Chapter Summaries

Lu Yu warned Bibi Dong that Tang Hao could unleash a Demigod-level attack, prompting Spirit Hall’s elders to prepare a force capable of stopping him. Three days before the tournament finals, Shrek Academy argued over whether to face Spirit Hall Academy, and Flender ordered the team to fight and target Yan.

• Lu Yu told Bibi Dong that Tang Hao’s all-ring detonation could reach the Demigod Level, so Golden Crocodile Douluo, the Third and Fourth Worships, Yue Guan, and Ghost prepared to corner him.
• Bibi Dong asked Lu Yu how he knew Tang Hao’s strength, but he evaded the question and changed the subject.
• Yu Tianxin asked Tang San and the others whether they would fight or surrender in the finals, and Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun admitted they wanted to surrender.
• Tang San argued that Shrek Academy still had a chance if Spirit Hall Academy did not field its entire team, while Grandmaster urged the group to fight.
• Flender insisted Shrek Academy face Spirit Hall Academy with its full strength and set Yan as their target.

Tang San's team prepared to target Red Hair in the championship match while Tang Hao entrusted Grandmaster with a letter in case he died. Three days later, the finalists gathered before Pope Palace, where Bibi Dong arrived and Tang San's group remained standing instead of kneeling.

• Flender told Tang San and the others to focus on defeating Red Hair, and they agreed to help Dai Mubai.
• Tang Hao gave Grandmaster a letter to deliver to Little San if anything happened to him, warning him not to open it.
• Grandmaster stored the letter after Tang Hao left, and the three finalist teams gathered before Pope Palace three days later.
• Zhu Zhuqing chose not to participate in the final, while the other Spirit Hall Academy contestants assembled with the teams from Godwind Academy and Shrek Academy.
• Bibi Dong emerged from Pope Palace, followed by Yue Guan, Ghost, Sword Douluo, and Ning Fengzhi.
• Tang San and his teammates stayed standing before Bibi Dong while the others knelt, each refusing to bow for personal or political reasons.

At Spirit Hall’s ceremony, Lu Yu challenged Tang San after Tang San disrespected Bibi Dong and showed killing intent toward Cardinal Xiu Pu. Tang San refused a life-and-death fight, but Lu Yu attacked him and left him crashing into the plaza.

• Tang San resisted Bibi Dong’s intimidating gaze, and Xiu Pu pressured him until Lu Yu intervened.
• Lu Yu criticized Tang San for disrespecting the Pope and threatening Xiu Pu, then challenged him to a fair fight to the death.
• Ning Fengzhi warned Tang San not to accept, and Tang San refused after realizing the danger of fighting Lu Yu in Spirit City.
• Lu Yu revealed five Soul Rings and overwhelmed Tang San with his speed, kicking him into the air and then striking him into the plaza.
• Dai Mubai and the others rushed toward the crater after Tang San hit the ground.

Lu Yu crushed Tang San before the tournament’s elimination matches began, while the prize of seven Spirit Bones drove the teams to fight harder. Yan then faced Dai Mubai, trapped him with magma and fire, and left him struggling to withstand Yan’s stronger attacks.

• Lu Yu dismissed Dai Mubai’s complaint after injuring Tang San, and Ye Lingling healed Tang San so the match could continue.
• Bibi Dong revealed seven Spirit Bones as the championship prize and explained the elimination format, prompting Tang San and his teammates to renew their resolve.
• Dai Mubai entered the first round to challenge Yan, while Huo Wushuang forfeited after Godwind Academy drew Spirit Hall Academy.
• Yan accepted Lu Yu’s permission to fight Dai Mubai, who vowed to prove Zhu Zhuqing wrong by defeating him.
• Yan’s fire and magma skills trapped Dai Mubai, forcing him to spend his fourth soul skill escaping before Yan’s Flame Storm overwhelmed his defensive barrier.

After Dai Mubai lost to Yan, the Grandmaster forfeited Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s individual matches to preserve the team for later rounds. His disrespect toward Bibi Dong led Lu Yu to have him seized and punished, then offer him a chance to live if he kowtowed to her.

• Yan overwhelmed Dai Mubai with flames, and Dai Mubai surrendered before collapsing unconscious.
• Yu Tianxin stepped forward to challenge Yan, but the Grandmaster stopped the fight and declared Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s forfeit.
• Lu Yu ordered Palace Guard Knights to seize the Grandmaster for speaking arrogantly to Bibi Dong, and they forced him to kneel by breaking his kneecaps.
• The Grandmaster begged to live, and Lu Yu told him to kowtow three times to Bibi Dong for a chance to be spared.

