Recaps

Long Zhanye paid Xu Mochen eleven thousand Gold Soul Coins to enroll in training with the Evil Monarch Soul Master Regiment, hoping to learn Soul Tool technology and repair his Level 3 Soul Tool. He moved into a mixed dormitory with three other students, where one roommate asked which academy had sent him.

• Xu Mochen advertised recruitment for the Evil Monarch Soul Master Regiment and promised Soul Tool instruction and a chance to enter the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy.
• Xu Mochen pressured Long Zhanye to enroll, and Long Zhanye agreed to pay eleven thousand Gold Soul Coins after Xu promised to repair his Level 3 Soul Tool.
• After taking the money, Xu Mochen coldly directed Long Zhanye to find his dormitory and returned to recruiting.
• Long Zhanye found a spacious dormitory with Soul Tool furnishings and three roommates, including two girls and a boy.
• A boy asked which academy Long Zhanye came from, and Long Zhanye said he had come to study on his own.

Long Zhanye learned from his roommates that the Sun Moon Empire’s soul-tool certification program normally required months of study, while Xu Mochen had given him only one month. Though they warned that Xu Mochen had likely tricked him to keep his tuition, Long Zhanye insisted he would earn a Level 1 Soul Master Badge before the deadline.

• Fei Yuyan, Shen Ce, and An Lengye explained that they were exchange students from Qianling Advanced Soul Master Academy in the Dou Ling Empire, while Long Zhanye had enrolled alone after seeing a recruitment notice.
• Shen Ce told Long Zhanye that the exchange program followed the Dou Ling Empire’s disappointing tournament results and that students could advance toward studying at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy by earning soul master badges.
• Shen Ce explained that Xu Mochen had promised Long Zhanye only one month to earn a Level 1 Soul Master Badge, although a beginner typically needed around eight months.
• An Lengye and Fei Yuyan said their group had studied for over six months and needed two attempts to pass the Level 1 assessment, prompting them to warn Long Zhanye that Xu Mochen had deceived him.
• Long Zhanye declared that he would still earn the badge within one month, and Shen Ce wished him luck before telling him to rest for classes the next day.

With Xiahou Ling's body nearing its limit, Long Zhanye confronted Xu Mochen over the promised coffin repair. Xu Mochen challenged him to earn a Level 1 Soul Master Badge within one month, leaving Long Zhanye to race against the body's roughly one-month-and-three-day deadline.

• Long Zhanye secretly studied Soul Tool knowledge while repeatedly seeking Xu Mochen, who kept delaying classes and the repair.
• After Long Zhanye brought out the coffin, Xu Mochen recoiled from the corpse inside and demanded that he take it away.
• Long Zhanye aimed his Level 6 Corrosive Ray Cannon at Xu Mochen and demanded a repair or a tuition refund.
• Xu Mochen refused to return the money and promised to repair the coffin only if Long Zhanye earned a Level 1 Soul Master Badge within one month.
• Long Zhanye accepted the challenge, put the coffin away, and left while Xu Mochen privately mocked his chances.

After a month of being ignored, Long Zhanye took the Level 1 Soul Engineer examination, where the examiners deliberately withheld Engraving Knives from the self-funded students. He used iron wire and his Double Pupil to carve the Core Array, and remained alone at work as the examination neared its end.

• During the month before the examination, Xu Mochen ignored Long Zhanye, who learned Soul Engineering by watching others and piecing together the methods himself.
• At the examination, Long Zhanye discovered that he and the other self-funded students had not been given Engraving Knives, while Shen Ce, An Lengye, and Fei Yuyan had theirs.
• After many students gave up and left, Long Zhanye used iron wire guided by Soul Power to begin carving the Core Array into the Rare Metal.
• Nearby students noticed Long Zhanye's steady strokes, while the examiner mocked his attempt and refused to intervene.
• Shen Ce, An Lengye, and Fei Yuyan passed and received their Level 2 Soul Master Badges, then left after watching Long Zhanye continue working.
• As the examination approached its final half hour, the other remaining students gave up, leaving Long Zhanye alone, still carving.

