Chapter Summaries

Lin Xiao defeated Ma Hongjun while using a targeted spiritual attack and reversed Black Sun Purifying Fire to weaken the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King and help Tang Chen regain control. He then began refining Ma Hongjun with Ultimate Phoenix Fire to extract the unmutated part of his Phoenix Bloodline, even after Ma Hongjun called him “Brother Xiao.”

• Lin Xiao taunted Ma Hongjun and exploited his bloodline weakness to drive him back with Phoenix Fire.
• The Slaughter King attacked Lin Xiao with the Asura Divine Sword, but Lin Xiao struck the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King with Great Sun Golden Eyes and used reversed Black Sun Purifying Fire to awaken Tang Chen’s memories.
• Lin Xiao realized the attack had wounded the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King and left Tang Chen and the parasite struggling for control of the body.
• Lin Xiao approached the injured Ma Hongjun, intending to kill the Blood-Colored Bat within him and further weaken the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King.
• Feng Yu urged Lin Xiao to use Ultimate Phoenix Fire, and he burned Ma Hongjun to refine the remaining pure Phoenix Bloodline.
• As Ma Hongjun’s voice and hatred faded, he called Lin Xiao “Brother Xiao,” but Lin Xiao continued the refinement.

Lin Xiao refined the Phoenix Bloodline from Ma Hongjun, who died after admitting his regrets, then helped Tang Chen briefly regain his senses. Tang Chen revealed he would soon lose control again and could not escape Slaughter City, leaving Lin Xiao reassured that he would not become a new enemy.

• Lin Xiao purged Ma Hongjun’s impurities and refined the Phoenix Bloodline as Ma Hongjun confessed he had known Lin Xiao was right before dying.
• Feng Yu comforted Lin Xiao, who said he would still have killed Ma Hongjun even if he could choose again.
• Tang Chen regained consciousness after Lin Xiao suppressed the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King and introduced himself to Lin Xiao.
• Tang Chen said he could remain conscious for six months to a year before the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King fought him for control again.
• Tang Chen said he could not escape Slaughter City or face the Clear Sky Sect and his old friends, and Lin Xiao relaxed that he would not create a Limit Douluo-level enemy.

Lin Xiao secured Tang Chen’s permission to slaughter two more streets in Slaughter City in exchange for delivering a message to Bo Saixi, then gathered souls and completed the matches needed to approach Hell Road. After three months, he prepared to leave Slaughter City, while Hu Liena quietly wondered whether he had acted for her and offered to wash his feet.

• Tang Chen agreed to let Lin Xiao slaughter two more streets if Lin Xiao swore to deliver his Identity Token and handkerchief to Bo Saixi with a message that Tang Chen was dead and she should stop waiting for him.
• Lin Xiao accepted the items, reached a deal with Tang Chen, and extracted eight hundred Fallen One souls from the two streets.
• Lin Xiao decided to walk Hell Road and asked Tang Chen to help him complete the required consecutive victories in the Hell Slaughter Arena.
• Three months later, Hu Liena noted that Lin Xiao had won ninety-nine consecutive matches and asked whether he was about to walk Hell Road.
• Hu Liena wondered whether Lin Xiao had slaughtered the streets and killed Ma Hongjun for her, then brought him water to wash his feet.

Lin Xiao warned Hu Liena about the dangers of Slaughter City and taught her the upper half of the Heart Cleansing Mantra before they parted. After leaving her behind, he claimed his hundredth consecutive victory and chose to enter Hell Road.

• Lin Xiao warned Hu Liena that Slaughter City's poison and repeated reliance on Bloody Mary could endanger her, then taught her the upper half of the Heart Cleansing Mantra.
• Hu Liena offered to repay Lin Xiao and asked to see the face beneath his mask, but he refused to reveal his identity and said they should part ways.
• The next day, Lin Xiao departed Slaughter City, and Hu Liena vowed to investigate the identity of Ghost Face Flame Monarch.
• Lin Xiao won his hundredth consecutive match in the Hell Slaughter Arena and told Tang Chen he wanted to walk Hell Road.
• Tang Chen opened Hell Road, and the Fallen Ones in the arena began cutting open their own entrails as blood flowed downward.

