Chapter Summaries

Dugu Bo gave Dugu Chen two pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber, which Dugu Chen agreed to pass to Oscar. Ning Rongrong and Oscar visited Dugu Chen, asked about learning to use Soul Tools, and learned Ye Lingling could teach them.

• Dugu Bo gave Dugu Chen two pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber after noticing his exhaustion, and Dugu Chen said he would give them to Oscar.
• Shan Bo announced that Ning Rongrong and Oscar had arrived, and Dugu Chen welcomed them while jokingly kicking Oscar for calling him “Brother Chen” in a tender voice.
• Ning Rongrong asked where Dugu Yan and the others were, and Dugu Chen claimed they were away or in seclusion.
• Oscar and Ning Rongrong asked Dugu Chen for help learning Soul Tools, but he said he could not teach them for at least five years.
• Dugu Chen recommended that Oscar and Ning Rongrong learn from Ye Lingling, who had become a Level Four Soul Engineer, and Ning Rongrong eagerly agreed.

After Ning Fengzhi explained Spirit Hall’s takeover of the Heaven Dou Empire and its preparations to attack Star Luo, Dugu Chen decided to visit Spirit Hall and deliver his war Soul Tools. He left Dugu Bo behind to return to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, armed with a list of rare herbs to demand from Bibi Dong.

• Ning Fengzhi told Dugu Chen that Spirit Hall had absorbed the Heaven Dou Empire’s forces and was preparing to unify the continent, likely by moving against Star Luo within a year or two.
• Sword Douluo told Ning Fengzhi that Dugu Chen’s strength felt comparable to Qian Daoliu’s, while Dugu Bo was stronger than himself.
• Dugu Chen decided to visit Spirit Hall to see Qian Daoliu, Qian Renxue, and Bibi Dong, and to deliver his Soul Tools.
• Dugu Bo declined to go with Dugu Chen and returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye to study a Sun Moon Continent alchemy prescription.
• Dugu Bo gave Dugu Chen a list of precious medicinal herbs to demand from Spirit Hall, hoping to make Chrysanthemum Douluo suffer.

Dugu Chen returned to Spirit City and met the Golden Generation, knocking Yan unconscious after provoking him. Hu Liena misunderstood his claim that Bibi Dong was his mother-in-law as a sign that she was promised to him, and the group headed to the Pope's Palace.

• Dugu Chen watched the soul masters in Spirit City as Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan arrived to escort him to the Pope's Palace.
• Yan recognized Dugu Chen and angrily challenged him, despite Hu Liena warning him not to cause trouble.
• Dugu Chen called Bibi Dong his mother-in-law, provoking Yan into attacking him.
• Dugu Chen easily knocked Yan unconscious with his Wolf Fang Club while Hu Liena and Xie Yue were immobilized by his aura.
• Hu Liena asked what Dugu Chen meant by calling Bibi Dong his mother-in-law and mistakenly concluded that Teacher had promised her to him.
• Dugu Chen led the way to the Pope's Palace as Xie Yue carried Yan, while Hu Liena blushed and Dugu Chen wondered what was wrong with her.

Dugu Chen visited Bibi Dong at the Pope's Palace and offered Spirit Hall a large collection of Soul Tools for sale. The chapter ended with him demonstrating a sixth-level weapon after Chrysanthemum Douluo objected to the proposed price.

• Dugu Chen led Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan to the Pope's Palace, where Bibi Dong and her guardians were waiting.
• Bibi Dong and her guardians sensed Dugu Chen's powerful bloodline aura, and Bibi Dong questioned him about his relationships with several women.
• Dugu Chen shifted the conversation to Soul Tools from another continent, explaining their types, levels, and combat advantages.
• Bibi Dong decided Spirit Hall would buy his Soul Tools, and Dugu Chen offered a list of items with a proposed pricing arrangement.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo rejected the price, so Dugu Chen tossed out a sixth-level Melee Soul Tool to demonstrate its power.

Dugu Chen traded his Soul Tools to Bibi Dong for payment and then went to the Worship Hall, where he met Qian Daoliu. His arrival ended with Qian Daoliu sizing him up and Dugu Chen greeting him respectfully.

• Hu Liena tested Dugu Chen’s sword, and Bibi Dong agreed to buy all his Soul Tools while allowing him to take half the medicinal herbs.
• Dugu Chen gave Bibi Dong the storage rings, accepted Spirit Hall’s promise of full payment, and asked to visit Douluo Hall.
• Bibi Dong sent Ghost Douluo to guide Dugu Chen to the Worship Hall and ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo to study the Soul Tools and form an army to test them against Star Luo.
• The five seated worshippers pressured Dugu Chen when he entered, but he countered with his Sovereign’s Descent and Qilin aura until Qian Daoliu stopped the clash.
• Qian Daoliu examined Dugu Chen and was unable to see through him, while Dugu Chen greeted him as Angel Douluo.