Long Zhanye completed the Soul Tool assessment with an iron-wire-carved Core Array that earned him a Level 2 Soul Master Badge. He returned to the dormitory with his roommates’ newfound respect and hope that Xu Mochen would repair the coffin Soul Tool.

• Long Zhanye submitted his Core Array, and the examiner recognized it as a prototype of a Level 2 Energy-Gathering Conduction Array.
• The examiner awarded Long Zhanye a Level 2 Soul Master Badge and summoned Xu Mochen, who agreed to repair his Soul Tool.
• Shen Ce, An Lengye, and Fei Yuyan were shocked that Long Zhanye earned a Level 2 badge after only one month without formal instruction.
• Back at the dormitory, Shen Ce, Fei Yuyan, and An Lengye congratulated Long Zhanye and acknowledged his skill.
• Long Zhanye handed the coffin Soul Tool to Xu Mochen and felt relieved that it might finally be repaired.

Xu Mochen gave Long Zhanye a portable grade-four stasis pod and set him the challenge of earning a grade-four Soul Engineer badge within two years. Long Zhanye met the challenge in record time, while his approaching need for a rare Chaos Soul Ring remained unresolved.

• Xu Mochen replaced Long Zhanye’s grade-three coffin with a transformable grade-four Mobile Stasis Pod that preserved Xiahou Ling’s remains.
• Xu Mochen offered Long Zhanye the exchange students’ classes and resources but demanded he earn a grade-four Soul Engineer badge within two years; Long Zhanye accepted.
• Six months later, Long Zhanye passed the grade-three Soul Engineer assessment and reached the peak of Rank 59, worrying that he could not find a Chaos-attribute soul beast for his sixth Soul Ring.
• After eight more months of study, Long Zhanye earned his grade-four Soul Engineer badge in record time, astonishing the camp and the exchange students.

After earning his rank-four soul engineer badge, Long Zhanye received Xu Mochen’s recommendation to Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy. During his three-month break, he set out to find a powerful Chaos-type sixth Soul Ring and realized An Lengye’s planned hunt in Evil Demon Forest might be relevant.

• Long Zhanye reached rank sixty as Shen Ce, An Lengye, and Fei Yuyan watched him earn the rank-four soul engineer badge.
• Xu Mochen reluctantly gave Long Zhanye a recommendation letter for Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy and granted him three months off.
• Long Zhanye built an Attribute Detector to locate Chaos-type soul beasts and declined Fei Yuyan’s invitation to hunt together.
• Fei Yuyan said she, Shen Ce, and An Lengye would go to Evil Demon Forest to find An Lengye’s fifth Soul Ring.
• Long Zhanye flew into remote borderlands and searched for three days without finding a Chaos-type soul beast.
• While resting in a valley, Long Zhanye remembered that An Lengye was an ice-type Spirit Master and wondered about her trip to Evil Demon Forest.

Long Zhanye abandoned his hunt for a sixth Soul Ring and searched the Evil Demon Forest for Shen Ce, An Lengye, and Fei Yuyan, fearing they had entered its deadly depths. After Tang San picked up a scent and led him deeper into the forest, it stopped in a clearing and began digging at the ground.

• Long Zhanye realized Shen Ce and the others might be in danger in the Evil Demon Forest and changed course to look for them.
• Long Zhanye searched the forest’s outskirts but found no trace of Shen Ce, An Lengye, or Fei Yuyan.
• Long Zhanye flew deeper into the forest and searched through the night, still finding no clues.
• Tang San emerged from Long Zhanye’s storage soul guidance device, caught a scent, and led him farther into the forest.
• Tang San stopped in a clearing and scraped at the humus-covered ground with its claws.

Long Zhanye found Shen Ce gravely injured in Evil Demon Forest and learned that An Lengye and Fei Yuyan had drawn a terrifying creature away. He reunited with the two women, discovered Lin Qiao had sent them into the forest with a false promise of suitable soul beasts, and faced the creature as it caught up.

