Chapter Summaries

Zu Zong entered Slaughter City and headed for the Hell Slaughter Arena, where he discovered the city’s blood-soaked customs and sensed a mysterious space beneath it. He reached the inner city and spotted a familiar blond young woman fighting off attackers.

• Zu Zong defeated Terror Knight Scott, took Skull Token 521, and entered Slaughter City with a black-veiled guide.
• Zu Zong told the guide to take him directly to the Hell Slaughter Arena, and she reacted fearfully after seeing his blue silver hair.
• Zu Zong used Observation Haki to sense a hidden blood-filled space beneath the city, then killed a man who attacked him during his protection period.
• Zu Zong and the guide entered the inner city, where he saw its brutal and depraved inhabitants.
• Zu Zong spotted a familiar blond young woman fighting five burly men, whom she quickly cut down with her short sword.

Zu Zong reunited with Hu Liena in the Slaughter City, then learned how the Hell Slaughter Arena’s battles corrupted participants with killing intent. He entered the arena and revealed Susanoo, leaving the remaining fighters preparing to attack him together.

• Hu Liena recognized Zu Zong when he used forced voice transmission to call her Little Fox, but they agreed to speak privately later.
• The Black-Veiled Woman led Zu Zong to the Hell Slaughter Arena, where he watched several matches and realized that battles intensified killing intent and pushed survivors toward drinking Bloody Mary.
• Zu Zong registered for a match, noticed Hu Liena watching, and stepped onto the arena stage.
• Zu Zong killed two attackers with his Black Sword and activated Susanoo, whose skeletal arm crushed three would-be ambushers.
• A bald fighter urged the four remaining opponents to attack Zu Zong together.

Zu Zong won the Hell Slaughter Arena match, killed an ambusher on his way out, and reunited with Hu Liena in his room. They discussed their training in Slaughter City before Hu Liena asked about his Susanoo and whether he had Twin Martial Souls.

• Zu Zong killed the final four opponents in the Hell Slaughter Arena and sensed that some of his killing intent had resonated with Susanoo.
• Zu Zong killed a man who tried to ambush him outside the arena, then fought off other would-be attackers as he left.
• Zu Zong and Hu Liena pretended not to know each other in public before following the same direction to their rooms.
• Hu Liena visited Zu Zong, and he teased her into calling him Grandteacher before she stomped on his foot.
• Hu Liena told Zu Zong that she had spent about half a year in Slaughter City and had won twenty consecutive matches without drinking Bloody Mary.
• Hu Liena asked Zu Zong what his fiery-red skeletal armor was and whether he had Twin Martial Souls.

Zu Zong and Hu Liena rose to prominence in Slaughter City as the Slaughter Gemini, with Zu Zong earning seventy-one consecutive victories while protecting her. A year later, Hu Liena sat bare-backed in Room 521, holding clothing over her chest.

• Zu Zong asked Hu Liena to keep his Twin Martial Souls secret, and she agreed while asking whether Bibi Dong knew.
• Over the next month, Zu Zong won ten arena matches and Hu Liena raised her own total to twenty-five as he protected her from ambushes.
• Half a year later, Zu Zong entered a Hell Slaughter Arena match with seventy consecutive victories, while Hu Liena had just reached seventy wins.
• The other nine contestants joined forces against Zu Zong, but he killed them all and secured his seventy-first consecutive victory.
• Zu Zong and Hu Liena became known as the Slaughter Gemini, and Zu Zong’s time in Slaughter City left him with a colder, bloodier presence.
• A year later, Hu Liena sat on the sofa in Room 521 with her bare back to Zu Zong, clutching clothing over her chest.

Zu Zong healed Hu Liena after she was badly wounded while defeating two Spirit Douluo in the Hell Slaughter Arena. As their trust and intimacy deepened, Hu Liena reflected on how he had protected her and remembered that Bibi Dong had tasked her with protecting Zu Zong when she was twelve.

• Hu Liena killed two Spirit Douluo in the Hell Slaughter Arena but suffered a severe slash across her back from one opponent's final attack.
• Zu Zong carried the injured Hu Liena to his room, cutting down fallen ones who tried to block them.
• Hu Liena exposed her back while covering her chest with a shirt, and Zu Zong healed her with his 100,000-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone.
• Hu Liena felt shy and strangely anticipatory as Zu Zong touched her back, while recalling how he had secretly protected her from ambushes.
• Hu Liena remembered her ambition to become a Title Douluo before thirty-five and that Bibi Dong had told her at age twelve to arrange protection for Zu Zong.

After Zu Zong healed Hu Liena, she resolved to keep her feelings for him to herself because he belonged to Bibi Dong. Their awkward, teasing exchange ended with Hu Liena asking him to feed her medicinal soup.

