Chapter Summaries

Tang Xuan and Hu Liena approached their hundredth Hell Slaughter Arena victories, while the King of Slaughter decided not to interfere because Tang Hao had been watching Slaughter City. The King hoped they would die on Hell Road as they prepared to leave the city.

• Hu Liena delayed entering the Hell Slaughter Arena because Tang Xuan’s blood-based pills had left her with diarrhea, then mistook his warning to be careful as a sign of affection.
• A year passed as Tang Xuan and Hu Liena each reached ninety-nine victories, with Tang Xuan struggling to find opponents after the Fallen Ones avoided the arena.
• The King of Slaughter told the Black Veil Woman that Tang Hao had lingered outside Slaughter City for nearly a year, likely because of Tang Xuan.
• The Black Veil Woman suggested matching Tang Xuan and Hu Liena against each other, but the King of Slaughter struck her down and said the arena rules prevented it.
• The King of Slaughter hoped Tang Xuan and Hu Liena would die on Hell Road, fearing that two Slaughter Gods could bring disaster to Slaughter City.

Tang Xuan and Hu Liena completed their Hundred Consecutive Victories, prompting the King of Slaughter to open Hell Road after they refused his offer to remain in Slaughter City. As the ritual began, the Fallen Ones were driven into a horrific frenzy, and Hu Liena's killing intent started to waver.

• Tang Xuan won his hundredth arena battle and completed the Hundred Consecutive Victories.
• The King of Slaughter invited Tang Xuan and Hu Liena to become honored members of Slaughter City, but both refused.
• Hu Liena declared that she would follow Tang Xuan even if it meant dying beside him, while Tang Xuan remained uncomfortable with her affection.
• The King of Slaughter began opening Hell Road, and a wave of red light spread through the arena.
• The Fallen Ones began mutilating themselves in a frenzied blood sacrifice, while Hu Liena's killing intent threatened to slip out of control.

Tang Xuan carried the unconscious Hu Liena onto Hell Road and fought through its Blood Bats. He encountered the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King and blasted apart its body, leaving its fate unclear.

• The King of Slaughter opened Hell Road by sacrificing everyone in the arena, and Tang Xuan and Hu Liena were swallowed by the crimson pattern.
• Hu Liena awoke with Tang Xuan on a platform above the Blood Pool, and he warned her about the Bloody Mary poisoning their minds.
• Tang Xuan rendered Hu Liena unconscious, carried her on his shoulder, and flew into Hell Road.
• Tang Xuan used Divine Slaughter's Domain and his First Soul Ring to destroy more than half of a swarm of Blood Bats.
• The Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King attacked Tang Xuan, dispersed into smaller bats to evade his first follow-up strike, and was then locked down and blasted apart by Tang Xuan's sword.

Tang Xuan defeated the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent and continued through Hell Road with Hu Liena. After resisting the path’s Evil Aura, he reached the exit and flew into its curtain of light with her.

• Tang Xuan encountered the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent and used Soul Imprisonment to shatter its soul before destroying its heads with the Mysterious Iron Heavy Sword.
• Tang Xuan collected the serpent’s gold-and-red Inner Core, intending to give it to Sister Yanzi.
• Tang Xuan considered leaving Hu Liena behind but chose to carry her onward because of the threat posed by her Teacher.
• Tang Xuan used Evil God's Protection to repel and absorb Hell Road’s Evil Aura, overcoming its influence.
• Tang Xuan flew with Hu Liena into the curtain of light at Hell Road’s exit.

Tang Xuan entered the Pure White Space expecting the Asura God’s inheritance, but Evil God appeared and challenged Asura over choosing him as a Successor. The two God Kings argued over Tang Xuan, who ended the dispute by asking if he could inherit both of their god positions.

• Tang Xuan endured the overwhelming killing intent in the Pure White Space until it stopped and he regained consciousness before the Asura God.
• The Asura God offered Tang Xuan his inheritance, explaining that Tang Xuan’s killing intent, sword, and resistance to corruption made him an ideal Successor.
• Evil God interrupted the offer and accused the Asura God of violating God Realm rules by interfering with someone he had already chosen.
• The Asura God and Evil God argued over their competing claims and tried to persuade Tang Xuan to accept their inheritances.
• Tang Xuan interrupted the two God Kings and asked whether he could have both god positions.

Tang Xuan proposed inheriting both the Asura God’s and Evil God’s divine positions by merging their judgment authorities into a new one. He argued that his body had already demonstrated it could contain both powers without conflict, leaving the two God Kings to consider his claim.

