Chapter Summaries

Xue Ye ordered the hunt for Soul Masters to continue while considering whether to share the Blood Devil Ritual with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, despite Yu Xiaogang's objections. Meanwhile, Luo Ling traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest for his seventh Soul Ring and approached the Lake of Life, where a giant ape confronted him.

• Xue Ye rejected Yu Xiaogang's objection to cooperating with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and ordered the Soul Master hunt to continue in nearby cities.
• Yu Xiaogang left the palace with Yu Tianheng, worrying that his standing in the Primal God Sect was weakening because he had received no Divine Decree for over two years.
• Luo Ling and Qian Renxue's group entered the Star Dou Great Forest, aiming to find a high-level darkness- and Psychic-type Soul Beast for Luo Ling's seventh Soul Ring.
• Luo Ling reassured Hu Liena, Porcupinefish Douluo, and Snake Lance Douluo that they might not need to kill the Soul Beast themselves, then led them toward the Lake of Life.
• A giant ape emerged at the Lake of Life, roared at the approaching group, and fixed its golden eyes on Luo Ling.

Luo Ling met Da Ming and Er Ming at the Lake of Life and persuaded them to reveal the locations of evil Soul Beasts. Da Ming led him into the Star Dou Great Forest to find a nearly hundred-thousand-year-old Shadow Devouring Beast.

• Luo Ling identified the Titan Giant Ape as Er Ming and told him and Da Ming that Xiao Wu was safe and had reached Soul King level.
• Luo Ling asked Da Ming and Er Ming to help locate evil Soul Beasts, clarifying that he wanted information rather than their Soul Rings.
• Da Ming agreed to help for Xiao Wu's sake, but only with finding evil Soul Beasts.
• Luo Ling asked for a nearly hundred-thousand-year-old Soul Beast with psychic, Darkness Attribute, or Evil Attribute, and Da Ming named the Shadow Devouring Beast.
• Da Ming flew toward the depths of the Star Dou Great Forest with Luo Ling following, while Luo Ling grew grave at the beast's name.

Luo Ling entered a light-devouring forest to hunt a Shadow Devouring Beast nearing one hundred thousand years old. After he killed it and absorbed its Soul Ring, his Seventh Soul Ring appeared illusory.

• The Sky Azure Bull Python led Luo Ling and the others to the Shadow Devouring Beast’s forest but refused to join the fight.
• Luo Ling entered the forest with Qian Renxue, Porcupinefish Douluo, and Snake Lance Douluo, then used his Soul Body Threads to restrain the beast.
• Porcupinefish Douluo and Snake Lance Douluo attacked the Shadow Devouring Beast while Luo Ling maintained control of it for a quarter of an hour.
• Luo Ling killed the subdued Shadow Devouring Beast with a Scythe formed from Ultimate Evil, and a black Soul Ring tinged with crimson rose from its corpse.
• After absorbing the Soul Ring, Luo Ling opened his eyes as his Seventh Soul Ring appeared illusory.

After killing the Shadow Devouring Beast, Luo Ling sought another Soul Ring to complete his Twin Martial Souls’ fusion and asked the Sky Azure Bull Python to find him a powerful psychic Soul Beast. The group reached a valley where the rare Soul Fissure Demon might appear, and Luo Ling waited there despite warnings about its strength.

• Luo Ling and his companions emerged from the forest after killing the Shadow Devouring Beast, convincing the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape of their power.
• Luo Ling told the Sky Azure Bull Python that he had Twin Martial Souls and needed another Soul Ring, so the Sky Azure Bull Python offered to guide him to a psychic Soul Beast.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python described the Soul Fissure Demon, a rare soul-devouring beast that he had fought a thousand years earlier and could not defeat.
• Luo Ling and the group traveled to a mountain valley where the Soul Fissure Demon had once appeared, and the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape stayed to observe him.
• Luo Ling set up a tent and decided to wait for the Soul Fissure Demon to appear at night.

