Chapter Summaries

Li Yuan followed Village Chief Duke’s map to the City of Slaughter, disguising himself as a sinister old villain before entering its tavern. After killing the criminals who attacked him, he used his First Soul Skill to force the tavern keeper to answer whether the tavern’s wine was properly aged.

• Li Yuan left Juhua with Grandpa Duke and traveled to the border in search of the City of Slaughter.
• Li Yuan killed a murderous traveler who attacked him, then found the mist-shrouded town and disguised himself as a white-haired old man with a group of clones.
• Li Yuan entered the tavern in a sedan chair and demanded that the tavern keeper show him the entrance to the City of Slaughter.
• Li Yuan mocked the dark red human blood presented as wine and smashed the cup over the tavern keeper’s head.
• The tavern’s criminals rushed Li Yuan, but his clones killed them all.
• Li Yuan used his First Soul Skill to make the injured tavern keeper focus on him and asked whether the wine was properly aged.

Li Yuan entered the City of Slaughter, where its rules sealed his soul skills but left him powerful enough to defeat Death Knight Snake. He forced Snake’s soldiers to carry him into the city with a grand procession.

• Li Yuan bullied the bartender into opening the underground entrance to the City of Slaughter and rode down in a sedan chair carried by his clones.
• The City of Slaughter’s domain sealed Li Yuan’s soul skills, making his clones disappear, though his Transformation Technique remained intact.
• Death Knight Snake confronted Li Yuan at the city gate, but Li Yuan knocked him away with a punch and killed his warhorse.
• Snake gave Li Yuan a skull token numbered 666 and agreed to have soldiers carry him into the city.
• Li Yuan made Snake’s soldiers beat gongs and drums and shout slogans as they carried him through the gate into the black underground city.

Li Yuan entered the City of Slaughter and learned that its only route to freedom was to win one hundred matches in the Hell Slaughter Arena and survive the Hell Road. Eager to test himself in the lawless inner city, he ordered Death Knight Snake and the soldiers to carry him onward with their music playing.

• Li Yuan arrived at the City of Slaughter in a sedan chair while Death Knight Snake and the Black Armored Soldiers beat gongs, played drums, and shouted slogans.
• The Woman in Black Veil welcomed Li Yuan and explained that the city had few rules, but escape required one hundred Hell Slaughter Arena victories and survival of the Hell Road.
• Li Yuan asked to see the Hell Slaughter Arena, and the Woman in Black Veil warned him that each match left only one survivor.
• The Woman in Black Veil explained that arena survivors could enter the inner city, where people could do as they pleased but faced greater danger.
• Li Yuan eagerly ordered Death Knight Snake to carry him into the inner city and told the soldiers to keep the music playing.

Li Yuan entered the City of Slaughter and used his self-created abilities to overpower its violent residents. He began recruiting survivors for the Star Constellation Sect, leaving them terrified and asking what talents they could offer.

• Snake led the Black Armored Soldiers in carrying Li Yuan into the inner city, where the Woman in Black Veil explained that no guards enforced rules there.
• After Snake and the soldiers left, Li Yuan killed a man with Lightning Release: Rasengan and invited the nearby residents to join the Star Constellation Sect.
• The residents attacked Li Yuan, but his Golden Light Spell and innate strength let him defeat them and kill those who tried to flee.
• Li Yuan asked the survivors to join his sect, killed a defiant man who insulted him, and received a tearful declaration of willingness from a gaunt middle-aged man.
• Li Yuan asked the middle-aged man what talents he had, leaving him bewildered about what skills mattered in the City of Slaughter.

Li Yuan subdued the surviving villains in the City of Slaughter, built up his Star Constellation Sect, and entered the Hell Slaughter Arena, where he began winning brutal matches. After ambushers attacked him, he spent months using force and warnings to impose his own order on the city.

• Li Yuan recruited the surviving villains into the Star Constellation Sect, assigning those with talents to perform and letting the rest follow behind and flatter him.
• Li Yuan had his followers take a Bloody Mary from a slain contestant so he could enter the Hell Slaughter Arena, then registered for a match.
• Li Yuan won fights in the arena using his strength and self-created skills, while his opponents wondered how he could use soul skills in the City of Slaughter.
• After Li Yuan's first match, villains ambushed him, and he fought his way across the city for three days and nights.
• Li Yuan spent the following months beating the city's criminals into submission, killing those who refused to obey and admitting the compliant into his sect.

Li Yuan’s Star Constellation Sect brought basic order to the City of Slaughter, while the King of Slaughter ordered his followers not to interfere. After completing his thirteenth Hell Slaughter Arena match, Li Yuan encountered Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation entering the city and learned they had come to train because of his earlier influence.