Dugu Chen met Qian Daoliu and spent two hours exchanging cultivation insights with the consecrators while Qian Renxue completed her Angel trial. When she emerged, Qian Renxue challenged Dugu Chen to a fight, and Qian Daoliu led the others to watch.

• Qian Daoliu welcomed Dugu Chen and told him that Qian Renxue would finish her trial in two hours.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo invited Dugu Chen to talk, and Dugu Chen reassured him that Dugu Bo was doing well.
• Dugu Chen exchanged cultivation insights with the consecrators, taught them the Soul Core Method, and learned from their experience.
• Qian Renxue emerged from the Angel Secret Realm and challenged Dugu Chen to fight.
• Dugu Chen accepted Qian Renxue's challenge, and the two vanished in a burst of golden light.
• Qian Daoliu chose not to stop them and led the consecrators to watch their fight.

Dugu Chen and Qian Renxue sparred above Spirit Hall as its elders watched, and Qian Renxue revealed her strength as a Soul Fighting Douluo with a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring. Their clash ended in a stalemate, leaving Qian Renxue dissatisfied that Dugu Chen had held back.

• Spirit Hall elders gathered to watch Dugu Chen and Qian Renxue fight while Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu allowed the sparring to continue.
• Qian Renxue attacked with her Angel Sacred Sword, and Dugu Chen blocked her strike with Shark Tooth.
• Qian Renxue revealed her eight soul rings, including a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, astonishing the spectators.
• Qian Renxue and Dugu Chen clashed their sword intents, unleashing an explosion that cleared the clouds across the sky.
• Qian Renxue accused Dugu Chen of holding back, and he asked whether she truly wanted to defeat him.

Dugu Chen reunited with Qian Renxue, carried her away after defeating her, and spent the night with her before telling her about his travels and rapid progress in his God Trial. Qian Renxue learned he had reached the fifth trial and vowed to become a god before him.

• Dugu Chen defeated Qian Renxue, carried her away under a Mental Power Field, and vanished with her as Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu watched.
• Bibi Dong questioned Qian Daoliu about Dugu Chen's strength, and Qian Daoliu concluded that Dugu Chen was a powerhouse on his level.
• Dugu Chen brought Qian Renxue to her bedroom, where they spent the night together and he used the Golden Ancient Tree's energy to help restore her strength.
• Dugu Chen recounted his sea travels to Qian Renxue and confirmed that his eighth soul ring came from a seven-hundred-thousand-year Fierce Beast.
• Qian Renxue learned Dugu Chen had reached his fifth God Trial, compared it with her fourth, and vowed to become a god before him.

After visiting the Angel Secret Realm, Dugu Chen left Spirit Hall and was intercepted by Di Tian, who invited him to meet someone in the Star Dou Great Forest. Di Tian gave him a mysterious Dragon Scale before leaving, and Dugu Chen decided not to follow him.

• Dugu Chen toured Spirit City with Qian Renxue, then visited the Angel Secret Realm with Qian Daoliu while Qian Renxue resumed her trials.
• Dugu Chen declined Qian Daoliu's offer to try the Angel trials and suggested that Qian Renxue could lead a future effort against Evil Soul Masters on the Sun Moon Continent.
• After saying farewell to Qian Renxue, Dugu Chen left Spirit Hall and stopped in midair when he sensed Di Tian nearby.
• Di Tian told Dugu Chen that someone wanted to see him, but Dugu Chen mocked him and refused to go along.
• Di Tian gave Dugu Chen a silver-white Dragon Scale with golden patterns, saying the Star Dou Great Forest would remain open to him, then departed through a spatial passage.
• Dugu Chen suspected the Dragon Scale belonged to the Silver Dragon King but chose not to visit her, wary of her power.

Dugu Chen secluded himself inside the Golden Ancient Tree to pursue a breakthrough to Titled Douluo. Meanwhile, Tang San took control of the City of Slaughter and began turning its blood pool into a means to build an army and strengthen himself.

• Dugu Chen gave Dugu Bo the medicinal herbs from Spirit Hall, arranged for the metals to arrive in batches, and entered the Star Dou Great Forest to cultivate.
• The Golden Ancient Tree welcomed Dugu Chen into its inner space and supplied life-rich light energy as he began his seclusion.
• In the City of Slaughter, Tang San used his awakened Blue Silver Grass devouring power to drain the cultivation and essence blood of rebels.
• Tang San rallied more than five thousand Fallen Ones against Spirit Hall and transported them to the Hell Road, dropping them into the blood pool to create a force of monsters.
• Tang San jumped into the blood pool to use its energy to increase his own power.

