Recaps

After three days of seclusion, Madara returned in time to see Tang San before the finals and gave him two soul bones to strengthen him. He revealed that he had killed more than a thousand Great Apes to obtain them, leaving Tang San grateful but alarmed by his brother’s brutality.

• Tang San worried over Madara’s absence, but Yu Xiaogang told him to focus on training and trust his brother’s promise.
• As Tang San prepared to attend the pre-battle meeting, Madara opened his door and returned, reassuring him that he had kept his word.
• Madara gave Tang San two Great Ape arm soul bones, and Tang San accepted them after Madara insisted they would suit his fighting style.
• Madara told the group he had killed more than a thousand Great Apes, prompting Yu Xiaogang to condemn his actions and Tang San to urge him not to go to such extremes for his sake.
• Madara encouraged Tang San to absorb the soul bones and win the championship, while Tang San noticed his brother’s exhaustion and resolved to fight for victory.

Shrek Academy encouraged the Shrek Seven Devils before their final against Spirit Hall, and Tang San faced Yan alone as the battle began. Yan’s strength overwhelmed Tang San, but Tang San steadied himself and prepared to fight back.

• Grandmaster, Liu Erlong, Flender, and Madara offered the Shrek Seven Devils encouragement before Dai Mubai led them in a pledge to win.
• Bibi Dong arrived at the arena, allowed Shrek to remain standing, and ordered the match to begin.
• Yan taunted Tang San over his brother and attacked him, while Tang San followed the team’s plan and the other Shrek members engaged Spirit Hall’s team.
• Yan’s Demon Shadow Heavenly Claw battered Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass, then his punch sent Tang San skidding across the stage and left him struggling to suppress a mouthful of blood.
• Madara nearly intervened and challenged Grandmaster’s plan, but Grandmaster said he believed in Tang San; Tang San gathered his strength and prepared to continue fighting Yan.

Tang San and the Shrek Seven Devils defeated Spirit Hall’s Fox Charm fusion with their seven-in-one Clear Sky Hammer attack, but Yan launched a devastating counterattack. As Tang San rushed to protect his exhausted companions, Xiao Wu charged ahead to confront Yan’s flaming skull.

• Oscar and Ma Hongjun drove four Spirit Hall members off the arena, while the Hell White Tiger fusion was broken apart.
• Xie Yue and Hu Liena used their Fox Charm martial soul fusion, but Tang San led the Shrek Seven Devils in a seven-in-one attack that knocked them from the arena with the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Yan formed a giant flaming skull and hurled it at the exhausted Shrek Seven Devils.
• Tang San rushed to face the attack, but Xiao Wu passed him and activated her Fourth Spirit Skill, Invincible Golden Body.

Tang San fought Yan after Xiao Wu was badly injured, determined to win the championship despite the strength gap. With Madara’s Soul Bone and his final reserves of Soul Power, he unleashed Susanoo’s finishing blow and remained standing after Bibi Dong cleared away the destruction.

• Xiao Wu was gravely wounded by Yan’s attack, and Tang San carried her to his companions before returning to the arena.
• Madara praised Tang San’s resolve, while Grandmaster worried that he was risking his life by continuing to fight.
• Tang San battled Yan with the Clear Sky Hammer and the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, but Yan overpowered and bloodied him.
• Tang San swallowed Oscar’s final sausage and used the left arm Soul Bone Madara had given him to manifest Susanoo’s enormous arm.
• Tang San crushed Yan’s negative ion energy sphere with Susanoo’s hand, creating a huge explosion.
• Bibi Dong dispelled the smoke and destruction, revealing Tang San standing with the Eight Spider Lances supporting him.

After Tang San’s victory, Ning Fengzhi visited Madara to negotiate for the Eight Inner Gates technique. Madara agreed to share it under a strict condition, then reflected on the growing conflicts that could lead to war.

• Tang San won the match for Shrek Academy but fainted from exhaustion, and Madara carried him to receive treatment.
• Tang San recovered enough to celebrate with Madara, while Shrek’s team rejoiced as champions.
• Ning Fengzhi arrived and asked to speak with Oscar, then sent Oscar away to discuss the Eight Inner Gates with Madara.
• Madara agreed to give Ning Fengzhi the technique if he swore to teach it only to direct family members with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul.
• Ning Fengzhi accepted the condition, and Madara planned to visit the sect later to settle the price.
• After Ning Fengzhi left, Madara sensed that hatred across the continent could ignite a war and resolved to work for peace.

