Chapter Summaries

Ye Wuyou’s team killed Bian Jikui and immediately set out to hunt Cai Xie’er, an eleven-year-old Evil Soul Master who had founded the Holy Spirit Cult. Their ambush failed to kill her, and the chapter ended with Cai Xie’er facing the attackers.

• Mao Tu, Ye Wuyou, and Fifteen returned to the Shadow Guard base with their team after killing Bian Jikui with a Carl Gustaf M4 recoilless rifle.
• Ye Wuyou revealed that he had eighty-five golden keys and announced that the team would hunt the remaining fugitives on the red wanted list.
• Ye Wuyou told the team about Cai Xie’er, an eleven-year-old Evil Soul Master who had devoured entire villages and reached Soul Power Level 68.
• Cai Xie’er devoured ten men, reached Level 69, and declared that she would establish a faction called the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Thirteen and Fifteen attacked Cai Xie’er with recoilless rifle shells, but she survived by transforming into black mist and devouring the flames.
• Cai Xie’er prepared to counterattack, but Mao Tu’s sniper bullet struck her black mist and forced her back.

Ye Wuyou and his allies fought Cai Xie'er, whose Heaven Devouring Demonic Art threatened to consume everything around her. When she began sacrificing her life to destroy the area, Ye Wuyou used Annihilation Life's Sorrow to erase her and her black energy.

• Cai Xie'er attacked Mao Tu with black energy, but Ye Wuyou rescued her with Shadow Escape as her Kar-98k vanished.
• Ye Wuyou ordered Thirteen, Fifteen, Zi Shu, and You Ji to fire on Cai Xie'er, forcing her to become black mist to evade the attacks.
• Ye Wuyou used Spirit Binding Chain to pierce Cai Xie'er's soul and disrupt her Heaven Devouring Demonic Art.
• Ye Wuyou struck Cai Xie'er with Deathly Stillness Execution, but she began burning her life force and spreading destructive black energy.
• Ye Wuyou unleashed Annihilation Life's Sorrow across a hundred-meter radius, breaking down Cai Xie'er's life force and erasing her black energy.

After using Death God's Three Scythes, Ye Wuyou recovered enough to lead his team through a month and a half of missions against fugitives. The team reached the Far North to confront three closely connected criminals, and Ye Wuyou's group spotted two of them by a campfire.

• Ye Wuyou returned to the Shadow Guard base with Mao Tu and the others, then had Mao Tu draw the Soul Power from the hexagram formation's eye and recover its golden key.
• Ye Wuyou spent a day unable to sense Soul Power; Gu Chen replenished his dantian, but Ye Wuyou remained weakened and could not use Death God's Three Scythes.
• Over the next month and a half, Ye Wuyou directed Zi Shu and the others as they killed weaker fugitives from the red wanted list.
• Ye Wuyou brought his five companions to the Far North to pursue a criminal group ranked eleventh, ninth, and seventh on the red wanted list.
• Ye Wuyou and the others concealed themselves near a campfire, where they identified Tang Wei, the seventh-ranked leader, and Nie Dai, the ninth-ranked infiltration and assassination specialist.

Zi Shu killed Nie Dai by ambush, but Tang Wei and Nong Long cornered him before he escaped under cover of purple smoke. Thirteen, Fifteen, and Mao Tu then killed the remaining two fugitives, and Ye Wuyou sent the team back to the Shadow Guard base with plans to make the teleportation keys available for public use.

• Tang Wei, Nie Dai, and Nong Long discussed their dwindling funds and the danger of the court's Shadow Guard finding them.
• Zi Shu emerged from concealment and killed Nie Dai with a poisoned dagger.
• Tang Wei and Nong Long attacked Zi Shu, but he used a metal ball to create purple smoke and escaped with his Night Cloak.
• Thirteen and Fifteen fired Carl Gustaf M4 recoilless rifle shells, killing Nong Long and severely injuring Tang Wei, whom Mao Tu then shot dead with a Kar-98k.
• Ye Wuyou led the team back through the hexagram array and gave Mao Tu golden keys to take to Shadow Guard headquarters for conversion into public Teleportation Arrays.

