Chapter Summaries

Li Xuan obtained a reusable Great Teleportation Talisman that could teleport him ten thousand li, easing his fear of Dugu Bo. He dug through the stone wall and reached a point only a few dozen meters from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then concealed the tunnel and prepared to stay underground.

• Li Xuan exchanged a point for the Great Teleportation Talisman and tied it to his wrist for quick use.
• After realizing Dugu Bo would leave for Heaven Dou City in eight days, Li Xuan decided to dig through the stone wall toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Li Xuan dug a deep shaft, discovered softer volcanic rock beneath the basalt, and used Filthy Flame to cut through it.
• Three days later, Li Xuan broke through the stone wall and found soil on the other side.
• Li Xuan checked the Treasure Hunting Compass, confirmed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was only a few dozen meters away, and concealed the tunnel entrance before expanding his underground chamber.

Li Xuan spent five days digging beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in search of the Dragon Kings’ Spirit Bones, but found no Dragon Blood Soil and abandoned the search. He emerged into the well, gained a Soul Power level from the spiritual energy, and prepared to harvest its Heavenly Treasures.

• Li Xuan dug a space underground and began digging deeper, hoping to find the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King’s Spirit Bones while collecting spiritually rich soil.
• After five days of digging without finding Dragon Blood Soil, Li Xuan gave up on the Spirit Bones and decided to focus on the Heavenly Treasures.
• Li Xuan dug a tunnel to the surface, where the well’s spiritual energy flooded into him and raised his Soul Power to level 25.
• Li Xuan sealed the tunnel entrance to keep the spiritual energy from escaping, then cautiously emerged into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with his Great Teleportation Talisman ready.
• Li Xuan approached the Heavenly Treasures, took out harvesting tools and boxes, and began preparing to collect them.

Li Xuan harvested the mature Heavenly Treasures around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then dug up the immature plants and Immortal Grade Spirit Plants to take home. When he opened the Little Green Bottle, it broke free and absorbed the well’s spiritual energy and water, bringing two Dragon Pearls out of the spring.

• Li Xuan carefully appraised and harvested the mature Heavenly Treasures, collecting seeds as he worked.
• Li Xuan dug up the immature Heavenly Treasures and all eighteen Immortal Grade Spirit Plants, placing them in water vats to transport them.
• Li Xuan opened the Little Green Bottle to dilute its Green Spirit Liquid, but it flew into the sky and began absorbing the well’s spiritual energy.
• Li Xuan stored the plants in his Void Pearl, readied his Great Teleportation Talisman, and dug up soil while the bottle drained the spring.
• A red Dragon Pearl and a blue Dragon Pearl emerged with the spring water, and a white figure and a black figure rushed toward them.

Li Xuan faced Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo after the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect tried to seize the Dragon Pearls. As Ning Fengzhi threatened him into joining the sect, Li Xuan prepared to escape with the Great Teleportation Talisman while the Little Green Bottle drained the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• The Little Green Bottle absorbed the red and blue Dragon Pearls before Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo could seize them.
• Li Xuan revealed that he had delayed the Sanskrit Sound Glazed Flower’s effects and convinced Ning Fengzhi that he still needed a second elixir.
• Sword Douluo stopped his Seven Kill Sword just short of Li Xuan’s forehead, and Ning Fengzhi arrived to invite Li Xuan to join the sect.
• Ning Fengzhi threatened to expose Li Xuan for emptying Dugu Bo’s Herb Garden and promised that the sect could track him down.
• Li Xuan saw the well’s water flow fading and began infusing Soul Power into his Great Teleportation Talisman.

Li Xuan refused Ning Fengzhi’s offer to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and escaped the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with a Great Teleportation Talisman. He survived the teleport but was badly wounded by Sword Douluo’s attack, while Ning Fengzhi ordered a continent-wide search for him.

• Ning Fengzhi tried to recruit Li Xuan with riches, treasures, and the prospect of a wife, but Li Xuan refused and prepared to leave.
• Ning Fengzhi ordered Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo to attack Li Xuan as the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well stopped flowing.
• Li Xuan activated the Great Teleportation Talisman and vanished, though Sword Douluo’s sword qi struck him as the spatial passage formed.
• Ning Fengzhi ordered the sect to disguise the excavation, notify Dugu Bo, and issue a continent-wide warrant for Li Xuan, dead or alive.
• Li Xuan reappeared ten thousand li away, neutralized the sword qi after six hours, and treated his wound with medicine and herbs.

