Recaps

Long Zhanye won his hundredth arena match, claimed the right to challenge Hell Road, and began the deadly crossing with Tang San. After defeating the road’s bat swarm and its leader, he encountered a strange monster whose Chaos Qi matched his own, leaving Tang San battling it as Long Zhanye took to the air.

• Long Zhanye survived a forced team battle by defeating the Black Fiend Blade Soul Douluo, then won his hundredth match and became Slaughter City's fourth God of Slaughter.
• Long Zhanye refused the King of Slaughter’s offer of special treatment and entered Hell Road, where he discovered that the blood beneath Slaughter City formed a vast Blood Pool.
• Long Zhanye and Tang San crossed the narrow path above the Blood Pool and fought off a swarm of Blood Bats and the regenerating Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King.
• Long Zhanye and Tang San killed the Bat King and its remaining swarm, then continued along Hell Road’s spiraling path.
• Long Zhanye encountered a strange, six-legged creature that corroded the path with Chaos Qi, and he identified it as the source of the signal he had been seeking.
• The creature absorbed Long Zhanye’s Chaos Qi and resisted both his Scorch Ray and Tang San’s attacks, so Long Zhanye took to the air while Tang San stayed to fight and briefly halted it with a domain.

Long Zhanye escaped Slaughter City with Medusa’s inheritance and reached Ming Capital after missing registration, then earned a place at Mingde Hall by defeating Huo Yuhao and proving his skill as a soul engineer. The stretch ended with Lin Jiayi awarding Long Zhanye a sixth-level Soul Engineer badge and his Outstanding Student status looking likely.

• Long Zhanye and Tang San defeated Chaos on the Hell Road, crossed the Blood Lake, and escaped Slaughter City with Long Zhanye’s Divine Slaughter’s Domain.
• Long Zhanye refined Chaos’s Inner Core into a sixth Soul Ring, then discovered that he had missed the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy’s registration deadline.
• Long Zhanye watched Huo Yuhao defeat Sun Moon students in thirty-three consecutive matches before volunteering to fight him for Jing Hongchen’s rare-metal reward.
• Long Zhanye overcame Huo Yuhao’s attacks and won the match, but his killing intent overwhelmed him until Jing Hongchen intervened.
• Jing Hongchen awarded Long Zhanye rare metals, a customized Soul Tool, and a Weakness Ray, then arranged for him to study at Mingde Hall three days a week.
• Lin Jiayi showed Long Zhanye Mingde Hall’s underground facilities and assigned him a workbench, where Long Zhanye studied its equipment and developed a level-four Soul Propulsion Device.
• Long Zhanye built a Fixed Soul Cannon from five Class 4 core arrays during the assessment, and it shattered a Class 5 Invincible Barrier.
• Lin Jiayi judged the cannon to be a sixth-level Soul Tool and awarded Long Zhanye a sixth-level Soul Engineer badge, making Outstanding Student status likely.

Long Zhanye became a Level Six Soul Engineer before the Body Sect’s raid on Mingde Hall led him to confront Huo Yuhao and recover Experimental Subject No. 1. The incident deepened the conflict with Shrek Academy, while Juzi secured Huo Yuhao’s release and promised to find him after her duties.

• Long Zhanye revealed his Outstanding Student qualification to Fei Yuyan, Shen Ce, and An Lengye, then gained Jing Hongchen’s approval to study at Mingde Hall five days a week.
• Ji Juechen challenged Long Zhanye, and their clash pushed Long Zhanye’s Soul Power and Mental Power toward a fused path, and Long Zhanye later became a Level Six Soul Engineer as Ji Juechen continued to seek duels.
• The Body Sect attacked Mingde Hall, and Long Zhanye escaped through an underground tunnel while Jing Hongchen and Du Busi’s forces fought above.
• Long Zhanye found the escaped Snow Empress in the restricted laboratory, then fought Huo Yuhao after accusing him of stealing Mingde Hall’s treasures.
• Long Zhanye defeated Huo Yuhao and found stolen Soul Tools, blueprints, Rare Metals, the shattered Seal God Platform, and a Humanoid Robot hidden in the Star Sapphire.
• After the Snow Empress detonated her cultivation, Long Zhanye brought the unconscious Huo Yuhao and recovered items to Jing Hongchen, who blamed Huo Yuhao and ordered the Shrek exchange students arrested.
• Jing Hongchen offered Long Zhanye a senior research position and powerful Soul Tools, while Long Zhanye chose to remain at Mingde Hall, and he later watched the injured Shrek students being paraded through the streets.
• Juzi and Shadow Douluo secured Huo Yuhao’s release, and after he awoke from more than ten days unconscious, he told Juzi he could not return to the Sun Moon Empire.

Long Zhanye won Kong Deming’s attention by ringing the Sun Moon Divine Drum eleven times, then entered the Xishui Alliance’s underground Soul Engineer tournament under the name Po Hongchen. He advanced by killing challengers and gathering their rare metals, and prepared for the final while puzzled by a mysterious black stone.

• Long Zhanye struck the Sun Moon Divine Drum eleven times, surpassing Xiao Hongchen and drawing Kong Deming’s attention, but his killing intent overwhelmed him afterward.
• Kong Deming let Long Zhanye study his Core Array research, while Jing Hongchen directed him to an underground tournament where he could release his killing intent.
• Long Zhanye entered the Xishui Alliance tournament as Po Hongchen, qualified with a Soul Tool he made in five minutes, and killed Bai Wang after confronting him over their bet.
• Long Zhanye intimidated Chen An into arranging his tournament winnings as rare metals, then advanced through the rounds by crafting Soul Tools.
• Long Zhanye faced Gao Dalou in a duel, concealed the true Class 6 power of his cannon, and won after Gao Dalou’s shell exploded against the barrier.
• Long Zhanye took Gao Dalou’s Dark Green Dragon Engraving Knife, then killed Number 96 when he tried to steal it and claimed his Ranked Engraving Knife as well.
• Long Zhanye gathered seventy-two kilograms of Rare Metals from the Storage Soul Tools of opponents he had killed and found a black stone that his Double Pupil and Mental Power could not identify.