Lin Xiao received the Asura God's Trial after attracting the god's attention in Slaughter City, but planned to claim its rewards without inheriting the godhood. He flew through Hell Road and fought the Blood-Colored Bats, then decided to capture them for medicinal use.

• The Asura God marked Lin Xiao and assigned him the first trial: pass through Hell Road for a twenty-thousand-year increase to all his Soul Rings.
• Feng Yu explained that Lin Xiao would compete with Tang San for the Asura Godhood and could reject it after collecting the trial rewards.
• Lin Xiao used his Crimson Sky Flame Phoenix Wings to fly over Hell Road's Blood Pool and resisted the toxins and spiritual attacks of the Blood-Colored Bats.
• Lin Xiao unleashed his Phoenix Domain, burning through the bat swarm and locating the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King.
• Lin Xiao prepared to attack the bat king, then dispersed his flames because he wanted to bring the poisonous creatures back for Aunt Qingxian and Senior Dugu.

Lin Xiao defeated the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King and the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent, claiming the serpent’s Inner Core for Dugu Bo. After entering Hell Road, he absorbed its cold aura and developed an unexpected domain that stripped senses and banished consciousness.

• Lin Xiao used the Great Sun Golden Eyes to defeat the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King, then poisoned and collected the blood-colored bats.
• The Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent attacked Lin Xiao, who severed its tail and killed it with Dragon Slaying before taking its Inner Core.
• Lin Xiao flew through the Evil aura and reached the cave entrance, where the cold aura overwhelmed his senses.
• The cold aura gathered around Lin Xiao’s embryonic Black Sun Purifying Fire, while the Fire Feather Nether Crow consumed nearly half the souls in his Million Year Black Gold Soul Ring to nourish it.
• Lin Xiao’s Phoenix Martial Soul revealed a black pattern and unleashed an unknown domain that could strip away senses and banish consciousness.

After leaving Hell Road, Lin Xiao learned that his Black Sun Purifying Fire and domain had evolved, then visited Ma Hongjun’s family in Grass Chicken Village. He left money and gifts for Ma Hongjun’s parents and named their infant daughter Ma Hongying before departing for good.

• Lin Xiao explained to Feng Yu that his Divine Slaughter's Domain had fused with his evolved Black Sun Purifying Fire, which could strip consciousness and memories.
• Lin Xiao flew to Grass Chicken Village and told Ma Hongjun’s mother that Hongjun was safe but would not return until he had made something of himself.
• Lin Xiao gave Ma Hongjun’s parents Silver Soul Coins and left nourishing Medicinal Cuisine for them.
• Lin Xiao used Phoenix Blood to help the infant Ma Hongjun’s sister, then left a Ten Thousand Year Herb with instructions to give it to her after her Martial Soul awakening.
• Lin Xiao named the infant Ma Hongying, said farewell to Ma Hongjun, and flew away.

Lin Xiao returned to the Ye Residence after completing his training in Slaughter City and reunited with Ye Qingxian, Ye Lingling, and Dugu Yan. As they discussed Heaven Dou’s troubles with Spirit Hall and Xue Ye’s plans for Dugu Bo, the chapter left Lin Xiao waiting for Dugu Bo to return while the sisters asked to accompany him on future journeys.

• Ye Qingxian worried that Heaven Dou was being squeezed by Spirit Hall and Star Luo, and considered how Xue Ye’s plans might entangle Dugu Bo.
• Lin Xiao returned from Slaughter City, gave Ye Qingxian exotic bat corpses and a gold hairpin, and told her about his training.
• Ye Qingxian told Lin Xiao that Xue Ye wanted Xue Beng to take Dugu Bo as his master and was considering releasing the Clear Sky Sect from confinement.
• Lin Xiao questioned Xue Ye’s plans because Dugu Bo and the Clear Sky Sect were enemies, then suggested waiting for Dugu Bo to return.
• Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan welcomed Lin Xiao home and insisted that he take them along when he went training again.

After returning from Slaughter City, Lin Xiao reassured Ye Lingling, Dugu Yan, and Ye Qingxian that he had survived and killed more than two thousand Fallen Ones. Ye Qingxian then helped him face his feelings for several girls, leaving him wondering whether they might accept sharing his affection.

• Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan reproached Lin Xiao for leaving them behind, then learned from Ye Qingxian that he had cleared Slaughter City in half a year and killed more than two thousand Fallen Ones.
• Lin Xiao told Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan that he had missed them, and the group talked together until dinner.
• After dinner, Ye Qingxian asked Lin Xiao how he felt about Ye Lingling, Dugu Yan, and Shui Bing'er, and he admitted he did not know what to do.
• Ye Qingxian encouraged Lin Xiao not to deny his feelings or rush to choose, and urged him to ask whether Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan would accept his affection.
• Lin Xiao asked whether girls minded sharing a lover, and Ye Qingxian said it depended on how much they liked him before sending him away without answering his question about her own feelings.

Lin Xiao returned with six black Soul Rings and revealed that he had received the Asura God's Trial, then made his feelings for Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan clear. As the family discussed Spirit Hall and the imperial court’s shifting alliances, Lin Xiao gave Dugu Bo a powerful serpent Inner Core, prompting a teasing remark about a betrothal gift.

• Lin Xiao showed Dugu Bo and the others his six black Soul Rings and explained that he had obtained the Asura God's Trial.
• Lin Xiao held Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan's hands and promised to protect them, prompting Dugu Bo to celebrate his finally understanding the hint.
• Dugu Bo rejected Xue Beng's request to become his disciple after hearing the family's concerns about Xue Beng's conduct.
• Ye Qingxian raised Spirit Hall's growing pressure on the Five Great Element Academies, and Lin Xiao said he would help Shui Bing'er and her family if they were threatened.
• Dugu Bo and Lin Xiao discussed Emperor Xue Ye's possible alliance with the Clear Sky Sect, while Lin Xiao reassured Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan that he would protect them.
• Lin Xiao gave Dugu Bo the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's Inner Core, and Dugu Bo teased him by asking if it was a betrothal gift.

Lin Xiao teased Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan after Dugu Bo discussed studying the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's Inner Core, which he planned to give Dugu Yan afterward. The chapter left Lin Xiao declaring that Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan were both his after kissing them.

• Dugu Bo explained that he would study the Inner Core to improve his Poison Burst Technique, then give it to Dugu Yan to refine.
• Ye Lingling complained that Lin Xiao had given Ye Qingxian a gift but nothing to her, while Dugu Yan and Ye Qingxian teased him.
• Lin Xiao spanked Ye Lingling and told her that everything he had was hers, then whispered that he had a gift for her.
• Ye Lingling ran to her bedroom, where Lin Xiao followed, teased her, and kissed her while declaring she belonged to him.
• Lin Xiao left Ye Lingling's bedroom, slapped Dugu Yan's backside, kissed her, and declared that she belonged to him too.

Xue Beng and Prince Xue Xing planned to strengthen their position against the Crown Prince by having Xue Beng marry Dugu Yan. Dugu Bo rejected the proposal and called Xue Beng unworthy, leaving Xue Beng furious and Prince Xue Xing scrambling to apologize.

• Xue Beng told Prince Xue Xing that he feared the Crown Prince would kill him, and the two resolved to oppose the Crown Prince rather than wait for disaster.
• Prince Xue Xing proposed seeking Poison Douluo’s support through a marriage between Xue Beng and Dugu Yan, and Xue Ye approved the plan.
• Prince Xue Xing and Xue Beng visited Dugu Manor, where Dugu Bo immediately rejected the proposal and said Yan Yan’s future was not repayment for a favor.
• Xue Beng challenged Dugu Bo’s refusal and demanded to hear Dugu Yan’s answer, but Dugu Bo pressured him and declared him unworthy.
• Prince Xue Xing saw Dugu Bo’s anger and hurriedly apologized as Xue Beng insisted he would not believe the rejection without hearing it from Dugu Yan.

Lin Xiao and Dugu Yan rejected Xue Beng’s marriage proposal, deepening the rift between Xue Beng, Prince Xue Xing, and Dugu Bo. After Lin Xiao warned Qian Renxue that Xue Beng might be hiding his true nature, she considered having him castrated; a month later, a letter from the Star Luo Empire arrived.