• The Asura God and Evil God doubted Tang Xuan could withstand two God King divine positions, and the Asura God noted that the God Realm rules prohibited one person from inheriting two positions.
• Tang Xuan argued that the gods’ overlapping judgment authorities could be merged into one, reducing the burden of separate powers and duties.
• The Evil God questioned how Tang Xuan could merge the authorities without first making the divine powers coexist, while the Asura God and Evil God argued over whose successor Tang Xuan should become.
• The Asura God prepared to leave to declare Tang Chen’s succession trial a failure, but Tang Xuan stopped him and insisted he had a way to prevent the powers from conflicting.
• Tang Xuan explained that divine authority reflected the world’s laws and displayed Evil God’s Protection and Divine Slaughter’s Domain as evidence that both divine powers already coexisted within him.

Tang Xuan discovered that his evolved Slaughter Domain preserved its original effects and that his own will had formed a personal Path of Asura, allowing Asura and Evil divine powers to coexist. The two God Kings agreed to support his plan to fuse their Divine Positions, and Tang Xuan began considering how to start.

• The Asura God explained that Tang Xuan’s unusually powerful Slaughter Domain could contend with the Evil God’s Supreme Evil Power, and Tang Xuan discovered that the evolved domain retained its old effects while gaining new ones.
• Tang Xuan realized his Slaughter Domain came from his own will and that his justice had guided him along his own Path of Asura.
• The Evil God and Asura God accepted that Tang Xuan wanted to fuse their Divine Positions and agreed to support his attempt.
• Tang Xuan struggled to determine how to combine the two compatible but separate divine powers, then proposed starting by absorbing a Spirit Ring to obtain his Martial Soul Avatar.

Tang Xuan proposed using a God-Bestowed Soul Ring made from Asura God and Evil God's opposing divine powers to begin fusing their powers, and the Gods agreed to help him. After creating the Taiji Diagram and forming the ring, they delayed his absorption until they could bring back another safeguard, leaving Tang Xuan with marks that let him contact them.

• Tang Xuan explained that absorbing a Soul Ring made from both Gods' powers and activating his Martial Soul True Body could gradually fuse their divine powers.
• Asura God persuaded the hesitant Evil God to support Tang Xuan's plan, and Tang Xuan demonstrated that their powers could form a Taiji Diagram without clashing.
• Evil God and Asura God created a God-Bestowed Soul Ring from their combined powers and warned Tang Xuan that it would begin at Hundred-thousand-year-old.
• Asura God stopped Tang Xuan from absorbing the ring immediately and proposed returning to the God Realm for another safeguard while Tang Xuan visited his family.
• Evil God and Asura God placed coexisting marks on Tang Xuan's forehead so he could contact them without beginning a God Trial.

Tang Xuan left the Killing Intent Space and encountered Hu Liena, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Ghost Douluo in the forest. After Tang Xuan crippled Ghost Douluo’s Soul Power and fought off Chrysanthemum Douluo, an Azure Sword Shadow appeared and transformed into his grandfather.

• Tang Xuan emerged from the Killing Intent Space and found Hu Liena waiting with Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo.
• Hu Liena confessed her feelings, but Tang Xuan pushed past her and warned that they might meet again as enemies.
• Ghost Douluo blocked Tang Xuan on Bibi Dong’s orders, and Tang Xuan used his Slaughter Domain and Soul Imprisonment to permanently weaken Ghost Douluo’s Soul Power by twenty percent.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo attacked Tang Xuan, who released his Martial Soul and activated Return to Dust.
• An Azure Sword Shadow blasted Chrysanthemum Douluo away, transformed into an elderly man, and was recognized by Tang Xuan as his grandfather.

Tang Xuan persuaded Chen Xin to let Chrysanthemum Douluo, Gui Mei, and Hu Liena leave after their confrontation. He explained that killing Hu Liena would provoke Bibi Dong, while the incident could give Spirit Hall an excuse to expose its ambitions through the Soul Hunting Operation.

• Chen Xin arrived and challenged Chrysanthemum Douluo after learning he had threatened Tang Xuan and Gui Mei had been badly injured.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo failed to defend himself, and Chen Xin summoned his Seven Kill Sword and prepared to kill him and Gui Mei.
• Tang Xuan asked Chen Xin to let the three Spirit Hall members go, and Chen Xin agreed.
• Tang Xuan explained that killing Hu Liena would provoke Bibi Dong into attacking the continent, while Gui Mei's injury could be hard for Spirit Hall to pin on Chen Xin.
• Tang Xuan privately intended for Bibi Dong to use Gui Mei's injury as cover for the Soul Hunting Operation, bringing Spirit Hall's ambitions into the open and paving the way for the Mysterious Heavy Sect.

Tang Xuan learned that qi deviation had triggered a temporary breakthrough in his Sword Intent, which had then fallen back after damaging his soul. Chen Xin warned him not to force another breakthrough, and Tang Xuan kept the opportunity he had found to himself.

