Chapter Summaries

After completing one hundred victories in Slaughter City, Li Han rejected the Slaughter King's offer and entered the Hell Road. He fought through the Blood Bats and confronted the Darkgold Three-Headed Bat King, preparing to exploit its weakness.

• Li Han earned the title of God of Slaughter but told the Slaughter King he still wanted to attempt the Hell Road.
• The Slaughter King opened the Gate of Hell, and skeletal hands dragged Li Han beneath the arena.
• Li Han awoke in the lava-filled Hell Road, and Silver Moon joined him as a Nine-Tailed Fox on his shoulder.
• Li Han used a Golden Light Talisman and Smoke-Drifting Steps to escape the Blood Bats, then faced the Darkgold Three-Headed Bat King.
• Li Han severed one of the beast's heads with an Azure Origin Sword Ray, saw it regenerate, and summoned three Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords to attack all three heads at once.

Li Han defeated the Darkgold Three-Headed Bat King and continued along Hell Road, where he and Silver Moon fought the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent. He severed the serpent’s connection to its inner core and seized it, leaving the serpent weakened.

• Li Han killed the Darkgold Three-Headed Bat King with three Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords and took its wings.
• The Slaughter King learned Li Han had defeated the bat and acknowledged that Hell Road could no longer stop him.
• Li Han encountered the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent and found that his sword could not pierce its scales.
• Silver Moon transformed into a Nine-Tailed Fox and held off the serpent’s poisonous flames with her Heavenly Fox Demon Fire.
• Li Han destroyed four of the serpent’s fleshy tumors, then sent his swords inside its body to sever its connection to its inner core.
• Li Han seized the serpent’s inner core as its aura withered.

Li Han escaped Hell Road after killing the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent, gained Divine Slaughter's Domain, and left Slaughter City with Silver Moon. He headed for the Star Dou Great Forest to seek a fifth soul ring from a Soul Beast over fifty thousand years old.

• Li Han stored the demon core and the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's corpse, then Silver Moon returned to the As-You-Will Treasure Pouch as he flew through Hell Road's exit.
• Li Han resisted Hell Road's spiritual toxins and emerged with Divine Slaughter's Domain, which he studied as potential nourishment for cultivating the Wisdom King Art.
• The Slaughter King learned that Li Han had passed through Hell Road in less than an hour and marveled at his strength and potential.
• Li Han left Slaughter City, tested his restored soul skills and Divine Slaughter's Domain, and set out with Silver Moon for the Star Dou Great Forest to find his fifth soul ring.

Li Han joined Zhou Ling's soul-hunting group as a support Soul Master, hoping to hunt a Greenwood Immortal Vine and nourish his Golden Thunder Bamboo. He demonstrated pills that could restore Soul Power and heal wounds, leaving the team impressed as they prepared for the client and the hunt.

• Li Han decided to try opening a small shop in Heaven Dou City after his soul-ring hunt and dismissed the etiquette Tang San learned as a way to suppress killing intent.
• Near Star Dou Great Forest, Li Han answered Zhou Ling's call for a Rank 40 Soul Ancestor to join a hunt for a five-thousand-year Greenwood Immortal Vine.
• Li Han disguised himself as Han Li and revealed an optimal set of soul rings, convincing Zhou Ling to bring him to meet Zheng Shan and Liu Yue.
• Zhou Ling explained that the group needed another member because Greenwood Immortal Vines gathered in dangerous places, and Zheng Shan and Liu Yue revealed their Martial Souls and ranks.
• Li Han revealed his disguised Spirit Pill Martial Soul and demonstrated an Energy Recovery Pill and an Essence Nourishing Pill, impressing Zheng Shan.

Li Han joined Zhou Ling’s soul-hunting group and met Mei Shi and Mei Ning, whose mission was to hunt a Greenwood Immortal Vine for Mei Ning’s fourth soul ring. As the group set out for the Star Dou Great Forest, Li Han and Mei Ning compared their support abilities, and Li Han told her about a beast whose copying skill might give her offensive power.

• Zhou Ling tested Li Han’s Energy Recovery Pill, then invited him to join the group permanently, but Li Han said he had only joined for the money and to investigate the Greenwood Immortal Vine’s location.
• Mei Shi arrived with his sister Mei Ning and hired the group to hunt a Greenwood Immortal Vine for her fourth soul ring.
• Zhou Ling introduced Li Han as a powerful support-type Soul Ancestor, reassuring Mei Shi that Li Han’s healing and Soul Power recovery could improve the group’s chances.
• Mei Ning showed Li Han her steamed-bun Martial Soul and described her three soul skills, while Li Han presented his pill Martial Soul and its four supposed skills.
• Li Han told Mei Ning that a Mirror Shadow Beast might grant a copying ability capable of reproducing another Soul Master’s skills, leaving her eager to learn more.

