Chapter Summaries

Tang Lan returned toward Sea God Island after learning that Xue Beng had been critically injured in an assassination, and he prepared Tang San for the upcoming Elite Competition. He reached the two-hundred-and-ninety-eighth step of the Sea God's Steps using only his physique, then began stealing the array's energy to cultivate.

• Tang Lan praised Tang San's fifth soul skill but reminded him that his own strength and ultimate attributes made him difficult to harm.
• Tang Lan told Tang San to cultivate for the Elite Competition and promised he could lead the Tang Sect Academy team.
• Qian Palace reported that two Titled Douluo had attacked Xue Beng, leaving him unconscious with severe soul damage, and Tang Lan instructed the Tang Sect to make no statement until he returned.
• Tang Lan ordered an entire-continent livestream for the upcoming martial soul awakenings if he had not returned by then.
• Tang Lan returned to Sea God Island, released Tang San, and climbed to the two-hundred-and-ninety-eighth step using only his physical strength.
• Tang Lan cultivated with the Nine Revolutions Golden Body Technique and plundered the energy sustaining the Sea God's Light array.

Tang Lan told Bo Saixi that Tang Chen was alive but gravely injured and parasitized, and they planned to save him by awakening his soul and replacing his poisoned blood. After the Sea God permitted Bo Saixi to leave Sea God Island to pursue her happiness, she set out to rescue Tang Chen.

• Tang Lan showed Bo Saixi a wisp of Tang Chen's Soul Power, confirming that the Slaughter King was his Great Grandfather and making Bo Saixi weep with relief.
• Tang Lan explained that a Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King had parasitized Tang Chen during the Asura God's trial, leaving his soul asleep and his body wounded and poisoned.
• Bo Saixi said Sea God's Light could awaken Tang Chen's soul and offered to help control the energy in his body, while Tang Lan proposed replacing his blood to remove the poison.
• Bo Saixi confirmed Tang Lan's blood was compatible with Tang Chen's and learned his Life Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone could sustain blood production and grow by absorbing life force.
• Bo Saixi asked the Sea God for permission to leave the island, and the Sea God granted it so she could pursue her happiness.
• Bo Saixi left the Sea God Hall to go after Tang Chen.

Tang Lan used lightning to cultivate while Bo Saixi searched the sea for high-year Soul Beasts to strengthen his Life Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone. After three days, she returned with Ghost Sea Mothers, whose life force and mental power boosted Tang Lan’s treasures, and assigned Xiao Bai to guard the released beasts.

• Bo Saixi agreed to capture high-year Soul Beasts for Tang Lan, while he cultivated with the Black Hole Domain and had the Ice Empress, Snow Empress, and Little Thunder summon thunderclouds.
• Tang Lan began cultivating the Nine Revolutions Golden Body Technique and Divine Power · Three Heads Six Arms as the group trained on Sea God’s Steps; Tang San reached the 56th Step and broke through to Five-Ring Soul King.
• Bo Saixi returned with Storage Rings full of Soul Beasts and told Tang Lan to absorb them under Sea God’s Light.
• Tang Lan drained more than a hundred Ghost Sea Mothers, adding forty thousand years to the Double Pupils and twenty thousand years to the Life Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone.
• Bo Saixi summoned Xiao Bai and asked her to guard the Ghost Sea Mothers until they awoke, then let them leave Sea God Island peacefully.

Tang Lan helped Zhu Zhuqing replace her soul bone and gave Jing Ling a Tiger-Eagle soul bone while his team continued cultivating. A system reward evolved one of his soul bone skills into an innate domain, and Tang Lan realized the system was simplifying his abilities in preparation for godhood.

• Xiao Bai accepted Tang Lan’s order to guard the Ghost Sea Mothers, while Tang Lan absorbed soul beasts from nineteen Storage Rings and raised the ages of his Double Pupils and Life Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone.
• Bo Saixi took Tang Lan’s remaining Storage Rings to reduce the number of trips needed to collect soul beasts.
• Tang Lan took Zhu Zhuqing to the Tang Sect Inn, and Tang San explained that Limb Regeneration could allow her old soul bone to be removed and replaced.
• Tang San deliberately acted friendly toward his teammates because Tang Lan planned to let him lead the team in the future.
• Tang Lan emerged with a pale Zhu Zhuqing and gave Jing Ling a Ten Thousand Year Tiger-Eagle Left Arm Bone, which Jing Ling began absorbing immediately.
• The system evolved Tang Lan’s Eternal Freeze Domain soul bone skill into an innate domain, leading him to conclude that the system was preparing his abilities for godhood.