After escaping Ning Fengzhi and the others, Li Xuan reached a strange town while badly injured and sought shelter in its tavern. Hearing patrons discuss Bloody Mary, he realized he had arrived in Slaughter City.

• Li Xuan treated his wounds in the wilderness and spotted lights from a nearby town.
• Li Xuan entered the town, noticed its hollow-eyed residents and two threatening black-robed figures, and found most buildings locked.
• Li Xuan entered the only open tavern, where he detected weak poison in the air and began eating food from his Void Pearl.
• A waiter told Li Xuan that outside food was forbidden, and Li Xuan put away his pork ribs and paid for a drink.
• Li Xuan overheard customers discussing Bloody Mary and recognized the town as Slaughter City.

Li Xuan recovered in a tavern in Slaughter City while its patrons mocked and attacked him, then survived the required massacre by using his Burning Heart Ming Shen Fire to turn the others against one another. After killing the last survivor, he learned that the town’s exits were guarded by powerful Soul Masters and entered the passage to Slaughter City, leaving the tavern burning behind him.

• A waiter brought Li Xuan a Bloody Mary, and Li Xuan refused to drink it while healing his chest wound as the patrons taunted him.
• A Spirit Master attacked Li Xuan, but Li Xuan’s fire killed the man and reduced his corpse to a skeleton.
• The tavern doors shut, and the waiter announced that everyone had to kill thirty people to enter Slaughter City; Li Xuan hid while using his flame to intensify the others’ bloodlust.
• After the battle, a young woman confronted Li Xuan, and his Burning Heart Ming Shen Fire killed her in less than a minute.
• Li Xuan learned that powerful Spirit Masters guarded the town’s exits, entered the passage to Slaughter City, and left the tavern ablaze.

Li Xuan entered the passage to Slaughter City, where he found the toxins growing stronger as he approached. After confronting the Black Armored Knight at the entrance, Li Xuan defeated him without killing him and earned the right to enter Slaughter City.

• Li Xuan lit the passage with Starfire Fruit lanterns and noted that its air held increasingly potent toxins.
• Li Xuan heard the welcome message for Slaughter City and examined a Bronze Gate mural depicting people sacrificed to a special bat.
• Li Xuan opened the gate and faced the Black Armored Knight, who accused him of burning the Bloody Tavern and twenty-three other properties.
• Li Xuan asked whether Soul Skills could be used, then struck the Black Armored Knight with a Burning Heart Seal and subdued him.
• Li Xuan spared the Black Armored Knight, received identity token 6013, and continued into Slaughter City.

Li Xuan chose to hide in Slaughter City, believing his Burning Heart Clarifying Spirit Flame would help him survive its poisonous air. After entering, he learned about the outer city’s Bloody Mary requirement and headed toward the inner city to recover from his injuries before entering the Hell Slaughter Arena.

• Li Xuan decided Slaughter City was the best refuge from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and entered through its gates.
• The Black-Veiled Girl greeted Li Xuan, recognized him as the child who had set a fire, and explained that she would guide him for twelve hours.
• Li Xuan discovered that the city’s blue-violet lighting concealed highly concentrated purple poison in the air.
• The Black-Veiled Girl explained that outer-city residents had to provide a cup of Bloody Mary each month and that its purpose was unknown to her.
• Li Xuan asked to settle in the inner city while recovering, and the Black-Veiled Girl led him there after warning him that he would need to win in the Hell Slaughter Arena to stay beyond seven days.

Li Xuan built and activated a Burning Heart Array in a remote courtyard in Slaughter City, using spiritual soil and Burning Heart Clarifying Spirit Flame to power it. He then strengthened the array with Filthy Flame, creating a barrier that he intended to secure as his refuge.

• The Black-Veiled Girl explained that inner-city residents had to fight in the Hell Slaughter Arena monthly and warned Li Xuan that living in an empty house could make him an easy target.
• Li Xuan asked the Black-Veiled Girl to accompany him to a remote courtyard so he could set up a defensive array before her newcomer protection ended.
• Li Xuan inscribed the Burning Heart Array into the courtyard walls and ground, filled its patterns with spiritual soil, and activated it by consuming over a thousand Spirit-Nurturing Pills.
• The Black-Veiled Girl felt her body grow hot as the array activated, and Li Xuan told her to leave while he strengthened it.
• Li Xuan placed the Lotus Platform of the Filthy Flame Yin Lotus at the array’s center and added Filthy Flame, doubling the array’s effects with opposing streams of fire.

