Chapter Summaries

Bibi Dong ordered Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan to train in Death Valley until they reached Soul Emperor, hoping to strengthen them and keep Hu Liena apart from Lin Nuo. Hu Liena instead asked to go to Slaughter City, leaving Bibi Dong wondering how she had learned of it.

• Bibi Dong summoned Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan and ordered them to train in Death Valley until they broke through to Soul Emperor.
• Xie Yue agreed to the order and resolved to become strong enough to support Hu Liena, while Yan said he would protect her before she and Lin Nuo got together.
• Bibi Dong reassured Hu Liena that she would prepare for the dangerous training and considered giving her a twenty-thousand-year spiritual skull bone.
• Hu Liena told Bibi Dong that she wanted to go to Slaughter City, shocking everyone in the Pope Palace.
• Xie Yue and Yan asked to accompany Hu Liena, while Bibi Dong questioned her about how she had heard of Slaughter City.

Hu Liena told Bibi Dong that a mysterious voice had urged her to seek fortune in Slaughter City, hiding that she wanted to grow stronger and stay closer to Lin Nuo. After the Rakshasa God claimed responsibility for guiding her, Bibi Dong prepared Hu Liena for the journey while sending Xie Yue and Yan to Death Valley.

• The previous night, Hu Liena heard a voice urge her to go to Slaughter City and promised herself she would venture there.
• In Pope Palace, Hu Liena told Bibi Dong that the voice had promised her supreme fortune, leaving out her feelings for Lin Nuo.
• Bibi Dong asked the Rakshasa God whether she had guided Hu Liena, and the Rakshasa God agreed to take credit after the Evil God King told her to let his heir handle the matter.
• The Rakshasa God promised that Hu Liena would not perish in Slaughter City, and Bibi Dong decided to prepare a Spirit Bone for her.
• Bibi Dong told Xie Yue and Yan to go to Death Valley under the original plan while Hu Liena prepared for her separate trial.

Bibi Dong confronted Lin Nuo over Hu Liena and the Spirit Bone, while Seahorse Douluo sought another way to find the Heart of the Sea God. In hiding, Tang Xiao awoke to Tang San’s care and mourned Tang Hao and Xiao Wu.

• Bibi Dong told Lin Nuo to stay away from Hu Liena and demanded the Spirit-Concentrating Wisdom Skull in exchange for two Spirit Bones.
• Lin Nuo said Qian Renxue had forbidden him to return the tournament Spirit Bones and told Bibi Dong that Hu Liena could ask him for the skull herself.
• Seahorse Douluo decided not to involve Spirit Hall in the search for the Heart of the Sea God and considered approaching the two empires or the Upper Three Sects.
• Tang Xiao awoke after Tang San treated his wounds and admitted he had failed to protect Tang Hao and save Xiao Wu.
• Tang San reassured Tang Xiao and blamed Spirit Hall for their losses.

After Tang Hao’s death, Tang San and Tang Xiao concluded that Yu Xiaogang had withheld the Clear Sky Hammer’s secret methods and set out to confront him. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang claimed credit for Ring Detonation in a new theory, and Salas agreed to have it published after recognizing its significance.

• Tang San and Tang Xiao reasoned that Tang Hao had entrusted Yu Xiaogang with the methods for the Great Sumeru Hammer and Ring Detonation, which Yu Xiaogang had kept from Tang San.
• Tang San and Tang Xiao decided to find Yu Xiaogang and reclaim the Tang Clan’s secrets, considering Shrek Academy, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as likely destinations.
• Yu Xiaogang completed his Eleven Core Competencies of Martial Soul, falsely claiming he had independently researched Ring Detonation, while withholding the Great Sumeru Hammer method from his manuscript.
• Yu Xiaogang brought his manuscript to Salas and demanded that Spirit Hall publish it.
• Salas read the theory, recognized that it concerned Ring Detonation, and promised Yu Xiaogang that Spirit Hall would print and distribute it.

Yu Xiaogang had Spirit Hall publish the Clear Sky Sect's Ring Detonation secret art, believing he was taking revenge on Tang San and helping soul masters. When Tang Xiao and Tang San learned it had spread across the continent, they headed for Shrek Academy to confront him.