• Dugu Bo summoned Lin Xiao and Dugu Yan to Dugu Estate, where Prince Xue Xing and Xue Beng were waiting to propose marriage.
• Dugu Yan rejected Xue Beng, and Lin Xiao declared that both Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling belonged to him, prompting Xue Beng and Prince Xue Xing to leave.
• Lin Xiao told Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, that Xue Beng might be pretending to be a wastrel, and Qian Renxue considered having him castrated to eliminate his claim to the throne.
• Lin Xiao spent a month in Heaven Dou City inspecting the Strength Clan, meeting Ning Fengzhi, cultivating, and spending time with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling.
• Lin Xiao received a letter from the Star Luo Empire.

Lin Xiao received Zhu Zhu Yun’s report about the Ashen Mountain Range and the growing tensions between the Star Luo and Heaven Dou Empires, while considering how to draw Oscar into Heaven Dou’s service. Meanwhile, Pufferfish Douluo stopped Xue Beng’s attempted assault and crippled him, leaving his fate dependent on whether he kept behaving himself.

• Lin Xiao read Zhu Zhu Yun’s letter about a dangerous mountain range that might hold something he needed and learned that Dai Mubai had disappeared while Dai Weisi gained influence.
• Lin Xiao considered the Shrek survivors’ circumstances and decided Oscar’s talent should be recruited by the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Xue Beng convinced himself that his lustful behavior had successfully disguised his ambitions from the Crown Prince.
• Xue Beng dragged a timid-looking young woman into an alley, where she knocked him unconscious as Pufferfish Douluo watched.
• Pufferfish Douluo dismissed the undercover Spirit Hall agent and crushed Xue Beng’s testicles, warning through his actions that Xue Beng’s survival depended on behaving himself.

Qian Renxue abandoned her plan to frame the Star Luo Empire and resolved to approach Lin Xiao again after Spirit Hall’s conquest. Lin Xiao prepared to visit the Blue Silver Grass Clan Grounds and then Ashen Mountain Valley, while Feng Yu urged him to cultivate toward Soul Sage.

• Qian Renxue canceled her plan to use Ye Qingxian to sow discord and decided to personally persuade Emperor Xue Ye to clash with the Star Luo Empire, using Dugu Bo to weaken it.
• Lin Xiao reassured Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan before preparing to leave, and he wrote Shui Bing'er a letter after learning she was busy in Skywater City.
• Lin Xiao planned to visit the Blue Silver Grass Clan Grounds to check on Tang San and Tang Hao before traveling to Ashen Mountain Valley.
• Feng Yu told Lin Xiao to focus on cultivation because reaching Soul Sage would unlock greater strength and the effects of his Phoenix Bloodline.

Lin Xiao learned that Tang San had vanished from the Blue Silver Grass Clan Grounds and heard Ah Yin’s report about the Lake of Life. He traveled to the Ashen Mountain Range, where Zhu Zhuyun’s letter confirmed that Burning Fire Valley held dangerous secrets, and flew there in search of a Living Volcano and possible Phoenix Bone clues.

• Ah Yin told Lin Xiao that Tang San had disappeared three days earlier, and Lin Xiao reassured her before checking on the mutilated Tang Hao.
• Ah Yin reported that the Blue Silver Grass seeds had spread throughout the Lake of Life and that two terrifying Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts were there alongside Xiao Wu.
• Lin Xiao traveled to the Ashen Mountain Range with Feng Yu and realized Burning Fire Valley might contain both the Living Volcano needed for her Nirvana and clues about the Phoenix Bone.
• Lin Xiao used his secret code to meet Zhu Zhuyun’s contact, who gave him a letter describing the Star Luo Royal Family’s failed expeditions into the Ashen Mountain Range.
• Lin Xiao concluded that Burning Fire Valley hid something valuable and flew there despite the danger.

Lin Xiao entered Burning Fire Valley and discovered that its strange magnetic field and falling meteors were connected to Feng Yu’s Phoenix Bone. He and Feng Yu found the bone inside a powerful Crimson Demon Azure Kite Bird, and Feng Yu moved to retrieve it herself.