• Hu Liena recalled how Zu Zong's talent and repeated rescues had drawn her to him, and decided that no one else could occupy her heart.
• Zu Zong healed Hu Liena's back and promised to make medicinal soup to help her recover.
• Hu Liena accidentally exposed her chest while bowing, and Zu Zong blurted out a remark that earned him a slap.
• Zu Zong healed his cheek with his Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone skill, and Hu Liena laughed at his flustered behavior.
• Zu Zong brought Hu Liena medicinal soup, and she insisted that he feed it to her because she was injured.

The Slaughter King discussed Zu Zong and Hu Liena’s imminent hundred-win streak and feared they might escape Slaughter City by surviving Hell Road. In Room 521, Zu Zong apologized for Hu Liena’s dangerous ninety-ninth match, then explained his plans for their journey along Hell Road.

• The black-gauzed woman told the Slaughter King that the Black Robed Man and Hell Envoy had reached ninety-nine consecutive victories and might soon challenge Hell Road.
• The Slaughter King said he hoped Zu Zong and Hu Liena would die on Hell Road, but admitted he feared the Rakshasa Woman’s power.
• Zu Zong fed Hu Liena medicinal soup, and she complained that his arrangements had failed to prevent two Spirit Douluo-level opponents from nearly killing her.
• Zu Zong apologized and recalled using his Mangekyou Sharingan to control competitors for their matches, though two unexpected Spirit Douluo-level fighters had entered Hu Liena’s ninety-ninth match.
• Zu Zong and Hu Liena joked about her demands and Bibi Dong’s lessons before Zu Zong outlined countermeasures for their journey through Hell Road.

After winning one hundred consecutive victories, Zu Zong faced the Slaughter King alongside Hu Liena and refused the offer to leave Slaughter City as a Slaughter God. The pair chose to challenge Hell Road, and Zu Zong demanded that the Slaughter King open it for them.

• Zu Zong won his hundredth consecutive match in the Hell Slaughter Arena and diverted the Slaughter King's killing intent away from himself.
• The Slaughter King arrived, and Zu Zong used Observation Haki to recognize Tang Chen's ruined condition beneath his disguise.
• The Slaughter King summoned Hu Liena and offered both her and Zu Zong Slaughter God titles so they could leave Slaughter City without taking Hell Road.
• Hu Liena rejected the offer and said she and Zu Zong would follow Slaughter City's rules and challenge Hell Road.
• Zu Zong agreed with Hu Liena and challenged the Slaughter King to open Hell Road for them.

Zu Zong and Hu Liena entered Hell Road after the Slaughter King triggered the toxins in the fallen, killing those in the Hell Slaughter Arena. After recovering their Soul Power and setting out together, they encountered approaching bats.

• Zu Zong dismissed the Slaughter King's mockery and protected himself and Hu Liena from the Slaughter King's surging aura with tangible killing intent.
• The Slaughter King spread red ripples across the arena, triggering toxins that drove the fallen into a frenzy and left corpses strewn across the ground.
• Blood gathered in the arena's channels and formed a bat pattern beneath Zu Zong and Hu Liena, transporting them to Hell Road.
• Zu Zong woke Hu Liena, warned her about the abyss of Bloody Mary below, and waited with her until they recovered their Soul Power.
• Zu Zong and Hu Liena tied themselves together with a Blue Silver Emperor Vine and began crossing the narrow path.
• After about fifteen minutes, Zu Zong sensed countless bats approaching and stopped to warn Hu Liena.

Zu Zong and Hu Liena fought through the blood-red bat swarm on Hell Road before Zu Zong sealed the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King with Susanoo’s Ten-Tails Sword. They continued deeper into Hell Road, with Zu Zong protecting Hu Liena from the rising heat.

• Zu Zong used his Sharingan illusion to send most of the blood-red bats plunging into the abyss, and he and Hu Liena dealt with the survivors.
• Hu Liena asked about Zu Zong’s Sharingan and worried that controlling the bats had drained his mental energy, but he reassured her.
• Zu Zong identified the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King and said he had a way to defeat it.
• Zu Zong pierced one of the bat king’s heads with Susanoo’s Ten-Tails Sword, sealing the creature in the Dream World.
• Zu Zong flew back to the path and used Blue Silver Domain to cool Hu Liena as they continued deeper into Hell Road.

Zu Zong defeated the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent and claimed its Inner Core before continuing through Hell Road with Hu Liena. As they neared the exit, he put Hu Liena to sleep with an illusion and sensed the outside world high above them, but no path forward was visible.