• Salas praised Yu Xiaogang, then reported the Ring Detonation secret art to Spirit City and ordered it printed and promoted.
• Ning Fengzhi and the Sword and Bone Douluo confirmed the theory was real and worried the scandal would fracture the Upper Three Sects alliance.
• Yu Yuanzhen beat Yu Xiaogang for revealing the Clear Sky Sect's secret, but Yu Xiaogang insisted he had done nothing wrong.
• Tang Xiao and Tang San discovered the secret art had spread under Yu Xiaogang's name, became furious, and set out for Shrek Academy.

Tang San confronted Yu Xiaogang for claiming the Tang Clan’s inheritance and exploiting their master-disciple relationship, then prepared to mutilate him after Tang Xiao restrained him. Yu Xiaogang tried to save himself by offering information about the Clear Sky Hammer and Great Sumeru Hammer, but Tang San remained unmoved.

• Yu Xiaogang praised his published theory and blamed Tang San for failing to defeat Lin Nuo.
• Tang San and Tang Xiao confronted Yu Xiaogang, and Tang San accused him of claiming the Tang Clan’s inheritance and intending to profit from their past bond.
• Tang San punched and repeatedly slapped Yu Xiaogang, while Tang Xiao condemned Yu Xiaogang’s claim to be Tang San’s father.
• Tang San drew a curved blade and said he would end Yu Xiaogang’s hopes of becoming spiritual spouses with Liu Erlong.
• Tang Xiao immobilized Yu Xiaogang as he tried to flee, and Yu Xiaogang offered information about the Clear Sky Hammer’s training and the Great Sumeru Hammer techniques.
• Tang San ignored Yu Xiaogang’s offer and continued toward him with the blade.

Tang Xiao and Yu Yuanzhen clashed over Tang San’s attempt to punish Yu Xiaogang, while Flender and Liu Erlong rushed to protect him. As Tang Xiao attacked Liu Erlong, Flender, Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang formed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, summoning the Golden Sacred Dragon.

• Yu Yuanzhen blocked Tang San from harming Yu Xiaogang and admitted that Yu Xiaogang had wrongly spread the Tang Clan’s Ring Detonation secret technique, but Tang Xiao refused his offer of compensation.
• Tang Xiao and Yu Yuanzhen released their martial souls and fought above the academy, damaging buildings and throwing the courtyard into chaos.
• Flender ordered Zhao Wuji and Li Yusong to evacuate the students, then rushed with Liu Erlong to Yu Xiaogang’s residence, where Tang San was attacking Yu Xiaogang’s Soul Power shield.
• Liu Erlong charged at Tang San, and Tang Xiao used his Eighth Soul Skill, Heaven-Rending Strike, against her while Yu Yuanzhen used Nine Crowns of the True Dragon to slow the hammer.
• Flender, Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang formed their Sun-Moon Radiant Golden Transformation and summoned the Golden Sacred Dragon as Tang San fled.

Tang San mutilated Yu Xiaogang during the battle at Shrek Academy, while Liu Erlong and Flender fell to Tang Xiao’s hammer. Ning Fengzhi arrived with Chen Xin and Gu Rong, who stopped Tang Xiao and Yu Yuanzhen before the fighting could escalate further.

• Tang Xiao’s hammer blasted Yu Yuanzhen away, then broke the Golden Sacred Dragon fusion and left Liu Erlong apparently dead and Flender gravely injured.
• Flender charged Tang Xiao in grief, but Tang Xiao struck him down and warned Yu Yuanzhen that he would cripple Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Yuanzhen prepared to risk his life against Tang Xiao, while Tang San seized the opening to bind Yu Xiaogang and mutilate him with his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Ning Fengzhi arrived with Chen Xin and Gu Rong, who separated Tang Xiao and Yu Yuanzhen as Ning used his Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda to stabilize Yu Xiaogang.
• Ning Fengzhi urged Tang San to consider his reputation and the need to unite against Spirit Hall, but Tang San insisted Yu Xiaogang had received only a slight punishment.