Lu Yu made the Grandmaster apologize to Bibi Dong and let Tang San take him away, after which Heaven Dou Academy and Godwind Academy withdrew from the individual matches. The final match began the next day, and Hu Liena secretly used her fifth soul skill on Yu Tianxin as the teams launched their opening attacks.

• The Grandmaster apologized and kowtowed to Bibi Dong three times before Lu Yu warned him not to offend her again.
• Lu Yu sent Tang San to take the Grandmaster away, and Bibi Dong announced that Heaven Dou Academy would withdraw from the individual matches.
• Huo Wushuang and the Godwind Academy team also withdrew, while Heaven Dou Royal Academy secured a place in the championship match.
• At the final match, the teams revealed that every member of the Martial Soul Hall Team was a Soul King.
• Hu Liena used her fifth soul skill, Tiger Minion, on Yu Tianxin, but Tang San and the others could not see its effect.
• Ning Rongrong enhanced her teammates as Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng activated Thunder Fury and attacked with Thunder Explosion.

Yu Tianxin’s lightning attacks turned against Tang San’s team under Hu Liena’s control, leaving them badly weakened before they managed to knock Yu Tianxin out. As Tang San prepared to surrender, Lu Yu used Eternal Moment to freeze time and targeted him, prompting Sword Douluo to intervene.

• Hu Liena controlled Yu Tianxin, who struck Tang San’s team with his lightning skills and then charged at Tang San.
• Tang San recognized that Yu Tianxin was being controlled, while he and his teammates fought back against him.
• Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Yu Tianheng combined their attacks to restrain and knock Yu Tianxin unconscious.
• Tang San assessed his team’s injuries and prepared to surrender, but Lu Yu used Eternal Moment to imprison time and lock onto him.
• The Title Douluos broke free of the time restraint, and Sword Douluo rose to stop Lu Yu.

Lu Yu’s apparent attack on Tang San drew Tang Hao into Spirit City, where he was trapped by Bibi Dong and five other Title Douluo. Tang Hao summoned his Clear Sky Hammer and attacked the Pope Palace, but Golden Crocodile Douluo countered as their clash began; the chapter then shifted to the author’s monthly note about the novel and Lu Fei’s role.

• Lu Yu’s Eternal Moment was broken by Tang Hao’s arrival, and Bibi Dong revealed that Golden Crocodile Douluo had come to confront him.
• Tang Hao realized he had been lured out, while five Title Douluo surrounded him and Sword Douluo returned to his seat.
• Tang Hao revealed his red Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and summoned a giant Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang Hao struck at the Pope Palace to force his opponents to defend it, but Golden Crocodile Douluo used his Golden Crocodile Avatar to intercept the hammer.
• The author thanked readers, discussed subscription and update goals, and explained that Lu Fei’s role would become clearer in later plot.

Tang Hao detonated five Soul Rings and sent Golden Crocodile Douluo crashing toward Pope Palace, but the Second Worship survived and joined Yue Guan and the others in blocking his escape. With Tang Hao trapped and Lu Yu in his sights, he detonated his remaining four rings and clashed with Golden Crocodile Douluo’s ninth soul skill.

• Tang Hao and Golden Crocodile Douluo traded blows above Spirit City while Yue Guan and the others contained the shockwaves and prevented Tang Hao from escaping.
• Tang Hao detonated five Soul Rings and struck Golden Crocodile Douluo into Pope Palace, where Bibi Dong caught him and softened the impact.
• Yue Guan and the others surrounded Tang Hao as Golden Crocodile Douluo recovered, leaving Tang Hao trapped with only four Soul Rings remaining.
• Tang Hao resolved to kill Lu Yu and leave Tang San with a reason to destroy Spirit Hall, then detonated his last four Soul Rings.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo unleashed his ninth soul skill, Golden Divine Light Annihilation, against Tang Hao’s empowered Clear Sky Hammer.

Lu Yu survived Tang Hao’s devastating attack by using the Absolute Domain, shocking everyone who had believed him dead. After comforting Bibi Dong and explaining the spatial defense, Lu Yu faced her question about whether he planned to go to Slaughter City.

• Tang Hao aimed his final Clear Sky Hammer strike at Lu Yu, who activated the Absolute Domain to evade it while the blast knocked Tang San and the others unconscious.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo destroyed Tang Hao, and the dust cleared to reveal Lu Yu unharmed.
• Yue Guan questioned Lu Yu about his survival, but Lu Yu kept the details of his technique classified, and Bibi Dong stopped Yue Guan from pressing him further.
• Bibi Dong took Lu Yu back to the Pope Palace, checked him for injuries, and admitted how frightened she had been; Lu Yu comforted her.
• Lu Yu explained the Absolute Domain and its connection to the Power of Space, and Bibi Dong asked whether he planned to go to Slaughter City.