Ye Wuyou reported that he had eliminated the fugitives on the red wanted list, and Gu Chen decided they would storm Slaughter City to kill the remaining eleven. They reached the city’s entrance and forced their way into the underground passage, where Slaughter City welcomed them.

• Ye Wuyou told Gu Chen he had killed every fugitive on the red wanted list except the eleven in Slaughter City, and Gu Chen said they would force their way in.
• Gu Chen praised Ye Wuyou’s plan to charge civilians for using the golden-key Teleportation Arrays, then teleported with him to the town outside Slaughter City.
• At a tavern, Ye Wuyou killed more than twenty patrons who had mocked them, while Gu Chen warned him not to let killing intent affect his mind.
• Gu Chen killed the tavern’s waiters, smashed through the counter and the floor, and revealed the entrance to Slaughter City.
• Gu Chen and Ye Wuyou descended into a dark passage, where a voice welcomed them to Slaughter City after they had walked 1,462 steps.

Gu Chen and Ye Wuyou entered Slaughter City after Gu Chen defeated Terror Knight Scott without using Soul Power. They refused a guide’s protection and explored the city, where the outer and inner districts had sharply different atmospheres.

• Gu Chen and Ye Wuyou reached Slaughter City’s entrance, where Terror Knight Scott accused them of breaking the rules and challenged them to a trial.
• Gu Chen used Golden Dragon Shock Burst, powered only by blood energy, to stop Scott’s charge and shatter his left arm, passing the trial.
• Scott gave Gu Chen and Ye Wuyou identity tokens and asked how Gu Chen could use soul skills; Gu Chen dismissed his question.
• A veiled woman welcomed the pair into Slaughter City and offered to guide them for twelve hours, but Gu Chen refused her protection.
• Gu Chen and Ye Wuyou walked through the outer city, where many gaunt residents survived by entering the Hell Slaughter Arena or offering Bloody Mary, then stepped into the inner city.

Gu Chen and Ye Wuyou hunted their targets in Slaughter City, killing the curved-blade fighter after he won a battle in the Hell Slaughter Arena. They then located four more targets fighting twelve opponents in the inner city.

• Gu Chen and Ye Wuyou entered the inner city, where Gu Chen killed more than a dozen attackers with his blood energy.
• Ye Wuyou used the Thousand Mile Pursuit Instrument to locate one target in the Hell Slaughter Arena, seven in the inner city, and three in the outer city.
• Gu Chen and Ye Wuyou watched the curved-blade man survive the arena's final fight, though the dual-axe man's attack crippled his arms.
• As the curved-blade man left the arena, Ye Wuyou shot him in the forehead with his P9 pistol, and the two moved on without looking back.
• Ye Wuyou found four targets close together, and Gu Chen and Ye Wuyou saw them fighting twelve people; the four had already killed two attackers.

Ye Wuyou killed the fugitives in Slaughter City’s inner and outer districts, violating the outer city’s ban on killing and drawing the guards. Gu Chen intervened when the guards attacked Ye Wuyou, killed their Title Douluo leader, and turned on the fleeing Soul Douluo.

• Ye Wuyou threw a fragmentation grenade into a battle between four fugitives and their pursuers, then shot the survivors and finished them off.
• Ye Wuyou killed the remaining three fugitives in the inner city before returning to the outer city with Gu Chen.
• Ye Wuyou found two outer-city fugitives asleep and shot them, then killed the final target while Slaughter City’s guards rushed toward him.
• The guards’ Title Douluo leader attacked Ye Wuyou, but Gu Chen blocked the strike and killed the leader with a Golden Dragon Claw Strike.
• Gu Chen used Forbidden Heaven and Earth: Dragon Emperor Battle against the ten fleeing Soul Douluo.

