Chapter Summaries

Tang San heard rumors that the Hell Savior was disrupting the City of Slaughter by protecting the weak, while Ye Lingling and Ning Rongrong continued to cultivate there under Su Ran’s guidance. Ye Lingling’s life-devouring ability had grown rapidly, and the group remained in the City of Slaughter to train for their eventual escape.

• Tang San recalled his father’s advice and regretted his past choices as he resolved to grow stronger in the City of Slaughter.
• Tang San overheard Slaughter Knights describe five new killers who protected the weak, including the Hell Savior, and learned that they had killed more than a hundred experts who hunted them.
• Su Ran’s teachings explained that retaining one’s humanity in the City of Slaughter could improve one’s temperament, and Ye Lingling had become the feared Hell Savior.
• Ye Lingling used her Nine Revolutions Black Lotus to drain a villain of his vitality while Ning Rongrong praised how quickly her strength had grown.
• Ning Rongrong noted that Ye Lingling’s life-devouring ability bypassed defenses and could make opponents age rapidly, making her a frightening rival.

Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing continued their winning streaks in the Hell Slaughter Arena, then encountered Tang San, who tried to reconnect with Xiao Wu and persuade her to cooperate. Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing rejected his claims about Su Ran and demanded that he apologize or face them in a deathmatch.

• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing won ten consecutive Hell Slaughter Arena matches each, using their powers to defeat their opponents.
• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing discussed the arena's dangers and wondered where Teacher had gone.
• Tang San recognized Xiao Wu after watching her matches and approached her outside the arena.
• Xiao Wu told Tang San to keep his distance and challenged him to settle things in the arena, while Zhu Zhuqing offered to fight him instead.
• Tang San accused Su Ran of abandoning the students in the City of Slaughter and proposed cooperating with Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing grew furious at Tang San for slandering Teacher and demanded an apology or a deathmatch.

Tang San attacked Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing in the City of Slaughter but fled after Zhu Zhuqing wounded him with her upgraded Netherworld Ghost Shuttle. Hu Liena then met the two women and asked whether Su Ran had come, hoping to see him and cooperate with his students on Hell Road.

• Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing confronted Tang San, and Zhu Zhuqing said she would avenge Xiao Wu for the arrow he had shot into her leg.
• Zhu Zhuqing struck Tang San with her Netherworld Ghost Shuttle, shattering part of his thigh bone, and he healed himself before escaping.
• Tang San returned to his room and angrily wondered how much Su Ran had taught his students.
• Xiao Wu learned that Su Ran had upgraded Zhu Zhuqing's Ghost Shuttle by combining it with bullets from the Hell Revolver.
• Hu Liena approached Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing, explained that she had come to train after their strong performance, and asked whether Su Ran was there so she could see him and seek cooperation on Hell Road.

Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and Ye Lingling continued their training in the City of Slaughter while Hu Liena tried to get closer to their teacher. A year later, Tang San refused to enter the Hell Slaughter Arena, and the four students prepared for their hundredth victories and the Hell Road challenge.

• Ning Rongrong threatened Hu Liena when she learned Hu Liena was pursuing Teacher Su, but Hu Liena surrendered and offered her Bloody Mary instead.
• A year later, Tang San killed a passerby to supply Bloody Mary and refused the black-veiled girl's invitation to fight in the Hell Slaughter Arena, admitting he feared the Peach Blossom Spring students' strength.
• The black-veiled girl announced that the King of Slaughter had arranged powerful opponents for the Hell Savior's final hundred-win duel and urged Tang San to defend the Clear Sky Sect's reputation.
• The four Peach Blossom Spring students approached their hundredth victories as the City of Slaughter's criminals dwindled, while Tang San watched and hoped they would leave or die on Hell Road.
• Hu Liena asked Ye Lingling whether Teacher Su would join their Hell Road challenge, and Ning Rongrong scolded her for trying to claim a second teacher.

Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Ye Lingling, Xiao Wu, and Hu Liena refused the King of Slaughter’s offer and challenged Hell Road, but he attacked them to stop them from leaving. As Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing faced his killing blow, Su Ran appeared to protect them.

• The King of Slaughter offered the five hundred-victory champions titles and privileges if they would serve him, but Ning Rongrong spoke for the group and demanded that he open Hell Road.
• The King of Slaughter made their first trial surviving one hour against him, then unleashed blood bats and his domain upon the five women.
• Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Ye Lingling, and Ning Rongrong attacked together, but the King of Slaughter overwhelmed their techniques and tried to kill them.
• Zhu Zhuqing wounded the King of Slaughter’s right arm with a Blood Bodhi, giving the others a brief chance to strike back.
• The King of Slaughter summoned an Asura Blood Sword and swung it at the exhausted Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing; Ning Rongrong called out to her teacher and declared she wanted to be his wife in her next life.
• Su Ran appeared in a Big Black Robe, blocked the sword’s path, and prepared to test his strength against the King of Slaughter.