Over ten months, Spirit Hall built its first Soul Tool army and began crushing the Star Luo Empire in a full-scale invasion. As Dugu Chen reached Rank 90 in seclusion, he followed a mysterious pull into the Netherworld and learned that he could refine its core and become its ruler.

• Spirit Hall formed a ten-thousand-soldier Soul Tool army, and Bibi Dong used its strength to launch an invasion of the Star Luo Empire.
• Spirit Hall’s forces took city after city as Star Luo struggled to resist the army’s Soul Tools and powerful Soul Masters.
• Dugu Chen broke through to Rank 90 after using the residual power of three divine bone fragments and improving his soul rings.
• A pull from the Golden Ancient Tree led Dugu Chen’s consciousness into a dim world where he saw souls being sent toward a purple Full Moon.
• A streak of purple light showed Dugu Chen the Netherworld’s history and revealed that he could refine its core, become its lord, and govern reincarnation.

Dugu Chen reconsidered his ambitions after discovering the Netherworld, then condensed a second Soul Core in his brow center. The new Spiritual Soul Core was completed, but its clash with his existing Soul Power Soul Core left his body caught in a struggle that he had to suppress.

• Dugu Chen weighed the Netherworld's potential against the Earth God Position and decided to pursue the Netherworld's power.
• Dugu Chen planned to complete its incomplete Six Paths Reincarnation, but prioritized condensing a second Soul Core and absorbing his ninth Soul Ring.
• Dugu Chen entered the Netherworld and began forming a Spiritual Soul Core in his brow center, using his Soul Power Soul Core to stabilize it.
• Dugu Chen endured the violent resistance of his first Soul Core as the Spiritual Soul Core solidified and entered his Spiritual Sea.
• Dugu Chen used his Spiritual Power to suppress both Soul Cores and force them to circulate according to his will.

After completing his second Soul Core, Dugu Chen accepted the Heart of Samsara’s offer to create his Ninth Soul Ring and endured a painful transformation as he absorbed it. He emerged with a purple-and-gold Ninth Soul Ring and recognized its Soul Skill as the Six Paths Samsara Heavenly Art.

• Dugu Chen completed his second Soul Core and discovered that his recovery speed had greatly improved.
• The Heart of Samsara offered to condense Dugu Chen’s Ninth Soul Ring, and he agreed.
• Purple mist engulfed Dugu Chen, forming nine purple rings of light that struck him repeatedly as he absorbed the Soul Ring.
• Dugu Chen’s body cracked and encased itself in a crystalline shell before he emerged renewed beneath a pillar of purple light.
• Dugu Chen summoned his nine Soul Rings and discovered that his Ninth Soul Skill was the Six Paths Samsara Heavenly Art.

Dugu Chen gained a powerful Ninth Soul Skill and vowed to develop the underworld, while Tang San prepared an army of enhanced Fallen Ones to take revenge on Spirit Hall. As Spirit Hall seized most of Star Luo’s territory, an unknown speaker offered Dai Tianfeng help.

• Dugu Chen discovered that his Ninth Soul Skill could amplify his earlier soul rings, reflect attacks, weaken enemies, and revive him five seconds before death.
• Dugu Chen thanked the Heart of Samsara and vowed to build the underworld into a power that could rival the God Realm.
• Tang San led a thousand enhanced Fallen Ones out of the City of Slaughter and declared that he would wreak havoc and take revenge on Spirit Hall.
• Dai Tianfeng berated his officials after Spirit Hall captured seventy percent of Star Luo’s territory, while Feng Wuhen and Zhu Caiyun urged him to focus on resisting the invasion.
• An unknown speaker offered to help Dai Tianfeng in the Star Luo palace.

Tang San, identifying himself as the Slaughter King, offered Star Luo a plan to strike Spirit Hall with a thousand Soul Emperors and Zhuge Repeating Crossbows. Dai Tianfeng ordered the crossbows made within seven days, while privately preparing for Star Luo’s destruction.

• A blood-red stranger appeared in Star Luo’s court, killed a Soul Master who challenged him, and demanded a proper discussion with Dai Tianfeng.
• The stranger revealed that he was the Slaughter King and proposed using a thousand Soul Emperors to attack Spirit Hall by surprise.
• Tang San presented the Zhuge Repeating Crossbow as a weapon against Soul Masters below level fifty, but learned that Spirit Hall had obtained powerful Soul Tools.
• Tang San proposed overwhelming Spirit Hall’s Soul Tools with enough soldiers to exhaust their Soul Power, and Dai Tianfeng ordered Shen Tu Yan to produce Zhuge Repeating Crossbows within seven days.
• After the court dispersed, Dai Tianfeng privately vowed to prepare a magnificent funeral for himself if Star Luo was doomed.

