Chapter Summaries

Fang Ling fought the wolf bandit pack and killed all four Azure Wolf Thieves before wiping out the remaining bandits. After two hours, the pack was completely annihilated under Dugu Bo’s astonished gaze.

• Fang Ling dodged attacks from the Azure Wolf Thieves as they surrounded him and coordinated their assault.
• Fang Ling killed one Azure Wolf Thief with his scythe, overcoming its Voidification skill with his Spiritual Power.
• Fang Ling avoided the second Azure Wolf Thief’s vibrating wind attack, then killed it with a Spiritual Power-infused strike.
• Fang Ling killed another Azure Wolf Thief when his returning scythe intercepted its attack from below.
• Fang Ling killed the One-Eyed Wolf Bandit and, after two hours of fighting, wiped out the entire pack as Dugu Bo watched.

After Fang Ling slaughtered a pack of wolf bandits without relying on soul skills, Dugu Bo found a spirit bone among the corpses. Fang Ling absorbed the thirty-two-thousand-year Right Arm Spirit Bone and gained Voidification, leaving him better prepared for Slaughter City.

• Fang Ling defeated the wolf bandits using his strength and combat skills, then reflected that he could fight effectively without soul skills.
• Dugu Bo disposed of the corpses with poison while Fang Ling washed and changed his bloodied clothes.
• Dugu Bo presented Fang Ling with a Right Arm Spirit Bone that had come from the One-Eyed Wolf Bandit.
• Fang Ling absorbed the spirit bone and gained Voidification, which reduced physical attack damage by sixty percent.

Fang Ling and Dugu Bo found a powerful pack of wolf thieves near the Icy Sealed Forest, and Fang Ling began fighting them for Points and undead. The pack’s leader coordinated a powerful combination attack, leaving Fang Ling facing an Ice Wind Tornado.

• Fang Ling reviewed the undead and Points gained from the previous hunt, then set out with Dugu Bo to find stronger wolf thieves in northern Heaven Dou.
• After traveling and searching for a month, Fang Ling and Dugu Bo located more than six hundred wolf thieves near the Icy Sealed Forest.
• Fang Ling attacked the pack, whose members used Ice Armor and fought with greater discipline than the western wolf thieves.
• The wolf thief leader rallied the pack and combined their elemental power into an Ice Wind Tornado aimed at Fang Ling.

Fang Ling defeated the disciplined Wolf Bandits after their leaders used a powerful Ice Wind Tornado, but he and Dugu Bo stayed behind to investigate the corpses. A mysterious mist appeared and Fang Ling identified it as a 60,000 Year Grievance Spirit, urging his teacher to capture it.

• The Wolf Bandits combined their powers into an Ice Wind Tornado, but Fang Ling flew out of the encirclement and attacked their leader.
• Fang Ling killed the leader, while the remaining Wolf Bandits kept fighting under successive commanders and eventually died after a day of battle.
• Fang Ling and Dugu Bo left the corpses in place and hid nearby to investigate the strange forces surrounding the Wolf Bandits.
• A dark mist gathered over the battlefield and absorbed power from the corpses, but neither Fang Ling nor Dugu Bo recognized it at first.
• Fang Ling realized the mist was a 60,000 Year Grievance Spirit and told Dugu Bo to use his full strength to catch it.

Fang Ling and Dugu Bo attacked the Grievance Spirit, hoping to capture it as Fang Ling’s Seventh Soul Ring and gain a Divine Body-related talent. The spirit broke free by sacrificing part of itself and escaped, leaving Fang Ling lamenting the lost opportunity.

• Fang Ling deduced that the Grievance Spirit had formed from human resentment and used the Wolf Thieves to hunt people and grow stronger.
• Dugu Bo activated his Martial Soul Avatar and used his Eighth Spirit Ability, Time Freeze, to restrain the Grievance Spirit.
• Fang Ling struck the frozen spirit with his Long-Handled Battle Scythe, damaging it with Law Breaking Power and Death Power.
• The Grievance Spirit erupted with power, broke Dugu Bo’s Time Freeze, and escaped at extreme speed after abandoning part of its misty body.
• Fang Ling explained nothing to Dugu Bo but regretted losing the chance to obtain the spirit as his Seventh Soul Ring.

Fang Ling returned to Heaven Dou City with Dugu Bo, then went to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to evolve his Martial Soul. After three days, his Long-Handled Battle Scythe had transformed into the high-grade Death Battle Scythe, though advancing it further still required many Points.