• Zu Zong bound the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent with his Extreme Flame Blue Silver Emperor Vines and devoured its fiery attack with his Eight Spider Lances.
• Zu Zong killed the serpent just as its Inner Core emerged, then stored the Golden-Red Orb for A Yan to potentially use in the future.
• Zu Zong explained the Inner Core's powers to Hu Liena, and the two recovered before continuing through Hell Road.
• Zu Zong planted timed explosives along the passage, then carried Hu Liena toward the exit while planning to prevent another Slaughter God from emerging.
• As Hell Road's evil aura overwhelmed Hu Liena, Zu Zong used his Sharingan to put her to sleep.
• At the end of the passage, Zu Zong found no road ahead and sensed the outside world more than seventy meters above them.

Zu Zong and Hu Liena emerged from Hell Road with Divine Slaughter's Domain, and Zu Zong discovered his Susanoo had grown stronger. After Hu Liena returned to Spirit Hall, Zu Zong destroyed Hell Road, while the Slaughter King revealed that its destruction had sealed it and prevented any more slaughter gods from being born.

• Zu Zong blasted his way out of the cave with Yasakani no Magatama and carried Hu Liena through the white light at Hell Road's exit.
• Zu Zong awakened inside his fourth-form Susanoo, discovered its improved endurance and Divine Slaughter's Domain, and found Hu Liena had also awakened.
• Zu Zong and Hu Liena sensed a bond between their martial souls and wondered if they could perform a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, but Zu Zong told her they should not try it.
• Zu Zong sent Hu Liena back to Spirit Hall and told her to ask Dong'er to help control her killing intent, while he stayed behind to confirm something.
• After Chrysanthemum Guan and Guimei picked up Hu Liena, Zu Zong caused a series of explosions that destroyed Hell Road.
• The Slaughter King told the Black-Veiled Woman that Zu Zong and Hu Liena had gained Divine Slaughter's Domain and that Hell Road was sealed, preventing any more slaughter gods from being born.

Tang Hao visited the juvenile Ah Yin and promised to reclaim what she had left behind, then took Tang San to obtain a fifth Soul Ring for his Blue Silver Grass. They entered an ancient forest marked by a vast explosion, and Tang Hao grew uneasy about what they might find there.

• Tang Hao grieved beside Ah Yin and told her that Tang San had reached rank fifty and that Zu Zong had awakened the Blue Silver Emperor martial soul.
• Tang San trained his Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer to sixty-four strikes before Tang Hao confirmed his Soul Power had reached rank fifty.
• Tang Hao removed Tang San's Soul Power seal and said he would take him to obtain a fifth Soul Ring for his Blue Silver Grass.
• After five days of travel, Tang Hao and Tang San reached an ancient forest and found a giant pit that Tang Hao believed had been caused by a powerful soul master's self-destruction.
• Tang Hao and Tang San entered the forest, where Tang Hao told Tang San to sit down.

Tang Hao brought Tang San to the Blue Silver King, hoping to awaken Tang San’s Blue Silver Emperor bloodline and secure his fifth Soul Ring, but the Blue Silver King sensed no trace of Ah Yin in him. After they left the forest, Tang Hao ordered Tang San to abandon his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul and cultivate only the Clear Sky Hammer.

• Tang San released his Blue Silver Grass and could not sense the presence Tang Hao told him to seek.
• Tang Hao contacted the Blue Silver King and explained that Tang San was Ah Yin’s son, asking for help awakening his Blue Silver Emperor bloodline.
• The Blue Silver King examined Tang San, found no trace of Ah Yin’s aura, and refused to let the Blue Silver Grass subjects sacrifice themselves for him.
• Tang Hao learned that the Blue Silver King’s current king was Zu Zong and asked whether Tang San could still obtain a fifth Soul Ring, but the Blue Silver King refused.
• Tang Hao told Tang San to pretend he did not have the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, never add another Soul Ring to it, and cultivate only the Clear Sky Hammer.

Tang Hao explained why Tang San had to give up cultivating Blue Silver Grass and focus on the Clear Sky Hammer, then promised to take him for his fifth Soul Ring and later send him for tempering. In Spirit City, Hu Liena returned to Bibi Dong after obtaining Divine Slaughter's Domain and revealed that she had seen Zu Zong in Slaughter City.

• Tang Hao told Tang San that his ordinary Blue Silver Grass was too weak to awaken as the Blue Silver King and that adding Soul Rings to both vastly different Martial Souls risked killing him.
• Tang Hao explained that Tang San's earlier Soul Rings had been relatively low in age and that the swelling he felt after his third Clear Sky Hammer Soul Ring had warned of the danger.
• Tang San accepted focusing on the Clear Sky Hammer, and Tang Hao agreed to take him to hunt for a fifth Soul Ring before sending him to a place for tempering.
• Hu Liena returned to Pope Hall and told Bibi Dong that Divine Slaughter's Domain was powerful but made her irritable, so Bibi Dong ordered her to spend a year cultivating quietly by her side.
• Hu Liena told Bibi Dong that she had seen Zu Zong in Slaughter City, and Bibi Dong asked whether he had provoked her again.