Tang Lan used the ferocious beasts Bo Saixi had captured to raise his two soul bones to a Million Year. After more than forty days of effort, both bones reached the milestone, and Tang Lan prepared to harvest the results.

• Tang Lan comprehended the first level of Three Heads Six Arms and grew a third arm, while Bo Saixi dismissed the ability as ugly.
• Bo Saixi brought Tang Lan three ferocious beasts aged 470,000, 570,000, and 670,000 years to help strengthen his soul bones.
• Tang Lan drained a Star Rain Seahorse, raising both soul bones to 970,000 years, and Bo Saixi stored the unconscious beast away to release later.
• Tang Lan drained an Ice Emperor Freezing Bird, bringing both soul bones to 980,000 years.
• Tang Lan drained a Two-Headed Canglong, raising both soul bones to a Million Year and preparing to harvest their power.

Tang Lan gained new Million Year abilities and planned how his companions would pass the Sea God's Light assessment. After retrieving the three ferocious beasts and returning to Sea God Island with Bo Saixi, the chapter ended with an author’s request for votes.

• Tang Lan's Life Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone gained Life Grace, while his Double Pupils gained Permanent Copy and Restriction Liberation.
• Tang Lan gathered his companions, heard who was struggling with the assessment, and outlined a plan that required sacrifices from Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Jing Ling.
• Tang Lan collected the three ferocious beasts floating at sea and stored them away instead of releasing them.
• Tang Lan met Bo Saixi on the way back, promised to challenge the Sea God's Light the next day, and followed her back using Wave Treading.
• The chapter ended with the author's note asking readers for votes and reviews.

Tang Lan persuaded the Sea God Divine Sense to help rescue Tang Chen, then led the group into a coordinated trial on the Steps of Sea God Hall. Their formation carried them beyond Jing Ling’s requirement, but Jing Ling neared his limit at the forty-fifth Step before Tang Lan intervened.

• Tang Lan told Bo Saixi that Danger Prediction warned them to rescue Tang Chen soon, and he convinced the Sea God Divine Sense to agree to act despite the cost.
• The Sea God Divine Sense warned that turmoil was approaching and urged them to make haste before retreating into the Sea God Mark.
• The next day, Tang Lan instructed the group to maintain their formation and push themselves to collapse during the Steps of Sea God Hall trial.
• Tang Lan, Jing Ling, and Dai Mubai blocked most of the Sea God’s Light, allowing the others to advance with little pressure.
• The group activated the True Martial Seven Intercept Formation and passed the thirty-sixth Step, completing Jing Ling’s requirement, but continued upward.
• At the forty-fifth Step, Jing Ling neared his limit, and Tang Lan acted to pull him back from the brink.

Tang Lan led the team up the Sea God's Steps, using formations, soul skills, and swaps to help everyone withstand the Sea God's Light. The group reached the two-hundred-and-seventy-seventh Step before Ning Rongrong had to stop, while Tang Lan continued bearing the greatest pressure at the front.

• Tang Lan boosted the team and helped Jing Ling reach the eighty-eighth Step before Bo Saixi lifted him away.
• Dai Mubai, Tang San, and Oscar led the team past the hundred-and-eightieth Step by taking turns at the front and using Oscar's position-swapping soul bone skill.
• Tang Lan used the Blue Silver Life Domain and Black Hole Domain to help the team reach the two-hundred-and-fifteenth Step after Tang San collapsed from overexertion.
• Xiao Wu replaced Tang San in the formation, and Dai Mubai later used the freebie combo to reach the two-hundred-and-sixty-sixth Step before Bo Saixi took him away.
• Oscar used the freebie combo to reach the two-hundred-and-seventy-seventh Step, while Ning Rongrong stopped after advancing nine Steps.