At the Continental Elite Soul Master Competition’s award ceremony, Xiao Wu recognized the soul bones as connected to her mother’s death and attacked Bibi Dong. Chrysanthemum Douluo knocked her down, exposing her identity as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and Bibi Dong ordered her seized as Madara prepared to fight.

• Bibi Dong learned that Yan had survived, reprimanded Hu Liena and Xie Yue, and confirmed Spirit Hall would award the promised soul bones to Shrek.
• Madara urged Tang San to accept Shrek’s championship reward and reminded Mumu to stay by his side.
• Xiao Wu recognized the aura of the soul bones and believed Bibi Dong had killed her mother, so she rushed forward to attack.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo struck Xiao Wu and caused the hidden Lovesick Heartbreak Red to fall from her clothes.
• The Titled Douluos sensed Xiao Wu’s identity, and Bibi Dong ordered her seized as Shrek reacted in shock and Madara prepared to protect her.

Madara defended Xiao Wu alongside Tang San and the Shrek team when Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to capture her. After surviving Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo's combined attack, Madara refused to yield, and Bibi Dong stepped forward to kill him.

• Tang San stood between Xiao Wu and Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo, but Madara protected them with Susanoo.
• Dugu Bo and the Shrek team challenged Bibi Dong's demand to seize Xiao Wu, while Bibi Dong pressured them to surrender her.
• Madara defied Bibi Dong and faced Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo's combined attack, which badly damaged Susanoo and injured him.
• Madara laughed and refused to bow, convincing Bibi Dong that he would become a grave threat to Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong rose from her throne and advanced to kill Madara as a cloaked figure watched from the audience.

Tang Hao rescued Madara and Tang San from Bibi Dong, then brought them to his forest refuge. As Madara explained his plan to build a lasting power for peace, he urged Tang Hao to consider creating skills without relying on soul rings.

• Tang Hao blocked Bibi Dong’s attack on Madara, revealed himself, and drove her back with his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang Hao carried Madara, Tang San, and the others away from the Spirit Fighting Arena and brought them to the forest.
• Madara teased Tang Hao about his rough life in the forest, then discussed his intention to create a force that would preserve peace beyond his lifetime.
• Madara predicted that the continent would descend into chaos as accumulated hatred erupted, citing the grudges of Tang Hao and Xiao Wu.
• Madara started the campfire with Soul Power and explained that practice could produce abilities without soul rings, prompting Tang Hao to consider Self-Created Soul Skills.

Madara arranged for Xiao Wu to take Mumu into the depths of the Star Dou Great Forest, believing it was the safest place for his disciple. After entrusting Mumu to her, Madara left Tang Hao and his unconscious brother Tang San behind and set out for the City of Slaughter.

• Xiao Wu thanked Madara and Tang Hao for saving her, and Tang Hao told her to leave because Tang San could not yet protect her.
• Madara summoned Mumu, ordered him to go with Xiao Wu into the Star Dou Great Forest, and asked Xiao Wu to keep him safe.
• Tang Hao questioned why Madara had brought Mumu, and Madara explained that the forest’s powerful Spirit Beasts could protect him from Spirit Hall and give him a safe place to grow.
• Madara said farewell to Tang Hao and the still-unconscious Tang San, then declared that he was heading to the City of Slaughter.

Madara reached the town that served as the route to the City of Slaughter and entered its tavern, where visitors were required to drink human blood. After killing the tavern’s patrons, he uncovered the entrance to the City of Slaughter and left the terrified server behind.

• Madara arrived in the decaying town and scattered the people spying on him with his killing intent.
• Madara entered the tavern and asked the server how to reach the City of Slaughter.
• The server served Madara Bloody Mary, and Madara spat out the human blood and threatened the patrons.
• A bald brute attacked Madara, who killed him with his scythe and then slaughtered the other patrons.
• Madara cut through the bar to reveal a dark entrance, tossed the server a Gold Soul Coin, and headed toward the City of Slaughter.

Madara reached the City of Slaughter, where his arrival stirred the city and drew the attention of its guardian. After discovering that soul skills were forbidden, Madara easily defeated the Black Armored Knight Commander and entered the city, leaving Kelder baffled by how weak its defenses seemed.

