Chapter Summaries

Dai Weisi tried to take Zhu Zhuqing back to the Zhu Family, but Ning Rongrong and Dugu Yan stood in his way. Lu Yan arrived as the confrontation threatened to turn violent and faced Dai Weisi.

• Ning Rongrong shielded Zhu Zhuqing and warned Dai Weisi that Lu Yan would kill him if he harmed them.
• Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun increased the pressure on the girls, and Dugu Yan stepped forward to protect them with her Soul King strength.
• Dai Weisi summoned a Soul Saint and threatened to remove Dugu Yan and take Zhu Zhuqing away.
• Lu Yan arrived, comforted Ning Rongrong, and calmly asked Dai Weisi if he intended to touch Zhu Zhuqing.

Lu Yan confronted Dai Weisi after the Star Luo prince threatened to make him an enemy of the empire. Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling stood with Lu Yan, and he ended by dismissing Dai Weisi's group as mongrels.

• Dai Weisi stepped back when Lu Yan appeared, then warned him not to interfere in the Star Luo Royal Family's private matter.
• Zhu Zhuqing urged Lu Yan to leave rather than risk making an enemy of the Star Luo Empire.
• Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling joined Lu Yan and stood against Dai Weisi's group.
• Ning Fengzhi chose to watch rather than intervene, while Gu Rong considered the danger to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Lu Yan glanced toward Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong, then dismissed Dai Weisi's group as mongrels.

Lu Yan used his Spiritual Power to break the Star Luo royals’ Martial Soul Fusion Skill and force Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun to their knees. He declared that he would become enemies with the Star Luo Empire, leaving Dai Weisi and the gathered crowd stunned.

• Dai Weisi summoned a royal man and woman whose eight and seven Spirit Rings began merging into the Star Luo royal family’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Lu Yan struck them with Soul Impact, interrupted their fusion, and forced both Strong Experts to kneel.
• Lu Yan’s Spiritual Power overwhelmed Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun until they both knelt before him.
• Lu Yan stomped Dai Weisi prone and declared that he would become enemies with the Star Luo Empire.
• The crowd reacted in shock as Dai Weisi trembled, unable to answer Lu Yan.

Lu Yan crippled Dai Weisi, killed two Star Luo experts, and left Zhu Zhuqing to seek her own revenge. At the tournament finals, Qian Renxue stunned the crowd by revealing she was a Soul Emperor, leaving Dugu Yan doubtful that their team could win.

• Lu Yan destroyed Dai Weisi's cultivation and sent the two Star Luo experts' souls into the Dream Realm.
• Lu Yan ordered Dai Weisi's people to leave Spirit City and told him he would face the consequences when Lu Yan visited Star Luo.
• Lu Yan said he had spared Dai Weisi so he could suffer despair and so Zhu Zhuqing could avenge herself; Zhu Zhuqing thanked him.
• The Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament finals began with Kamikaze Team facing Martial Soul Team.
• Qian Renxue revealed her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul and six Spirit Rings, while Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan each displayed five rings.
• Ning Rongrong was shaken by Qian Renxue's cultivation, and Dugu Yan said Spirit Hall seemed certain to win.

Lu Yan watched Qian Renxue lead Spirit Hall’s representative team to defeat Dugu Yan and Heaven Dou Royal Academy, then prepared to leave for the City of Slaughter. Before departing, he offered Bibi Dong a method called Soul Core that could transform a Titled Douluo’s Soul Power.

• Qian Renxue used Angel Domain to suppress Heaven Dou Team, but Dugu Yan and her teammates fought on before losing to Spirit Hall’s representative team.
• Qian Renxue praised Dugu Yan, who promised Heaven Dou Team would not lose next time.
• Lu Yan said farewell to Dugu Yan, Ning Rongrong, and Ye Lingling, promising to take them to Sea God Island when he returned.
• Lu Yan told Bibi Dong he planned to leave for the City of Slaughter the next day to pursue the Asura Blood Sword inheritance.
• Lu Yan offered Bibi Dong a Soul Power cultivation method called Soul Core.

Lu Yan taught Bibi Dong the Soul Core Method before setting out with her for the City of Slaughter. After a day of travel, they camped beside a river, where Bibi Dong asked Lu Yan to enter her dreams again.

