Chapter Summaries

Han Yuchen purified Tang San’s killing intent and crushed a horde of Corpse Puppets unleashed by the Holy Son, then warned that the Hell Slaughter Arena was about to change. That night, sinister crimson slime appeared in Tang San’s room, while the King of Slaughter summoned Han Yuchen.

• Han Yuchen gave Tang San a glass of Bloody Mary infused with Star Purification, clearing the killing intent threatening to overwhelm him.
• The Holy Son activated the Blood Puppet plan, turning dozens of Fallen Ones into Corpse Puppets that attacked Tang San, Han Yuchen, and Leng Yuebai.
• Han Yuchen used an imitation Gravity Field to crush the Corpse Puppets and accused the Holy Son of using crude methods.
• Han Yuchen warned Tang San to be careful in the next match because the Hell Slaughter Arena was about to change, then left with Leng Yuebai.
• Dark crimson slime seeped into Tang San’s room and began corroding his defensive barrier.
• The King of Slaughter’s envoy arrived at Han Yuchen’s door and summoned him.

Han Yuchen bargained with the King of Slaughter to stop the Holy Spirits’ underground plans, then intervened when they attacked Tang San in the arena. After Han Yuchen devoured an Asura Demon Sword Fragment, the Holy Spirits’ agents opened a Purgatory Level Hell Road beneath the City of Slaughter.

• Han Yuchen warned the King of Slaughter that the Holy Spirits were plotting beneath the Blood Pool and offered to suppress them in exchange for safe passage.
• Tang San fought nine opponents in his eightieth arena match, but blood tentacles erupted from the floor and drained the last two fighters.
• Three crimson-robed agents used an Asura Demon Sword Fragment to suppress Tang San and began a Possession Ritual.
• Han Yuchen shattered the agents’ divine suppression and devoured the Demon Sword Fragment before helping Tang San stand.
• The three agents sacrificed themselves to open a Purgatory Level Hell Road, whose enormous vortex began pulling in the arena.

Han Yuchen, Tang San, and Leng Yuebai entered a corrupted version of the Hell Road and fought their way through the Shadow Contract’s laboratory. They found a mutated former Enforcement Team captain, then faced Hu Liena’s body under the Holy Son’s control.

• Leng Yuebai used the Star Radiance Heavenly Silk to keep Han Yuchen and Tang San together as the altar’s vortex pulled them into Purgatory.
• Han Yuchen identified the Godhood Competition as the Shadow Contract’s goal, and the three agreed to coordinate, with Tang San scouting and controlling, Leng Yuebai attacking, and Han Yuchen leading.
• The trio fought hundreds of mechanically modified bats, following Han Yuchen’s directions to strike their weaknesses; he collected their Inner Cores and devices afterward.
• They found evidence of experiments involving Soul Stones and soul beasts, then discovered a mutated former captain of the City of Slaughter’s Enforcement Team chained to a bone throne.
• The former captain warned them that the Holy Son was waiting at the Blood Pool, but pink mist swallowed him, and Hu Liena appeared under the Holy Son’s control to welcome Han Yuchen and Tang San to her domain.

Han Yuchen severed the Holy Son’s control over Hu Liena, freeing her from a monstrous transformation. The group then reached a walkway guarded by a mechanically modified Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent, which began preparing to attack.

• Hu Liena’s mutated body trapped Tang San, but Leng Yuebai’s attacks only made her flesh-and-blood pythons regenerate.
• Han Yuchen used his Star Radiance Scalpel while Tang San exposed Hu Liena’s control point, severing the spiritual connection and destroying the blood mist that emerged.
• Tang San caught Hu Liena as she collapsed, and she awoke confused, with her memories still frozen at her kidnapping.
• The group saw a rusted walkway above a pool of acid and a mechanically modified Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent at its far end.
• The serpent identified the four intruders and activated extermination mode, charging its Soul Tool Cannons as Han Yuchen donned his Starlight Battle Armor.

Han Yuchen and his companions destroyed the mechanical serpent on Hell Road and found the King of Slaughter being drained beneath a giant heart. The Holy Son emerged from the heart and activated a blood-red altar, targeting Tang San as the final sacrifice.