• Tang Xuan and Chen Xin flew away together as Tang Xuan described his gains over the past two years and his plans to absorb a God-Bestowed Soul Ring and begin a godhood inheritance.
• Tang Xuan asked Chen Xin about the battle in the Hell Slaughter Arena where he had entered a powerful state, defeated his opponent, and later lost his memories.
• Chen Xin connected the episode to Tang Xuan's earlier qi deviation and explained that his obsessive desire to win had pushed him into qi deviation, while his Sword Intent breakthrough had pulled him free.
• Chen Xin said the breakthrough had damaged Tang Xuan's soul when his Sword Intent fell back, but Divine Slaughter's Domain had repaired the damage and kept him alive.
• Tang Xuan realized he had found the opportunity to regain his Sword Intent breakthrough, but Chen Xin warned him not to force it and to wait for it to come naturally.

Tang Xuan learned that Tang Hao was near Slaughter City and rushed with Chen Xin to the Blue Silver Emperor's burial ground to steal her Right Leg Bone. They reached the waterfall as Tang San trained nearby, leaving Tang Xuan poised to act before Tang Hao returned.

• Chen Xin told Tang Xuan that Tang Hao had been waiting near Slaughter City and had arrived at the tavern two days earlier.
• Tang Xuan considered killing Tang Hao but decided to wait for a better chance, then told Chen Xin he planned to steal Tang Hao's wife.
• Tang Hao sensed something was wrong, left the tavern, and headed back to check on Tang San.
• Tang Xuan and Chen Xin spent two days flying toward the Blue Silver Emperor's burial ground while racing each other.
• Tang Xuan spotted Tang San meditating beside the waterfall and flew with Chen Xin behind it to find the Blue Silver Emperor.

Tang Xuan and Chen Xin found Tang Hao’s wife, the Blue Silver Emperor, hidden in a cave behind a waterfall. Tang Xuan replaced her with ordinary Blue Silver Grass and took the real plant, while he and Chen Xin began considering a plan to keep Tang Hao from noticing.

• Tang Xuan led Chen Xin through a hidden entrance behind the waterfall and showed him the Blue Silver Emperor growing in a stone chamber.
• Chen Xin touched the conscious Blue Silver Emperor, and Tang Xuan warned him not to do so; Chen Xin then made Tang Xuan promise not to tell Ning Rongrong.
• Tang Xuan said they needed a fake wife for Tang Hao and sent Chen Xin to find a large lead box while he gathered and modified ordinary Blue Silver Grass.
• Chen Xin found the lead box, and Tang Xuan dug up the Blue Silver Emperor, stored it in his pouch, and planted the fake grass in its place.
• Tang Xuan and Chen Xin agreed that Tang Hao would eventually notice the substitution and started discussing who could help with their plan.

Tang Xuan and Chen Xin planned to frame someone for the theft of the Blue Silver Emperor to delay Tang Hao’s actions, and Tang Xuan chose Tang Xiao as the scapegoat. After planting evidence designed to implicate him, Tang Xuan and Chen Xin left the stone chamber and headed home.

• Tang Xuan and Chen Xin decided that a suitable scapegoat needed to be close to Tang Hao, have a conflict with him, and have a reason to spare Tang San.
• Tang Xuan led Chen Xin out of the stone chamber after instructing him to erase their footprints and water stains.
• Tang Xuan damaged the wall with a hammer strike and declared that he would frame Tang Xiao, Tang Hao’s elder brother and the current Clear Sky Sect Master.
• Tang Xuan crushed rubble using a technique he identified as the Shock Character Art, claiming he had reverse-engineered the Clear Sky Nine Arts from the Great Sumeru Hammer.
• Chen Xin recognized how the staged damage and clues could implicate Tang Xiao, and Tang Xuan left with him for home.

Tang Xuan returned to the Mysterious Heavy Sect and was attacked by Yang Wudi and Dragon Duke and Snake Grandma before they recognized him. Meanwhile, Tang Hao discovered Tang San had reached Soul King at seventeen and urged him to stop comparing himself to Tang Xuan.

• Tang Hao returned to the waterfall and confirmed Tang San had broken through to level 50, making him a Soul King at seventeen.
• Tang San compared his progress with Tang Xuan’s, and Tang Hao told him not to measure himself against a prodigy.
• Tang San resumed waterfall training while Tang Hao continued hiding his visits to his wife in the chamber behind the waterfall.
• Tang Xuan learned Ning Rongrong was at the Mysterious Heavy Sect, then flew there from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Tang Xuan admired the sect’s completed mountain grounds, built by the Defense Clan with plans likely supplied by Ling Ling.
• Yang Wudi and Dragon Duke and Snake Grandma attacked Tang Xuan, but he blocked their strikes with his sword and Evil God's Protection before greeting them.