After Tang San threatened Yu Xiaogang into revealing Tang Hao’s instructions about the Clear Sky Hammer, Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong discussed sharing news of Sea God Island with the Clear Sky Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Gu Rong revealed that Yu Xiaogang had once joined Spirit Hall’s expedition to Devil Island, which was likely Sea God Island.

• Yu Xiaogang woke and condemned Tang San for making him a eunuch, but Tang San threatened him and dangled the possibility of regenerating his limb with rare ginseng.
• Tang San pressured Yu Xiaogang to explain Tang Hao’s instructions, and Yu Xiaogang described Slaughter City, Divine Slaughter’s Domain, and the Great Sumeru Hammer.
• Ning Fengzhi considered telling Tang Xiao and Yu Yuanzhen about Sea God Island and its powerful High Priestess, Bo Saixi.
• Gu Rong agreed they should share the information and recalled that Yu Xiaogang had sailed with Spirit Hall’s expedition to Devil Island, which was likely Sea God Island.

Tang Xiao agreed to let Tang San enter Slaughter City, while Ning Fengzhi gathered the sect leaders to discuss an alliance with Sea God Island and its powerful High Priestess, Bo Saixi. Tang Xiao privately hoped to enlist Bo Saixi’s help in finding his missing grandfather, Tang Chen, and saw the alliance as an opportunity for the Tang Clan.

• Tang Xiao warned Tang San that Slaughter City was dangerous, but Tang San insisted that entering it could not be delayed.
• Ning Fengzhi arrived with Sword and Bone Douluo and told Tang Xiao and Yu Yuanzhen that Seahorse Douluo had come from Sea God Island.
• Ning Fengzhi revealed that Bo Saixi was a level-ninety-nine Sea God Douluo, and Yu Xiaogang described Sea God Island’s trials and possible divine legacy.
• Tang Xiao interrupted the discussion and asked why Seahorse Douluo had come to the continent, then agreed to meet him at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Tang Xiao privately considered asking Bo Saixi to help find Tang Chen and imagined that their reunion could bring two Peerless Douluo to the Clear Sky Sect.

The group met Seahorse Douluo at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and learned he was searching for the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, which Ning Fengzhi said had likely fallen into Spirit Hall’s hands. After the meeting, Tang Xiao privately told Seahorse Douluo that his grandfather Tang Chen had gone to Slaughter City and asked him to pass the information to Bo Saixi.

• Seahorse Douluo recognized Tang Xiao from their past meeting, prompting Ning Fengzhi to realize Tang Xiao had concealed the Clear Sky Sect’s earlier connection to Sea God Island.
• Seahorse Douluo revealed that he was searching for the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, and Ning Fengzhi said the Heaven Dou Imperial Family had once possessed it before Spirit Hall likely took it.
• Ning Fengzhi, Tang Xiao, and Yu Yuanzhen described Spirit Hall’s expansion, and Seahorse Douluo condemned its actions against Sea God Island and the continent.
• After the meeting, Tang Xiao asked Seahorse Douluo whether Bo Saixi had heard news of Tang Chen, and Seahorse Douluo said she had also been seeking his whereabouts.
• Tang Xiao told Seahorse Douluo that Tang Chen had gone to Slaughter City to seek godhood, and Seahorse Douluo agreed to relay the information to Bo Saixi.

Seahorse Douluo fled Heaven Dou City with warnings for Sea God Island, while Tang San set out for Slaughter City with Tang Xiao and Xiao Wu. At Slaughter City’s entrance, Lin Nuo appeared just as Hu Liena was about to begin her trials, and offered to travel with her.

• Seahorse Douluo left Heaven Dou City to warn the High Priestess about Spirit Hall’s ambitions and bring back clues about the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and Tang Chen.
• Gangzi accepted that he had to rely on Tang San to restore his body, while Tang San filled his Storage Soul Tool with Hidden Weapons and departed with Tang Xiao, leaving Xiao Wu in Tang Xiao’s care.
• Bibi Dong brought Hu Liena toward Slaughter City, warning her to remember her instructions and return alive after entering the trials.
• At the tavern outside Slaughter City, Fallen Ones harassed Bibi Dong, but Lin Nuo killed them with Titan Sky Shattering before she could act.
• Lin Nuo said he had come to obtain the Divine Slaughter’s Domain and proposed that he and Hu Liena enter the trials together, delighting her.

