Chapter Summaries

Luo Hao returned to Blue Tyrant Academy and, as its chief, sent the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team away without a fight. Blue Tyrant Academy celebrated, but Luo Hao then ordered everyone to stop gathering and get back to cultivating.

• Luo Hao introduced himself as Blue Tyrant Academy’s chief, prompting older students to tease freshmen who doubted his low Soul Power level.
• The first squad of the Imperial Fighting Team recognized Luo Hao and grew fearful because he had once defeated forty Soul Elders.
• Luo Hao declined the sparring match and told the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team to leave so Blue Tyrant Academy could welcome him back.
• Yufeng suggested that all three teams fight Luo Hao, but Osler rebuked him, and Flender led the team away after apologizing.
• Blue Tyrant Academy’s students cheered, and Luo Hao told the crowd to disperse and return to cultivating.

After driving the spectators away, Luo Hao reunited with Xiao Wu and joked about becoming a god before learning that Dugu Yan had come to see him. He slipped away from Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong’s jealous questioning and found Dugu Yan and Yu Tianheng waiting at the academy gate.

• The spectators fled the arena when Luo Hao appeared, leaving Liu Erlong, academy leaders, and Blue Tyrant Academy’s two strongest teams behind.
• Xiao Wu embraced Luo Hao, who teased that he would become a god and find her a godhood position; Liu Erlong dismissed his boast.
• A teacher told Luo Hao that Dugu Yan from the Imperial Fighting Team wanted to see him, prompting Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong to accuse him of flirting while he was away.
• Luo Hao escaped the two girls and went to the academy gate, where he found Dugu Yan and Yu Tianheng waiting.
• Luo Hao recognized Dugu Yan as Old Poison’s granddaughter, and Dugu Yan happily confirmed that he knew her grandfather.

Dugu Yan asked Luo Hao to treat her gravely injured grandfather, Dugu Bo, and led him away with Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong following along. As the group traveled through rocky mountains instead of toward Sunset Forest, Luo Hao began to suspect they were headed the wrong way.

• Dugu Yan told Luo Hao that Dugu Bo was seriously injured and needed his treatment, and Luo Hao agreed to go with her.
• Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong arrived, accused Dugu Yan of flirting with Luo Hao, and insisted on coming along.
• Luo Hao reassured the girls and privately planned to visit Dugu Bo’s herb garden and take some Immortal Herbs.
• Dugu Yan led the group onward, but Luo Hao noticed the rocky landscape did not seem to lead toward Sunset Forest.

Dugu Yan led Luo Hao, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong through Heaven Dou City's northern black-market district to Old Wang's Medical Hall, where they learned Dugu Bo was in critical condition. Luo Hao accidentally broke Old Wang's hand, then healed it and followed Dugu Yan inside to see her grandfather.

• Dugu Yan guided the group through the northern alleys of Heaven Dou City to Old Wang's Medical Hall.
• Old Wang told Dugu Yan that Dugu Bo's condition was poor, and she said she had brought Luo Hao to help him.
• Luo Hao mistook Old Wang for a hidden expert and broke his hand while shaking it.
• Old Wang accused Luo Hao of coveting his family's inherited prescriptions, but Luo Hao summoned his martial soul and began healing him.
• Dugu Yan scolded Luo Hao, then led the group inside to see Dugu Bo.

Luo Hao treated Dugu Bo after Tang Hao injured him and caused the concentrated toxins in his cracked head soul bone to leak out. Dugu Bo’s condition improved, and Luo Hao planned to return the next day while arguing that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well belonged to him.

• Old Wang led Luo Hao and the others to Dugu Bo, who was critically ill from leaking toxins and asked Luo Hao for help.
• Dugu Bo explained that Tang Hao had recovered his strength at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and cracked his head soul bone in their fight.
• Luo Hao used his martial soul’s purification ability to clear toxins from Dugu Bo’s vital areas and treat his injuries, exhausting his Soul Power.
• Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan thanked Luo Hao, while Dugu Bo regretted that he had not introduced Dugu Yan to him sooner.
• Luo Hao said he would return the next day and warned Dugu Bo not to get himself killed.