• Fang Ling counted his gains from defeating the Wolf Thieves: his Undead and Points had increased substantially.
• Fang Ling and Dugu Bo returned to Dugu Manor, where Fang Ling gave Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Zhu Zhuqing gifts and reassured them about his strength and plans to pass through Slaughter City.
• After spending several days with the three women, Fang Ling returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and invested 3,600 Points in evolving his Martial Soul.
• Fang Ling emerged three days later with the level 7 Death Battle Scythe, a heavier high-grade Martial Soul whose weight he could partially suppress.

Fang Ling strengthened his Martial Soul, Right Arm Spirit Bone, and Soul Rings while testing the limits of his body. After raising five Soul Rings to seventy thousand years, he found his body strained and recognized that he needed more powerful Soul Bones to continue toward godhood.

• Fang Ling's Martial Soul evolved into the Death Battle Scythe, and its Sharpness Specialty reached Level 8.
• Fang Ling spent 663 Points on his Right Arm Spirit Bone and gained Level 9 Voidification, which weakened physical attacks by 100% and energy attacks by 50%.
• Fang Ling raised his first five Soul Rings to seventy thousand years, bringing their combined age with his sixth ring to 390,000 years.
• Fang Ling felt his body nearing its limit and concluded that he needed more and higher-grade Soul Bones to strengthen it further.
• After two days, Fang Ling's Soul Rings settled at roughly seventy thousand years each, and his Points returned to zero.

After raising his first three soul rings to seventy thousand years, Fang Ling endured a three-day transformation that greatly enhanced his talents and senses. He discovered new spiritual and spatial abilities, but found that activating his first soul skill overwhelmed him with information; his digestion had also become powerful enough to extract a little growth from rocks.

• Fang Ling let the Ice Fire Spring water temper his body as his upgraded soul-ring specialties reshaped his nerves, brain, and ability to absorb energy.
• After three days, Fang Ling emerged from the water and released a naturally generated spiritual impact through his Crimson Gold Pupils.
• Fang Ling used his enhanced vision and Spatial Perception to sense spatial fluctuations and map the entire Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well without probing it with Spiritual Power.
• Fang Ling found that his first soul skill doubled his already heightened Nerve Reflex, flooding his mind with more information than he could process, so he deactivated it.
• Fang Ling read that his Level 7 Digestion could extract a tiny amount of growth from non-nutritious rocks and joked that his abilities made him a Humanoid Dragon.

Fang Ling tested his new abilities, finished training, and returned to Spirit City to claim Bibi Dong’s promised help entering Slaughter City. Bibi Dong agreed to take him there, and Fang Ling set off with hopes of obtaining Divine Slaughter’s Domain.

• Fang Ling ate soil from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to test his Digestion specialty, then assessed the changes to his abilities and spirit-ring specialties.
• Fang Ling spent more than a month training before saying goodbye to the three women and setting out for Spirit City with ten days remaining in his year.
• Fang Ling arrived three days early, presented his token at the city gates, and went straight to the Pope’s Palace.
• Fang Ling presented Bibi Dong with the token and confirmed that he was now a Soul Emperor.
• Bibi Dong warned Fang Ling that she would only keep the Slaughter King from obstructing his attempt to obtain Divine Slaughter’s Domain, not guarantee his safety.
• Bibi Dong offered to take Fang Ling to Slaughter City, and he followed her out of the Pope’s Palace.

Bibi Dong brought Fang Ling to Slaughter City through a Spirit Hall-controlled passage, where he discovered the city occupied a separate spatial realm. After Bibi Dong confirmed she had fulfilled their bargain, Fang Ling entered the city and learned it was divided into an Outer City and an Inner City.

• Bibi Dong and Fang Ling traveled for three days to a heavily guarded Military Town used by Spirit Hall to escort prisoners and supplies.
• Bibi Dong entered a sealed tunnel leading to Slaughter City, and Fang Ling followed her down alone.
• Fang Ling heard Slaughter City's welcome message and sensed a spatial boundary as he emerged into what he recognized as a Half-Plane.
• A Black Armor Knight gave Fang Ling Identity Plate 8722, and Bibi Dong told him she had completed her bargain with the Slaughter King.
• The Black Veil Woman welcomed Fang Ling and guided him through Slaughter City's gates, where she explained that the city had an Inner City and an Outer City.

Fang Ling learned Slaughter City's rules and entered its Inner City, where the violence and depravity stirred his killing intent. After the Black Veil Woman warned that his fame could provoke a siege, he revealed he was the Heaven Dou Royal Academy captain and this year's tournament champion, drawing hostile attention.