• Lu Yan explained the Soul Core Method to Bibi Dong, who understood its potential but decided not to attempt it yet.
• Lu Yan said farewell to Qian Renxue and Hu Liena, and both asked him to return safely.
• Bibi Dong promised Qian Renxue and Hu Liena that Lu Yan would be safe while she was with him, then departed with him for the City of Slaughter.
• Bibi Dong explained the dangers of the City of Slaughter as she and Lu Yan traveled north.
• Bibi Dong stopped near a river at night, camped with Lu Yan, and asked him to enter her dreams again.

Lu Yan and Bibi Dong reached the City of Slaughter, where Bibi Dong immediately attacked the King of Slaughter while Lu Yan disrupted him with a spiritual strike. The clash began with the King of Slaughter briefly restrained, leaving Bibi Dong poised to press her attack.

• Bibi Dong clung to Lu Yan in her sleep, and he woke her before leaving her tent.
• Lu Yan and Bibi Dong traveled for three days and arrived at the City of Slaughter, where Bibi Dong warned him that Soul Skills could not be used.
• Lu Yan and Bibi Dong entered the castle and confronted the King of Slaughter, who held the Asura Blood Sword.
• Bibi Dong launched an attack on the King of Slaughter, and Lu Yan struck his spiritual sea with Soul Impact, briefly slowing him.
• Bibi Dong seized the opening and unleashed Eternal Creation.

Bibi Dong’s Eternal Creation forced the King of Slaughter back, but his Divine Artifact blood sword protected him from the attack. The King summoned the City of Slaughter’s fallen ones against Lu Yan, who deployed Reincarnation Dreamscape as the charging Titled Douluo Gu Luosi attacked.

• Bibi Dong struck the King of Slaughter with Eternal Creation, and he blocked it with his blood sword but suffered internal injuries.
• The King of Slaughter recognized Lu Yan as a threat and ordered the city’s fallen ones to kill the intruders in exchange for three years of peace.
• Thousands of Soul Masters, including a Titled Douluo, rushed toward the central castle as Bibi Dong faced the King of Slaughter.
• Lu Yan reassured Bibi Dong, awakened his Illusion Eye, and spread Reincarnation Dreamscape across the approaching enemies.
• Gu Luosi, a level-ninety-three Titled Douluo and captain of the Enforcement Team, charged Lu Yan with his Weapon Soul True Body.

Lu Yan survived Gu Luosi’s killing spear with Dream Phantom Shadow and killed him with Purple Divine Light. The fallen ones then charged under the King of Slaughter’s order, while Lu Yan trapped most of them in Reincarnation Dreamscape and Bibi Dong resumed her fight with the King of Slaughter.

• Lu Yan shifted into the Dream Void Realm to evade Gu Luosi’s spear and emerged behind him as his strength ran out.
• Lu Yan blasted through Gu Luosi’s head with Purple Divine Light, killing him in one strike.
• The King of Slaughter ordered the fallen ones to attack Lu Yan in exchange for Ten Years of Stability.
• Lu Yan activated Reincarnation Dreamscape, leaving most of the fallen ones dazed and motionless.
• Bibi Dong faced the King of Slaughter, and the two clashed again with Soul Power and sword qi.

Bibi Dong and Lu Yan joined forces against the King of Slaughter, defeating his Fallen army and overpowering him in battle. Bibi Dong severed his right arm, while the King of Slaughter remained alive and disarmed.

• The King of Slaughter's Killing Domain suppressed Bibi Dong's Divine Slaughter's Domain, but her Death Domain countered it and forced the two into a stalemate.
• The King of Slaughter tried to break away and stop Lu Yan, but Bibi Dong held him off while Lu Yan incapacitated the Fallen with the Reincarnation Dreamscape.
• After the last Soul Douluo fell, Lu Yan struck the King of Slaughter's consciousness with Soul Impact, creating an opening for Bibi Dong to pierce his chest with Eternal Creation.
• The King of Slaughter swung the Asura Blood Sword at Bibi Dong, but she blocked it with her transformed left arm and cut off his right arm with her right-arm scythe.

Lu Yan and Bibi Dong defeated the King of Slaughter, freeing Tang Chen from the Bat King’s control. After Tang Chen died and passed the Asura Blood Sword to Lu Yan, the Asura God King named Lu Yan his inheritor and granted him the Asura Nine Trials.

