Chapter Summaries

Huangfu Ji entered the City of Slaughter and learned that he had to win one hundred matches in the Hell Slaughter Arena and pass the Hell Road to become a Slaughter God and leave. He registered for a match and stepped into the arena as one of ten contestants.

• The woman in black explained that Huangfu Ji would be protected for twelve hours and that the only way to leave the City of Slaughter was to become a Slaughter God by conquering the Hell Road.
• Huangfu Ji hurried into the inner city and told the woman in black that he wanted to become a Slaughter God as soon as possible.
• The woman in black brought Huangfu Ji to the Hell Slaughter Arena and explained its matches, where one contestant out of ten survived and one hundred victories earned the championship.
• Huangfu Ji registered for a match, waited with the woman in black, and confidently entered the arena with nine other contestants.

Huangfu Ji survived the Hell Slaughter Arena and repeated ambushes in the City of Slaughter, where he steadily killed his attackers. After discovering a plot to poison him at his residence, he killed several conspirators and pursued the fleeing survivors.

• Huangfu Ji defeated nine opponents in the Hell Slaughter Arena, leaving only one alive before killing him.
• Huangfu Ji refused the black-clad woman's protection and killed five attackers who ambushed him outside the arena.
• Over the next week, Huangfu Ji won three arena matches and survived increasingly dangerous ambushes, while refusing to drink Yellow Springs Dew.
• Huangfu Ji realized his food might be poisoned and lured the conspirators hiding near his residence into an empty room.
• Huangfu Ji killed two of the conspirators, pursued the others as they fled, and chose to chase one of the Soul Kings.

Huangfu Ji continued building his fearsome reputation in the City of Slaughter as he neared one hundred arena victories. When nine opponents attacked him together, he survived their coordinated assault and focused on the powerful Soul Emperor among them, preparing to fight with his dragon claws after his sword broke.

• Huangfu Ji caught and killed a Soul King who had fled from him, then spent the following year accumulating fifty-six arena victories and killing nearly a thousand people.
• Huangfu Ji waited three hours for a match, left when the arena could not gather enough contestants, and returned four days later when a match was ready.
• The nine contestants agreed to target Huangfu Ji together, surrounding him and attacking from the ground and air.
• Huangfu Ji evaded arrows and aerial attackers, killed one opponent, and was thrown toward the arena’s deadly liquid before regaining control and flying back.
• The burly Soul Emperor struck Huangfu Ji’s sword with a refined-iron hammer and broke it, so Huangfu Ji discarded the weapon and charged with his dragon claws.

Huangfu Ji won his fifty-seventh match in the Hell Slaughter Arena, prompting the King of Slaughter to take an interest in him. The woman in black visited Huangfu Ji with an invitation to join the City of Slaughter, and he paused before refusing to hear the terms.

• Huangfu Ji defeated the brawny man by deforming his hammer and crushing his skull with it.
• The King of Slaughter discussed Huangfu Ji’s fifty-seven victories with the woman in black and ordered her to approach him.
• Huangfu Ji returned to his residence and worked to suppress the killing intent building within him.
• The woman in black told Huangfu Ji that the King of Slaughter had invited him to join the City of Slaughter.
• Huangfu Ji began to refuse, but the woman in black asked him to hear the terms first.

Huangfu Ji refused the City of Slaughter’s offer and continued fighting in the Hell Slaughter Arena until he achieved one hundred victories. The King of Slaughter appeared to congratulate him, leaving Huangfu Ji poised to face Hell Road and seek Divine Slaughter's Domain.

• Huangfu Ji refused the woman in black’s offer to become an honorary guest, insisting he would become the eighth Slaughter God.
• Huangfu Ji spent the next three years fighting in the Hell Slaughter Arena, suffering serious injuries as his opponents grew stronger.
• Huangfu Ji’s Soul Power reached level fifty, but he could not advance further without a fifth Soul Ring.
• Huangfu Ji won his hundredth match after facing two Soul Douluos and several Soul Saints, and the King of Slaughter descended to congratulate him.
• Huangfu Ji recognized that the King of Slaughter was Tang Chen and heard him mention that Tang Hao was the previous warrior to achieve one hundred victories.

