Chapter Summaries

Zhao Wuji recounted how Yu Xiaogang’s presence drove him and the other teachers away from Shrek Academy, leaving Flender alone. Tang San then began his sixth simulation and encountered a powerful Mandala Snake in the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Zhao Wuji told Dai Mubai that he had left Shrek Academy because Flender kept Yu Xiaogang there, and the other teachers had left as well.
• Tang San returned to his room in Heaven Dou City and began the sixth simulation.
• Tang San’s simulated self appeared in the Star Dou Great Forest, apparently searching for something.
• A large Mandala Snake emerged from the forest, and Tang San recognized it as a powerful Soul Beast.

Tang San in the simulation subdued seven ten-thousand-year Datura Snakes and brought their gallbladders to Fu Shiyan, then resolved to travel to Slaughter City. Watching the scene, Tang San realized the sixth simulation showed a new possible future shaped by changes to his choices and attitude toward his father and the Clear Sky Sect.

• Tang San in the simulation used Blue Silver Soul-Locking Bind to restrain a ten-thousand-year Mandala Snake and extract its gallbladder.
• Tang San in the simulation hunted six more ten-thousand-year Datura Snakes in the Star Dou Great Forest and collected all seven gallbladders.
• Tang San in the simulation returned to Fu Shiyan and presented the jade boxes, completing his trial.
• Tang San in the simulation declared his intention to go to Slaughter City to improve his fighting skills and seek clues to the Rakshasa God's inheritance.
• Fu Shiyan warned Tang San in the simulation to prioritize survival and stay clear-headed, and agreed to inform his father.
• Tang San, watching the simulation, recognized that its timeline had branched into a new possible future after his choices and thoughts changed.

Tang Hao brought Tang San to a tavern in Slaughter City and forced him to drink human blood before leaving him to enter the city alone. Tang San killed the people who attacked him, opened the hidden passage, and heard Slaughter City’s welcome as he descended.

• Tang Hao took Tang San to a tavern and ordered two Bloody Marys, then told him the drink was human blood after Tang San swallowed it.
• When patrons mocked and surrounded him, Tang San used Blue Silver Emperor vines to kill them.
• Tang Hao told Tang San that he had to rely on himself, survive Slaughter City, and win the Hell Slaughter Arena’s annual championship to be taken away.
• Tang San killed a waiter who called him unqualified, then used his Clear Sky Hammer to break open the hidden entrance beneath the bar.
• Tang Hao disappeared, and Tang San descended alone until a voice welcomed him to Slaughter City and warned that life was its price.

Tang San watched his simulated self approach his ninety-ninth victory in Slaughter City before Bibi Dong appeared and fought the Slaughter King over access to the Rakshasa Secret Realm. Bibi Dong defeated and began draining him, leaving his fate unresolved as his life force neared exhaustion.

• Tang San's simulated self spent half a year fighting in Slaughter City and searching for clues about the Rakshasa God, becoming the feared Asura King.
• At his ninety-ninth Hell Slaughter Arena battle, the Slaughter King and Bibi Dong interrupted the fight with a clash of demigod-level auras.
• Bibi Dong demanded that the Slaughter King hand over the passage to the Rakshasa Secret Realm, and he refused.
• Bibi Dong and the Slaughter King fought for a day and a night, devastating Slaughter City as Tang San's simulated self and his opponents sought shelter.
• Bibi Dong defeated the Slaughter King, pinned him with her spider legs, and began devouring his power and life force.

The Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King was forced out of the Slaughter King, and Tang Chen awakened in the fallen body. He recognized Bibi Dong and the bat as enemies and summoned his Clear Sky Hammer, revealing his formidable Spirit Rings.

• The Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King burst from the Slaughter King's body and escaped Bibi Dong's restraints with a soul attack.
• The Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King accused Bibi Dong of betraying their agreement, but she demanded the key to the Rakshasa Secret Realm and threatened to destroy it.
• The Slaughter King's armor and wings vanished, and the elderly Tang Chen fell into the arena rubble and awoke.
• Tang Chen recognized Bibi Dong and the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King, then summoned his Clear Sky Hammer and revealed six black and three red Spirit Rings.
• Tang San, watching from the simulation, recognized Tang Chen as his great-grandfather and recalled his earlier fight with Master.

Tang Chen awakened and used Ring Detonation to destroy the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King, while Bibi Dong fled and the resulting blast devastated Slaughter City. Tang San and his simulated self escaped the energy storm, leaving him shocked by the power of the attack and wondering how his Master had defeated Tang Chen in the fifth simulation.