Luo Ling discovered that the peaceful valley was an illusion created by the Soul Fissure Demon and revealed its horrifying true form above a Mass Grave. The group prepared for battle as Luo Ling traced the threads linking the creature’s many eyes.

• Luo Ling, Hu Liena, Qian Renxue, Porcupinefish Douluo, and Snake Lance Douluo camped in the valley and waited seven days without finding the Soul Fissure Demon.
• Luo Ling realized that the valley had no living creatures and used his Soul Body Threads sight to recognize that its trees and plants were fake.
• Luo Ling sent a Raven of Terror into the full moon, which transformed into an eye and shattered the illusion, revealing a Mass Grave.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape emerged from the illusion alongside the group, and hundreds of eyeballs appeared inside rifts in the sky.
• Porcupinefish Douluo, Snake Lance Douluo, the Sky Azure Bull Python, and the Titan Giant Ape prepared to fight while Luo Ling saw threads connecting the rift-eyeballs.

Luo Ling and Qian Renxue used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Fallen Angel, to battle the Soul Fissure Demon in a contest of Spiritual Power. As Luo Ling neared his limit, his Martial Soul unleashed red tentacles that pierced the demon’s eyeballs.

• The Soul Fissure Demon attacked the group with tentacles and nearly killed Luo Ling with a soul-targeting fissure, but the Soul of Desire Garment negated the fatal attack.
• Luo Ling realized the demon could control Soul Body Threads and swept Qian Renxue into his arms to activate their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Fallen Angel.
• Luo Ling and Qian Renxue linked their Soul Body Threads with the demon’s, beginning a Spiritual Power battle that weakened its tentacle attacks.
• The Soul Fissure Demon overwhelmed Fallen Angel as Luo Ling’s Spiritual Power drained, leaving him close to being devoured.
• Luo Ling’s Martial Soul erupted with red light, formed tentacles, and pierced the demon’s blood-red eyeballs, drawing a piercing shriek.

Luo Ling’s Raven Shadow Puppet and Soul of Desire merged, awakening his Primal True Body and a new domain that alarmed the God Realm. The mist surrounding Douluo Continent blocked the gods’ sight, while the Asura God chose to watch Tang San and considered him a potential inheritor.

• The Soul Fissure Demon’s red light formed a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, Qian Renxue gained a Soul Power level, and Luo Ling’s Martial Souls merged.
• Luo Ling awakened his Seventh Soul Skill, Primal True Body, and discovered its immense power and his new domain, Primal World.
• Luo Ling canceled the Primal True Body, and a terrifying power swept across Douluo Continent as the Five Great God-Kings sensed the upheaval.
• The Asura God saw Tang San nearing ninety victories in the Hell Slaughter Arena and considered offering him a chance to inherit his power if he cleared Hell Road.
• The Asura God attacked the mist concealing Douluo Continent, but his divine power failed to disturb it.

Emperor Xue Ye used the Blood Devil Ritual to break through to Titled Douluo and announced a ceremony, while Luo Ling dismissed the threat and Prince Xue Xing reacted with rage. In the City of Slaughter, Tang San achieved one hundred consecutive victories, and the King of Slaughter tried to keep him from entering Hell Road by offering him the title of God of Slaughter.

• Emperor Xue Ye broke through to Titled Douluo and asked Yu Xiaogang to spread the news of his achievement.
• Luo Ling sensed Emperor Xue Ye's Soul Power and told Qian Renxue that the emperor's public celebration might be his last glorious moment.
• Prince Xue Xing smashed a vase and roared in frustration over Emperor Xue Ye's breakthrough.
• News of Emperor Xue Ye's breakthrough spread across the Soul Master world, while Tang San earned one hundred consecutive victories in the Hell Slaughter Arena.
• The King of Slaughter offered Tang San the title of God of Slaughter and a Guest Elder position to dissuade him from entering Hell Road, and Tang San recognized his intention.

Tang San insisted on entering the Hell Road despite the King of Slaughter's mockery, and a Black Robed Man enforced the rule granting him entry. Tang San resisted the killing intent and began the dangerous crossing, reaching a wider area where a gigantic bat appeared ahead.