Gu Chen defeated and severely wounded the Slaughter King, Tang Chen, after the King confronted him and Ye Wuyou for killing Slaughter City’s guards. Gu Chen spared Tang Chen and demanded that he open Hell Road so the two could leave.

• The Slaughter King learned that Slaughter City’s guards had been killed and flew to the outer district to confront Gu Chen and Ye Wuyou.
• The Slaughter King used his Slaughter Domain to suppress them, but Gu Chen’s Golden Dragon’s Berserk Domain overwhelmed it and reduced the fallen ones nearby to ashes.
• Gu Chen’s Forbidden Universe: Dragon Emperor Annihilation broke through the Slaughter King’s blood shield, but Tang Chen’s replenishing blood power dissipated the attack.
• Gu Chen struck Tang Chen with King’s Path, piercing his abdomen and severely injuring him while deliberately sparing his life.
• Gu Chen demanded that Tang Chen open Hell Road, and his Dragon Might forced the Slaughter King to lower his head.

Gu Chen and Ye Wuyou left Slaughter City without taking Divine Slaughter's Domain, and Gu Chen publicly rewarded Ye Wuyou for killing the wanted criminals. Ye Wuyou completed the Death God's Sixth Trial, reached level ninety-four, and evolved his Shadow Spirit into Death God's Shadow, which unexpectedly called him "Master."

• The Slaughter King offered Gu Chen and Ye Wuyou a passage out of Slaughter City, and they accepted.
• Gu Chen and Ye Wuyou traveled back to Spirit City, where Gu Chen arranged for Ye Wuyou to rest and issued a decree honoring his deeds.
• Ye Wuyou's fame spread across the Spirit Hall Empire, and people praised his strength while some criticized Gu Chen for favoring him.
• Ye Wuyou completed the Death God's Sixth Trial, gained two Soul Power Levels, and reached level ninety-four.
• Ye Wuyou's Shadow Spirit evolved into the god-grade Martial Soul Death God's Shadow, while his Soul Power changed into death energy that he could convert back.
• Death God's Shadow spoke to Ye Wuyou and called him "Master," startling him.

After completing the Death God's Sixth Trial, Ye Wuyou discovered that his spirit had evolved into a conscious Death God's Shadow and told Gu Chen he could defeat Miao Yuheng. He and Gu Chen traveled to the Death God Inheritance Temple for the Seventh Trial, where Ye Wuyou asked Deathly Silence to teach him the Death God Soul Trapping Formation.

• Death God's Shadow revealed that it had gained consciousness and could share memories with Ye Wuyou and use his soul skills; Ye Wuyou accepted it as his companion and weapon.
• Ye Wuyou told Gu Chen that his Sixth Trial had raised his Soul Power Level by two levels and let him freely convert Soul Power into death energy, and he claimed he could kill Miao Yuheng within half an hour.
• Ye Wuyou explained that his Seventh Trial required unsealing the Death God Scythe and asked Gu Chen to stand guard; Gu Chen agreed and opened a teleportation array to the Death God Inheritance Temple.
• Deathly Silence and the other eight enshrined prepared the Death God Soul Trapping Formation around the array, then recognized Ye Wuyou and welcomed him when he and Gu Chen appeared.
• Ye Wuyou asked Deathly Silence to teach him how to use the Death God Soul Trapping Formation.

Ye Wuyou learned that the Death God Altar was the sealed form of the Death God Scythe and that he needed to refill it with death energy to restore the artifact. As he began sealing the altar’s leaks, Gu Chen secretly gave him a clue about extinguishing its ghostfire.