After Tang Hao died, Grandmaster stole and read the letter Tang Hao had left for Tang San, discovering secrets and information he hoped to use to secure his future with Tang San. Two days later, Tang San woke and realized his father was dead, swearing revenge on Spirit Hall, Bibi Dong, and Lu Yu.

• Lu Yu told Bibi Dong he planned to enter seclusion to study the Power of Space, then go to Slaughter City with Hu Liena and Lu Fei.
• Grandmaster secretly opened Tang Hao's letter and learned that Tang San's mother was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, Xiao Wu was also a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and Tang Hao had left details about Tang San's mother, a soul bone, and the sects.
• Grandmaster destroyed the letter and tried to question Flender about Tang San, but Flender and the others ignored him.
• After two days, Tang San woke and asked Flender about his father; Flender's reaction made Tang San realize Tang Hao was dead.
• Tang San swore to destroy Spirit Hall and take revenge on Bibi Dong and Lu Yu, while Flender urged him to stay calm.

Tang San suppressed his grief over Tang Hao’s death and learned from Grandmaster that his Blue Silver Grass might be an unawakened Blue Silver Emperor. He postponed his plan to kill Grandmaster until after recovering and learning how to awaken his bloodline.

• Tang San resolved to focus on cultivation and grow strong enough to take revenge on Spirit Hall, while Flender urged him not to act rashly.
• Tang San’s killing intent toward Grandmaster surged, and he blamed Grandmaster for contributing to Tang Hao’s death.
• Grandmaster privately told Tang San that his Blue Silver Grass was likely an unawakened Blue Silver Emperor and promised to help awaken it after Tang San recovered.
• Tang San thanked Grandmaster outwardly but privately decided to delay killing him because he still had useful knowledge to offer.
• Flender returned to Tang San and said Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and the others were expected to recover soon, then told Tang San to rest before they returned to Heaven Dou City.

After the Heaven Dou Empire expelled Yu Xiaogang and barred him from teaching, he left with Tang San and traveled to the forest Tang Hao had described, hoping to awaken Tang San’s Blue Silver Emperor bloodline. Tang San sensed the unusually lively Blue Silver Grass but could not detect the Blue Silver King, leaving their search unresolved.

• The Heaven Dou convoy returned to Heaven Dou City, where Xue Ye ordered Yu Xiaogang expelled from Heaven Dou Royal Academy and forbidden from teaching anywhere in the empire.
• Meng Shenji announced the punishment to Yu Xiaogang, who swallowed his anger after Flender warned him not to resist.
• Flender and the others left the academy, and Yu Xiaogang departed with Tang San while Tang San said farewell to Dai Mubai and the others.
• After half a month of travel, Yu Xiaogang brought Tang San to the forest named in Tang Hao’s letter and told him to meditate and sense the Blue Silver Grass.
• Tang San felt the forest’s Blue Silver Grass and its emotions but could not sense the Blue Silver King before he stopped probing.

Tang San sensed the Blue Silver King’s call and left to awaken his Blue Silver Emperor bloodline, while Grandmaster followed Tang Hao’s letter to the waterfall cave and found the Blue Silver Emperor. Grandmaster swallowed it, restoring his youth and arms and raising his Soul Power to level thirty.

• After three days of searching, Tang San sensed the Blue Silver Grass guiding him toward the Blue Silver King, and Grandmaster sent him into the forest alone.
• Tang San escorted Grandmaster out of the forest before returning to follow the Blue Silver Grass’s guidance.
• Grandmaster went to the waterfall from Tang Hao’s letter and used Luo Sanpao to find the hidden cave entrance.
• Grandmaster found and stored the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, then pulled up and swallowed the Blue Silver Emperor.
• The Blue Silver Emperor’s vitality restored Grandmaster’s youthful appearance and severed arms and helped him break through to level thirty.

Tang San awakened his Blue Silver Emperor bloodline, while Grandmaster recovered his body and planned to keep Tang San dependent on him with the promise of a dangerous training location. In Spirit City, Lu Yu finished his seclusion and Bibi Dong prepared the promised rewards for him and his companions.

• Grandmaster recovered his appearance and arms after consuming the Blue Silver Emperor, then vowed to reclaim the humiliations he had suffered.
• Tang San awakened the Blue Silver Emperor, gained a major increase in his attributes, and learned he could return for a compatible Soul Ring when his Soul Power reached its limit.
• Tang San met Grandmaster outside the forest and questioned his Blue Silver Emperor aura, so Grandmaster claimed he had encountered a withered Blue Silver Emperor.
• Grandmaster hinted at a dangerous place where Tang San could improve, withholding its location until Tang San reached Soul King to make him more dependent.
• Lu Yu completed half a month of secluded cultivation and reached Minor Accomplishment in his control of the Power of Space, allowing short-range Space Leaps.
• Bibi Dong summoned Lu Yu and the others in Pope Palace and presented eight Spirit Bones as their promised rewards.