• Tang San asked whether the Hell Envoy and the Undying had passed through the Hell Road, then refused the King of Slaughter's offer and demanded to enter it himself.
• The King of Slaughter belittled Tang San and released killing intent at him, but a Black Robed Man intervened and ordered the Hell Road opened.
• Tang San resisted the spreading killing intent long enough for the Hell Road to open, while Tang Hao watched with concern and then left after Tang San entered.
• Tang San regained consciousness on a narrow path above an abyss and pressed into the darkness, using hidden weapons and Blue Silver Flying Blades to fight the bats.
• Tang San reached a wider part of the path and saw a gigantic bat ahead.

Tang San fought his way along the Hell Road, killing the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King before continuing deeper into the darkness. He found the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent’s corpse and realized the Undying and the Hell Envoy had already taken its Inner Core.

• The Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King attacked Tang San and used its cries and Blood Bats to destroy the narrow path.
• Tang San used Blue Silver Grass to evade the Bat King’s attacks, then struck its heads with Phoenix Leading Nine Chicks and a curved iron hammer, killing it.
• Tang San continued along the Hell Road, rested for an hour in a safe clearing, and then pressed on.
• Tang San discovered the dead Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent and recognized it as the creature the Undying and the Hell Envoy had killed.
• Tang San searched the serpent’s heads, found its Inner Core missing, and continued deeper into the Hell Road.

Tang San nearly lost himself to the Blood Sea at the end of Hell Road, but the Asura God intervened and chose him as an inheritor. After receiving the first Asura God Test, Tang San regained his Clear Sky Hammer and vowed to take revenge on Luo Ling.

• Tang San walked into the Blood Sea, where its murderous aura and bloody arms began dragging him under as he imagined defeating Luo Ling.
• The Asura God watched Tang San succumb to the Blood Sea, judged him inadequate, and lamented that Douluo Continent was hidden from his sight and the other God-Kings withheld its secrets.
• The Asura God chose to intervene, clearing Tang San's mind before he was fully submerged.
• Tang San escaped the Blood Sea and received the first Asura God Test: becoming a Titled Douluo, with restoration of the Clear Sky Hammer as an advance reward.
• Tang San's Clear Sky Hammer returned to a stronger form, and his five Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings reappeared as he vowed to repay Luo Ling for his humiliation.

After passing through Hell Road, Tang San reunited with Tang Hao, who planned to take him to Heaven Dou City to learn to control his killing aura before visiting the Clear Sky Sect. Meanwhile, Luo Ling warned Ning Fengzhi that Xue Ye’s rise to Titled Douluo might be tied to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and the Evil Sect; the chapter ended as Tang San and Tang Hao arrived at Moonlight Pavilion.

• Tang San passed through Hell Road, gained Divine Slaughter's Domain, and discovered that his Clear Sky Hammer had been restored and strengthened.
• Tang Hao met Tang San and decided to take him to Heaven Dou City to meet someone who could teach him to control his killing aura before they went to the Clear Sky Sect.
• At Xue Ye's Titled Ceremony, Ning Rongrong reunited with Luo Ling, who warned Ning Fengzhi that Xue Ye's breakthrough and Yu Xiaogang's ties to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan could point to an Evil Sect plot.
• Ning Fengzhi considered the danger Luo Ling described and decided how the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect should position itself.
• Tang Hao brought Tang San to Moonlight Pavilion, where two youths stopped them at the entrance before a Purple-clad Middle-aged Man came out to ask their business.

Tang San and Tang Hao visited Moonlight Pavilion, where Tang San attacked Luo Ling after Luo Ling exposed their crimes as Evil Soul Masters. Tang Hao pulled Tang San to safety and fled, while Luo Ling revealed that he had approached Tang Yuehua to monitor the Clear Sky Sect.