Luo Hao headed to Sunset Forest with Ice Empress to seek the remaining Immortal Herbs and planned to kill Tang Hao before he grew beyond Luo Hao’s control. Meanwhile, Tang Hao sensed an anomaly involving the Slaughter Domain, and a white figure fled Pope’s Palace after the same power engulfed it.

• Luo Hao sent Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong away, then left for Sunset Forest with Ice Empress hidden in his clothes.
• Luo Hao explained that he wanted to find the remaining Immortal Herbs and kill Tang Hao, while avoiding killing Tang San because he feared misfortune.
• Tang Hao listened for information about Spirit Hall’s Saint Son in Spirit City but learned almost nothing about Luo Hao.
• Tang Hao’s Slaughter Domain erupted in an inn, destroyed it, and frightened its guests as Tang Hao raced toward the City of Slaughter.
• A blood-red Slaughter Domain engulfed Pope’s Palace, then withdrew, and a white figure rushed out and disappeared.

Luo Hao sensed a strange force from the City of Slaughter while Ice Empress devoured the remaining Immortal Herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. The City of Slaughter emerged aboveground in a transformed labyrinth, drawing Soul Masters toward it.

• Liu Erlong's Slaughter Domain lost control at Blue Tyrant Academy, destroying the furniture in her office.
• Luo Hao's Slaughter Domain resonated with a mysterious force from the City of Slaughter, but Ice Empress felt nothing.
• Ice Empress ate the remaining Immortal Herbs, and Luo Hao learned that different people had previously stripped the garden in different ways.
• Luo Hao left the ruined herb garden with Ice Empress and headed back.
• The City of Slaughter burst aboveground beneath a blood-red barrier, with stone pillars replacing its buildings and the Hell Slaughter Arena still at its center.
• Soul Masters gathered around the transformed City of Slaughter, drawn by the apparent treasure inside.

Tang Hao and Bibi Dong entered the transformed City of Slaughter, each sensing a force drawing them toward its center. In the Hell Slaughter Arena, a battered survivor won a hundred-person melee, but black-armored soldiers arrived as a Soul Emperor healed him.

• Tang Hao saw Soul Masters flocking into the City of Slaughter and entered to investigate the disturbance and the opportunity he sensed there.
• Bibi Dong arrived at Tang Hao’s former position, recognized his Divine Slaughter's Domain, and pursued him.
• Tang Hao discovered the Slaughter Domain was an isolated space where enemies could attack anywhere, then fought his way toward its center.
• Bibi Dong entered the City of Slaughter and killed the fleeing attackers within the reach of her Slaughter Domain.
• A bloodied burly man won the Hell Slaughter Arena’s hundred-person melee, and black-armored soldiers arrived as a Soul Emperor healed him.

Tang Hao and Bibi Dong entered the Hell Slaughter Arena and unleashed their Slaughter Domains, but a strange short man interrupted their confrontation. He effortlessly cut through Bibi Dong’s defenses, leaving her shocked by his strength.

• Tang Hao entered the arena, recognized Bibi Dong, and released his Martial Soul, nine Soul Rings, and Slaughter Domain.
• Bibi Dong answered with her own Martial Soul, Slaughter Domain, and nine Soul Rings, splitting the arena between them.
• A short, black-robed man introduced himself as the trusted Slaughter King and asked to kill Tang Hao and Bibi Dong.
• Bibi Dong attacked the Slaughter King with her Death Spider Web, but he cut through the web and severed two of her spider legs.
• Bibi Dong tried to defend herself with Thorn Spider Armor, but the Slaughter King’s slash broke through it and left her astonished.

A mysterious dwarf defeated Tang Hao and drove Bibi Dong from the City of Slaughter, then killed the arena’s surviving contestants. Later, Luo Hao took Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu to the Heaven Dou Auction House and presented his stored-value card to qualify for the premium auction.

• The dwarf revealed his eight-ringed black sword Martial Soul and shattered Tang Hao’s Clear Sky Hammer with a blade strike.
• Tang Hao sacrificed his Soul Rings with Exploding Ring and escaped the City of Slaughter, but the dwarf’s slash left a massive crack in the arena wall.
• Bibi Dong tried to flee, but the dwarf’s blade split her in two; she reunited her body and escaped using Undying Body.
• The dwarf decided not to pursue them, cursed the Asura God, and killed the surviving arena contestants with his domain.
• Luo Hao took Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu to the Heaven Dou Auction House and handed an attendant his stored-value card to seek bidding certification for the premium auction.