Tang Lan used a massive sword strike to carry Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Shui Bing'er through the Sea God's Light, completing the first trial with a 300% excess and earning 15% Sea God Affinity. As the others compared their rewards and Bo Saixi explained that some rewards accumulated, Tang San was left stunned by how terrible his own reward was.

• Ning Rongrong passed out after using the Freebie Combo to reach the 286th Step, leaving Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Shui Bing'er to follow Tang Lan.
• Tang Lan detonated Soul Rings to power up the Little Flying Sword, then used Xiao Wu and the others' Invincible Golden Bodies to cross the remaining Steps through the Sea God's Light.
• The Sea God Mark declared Tang Lan had completed the first trial with a 300% excess, awarded him 15% Sea God Affinity, and unlocked the second trial.
• Dai Mubai, Oscar, Jing Ling, and Ning Rongrong revealed their rewards, including increased Soul Ring ages and Soul Power.
• Bo Saixi explained that rewards for Tang Lan, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Shui Bing'er would accumulate until the end of their trials, unlike the immediate rewards for the others.
• Tang Lan noticed Tang San's unhappy expression and asked whether he disliked his reward.

Tang San received only a Soul Power increase after nearly disrupting the team's trial, and Tang Lan prepared to begin the second trial. Tang Lan then took Bo Saixi to Slaughter City, where Terror Knight Scott confronted them at the gates.

• Bo Saixi revealed that Tang San's reward was an excess completion rate of 199% and a 1.5-level Soul Power increase, with no increase to his Soul Ring Age.
• Tang Lan rebuked Tang San for nearly dragging down the team, and Tang San claimed he would stop forcing himself.
• After assessing the team's abilities, Bo Saixi agreed that they could begin the second trial, and Tang Lan set off for Slaughter City with her.
• Tang Lan left Xiao Wu to lead the others while he traveled east using the Blood Escape Technique.
• Tang Lan entered the tavern at Slaughter City's entrance in disguise, cleared it with a Mental Power attack, and exposed the city's entrance.
• Tang Lan and Bo Saixi descended to Slaughter City's gates, where Terror Knight Scott confronted them and demanded that they defeat him.

Tang Lan and Bo Saixi entered Slaughter City and confronted the Slaughter King to free Tang Chen from the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King. After Bo Saixi destroyed the parasite and Tang Chen awoke, his first words left her blushing.

• Tang Lan entered Slaughter City with Bo Saixi, killed the Soul Masters who targeted them, and sensed the Soul Seed near the inner city.
• The Slaughter King unleashed his Slaughter Domain, but Tang Lan and Bo Saixi confronted him before he could attack.
• The Sea God Divine Sense used the Golden Thirteen Halberds' Unfixed Storm to bind the Slaughter King and Sea God's Light to awaken Tang Chen.
• Bo Saixi crushed the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King's soul and expelled its body from Tang Chen, then handed the surviving hundred-and-fifty-thousand-year beast to Tang Lan.
• Tang Chen regained consciousness, and his first words made Bo Saixi blush.

Bo Saixi and Tang Lan worked to save Tang Chen by draining his poisoned blood and stripping away his Soul Power, while Soul Tang Lan gained stored power and learned Unfixed Storm. The chapter ended with Tang Chen unconscious and poisoned internally, leaving Bo Saixi asking the Sea God Divine Sense for help.

• Tang Chen woke and apologized to Bo Saixi for failing to reach level one hundred, but she refused to let him die and cut his thigh arteries to drain his blood.
• Tang Lan lent his body for a transfusion while Bo Saixi removed Tang Chen’s surface Soul Power, which Soul Tang Lan stored as Life Spirit Hearts and used to strengthen his Mental Power.
• The Sea God Divine Sense said the remaining twelve Golden Thirteen Halberds techniques would be rewards for future assessments, and Soul Tang Lan discovered Unfixed Storm required a trident.
• Soul Tang Lan transformed his hairpin into the Haotian Trident and used it to perform Unfixed Storm, impressing the Sea God Divine Sense with the weapon’s divine-artifact level.
• Bo Saixi found that poison had invaded Tang Chen’s internal organs and that he needed to force it out himself, but he fell unconscious, so she asked the Sea God Divine Sense for help.