• Deathly Silence explained that Ye Wuyou could not be taught the Death God Soul Trapping Formation and described Death God aura as a power only the Death God’s inheritor could possess.
• Deathly Silence revealed that the Death God Altar was formed from the Death God’s divine power and that Ye Wuyou had to stop its leaks and replenish its reserves to transform it back into the Death God Scythe.
• Ye Wuyou entered the altar and used his body to absorb death energy, discovering that six clusters of ghostfire were the sources of its leaks.
• Gu Chen secretly told Ye Wuyou that condensed death energy could extinguish ghostfire, and Ye Wuyou realized the ghostfire was dense death energy.
• Ye Wuyou poured death energy into the weakest cluster until a drop of liquid condensed at its center.

Ye Wuyou extinguished the six ghost flames on the Death God Altar and activated the scythe runes, stopping the altar from emitting death energy. Exhausted, he rested and recovered before returning to the altar to continue the divine trial.

• Ye Wuyou condensed death energy condensate from the ghost flames and used it to activate the six scythe runes, stopping the Death God Altar from emitting death energy.
• The activated runes formed a black symbol that slowly absorbed death energy to charge the altar over time.
• Ye Wuyou tried to keep charging the altar, but Gu Chen and the Death God enshrined urged him to rest because he had reached his limits.
• Gu Chen caught Ye Wuyou as he nearly collapsed, gave him food and water, and guarded him while he recovered for a day.
• After replenishing his Soul Power and enough spiritual power, Ye Wuyou returned to the Death God Altar and began transforming his Soul Power into death energy.

Ye Wuyou tried to fill the Death God Altar for the Seventh Trial, but even Deathly Silence’s Death God Crystal and his own were not enough. He was left searching for a source of death energy after the enshrined ones refused to lend him their crystals, and Gu Chen considered whether war was the only remaining option.

• Ye Wuyou connected to the Death God Altar and realized its fist-sized Death God Crystal held only thirty percent of the required death energy.
• Ye Wuyou remembered the fist-sized Death God Crystal from Deathly Silence and used it to supply the altar over seven days.
• Ye Wuyou added his own Death God Crystal, but the altar still lacked nearly ten percent of its capacity.
• Ye Wuyou asked the nine enshrined ones to lend him their Death God Crystals, but Deathly Silence refused because the Seventh Trial had begun.
• Ye Wuyou lamented that gathering death energy would take too long and rejected provoking a war, while Gu Chen considered the dangers of launching another campaign.

Gu Chen took Ye Wuyou to the Earth plane where Xuan Mo was undergoing his divine trial so Ye Wuyou could gather death energy from zombies and beast corpses. After discovering that stronger corpses held far more death energy, they flew toward the ruins of a former city to find more targets.

• Gu Chen proposed using the interdimensional Teleportation Array to hunt zombies, and the nine offerings agreed to guard it as he and Ye Wuyou traveled to Earth.
• Ye Wuyou discovered that zombies radiated death energy, and Gu Chen killed the surrounding zombies, yielding far more energy than human deaths would.
• Gu Chen brought a second-tier zombie to Ye Wuyou, who drained its death energy and killed it; they concluded that death energy sustained zombies and powered their strength.
• Ye Wuyou expanded his Death God Domain and drained the energy from attacking flying beast corpses, learning that one fifth-tier corpse held as much death energy as a thousand humans.
• Gu Chen and Ye Wuyou flew toward the ruins of a former second-tier city, where they expected to find dense groups of zombies and high-tier corpses.

Ye Wuyou absorbed the death energy of millions of zombies in an old city, then used it to activate the Death God Altar. The altar transformed into the Death God Scythe, the Death God’s inherited divine artifact.

• Ye Wuyou expanded his Death God Domain across the old city ruins, draining the death energy from the zombies and beasts there.
• After an hour, Ye Wuyou had wiped out all the city’s zombies and accumulated more death energy than his body could safely contain.
• Ye Wuyou and Gu Chen returned through the Teleportation Array to the Death God Inheritance Temple, where Ye Wuyou explained the zombie-filled plane to the nine enshrined ones.
• Ye Wuyou used the Death God Altar to compress most of his death energy into Death God Crystals, then injected enough remaining energy to activate the altar.
• The activated altar broke free from the ground and transformed into a towering black scythe, which Ye Wuyou recognized as the Death God Scythe.