Luo Hao, Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Wu attended a premium auction in Heaven Dou City, where their VIP status secured them black-section seats. Luo Hao found the early lots unimpressive, but the auctioneer announced an exceptionally rare treasure as the next item.

• Luo Hao received a one-year auction credential after his stored-value card made him a diamond-tier VIP.
• Luo Hao, Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Wu rejected the masks and followed an attendant into the auction hall.
• Tiantian led them to the black million-level VIP seats, while Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo took seats in the front row without noticing them.
• Ning Rongrong tried to call out to Ning Fengzhi, but Luo Hao covered her mouth and gestured for her to stay quiet.
• The auction opened with low-grade Soul Tools, which Luo Hao declined to buy.
• The auctioneer introduced the next lot as an exceptionally rare treasure.

Luo Hao bid against a masked buyer for a cat girl at the auction, drawing suspicion from Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong. After Prince Xue Xing raised the price to 1,100,000 Gold Soul Coins, Luo Hao stopped bidding and let him have her.

• The host revealed a cat girl in an iron cage and opened bidding at 100,000 Gold Soul Coins.
• Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong questioned Luo Hao's interest in the cat girl as he bid 500,000 Gold Soul Coins.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo found Luo Hao familiar, while a masked middle-aged man challenged him.
• Luo Hao traded bids with the masked man, who was Prince Xue Xing, until the price reached 1,100,000 Gold Soul Coins.
• Luo Hao told Prince Xue Xing to be his guest and withdrew from the bidding.

Luo Hao’s bidding at the Heaven Dou Auction House triggered Sword Douluo’s fury when he saw Luo Hao holding Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu and trying to buy a cat girl. After Ning Rongrong identified Luo Hao and insisted on staying with him, the group moved to a reception room, where Sword Douluo challenged Luo Hao’s motives for purchasing the cat girl.

• Ning Fengzhi noticed Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu in Luo Hao’s arms, and Sword Douluo unleashed his sword intent, shaking the Heaven Dou Auction House.
• Luo Hao released Ning Rongrong and tried to calm Sword Douluo, while Ning Rongrong revealed his identity and asked her grandfather to stop.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo confronted Luo Hao in a reception room, and Ning Rongrong declared that she had decided to stay with him.
• Sword Douluo accused Luo Hao of being a womanizer and questioned why he had spent a million Gold Soul Coins on the cat girl.
• Luo Hao argued that he had only bought the cat girl because he pitied her and wanted to save her.

Luo Hao challenged Sword Douluo to strike him three times, revealing that his third Soul Ring was a hundred-thousand-year ring. After Sword Douluo’s first attack barely affected him, the duel left everyone stunned by Luo Hao’s strength.

• Luo Hao argued with Sword Douluo and revealed his three Soul Rings, including a hundred-thousand-year third ring.
• Ning Fengzhi agreed that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would stop interfering in Luo Hao and Ning Rongrong’s relationship if Luo Hao endured Sword Douluo’s three strikes.
• Luo Hao, Ning Rongrong, Ning Fengzhi, and Sword Douluo went to a wasteland outside the city for the test.
• Sword Douluo attacked Luo Hao with a streak of sword light, but Luo Hao blocked it with one finger.
• Ning Rongrong revealed that Luo Hao had once beaten a Soul Saint to death, leaving Ning Fengzhi stunned.

Sword Douluo unleashed his ultimate attacks against Luo Hao, but Luo Hao remained unharmed and taunted him into using his strongest strike. The strike carved a huge ravine, leaving Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu anxiously wondering whether Luo Hao had survived.

• Sword Douluo used Myriad Swords Returning to Origin, filling the sky with phantom swords that struck Luo Hao and left a massive crater.
• Luo Hao leaped out of the crater unharmed and mocked Sword Douluo for holding back.
• Sword Douluo merged with his sword and released a sword intent that drew the attention of a mysterious figure in the City of Slaughter.
• Luo Hao healed himself and added a Soul Power shield and black armor before Sword Douluo's strongest strike landed.
• Sword Douluo's strike carved a hundred-meter-long ravine, and Xiao Wu asked Ning Rongrong whether Luo Hao was okay.