Soul Tang Lan and Bo Saixi spent eight days and seven nights removing the poison from Tang Chen, leaving him recovering as the Sea God Divine Sense appointed Tang Lan its mortal representative and dispersed. After Bo Saixi stayed alone with Tang Chen, Tang Lan left with the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and considered hunting sea beasts to help it grow.

• Soul Tang Lan proposed replacing Tang Chen's poisoned organs, and Bo Saixi agreed to the dangerous treatment with the Sea God Divine Sense's support.
• Soul Tang Lan used his Life Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone to help replace Tang Chen's organs and blood until the detoxification was complete, exhausting the soul bone and himself.
• The Sea God Divine Sense appointed Tang Lan its representative in the mortal world, then dispersed after Tang Lan sealed the Sea God Mark inside a Small Black Room.
• Tang Chen's finger twitched, and Bo Saixi asked Tang Lan to leave so she could be alone with him; Tang Lan departed with the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger revealed it had reached four hundred thousand years and needed high-quality prey, so Tang Lan considered sending it to hunt sea beasts.
• The Slaughter Envoy approached Tang Lan and invited him to her place, but he had already knocked away her reaching hand with Mental Power.

Tang Lan learned that Tang Chen had recovered and revealed that he had inherited the Asura God Nine Trials. He offered to appoint a new Slaughter King so Tang Chen could leave Slaughter City, then explained that his next trial required him to help rebuild it.

• The Slaughter Envoy told Tang Lan that the Yellow Spring Dew's control had ended, and Tang Lan ordered the freed survivors to disperse until the new Slaughter King made arrangements.
• Tang Chen arrived at the Tang Sect Inn, embraced Tang Lan, and offered him the position of Slaughter City's High Priest so Tang Chen could leave with Bo Saixi.
• Tang Lan showed Tang Chen his Asura God Mark and explained that he had inherited the Asura God Nine Trials, which pleased Tang Chen.
• Tang Lan told Tang Chen that he could appoint a Slaughter King, and Tang Chen recommended Hell Slaughter Arena referee Ye Lin Su for the role.
• Tang Lan revealed that his Asura Third Trial required him to help Tang Chen rebuild Slaughter City.

Tang Lan and Tang Chen began rebuilding Slaughter City as a public destination for trials and godly inheritance, using the Tang Li Newspaper to draw challengers from across Douluo Continent. Ning Rongrong easily defeated her arranged opponents in the Hell Slaughter Arena, and Oscar entered next, realizing his own fight was not going according to plan.

• Tang Chen agreed to stay with Xi Er and help Tang Lan rebuild Slaughter City as part of his Asura Three Trials.
• The Tang Li Newspaper publicized Slaughter City and its trials across the continent, drawing crowds of ambitious and desperate challengers.
• The rebuilt Slaughter City banned killing outside the Hell Slaughter Arena, where challengers could fight for a domain, leave, or pursue a god's inheritance.
• Ning Rongrong passed the blood mist trial and used a Copy Mirror Image Sausage and her hammer to defeat the Evil Soul Masters arranged against her.
• Oscar entered the arena after Ning Rongrong, but discovered that his fight was going terribly wrong.

Oscar used Tang Lan’s Thunder Flame Ice Haotian Hammer to defeat a blood-powered opponent and earn his thirtieth consecutive victory in the Hell Slaughter Arena. Tang Lan then ordered Slaughter City to investigate the man’s clan and tighten its rules against exploiting the arena.

• Oscar faced a young man whose eight accomplices merged into a giant blood sphere, but his copied Blue Silver Emperor and hammer attacks initially failed to stop him.
• Oscar used Tang Lan’s Spirit Bestowal to wield the Thunder Flame Ice Haotian Hammer from his Storage Ring and killed the young man with one blow, winning his thirtieth consecutive match.
• Oscar thanked Tang Lan, who explained that he had remotely empowered the hammer through Soul Possession.
• The Slaughter Envoy reported that the opponent had controlled his accomplices as puppets to help him win consecutive victories.
• Tang Lan ordered Min Hall to investigate the opponent’s clan, punish its evildoers, warn potential rule-breakers, and add a rule allowing Slaughter City to pursue anyone who gained the title of Slaughter God by such methods.
• Dai Mubai teased Oscar about the Slaughter Envoy as she left.