Lin Nuo and Hu Liena entered Slaughter City together after Bibi Dong reluctantly agreed to watch over their trial. At the city gate, Lin Nuo killed Terror Knight Scott and his Enforcers, then led Hu Liena onward to find a place to stay.

• Bibi Dong allowed Lin Nuo to accompany Hu Liena into Slaughter City, warning him not to harbor crooked thoughts about her disciple.
• Lin Nuo refused the Bartender’s Bloody Mary, killed him, and smashed open the hidden passage into Slaughter City.
• Bibi Dong used her status as a God of Slaughter to leave ahead while Lin Nuo and Hu Liena continued through the passage.
• Terror Knight Scott confronted Lin Nuo at the city gate and accused him of breaking Slaughter City’s rules.
• Lin Nuo killed Scott and the Enforcers with his Spider Stingers and Gravity Domain, absorbing the power released by Slaughter City.
• Lin Nuo told Hu Liena they would find somewhere to settle down, and she blushed as she followed him.

Bibi Dong confronted the King of Slaughter to protect Hu Liena and her companions, while the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King recognized the Rakshasa God’s aura on her and relented. At sea, Qian Renxue prepared to absorb a hundred-thousand-year Sea Serpent Soul Ring, but Bo Saixi arrived before she could begin.

• Lin Nuo considered whether Spirit Hall should prepare for the dangers that might follow Slaughter City’s fall.
• Bibi Dong warned the King of Slaughter not to target Hu Liena and her companions as they attempted Hell Road.
• The Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King sensed the Rakshasa God’s aura on Bibi Dong and agreed not to interfere with the group, though he insisted Slaughter City’s trials would remain dangerous.
• Qian Daoliu gave Qian Renxue a hundred-thousand-year Sea Serpent Soul Ring for her eighth Soul Ring and handed her its Soul Bone.
• As Qian Renxue prepared to absorb the Soul Ring, Bo Saixi arrived after sensing Qian Daoliu’s power.

Bo Saixi visited Qian Daoliu and Qian Renxue during their soul hunt, but ignored Qian Daoliu’s romantic hopes and left after allowing them to finish. Meanwhile, the Shrek members set off on separate paths, and the Asura God confidently plotted to help Tang San and secure victory in his wager.

• Bo Saixi arrived as Qian Renxue prepared to absorb a hundred-thousand-year soul ring and recognized her potential as the Angel God’s successor.
• Qian Daoliu told Bo Saixi that Qian Renxue was the successor he had awaited, then asked whether Bo Saixi had been well.
• Bo Saixi congratulated Qian Daoliu, permitted the soul hunt to continue, and departed without responding to his feelings.
• Qian Renxue watched Qian Daoliu lament Bo Saixi’s departure and wished Lin Nuo would return before Spirit Hall fell into ruin.
• Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and Dai Mubai each chose to travel and train, while Yu Yuanzhen took Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin under his guidance.
• The Asura God congratulated himself on manipulating Hu Liena and planned ways to help Tang San gain power and win his wager with the Evil God King.

The Asura God discovered that Tang San had lost several opportunities to Lin Nuo and planned to interfere in Slaughter City, but four God Kings confronted him. In the lower realm, Clear Sky Sect elders blamed Tang Yuehua for the sect's troubles and ordered her to bring Tang Xiao back or face expulsion.

• The Asura God realized Tang San had lost the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well opportunity, the Eight Spider Lances, his Blue Silver Emperor awakening, and the Asura Sword Sheath to Lin Nuo.
• As the Asura God prepared to interfere in Slaughter City, Evil, Kindness, Life, and Destruction confronted him and proposed sending him to the Divine Forbidden Land.
• The Asura God secretly messaged Poseidon to set plans in motion after Tang San finished training in Slaughter City.
• Tang Lie and the Clear Sky Sect elders berated Tang Yuehua over the Moonlight Pavilion's loss, Tang San's defeat, and the exposure of Ring Detonation.
• Tang Lie ordered Tang Yuehua to find Tang Xiao and bring him back, threatening to strike their family from the register if he failed to explain the sect's decline.