• Lu Yan and Bibi Dong defeated the King of Slaughter, whose fading blood-red eyes and changed soul revealed that Tang Chen had been freed from the Bat King.
• Tang Chen asked Lu Yan to tell Bo Saixi, “I can't come... I'm sorry,” and Lu Yan promised to deliver the message.
• Tang Chen poured his remaining Asura power into the Asura Blood Sword, gave it to Lu Yan, and disappeared.
• Lu Yan gripped the Asura Blood Sword and endured a brutal transformation and visions of endless slaughter before meeting the Asura God King.
• The Asura God King chose Lu Yan as his inheritor and bestowed the Asura Nine Trials, which Lu Yan vowed to pass.
• Lu Yan returned to the castle in the City of Slaughter, and he confirmed to Bibi Dong that he had succeeded.

Lu Yan completed the Asura God King's first trial by reclaiming the Asura Blood Sword and received powerful rewards that transformed his Soul Rings and granted him the Divine Slaughter's Domain. As he absorbed the power, Bibi Dong protected him from the awakened Fallen Ones and watched his killing intent gather into a formidable domain.

• The Asura God King declared Lu Yan's first trial complete and rewarded him with Asura Affinity, three thousand years of Soul Ring age advancement, and the Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• Heaven and Earth Vitality flowed into Lu Yan's six Soul Rings, transforming his two hundred-year rings into thousand-year rings and raising his thousand-year ring to ten thousand years.
• The Fallen Ones awakened from Lu Yan's Reincarnation Dreamscape, and Bibi Dong killed more than a dozen who approached before the rest fled.
• Bibi Dong guarded Lu Yan as Asura power entered his body and changed Dream Butterfly, while his Soul Power began to rise.
• Lu Yan's accumulated killing intent flowed into the Divine Slaughter's Domain, forming a scarlet aura that Bibi Dong sensed as even more concentrated than her own.

After completing the first Asura trial, Lu Yan received the second trial and struggled briefly with the killing intent flooding his body. He mastered it within hours thanks to his crystal-clear state of mind, then returned to Bibi Dong with fish for them to grill.

• Lu Yan reached level sixty-nine, received the Asura mark, and learned that his second trial required him to become a Soul Saint with a spirit ring over one hundred thousand years old within half a year.
• The Asura God King promised Lu Yan ten percent Asura Affinity, a seven-thousand-year increase to his spirit ring ages, and a God-Given Spirit Ring; Bibi Dong envied the generous rewards.
• Bibi Dong and Lu Yan left the City of Slaughter, and she advised him to pause cultivation while the killing intent affected him.
• At their riverside camp, Lu Yan meditated and absorbed the killing intent into his calm state of mind within a few hours, astonishing Bibi Dong.
• Lu Yan shaped killing intent into needles to catch two fish, then handed them to Bibi Dong and suggested they grill them.

Lu Yan explained to Bibi Dong how his visions of human suffering had helped him overcome the killing intent. As they ate together, he defended his love of beautiful women as one of the passions that kept him human, leaving Bibi Dong reconsidering how well she understood him.

• Bibi Dong asked Lu Yan how he had overcome the killing intent so quickly.
• Lu Yan told Bibi Dong that years of witnessing human cruelty and resilience in his dreams had made killing intent seem insignificant.
• Lu Yan gave Bibi Dong freshly cooked fish, and she accepted it with a genuine smile.
• Bibi Dong questioned why Lu Yan remained so interested in women if he took everything lightly.
• Lu Yan said that having desires and passions made a person human, and that loving women did not conflict with pursuing his ambitions.
• Bibi Dong recognized that Lu Yan was more complex than she had believed.

Lu Yan returned to Spirit City far earlier than expected after completing the King of Slaughter’s trial and reunited with Hu Liena and Qian Renxue. Their reunion was interrupted by a tremendous energy disturbance from Qian Daoliu, and Lu Yan realized that he was condensing a Soul Core.

• Lu Yan entered Bibi Dong’s dream before leaving camp with her the next morning.
• Three days later, Lu Yan and Bibi Dong returned to Spirit City, where Hu Liena and Qian Renxue welcomed him with surprise.
• Lu Yan told Hu Liena and Qian Renxue that the King of Slaughter was dead, he had obtained the Asura Blood Sword, and his Divine Trial had begun.
• Qian Renxue noticed the blood-red mark on Lu Yan’s brow and recognized it as a mark of someone chosen by a god.
• Bibi Dong, Lu Yan, Qian Renxue, and Hu Liena sensed a huge energy vortex near Spirit City, and Lu Yan identified it as Qian Daoliu condensing a Soul Core.
• Bibi Dong led the others toward the golden vortex to witness Qian Daoliu’s breakthrough.