Dai Mubai and the others won their hundredth matches, then entered the Hell Road as Ye Lin Su announced that they might earn a God Inheritance. With Tang Lan’s help, the group overcame the first trials and escaped the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent, while Tang San prepared to destroy Slaughter City.

• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing defeated their opponents without using Copy Mirror Image Sausages, and Tang Lan’s group all reached a hundred consecutive victories.
• Ye Lin Su appeared publicly, announced that eight champions would open the Hell Road and might receive a divine trial, then opened the passage beneath the arena.
• Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Shui Bing'er, Shui Yue'er, Dai Mubai, Oscar, Jing Ling, and Tang San entered the Hell Road as their trials were shown to the audience.
• The eight worked together to defeat the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King with firearms and forced it to let them pass.
• Tang Lan possessed Oscar and led the group in using the True Martial Seven Intercept Formation and Thunder Flame Ice Haotian Hammers to escape the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent.
• Tang San explained the blood river’s connection to the previous Slaughter King, took out the Snow-Colored Swan Kiss, and proposed destroying Slaughter City.

Tang San tried to destroy Slaughter City with the Snow-Colored Swan Kiss, but Ye Lin Su stopped him and expelled him without the Divine Slaughter's Domain. Tang Lan later found Tang San and confronted him about his double standard, while Jing Ling emerged with the domain.

• Tang San defied Xiao Wu and the others and tried to use the Snow-Colored Swan Kiss to destroy Slaughter City.
• Ye Lin Su suppressed Tang San, took the Snow-Colored Swan Kiss, and expelled him through a side entrance.
• Tang Lan accepted the Snow-Colored Swan Kiss from Ye Lin Su and approved his decision to deny Tang San the Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• Tang Lan found Tang San unconscious outside Slaughter City and waited until Jing Ling emerged with the Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• Tang Lan told Tang San not to ask for more after the Slaughter King spared him, then challenged his claim that Slaughter City should be destroyed by comparing it to prisons.

Tang Lan led the group through the Slaughter Qi trial while Tang San argued against Slaughter City and was forced to leave before earning its reward. The others emerged in turn, gaining Divine Slaughter's Domain and some breakthroughs, and the chapter ended as Xiao Wu appeared and Shui Bing'er asked whether her domain had evolved.

• Tang Lan rebuffed Tang San's argument about destroying Slaughter City and told him he would need to grow stronger before seeking revenge on the Slaughter King.
• Ning Rongrong emerged second, awakened her Divine Slaughter's Domain, and clashed with Jing Ling's domain, knocking Tang San to the ground before she berated him.
• Shui Yue'er emerged third, followed more than two hours later by Oscar and Dai Mubai, whose domains proved stronger than Jing Ling's but had not evolved.
• Zhu Zhuqing emerged conscious and revealed that she had broken through and could claim her sixth Soul Ring from the Sky Azure Bull Python once her seal was lifted.
• Shui Bing'er emerged into Zhu Zhuqing's arms, but her Divine Slaughter's Domain had not evolved.
• Xiao Wu appeared, and Shui Bing'er asked whether her Divine Slaughter's Domain had undergone its first evolution.

Xiao Wu evolved her Divine Slaughter's Domain, and Tang Lan demonstrated how his own domain suppressed soul skills before taking the group back toward home. After returning to Heaven Dou City, Tang Lan learned that the Tang Sect had expanded and Zhao Wuji had completed several assigned tasks, while Ning Rongrong remained pained by her distance from Tang Lan.

• Xiao Wu revealed that her evolved Divine Slaughter's Domain increased her attacks' speed and power against a chosen target, and she used it to resist Tang Lan's skill-sealing domain.
• Tang Lan confirmed that Xiao Wu could regain access to her soul skills, though their effects remained suppressed, then completed his third and fourth Asura God trials and prepared to return home.
• Tang Lan brought Ning Rongrong to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Chen Xin welcomed her and learned she had reached level fifty.
• Ning Rongrong watched Tang Lan fly away and felt unwilling to remain apart from him, while Chen Xin advised her to let go of what she could not obtain.
• Tang Lan returned to the expanded Tang Sect, and Zhao Wuji reported that the White Tiger Sect's remaining members had joined, trainees had developed qi sense, and Tang Sect Academies were ready to enroll students.