Su Ran appeared to protect his disciples from the King of Slaughter and revealed that he could use his Soul Skills inside the City of Slaughter. After defeating the King of Slaughter, he demanded that the creature leave its body and sacrifice itself to one of his disciples, or die.

• Su Ran appeared before Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, Ye Lingling, and Hu Liena, reassuring them and taking over the fight.
• Su Ran explained why Ye Lingling's life-devouring power had little effect on the King of Slaughter and accused him of abusing his freedom and breaking the Hell Road's rules.
• Su Ran's Glory Immortal Master Domain transformed the arena with peach blossoms, and he revealed nine Soul Rings despite the City's restrictions.
• Su Ran summoned his Divine Show Peach Sword and clashed with the King of Slaughter's Asura Blood Sword, disarming and pinning him among the ruins.
• Su Ran threatened to pierce the King of Slaughter's skull unless he left his body and offered himself as a sacrifice to one of Su Ran's disciples.

Su Ran defeated the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King’s attempt to possess Zhu Zhuqing and forced it to sacrifice its power to her. After reuniting with his disciples, Su Ran faced a request from Hu Liena, who asked to become his student.

• The Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King chose the Nine Nether Enchantress as its sacrifice target and entered Zhu Zhuqing’s Ten Palaces of Hell.
• Su Ran and Zhu Zhuqing used their Yama Pagodas to suppress the bat king, which agreed to sacrifice its power while retaining a wisp of its soul.
• Zhu Zhuqing gained a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and broke through to Soul Power Level 69, then sat down to stabilize her strength.
• Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Ye Lingling reunited with Su Ran and told him they would rather stay by his side than become stronger.
• Hu Liena saw Su Ran with his disciples and asked to become his student.

Su Ran defeated the Blood Red Bat King and gained the Asura Demon Sword’s recognition, while the weakened Tang Chen offered him the rule of the City of Slaughter. The city’s killers acclaimed Su Ran as their new king, but he had not yet answered Tang Chen’s offer.

• Su Ran refused Hu Liena’s request to become his disciple but invited her to come listen to his lessons if she received Bibi Dong’s approval.
• The Asura Demon Sword emerged from the ruins and flew around Su Ran, while he gave Spirit Recovery Pills to Hu Liena, Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Ye Lingling.
• The surviving Tang Chen explained that the Asura Demon Sword had recognized Su Ran and that its recognition marked him as a candidate to inherit the Asura godhood.
• Tang Chen asked Su Ran to become the New King of Slaughter and rule the City of Slaughter.
• The arena’s spectators and arriving killers acclaimed Su Ran as their new king and called for a new order.

Su Ran refused the Asura Demon Sword’s offer to become King of Slaughter and let the City of Slaughter choose between the old system and a new order governed by his disciples. Nearly everyone chose the new order, and Su Ran asked his disciples and Hu Liena whether they would rule the city.

• Su Ran rejected the Asura Demon Sword’s offer of godhood and declined to become King of Slaughter, though the sword eagerly accepted his touch.
• Su Ran announced that the City of Slaughter could either choose a king through slaughter or have his disciples govern and rebuild its order.
• Su Ran’s Peach Blossom domain offered every citizen two petals to cast their vote, and the Slaughter Knights urged everyone to choose two.
• Most citizens chose the new order, sending a vast majority of peach-blossom lights toward the arena.
• Su Ran asked his disciples and Hu Liena whether they were willing to govern the City of Slaughter.

Su Ran persuaded Zhu Zhuqing, Ye Lingling, Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Hu Liena to take charge of the City of Slaughter, and the Asura Sword recognized them as its new rulers. Zhu Zhuqing and Ye Lingling announced that the city would become the City of Judgment, ending senseless killing and punishing evildoers.

• Su Ran urged his disciples to accept responsibility for governing the City of Slaughter, and all five agreed to take on the challenge.
• The Asura Sword bestowed Magic Nullification Domains on the five disciples, with Zhu Zhuqing and Ye Lingling receiving the strongest marks as the city’s leaders.
• Su Ran placed the Asura Sword atop the palace and asked it to help oversee the city until he could return for it.
• The five disciples ascended to the Slaughter Throne as the crowd hailed their new rulers, while Zhu Zhuqing and Ye Lingling sat together and drew strength from the city’s Asura aura.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Ye Lingling declared that the King of Slaughter title would become King of Judgment and that the city would protect the lawful while purging the wicked.