• The Black Veil Woman explained that Outer City residents survived by supplying Bloody Mary and that only Hell Slaughter Arena victors could enter the Inner City.
• Fang Ling insisted on going to the Hell Slaughter Arena and followed the Black Veil Woman to the Inner City, eager to find more enemies and points.
• Fang Ling witnessed the Inner City's chaotic violence and felt his killing intent and Warrior's Will surge, which he chose not to suppress.
• The Black Veil Woman warned Fang Ling to stay within ten meters of her during his twenty-four hours of Newbie Protection and cautioned that his fame could bring a siege.
• Fang Ling announced that he was the Heaven Dou Royal Academy captain and champion of this year's Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, prompting the onlookers to regard him with hostility.

Fang Ling provoked Slaughter City's criminals by revealing his strength and Spirit Bones, then lured them into a fight in a dead-end alley. Elsewhere, Tang San continued training while Hu Liena decided to enter Slaughter City after reaching Soul Emperor.

• Fang Ling enraged the crowd in Slaughter City by boasting of his soul rings, status, and three ten-thousand-year Spirit Bones, prompting criminals to covet his treasures.
• Fang Ling dodged an attack, leaped over the pursuing criminals, and prepared to fight them with his War Sickle in a dead-end alley.
• Tang San lifted nearly the entire waterfall with his wooden hammer after nine months of training, and Tang Hao planned to send him to Slaughter City when his Clear Sky Hammer control improved.
• Xie Yue, Yan, and Hu Liena trained in Death Canyon, where Hu Liena broke through to Rank 59.
• Hu Liena told Xie Yue and Yan that she planned to enter Slaughter City after becoming a Soul Emperor.

While Fang Ling’s allies trained and political rivals reconsidered their ambitions, Fang Ling used a staged display of exhaustion in Slaughter City to lure attackers seeking his Soul Bone into successive waves of slaughter. He remained unharmed as the cautious thin man recognized the trap and fled, leaving the Black Veil Woman beginning to suspect something was wrong.

• Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Zhu Zhuqing trained and studied their inheritances and abilities, while Ning Rongrong cultivated and helped manage the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ma Hongjun’s evil fire worsened as he frequented pleasure houses, and Oscar became a directionless Soul Ancestor at Shrek Academy.
• Bibi Dong’s proposal for a Soul Hunting Operation was rejected by the elders, while Qian Renxue cultivated and Dai Mubai nursed his resentment toward Fang Ling and Zhu Zhuqing.
• In Slaughter City, Fang Ling stood atop the corpses of his attackers and pretended to be too weak to fight after surviving the first siege.
• Fang Ling lured more attackers into successive waves, and the thin man realized Fang Ling was unharmed and had been inviting people to their deaths.
• The thin man fled with the fat man, while the Black Veil Woman began to doubt that Fang Ling was truly near defeat.

Fang Ling survived repeated sieges in Slaughter City while pretending to be on the brink of death, hoping to draw out more attackers. When Bo Xun approached to claim his Soul Bones, Fang Ling revealed his strength and swiftly killed him, leaving the remaining onlookers to flee.

• The Black Veil Woman watched Fang Ling withstand three waves of attackers and wondered how he could still be alive after more than five hundred people had attacked him.
• Fang Ling feigned collapse and grievous injury, then used Spatial Perception to sense the people still waiting nearby.
• Bo Xun introduced himself as an Lv89 assault-type Soul Douluo and declared that killing Fang Ling would earn him three Soul Bones and the title of Killing God.
• Fang Ling rose, summoned his War Sickle, and broke through Bo Xun's defense with a powerful strike.
• Fang Ling quickly dealt with Bo Xun and blocked the other attackers, taunting them as they fled.

Fang Ling built his reputation in Slaughter City as Death Asura, gathering Points and Undead through arena fights and ambushes. After reaching the Points needed to solidify his Death Specialty, he spent a month preparing and made the area around his home a deadly forbidden zone.

• Fang Ling revealed that his apparent weakness had been a trap and slaughtered the attackers, earning Points and intelligent Undead.
• Fang Ling had the Black Veil Woman take him to the Hell Slaughter Arena, where he learned its rules and registered for matches.
• Over the next month, Fang Ling won seven matches and killed more than a thousand attackers, gaining the title Death Asura and amassing twelve thousand Points.
• When enemies stopped coming to him, Fang Ling brought unwilling participants to the arena and continued winning until he reached thirty-two victories and gathered eighteen thousand Points.
• Fang Ling spent a month preparing to solidify his Death Specialty and declared his residence a forbidden zone, killing anyone who entered it.