• Madara's forehead mark appeared, causing the City of Slaughter to tremble and prompting a scarlet-eyed man to suppress the disturbance.
• Kelder emerged from Madara's mark, narrowly avoided Madara's sword, and warned him that the Nine-Headed Old Bat guarded the city.
• Madara reached the City of Slaughter's gate, where the Black Armored Knight Commander confronted him for breaking the rules and challenged him to a fight.
• Kelder explained that soul skills were forbidden, and Madara eagerly prepared to fight using his combat techniques.
• Madara struck the Black Armored Knight Commander and his horse with his war fan, then forced the defeated commander to lead him into the city.
• Madara dismissed the City of Slaughter as unimpressive, while Kelder cursed the Nine-Headed Old Bat for letting it become so pathetic.

Madara entered the City of Slaughter and learned about its brutal laws and the Hell Slaughter Arena. Delighted by the prospect of fighting there, he killed a criminal who had been stalking him.

• The Black Armored Knight Commander led Madara to the city gates and gave him a skull token before fleeing.
• The Black Veiled Girl introduced Madara to the City of Slaughter, where soul skills were unusable and the King of Slaughter ruled.
• Madara concluded that the city's sole rule was survival of the fittest as the girl described life in the outer city and inner city.
• The Black Veiled Girl explained that only a hundred consecutive victories in the Hell Slaughter Arena could earn someone the Slaughter God Title and a chance to leave.
• Madara welcomed the prospect of fighting in the arena and killed a criminal who had followed him, shooting him through the throat with a streak of black light.

Madara entered the City of Slaughter’s Hell Slaughter Arena, where he had to win one hundred consecutive duels to earn the Slaughter God Title. Before entering, he killed a giant for his Bloody Mary and left the bloodthirsty crowd fighting over the scraps.

• The Black Veiled Girl warned Madara that killing someone would end his protection early, but he dismissed the warning and followed her to the Hell Slaughter Arena.
• Kelder told Madara that he had to win one hundred consecutive arena matches to obtain the Slaughter God Title, and Madara eagerly chose to enter.
• Madara learned that admission cost a cup of Bloody Mary and demanded the giant ahead of him hand over his drink.
• When the giant attacked, Madara crushed his fist, took his dagger, and killed him with a strike beneath the jaw.
• The people in line scrambled to collect the giant’s blood while Madara took his own Bloody Mary and moved to the front of the line.

Madara entered the Hell Slaughter Arena and fought against its ruthless contestants, who joined forces to take him down. He was wounded by a bear-type Soul Master and welcomed the fight as a real battle.

• The Black Veiled Girl explained that participants did not have to pay Bloody Mary, but Madara entered the arena anyway.
• The referee began the slaughter match and disappeared as the contestants immediately attacked one another.
• A Soul Master charged Madara, who kicked him away; the man then rallied the remaining contestants to attack Madara together.
• Madara dodged a swordsman's strike and killed him with a silver-white projectile, then fought off more attackers with his Kunai and blade.
• A bear-type Soul Master pierced a corpse to wound Madara's chest, then declared that he would have to kill Madara to survive.

Madara fought and defeated a bear-type Soul Master in the Asura arena, surviving the opponent’s final desperate attack. The iron door opened for Madara alone, and he left the arena after giving his dead opponent one last look.

• The bear-type Soul Master revealed that he was a Soul Douluo and mocked Madara, who attacked him with ninja tools and a scythe.
• Madara severed the bear-type Soul Master’s wrist, but the wounded fighter cut off the dangling paw and charged at him.
• Madara dodged the charge and used his chain-linked scythe to evade the bear-type Soul Master’s attacks and wear him down.
• The bear-type Soul Master launched a final attack by blasting Madara’s embedded ninja tools toward him, but Madara blocked them with his War Fan.
• The bear-type Soul Master died, and the arena door opened for Madara, who left after looking back at the corpse.

After winning his first Hell Slaughter Arena match, Madara faced the Blood Drinkers, a gang seeking to exploit his newcomer status. He killed their leader with ease and judged the City of Slaughter to be a rotten place that had buried the purity of slaughter.

• Kelder urged Madara to win ninety-nine more matches, while the Black Veiled Girl congratulated him on defeating a rising star and explained that he could live in the City of Slaughter for a year.
• A one-eyed man named Lone Wolf and his men surrounded Madara, claiming that his arena kill had ended his newcomer protection.
• Madara stopped the Black Veiled Girl from intervening and asked her to identify the group; she explained that the Blood Drinkers were Evil Soul Masters before leaving.
• Lone Wolf threatened to take Madara along, so Madara broke his arm and killed him with a blood-red Kunai.
• Lone Wolf's men froze in terror, and Madara told Kelder that the city's chaos and evil had buried the pure nature of slaughter.