Tang Xuan returned to the sect and reunited with Ning Rongrong and the others, who learned that he had awakened and evolved his Slaughter Domain. He demonstrated its overwhelming killing intent and explained that its Demon Seal could suppress Spirit Rings.

• Tang Xuan met Meng Shu, Yang Wudi, and the old woman, learning that Meng Shu had reached rank 91, Yang Wudi rank 89, and the old woman had obtained her Martial Soul Avatar.
• Ning Rongrong rushed into Tang Xuan's arms, cried over his long absence, and made him promise to take her along in the future.
• When Ning Rongrong asked why Slaughter City had not changed his temperament, Tang Xuan released his Slaughter Domain and overwhelmed everyone present with its killing intent.
• Tang Xuan explained that he had awakened the domain himself and that it had evolved beyond Divine Slaughter's Domain, gaining Demon Seal, which could seal Spirit Rings.
• Yu Tianheng realized that the ability to seal Spirit Rings could leave opponents unable to use most of their combat power.

Tang Xuan reunited with Dugu Yan and the others, learned how their cultivation had changed over the past two years, and gave Dugu Yan the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's Inner Core. Dugu Yan accepted it after Tang Xuan explained its benefits, leaving her to prepare for the painful absorption.

• Tang Xuan noted Dugu Yan's breakthrough to level 70 and assessed the cultivation progress of Ye Lingling, Qin Ming, Yu Tianheng, and Ning Rongrong.
• Ning Rongrong explained that she had focused on practicing spear techniques, and Tang Xuan advised her to prioritize cultivating Soul Power as well.
• Dugu Yan interrupted Tang Xuan and Ning Rongrong's affectionate reunion and asked whether Tang Xuan would join them on a Soul Hunt.
• Tang Xuan produced the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's Inner Core, whose aura made Dugu Yan, Chao Tianxiang, and Meng Yiran feel compelled to kneel.
• Tang Xuan suppressed the Inner Core's aura and explained to Dugu Yan that absorbing it could strengthen her poison and give her resistance to high temperatures, though the process would be painful.

Dugu Yan swallowed the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent Inner Core, and Tang Xuan protected her while she wore down its power with help from Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling. As Dugu Yan gained control of the core, Tang Xuan recovered from the ordeal and gave Ye Lingling a heavy lead box in thanks.

• Dugu Yan swallowed the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent Inner Core, and Tang Xuan stopped the others from approaching as its flames engulfed her.
• Tang Xuan protected Dugu Yan's organs and meridians with his soul power while Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling amplified her abilities.
• Dugu Yan used her poison-attribute soul power to contain and wear down the core's energy until her soul power suppressed it.
• Tang Xuan stood up after the danger eased, and Yu Tianheng covered him with clothes and asked how Dugu Yan was doing.
• Ye Lingling gave Tang Xuan a towel, and Tang Xuan handed her a heavy lead box from his Ruyi Hundred Treasures Pouch.

Ye Lingling received a Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone from Tang Xuan and began absorbing it. Tang Xuan revealed that he had taken the Blue Silver Emperor, Tang Hao’s wife, and offered her young main body to Yang Wudi to refine.

• Tang Xuan gave Ye Lingling a Hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, and she began absorbing it.
• After Ye Lingling fused the Soul Bone, Tang Xuan revealed that he had taken Tang Hao’s wife while Tang Hao was away.
• Yu Tianheng laughed that Tang San was a bastard, while Yang Wudi blamed Tang Hao and the Clear Sky Sect for the Breaking Clan’s suffering.
• Tang Xuan offered Yang Wudi the Blue Silver Emperor’s young main body and asked whether he could refine it.

Tang Xuan learned how the Mysterious Heavy Sect was organized and proposed rules to share peak masters’ duties and rotate their positions. After sending Qin Ming to draft the rules, he wondered where Dugu Bo had gone.

• Yang Wudi accepted the Hundred-thousand-year-old Blue Silver Grass from Tang Xuan and went to the easternmost mountain to refine it.
• Qin Ming explained the Mysterious Heavy Sect’s Inner and Outer Sects, its peaks, promotion system, and Heavenly Reason Peak to Tang Xuan.
• Tang Xuan proposed appointing assistant peak masters and holding a contest every ten years to replace peak masters.
• Tang Xuan told Qin Ming not to worry about staffing, predicting that the sect’s coming battle would make its name resound across the land.
• After Qin Ming left to draft the rules, Tang Xuan asked Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan where Dugu Bo was.