Chapter Summaries

Lin Ye entered the City of Slaughter after defeating Terror Knight Scott and received token 7777. He went straight to the Hell Slaughter Arena to begin pursuing one hundred consecutive victories and a route through Hell Road.

• Lin Ye traveled through a portal to the City of Slaughter and defeated Terror Knight Scott with his Angel Holy Sword.
• Scott gave Lin Ye token 7777 and warned him that the City of Slaughter's residents would target his light-attribute Martial Soul.
• The Veiled Woman guided Lin Ye into the city, and he demanded to enter a Hell Slaughter Arena match immediately.
• Lin Ye signed up for his first match and received a call to Duel Arena No. 3.

Lin Ye dominated the Hell Slaughter Arena, earning the title Holy Sword Demon Emperor after more than a thousand kills and fifty consecutive victories. When the Slaughter King appeared for Lin Ye’s fifty-first match, the sight of Lin Ye’s Angel Holy Sword made him reveal fear, and Lin Ye wondered whether the Slaughter King was afraid of him.

• Lin Ye won his first arena match by killing all nine opponents, then slaughtered dozens of Fallen Ones who ambushed him outside.
• Lin Ye won nearly one match a day, reached thirty consecutive victories in a month, and was named the Holy Sword Demon Emperor.
• The Veiled Woman warned the Slaughter King that Lin Ye might earn Divine Slaughter's Domain, but the Slaughter King chose to wait until Lin Ye reached fifty victories.
• Lin Ye slowed his pace to manage his growing murderous aura and reached fifty consecutive victories two months later, with more than a thousand kills.
• The Slaughter King attended Lin Ye's fifty-first match and became visibly afraid when Lin Ye summoned his Angel Holy Sword.
• Lin Ye noticed the Slaughter King's reaction and wondered if the Nine-Headed Blood Red Bat King feared light.

Lin Ye’s sacred light made the Slaughter King fear that he could destroy the Nine-Headed Blood Red Bat King, so the ruler of the City of Slaughter arranged repeated attacks against him. After reaching eighty consecutive victories, Lin Ye faced an ambush by more than three hundred Fallen Ones, who prepared to attack him together.

• Lin Ye realized his sacred light could threaten the Slaughter King and suspected he might be able to kill it and claim the Asura Demon Sword.
• The Slaughter King grew determined to kill Lin Ye, and groups of Fallen Ones repeatedly tried to assassinate him as he continued fighting in the Hell Slaughter Arena.
• After eight months in the City of Slaughter, Lin Ye reached eighty consecutive victories, advanced to Rank 77, and found his accumulated murderous aura increasingly difficult to restrain.
• The Slaughter King secretly ordered several powerful Fallen Ones to gather more than three hundred fighters and surround Lin Ye on his way to his eighty-first match.
• Ghost Hand Evil Demon and Blood Slaughter King demanded that Lin Ye surrender, but Lin Ye refused and warned that anyone who attacked him would die.
• Ghost Hand Evil Demon urged the assembled Fallen Ones to attack Lin Ye together.

Lin Ye survived a mass ambush in the City of Slaughter and later achieved a hundred consecutive victories in the Hell Slaughter Arena. As he earned the qualification to enter the Hell Road, the Slaughter King appeared and offered him the title of Slaughter God and a place as guest elder.

• Lin Ye summoned the Angel Holy Sword and slaughtered the more than three hundred Fallen Ones who had ambushed him, hunting down every survivor who fled or hid.
• Lin Ye spent four months suppressing his killing intent, then continued competing in the Hell Slaughter Arena as his consecutive victories mounted and his Soul Power reached level 78.
• The Veiled Woman warned the Slaughter King that Lin Ye might survive the Hell Road and return to challenge him, and the Slaughter King vowed to kill Lin Ye himself if he tried to enter it.
• Lin Ye defeated his nine opponents in his hundredth arena match, completing a hundred consecutive victories as the audience cheered his title.
• The Slaughter King appeared above the arena, congratulated Lin Ye, and offered him the title of Slaughter God and the status of guest elder, with permission to enter and leave the City of Slaughter freely.