Madara tracked the Bloodthirsty Ones to their hidden lair and discovered that a strange old man was distributing pills called secret medicine to powerful Soul Masters. After the old man ordered his followers to capture Madara for use in medicine refining, Madara slaughtered them, leaving the old man alone and terrified.

• Madara killed the surviving Soul Master who had led him to the Bloodthirsty Ones' lair, then killed the two guards at its entrance.
• Madara used Sage Mode to sense the Evil Soul Masters hiding in the basement beneath the seemingly empty building.
• Madara watched the strange old man distribute secret medicine that made the Soul Masters' auras surge with power.
• The strange old man ordered his followers to capture Madara, calling him perfect material for medicine refining.
• Madara cut through the attacking Soul Masters until they fled, leaving the terrified strange old man alone in the basement.

Madara interrogated the dwarf old man and learned how his human-based Secret Medicine was made, then used Divine Slaughter's Domain to activate Kotoamatsukami and make him his own. Madara left the old man hidden away with Kamui, while Kelder fell dormant until Madara completed the Hell Slaughter Arena trial.

• Madara threatened the dwarf old man until he revealed that he used his Qiankun Cauldron martial soul to refine Secret Medicine from human beings and partnered with the Enforcement Team.
• Madara used the Sharingan's illusion to uncover the old man's history and learned he had never tried using Spirit Beasts as ingredients.
• Madara tried to use a Mangekyo technique but found that the City of Slaughter's restrictions prevented it from working.
• Madara persuaded Kelder to lend him Divine Slaughter's Domain, awakening the killing intent within him and temporarily overcoming the suppression.
• Madara used Kotoamatsukami to control the dwarf old man, then sent him away with Kamui.
• Kelder warned Madara that he would not awaken again until Madara completed the Hell Slaughter Arena trial.

Madara used Kamui to secure his escape from the City of Slaughter, but the Enforcement Team confronted him outside the building. He killed the attacking team members with ease, and Ye Yu prepared to fight him herself as a Soul Douluo.

• Madara planned to use Kamui to take people with him and build his own forces after leaving the City of Slaughter.
• Ye Yu confronted Madara with the Enforcement Team and demanded he hand over the wanted dwarf, but Madara said he had left no one alive in the building.
• The Enforcement Team attacked Madara, who killed their members with ninja tools, a scythe, and their own weapons.
• Madara killed the last fleeing soul masters and challenged the remaining Enforcement Team members to continue.
• Ye Yu revealed her eight soul rings and dagger martial soul, then challenged Madara to prove that soul skills would not defeat him.

Madara fought Ye Yu inside her Dark Night Rain Curtain and activated Bloodthirsty Sage Mode to overcome her concealment. As their battle continued, Ye Yu’s subordinates realized she was in trouble, and she was blasted out of the darkness into a wall.

• Ye Yu engulfed Madara in darkness and attacked with a Black Water Clone, trapping one of his feet in its sticky body.
• Ye Yu struck at Madara from behind, but he blocked her dagger and escaped the clone’s grasp.
• Madara closed his eyes and gathered blood energy and Soul Power, then activated Bloodthirsty Sage Mode as Ye Yu launched another attack.
• Madara sensed Ye Yu through her concealment, blocked her dagger with his Kunai, and kicked her away, breaking the Kunai in the process.
• Madara pursued Ye Yu through the darkness as her subordinates sent for reinforcements.
• Ye Yu was hurled out of the black mist and smashed into a wall, leaving a human-shaped crater.

Madara defeated Ye Yu and confronted Wang Yuyue, a Titled Douluo who asked him to spare her. They struck a bargain: Wang Yuyue would keep Tang San from facing trouble with the City of Slaughter authorities, and Madara would search for Wang Yuyue’s son, Wang Zi'an, after leaving.

• Madara gravely injured Ye Yu and nearly killed her while the Enforcement Team members were too terrified to intervene.
• Wang Yuyue blasted Madara away and asked him to spare Ye Yu, revealing that he was a level-90 Titled Douluo and one of the Enforcement Team’s captains.
• Madara refused to spare Ye Yu without a condition, then asked Wang Yuyue to prevent Tang San from facing trouble with the City of Slaughter authorities when he came to train.
• Wang Yuyue agreed to Madara’s condition and asked him to search for his son, Wang Zi'an, after leaving the City of Slaughter.