• Long Zhanye followed the frantic footprints and found Shen Ce critically wounded beneath a boulder.
• Long Zhanye healed Shen Ce enough for him to say that An Lengye and Fei Yuyan had lured away a monster with enormous eyes, tentacles, and a terrifying mental attack.
• Long Zhanye sent Tang San to carry Shen Ce to safety, then rushed deeper into the forest to find the others.
• Long Zhanye found An Lengye and Fei Yuyan fleeing together and learned that Lin Qiao had deceived them with a map and false claims about soul beasts suitable for An Lengye.
• Fei Yuyan spotted the pursuing creature and warned Long Zhanye that it had caught up with them.

Long Zhanye confronted a powerful Evil Eye Tyrant after it trapped Fei Yuyan and the injured An Lengye in a network of Mental Rays. As the battle escalated, Long Zhanye activated his Bronze Level Awakening to face the beast’s next attack.

• Long Zhanye sent Fei Yuyan to carry An Lengye toward his companions while he stayed behind to hold off the pursuing creature.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant sealed the area with a purple barrier and a deadly web of Mental Rays, blocking Fei Yuyan’s escape.
• Long Zhanye used Double Pupil Technique—Sky Gazing to reveal the Mental Ray network and identify the approaching Evil Eye Tyrant.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant attacked Long Zhanye with a mental beam, and their powers collided in a blast that knocked them both back.
• As the Evil Eye Tyrant gathered power for another strike, Long Zhanye opened his Body Martial Soul’s Bronze Level Awakening.

Long Zhanye used his awakened third eye and Soul Bone skills to withstand the Evil Eye Tyrant’s attacks while protecting An Lengye and Fei Yuyan. He seized a brief opening and fired his Scorch Ray Cannon at the beast’s giant eye, but the chapter ended before the impact’s outcome was clear.

• Long Zhanye’s bronze third eye awakened, strengthening his Mental Power, and he struck the Evil Eye Tyrant with his Millennium in an Instant skill.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant countered with a barrage of Mental Rays, forcing Long Zhanye to shield An Lengye and Fei Yuyan with his Triple Colorless Wall.
• After the Colorless Walls broke, Long Zhanye used Demon Eye Barrier to block the remaining rays and protect his companions.
• Long Zhanye fired every remaining Scorch Ray Cannon shot at the Evil Eye Tyrant’s vulnerable giant eye.

Long Zhanye and his companions defeated the Evil Eye Tyrant, but its dying mental attack struck him before Medusa's divine sense erased it. He survived and went to inspect the beast's corpse, only to find no hundred-thousand-year soul ring or soul bone.

• The Evil Eye Tyrant retaliated against Long Zhanye with a powerful purple-gold beam, and Long Zhanye drew Soul Power from An Lengye and Fei Yuyan.
• Long Zhanye used his Double Pupil to redirect his blood-colored attack and pierce the Evil Eye Tyrant's ruined eye, killing it.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant's dying beam broke through Long Zhanye's Demon Eye Barrier and struck his Sea of Consciousness.
• Medusa's divine sense erased the mental attack, and Long Zhanye regained consciousness as An Lengye and Fei Yuyan lay exhausted.
• Long Zhanye examined the Evil Eye Tyrant's corpse but found no soul ring or soul bone.

Long Zhanye uncovered the Evil Eye Tyrant's hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and head Spirit Bone, then escaped the forest with An Lengye and Fei Yuyan as the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord attacked. He reunited with Tang San and the injured Shen Ce, and the group headed for a nearby town to seek treatment.