Lin Ye refused the Slaughter King's offer and demanded access to Hell Road, so the Slaughter King opened it by sacrificing the Fallen Ones in the arena. Lin Ye fought his way through the road and faced the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent.

• Lin Ye rejected the Slaughter King's offer and insisted on entering Hell Road, prompting the Slaughter King to threaten him.
• The Slaughter King killed more than a hundred Fallen Ones to open Hell Road and sent Lin Ye inside.
• Lin Ye used Angel Sword Intent and his sword to destroy waves of Blood Bats and kill the Three-Headed Blood Red Bat King.
• Lin Ye crossed more than half of Hell Road before the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent emerged from the lava and blocked his way.
• The Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent lunged at Lin Ye, who swung the Angel Holy Sword toward its open mouth.

Lin Ye killed the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent and took its inner core before reaching Hell Road’s exit, where the Slaughter King challenged him. Though the Slaughter King initially overwhelmed him, Lin Ye summoned the Angel Divine Artifact, frightening his opponent and revealing himself as a god’s inheritor; their fight continued.

• Lin Ye killed the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent with one strike and retrieved its inner core.
• Lin Ye crossed Hell Road’s final stretch and reached the spatial portal, where the Slaughter King and a Three-Headed Blood Red Bat King blocked his way.
• The Slaughter King claimed he was invincible in the City of Slaughter, and he clashed with Lin Ye after they unleashed their domains.
• The Slaughter King blasted Lin Ye away, but the Angel Divine Artifact arrived and drove the Slaughter King back.
• Lin Ye fused with the Angel Divine Artifact, and the Slaughter King recognized its divine aura and realized Lin Ye was a god’s inheritor.
• Lin Ye unleashed the artifact’s power and struck at the Slaughter King with a slash of light.

Lin Ye severely wounded the Slaughter King, then used the Angel Holy Sword’s Holy Light Illumination to erase the Nine-Headed Blood Red Bat King and revive Tang Chen. Tang Chen thanked Lin Ye and learned he was Qian Daoliu’s disciple, while lamenting that he had come so close to becoming the Asura God.

• Lin Ye fought the Slaughter King as Angel Divine Power weakened him and helped Tang Chen’s sealed consciousness struggle for control.
• Lin Ye severed the Slaughter King’s wing and battered him with the Angel Holy Sword, leaving him gravely wounded.
• Lin Ye unleashed Holy Light Illumination, erasing the Nine-Headed Blood Red Bat King and allowing Tang Chen to revive in his own body.
• Lin Ye stayed wary of the badly injured Tang Chen, who thanked him for his rescue.
• Tang Chen recognized the resemblance between Lin Ye’s sword techniques and Qian Daoliu’s, and Lin Ye revealed that Qian Daoliu was his teacher.
• Tang Chen lamented that he had nearly become the Asura God.

Tang Chen gave Lin Ye the Asura Demon Sword and his accumulated Asura divine power in exchange for being taken out of Hell Road and having his love confessed to Bo Saixi. Lin Ye’s Angel Holy Sword devoured and sealed the Asura Demon Sword, allowing him to unleash a powerful demonic form.

• Tang Chen asked Lin Ye to take him out of Hell Road and tell Bo Saixi that he loved her, and Lin Ye agreed.
• Tang Chen poured his accumulated Asura divine power into the Asura Demon Sword and handed it to Lin Ye.
• Lin Ye’s Angel Holy Sword flew up and devoured the Asura Demon Sword, sealing its power within itself.
• Lin Ye discovered that he could release the sealed Asura power and transform the Angel Holy Sword and himself into a dark, slaughter-driven form.
• Lin Ye released the Asura power and demonstrated his new demonic form, which altered his appearance, soul ring skills, and fighting style.

Lin Ye left the City of Slaughter with Tang Chen, gained Divine Slaughter's Domain, and buried Tang Chen after his death. He returned to Spirit City after a year and seven months, while Bibi Dong suspected he had visited the City of Slaughter.