• Han Yuchen identified the mechanical serpent’s core while Tang San restrained it, Hu Liena disrupted its judgment, and Leng Yuebai disabled two turrets.
• Han Yuchen absorbed the serpent’s toxic flames, and Tang San smashed its core with the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Han Yuchen gave Tang San the serpent’s Inner Core and Hu Liena its soul bone, keeping a Pseudo Godhead Fragment for himself.
• The four crossed the serpent’s corpse and discovered the King of Slaughter connected to tubes beneath a giant beating heart.
• The Holy Son emerged from the heart, identified Tang San as the final offering, and activated the Blood Sacrifice Totem Purgatory.

Han Yuchen and his companions destroyed the heart controlling the Blood Sacrifice Totem, escaped the collapsing Hell Road, and emerged from the City of Slaughter. They found themselves surrounded by Spirit Hall fighters and a Holy Spirit Cult Titled Douluo, leaving them facing another battle.

• The Holy Son used the heart’s gravity to seize Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer, while Tang Chen briefly regained control and urged Han Yuchen to destroy the heart in exchange for the Asura Sword Sheath.
• Han Yuchen activated Supernova Mode and created a safe zone, while Tang San formed a killing-intent sword and Hu Liena stunned the Holy Son with her burning Charm aura.
• Leng Yuebai boosted Han Yuchen’s Starburst Bomb into the heart’s defensive opening, destroying it and forcing the Holy Son’s true body to collapse as a faint light fled underground.
• Tang San and Hu Liena awakened Divine Slaughter’s Domain, and Han Yuchen caught the Asura Sword Sheath before leading them through the exit of Hell Road.
• The four emerged in a desolate valley, where the Golden Generation of Spirit Hall and dozens of Soul Saints confronted them alongside a Holy Spirit Cult Titled Douluo.

Han Yuchen intervened when Blood Bat Douluo attacked Tang San after he escaped Hell Road, and Tang Hao arrived to drive the enemy away. Han Yuchen gave Tang Hao a crystal chip to help Tang San recover, then set off for Heaven Dou City with Leng Yuebai.

• Xie Yue and Yan attacked Tang San, mistaking Hu Liena’s condition for a hostage situation, while Blood Bat Douluo revealed himself and targeted Tang San.
• Han Yuchen pulled Hu Liena out of danger and used Star Technique Bombardment to destroy Blood Bat Douluo’s swarm of bats.
• Blood Bat Douluo’s clone nearly killed the weakened Tang San, but Tang Hao crushed it with his giant hammer and forced Blood Bat Douluo to flee.
• Tang Hao thanked Han Yuchen, accepted a crystal chip to help Tang San contain his killing intent, and carried Tang San away.
• Han Yuchen told Leng Yuebai that his sample had been deployed and that they were going to Heaven Dou City.

Han Yuchen analyzed the artifacts from Hell Road, uncovered the Holy Spirit Cult’s attempt to create artificial gods, and traveled in disguise to Heaven Dou City. There, an old man recognized his changed aura and remembered Han Yuchen’s promise to cure his poison injuries.

• Han Yuchen analyzed the damaged Asura Sword Sheath and a crystal from the mechanical snake, discovering signs of the Holy Spirit Cult’s artificial-god experiments.
• Tang Hao helped Tang San purge his murderous aura, and Tang San told him that Han Yuchen had become cold and unfamiliar; Tang Hao decided to keep the blue crystal chip Han Yuchen had given them.
• A remnant soul slipped into Hu Liena as she traveled, while Han Yuchen explained to Leng Yuebai that Blood Bat Douluo had carried an encrypted locator back to the Shadow Contract.
• Han Yuchen and Leng Yuebai traveled in disguise, and Han Yuchen used a mental beam to make a bullying nobleman confess and distribute his coins to the commoners.
• At Heaven Dou City, Han Yuchen sensed the political web surrounding the capital and noticed Moonlight Pavilion; an old man in green robes recognized his changed aura and recalled his promise to cure the old man’s poison injuries.