• Long Zhanye used his Double Pupil to find and break open an energy core inside the Evil Eye Tyrant's corpse, revealing a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and head Spirit Bone.
• Long Zhanye sealed the Soul Ring for Long Zhantian and decided to give the Spirit Bone to Vina, then carried the gravely injured An Lengye and Fei Yuyan toward the forest's outskirts.
• The furious Evil Eye Tyrant Lord attacked Long Zhanye with a storm of Mental Rays, but Long Zhanye dodged them while fleeing with the two women.
• Long Zhanye reached Tang San, who carried the unconscious Shen Ce, and the group escaped to a sheltered mountain hollow beyond the forest.
• Long Zhanye treated the group's wounds, then set out with Tang San, An Lengye, Fei Yuyan, and Shen Ce toward a nearby town for professional care.

Long Zhanye brought the badly injured An Lengye, Shen Ce, and Fei Yuyan to a remote clinic, where its greedy fat doctor demanded 150,000 Gold Soul Coins before treating them. Long Zhanye scraped the money together under a one-day deadline and returned to find their injuries only simply treated, leaving him watching to ensure the doctor finally cared for them.

• Long Zhanye found a remote clinic and the fat doctor demanded 150,000 Gold Soul Coins to treat An Lengye, Shen Ce, and Fei Yuyan.
• The fat doctor revealed his Healing Scepter and Soul Saint strength, then accepted Long Zhanye's Soul Tools and remaining coins as collateral and gave him one day to pay.
• Long Zhanye sold his Soul Tools for 110,000 Gold Soul Coins, then borrowed the remaining 40,000 from Xu Mochen in exchange for repaying 60,000 in two years.
• Long Zhanye returned to the clinic just before the deadline and paid the full 150,000 Gold Soul Coins, but found that the fat doctor had only given the three patients basic treatment.
• Long Zhanye checked that the patients had not worsened and watched the fat doctor closely as Tang San kept vigil at the doorway.

After recovering from the Evil Demon Forest, Fei Yuyan, Shen Ce, and An Lengye thanked Long Zhanye, and An Lengye unexpectedly kissed him. Long Zhanye fled after learning she might have fallen for him, then set out alone into a barren frontier to search for a soul beast for his sixth Soul Ring.

• Fei Yuyan, Shen Ce, and An Lengye thanked Long Zhanye for saving their lives as they recovered at the clinic.
• An Lengye embraced and kissed Long Zhanye, leaving him stunned and embarrassed.
• Long Zhanye told Fei Yuyan and An Lengye to take Shen Ce back to the academy while he continued his search for a Soul Ring.
• Fei Yuyan whispered that An Lengye seemed to have fallen for him, and Long Zhanye hurried out of the clinic.
• Three days later, Long Zhanye followed a faint detector signal into a desolate grassland east of the Evil Demon Forest, hoping to find a suitable soul beast.

After exhausting his supplies while searching the desert, Long Zhanye found an ancient ruin that the Detector identified as the source of Chaos Attribute fluctuations. He entered the ruin, which housed a sinister tavern, and was served a nauseating dark-red drink.

• Long Zhanye spent nine days searching the desert until his food and water ran out and his Flight Soul Guidance Device began to fail.
• Near noon, Long Zhanye spotted a man-made ruin and flew toward it, then found that his Detector pointed to Chaos Attribute fluctuations inside.
• Long Zhanye knocked on the ruin’s door, and someone opened it and let him into a dim tavern filled with silent, hostile-looking patrons.
• Long Zhanye sat apart from the other patrons and asked the expressionless server for food and drink.
• The server returned with two mugs of dark-red, viscous liquid that gave off a nauseating smell.

Long Zhanye faced the entrance trial to Slaughter City and, urged on by Medusa, killed the tavern’s attackers and a waiter who challenged his qualification. He learned that the city was another Asura God inheritance ground on the Sun Moon Continent and headed to the bar.