Lin Nuo and Hu Liena continued competing in Slaughter City, where Lin Nuo killed a woman seeking his protection and absorbed her Soul Power. At the Hell Slaughter Arena, they recognized Tang San, and Hu Liena asked whether they should deal with him before he could threaten Spirit Hall.

• Lin Nuo finished purifying and absorbing the energy he had devoured, bringing his Soul Power closer to Soul Douluo, then agreed to register for another match with Hu Liena.
• A Fallen One approached Lin Nuo hoping to become his protected companion, but he killed her with a Spider Spear and absorbed her Soul Power.
• Lin Nuo and Hu Liena registered for separate matches at the Hell Slaughter Arena and watched the match in progress.
• Tang San won his arena match using his Clear Sky Hammer and Hidden Weapons, and Lin Nuo and Hu Liena recognized him.
• Hu Liena asked Lin Nuo whether they should deal with Tang San before he could cause trouble for Spirit Hall.

Lin Nuo refused Hu Liena’s suggestion to kill Tang San in Slaughter City, choosing instead to make him suffer until their future battle. When Lin Nuo and Hu Liena confronted Tang San after his arena match, Lin Nuo provoked him by praising Xiao Wu’s Soul Ring, and Tang San launched a barrage of Hidden Weapons.

• Lin Nuo told Hu Liena he had other plans for Tang San, and she agreed to leave the matter to him.
• Tang San won his arena match and spotted Lin Nuo and Hu Liena in the stands, suspecting they had come for the Divine Slaughter’s Domain.
• Lin Nuo and Hu Liena met Tang San in the exit corridor, where Lin Nuo said they had come to train and claim the Divine Slaughter’s Domain.
• Lin Nuo praised Tang San’s fighting and taunted him by saying Xiao Wu’s Soul Ring had been quite something.
• Enraged, Tang San attacked Lin Nuo with Bat Wing Reincarnation and followed it with One Thousand and One Nights.

Lin Nuo protected Hu Liena from Tang San’s hidden weapons with Soul Bone Skills, then defeated Tang San in close combat despite the ban on Soul Skills. Lin Nuo and Hu Liena left, while Tang San emerged from the rubble consumed by hatred and determined to gain power.

• Hu Liena tried to shield Lin Nuo from Tang San’s hidden weapons, but Lin Nuo drew her back and used the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape Soul Bone Skills to slow and ground the attack.
• Tang San fired his Zhuge Crossbow and charged Lin Nuo with the Clear Sky Hammer using Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.
• Lin Nuo’s bony wings deflected Tang San’s bolts and blocked his hammer, then Lin Nuo struck Tang San with an elbow and sent him crashing through a wall.
• Lin Nuo left with Hu Liena, joking that beating up A-San helped relieve his stress.
• Tang San crawled out of the rubble, roared at Lin Nuo, and resolved to seek more power.

Tang San embraced the corruption of his Martial Souls after the Rakshasa God secretly infused him with divine power, gaining the ability to devour others and vowing revenge on Lin Nuo. In the Divine Realm, the Asura God realized Tang San’s corruption had jeopardized his succession and worried that Tang San was too weak to pass Poseidon’s God Tests.

• Consumed by resentment over Xiao Wu, his father, and Lin Nuo, Tang San became receptive to the Rakshasa God’s influence in Slaughter City.
• The Rakshasa God sent divine power into Tang San, corrupting his Blue Silver Grass and Clear Sky Hammer into Dark Blue Silver Grass and the Blood Fiend Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang San used his Dark Blue Silver Grass to seize and devour several weaker Fallen Ones, absorbing their power and growing stronger.
• Tang San declared that he would climb to the top and crush Lin Nuo beneath his feet.
• The Asura God was caught off guard by Tang San embracing corruption and worried that Tang San lacked the strength to pass Poseidon’s God Tests.