• Lin Ye revealed his Angel Asura form, then took the dying Tang Chen through the portal out of the City of Slaughter.
• As Lin Ye left the City of Slaughter, his accumulated killing intent formed Divine Slaughter's Domain, which weakened enemies and strengthened his attacks.
• Tang Chen died after savoring the air of the continent, and Lin Ye buried him after removing his six Spirit Bones.
• Lin Ye took a hundred-thousand-year Earth Ant Emperor right leg bone and hurried back toward Spirit City, thinking of Qian Renxue.
• During Lin Ye's absence, Qian Renxue reached Rank 86 and brought several soul master forces and four kingdoms under Spirit Hall's influence.
• Lin Ye rushed toward Worship Hall to see Qian Renxue, while Bibi Dong watched him and suspected he had gone to the City of Slaughter.

Lin Ye returned to Spirit Hall and reunited with Qian Renxue and the Seven Great Elders, then discussed the upcoming Soul Master Tournament. When he learned that Qian Renxue would oversee its finals at Lima Plain, he grew more concerned that the two great empires might act during the event.

• Bibi Dong sensed Lin Ye's growing power and resolved to devise another plan to kill him.
• Lin Ye arrived at the Worship Hall, where Qian Renxue and the Seven Great Elders welcomed him, and he reunited with Qian Renxue.
• Lin Ye told everyone about the Asura Demon Sword and Tang Chen's fate, prompting Qian Daoliu to mourn his old friend's end.
• Qian Daoliu discussed the upcoming tournament and said Shui Bing'er would lead Spirit Hall's team, with Lin Ye and Qian Renxue uninterested in competing themselves.
• Qian Renxue explained that the finals had been moved from Pope Palace to Lima Plain at the request of the Star Luo and Heaven Dou Empires.
• Lin Ye suspected the empires might make a move and grew more uneasy after learning that Qian Renxue would represent Spirit Hall at the finals' opening.

Lin Ye warned Qian Daoliu that the empires and the Upper Three Sects might attack Spirit Hall’s representatives at the Soul Master Tournament finals on Lima Plain. He proposed keeping the Consecrated Elders in Spirit City so the enemy would underestimate their defenses, leaving Lin Ye and Qian Renxue poised to turn the attack into a chance to wipe out their rivals.

• Lin Ye told Qian Daoliu that the empires might ally with the Clear Sky Sect and the Upper Three Sects to attack Qian Renxue at the finals.
• Lin Ye explained that the Clear Sky Sect might seek revenge for Tang Hao’s death and fear Spirit Hall’s rule, and Qian Daoliu agreed they would have to be destroyed if they joined the enemy.
• Qian Daoliu decided to send five Consecrated Elders to oversee the finals and told Lin Ye to continue preparing for the God Trial.
• Lin Ye reconsidered and suggested that the Consecrated Elders stay in the Worship Hall so the empires would believe the finals venue was vulnerable.
• Lin Ye proposed playing along with the enemy’s attack and eliminating the Clear Sky Sect, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, claiming that he and Qian Renxue could defeat them.

Lin Ye absorbed a God-Given Soul Ring to gain his eighth Soul Ring and powerful new skills, while the empires and Upper Three Sects prepared a plot to ambush him and Qian Renxue. After months of cultivation, Lin Ye and Qian Renxue returned to the Angel inheritance site to begin the seventh trial.

• Lin Ye told Qian Daoliu that he and Qian Renxue could defeat the Upper Three Sects, and Qian Daoliu agreed to have four elders secretly support them.
• The two empires and Upper Three Sects accepted Bibi Dong's information and finalized a plan to surround and kill Lin Ye and Qian Renxue at Lima Plain.
• Lin Ye broke through to Rank 80, absorbed the God-Given Soul Ring, and reached Rank 83 as his eighth Soul Ring surpassed the hundred-thousand-year level.
• Lin Ye gained the eighth Soul Skills One Thought of God and Demon and Holy Sun Annihilation, then cultivated with Qian Renxue to improve their coordination.
• Nearly eight months later, Lin Ye had reached Rank 84 and Qian Renxue Rank 88, and they returned to the Core Land of Inheritance to begin the Angel Seventh Trial.