Huangfu Ji refused the King of Slaughter’s offer and entered Hell Road despite his weakened condition. After recovering enough to fly onward, he broke through a swarm of blood-red bats, which continued pursuing him.

• The King of Slaughter offered Huangfu Ji the title of Slaughter God and a position as guest elder, but Huangfu Ji refused and demanded that Hell Road be opened.
• The King of Slaughter opened Hell Road by sacrificing the fallen spectators, then sent Huangfu Ji into it.
• Huangfu Ji awakened on a circular platform, resisted the killing intent eroding his consciousness, and recovered half his Soul Power.
• Huangfu Ji summoned his Sacred Martial War Dragon Martial Soul, spread his Dragon Wings, and flew along the narrow path through the darkness.
• A swarm of blood-red bats surrounded Huangfu Ji, but he killed several dozen and broke through their encirclement as they pursued him.

Huangfu Ji escaped the City of Slaughter after luring the pursuing blood bats into a fight with the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent. He passed through the exit, endured the formation of his domain, and awoke in the mountains outside, determined never to return.

• Huangfu Ji fought off the blood bats and the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King while fleeing through Hell Road.
• Huangfu Ji dodged the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's flames so they struck the Bat King, provoking the bats and serpent into battle.
• Huangfu Ji left the fighting creatures behind and flew across the lake of blood toward the exit curtain.
• Huangfu Ji entered the curtain, endured the painful formation of his domain, and eventually woke in a mountain meadow.
• Huangfu Ji summoned his Martial Soul, saw his eyes had turned blood-red, and released white light across the surrounding area.

After leaving the City of Slaughter, Huangfu Ji recovered, learned what had happened during his three-year absence, and traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain his fifth Soul Ring. Unaware that Yuan Hao feared his return and was rumored to be replacing the Huangfu Family, he found a powerful soul beast deep in the forest.

• Huangfu Ji recovered from his injuries and resolved to obtain his fifth Soul Ring before recruiting soul masters and reclaiming his family's position in Qingyang.
• Huangfu Ji questioned a waiter, who told him that Heaven Dou and Star Luo had fought a war, Spirit Hall had mediated it, and its Supreme Pontiff had recently become a Titled Douluo.
• Huangfu Ji calculated that Tang San would be born in ten years and wondered how far he could cultivate by then.
• Xue Ye worried that Huangfu Ji had disappeared, while Yuan Hao feared his return; the Qingyang Army had lost more than sixty thousand soldiers under Yuan Hao's command, and rumors suggested the Yuan Family might replace the Huangfu Family.
• Huangfu Ji reached the Star Dou Great Forest a month later, ventured into its depths, and found a bronze, golden-horned soul beast for his fifth Soul Ring.

Huangfu Ji defeated a thirty-thousand-year Golden-Horned Ox and absorbed its soul ring as his Fifth Soul Ring, reaching Level 52. As he left the Star Dou Great Forest, Xiao Wu watched him go before a red-eyed woman picked her up and warned her not to wander alone.

• Huangfu Ji attacked the Golden-Horned Ox, dodged its counterattack, and used his Fourth Soul Skill to inflict severe wounds.
• Huangfu Ji followed the injured Golden-Horned Ox, killed it, and confirmed that it had produced no Soul Bone.
• Huangfu Ji absorbed the Golden-Horned Ox's soul ring and gained the area-of-effect soul skill Cease Conflict Transform Martial, which could seal opponents' offensive soul skills for ten seconds.
• Huangfu Ji reached Level 52 and left the Star Dou Great Forest after sensing someone watching him.
• Xiao Wu watched Huangfu Ji leave, and a red-eyed woman picked her up and warned her not to wander off alone.

Huangfu Ji returned to Heaven Dou City after three years away and learned that the imperial family might replace him as Grand Duke of Qingyang. He left Zhou Mu ready to oppose Xue Ye and Yuan Hao if they moved against him.