• Tang Chen awakened fully and joined forces against Bibi Dong and the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King, who raised a combined shield to withstand his attack.
• Tang Chen detonated three Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings and struck the shield with his Clear Sky Hammer, shattering it with Ring Detonation.
• Bibi Dong abandoned the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King and fled as Tang Chen's attack struck and annihilated it.
• The blast swept through Slaughter City, killing its inhabitants and destroying buildings as the simulated Tang San fled behind layers of Blue Silver Emperor vines.
• Tang San escaped with his simulated self and wondered how his Master had become powerful enough to defeat Tang Chen in the fifth simulation.

After destroying the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King and driving Bibi Dong away, Tang Chen discovered that Tang San was Tang Hao’s son and joyfully claimed him as his great-grandson. When Tang Chen asked about the Clear Sky Sect, Tang San rejected any connection to it, leaving Tang Chen demanding to know what had happened.

• Tang Chen’s Ring Detonation killed the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King and forced Bibi Dong to retreat, but left him gravely weakened.
• Tang San revealed his Clear Sky Hammer, and Tang Chen recognized him as Tang Hao’s son.
• Tang Chen introduced himself as Tang San’s great-grandfather and celebrated learning that Hao’er had descendants.
• Tang Chen asked after the Clear Sky Sect and the family, but Tang San said he wanted no connection to the sect.
• Tang Chen pressed Tang San to explain his estrangement, then collapsed into coughing and bloody foam from his injuries.

Tang San told Tang Chen that Clear Sky Sect members had secretly enabled Spirit Hall’s hunt for Ah Yin to gain her hundred-thousand-year Spirit Bone and strengthen the sect. Tang Chen collapsed in fury and remorse, while Tang San vowed to make the sect pay once he was strong enough.

• Tang Chen demanded that Tang San explain the injustice the Clear Sky Sect had done to his family and promised to seek justice if the sect was at fault.
• Tang San said Spirit Hall had hunted Ah Yin, but claimed Clear Sky Sect members had secretly leaked her whereabouts and withheld help from Tang Hao.
• Tang San explained that the plotters expected Ah Yin either to sacrifice herself and leave her Spirit Bone to the sect or to flee into a trap set to seize it.
• Tang San said the sect later called him a bastard and declared that his mother deserved to die, leaving him no reason to return or forgive them.
• Tang Chen spat blood, denounced the conspirators, and fell to one knee in anguish and self-blame.
• Tang San’s observing consciousness swore that the Clear Sky Sect would pay for what it had done to his family.

Bibi Dong ambushed Tang Chen while he was vulnerable, stole the Rakshasa Core, and used its power to transform him into her puppet. She ordered the corrupted Tang Chen to kill Tang San.

• A concealed strand of Rakshasa Divine Power pierced Tang Chen and engulfed him in corrosive purple-black mist.
• Bibi Dong revealed herself and pulled the Rakshasa Core from Tang Chen’s body.
• Bibi Dong swallowed the core, causing her power to surge and begin a divine transformation.
• The Rakshasa mist erased Tang Chen’s identity and turned him into Rakshasa Puppet Chen.
• Bibi Dong recognized Tang San as Fu Shiyan’s disciple and ordered Rakshasa Puppet Chen to kill him.

Tang San used the Seed of Life to summon Fu Shiyan when Rakshasa Puppet Chen threatened to kill him and Tang Hao. Fu Shiyan stopped Tang Chen’s attack, and Bibi Dong recognized the God Trial Mark on his brow.

• Rakshasa Puppet Chen charged at Tang San, but Tang Hao arrived and blocked the attack with his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang Chen struck Tang Hao and blasted him through ruined walls, leaving him buried beneath rubble.
• With his Soul Power nearly exhausted and Tang Hao’s fate unknown, Tang San used the Seed of Life given to him by Fu Shiyan.
• Fu Shiyan materialized before Tang San and declared that no one could touch his disciple.
• Fu Shiyan froze Tang Chen’s hammer strike with a gesture and confronted Bibi Dong.
• Bibi Dong saw the mark on Fu Shiyan’s brow and exclaimed that he had begun a God Trial.

Fu Shiyan confronted Bibi Dong with power that suppressed her Rakshasa Divine Power, but their battle was interrupted when Tang Chen broke free and attacked. Fu Shiyan restrained and healed Tang Chen, leaving him unconscious but out of danger, while Bibi Dong remained poised to fight.

• Fu Shiyan revealed his Deity's recognition and blocked Bibi Dong's Ten Thousand Souls Devouring Heaven with a purifying curtain of light that became a spear.
• Tang Chen broke free of his restraints and charged Fu Shiyan, who evaded him and bound him with azure-gold vines.
• Fu Shiyan sent a Healing Seed into Tang Chen, purging the Rakshasa evil power and leaving Tang Chen unconscious as his wounds began to heal.
• Fu Shiyan told Tang Hao that Tang Chen's life was no longer in danger, while Bibi Dong glared at him with renewed killing intent.