Bibi Dong rewarded the team with Spirit Bones and ordered Lu Yu, Hu Liena, and Lu Fei to train in Slaughter City, while the others were assigned to Death Valley. As the group prepared to part, Lu Yu asked Dugu Bo to protect Dugu Yan, and Dugu Bo warned him to stay alive.

• Bibi Dong distributed eight Spirit Bones, including one for Zhu Zhuqing, and urged the team to keep growing stronger.
• Bibi Dong assigned some team members to Death Valley and named Lu Yu, Hu Liena, and Lu Fei for Slaughter City.
• Hu Liena reacted with fear to the destination, while Lu Yu calmly accepted the assignment and reassured her.
• The team returned to the villa to absorb their Spirit Bones, and Lu Yu comforted Dugu Yan before she joined them.
• Lu Yu asked Dugu Bo to look after Dugu Yan during the journey, and Dugu Bo told Lu Yu to be careful in Slaughter City.

Lu Yu said goodbye to Dugu Yan and entered Slaughter City with Lu Fei and Hu Liena to begin their training. After killing a man who approached them, he warned his companions that they would have to survive by relying on themselves.

• Lu Yu parted from Dugu Yan with their first kiss as Dugu Bo and the others set off for Death Valley, while Bibi Dong silently wished him a safe return.
• Lu Yu, Lu Fei, and Hu Liena entered Slaughter City using Spirit Hall's token and received numbers 9527, 9528, and 9529.
• Lu Yu told Lu Fei and Hu Liena to kill anyone who provoked them and said they would have to separate and survive without his help in the inner city.
• Lu Yu killed a man who approached them in the outer city, then listened as the Slaughter Envoy warned them about Slaughter City's rules.
• Lu Yu, Lu Fei, and Hu Liena reached the inner city without further trouble.

Lu Yu, Lu Fei, and Hu Liena entered Slaughter City and began competing in the Hell Slaughterhouse, quickly earning fear and fame with their strength. On Lu Yu’s seventh day, more than a hundred attackers cornered him in an alley, where he prepared to face them alone.

• Lu Yu warned Lu Fei and Hu Liena not to drink Bloody Mary, then killed a Fallen One to obtain the drinks required for registration.
• Lu Fei and Hu Liena each killed an opponent and took Bloody Mary before the three registered for matches at the Hell Slaughterhouse.
• Lu Yu won his first match with overwhelming force, and Lu Fei and Hu Liena also won their matches before the three separated to train.
• Over the next seven days, Lu Yu amassed eighteen consecutive victories, while Lu Fei kept pace and Hu Liena slowed after surviving an ambush.
• After his latest match, Lu Yu sensed an attack and led the pursuers into a narrow alley as Lu Fei and Hu Liena watched nearby.
• More than a hundred Fallen Ones surrounded Lu Yu, but his killing intent frightened them, and none dared to attack first.

Lu Yu defeated a large group of Fallen Ones who tried to assassinate him, killing dozens and sending the survivors fleeing. The inner city named him Asura King, but he rejected the title and declared that he would be called Ksitigarbha.

• Lu Yu attacked first and used his Nine Absolutes Sword Technique to kill many Fallen Ones in the alley.
• Lu Yu trapped the remaining attackers in a defensive sword formation until they were exhausted, then struck them with Invite You to Test the Sword.
• The survivors fled in panic, while Lu Fei and Hu Liena entered the alley and found more than fifty corpses.
• News of Lu Yu's victory spread through Slaughter City, and people began calling him Asura King.
• Lu Yu rejected the title and announced that anyone who called him Asura King would be killed; he chose the title Ksitigarbha instead.

Lu Yu, Lu Fei, and Hu Liena endured the killing intent in Slaughter City until all three completed their hundred victories. The Slaughter King appeared to welcome Lu Yu as Ksitigarbha and Lu Fei as Asura King, as the crowd awaited Hell Road’s opening.

• The Slaughter King rejected a proposal to make Ksitigarbha fight his companions, warning that provoking the Slaughter God outside Slaughter City would endanger the city.
• Lu Yu slowed his matches to resist the killing intent’s erosion and waited for Lu Fei and Hu Liena to finish their victories before opening Hell Road.
• Lu Yu told Lu Fei not to rush Hu Liena’s progress, noting that she had won eighty-two matches and that the killing intent worsened with each victory.
• One and a half months later, Hu Liena won her hundredth match, joining Lu Yu and Lu Fei, who had completed theirs several days earlier.
• The Slaughter King descended into the Hell Slaughterhouse and welcomed Ksitigarbha and Asura King as the crowd celebrated.