• In a tavern, Huangfu Ji heard rumors that powerful Soul Masters were searching for a Titled Douluo Treasure and wondered whether Dugu Bo might be among them.
• After traveling for half a month, Huangfu Ji returned to his residence in Heaven Dou City, startling the gatekeeper and servants.
• Zhou Mu welcomed Huangfu Ji, reported on the residence’s affairs over the past three years, and showed him the account books.
• Zhou Mu told Huangfu Ji that Xue Ye had asked to see him and that rumors said Yuan Hao might replace him as Grand Duke of Qingyang.
• Huangfu Ji reacted angrily to the possibility of being displaced and declared that he would abandon righteousness if Xue Ye acted without mercy.

Huangfu Ji questioned why the major powers had ignored the rumored Titled Douluo Treasure, then learned that Gu Rong had joined the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. After Zhou Mu left, Huangfu Ji read Liu Erlong’s letters, ending with her latest letter.

• Zhou Mu told Huangfu Ji that the Titled Douluo Treasure was real but had drawn no interest from the major sects or Spirit Hall.
• Huangfu Ji suspected a plot, while Zhou Mu explained why the upper three sects were unlikely to have agreed with Spirit Hall.
• Zhou Mu reported that Gu Rong, a rank ninety-one Bone Dragon Titled Douluo, had joined the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect after defeating two Spirit Hall Titled Douluos.
• Huangfu Ji concluded that Gu Rong’s arrival had strengthened the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and solved its vulnerability as a support sect.
• After Zhou Mu left, Huangfu Ji read Liu Erlong’s letters and opened her latest one.

Huangfu Ji learned that Liu Erlong had formed a team with Flender and Yu Xiaogang, then heard that the Yuan Family was gaining imperial and kingdom support in Qingyang. He decided to return eventually but first sought permission from Xue Ye to visit the rumored Titled Douluo Treasure in the Hagen Das Kingdom.

• Huangfu Ji read Liu Erlong's letter about her new teammates, Flender and Yu Xiaogang, and recognized them as the Golden Iron Triangle.
• Huangfu Ji sent a letter to the Clear Sky Sect and ordered Zhao Hong and the others to resume cultivating.
• Wang Zhi reported that imperial envoys and representatives of the Balak and Siren Kingdoms had been visiting the Yuan Mansion.
• Huangfu Ji told Wang Zhi he planned to return to Qingyang after recruiting Soul Masters, but Zhou Mu then informed him that Xue Ye had summoned him.
• Huangfu Ji apologized to Xue Ye for being away without permission, and Xue Ye warned him not to do it again.
• Huangfu Ji requested permission to visit the rumored Titled Douluo Treasure in the Hagen Das Kingdom, and Xue Ye did not refuse.

Tang Yuehua reunited with Huangfu Ji after his three-year absence in the City of Slaughter and offered to help him control his killing intent. When Huangfu Ji mentioned going to investigate a Titled Douluo treasure, Tang Yuehua decided to accompany him.

• Tang Yuehua's Noble Ring domain dispersed Huangfu Ji's killing intent when he arrived at the front hall.
• Tang Yuehua checked that Huangfu Ji was unharmed, scolded him for making her worry, and listened as he briefly recounted his time in the City of Slaughter.
• Tang Yuehua offered to help Huangfu Ji control his killing intent, and he agreed to discuss it after returning from his next outing.
• Tang Yuehua told Huangfu Ji that the rumored Titled Douluo treasure was likely a scam, but he said he wanted to join the excitement rather than seek riches.
• Tang Yuehua insisted on accompanying Huangfu Ji, then changed into a fitted blue outfit and prepared to leave.

Huangfu Ji and Tang Yuehua traveled west toward the Hagen Das Kingdom, while she avoided telling the Clear Sky Sect about leaving with him. They reached a snowbound town near the Extreme North and found the inn crowded with soul masters seeking the Titled Douluo Treasure.