Lin Ye and Qian Renxue began the Angel Seventh Trial and faced dark counterparts formed from the evil within them. Their evenly matched battle started atop the Golden Disc, where the dark versions seemed able to anticipate every move.

• Lin Ye and Qian Renxue held the Angel Divine Artifact’s hilt together, beginning the Seventh Trial and splitting the Golden Disc between light and darkness.
• Dark Qian Renxue and Dark Lin Ye emerged, and Lin Ye explained that they embodied the darkness within himself and Qian Renxue.
• Qian Renxue and Lin Ye prepared to fight their counterparts, whose dark wings, black sword, soul rings, and power matched or surpassed theirs.
• Lin Ye clashed with Dark Lin Ye while Qian Renxue fought Dark Qian Renxue, and both duels began evenly.
• The dark counterparts blocked and countered the pair’s attacks as though they knew their techniques in advance.

Lin Ye and Qian Renxue fought dark counterparts who matched their skills and could imitate their Martial Soul Fusion Skills, leaving the couples locked in a draining battle. As they began to lose, Lin Ye released Slaughter Asura's power and realized that light had to command darkness.

• Lin Ye and Qian Renxue found that their dark counterparts matched their abilities and drained less Soul Power and stamina.
• Lin Ye and Qian Renxue joined forces, but the dark pair coordinated just as effectively and matched their Sword of Angel Judgment fusion skill.
• The dark pair transformed into a Dark Angel, and Lin Ye and Qian Renxue countered with their Sun Angel fusion form.
• After an hour of fighting, both fusion forms were broken, and Lin Ye and Qian Renxue fell to their knees while their dark counterparts remained standing.
• Dark Lin Ye and Dark Qian Renxue urged them to abandon the light, but Lin Ye released Slaughter Asura's dark power and declared that light must command darkness.

Lin Ye and Qian Renxue defeated their dark counterparts, completed the Angel Seventh Trial, and received powerful rewards that raised their soul power and soul ring ages. As they prepared for the Eighth Trial, Lin Ye worried about Qian Daoliu’s coming sacrifice, while the Soul Master Tournament preliminaries began elsewhere.

• Lin Ye entered his Asura Angel state and, with Qian Renxue’s help, defeated Dark Lin Ye and Dark Qian Renxue.
• Lin Ye and Qian Renxue drew out the Angel Divine Artifact together and completed the Angel Seventh Trial.
• The trial rewards raised Qian Renxue to Level 89 and Lin Ye to Level 85, increased their soul ring ages, and gave Qian Renxue the right to wield the artifact.
• Qian Daoliu told Lin Ye and Qian Renxue to rest for a month before the Angel Eighth Trial, while Lin Ye resolved to seek a way to prevent his teacher’s sacrifice.
• The High-Level Elite Soul Master Tournament preliminaries began, with the Martial Soul Hall Team and the first teams of both empires already qualified for the finals; Tang San competed for Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s first team.

Lin Ye and Qian Renxue received the Eighth Angel Trial, which required them to reach Title Douluo, possess nine rings and six fully evolved Spirit Bones, then decide the Angel God inheritance in a duel within five years. As the Soul Master Tournament qualifiers ended, Lin Ye checked the advancing rosters and found Tang San and several familiar faces on Heaven Dou Team 1.

• Lin Ye and Qian Renxue learned that their final trial would be a one-on-one battle for the Angel God Position, with the loser ending their trial but receiving the rewards from the first seven trials.
• Lin Ye discussed his plans to seek another god position and obtain the Spirit Bones he needed, while Qian Daoliu urged him to prepare for the five-year deadline.
• Lin Ye asked Qian Daoliu to announce that he and Qian Renxue would appear at the tournament finals, hoping to draw out the empires and Upper Three Sects.
• After the qualifiers ended, Qian Renxue brought Lin Ye the advancing teams' rosters, and he noticed Zhu Zhuqing on Star Luo Royal Academy Team 1 but no Dai Mubai on the Star Luo teams.
• Lin Ye found no Shrek Academy among the advancing teams, then discovered Tang San, Dai Mubai, and other familiar names on Heaven Dou Team 1.