After Tang Chen offered Su Ran a Clear Sky Sect token, Tang San knelt and begged to join Peach Blossom Spring Academy, revealing his twin martial souls and knowledge of its techniques. Su Ran refused to accept him, leaving Tang San pleading and trying to prove his worth.

• Tang Chen offered Su Ran the Clear Sky Token and an honorary elder position, but Su Ran declined both.
• Tang San knelt before Su Ran and asked to become his disciple at Peach Blossom Spring Academy.
• Tang San praised the academy students’ growth and said he wanted Su Ran to make him stronger.
• Su Ran refused, telling Tang San that he might still have a future if he sincerely changed.
• Tang San pleaded again, revealed his Blue Silver Emperor and Clear Sky Hammer martial souls, and claimed he had experience with the academy’s techniques.

Tang San tried to win Su Ran’s approval by challenging Tang Chen, but Tang Chen beat him after Tang San used poisoned hidden weapons. Tang San learned Tang Chen was his great-grandfather, and the fading Tang Chen asked Su Ran to accept him as a disciple.

• Tang San challenged Tang Chen to prove his strength to Su Ran, and Tang Chen recognized his Clear Sky Hammer and criticized his skill.
• Tang San attacked Tang Chen with his hammer and Blue Silver Grass, then fired thirty-six poisoned Torrential Pear Blossom Needles, three of which struck Tang Chen.
• Tang Chen forced out the needles and used the Haotian Nine Absolutes to overpower Tang San, leaving him battered on the ground.
• Tang Chen revealed he was Tang San’s great-grandfather, and Tang San apologized and offered him the antidote.
• As Tang Chen’s remnant soul began to fade, he gave Tang San the Clear Sky Token and asked Su Ran to accept Tang San as his disciple.

Su Ran refused Tang San’s plea to become his disciple, explaining that Tang San’s attack had helped cause Tang Chen’s death and that Tang San had betrayed those who once helped him. After Su Ran left the Slaughter Arena, Tang San broke down in rage and disbelief.

• Tang Chen passed on the Great Sumeru Hammer’s true meaning to Tang San before his remnant soul left for the Sky Dome and began to fade.
• Su Ran explained that Tang San’s poisoned Torrential Pear Blossom Needles had disrupted Tang Chen’s body and soul, accelerating his death.
• Tang San begged Su Ran to accept him as a disciple and save Tang Chen, but Su Ran refused, citing Tang San’s lack of gratitude toward Yu Xiaogang and his treatment of Xiao Wu.
• Su Ran sent Tang San flying with his killing intent and declared that Tang San was unworthy to kneel to him.
• After Su Ran disappeared, Tang San raged over being rejected and questioned why others could join Peach Blossom Spring Academy while he could not.

Su Ran helped his disciples plan how to reform the City of Slaughter, including purifying its blood river and turning it into a prison for criminals. After explaining that the city was an inheritance site of the Asura God, he alarmed his disciples by making them realize he might become a god and leave Douluo Continent.

• Ning Rongrong explained that she and the others had devised new laws for the City of Slaughter but were struggling with the poisonous underground blood river.
• Su Ran gave Zhu Zhuqing a Ninth-Grade World-Purifying Flame to cleanse the river and advised abolishing the custom of drinking Bloody Mary.
• Su Ran praised Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing's plan to turn the City of Slaughter into a prison, while warning them not to interfere with its divine inheritance.
• Su Ran explained that gods left inheritance sites for successors and identified the City of Slaughter as the Asura God's inheritance land.
• Xiao Wu realized Su Ran might pass the Asura God's test and leave the continent, prompting his disciples to plead to stay with him.
• Hu Liena watched the disciples cling to Su Ran and decided she wanted to join Peach Blossom Spring Academy.

Zhu Zhuqing and Ye Lingling worried that they lacked the strength to rule the City of Slaughter, so Su Ran taught Ye Lingling the Illusion of Life and Death and prepared to teach Zhu Zhuqing another ultimate art. Zhu Zhuqing eagerly asked whether she could learn the Azure Nether Way instead, leaving Su Ran exasperated.

• Zhu Zhuqing and Ye Lingling discussed their worries about controlling the City of Slaughter after its new order was established.
• Su Ran explained Ye Lingling's strengths and weaknesses, then demonstrated the Illusion of Life and Death by having Zhu Zhuqing attack him.
• Zhu Zhuqing was caught in the illusion and faced a phantom of Poison Douluo before Su Ran freed her.
• Su Ran gave Ye Lingling the cultivation principles for the Illusion of Life and Death and explained how to combine the black lotus's death energy with the Soul Seizing Technique.
• Su Ran announced that he would teach Zhu Zhuqing the Great Law of Creation Demonic Transformation, but she asked whether she and Ning Rongrong could learn the Azure Nether Way instead.