Fu Shiyan countered Bibi Dong’s Rakshasa attack with his Life Oracle, but she revealed a dangerous power drawn from the Abyss and pushed the battle beyond what his Avatar could easily handle. He summoned the Abyss Annihilation Halberd as the confrontation escalated.

• Bibi Dong launched her Eight Spider God-Slaying Spears at Fu Shiyan, who dissolved them with the Life Oracle: Breath of Primordial Birth and weakened her Rakshasa aura.
• Fu Shiyan warned Bibi Dong that he could end her Rakshasa Inheritance if she continued, but she summoned the Soul-Devouring Spider Emperor with nine red Spirit Rings.
• Bibi Dong’s power surged as she combined Rakshasa Divine Power with the aura of the Abyss, and the resulting clash vaporized a large stretch of ruins.
• Fu Shiyan recognized the Abyss’s influence and judged Bibi Dong’s temporary strength too dangerous to face easily with his Avatar.
• Fu Shiyan withdrew the Azure Creation Tree phantom and summoned the Abyss Annihilation Halberd.

Fu Shiyan drove Bibi Dong away by bluffing with the Destruction Godhood, then explained the Abyss and helped Tang Hao protect Tang Chen. After returning to Heaven Dou City, Fu Shiyan and Tang San hunted escaped Fallen Ones, and Fu Shiyan asked Tang San what he had learned from the devastation.

• Fu Shiyan revealed the Destruction Mark and Abyss Annihilation Halberd, frightening Bibi Dong into fleeing.
• Fu Shiyan admitted that his Avatar had nearly exhausted its power and that he could not have unleashed the threatened attack.
• Fu Shiyan explained that the Abyss was a plane comparable to the God Realm and warned that Bibi Dong was being consumed by it.
• Fu Shiyan protected Tang Chen with Life Divine Power while Tang Hao took Tang San and Tang Chen away from Slaughter City.
• Fu Shiyan and Tang San tracked down escaped Fallen Ones across the continent after returning to Heaven Dou City.
• Fu Shiyan asked Tang San what he had learned after seeing the Fallen Ones' devastation of villages.

Tang San reflected on Fu Shiyan’s teachings about evil, human nature, and the need for laws and order after the sixth simulation ended. Fu Shiyan’s system revealed that Tang San’s revelations had earned Faith Power and that the Asura God had also observed the simulation.

• Fu Shiyan showed Tang San villagers who had gained power and turned against their own people, then explained why evil required both restraint and systems that prevented wrongdoing.
• Tang San reconsidered whether killing alone could resolve evil, and he followed Fu Shiyan to help restore order in the village.
• The sixth simulation ended, leaving the observing Tang San to ponder Fu Shiyan’s teachings alongside revelations about Tang Chen, Bibi Dong, Fu Shiyan, and the Clear Sky Sect’s role in Ah Yin’s death.
• Fu Shiyan’s System Panel reported that Tang San’s understanding had earned 1.05 million Faith Power and that the Asura God’s observation had earned another 300,000.

Fu Shiyan realized that Tang San’s awakened Blue Silver Emperor had drawn the Asura God’s attention, so he resolved to offer the deity a different inheritor. At Shrek Academy, Dai Mubai angrily rejected Yu Xiaogang’s attempted guidance and mocked his reputation as a teacher.

• Fu Shiyan connected Tang San’s Blue Silver Emperor awakening and rising destiny to the Asura God’s attention.
• Fu Shiyan decided to disrupt the Asura God’s plans by giving him a different, more suitable inheritor.
• At Shrek Academy, Dai Mubai told Yu Xiaogang to stop following him and rejected his criticism of Dai’s training.
• Yu Xiaogang warned Dai Mubai that his crude cultivation could keep him from becoming strong or even surviving to adulthood.
• Dai Mubai invoked Zhao Wuji’s account of Yu Xiaogang’s teaching record and ridiculed his theories and low cultivation rank.

Dai Mubai rejected Yu Xiaogang’s offer of guidance, prompting Yu Xiaogang to plan how to approach him privately despite the academy’s ban. In Heaven Dou City, Qian Renxue learned that ten-year-old Dai Tianyu had reached level 47 and recalled the news of Dai Yuanfeng’s orphaned child.