Li Xuan recovered from his injuries in the Burning Heart Filthy Flame Array and discovered that the Heaven-Grasping Bottle absorbed spatial power from Soul Tools and Void Pearls. After feeding it more spatial power, he found that its Green Spirit Liquid had become powerful enough to make Void Grass produce ten Void Pearls and one Void Crystal at once.

• Li Xuan's array killed an attacker at the courtyard wall, and the other onlookers fled; he then spent a day and night healing on the Lotus Platform.
• Li Xuan supplied Soul Power to maintain the array and explored the house, where he found a skeleton and a storage belt containing miscellaneous items.
• The Heaven-Grasping Bottle absorbed spatial power from the belt's gemstones and then from more than eighty Void Pearls, leaving their Void Grass seeds behind.
• Li Xuan planted the seeds and poured Green Spirit Liquid on the Void Grass, which produced ten Void Pearls and one Void Crystal.
• Li Xuan realized the bottle's enhancement effect had reached a thousand years, harvested the new crystals and pearls, and returned to clean the house.

Li Xuan fed the Void Grass’s spatial power to the Heaven-Grasping Bottle, which fell asleep before reappearing that night with a new space inside. He discovered that the space contained a fertile grotto-heaven with a spiritual hot spring and accelerated plant growth, then began moving valuable soil into it.

• Li Xuan fed the Heaven-Grasping Bottle ten Void Pearls, one Void Crystal, and the spatial power of the Void Grass, causing the bottle to fall dormant.
• Li Xuan cultivated on the Lotus Platform while replenishing the formation beneath it with Soul Power.
• That night, the Heaven-Grasping Bottle reappeared and transported Li Xuan into a spacious, fertile area with a hot spring rich in spiritual energy.
• Li Xuan planted a weed seed beside the hot spring and saw it sprout in less than ten minutes, confirming that plants grew rapidly in the new space.
• Li Xuan returned to the courtyard, moved the boxes of soil into the Heaven-Grasping Bottle’s space, and spread the soil over its existing land.

Li Xuan prepared the Heaven-Grasping Bottle’s space as a herb garden, transplanting its Heavenly Treasures and Immortal Grade Spirit Plants around a restorative hot spring. After the spring healed his injuries and raised his Soul Power Level from 25 to 26, he left to resume his plans.

• Li Xuan spread spiritually rich soil throughout the space and discovered that soaking in its hot spring healed injuries and restored spiritual energy.
• Li Xuan planted more than a hundred Heavenly Treasures around the hot spring and arranged the Immortal Grade Spirit Plants on fourteen mu of land.
• Li Xuan used the Lotus Platform to replenish its spiritual energy while the energy entering his body healed his hidden injuries and raised his Soul Power Level to 26.
• Li Xuan left the hot spring and returned to his courtyard, intending to cultivate while he had free time in Slaughter City.

Li Xuan, also called Ming Shen, searched Slaughter City for the Hell Slaughter Arena and killed Sword Old Man after the old man threatened him. He collected the corpse’s blood for the entry requirement and registered for a match, while considering the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent’s Inner Core as a possible reward from the system.

• Li Xuan left his courtyard to find the Hell Slaughter Arena before his newcomer protection period ended.
• Sword Old Man attacked Li Xuan, but Li Xuan used the Heart-Burning Fu Ye Flame to make him kneel and then killed him.
• Li Xuan took Sword Old Man’s Soul Tool ring and collected a cup of blood from his corpse.
• Li Xuan carried the Bloody Mary to the Hell Slaughter Arena and poured it into the entry pool.
• Li Xuan handed over his Identity Token, registered with zero matches, and was directed to Holding Area Number One.

Ming Shen entered the Hell Slaughter Arena, where he and eight other newcomers faced Bloodthirsty Demon, a veteran with thirty-seven victories. Li Xuan waited outside the fight as Ming Shen ignited Bloodthirsty Demon's Heart Fire, and only Ming Shen and one other newcomer remained alive among the nine.

• Li Xuan entered the filthy waiting room and lit it with his Burning Heart Clarifying Spirit Flame.
• Ming Shen and eight other newcomers entered the arena to face Bloodthirsty Demon, a Soul Saint with thirty-seven victories.
• Bloodthirsty Demon attacked the newcomers, killing several as the spectators watched.
• Ming Shen used the Heart-Burning Li Xuan Flame to ignite Bloodthirsty Demon's Heart Fire and make him more frenzied.
• Bloodthirsty Demon continued killing until only Ming Shen and the newcomer who had called for a joint attack remained among the nine.