• Tang Hao gave the Moonlight Pavilion attendant a message for Tang Yuehua, and Tang Yuehua came downstairs with Luo Ling.
• Tang San recognized Luo Ling and unleashed his killing intent, but Luo Ling suppressed it and accused Tang San of killing and devouring people.
• Tang Yuehua recognized Tang Hao and asked whether the rumors that he and Tang San had become Evil Soul Masters were true.
• Tang San attacked Luo Ling with his Clear Sky Hammer, but Luo Ling's Devil Claw caught the hammer and hurled it back.
• Tang Hao caught the hammer, then fled with Tang San as powerful auras approached Moonlight Pavilion.
• Luo Ling comforted Tang Yuehua and revealed that he had approached her to monitor the Clear Sky Sect.

Luo Ling attended Xue Ye’s Titled Douluo investiture ceremony in Heaven Dou City and shocked the gathered factions by revealing that he was already a Soul Saint with two red Soul Rings. The ceremony concluded with Salas granting Xue Ye the title Swan Douluo.

• Luo Ling reunited with Dugu Yan and several former Soul Master Competition rivals, who asked whether he would compete again.
• Luo Ling revealed that he was already a Soul Saint and displayed seven Soul Rings, including two red ones, stunning the guests and drawing greedy attention.
• Sword Douluo released his Titled Douluo pressure to deter those eyeing Luo Ling, and Ning Fengzhi warned him not to reveal his Soul Rings casually.
• Xue Ye began his investiture ceremony, which Salas conducted because Xue Ye had refused to go to Spirit City.
• Salas proclaimed Xue Ye a Titled Douluo and granted him the title Swan Douluo.

Xue Ye the Great refused to join Spirit Hall, then accused Prince Xue Xing of leading the Primal God Sect and killed him when he tried to expose Xue Ye. Bishop Salas demanded that Xue Ye cooperate with a search of the Imperial Palace, leaving his guilt under scrutiny.

• Xue Ye the Great refused Bishop Salas's offer to join Spirit Hall as an elder and said he would give the Angel God a gift instead.
• Xue Ye the Great ordered the Royal Knights to surround Prince Xue Xing and accused him of directing the Primal God Sect and involving Xue Beng in its crimes.
• Xue Ye the Great claimed that missing Soul Masters' corpses and strange Magic Arrays had been found in Prince Xue Xing's residence, while Luo Ling recognized signs of the Blood Devil Ritual on Xue Ye.
• Prince Xue Xing accused Xue Ye the Great of being the true Evil Sect member and of devouring missing Soul Masters, but Xue Ye killed him before he could finish.
• Bishop Salas said Spirit Hall would investigate Prince Xue Xing and demanded permission to search the Imperial Palace.

Xue Ye, Yu Yuanzhen, and Yu Xiaogang planned to unite the Heaven Dou Royal Family, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and the Clear Sky Sect to resist Spirit Hall's investigation. Tang Hao then revealed that Luo Ling was Mystic Mage, shocking Xue Ye and exciting Tang San.

• Xue Ye threatened Yu Yuanzhen into helping conceal his Evil Soul Master identity, reminding him that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had also used the Blood Devil Ritual.
• Yu Xiaogang proposed that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan claim it had helped Xue Ye become a Titled Douluo, giving Spirit Hall a reason to avoid searching the Imperial Palace.
• Yu Xiaogang revealed that Tang Hao and Tang San had also cultivated the Blood Devil Ritual, and Tang Hao offered to persuade the Clear Sky Sect to join their alliance.
• Xue Ye suggested bringing the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect into the alliance, but Yu Xiaogang and Tang Hao both objected.
• Tang Hao revealed that Luo Ling was Mystic Mage and said Luo Ling had fought Tang San in Suotuo City and framed him.

Tang Hao blamed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect for Luo Ling’s actions while secretly forming an alliance with the Heaven Dou Royal Family and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Luo Ling overheard their plans and proposed using their Blood Devil Ritual to discredit Xue Ye, destroy the Clear Sky Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and help Qian Renxue take the throne.