Li Han discussed Mei Ning’s potential fourth Soul Ring and impressed the group with his Soul Master knowledge before the team rested in the Star Dou Great Forest. After scouting the route overnight, the team set out toward the Greenwood Immortal Vine valley to hunt Mei Ning’s target.

• Li Han explained Azurewood Immortal Vine’s possible healing and offensive Soul Skills, and Mei Ning considered it for her fourth Soul Ring.
• Mei Ning gave the group restorative meat buns, which Zheng Shan, Zhou Ling, Liu Yue, and Li Han enjoyed and found replenishing.
• While the group rested, Li Han sent a spider puppet to scout the forest and confirmed the Greenwood Immortal Vine valley lay to the north.
• The team set out at dawn, and Mei Shi explained that they would cross several hundred-year-old vines’ territory to hunt a five-thousand-year-old Greenwood Immortal Vine.

Zhou Ling's group used their combined Wind Crane Prison Carriage to approach the five-thousand-year Azurewood Immortal Vine, but its explosive seeds shattered their formation. Li Han rescued Mei Ning from the vines, and Zheng Shan prepared to counterattack.

• Zhou Ling led the group through the century-old Azurewood Immortal Vines while Mei Shi's Rock Shield and Liu Yue's Spirit Vine Cage protected them.
• Zhou Ling combined his Wind Crane skill with Liu Yue's and Zheng Shan's abilities to create the Wind Crane Prison Carriage and carry the group forward.
• Zheng Shan's question about Mei Ning's teammates upset her, so Zhou Ling redirected everyone's attention to the approaching five-thousand-year Azurewood Immortal Vine.
• The five-thousand-year vine fired an explosive seed that severed Liu Yue's spirit vine and blew the cage apart, scattering the group.
• Li Han used Smoke-Drifting Steps to rescue Mei Ning from nearby vines and return her safely to the group.
• Zheng Shan activated his Third Soul Skill, Earthquake Shockwave, to strike back at the vines.

Li Han helped Zhou Ling’s team defeat a five-thousand-year-old Greenwood Immortal Vine and secure Mei Ning’s fourth Soul Ring. As Mei Ning began absorbing it, Li Han considered how to prepare for hunting a fifty-thousand-year-old vine after completing the escort mission.

• Zheng Shan’s tremor attack cleared the smaller vines, and the team launched a combined assault on the Greenwood Immortal Vine.
• Li Han spotted hidden Explosive Seeds and warned the others, but the blast injured Zheng Shan, Zhou Ling, and Mei Shi before Liu Yue pulled them to safety.
• Li Han gave the injured men Essence Nourishing Pills, restoring their strength so they could resume the fight.
• Liu Yue trapped the weakened Greenwood Immortal Vine, and Mei Ning killed it to obtain her fourth Soul Ring.
• Mei Ning began absorbing the purple Soul Ring while Li Han planned to finish the escort mission before preparing for a future hunt.

Mei Ning absorbed her fourth Soul Ring and gained the versatile Fireburst Bun soul skill, then thanked Li Han for helping the Soul-Hunting Squad. The group left the Star Dou Great Forest, parted ways with the Mei siblings, and Li Han received a Spirit-Descending Talisman from the system and his share of the reward.

• Mei Ning revealed that Fireburst Bun could boost a user’s attributes when eaten or explode when thrown, though creating the buns consumed much of her Soul Power.
• Mei Ning thanked Li Han, and Zhou Ling promised him a larger share of the reward for helping the squad.
• Mei Shi led the group out of the Star Dou Great Forest, and he and Mei Ning parted from Li Han after Mei Ning learned he might visit Heaven Dou City.
• The system rewarded Li Han with a Spirit-Descending Talisman after he unlocked Mei Ning’s character, and he considered its demanding crafting requirement.
• Zheng Shan teased Li Han about Mei Ning’s apparent interest in him, and Zhou Ling divided the reward, giving Li Han twelve thousand Gold Soul Coins.

Li Han and Silver Moon returned to the valley to hunt a fifty-thousand-year Greenwood Immortal Vine, using the Lost Track Formation to isolate their target. After discovering it could rapidly regenerate by drawing soul power from nearby vines, Li Han began setting up the Spirit-Severing Formation while Silver Moon and his puppets fought it.