Han Yuchen set up a surveillance base opposite Moonlight Pavilion, traded Dugu Bo an antidote for intelligence, and confronted Xue Qinghe at the pavilion’s opening. Dugu Bo later reported that Xue Qinghe had moved into power immediately after Xue Ye’s death, confirming Han Yuchen’s suspicions about the plot against Xue Beng.

• Han Yuchen bought an inn opposite Moonlight Pavilion, renamed it Star Gazing Pavilion, and gave Dugu Bo a potion in exchange for information on the Heaven Dou royal family, especially Xue Qinghe.
• At Moonlight Pavilion’s opening, Tang San entered under the alias Tang Yin, while Han Yuchen arrived with Leng Yuebai and played the flute alongside Tang Yuehua to calm Tang San’s killing intent.
• Xue Qinghe appeared and taunted Han Yuchen about being wanted by Spirit Hall, while Han Yuchen deliberately addressed Xue Qinghe as Crown Prince instead of emperor.
• When a noble mocked Tang San and Han Yuchen, Han Yuchen cited the noble law and used Mental Pierce to expose the noble’s family scandal and break down his mental defenses.
• Dugu Bo reported that Xue Qinghe had donned the dragon robe as soon as Xue Ye died and had shown no concern for Xue Beng, leading Han Yuchen to conclude that Xue Qinghe had orchestrated the scheme against Xue Beng.

Han Yuchen opened the Star Gazing Pavilion, a high-tech shop that charged a 10,000 Gold Soul Coin entry fee, and Marquis Tie Lin arrived with guards to punish him over his son. After Leng Yuebai froze the attackers in place, Han Yuchen challenged Tie Lin to strike him under his concept version of Newton’s third law, and Tie Lin launched a massive attack.

• Han Yuchen opened the Star Gazing Pavilion in Heaven Dou City and set its entry fee at 10,000 Gold Soul Coins, drawing ridicule from passersby.
• Marquis Tie Lin arrived with thirty-two guards and accused Han Yuchen of mentally harming his son at Moonlight Pavilion.
• Tie Lin ordered his guards to attack, but Leng Yuebai immobilized them with her killing intent and threatened to kill anyone who moved.
• Han Yuchen calmed Leng Yuebai, activated his concept-version Restraint skill, and invited Tie Lin to attack him.
• Tie Lin and the guards unleashed their strongest Soul Skills at Han Yuchen.

Han Yuchen repelled Marquis Tie Lin’s attack and sold Ning Fengzhi Star Dew, hinting that it could help the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda reach Nine Treasures. After Ning Fengzhi left, Han Yuchen and Leng Yuebai prepared to investigate Xue Qinghe and make their next move.

• Han Yuchen’s golden barrier reflected Tie Lin’s attack back at double strength, leaving Tie Lin and his thirty-two guards badly injured.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong arrived at the Star Gazing Pavilion, where Han Yuchen welcomed them and presented Star Dew.
• Han Yuchen explained that Star Dew could cleanse and improve a Martial Soul, and suggested that reaching Nine Treasures required borrowing power from the stars.
• Ning Fengzhi bought the Star Dew and promised the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would protect the Star Gazing Pavilion from anyone who caused trouble.
• After Ning Fengzhi departed, Leng Yuebai called him suspicious, and Han Yuchen said that suspicion might lead him to uncover the imperial family’s secrets and Xue Qinghe’s flaw.
• Han Yuchen said he would prepare a gift for Xue Qinghe that night and make his next move against the Crown Prince.

Han Yuchen discovered that Dugu Bo carried a hidden living virus called Shadow Etching and began removing it through starlight surgery. The surgery forced the virus from Dugu Bo’s body, where Leng Yuebai cut down its attacking manifestation.

• Dugu Bo gave Han Yuchen intelligence about the imperial family in exchange for the promised treatment.
• Han Yuchen used the Star Atlas to reveal gray threads parasitizing Dugu Bo and identified them as Shadow Etching, a living virus tied to an old black altar.
• Dugu Bo recalled touching a black crystal in a sunless canyon thirty years earlier and asked Han Yuchen to cure him.
• Han Yuchen and Leng Yuebai secured Star Gazing Pavilion and brought Dugu Bo into Han Yuchen’s Dimensional Space for surgery.
• Han Yuchen used Starlight Purification and his light-based restraint to force the virus out of Dugu Bo.
• The expelled black mist formed a human face and lunged at Han Yuchen, but Leng Yuebai sliced it in two.