Tang San ambushed Spirit Hall’s vanguard near Fengyao City, killing its commanders and Mad Rhinoceros Douluo while his forces slaughtered both armies. After ordering every Soul Tool destroyed, he left with his companions, still waiting for a chance to confront one of Spirit Hall’s consecrated elders.

• Black Bear ignored his partner’s warnings and ordered his Soul Tool Legion to attack the White Tiger Army outside Fengyao City.
• Tang San appeared behind Black Bear and his partner, crushed the weaker man with his blood-red domain, and killed Black Bear with Blue Silver Grass.
• Tang San sent dark-red fighters into battle, where they slaughtered soldiers from both the Star Luo army and Spirit Hall.
• Mad Rhinoceros Douluo arrived to stop the fighting, but Tang San and five companions surrounded him and killed him.
• Tang San ordered his followers to destroy every Soul Tool and then departed with them.

Spirit Hall blamed the Star Luo Empire for the slaughter of its forces and rallied allies for a campaign, while Dugu Chen remained unconcerned at Dugu Manor. After revealing his plans for Dugu Bo’s future and declaring that no one on Douluo Star could threaten him, Dugu Chen vanished to begin his next move.

• She Long and Pufferfish investigated the massacre, found Mad Rhinoceros Elder’s body, and debated whether Star Luo or Tang San was responsible.
• Spirit Hall publicized the deaths of over ten thousand troops and accused the Star Luo Empire of working with Evil Soul Masters.
• Ning Fengzhi pledged five hundred Nine Treasures Glazed Tile School disciples and Sword Douluo to Spirit Hall’s campaign.
• Dugu Chen told Dugu Bo that he could become the Plane Master or manage the Underworld, and Dugu Bo said he would rather tend medicinal herbs.
• After catching and releasing a Golden Script Carp, Dugu Chen announced he was leaving and disappeared, assuring Dugu Bo that no one on Douluo Star could threaten him.

Bibi Dong's forces surrounded Fengyao City as both armies prepared for battle. Inside the city, Dugu Chen confronted Tang San, whose blood-fueled cultivation and strongest attacks proved helpless against him.

• Bibi Dong led Spirit Hall's legions, Soul Masters, and Heaven Dou's army to surround Fengyao City, while Dai Tianfeng prepared to resist with Tang San's Zhuge Repeating Crossbows and his Soul Masters.
• Dugu Chen slipped into Fengyao City and found Tang San cultivating with the Asura Demon Sword after reaching Rank 95 by absorbing human blood.
• Dugu Chen revealed himself and struck Tang San with Asura sword qi, leaving Tang San stunned that Dugu Chen possessed it.
• Tang San attacked with the Great Sumeru Hammer, the Asura Demon Sword, and Exploding Ring, but Dugu Chen blocked his blows with one hand.
• Tang San realized he had not even forced Dugu Chen to reveal his Martial Soul, and despair overtook him.

Dugu Chen defeated Tang San in Fengyao City, overwhelming his attacks and killing him after revealing that he knew Tang San’s deepest secret. Bibi Dong led Spirit Hall’s Titled Douluo into the city to investigate the battle’s energy storm.

• Dugu Chen mocked Tang San’s corrupted Blue Silver Emperor and defeated him with a single punch.
• Tang San blamed Dugu Chen for his suffering, and Dugu Chen revealed his knowledge of Tang San’s past and his own role in reincarnation.
• Tang San unleashed his Exploding Ring attacks and Asura’s Judgment, but Dugu Chen countered them with Six Paths, Reincarnation.
• The clash created a purple energy storm over Fengyao City, drawing the attention of Dai Tianfeng and Bibi Dong, who ordered Spirit Hall’s Titled Douluo to investigate.
• Dugu Chen left Tang San gravely wounded, and Tang San died after lamenting his fate and hearing Dugu Chen declare that he was fate.

Dugu Chen killed Tang San, captured his soul, and took the Asura Demon Sword before leaving the battlefield. Bibi Dong then launched a surprise attack on Star Luo, defeating its forces and leaving the outcome decided.

• The gathered Titled Douluo recognized Dugu Chen beside Tang San’s headless corpse and learned that Tang San had been the Slaughter King and an Evil Soul Master.
• Dugu Chen captured Tang San’s soul, threatened him with punishment in the Netherworld, and cast him into a dark rift.
• Dugu Chen suppressed the Asura Demon Sword’s killing intent, took the weapon, and left after greeting Bibi Dong.
• Bibi Dong revealed her Level 99 strength and attacked Dai Tianfeng’s forces, prompting Dai Tianfeng and his ally to unleash the Hell White Tiger.
• After fifteen minutes of fighting, the Hell White Tiger’s head fell, and Bibi Dong surveyed the battlefield and the city below.