• Long Zhanye discovered that the Bloody Mary was human blood, and the tavern’s patrons mocked him for recoiling from it.
• Medusa offered Long Zhanye the choice to kill the patrons or leave, then urged him toward the power and revenge he sought.
• When a burly man attacked Long Zhanye, he seized the man’s blade and killed him with a blow that crushed his chest.
• Long Zhanye used his Chaos Qi, Double Pupil, and Heavenly Eye to kill the remaining attackers, leaving twenty-seven bodies in the tavern.
• Medusa explained that the killings were Slaughter City’s entrance trial and that the city was another Asura God inheritance ground; Long Zhanye then killed a female waiter who questioned his qualification.
• Long Zhanye asked if he was qualified, received Medusa’s approval, and walked toward the bar.

Long Zhanye entered Slaughter City, where its rules disabled his Soul Skills and forced him to face the Terror Knight, Smart. He defeated Smart and his warhorse with his Qilin Arm, then turned his attention toward the city.

• Long Zhanye smashed through the tavern floor, uncovered the entrance to Slaughter City, and descended into its dark passage.
• After hearing Slaughter City's warning, Long Zhanye emerged before a formation of Black Armor Warriors and saw the eerie city beneath the Purple Moon.
• The Terror Knight, Smart, told Long Zhanye that Soul Skills were ineffective and challenged him to defeat Smart to enter the city.
• Smart charged Long Zhanye on his armored warhorse, and Long Zhanye countered with his Qilin Arm, breaking the horse's neck and throwing Smart to the ground.
• Long Zhanye looked toward Slaughter City as Smart struggled to rise.

Long Zhanye entered Slaughter City after defeating Terror Knight Smart with a physical strike and receiving identification token 9080. As the Black Veil Woman guided him through the city, she explained that it was an ancient domain where Soul Skills were suppressed, possibly created by an expert who had surpassed Level 100.

• Long Zhanye survived the trial by crippling Terror Knight Smart, who admitted defeat and gave him token 9080.
• After Long Zhanye left, Smart severed his ruined arm and bound the wound.
• The Black Veil Woman welcomed Long Zhanye into Slaughter City and led him through its gloomy streets.
• Long Zhanye asked about the city, and the Black Veil Woman explained its history as a domain that suppressed Soul Skills and was said to have been left by an expert beyond Level 100.
• Long Zhanye connected the legend to the Asura God's Inheritance Grounds Medusa had mentioned.

Long Zhanye learned that Slaughter City had no rules, that leaving required winning the Hell Slaughter Arena and passing Hell Road, and that survival depended on killing. He insisted on going to the arena immediately, then encountered a nearly dying resident who recoiled in fear at the Black Veil Woman.

• The Black Veil Woman explained that Slaughter City allowed anything, but the Enforcement Squad protected it and leaving required winning the Hell Slaughter Arena and surviving Hell Road.
• The Black Veil Woman told Long Zhanye that residents needed to win one arena battle each year to stay, and that skulls could be traded for goods and safety.
• Long Zhanye ordered the Black Veil Woman to take him to the Hell Slaughter Arena despite her warning that fewer than one in ten contestants survived.
• As Long Zhanye followed the Black Veil Woman through the city, a gaunt resident emerged from a dark corner and greedily welcomed the prospect of fresh Bloody Mary.
• Long Zhanye questioned whether the resident could survive the arena, and the man retreated in terror after noticing the Black Veil Woman.

Long Zhanye learned that Slaughter City divided its orderly Outer City from its lawless Inner City, and suspected the continent’s powers allowed it to function as a prison for dangerous criminals. He ended by asking whether many Evil Soul Masters had escaped from Slaughter City.

• The Black Veil Woman explained that residents could earn Outer City residency by supplying Bloody Mary, while fighters who survived the Hell Slaughter Arena could live in the Inner City.
• Long Zhanye realized Bloody Mary was human blood and learned that the Outer City prohibited indiscriminate killing, unlike the Inner City, where there were no rules.
• Long Zhanye questioned how Slaughter City sustained itself, but the Black Veil Woman said its supplies were beyond her authority to discuss.
• Long Zhanye suggested that powerful forces on the Sun Moon Continent knowingly maintained Slaughter City as a prison, and the Black Veil Woman argued that the continent’s powers benefited from leaving it intact.
• Long Zhanye asked whether many Evil Soul Masters on the continent had escaped from Slaughter City.