• Dai Mubai angrily ordered Yu Xiaogang to leave and declared that he feared neither Spirit Hall nor the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Yu Xiaogang resolved to study Dai Mubai and find a way to gain his acceptance, despite Flender’s prohibition on approaching students.
• The chapter explained that Yu Xiaogang stayed at Shrek Academy because of Flender’s personal ties and the academy’s circumstances, while its teachers had agreed to support him only if he kept away from students.
• A spy reported to Qian Renxue that Dai Tianyu had defeated Dai Weisi in a tournament and was already a level-47 Soul Ancestor at age ten.
• Qian Renxue compared Dai Tianyu’s talent with her own and remembered first hearing that the late Dai Yuanfeng had left behind an orphaned child.

Qian Renxue realized she had misjudged Dai Tianyu and concluded that Fu Shiyan’s forces were preparing him for the Star Luo succession struggle. In Heaven Dou City, Tang San told Fu Shiyan he wanted to return to Holy Soul Village to look for his mother, and Fu Shiyan agreed to accompany him the next day before urgent knocking interrupted them.

• Qian Renxue reviewed the report and realized that Dai Tianyu, not Fu Shiyan, was the Tianxing King's son she had mistaken him for.
• Qian Renxue inferred that Fu Shiyan's forces had arranged Dai Tianyu's return and public victories to build his claim to the Star Luo throne.
• Xiao Wu, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar left for a dessert shop while Tang San stayed behind to speak with Fu Shiyan.
• Tang San told Fu Shiyan that the Blue Silver Emperor's awakening had led him to sense a bloodline connection near Holy Soul Village and suspect his mother was there.
• Fu Shiyan agreed to accompany Tang San to Holy Soul Village the next day and encouraged him to join Xiao Wu and the others, but urgent knocking sounded at the courtyard gate.

Xue Qinghe visited Fu Shiyan again to recruit him and discuss Spirit Hall, but Fu Shiyan described how its original public mission had become tied to monopoly and unchecked power. After Snake Lance Douluo failed to sense Fu Shiyan’s Soul Power, Qian Renxue decided she must tell her grandfather.

• Xue Qinghe arrived at Fu Shiyan’s residence, where Tang San failed to recognize him after Tang San’s appearance changed with his Blue Silver Emperor awakening.
• Xue Qinghe again invited Fu Shiyan to join the Heaven Dou Empire, but Fu Shiyan declined and Xue Qinghe brought up the talented youth Dai Tianyu in the Star Luo Empire.
• Fu Shiyan explained Spirit Hall’s benefits in awakening commoners’ Martial Souls and restraining Soul Masters, then warned that its power had turned toward monopoly and personal ambition.
• Xue Qinghe asked which side Fu Shiyan would support if Spirit Hall and Heaven Dou went to war, and Fu Shiyan told him to ask when that day came.
• Outside, Snake Lance Douluo told Xue Qinghe he could no longer ascertain Fu Shiyan’s Soul Power Level, and Qian Renxue resolved to inform her grandfather.

Xue Qinghe visited Fu Shiyan again to recruit him and probe his views on Spirit Hall, while Tang San kept his changed identity concealed. After Fu Shiyan outlined Spirit Hall’s benefits and growing abuses of power, Xue Qinghe left troubled and decided to report what he had learned to his grandfather.

• Tang San opened the gate for Xue Qinghe, who failed to recognize him after his Blue Silver Emperor awakening changed his appearance.
• Xue Qinghe again invited Fu Shiyan to join Heaven Dou, then raised the exceptionally talented Dai Tianyu and the growing tension between Heaven Dou and Star Luo.
• Fu Shiyan described Spirit Hall’s contributions to commoners and order, then warned that its monopoly and concentrated power had changed its nature.
• Xue Qinghe asked which side Fu Shiyan would support in a future war, but Fu Shiyan said it was too early to answer.
• Outside the courtyard, Snake Lance Douluo told Xue Qinghe he could no longer discern Fu Shiyan’s Soul Power, and Xue Qinghe resolved to inform his grandfather.

Fu Shiyan decided to take Tang San back to Holy Soul Village, while Tang San looked forward to seeing his mother and revisiting his childhood home. After traveling for a day, Fu Shiyan and Tang San arrived outside Nuoding City and went in to look around.

• Fu Shiyan told Tang San there was no need to summon Dai Tianyu and announced that the students would have the next day off.
• Xiao Wu, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar returned from shopping, and Tang San told them he would be going to Holy Soul Village the next morning.
• Xiao Wu asked to join Tang San, but he said he had matters to handle and promised to take her another time.
• Fu Shiyan and Tang San set out at dawn; Fu Shiyan was a Rank 93 Title Douluo and had made preparations for the trip.
• After a day of travel, Fu Shiyan and Tang San landed outside Nuoding City and entered the city to look around.