• Lin Xiao flew into Burning Fire Valley, where a strange magnetic field disrupted his Spiritual Detection and crimson meteors repeatedly targeted him.
• The meteors stopped when Lin Xiao summoned the Crimson Sky Sword, and Feng Yu explained that her Phoenix Bone was likely drawing them in and recognized the sword’s aura.
• At the valley’s magma lake, Feng Yu sensed her Phoenix Bone nearby, but a sixty-thousand-year-old Crimson Demon Azure Kite Bird suddenly attacked Lin Xiao.
• Feng Yu revealed that the bird had swallowed her Phoenix Bone, transformed into her recovered Phoenix form, and confronted it.
• The Crimson Demon Azure Kite Bird trembled under Feng Yu’s bloodline aura as she enveloped it in four-colored flames to retrieve the bone.

Lin Xiao and Feng Yu killed the Crimson Demon Azure Kite Bird and used the energy from Feng Yu’s Phoenix Bone to form a Torso Bone for him. After absorbing the bone and the Spirit Ring, Lin Xiao reached Level 70, gained the Compatibility skill, and completed the second Asura God trial, leaving him ready to undergo Nirvana with Feng Yu.

• The Crimson Demon Azure Kite Bird briefly broke free of Feng Yu’s bloodline suppression, but Feng Yu subdued it and recovered her Phoenix Bone.
• At Feng Yu’s request, Lin Xiao struck the wounded bird with Burning Soul Splitting Spirit Wave and finished it with Flame Burst.
• Feng Yu drew energy from the bird with her Phoenix Bone, catalyzing a Torso Bone and explaining that she planned to undergo Nirvana with Lin Xiao after he became a Soul Sage.
• Lin Xiao absorbed the Torso Bone and the bird’s Spirit Ring, reaching Level 70 and gaining the Compatibility Spirit Skill.
• The Asura God’s Second Trial was completed, and the age of Lin Xiao’s Spirit Bones and Spirit Rings increased by ten thousand years.

Lin Xiao displayed his Phoenix True Body, revealing strength enough to challenge even a Titled Douluo, then joined Feng Yu in a painful Nirvana beneath the earth. Outside the Ashen Mountain Range, the Phoenix Cry caused a massive disturbance and drew the attention of the Star Luo Royal Family.

• Lin Xiao received the Asura God's Third Trial, which tasked him with mastering the Asura Domain and rewarded him with greater Asura Affinity and increased Spirit Bone age limits.
• Lin Xiao released his Phoenix True Body, and his Four-Colored Phoenix Fire convinced him that he could fight and kill a Titled Douluo.
• Feng Yu guided Lin Xiao into the lava and used the Phoenix Bone to encase them in an earth-vein eggshell as they began Nirvana together.
• Lin Xiao and Feng Yu endured the Phoenix Bone's burning energy, sensing each other's presence as their feelings grew closer.
• Lin Xiao's Phoenix Cry shook the Ashen Mountain Range, causing beasts to bow and prompting rumors of a rare treasure.
• The Old Woman reported the disturbance to the Grand Prince Consort.

Zhu Zhuyun considered letting Lin Xiao die in the Ashen Mountain Range so Dai Weisi could become emperor, but the Fire Lotus Mark he had placed on her made her determined to bring him under her control instead. Dai Weisi sent forces to seek the rumored treasure and mistook Zhu Zhuyun's early departure for proof of her devotion to him.

• Zhu Zhuyun learned that the royal family had blockaded the Ashen Mountain Range to claim a rumored rare treasure and feared Lin Xiao was in danger there.
• Zhu Zhuyun considered betraying Lin Xiao for a future as empress, but the crimson Fire Lotus Mark reminded her that Dai Weisi might kill her if he discovered it.
• Dai Weisi celebrated Dai Mubai's disappearance and Zhu Zhuqing's break with him while planning revenge on Lin Xiao and supporting war against the Heaven Dou Empire.
• After hearing reports of scarlet clouds and Heavenly Fire meteorites in the Ashen Mountain Range, Dai Weisi ordered a team to search for the treasure and asked Zhu Zhuyun to investigate first.
• Dai Weisi learned Zhu Zhuyun had already departed and concluded that she had rushed ahead out of love for him.