization worked.

Huo Yuhao escaped the Asura Eye’s scrutiny with Electrolux’s help, then worked with him in the Undead Plane to reproduce the purple moon’s runes and lift Slaughter City’s Soul Ring restrictions. He returned to the hotel with all five Soul Rings and soul skills unlocked.

• The Slaughter King activated the purple moon, and the Asura Eye detected Huo Yuhao’s Core Flame and probed his Sea of Consciousness.
• Huo Yuhao concealed his aura with Di Tian’s Reverse Scale and Electrolux’s help, then left the Upper Court after the Slaughter King dismissed him.
• After Huo Yuhao departed, the Slaughter King suffered a bloody backlash and angrily fought against an unseen presence inside his body.
• Huo Yuhao explained the Asura Eye’s divine sense to Electrolux and asked him to recreate the rune authorization that released Soul Ring restrictions.
• In the Undead Plane, Electrolux and Huo Yuhao reconstructed the runes and extinguished and rekindled Huo Yuhao’s Core Flame, lifting the restrictions.
• Back in the hotel, Huo Yuhao summoned his Spiritual Eye and confirmed that all five Soul Rings and his soul skills were unlocked.

After six months in Slaughter City, Huo Yuhao reached ninety-seven consecutive arena victories and uncovered clues about the Asura God Trial. The Slaughter King summoned him to the Upper Court, apparently to discuss his coming journey through Hell Road.

• Huo Yuhao defeated his final opponent in the arena and completed his ninety-seventh consecutive victory.
• Huo Yuhao returned to his residence, reflected on his six months of killing, and reviewed his theories about the Slaughter City, the Slaughter King, and the Asura God Trial.
• Black Lotus arrived and told Huo Yuhao that the Slaughter King had summoned him to the Upper Court.
• Huo Yuhao set out for the Upper Court, expecting the Slaughter King to discuss Hell Road after his hundredth victory.

Huo Yuhao rejected the Slaughter King's attempt to bypass Hell Road and revealed that he sought Divine Slaughter's Domain to prepare for becoming Spirit Hall's future Pope. The Slaughter King sent him to look for mysterious Bronze Pillars, hoping to use him to escape his seal, but Huo Yuhao left aware of the scheme and confident he could handle the danger.

• The Slaughter King offered Huo Yuhao the title of Slaughter God and a place as Guest Elder after one hundred arena victories, but Huo Yuhao insisted on completing the traditional Hell Road trial.
• The Slaughter King threatened to reseal Huo Yuhao's soul rings, so Huo Yuhao claimed he needed Divine Slaughter's Domain to succeed as Pope of Spirit Hall.
• The Slaughter King showed Huo Yuhao an image of a rune-covered Bronze Pillar and asked him to watch for it on Hell Road, intending to make him find the Slaughter King's true body and help break its seal.
• Huo Yuhao left the temple believing the Slaughter King's consciousness had underestimated him, and judged that his past-life power and Old Yi's aid could protect him from the threat.

After earning his hundredth victory, Huo Yuhao became a Slaughter God and was sent into Hell Road. He used his Slaughter King aura and strength to command the road’s blood bats, including the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King, to escort him onward.

• Huo Yuhao defeated his final opponent and won his hundredth match in the Slaughter Arena, earning the title of Slaughter God from the Slaughter King.
• The Slaughter King opened Hell Road by killing the spectators and using their blood to activate the arena’s bat-shaped pattern, which swept Huo Yuhao away.
• Huo Yuhao arrived on a narrow path over bottomless abysses and entered the darkness of Hell Road.
• Huo Yuhao transformed into the Slaughter King and used his Divine Slaughter’s Domain to make the blood-red bats retreat and clear a path for him.
• Huo Yuhao attacked the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King with his jade-green carving knife, forcing it to submit and order the bats to escort him deeper into Hell Road.

Huo Yuhao fought his way through Hell Road, defeated a Crimson Scale Python, and found a Demon Core inside it. Near the exit, he sensed a presence in the blood pool and turned away from the opening to investigate.

• Huo Yuhao ordered the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King and its swarm to attack the Crimson Scale Python, which they killed after a fierce battle that destroyed part of the path.
• Huo Yuhao crossed the broken path on the Bat King's back and took the Crimson Scale Python's crimson Demon Core, storing it for possible refinement into a pill.
• Huo Yuhao rode deeper through Hell Road until he reached the broken path and saw an opening in the stone wall that appeared to lead outside.
• Huo Yuhao suspected the Slaughter King had another purpose for sending him through Hell Road and considered that the Bronze Pillar might lie beneath the blood-pool lava.
• Huo Yuhao sensed a strange mental fluctuation and the sound of dragging chains from the blood pool, then rode toward its depths.
• Nine pairs of scarlet eyes opened in a dark corner of the blood pool as their owners smiled, seemingly pleased that their scheme had worked.

Huo Yuhao fought the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King in the Hell Road and repeatedly overwhelmed it, but the monster invaded his Sea of Consciousness. It froze when it found Huo Yuhao's Spiritual World filled with formidable beings.

• Huo Yuhao found the chained Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King in the blood pool after it devoured the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King.
• Huo Yuhao used his powers to strike the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King into the blood pool and suppress it, but the monster regenerated by consuming the blood.
• The Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King transformed into its second form, and a regal man in dark purple robes struck it back into the pool before vanishing with his Undead Gate.
• The Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King invaded Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness with its Blood Demon Eye, intending to take over his body.
• The Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King found a star-filled Spiritual World containing a Seven-Colored God Ring figure, a hooded gray-robed figure, a white jade silkworm, and a Crimson Scale Dragon, and trembled in fear.

Huo Yuhao subdued the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King, learned its past, and offered it a chance to become a god as his Soul Spirit. The Bat King accepted and sacrificed itself, helping Huo Yuhao break through to level sixty as its power gathered in his sixth soul-ring slot.

• Huo Yuhao captured the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King's invading soul and saw memories of its ancient defeat, imprisonment, and possession of the white-haired Slaughter King.
• Huo Yuhao gave the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King a choice between death and becoming his Soul Spirit in exchange for help breaking the rules that kept it from godhood.
• The Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King accepted Huo Yuhao's offer and formed a Soul Spirit contract with him.
• Above the blood pool, the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King voluntarily sacrificed itself, enveloping Huo Yuhao in a blood cocoon.
• Huo Yuhao's cultivation rose from level fifty-seven to level sixty, and the Bat King's power began gathering in his empty sixth soul-ring slot.

After absorbing the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King's sacrifice, Huo Yuhao gained a powerful sixth soul skill, a right leg soul bone, and Divine Slaughter's Domain. He emerged from Hell Road and prepared to return to Slaughter City, where the Slaughter King, Asura Demon Sword, and godhood inheritance remained.

• The Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King's sacrifice raised Huo Yuhao to Level 60 and granted him four sixth soul skills, including parasitic possession and the ability to create Blood Servants.
• Huo Yuhao suppressed his cultivation at Level 66, then fused with the Bat King's right leg soul bone and reached Level 68.
• Huo Yuhao gained Dark Red Rift Abyss Slash and the Blood Mirror Realm domain from the soul bone, then considered his remaining soul-bone slots and future targets.
• Huo Yuhao investigated the thirteen Bronze Pillars and Circular Altar beneath the blood pool, memorizing their inscriptions before finding nothing else.
• Huo Yuhao left Hell Road, received Divine Slaughter's Domain, and decided to return to Slaughter City.