• Li Yuan established three rules in the City of Slaughter and enforced them through patrols and lethal punishment, gradually curbing street violence and public indecency.
• The King of Slaughter learned about Li Yuan’s rules but refused to let his subordinates act against him, warning a woman who pressed him to intervene.
• Li Yuan finished his thirteenth Hell Slaughter Arena match and was carried home in a lavish procession by Star Constellation Sect disciples.
• Li Yuan recognized Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan arriving in the City of Slaughter; he realized Xie Yue had chosen to train there, with Hu Liena and Yan following him.
• Hu Liena asked the black-veiled guide who Li Yuan was, and the guide identified him as Ding Chunqiu, the Old Immortal who had established the inner city’s rules.

Li Yuan and the Spirit Hall trio completed one hundred victories in the Hell Slaughter Arena, and the King of Slaughter offered to make them Slaughter Gods without facing the Hell Road. All four refused and prepared to continue their challenge.

• The black-veiled guide told the Spirit Hall trio about Ding Chunqiu’s rules and led them to the Hell Slaughter Arena.
• Over the following year, Li Yuan restored some order to the City of Slaughter and waited for the trio to near one hundred victories so they could challenge the Hell Road together.
• Li Yuan won his hundredth match, and the Spirit Hall trio entered the arena after completing their own hundred victories.
• The King of Slaughter congratulated the four champions and offered them the title of Slaughter God if they abandoned the Hell Road challenge.
• Li Yuan and the Spirit Hall trio rejected the offer because they wanted Divine Slaughter’s Domain, and Li Yuan also sought something Grandpa Duke had said was on the Hell Road.

Li Yuan and The Trio from the Spirit Hall chose to brave Hell Road together, forcing the King of Slaughter to open it by sacrificing the arena’s spectators. The four were transported underground, where Li Yuan’s bloodline resonated with the slaughter power while The Trio from the Spirit Hall began to suffer from it.

• Li Yuan and The Trio from the Spirit Hall refused the King of Slaughter’s offer and insisted on entering Hell Road together.
• The King of Slaughter released an evil aura that drove the arena’s spectators mad and killed them, using their blood to form a bat-shaped pattern that opened Hell Road.
• Red light swallowed Li Yuan and The Trio from the Spirit Hall and carried them down a tunnel; Li Yuan’s bloodline power resonated with the slaughter power, while the trio’s senses were sealed.
• The four landed on a small underground platform, where Li Yuan found the slaughter power invigorating and The Trio from the Spirit Hall awoke in pain, surrounded by blood mist.

Li Yuan purged the Spirit Hall trio of the slaughter power corrupting them, and the four began crossing Hell Road together. When a huge swarm of blood bats blocked their narrow path, Li Yuan prepared to fight and devour the slaughter power within them.

• Yan lost control, so Li Yuan punched him and then used his Bloodline Power to devour the slaughter power from Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena.
• After the trio recovered, Hu Liena tied the four together with a rope, and Li Yuan led them onto Hell Road.
• As they walked, Li Yuan sensed rising heat and the blood river drawing closer, then warned the others that something was approaching.
• Thousands of blood-colored bats flew toward the group, and Li Yuan sensed the slaughter power inside them stirring his Bloodline Power.
• The bats halted and beat their wings to blow the group off the path, so Li Yuan roared and announced his Great Technique of Power Dissipation.

Li Yuan used his disguised Universal Pull to fight off the blood bats on Hell Road, then charged the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat when it appeared. After the bat split into smaller bats and sent him falling toward the river of blood, Hu Liena caught him with her fox-tail soul bone but could not pull up his heavy body.

• Li Yuan used Universal Pull disguised as the Great Technique of Power Dissipation to draw in and kill dozens of blood bats, while the rest attacked and then kept their distance.
• Li Yuan led Hu Liena, Yan, and the other Spirit Hall companion onward as the bats harassed them and the air grew hotter.
• The blood bats gathered around the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat, and Li Yuan charged it after telling the others to protect themselves.
• Li Yuan smashed the bat’s middle head, but the creature split into hundreds of small golden bats, leaving him falling toward the river of blood.
• Hu Liena caught Li Yuan around the waist with her fox-tail soul bone, but she could not pull him back up.

Li Yuan fought the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King on Hell Road while Hu Liena and Xie Yue struggled to keep their footing amid the blood bats. He killed the Bat King with his upgraded Gatling Bodhisattva, leaving the remaining blood bats to swarm the group.