Luo Hao survived Sword Douluo’s attacks, and Ning Fengzhi agreed to stop opposing his relationship with Ning Rongrong while arranging for him to become a core disciple. In Sunset Forest, Tang Hao returned wounded to find the medicinal herbs gone and realized he had no way to treat his injuries.

• Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu heard Luo Hao coughing from the ravine and relaxed, while Sword Douluo worried about having attacked him.
• Luo Hao leaped out of the ravine unharmed and teased Sword Douluo and Ning Fengzhi about their failed attacks.
• Ning Fengzhi agreed to let Luo Hao and Ning Rongrong be together and told Ning Rongrong to register him as a core disciple of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Tang Hao returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with one arm missing and discovered that the medicinal herbs had been taken.
• Tang Hao realized his old injuries, depleted Soul Power, and the missing herbs left him unable to heal himself, and he gave up struggling to survive.

Tang Hao crushed his one-use communication jade pendant, and Tang San sensed it heating up and realized his father was in danger. Meanwhile, Luo Hao learned that the cat girl had been taken from the auction house and woke Ice Empress to help pursue her.

• Tang Hao crushed the communication jade pendant, causing Tang San to sense its signal and fear his father was in danger.
• Luo Hao returned to the closed Heaven Dou Auction House and asked whether the cat girl had been sold.
• The auction house manager told Luo Hao that the cat girl had been sold for 1.1 million Gold Soul Coins and taken away by a customer.
• Luo Hao left the auction house, took Ice Empress from his Ruyi Bag of a Hundred Treasures, and woke her.

Luo Hao tracked down Prince Xue Xing’s convoy carrying the captive cat girl and stopped it with a robbery. After Xue Xing recognized him and ordered his guards to attack, Luo Hao unleashed overwhelming pressure, forcing the convoy to its knees.

• Ning Rongrong pointed Luo Hao toward Prince Xue Xing’s residence, and Luo Hao set off with her and Xiao Wu.
• Ice Empress protested when Luo Hao tried to use her sense of smell, then rode on his shoulder and frightened Xiao Wu by threatening to roast her.
• Luo Hao spotted the convoy carrying the cat girl and told Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu to wait while he went ahead.
• Luo Hao masked his face, blocked the convoy, and declared a robbery.
• Prince Xue Xing recognized Luo Hao and ordered the two Soul Emperors to kill him.
• Luo Hao invoked Dugu Cao, then released immense pressure that forced Prince Xue Xing, the guards, and the Soul Emperors to their knees.

Luo Hao rescued a cat girl from a destroyed convoy and brought her back to the academy, where he assigned Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu to look after her. He then encountered Tailong being beaten by his father, Taino, and stepped in to warn him, leaving Tailong alarmed about what might happen next.

• Luo Hao freed the cat girl from her cage and carried her away after using gravity to subdue the arriving city guards.
• Luo Hao met up with Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong, then handed the cat girl to Ning Rongrong and told them to take her back to the academy and train her.
• Luo Hao returned to the academy and found Taino kicking Tailong while scolding him for losing his chief seat and being beaten.
• Tailong silently urged Luo Hao to leave, but Luo Hao identified Tailong as his classmate and warned Taino to show some mercy.

Luo Hao defeated Taino after evading his attacks and dragged him away to be ransomed for the damage to Blue Tyrant Academy. At Pope's Palace, Bibi Dong remained gravely injured and warned Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo that they could not defeat the man who had wounded her and Tang Hao.

• Taino attacked Luo Hao after learning he was the one who had injured Tailong.
• Luo Hao dodged Taino's attacks even after Taino used Martial Soul Possession and unleashed his full strength.
• Luo Hao struck Taino with a giant palm, defeated him, and dragged him away to be ransomed by Tailong's grandfather.
• Luo Hao told Tailong to bring plenty of money to cover Blue Tyrant Academy's losses.
• Bibi Dong spat blood at Pope's Palace while Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo worried over her injuries.
• Bibi Dong told Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo that they could not defeat the man who had wounded her and Tang Hao.