Han Yuchen cured Dugu Bo’s poison, evolved his martial soul, and recruited him to help uncover the Shadow conspiracy surrounding the Heaven Dou Royal Family. As dawn came, Han Yuchen learned the Shadow Virus was calling to Solonsen and prepared to confront the threat.

• Han Yuchen removed the Shadow Virus from Dugu Bo, whose Soul Power immediately broke through to rank ninety-two.
• Han Yuchen infused Dugu Bo with Starlight Ruse King essence blood, evolving his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor into a fire-infused martial soul.
• Dugu Bo pledged loyalty to Han Yuchen, who told him that Shadow also infected the Heaven Dou Royal Family and assigned him to keep lurking near Prince Xue Xing.
• Han Yuchen ordered Dugu Bo to investigate Fourth Prince Xue Beng’s supposed corpse and revealed that Crown Prince Xue Qinghe had been meeting a mysterious State Preceptor.
• Han Yuchen warned Dugu Bo not to confront the State Preceptor, then ordered Leng Yuebai to double the price of Star Dew and sent Dugu Bo back to his post.
• Han Yuchen sealed away the Shadow Virus after Leng Yuebai sensed it calling to Solonsen, and vowed to weaken their forces before Solonsen arrived.

On the Star Gazing Pavilion terrace, Tang San confessed to Han Yuchen that he feared losing himself to Divine Slaughter's Domain. Han Yuchen showed him a colder, more controlled force and left Tang San overwhelmed by the difference between them.

• Han Yuchen sensed Tang San approaching the terrace and invited him to sit with him and Leng Yuebai.
• Tang San drank Han Yuchen's wine and admitted that his killing intent still surged despite a year of etiquette and music lessons at Moonlight Pavilion.
• Tang San's Divine Slaughter's Domain erupted uncontrollably, freezing the terrace and withering its potted plants.
• Han Yuchen called Tang San's killing intent dirty because it was tangled with emotions, and explained that true slaughter followed an impersonal order like the stars.
• Han Yuchen released his deep-blue starry aura, which swallowed Tang San's Domain and left him pale and unable to move.

Han Yuchen calmed Tang San’s murderous urges with a monitoring stone and warned him about Xue Qinghe and the State Preceptor. When Xue Qinghe arrived at the Star Gazing Pavilion, Han Yuchen confronted him while Tang San watched from a hidden chamber.

• Han Yuchen ended the pressure overwhelming Tang San and gave him a Star Soul-Suppressing Stone to control his murderous aura while secretly monitoring him.
• Han Yuchen warned Tang San that Xue Qinghe seemed too perfect, that Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer reacted strangely to him, and that Tang San should avoid the State Preceptor.
• After guards announced Xue Qinghe’s arrival, Han Yuchen hid Tang San in a concealed chamber so his Clear Sky Sect identity would remain secret.
• Xue Qinghe entered the pavilion and asked Han Yuchen for guidance and friendship, while Tang San noticed the stone grow warm as a warning.
• Han Yuchen accused Xue Qinghe of wearing a false face, and Xue Qinghe’s sacred aura clashed with Han Yuchen’s presence.

Han Yuchen confronted Emperor Xue Qinghe at the Star Gazing Pavilion and revealed that he knew the ruler was disguised as a woman. When Shadow Slave attacked, Leng Yuebai stopped him with a strike that exposed her overwhelming strength.

• Xue Qinghe visited Han Yuchen at the Star Gazing Pavilion, where Han served him Enlightenment Tea.
• Han named the tea “Dove Occupying the Magpie's Nest” and hinted that Xue Qinghe had taken someone else's place.
• Han identified the yin energy surrounding Xue Qinghe, exposing that she was Qian Renxue beneath her disguise.
• Shadow Slave attacked Han Yuchen with a spiritual strike, but Leng Yuebai cut through it and left him injured.
• Xue Qinghe recognized Leng Yuebai's terrifying aura and realized the intelligence about her strength had been wrong.