• Tang Hao revealed that Luo Ling was the Mystic Mage and persuaded Yu Yuanzhen that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect might be plotting against the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Xue Ye asked Tang Hao and Yu Yuanzhen to assist Spirit Hall’s investigation, while Tang Hao requested a copy of the Blood Devil Ritual and kept the Clear Sky Sect out of their alliance for now.
• Tang Hao and Yu Yuanzhen quietly began forming an alliance with the Heaven Dou Royal Family, unaware that Luo Ling could observe them through their cultivation of the Blood Devil Ritual.
• Luo Ling asked Qian Renxue whether she still wanted to become emperor and proposed blaming Xue Ye’s rise to Titled Douluo on the Clear Sky Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Qian Renxue embraced Luo Ling’s plan to expose Xue Ye as an Evil Soul Master and attack the two clans, while Luo Ling suggested spreading the truth through rumors and unprovable evidence.

Yu Yuanzhen intervened when Spirit Hall prepared to search the Imperial Palace, guaranteeing that Xue Ye had no connection to the Evil Sect. After Salas threatened to reopen the matter of Yu Xiaogang, Yu Yuanzhen chose to accompany the search to protect the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s reputation.

• Salas prepared to enter the Imperial Palace, but Yu Yuanzhen arrived and challenged Spirit Hall’s grounds for searching it.
• Yu Yuanzhen claimed that evidence at Prince Xue Xing Residence showed Xue Xing was the real Evil Sect member, but Salas argued that such evidence could have been planted.
• Yu Yuanzhen guaranteed that Xue Ye had not practiced an Evil Skill and said the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had helped him reach the Titled Douluo realm.
• Salas reminded Yu Yuanzhen that Spirit Hall had listed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan as a dangerous force and threatened a personal visit from the Pope over Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Yuanzhen agreed to enter the Imperial Palace with Salas, maintaining his support for Xue Ye while seeking to prevent the search from damaging the clan’s reputation.

Salas searched the Imperial Palace but found nothing, while Xue Ye and Yu Yuanzhen concealed the Blood Devil Ritual's Secret Chamber and passage beneath the Back Garden fountain. Luo Ling secretly followed Tang Hao and Tang San to the Clear Sky Sect and broke their Iron Chain crossing, leaving Tang San unconscious against a Cliff Wall.

• Salas entered and searched the Imperial Palace with Xue Ye and Yu Yuanzhen, who kept him away from the Back Garden.
• After Salas left without finding anything, Xue Ye and Yu Yuanzhen revealed that the Blood Devil Ritual's Secret Chamber and passage lay beneath the Back Garden fountain.
• Tang Hao took Tang San toward the Clear Sky Sect, and Luo Ling followed them under Phantom Stealth.
• Tang Hao and Tang San crossed an Iron Chain over a sea of clouds as Luo Ling blasted it with Soul Power, making it shake and snap.
• Tang San fell with the Iron Chain, tried to brace himself with Blue Silver Grass and his Eight Spider Lances, and was knocked unconscious when the chain struck the Cliff Wall.

Tang San woke in the Clear Sky Sect severely injured and learned that his lower body had been crippled, while Tang Xiao argued for the sect to recognize Tang San’s talent. Meanwhile, Luo Ling revealed that he had caused Tang San’s injuries and went to the Sect Archive Room to seek the Clear Sky Nine Wonders.

• Tang San woke in bed, realized his lower body had been crushed, and Tang Hao promised to seek a way to heal him.
• Tang Xiao defended Tang San before the Clear Sky Sect elders, who scorned him for being crippled and questioned whether he belonged to the sect.
• Tang Xiao listed Tang San’s Twin Martial Souls, accomplishments, age, and level, persuading the Long Eyebrow Elder to summon Tang Hao and Tang San after Tang San recovered.
• Luo Ling revealed that he had snapped the Iron Chain and crippled Tang San, then flew toward the depths of the Clear Sky Sect.
• Luo Ling reached the Sect Archive Room, where the Clear Sky Nine Wonders were recorded, while the Great Sumeru Hammer and Ring Burst had no written records there.