Fang Ling used eighteen thousand points to evolve his Death Battle Scythe, awakening Ultimate Death Power that transformed his martial soul, Soul Power, and appearance. As the Stats Panel restrained the god-level power threatening to destroy him, a vast death tide engulfed his forbidden ground in Slaughter City, leaving even the Slaughter King afraid to approach.

• Fang Ling spent eighteen thousand points on his martial soul, and its runes changed as Death Power reinforced and transformed it.
• Fang Ling's Death Battle Scythe completed its evolution, infusing his Soul Power with Ultimate Death and turning his hair grayish white and his eyes dimmer.
• Fang Ling's heartbeat unleashed waves of Death Power, and the Stats Panel restrained the god-level force before it could destroy him.
• The Death Power spread across a fifty-meter radius, and Slaughter City residents who approached were erased.
• The Slaughter King tried to probe Fang Ling's power but had his Spiritual Power and Soul Power corroded, so he backed away.

Fang Ling endured half a month of Death Tide tempering and evolved his martial soul into the ultimate Scythe of Death. After the Slaughter King chose not to attack him, Fang Ling prepared to continue toward his Hundred Victories and the Hell Road.

• The Slaughter King watched Death Power engulf Fang Ling's forbidden area and ordered his people not to interfere.
• Fang Ling endured the Death Tide as Heaven and Earth Origin Power tempered his body and strengthened his martial soul.
• After half a month, the Death Tide receded and revealed Fang Ling in a Deathly Silent Robe with an ash-gray Extinction Scythe.
• The Slaughter King considered killing Fang Ling but backed down, then asked whether Fang Ling planned to remain in Slaughter City.
• Fang Ling said he would enter the Hell Road after achieving Hundred Victories, and the Slaughter King left.
• Fang Ling examined his evolved martial soul and saw that his Scythe of Death had reached Level 7.

Fang Ling evolved his Martial Soul into the Scythe of Death and gained Ultimate Death Power, while Hu Liena persuaded Bibi Dong to let her enter Slaughter City. A month later, Fang Ling found Hu Liena fighting off attackers in the city and watched to see whether she could handle the growing crowd.

• Fang Ling's Martial Soul evolved into the Scythe of Death, granting him Ultimate Death Power and transforming the Undead Kingdom.
• Fang Ling spent nearly five months fighting in Slaughter City, building his points, undead forces, and Slaughter Will.
• Hu Liena told Bibi Dong she wanted to enter Slaughter City and obtain Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• Bibi Dong gave Hu Liena the Spirit Condensation Wisdom Skull and agreed to send her to Slaughter City after she absorbed it and trained.
• One month later, Fang Ling found Hu Liena surrounded by attackers after a Hell Slaughter Arena match and watched her fight as more people gathered.

Fang Ling rescued Hu Liena from attackers in Slaughter City and brought her to his Death Forbidden Zone, where he protected her from the area’s deathly aura. He left her free to choose a house and stay under his protection.

• Fang Ling noticed Hu Liena was overwhelmed by attackers and rushed in, killing them with his War Sickle.
• Fang Ling greeted Hu Liena, criticized her weak combat ability, and led her away after she thanked him.
• Fang Ling brought Hu Liena to his gray, mist-shrouded Death Forbidden Zone, where the deathly aura began affecting her.
• Fang Ling placed a controlled layer of Ultimate Death Power beneath Hu Liena’s navel to absorb the aura invading her body.
• Fang Ling told Hu Liena to choose a house and stay in his territory while he protected her, then entered his residence.

Fang Ling asked Hu Liena to act as bait so he could draw attackers into a large-scale fight without provoking the Slaughter King. Hu Liena agreed, and Fang Ling joined the crowd that gathered around her, beginning another slaughter.

• Hu Liena reflected on Fang Ling's calmness and resolved to grow stronger and pass through Hell Road.
• Fang Ling stopped Hu Liena as she prepared to leave and asked her to act as bait in exchange for his protection.
• Hu Liena agreed, though Fang Ling suspected she might have been sent to seduce him and angered her with his accusation.
• Hu Liena left the Death Forbidden Zone for the Hell Slaughter Arena, where Fang Ling spread word of her identity to attract attackers.
• Dozens of people surrounded Hu Liena, and Fang Ling unleashed his Slaughter Will and charged into the crowd with his scythe.