Han Yuchen rejected Xue Qinghe’s offer to serve the empire and demanded the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, unsettling her by revealing how much he knew. After Xue Qinghe left, Han Yuchen told Tang San that he had planted suspicion in her mind and prepared him for a mission into Heaven Dou City’s sewers.

• Han Yuchen identified the kneeling Shadow Slave as a puppet corrupted by Solonsen’s power, and Xue Qinghe had the injured man removed.
• Xue Qinghe offered Han Yuchen wealth, status, and a royal title in exchange for his service, but he refused and demanded the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
• Xue Qinghe recognized Han Yuchen’s knowledge of the relic and her secret, but chose to withdraw rather than fight him and Leng Yuebai.
• Han Yuchen told Tang San he had planted suspicion in Xue Qinghe’s mind and that the State Preceptor would lead their next move.
• Han Yuchen said he and Tang San would enter Heaven Dou City’s sewers the following night to fight creatures immune to physical attacks.
• In his carriage, Xue Qinghe vowed to kill those who stood in the way of Angel’s Radiance as a faint black aura crept toward his neck.

After Xue Qinghe left, Han Yuchen warned Tang San that a less calculating threat might still attack them. Three Shadow Demons invaded Star Gazing Pavilion and proved immune to physical attacks, but Han Yuchen used his water-based Fourth Soul Skill to freeze them and end their intangibility.

• Han Yuchen told Tang San that Xue Qinghe was unlikely to strike again soon, but that other forces might send weapons to carry out their orders.
• The lights in Star Gazing Pavilion went out, and three Shadow Demons attacked Tang San and Leng Yuebai.
• Leng Yuebai's Star Radiance Heavenly Silk passed through the Shadow Demons, while their tentacles pierced her defenses; Tang San's spiritual attack barely affected them.
• Han Yuchen explained that the Shadow Demons' intangibility came from their extreme particle density and used his Fourth Soul Skill, Raging Waves, to freeze them into physical forms.

Han Yuchen used the Star Atlas to defeat three Shadow Demons and uncover a secret underground base where the State Preceptor, Nightmare, experimented on people to prepare vessels for Solonsen’s descent. He planned to attack the base the next morning, while Nightmare learned of the squad’s defeat and prepared to target him.

• Han Yuchen froze the three Shadow Demons, and Leng Yuebai sliced them into fragments with Star Radiance: Chaotic Dance.
• Han Yuchen collected the Shadow Demons’ remnant souls in the Star Atlas and discovered that their memories revealed a secret base beneath Heaven Dou City.
• Han Yuchen told Tang San and Leng Yuebai that Nightmare was using Shadow Source Fluid experiments to create monsters and prepare vessels for Solonsen’s descent.
• Han Yuchen rejected notifying the imperial family or the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and said they would attack Nightmare’s base the next morning.
• Nightmare learned that the Shadow Demon Squad had been wiped out and vowed to turn whoever had stopped them into experimental material.

Han Yuchen, Dugu Bo, Leng Yuebai, and Tang San infiltrated a hidden underground facility beneath Heaven Dou City and discovered people being transformed in a blood-pool complex. Dugu Bo confronted Red Cardinal Augustus, who revealed a massive stitched monster as the group faced the facility’s leader.

• Dugu Bo led Han Yuchen and the others to an abandoned sewer entrance, where his poisonous insects had died from an unknown toxin.
• Han Yuchen identified the dark-red runes in the widened sewer as Shadow Etching, and Leng Yuebai destroyed three mechanically modified Iron-Armored Crocodiles blocking their path.
• The group broke into a vast underground square and found hundreds of people, including children, imprisoned in cages and injected with black liquid.
• Dugu Bo erupted in fury when he saw a little girl clutching a rag doll and vowed to destroy the underground base.
• Red Cardinal Augustus appeared on a high platform beside a towering stitched monster, and Dugu Bo recognized him as a man who had disappeared a year earlier.