Qian Daoliu used Lu Yan’s Soul Core Method to break through the bottleneck at the pinnacle of Rank Ninety-Nine. The chapter ended with the Enshrined Masters realizing the importance of Lu Yan’s method and Qian Daoliu acknowledging his debt to him.

• The Enshrined Masters, Lu Yan, Hu Liena, and Qian Renxue arrived as Qian Daoliu condensed a golden Soul Core in the sky.
• Lu Yan reassured Qian Renxue that Qian Daoliu was making a breakthrough while the golden vortex drew in Heaven and Earth Vitality.
• Qian Daoliu absorbed the Soul Core into his dantian and released an aura that surpassed Rank Ninety-Nine.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo and the other Enshrined Masters congratulated Qian Daoliu, who thanked Lu Yan for teaching him the Soul Core Method.
• Qian Daoliu explained that the method had helped him break through a decades-long bottleneck, leaving Golden Crocodile Douluo, Qian Renxue, and Hu Liena stunned.

Lu Yan spoke privately with Qian Daoliu, who recognized the divine mark on his brow and promised Spirit Hall's support for his future trials. Lu Yan secured Qian Daoliu's help hunting a soul ring in the Extreme North Land, then left the Worship Hall to rejoin Qian Renxue and Hu Liena.

• Qian Daoliu noticed the blood-red sword mark on Lu Yan's brow and later confirmed it was a Mark of the God.
• Qian Daoliu explained that Lu Yan could ascend to the God Realm with Qian Renxue and pledged Spirit Hall's support for his Divine Trials.
• Lu Yan asked Qian Daoliu to accompany him to hunt a soul ring from the Ice Silkworm Clan when he reached Soul Saint.
• Qian Daoliu agreed to help and asked Lu Yan to cherish Qian Renxue, and Lu Yan promised he would never betray her.
• Lu Yan left the Worship Hall and rejoined Qian Renxue and Hu Liena, telling them he and Qian Daoliu had discussed the future.

Lu Yan returned to the City of Slaughter and killed all the Fallen Ones there, extracting their souls. He opened the Hell Road and continued through it, defeating its guardians and claiming the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent Inner Core.

• Lu Yan left Spirit City and flew back to the City of Slaughter.
• Lu Yan used Void Dream Domain and Dream Devour to incapacitate and kill the Fallen Ones, extracting their souls.
• Lu Yan used the Asura Blood Sword and the corpses’ blood to open the Hell Road in the Hell Slaughter Arena.
• Lu Yan killed the bats and the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King with Soul Impact as he traveled through the passage.
• Lu Yan obliterated the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent’s soul, took its inner core, and continued deeper into the Hell Road.

After settling the harvested souls in the Dream Realm and reaching Rank Seventy, Lu Yan traveled to the Extreme North Land with Qian Daoliu and Bibi Dong to find the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. He located the sleeping soul beast beneath the ice, and the three set off toward it.

• Lu Yan spent half a month calming and organizing the souls from the City of Slaughter in the Dream Realm, while Qian Renxue prepared for her Angel inheritance and Hu Liena left to train in the Maze Great Canyon.
• Lu Yan cultivated for four months, broke through from Rank Sixty-Nine to Rank Seventy, and asked Qian Daoliu to honor his promise to accompany him.
• Lu Yan, Qian Daoliu, and Bibi Dong traveled to the Extreme North Land in search of the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
• Lu Yan used the Dream Butterfly to sense dreams across the frozen land and detected the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sleeping beneath the ice about five hundred li to the north.
• Qian Daoliu and Bibi Dong joined Lu Yan as they flew toward the soul beast's location.

Lu Yan, Bibi Dong, and Qian Daoliu found the sleeping Sky Dream Ice Silkworm beneath the ice and discovered a vast cache of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow. Lu Yan approached the nine-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast and began gently calling to it with his Spiritual Power.

• Lu Yan warned Bibi Dong that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm could use Simulation to conceal itself and flee, then opened a passage through the ice with his Void Dream Domain.
• Lu Yan, Bibi Dong, and Qian Daoliu descended into a vast cavern filled with Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• Qian Daoliu counted nine Golden Patterns on Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and realized it had cultivated for nine hundred thousand years and was nearing one million years.
• Lu Yan explained that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's immense Spiritual Power was non-aggressive and made it a valuable target for a Spirit Master who cultivated Spiritual Power.
• Lu Yan sat near the sleeping beast, sent out a gentle touch of Spiritual Power, and told it to wake up.