• Hu Liena nearly fell into the abyss while trying to pull Li Yuan up, but Xie Yue steadied her as blood bats attacked the group and gnawed at Hell Road.
• Li Yuan climbed back onto the path using Hu Liena’s tail soul bone, then destroyed two of the Bat King’s heads with punches as it charged him.
• The Bat King blasted apart sections of Hell Road with dark red ripples, forcing Li Yuan to leap between narrow stretches of the path.
• Li Yuan drew his upgraded Gatling Bodhisattva and fired a Soul Power-enhanced burst, destroying all three heads of the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King.
• Li Yuan devoured the Bat King’s slaughter power as its death scattered golden liquid that killed nearby blood bats, while the surviving bats swarmed him and the Spirit Hall trio.

Li Yuan and the three Spirit Hall companions continued down Hell Road after recovering from the Blood Bat battle, until a giant snake blocked their path. Li Yuan killed it and claimed its inner core, then prepared to study the strange energy it contained.

• Li Yuan and the others rested after defeating most of the Blood Bats, then resumed their descent along the increasingly hot Hell Road.
• When Hu Liena grew exhausted, Li Yuan absorbed some of the power of slaughter from the group to help them recover.
• Li Yuan found a huge, dark red snake coiled across the path, and Hu Liena gave him realgar to try against it.
• Li Yuan charged the snake, pinned it down, and battered its head while resisting its poisonous mist and grabbing its tail.
• The snake released a golden-red inner core, but Li Yuan seized it and killed the weakened creature before it could destroy the core.
• Li Yuan stored the inner core in his Soul Tool and told Hu Liena that its energy seemed unusual and worth studying.

Li Yuan led Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan along Hell Road, explaining why the City of Slaughter served as a prison for fallen people. At the blood lake blocking the exit, the three Spirit Hall members nearly lost control, so Li Yuan knocked them unconscious and carried them across.

• Li Yuan continued absorbing the Power of Slaughter from Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan as the group approached the end of Hell Road.
• Hu Liena recognized the river of blood as the City of Slaughter's foundation and said she wanted to destroy the place.
• Li Yuan explained that the City of Slaughter contained fallen people and helped prevent them from harming the Douluo Continent, and the three Spirit Hall members reconsidered their view.
• Li Yuan found the exit beyond a lake of blood plasma, but the dense slaughter aura made Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan fear they would lose control.
• Li Yuan knocked the three unconscious, returned to his original giant form, and carried them across the lake's surface toward the exit.

Li Yuan absorbed the Power of Slaughter as he left Hell Road, then collapsed inside a strange white space when his Bloodline Power erupted and transformed him into a crimson cocoon. The disturbance drew Rakshasa God and Asura God into a revealing conversation about Li Yuan taking their Law Seeds and awakening his bloodline.

• Li Yuan absorbed the Power of Slaughter while crossing the lake of blood and entered the white curtain with the Trio from the Spirit Hall.
• Li Yuan's Bloodline Power erupted inside the strange space, causing him to faint and flinging the Trio from the Spirit Hall to the ground.
• Crimson light enveloped Li Yuan in a giant cocoon as the City of Slaughter and the Blood River shook, damaging buildings and burying fallen ones.
• The King of Slaughter prepared to investigate Hell Road, but Rakshasa God appeared and ordered him to leave the disturbance alone.
• Rakshasa God watched Li Yuan absorb the Power of Slaughter, then called Asura God to her; Asura God explained that Li Yuan had taken both gods' Law Seeds and awakened his Bloodline Power.

The Asura God and Rakshasa God argued over their wager after Li Yuan destroyed their inheritances, then the Asura God chose Tang San as his successor. The Asura God sent Tang San into a dream-built version of the City of Slaughter to begin his inheritance, while the Rakshasa God remained confident that her successor, Bibi Dong, would win.

• The Asura God and Rakshasa God discussed their wager and recalled how the Rakshasa God had sabotaged Tang Chen’s attempt to inherit the Asura God’s position.
• The Rakshasa God mocked the Asura God for having no successor, but he revealed that he had chosen Tang San, who was traveling with Tang Hao toward the City of Slaughter.
• The Rakshasa God recognized Tang San as a Child of the Plane but doubted he could grow strong enough to defeat Bibi Dong in time.
• The Asura God sent a blood-red seed to Tang San, causing Tang San and Tang Hao to faint as he began constructing the City of Slaughter within Tang San’s dream.
• The Asura God and Rakshasa God left the City of Slaughter, which could no longer grant Divine Slaughter’s Domain or serve as a place for God Inheritance.

After emerging from a cocoon beneath the City of Slaughter, Li Yuan discovered that he had spent two years mastering a mutated domain and awakening a power that let him grow stronger through slaughter. He resolved to use that power only against those who deserved it, then learned Hu Liena and the other two had also been asleep for two years as Duke prepared to leave.