Long Zhanye pressed the Black Veil Woman about whether Evil Soul Masters had come from another Slaughter City, and her reaction suggested a link to the destroyed city on Douluo Continent. After surveying the starving Outer City, he entered the Inner City with her despite her warning about its dangers.

• The Black Veil Woman denied that anyone could escape her Slaughter City, but Long Zhanye unsettled her by asking whether Evil Soul Masters had escaped from another, supposedly destroyed Slaughter City.
• Long Zhanye suspected that the destroyed Slaughter City on Douluo Continent had leaked evil that later gave rise to the Evil Soul Masters, and he resolved to investigate for himself.
• The Black Veil Woman led Long Zhanye through the Outer City, where residents languished in poverty and traded Bloody Mary for enough blood to survive.
• The Black Veil Woman explained that only powerful evildoers who faced the Hell Slaughter Arena could enter the Inner City and enjoy its resources and lawless pleasures.
• The Black Veil Woman warned Long Zhanye to stay within five meters of her and explained his twelve-hour newcomer protection period, but he walked through the Inner City gate, and she followed.

Long Zhanye entered Slaughter City’s Inner City and followed the Black Veil Woman toward the Hell Slaughter Arena, while the city’s brutality stirred his own buried killing intent. Along the way, he saw the feared Red Scorpion Vera emerge from a bloody fight, and the Black Veil Woman led him onward to the arena.

• Long Zhanye surveyed the Inner City’s violence and called it a world of beasts, prompting the Black Veil Woman to warn him against challenging the King of Slaughter’s authority.
• Long Zhanye insisted on visiting the Hell Slaughter Arena, and the Black Veil Woman led him through the Inner City toward its central building.
• Long Zhanye witnessed the city’s cruelty and felt its atmosphere awaken the hostility and killing intent within him, so he used his Soul Power and Chaos energy to steady his mind.
• A crowd parted as Vera, the Red Scorpion, emerged dragging a mutilated corpse, and the Black Veil Woman warned Long Zhanye about her reputation for torture and slaughter.
• The Black Veil Woman continued leading Long Zhanye toward the Hell Slaughter Arena, which she called the true core of Slaughter City.

Long Zhanye learned the rules of the Hell Slaughter Arena and obtained a Bloody Mary ticket by confronting a burly fighter. He entered the arena area while secretly sending the fighter’s own machete after him around a street corner.

• The Black Veil Woman explained that ten people entered each match and only one survived, while one hundred victories made a fighter champion.
• Long Zhanye learned that spectators needed a cup of Bloody Mary as a ticket and decided to take one from a passing fighter.
• Long Zhanye deflected the bald brute’s machete, caught his cup, and took the Bloody Mary without continuing the fight.
• The brute retreated, and Long Zhanye secretly flicked the stolen machete around a street corner toward him.

Long Zhanye fought his way through Slaughter City, winning every Hell Slaughter Arena match while surviving increasingly dangerous ambushes between fights. After three months and seventy-nine consecutive victories, he entered another match as one of the arena’s most feared fighters.

• Long Zhanye killed a seven-victory fighter, then asked the Black Veil Woman to register him for the next match.
• Long Zhanye won his first two arena matches and killed more than a hundred attackers who ambushed him between bouts over three days.
• Long Zhanye reached twenty-one victories after a month, learned that opponents would grow stronger as his record rose, and became more cautious of attacks outside the arena.
• Long Zhanye survived a siege by more than a hundred attackers after a battle left him badly wounded, killing them all before returning to the arena three days later.
• Long Zhanye reached seventy-nine consecutive victories in three months, ranking behind Zhongli Hai’s eighty-eight and an unnamed fighter’s ninety-three, and entered another match under the wary gazes of his opponents.
• No one dared to fight Long Zhanye on one day, leaving the Hell Slaughter Arena without a battle for twenty-four hours.