Li Xuan defeated the Bloodthirsty Demon in the Hell Slaughter Arena by combining his Filthy Flame with the Burning Heart Clarifying Spirit Flame. After the arena recognized Li Xuan as the winner, its gate opened to release him.

• Li Xuan used Filthy Flame to burn the Bloodthirsty Demon, who unleashed his Martial Soul and transformed into a bleeding monster.
• Li Xuan discovered that the energy evaporating from the Bloodthirsty Demon was spiritual energy, then continued attacking without approaching him.
• Li Xuan changed the Filthy Flame back into the Burning Heart Clarifying Spirit Flame and ignited the Bloodthirsty Demon's Heart Fire.
• The Bloodthirsty Demon lost his reason, wounded himself, and eventually died from backlash caused by his Martial Soul.
• Li Xuan retrieved his Soul Tools and a blood-red crystal, and the host declared him the winner.
• The spectators cheered as the arena's iron gate opened, allowing Li Xuan to leave.

Li Xuan declined to continue fighting in the Hell Slaughter Arena, then returned to his courtyard to replenish the Lotus Platform and sort through the spoils from ten Soul Tools. After inspecting the Bloodthirsty Demon's belongings without finding clues, he began reading the demon's notes.

• Li Xuan refused the host's offer to compete again and had his victory registered by a Black Armored Guard.
• Li Xuan infused Soul Power into the Lotus Platform, cleansing its Filthy Flame with spiritual energy and the Burning Heart Clarifying Spirit Flame.
• Li Xuan used the Heaven-Grasping Bottle to absorb ten Soul Tools, collected their contents, and found that the bottle's space had expanded by about a meter.
• Li Xuan checked the Herb Garden and saw that its plants had recovered and many Heavenly Treasures had begun sprouting.
• Li Xuan bathed in the hot spring, then searched the Bloodthirsty Demon's clothes and books for clues without success.
• Li Xuan picked up the Bloodthirsty Demon's notes and began reading them.

Li Xuan discovered that Bloodthirsty Demon's strange, blank book was the Blood Scripture, a blood-powered cultivation technique. After copying its contents before the words faded, he began studying its meridian routes.

• Li Xuan inspected Bloodthirsty Demon's belongings and found a thick, ancient book that smelled strongly of blood but appeared blank.
• Li Xuan suspected the book needed blood, killed several people, and poured their blood over its cover until its fittings and central ornament changed.
• The Blood Scripture absorbed the blood and revealed its title and densely written contents, which made Li Xuan's body grow hot when he read them.
• Li Xuan copied the revealed text into a notebook, using the blood of three more people to make the words reappear after they faded.
• Li Xuan began studying the copied technique and recording its meridian routes.

Li Xuan tested the Blood Scripture, recorded its unusual meridian routes, and put the scripture and a mysterious crystal away. He used Green Spirit Liquid to grow an Enlightenment Tea Tree beside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where it reached a thousand years of cultivation in moments.

• Li Xuan practiced the Blood Scripture and felt heat, irritability, and a craving for blood as it drained his Bloodline Power.
• Li Xuan burned away the blood-red energy with the Burning Heart Clarifying Spirit Flame and Filthy Flame, then documented the Blood Scripture’s meridian routes.
• Li Xuan locked the Blood Scripture in an iron case and stored it and the Bloodthirsty Demon's blood-red crystal in the Void Crystal.
• Li Xuan summoned a drop of Green Spirit Liquid inside the Heaven-Grasping Bottle and chose to use it on an Enlightenment Tree seed.
• Li Xuan planted the Enlightenment Tree seed near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and used the Green Spirit Liquid to grow it to a thousand years of cultivation.

Li Xuan discovered that the Enlightenment Tea Tree’s fragrance and tea helped clear his thoughts, then used the resulting insight to design the Heaven-Grasping Bottle’s space. He decided he would need helpers to manage its land, but remained in Slaughter City and could not yet check on Bangchui.

• Li Xuan confirmed that a drop of Green Spirit Liquid could give plants a thousand years of cultivation and decided to grow only medicinal herbs until he could safely defeat a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• The Enlightenment Tea Tree’s fragrance calmed Li Xuan’s mind, so he harvested its leaves and processed them into tea.
• Li Xuan drank the Enlightenment Tea and gained a sudden insight into how to arrange the Heaven-Grasping Bottle’s space, then drew a blueprint.
• Li Xuan considered finding helpers to tend the space and worried about whether Bangchui was safe in the basement with the Yellow Turban Warriors.
• Li Xuan decided he would have to wait until he left Slaughter City to find Bangchui, then stepped out of the Heaven-Grasping Bottle’s space.