• Zhou Ling tried once more to recruit Li Han, but he declined and left, while Zhou Ling explained to Zheng Shan and Liu Yue why befriending him could save their lives.
• Li Han returned to the Star Dou Great Forest, where Silver Moon reported finding a fifty-thousand-year Greenwood Immortal Vine and preparing the Lost Track Formation.
• Li Han and Silver Moon activated the formation and attacked the Greenwood Immortal Vine, but it regenerated its burned vines almost instantly and struck back.
• Li Han realized the Greenwood Immortal Vine was drawing soul power from nearby vines and sent Silver Moon and twelve Lizard Puppets to hold it off.
• Li Han began setting up the Spirit-Severing Formation to cut off the Greenwood Immortal Vine's soul power supply.

Li Han killed the Greenwood Immortal Vine and absorbed its fifty-thousand-year soul ring, raising his Soul Power to level fifty-six. He gained the fifth soul skill, Sword Qi into Threads, and told Silver Moon that it exceeded his expectations.

• Li Han avoided the Greenwood Immortal Vine's explosive attack with his Wind-Thunder Wings, then broke free from its vines by enlarging the Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords.
• Li Han stunned the Greenwood Immortal Vine with Divine Slaughter's Domain and killed it with four giant Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords.
• Silver Moon emerged from the As-You-Will Treasure Pouch and guarded Li Han as he absorbed the Greenwood Immortal Vine's soul ring.
• Li Han's accumulated Soul Power surged to level fifty-six as he refined the soul ring.
• Li Han learned that his fifth soul skill, Sword Qi into Threads, could form nearly invisible sword threads to trap and kill enemies or cut through objects.

Li Han harvested the Greenwood Immortal Vine and prepared to refine it into pills and a trapping artifact before sensing Qian Renxue and two Title Douluo fighting nearby. He escaped unnoticed, while Qian Renxue detected his killing intent and wondered whether he had visited Slaughter City.

• Li Han stored the Greenwood Immortal Vine and began preparing its vines and the Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords for refining.
• Li Han sensed Pufferfish Douluo and Snake Lance Douluo battling a powerful soul beast alongside Qian Renxue, then fled to avoid Spirit Hall.
• Qian Renxue sensed that someone had been nearby and investigated the area after the soul beast was defeated.
• Qian Renxue concluded that a powerful soul master with intense killing intent had escaped and speculated that he might have visited Slaughter City.
• Qian Renxue declined to pursue Li Han and returned toward Heaven Dou City to continue posing as Xue Qinghe.

Li Han settled into Green Bamboo Cottage in Heaven Dou City and refined two artifacts for his soul beasts. He left Silver Moon and the Man Faced Demon Spider with a stronger binding net and a newly enlarged Spirit Beast Bag, where they could live in separate spaces.

• Li Han opened Green Bamboo Cottage under the alias Han Li and assigned Silver Moon to practice cooking while he watched the shop.
• Li Han used the Heavenly Fox Demon Fire to refine the Greenwood Immortal Vine and Man Faced Demon Spider webbing into the Green Immortal Pouch.
• Li Han tested the Green Immortal Pouch on Silver Moon, who could not break free, then gave it to her to refine and use.
• Li Han released the Man Faced Demon Spider and transformed the As-You-Will Treasure Pouch into a larger Spirit Beast Bag with separate territories.
• Silver Moon and the Man Faced Demon Spider entered the Spirit Beast Bag, and Silver Moon praised its spacious interior while teasing Xiao Ba about grinding his teeth.

Li Han refined pills and fused the Darkgold Three-Headed Bat King's wings with his Wind-Thunder Wings, enduring severe pain to complete the transformation. The next morning, he tested the upgraded wings outside Heaven Dou City and found they were faster, more powerful, more efficient, and regenerative.

• Li Han refined the Greenwood Immortal Vine scraps with herbs into twelve Marrow Cleansing Pills.
• Li Han had Silver Moon purify the Darkgold Three-Headed Bat King's wings with Heavenly Fox Demon Fire.
• Li Han fused the purified skeletal wings with his Wind-Thunder Wings using lightning from his Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords, enduring the pain until the fusion succeeded.
• Li Han discovered that his transformed Wind-Thunder Wings had gained the bat king's regenerative power.
• Li Han tested the wings outside Heaven Dou City and found they increased his speed and attack power while consuming less energy.

Li Han hunted a thirty-thousand-year Scale-Armored Beast in Sunset Forest while Liu Erlong and Tai Long searched for a beast for Tai Long’s second soul ring. After testing his sword technique and Wind-Thunder Wings against the beast, Li Han prepared to try his fifth soul skill.

• Li Han flew to Sunset Forest and began searching for a soul beast to fight.
• Liu Erlong took Tai Long to a lake where they found a gathering of Scale-Armored Beasts suited to his second soul ring.
• A thirty-thousand-year Scale-Armored Beast fled from Li Han, who pursued it and struck it repeatedly with Azure Origin Sword Ray.
• Liu Erlong and Tai Long watched Li Han fight the beast, and Liu Erlong suspected he was the winged wanted criminal from Spirit Hall’s notices.
• Li Han blocked the beast’s Savage Charge with his Wind-Thunder Wings, then summoned the Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords and activated Sword Qi into Threads.