Lin Ye and Qian Renxue prepared to face the empires and the Upper Three Sects, who had assembled a hidden force for the Soul Master Tournament finals at the Lima Plain. As Spirit Hall’s procession departed, Hu Liena’s attempt to speak to Lin Ye went unanswered, leaving her heartbroken.

• Lin Ye saw Tang San listed on Heaven Dou Team 1 and concluded that the empires and the Upper Three Sects would make their move during the tournament finals; he and Qian Renxue agreed they might have to massacre their enemies.
• Both sides gathered large forces for the finals: the empires and allied clans prepared an ambush on the Lima Plain, while Spirit Hall readied its Titled Douluo, soul masters, and the secret Angel Legion.
• Snake Lance Douluo reported that the tournament teams were heading to the Lima Plain, and Qian Renxue ordered Spirit Hall’s force to depart in an hour.
• Lin Ye and Qian Renxue appeared hand in hand before the assembled force, and the group set out from Spirit City.
• Hu Liena saw Lin Ye, tried to speak to him, and was ignored; Xie Yue comforted her and warned that Lin Ye might not survive the coming conflict.

Lin Ye and Qian Renxue arrived at Lima Plain for the Soul Master Tournament finals, while anticipating a possible attack by the Empire and the Upper Three Sects. The opening ceremony began with the teams entering, and Lin Ye eyed Tang San as Heaven Dou Team 1 appeared.

• Lin Ye told Qian Renxue an ambush was more likely during or after the tournament and said he would show no mercy to Elders Chrysanthemum and Ghost if they opposed him.
• Lin Ye and Qian Renxue arrived at the crowded Lima Plain venue and discussed protecting civilians if fighting broke out.
• The Heaven Dou and Star Luo teams arrived, and the finals opening ceremony began after two days of preparations.
• Star Luo Team 1 entered, and Lin Ye called them the main contenders against the Martial Soul Hall Team.
• Tang San and Heaven Dou Team 1 entered, and Lin Ye fixed his gaze on Tang San.

The Soul Master Tournament finals began as Lin Ye and Qian Renxue opened the event and the teams started competing. After the first round narrowed the field to eighteen teams, the second round began with Lin Ye eager to see how the Shrek Seven Devils had developed.

• Shui Bing'er entered with the Martial Soul Hall Team, and Feng Xiaotian vowed to test her strength in the finals.
• Lin Ye and Qian Renxue appeared before the gathered teams, while Tang San and others looked at Lin Ye with hatred.
• Lin Ye welcomed the competitors, and Qian Renxue declared the tournament finals officially open.
• The seeded teams received first-round byes, and fifteen teams won their matches to advance alongside them into the top eighteen.
• The second round began with Star Luo Team 1 facing a comparatively ordinary Heaven Dou Empire team, as Lin Ye watched to gauge the Shrek Seven Devils.

Lin Ye watched the tournament’s remaining teams qualify for the top ten, then saw the first matches of the top-ten-to-top-five stage decide four finalists. Heaven Dou Team 1’s match against Tool Soul Academy remained the next contest as the chapter ended.

• Star Luo Team 1 defeated its opponents and advanced, while Zhu Zhuqing revealed she had reached Soul Power Level 35.
• Tang San led Heaven Dou Team 1 to an easy victory over Dragonshade Academy, and the Martial Soul Hall Team also won with four substitutes in its lineup.
• The top ten teams were set, including the Martial Soul Hall Team, Star Luo Team 1, Heaven Dou Team 1, and five academies.
• Blazing Wind Academy defeated Monster Academy, Star Luo Team 1 beat Elephant Armor Academy, and Thunder Academy overcame Tianshui Academy to enter the final five.
• Heaven Dou Team 1 fielded seven main members against Tool Soul Academy, while Lin Ye reflected on the team’s powerful support Soul Masters.