Bibi Dong learned that Hu Liena had fallen in love with Zu Zong and left their relationship up to her, while secretly resenting Zu Zong for pursuing her disciple. Zu Zong returned to Heaven Dou City, where he saw wanted posters accusing Tang San and Tang Hao of crimes against the empire.

• Bibi Dong asked Hu Liena whether Zu Zong returned her feelings, and Hu Liena said he loved Bibi Dong instead.
• Bibi Dong told Hu Liena she would not interfere with her relationship with Zu Zong, then privately accused him of having designs on Hu Liena for years.
• Zu Zong decided to return to Heaven Dou City and later flew there, planning to cultivate at Yue Hua's place to control his killing intent.
• Zu Zong entered Heaven Dou City and saw wanted posters offering rewards for Tang San and Tang Hao over Xue Beng's death and other alleged crimes.
• Zu Zong listened as people discussed Tang San's fight with Xue Beng and the Dragon-Snake Family's public disavowal of Meng Yiran's connection to Tang San.

Zu Zong returned to Moonlight Pavilion after Slaughter City, where his lingering killing intent frightened three young students. He reunited with Tang Yuehua, whose composure broke when he called her by her name.

• Zu Zong entered Moonlight Pavilion and asked the new students to report his arrival to the Pavilion Master.
• Three jealous male students attacked Zu Zong, but his killing intent terrified them and sent them fleeing in disgrace.
• The middle-aged manager recognized Zu Zong, rebuked the students, and escorted him directly to the fifth floor.
• Zu Zong entered the Agarwood hall and called Tang Yuehua by her name.
• Tang Yuehua dropped her teapot, rushed to Zu Zong, and asked emotionally what he had just called her.

Zu Zong reunited with Tang Yuehua, then Liu Erlong found them together, and the three became intimate. Zu Zong explained that he had recently escaped Slaughter City and gained Divine Slaughter's Domain, while Tang Yuehua offered to help him control his killing intent.

• Zu Zong reunited with Tang Yuehua, who had waited for his return, and they embraced and kissed.
• Zu Zong and Tang Yuehua spent time together, and he told her he had left Slaughter City seven days earlier; she offered to use Noble Circle to calm his killing intent.
• Liu Erlong arrived and found Zu Zong and Tang Yuehua together, and Zu Zong drew her into the room.
• Afterward, Liu Erlong asked why Zu Zong had not visited her first, and he explained that he wanted Tang Yuehua to help settle his killing intent.
• Tang Yuehua described Slaughter City and its dangers, while Zu Zong explained that he had won Divine Slaughter's Domain by passing the Hell Road trial.

Zu Zong woke after a night with Liu Erlong and Tang Yuehua, then hurried to meet Qian Renxue when she arrived at Moonlight Pavilion with Xue Ke. He reunited with Qian Renxue in the reception room, while Xue Ke watched their silent exchange.

• Zu Zong woke from cultivation, saw Qian Renxue and Xue Ke arrive, and closed the window to hide his night with Liu Erlong and Tang Yuehua.
• Qian Renxue brought Xue Ke into Moonlight Pavilion and learned that Zu Zong had returned; Xue Ke said their father planned to betroth her to him.
• Zu Zong teased Liu Erlong and Tang Yuehua before leaving to find Qian Renxue on the second floor.
• Qian Renxue objected to Xue Ke marrying Zu Zong, but Xue Ke admitted she liked him.
• Zu Zong entered the reception room, stopped himself from calling Qian Renxue Xue'er, and greeted her as Big Brother Xue.

Qian Renxue confronted Zu Zong about Xue Ke’s interest in him, then heard about his year in Slaughter City and invited him to the Crown Prince Residence that night. Zu Zong arrived to find Qian Renxue bathing and jumped into the tub with her.

• Xue Ke stomped on Zu Zong’s foot, and Qian Renxue made her apologize before sending her to class.
• Qian Renxue told Zu Zong that Emperor Xue Ye planned to betroth Xue Ke to him, and Zu Zong immediately refused.
• Zu Zong told Qian Renxue about his time in Slaughter City, including meeting Hu Liena, winning a hundred consecutive victories, crossing Hell Road, and gaining Divine Slaughter’s Domain.
• Qian Renxue asked Zu Zong to visit the Crown Prince Residence that night, and he arrived after finishing his lessons at Moonlight Pavilion.
• Zu Zong found Qian Renxue bathing, stripped, and jumped into the bathtub with her.