Ye Wuyou discovered that his Seventh Trial required him to win the Death God Scythe’s recognition, then used the Death God aura within Death God's Shadow to communicate with its newly born artifact spirit. The spirit accepted him as its master, allowing him to grasp the scythe and complete the trial’s final hurdle.

• Great Enshrined Deathly Silence explained that Ye Wuyou had to gain the Death God Scythe’s recognition, and Second Worship revealed that Lord Death God had added the task to his Seventh Trial.
• Ye Wuyou examined the Death God Scythe with his spiritual power and identified the energy within it as Death God aura.
• Ye Wuyou realized that Death God's Shadow contained the same Death God aura as the scythe.
• Ye Wuyou used Death God's Shadow as a bridge to reach the Death God Scythe’s naïve artifact spirit and offered to show it the outside world.
• The artifact spirit agreed to acknowledge Ye Wuyou as its master, the invisible barrier vanished, and Ye Wuyou grasped the Death God Scythe.

After completing the Seventh Trial, Ye Wuyou gained two Soul Power levels and began transforming his cultivation system for the Death God inheritance. He discovered a transitional energy that could unite Soul Power and death energy, but struggled to keep it stable.

• Ye Wuyou completed the Seventh Trial, reached Soul Power Level ninety-six, and received the Death Energy Combat Method and the Death Energy-to-Death God Aura Conversion Method.
• Ye Wuyou explained that the Eighth Trial required him to fuse Soul Power with death energy and convert all nine Spirit Rings into death energy Spirit Rings.
• Gu Chen suggested Ye Wuyou study the transitional stage between Soul Power and death energy while converting them.
• Ye Wuyou slowly converted the energies, identified a brief transitional energy with traits of both, and realized it could be released through his martial soul without harming him.
• Ye Wuyou told Gu Chen that the transitional energy lasted less than a millisecond and was too difficult for him to seize with his current spiritual power.

Gu Chen used a temporary mental power enhancement to help Ye Wuyou stabilize the New Death Energy in his body and complete the first stage of the divine examination. Ye Wuyou then explained that his next task was to transform his Spirit Rings into death energy Spirit Rings.

• Gu Chen searched the System Mall and bought a High-Level Mental Power Enhancement Trial Card for Ye Wuyou.
• The card increased Ye Wuyou’s mental power enough to surpass Deathly Silence’s, and Gu Chen warned that the effect would last only one hour.
• Ye Wuyou used his enhanced mental power to identify and stabilize the New Death Energy, converting all the energy in his body and completing the first stage of the divine examination.
• Ye Wuyou said he next needed to transform his Spirit Rings into death energy Spirit Rings so he could use his soul skills.
• Ye Wuyou explained that death energy Spirit Rings combined death energy with Soul Power and could preserve abilities even after their Soul Power was stripped away.

Gu Chen explained how Ye Wuyou could convert his Soul Rings into death energy Spirit Rings by guiding Death God aura along their Soul Power paths. Ye Wuyou transformed all nine rings, including his hundred-thousand-year rings, before the chapter ended with an author’s note about an extra chapter after exams.

• Gu Chen told Ye Wuyou to memorize the Soul Power trajectories in his nine Soul Rings and inject high-quality death energy into them.
• Ye Wuyou used his enhanced Mental Power to memorize the trajectories and converted death energy from a Death God Crystal into Death God aura.
• Ye Wuyou guided Death God aura into his first ten-thousand-year Spirit Ring until it circulated independently and became a death energy Spirit Ring.
• Ye Wuyou used the method to transform his remaining eight Soul Rings, with the ninth taking five hours to complete.
• Ye Wuyou saw that his hundred-thousand-year Spirit Rings had become nearly gray and opaque after the transformation.