Su Ran taught Zhu Zhuqing the Great Law of Creation Demonic Transformation, revealing its immense power and prompting Ning Rongrong to ask for the Azure Nether Way. After the disciples returned to the Slaughter Hall, Ning Rongrong confessed that she loved Su Ran and wanted a future with him.

• Su Ran transmitted the Great Law of Creation Demonic Transformation to Zhu Zhuqing and demonstrated its power, terrifying the residents of the City of Slaughter.
• Zhu Zhuqing realized the value of the cultivation arts Su Ran had prepared for her and wondered about the Azure Nether Way.
• Ning Rongrong asked Su Ran to teach her the Azure Nether Way, while the other disciples grew curious about it.
• Su Ran gave Zhu Zhuqing and Ye Lingling their techniques, said they would soon leave the City of Slaughter, and sent the disciples to rest.
• Ning Rongrong stayed behind, hugged Su Ran from behind, and confessed that she loved him and wanted to have children and a future together.

Ning Rongrong confessed her feelings to Su Ran, but he told her to grow independent and mature before he could consider responding. Meanwhile, Tang Hao rescued Tang San from the Slaughtering Ground and urged him to prove himself by mastering the Great Sumeru Hammer.

• Hu Liena, Xiao Wu, Ye Lingling, and Zhu Zhuqing watched as Ning Rongrong hugged Su Ran and confessed that she loved him.
• Su Ran gently rejected Ning Rongrong for now, explaining that a relationship required maturity, independence, and responsibility.
• Ning Rongrong vowed to graduate and grow up, while the eavesdropping students took her confession as inspiration to pursue their own chances with Teacher.
• Tang Hao pulled Tang San out of the Slaughtering Ground, where Tang San complained that Su Ran had accepted other students but not him.
• Tang Hao encouraged Tang San to use the Great Sumeru Hammer to defeat Peach Blossom Spring Academy's students and described how its Nine Rings Explode Together had once helped him escape Spirit Hall.

Flender was fined by Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect managers for falsely using Peach Blossom Spring Academy’s name to sell Peach Blossom Honey. Zhu Zhuyun fled there with her injured third sister, and two youths from the academy confronted their pursuers.

• Flender and Zhao Wuji argued with Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect managers, who fined Flender five hundred Gold Soul Coins and raised his rent after learning he had run Shrek Academy.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji noticed two injured women being pursued by more than ten powerful soul masters.
• Zhu Zhuyun brought her third sister to Peach Blossom Spring Academy and urged her to stay there, then turned to face the pursuers.
• Two burly youths emerged from the academy and ordered the pursuers to leave because fighting was forbidden there.

Zhu Zhuyun and Zhu Zhu Yu fled to Peach Blossom Spring Academy seeking protection from Star Luo pursuers, but Wang Sheng initially refused to shelter them. When the pursuers tried to seize the sisters, Wang Sheng and Xiao Chenyu stepped in to fight, and reinforcements appeared to be approaching as the battle continued.

• Zhu Zhuyun recognized Wang Sheng and pleaded for Peach Blossom Spring Academy to protect her and Zhu Zhu Yu from their pursuers.
• Wang Sheng refused to shelter the sisters, and Zhu Zhu Yu offered to return and marry Dai Mubai in place of her Second Sister.
• A Star Luo general mocked the academy and moved to capture the sisters, but Wang Sheng punched him away and he and Xiao Chenyu prepared to fight in their personal capacity.
• Wang Sheng and Xiao Chenyu battled the Star Luo soul masters, with Wang Sheng using Subduing Tiger Fist to defeat Dai Cheng Hu.
• Flender and Zhao Wuji watched from the Peach Honey Shop while considering whether to intervene, and Flender noticed several figures approaching.

Zhu Zhuqing returned to rescue Zhu Zhuyun and Zhu Zhu Yu from Star Luo pursuers, revealing she had become a six-ring Soul Emperor. After slaughtering the attackers, she knelt before her arriving teacher and asked to be punished for breaking the school rules.

• Wang Sheng and Xiao Chenyu fought off Star Luo Soul Emperors and Soul Sages, while Xiao Chenyu endured their attacks through his self-healing ability.
• Zhu Zhuqing arrived, healed Zhu Zhuyun and Zhu Zhu Yu, and revealed that she had reached level 60 or higher.
• Zhu Zhuqing confronted Dai Cheng Hu after he threatened her family and demanded that Zhu Zhuyun and Zhu Zhu Yu be handed over.
• Zhu Zhuqing unleashed her Nine Nether Claws and killed the Star Luo pursuers, leaving Wang Sheng, Xiao Chenyu, and the others stunned.
• Zhu Zhuqing knelt before her arriving Teacher and asked for punishment for breaking the killing precept and school rules.