• Tang Yuehua admitted she had not told her father she had left the Clear Sky Sect, and she refused to return to inform him.
• Huangfu Ji and Tang Yuehua continued west, passing soul masters heading for the Titled Douluo Treasure.
• After several days, they reached a town in the Empire's Northern Province amid heavy snow and bitter cold.
• Huangfu Ji and Tang Yuehua booked the inn's last room and ordered food in its crowded dining room.
• Huangfu Ji observed that most of the inn's guests were soul masters, but he saw no Soul Saints.

Huangfu Ji and Tang Yuehua shared a room at an inn, where Tang Yuehua struggled to sleep and asked him about his family and the future of Qingyang. The chapter ended with her wondering whether Huangfu Ji would truly accept the Empire taking the Huangfu Family’s duchy, despite his claim that he would obey.

• Huangfu Ji set up a curtain around the bed and settled down to cultivate while Tang Yuehua questioned him about his well-stocked Soul Tool.
• Tang Yuehua could not sleep and tried to start a conversation with Huangfu Ji, but a fight between two drunken Soul Ancestors interrupted them.
• After Huangfu Ji returned from checking the commotion downstairs, Tang Yuehua asked what he would do if the Empire replaced the Huangfu Family as rulers of the Duchy.
• Huangfu Ji said the Huangfu Family would obey the imperial decree, while Tang Yuehua doubted that he would surrender the family’s four-hundred-year foundation so easily.

Huangfu Ji and Tang Yuehua encountered Dugu Bo at a forest campsite, where Huangfu Ji confronted the infamous poison master. The chapter ended with Huangfu Ji revealing that Dugu Bo was afflicted by toxins he could not cure and had passed them to his descendants, provoking Dugu Bo's killing intent.

• Huangfu Ji and Tang Yuehua traveled west through the snow, following Soul Masters who were searching for a treasure in the Hagen Das Kingdom.
• Huangfu Ji and Tang Yuehua camped in a forest, where fleeing Soul Masters warned them that Dugu Bo had arrived.
• Huangfu Ji and Tang Yuehua found Dugu Bo beside a fire near the poisoned corpses of several people and greeted him.
• Dugu Bo ordered Huangfu Ji to leave, but Huangfu Ji stayed and released his killing intent as Dugu Bo displayed his eight Soul Rings.
• Huangfu Ji told Dugu Bo that deadly toxins afflicted him and had been passed to his descendants, causing Dugu Bo to regard him with intense killing intent.

Yu Xiaogang questioned Huangfu Ji about his Martial Soul mutation and Ten-Thousand-Year Fourth Soul Ring, but Huangfu Ji revealed little about how he achieved it. As the group camped for the night, Liu Erlong reunited with Huangfu Ji and asked what his relationship with Tang Yuehua meant.

• Yu Xiaogang asked Huangfu Ji about his Sacred Martial War Dragon and Fourth Soul Ring, and Huangfu Ji said his mutation was unexplained and credited his Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring to a rare, undisclosed opportunity.
• Flender noted that the group would need to camp for the night, and Huangfu Ji and Flender set up four tents with Yu Xiaogang.
• Huangfu Ji volunteered to keep watch for the first half of the night, while Flender and Yu Xiaogang shared a tent and Tang Yuehua entered another.
• Liu Erlong stayed with Huangfu Ji, embraced him, and asked whether he and Tang Yuehua were together.
• Huangfu Ji said he could not define his relationship with Tang Yuehua, while making clear he would not abandon Liu Erlong.

Huangfu Ji, Liu Erlong, and their companions gave up searching the mountains for the Titled Douluo Treasure, but a sudden underground battle revealed that powerful soul masters were fighting beneath their feet. Huangfu Ji flew down to investigate while the others remained above.

• The five searched the snowy mountain for the treasure but found nothing, and Flender suggested they leave the next day.
• Huangfu Ji asked Liu Erlong to return with him to Qingyang, but she refused because she wanted to become strong enough to stand by his side.
• A rumbling from underground alerted the group, and Huangfu Ji and Flender led everyone away just before a water column blasted through the ground.
• The group saw numerous powerful soul masters fighting below and realized the treasure might be underground.
• Huangfu Ji activated Martial Soul Possession, spread his Dragon Wings, and flew down to investigate.