Madara learned that Wang Yuyue was Wang Zi'an's father and heard how he became a Titled Douluo through an unknown divine power. Wang Yuyue gave Madara a black bead and asked him to guide Wang Zi'an's growth, while warning that escaping the City of Slaughter would require more than winning one hundred arena matches.

• Madara asked Wang Yuyue about his past, and Wang Yuyue explained that disappointment over his weak innate talent led him to become an Evil Soul Master.
• Wang Yuyue said he fled to the City of Slaughter after Spirit Hall discovered him, where an unknown power raised him from Soul Saint to Titled Douluo and evolved his Martial Soul.
• Madara sensed that Wang Yuyue's power might come from another god and grew suspicious of its presence at the site of Asura God's trial.
• Wang Yuyue drew a black bead of strange energy from his Folding Fan Martial Soul and asked Madara to guide Wang Zi'an and give him the bead.
• Madara accepted the request and promised to take Wang Zi'an as his disciple, while Wang Yuyue warned that the King of Slaughter would not let him leave even after one hundred arena victories.
• Madara left to find lodging, and Ye Yu entered to question whether Wang Yuyue could trust him.

Madara claimed a house in the City of Slaughter after killing its owner, then was attacked in his spiritual world by a strange creature drawn to the bead Wang Yuyue had given him. With Kelder identifying it as the Rakshasa God's divine puppet, Madara prepared to destroy it completely using his Sharingan.

• Madara killed the bamboo-pole man who owned a house near the Hell Slaughter Arena and made the property his own.
• Madara cleared out the house, set aside his weapons, and fell asleep with Wang Yuyue's strange bead in his ninja tool pouch.
• A black-purple creature appeared in Madara's spiritual world and tried to kill him, shouting about the Asura God and an inheritor.
• Madara fought the creature as it copied his appearance and weapons, then repeatedly regenerated from his attacks.
• Kelder appeared and identified the creature as the Rakshasa God's divine puppet, explaining that Madara had to grind down its evil spiritual energy completely.
• Madara sliced the creature into chunks and summoned a gigantic Sharingan beneath the blood moon to finish it off.

Madara destroyed a Rakshasa God puppet that had attacked him in the Spirit Lake and learned it had targeted him as an Asura God inheritor. He suspected the King of Slaughter’s subordinate Wang Yuyue was connected to the Rakshasa power, then confronted Wang Yuyue and learned the dangerous bead had been intended for his son.

• Madara used the Sharingan’s beams to dissolve the Rakshasa divine puppet, which had tried to kill him and take over his body.
• Kelder explained that the puppet belonged to the Rakshasa God, and Madara identified Wang Yuyue’s violet bead as its likely source.
• Madara realized Wang Yuyue possessed Rakshasa power and was favored by the King of Slaughter, prompting Kelder to fear that the Nine-Headed Bat King had betrayed the Asura God.
• The next morning, Madara entered a deathmatch at the Hell Slaughter Arena, then asked Wang Yuyue where his power came from.
• Wang Yuyue explained that the bead contained power he had tried to cleanse and had meant to give to his son, Wang Zi'an; Madara’s anger eased when he realized the mistake was unintentional.

Madara learned that Bloody Mary was addictive and made people violent, then questioned Wang Yuyue about the King of Slaughter and the continent’s strongest fighters. Wang Yuyue’s account of the King of Slaughter’s past battle with Qian Daoliu led Madara to suspect that the City of Slaughter’s original guardian had been replaced.

• Madara refused Bloody Mary, and Wang Yuyue warned him that it caused addiction and bloodthirsty behavior.
• Madara pressed Wang Yuyue about why he feared the King of Slaughter, but Wang Yuyue urged him to survive and fulfill his promise.
• Madara boasted that restored soul skills would let him escape even Bibi Dong, and Wang Yuyue told him that Qian Daoliu was far stronger than a Titled Douluo.
• Wang Yuyue revealed a rumor that the King of Slaughter had fought Qian Daoliu without either side winning.
• Madara learned that the King of Slaughter had entered the City of Slaughter from the continent and suspected the original guardian, the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King, had been killed.
• Madara became excited by the thought of powerful fighters hidden across the continent, and Wang Yuyue wondered if his warning had backfired.