• After two years of earthquakes, Li Yuan broke out of a blood-red cocoon in a valley near the City of Slaughter and changed back into Ding Chunqiu's appearance.
• Li Yuan discovered that his new domain drove enemies toward madness while enhancing him and marked allies, and that his awakened Bloodline Power let him gain temporary and permanent strength through slaughter.
• Li Yuan resisted the temptation to kill indiscriminately and vowed to use his power only against those who deserved to die.
• Li Yuan searched for Hu Liena and the other two, then met Duke, who explained that Li Yuan and all three Spirit Hall members had slept for two years while awakening their powers.
• Duke told Li Yuan the three were sleeping nearby and said he had only ten minutes to ask questions before Duke left.

Li Yuan asked Duke about his origins, but Duke refused to explain and gave him four God-Bestowed Spirit Rings instead. Li Yuan absorbed one, reached level sixty, and gained a bizarre sixth Soul Skill from a ring just short of one hundred thousand years.

• Li Yuan questioned Duke about his origins, but Duke said he would reveal nothing until Li Yuan was older and then vanished.
• Duke returned to give Li Yuan a God-Bestowed Spirit Ring, and Li Yuan haggled until Duke left him with four.
• Li Yuan checked that The Trio from the Spirit Hall were unharmed, then prepared to absorb a God-Bestowed Spirit Ring.
• Li Yuan endured the ring's pressure as his Keyboard Martial Soul helped him withstand it, and he formed a sixth spirit ring aged Ninety-Nine Thousand Nine Hundred Ninety-Nine Years.
• Li Yuan gained the Sixth Soul Skill Great Mouthful Technique, which could make his words come true at a cost determined by the target and the effect.

After leaving the City of Slaughter, Li Yuan was pursued by Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan and used his newly acquired sixth soul skill to deflect Yue Guan’s attack. As Yue Guan prepared a powerful counterattack, Li Yuan taunted him that his soul skill had blown up.

• Li Yuan told Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan that they had passed the Hell Road trial, then refused their invitation to join the Spirit Hall for now and flew away.
• Ghost Douluo Gui Mei arrived to escort the trio and learned that Chrysanthemum Douluo had pursued the silver-haired Senior Ding.
• Li Yuan detected Yue Guan following him, forced him out of hiding with a Dust Release: Keyboard Stripping Technique, and prepared to test his sixth soul skill.
• Yue Guan attacked Li Yuan with Aura Barrier, but Li Yuan’s Great Mouthful Technique made the petals veer off course.
• Yue Guan began charging his eighth soul skill, and Li Yuan declared that Yue Guan’s soul skill had blown up.

Li Yuan tested his Great Mouthful Technique on Chrysanthemum Douluo, causing the elder’s soul skill and Martial Soul Avatar to explode before escaping. Ghost Douluo arrived, learned what happened, and prepared to report Li Yuan’s strange power to Spirit Hall, while Hu Liena asked about her teacher.

• Li Yuan’s Great Mouthful Technique made Chrysanthemum Douluo’s Flowing Light Ten Thousand Zhang explode, leaving him badly injured.
• Li Yuan used the technique again, causing Chrysanthemum Douluo’s Martial Soul Avatar to explode, then fled after learning Ghost Douluo was approaching.
• Ghost Douluo arrived with Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and the other Golden Generation members and found Chrysanthemum Douluo sprawled in a huge crater.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo told Ghost Douluo that Ding Chunqiu’s words had triggered the explosions and described his unusually powerful soul ring.
• Ghost Douluo concluded that Ding Chunqiu might be a Titled Douluo and decided to return to Spirit City to report the encounter.
• Hu Liena asked Ghost Douluo how her teacher had been lately.

Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo brought Li Yuan and the others back toward Spirit City while Bibi Dong remained sidelined by Qian Daoliu and trapped in a deteriorating relationship with Yu Xiaogang. After Tang San and Tang Hao awoke from the Asura God's illusion, Li Yuan visited the Soul Beasts in the Sunset Great Forest and learned that the Golden Lion faced a dangerous Heavenly Tribulation.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo said Bibi Dong was in conflict with the Elder Hall, then took Li Yuan and the others toward Spirit City.
• Tang San and Tang Hao awoke after two years in an inn, unaware they had experienced an illusion, and Tang Hao told Tang San he still had to meet his requirements.
• Li Yuan flew to the Sunset Great Forest, reunited with Juhua and the other Soul Beasts, and cooked for them.
• Li Yuan noticed the Golden Lion was nearing the Hundred Thousand Years bottleneck and asked whether it could survive its Heavenly Tribulation.
• The Golden Lion said its chances of surviving the tribulation were below thirty percent.