Li Han killed a thirty-thousand-year-old Scale-Armored Beast with his sword threads, then encountered Liu Erlong and Tai Long. Liu Erlong challenged him to a spar, and the two began trading powerful blows.

• Li Han sliced the Scale-Armored Beast into fragments with Sword Qi into Threads, alarming Tai Long and Liu Erlong.
• Liu Erlong stepped out with Tai Long and recognized Li Han as the man wanted by Spirit Hall.
• Li Han identified Liu Erlong and Tai Long, then agreed to spar with Liu Erlong.
• Liu Erlong attacked with her Fire Dragon Claw and Blazing Impact, but Li Han dodged the claw and cut through her flames with an Azure Origin Sword Ray.
• Li Han caught Liu Erlong’s Crimson Dragon Tail with the Wisdom King Art and flung her into trees.
• Liu Erlong got up and charged again, and she and Li Han traded punches without either giving ground.

Li Han and Liu Erlong fought a fierce spar, with Li Han defeating her Red Dragon Avatar by combining his Giant Sword Technique with Sword Qi into Threads. He left before revealing his true strength, leaving Liu Erlong and Tai Long stunned by his power and speed.

• Tai Long watched Li Han and Liu Erlong trade blows and marveled at Li Han's strength.
• Liu Erlong activated her Seventh Soul Skill, Red Dragon Avatar, and attacked Li Han with a blue dragon.
• Li Han enlarged the Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords with As You Wish and clashed with Liu Erlong using the Giant Sword Technique.
• As his giant sword began to falter, Li Han used Sword Qi into Threads to slice apart Liu Erlong's Red Dragon Avatar, leaving her lightly injured.
• Liu Erlong praised Li Han and questioned whether he was truly only a Soul King, but he refused to reveal his strength and vanished with his Wind-Thunder Wings.
• Tai Long asked Liu Erlong who Li Feiyu was, astonished by his abilities.

Liu Erlong and Tai Long discussed Li Feiyu’s strength and twin martial souls after their encounter, while Li Han secretly returned to collect a Scale-Armored Beast’s remains. He received the Fire Control Technique from the system and headed back to prepare Green Bamboo Cottage for business.

• Liu Erlong told Tai Long about Li Feiyu’s past clashes with Spirit Hall and concluded that his strength likely came from possessing twin martial souls.
• Liu Erlong explained her belief that Li Feiyu had wasted his talent by placing soul rings on his second martial soul before reaching the Title Douluo level.
• Tai Long questioned Liu Erlong’s theory, so she struck him and then continued searching with him for a Scale-Armored Beast.
• Li Han emerged from hiding, collected the slain Scale-Armored Beast’s remains, and received the Fire Control Technique as a check-in reward.
• Li Han assessed his strength as comparable to a Soul Saint and returned to refine pills and magical artifacts before Green Bamboo Cottage opened.

Li Han opened Green Bamboo Cottage in disguise and sold Dugu Yan pills whose effects made her suspect a connection to him. That night, he dispersed his cultivation for a second time, preserving his Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords as his Soul Power fell to level six.

• Dugu Yan entered Green Bamboo Cottage, where Li Han introduced the pills, weapons, armor, and storage rings for sale.
• Dugu Yan bought three bottles of pills and discovered that a Recovery Pill restored a tenth of her Soul Power almost instantly.
• Dugu Yan suspected the shop and its pills were connected to Li Han and hurried toward Sunset Forest to have her grandfather examine them.
• Li Han reflected that Dugu Yan had noticed similarities in his pills but believed she would not recognize him in disguise.
• Li Han dispersed his five soul rings, kept the nine Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords intact, and returned to level six Soul Power.

Li Han’s shop became popular in Heaven Dou City, and he reunited with Mei Ning before Dugu Bo discovered his concealed identity. Dugu Bo promised to keep Li Han’s secret and left him free to continue his plans.

• Green Bamboo Cottage gained a reputation for its high-quality goods, and Li Han earned more than ten thousand Gold Soul Coins a day.
• Mei Ning visited Li Han’s shop, bought pills and a storage ring, and said she would return.
• Dugu Bo recognized Li Han by the pills he had made and the scent of someone tempered by heavenly treasures.
• Li Han admitted that he was hiding his identity because of Spirit Hall and confirmed that he was the Li Feiyu who had escaped Ghost Douluo.
• Dugu Bo promised not to reveal Li Han’s secret, offered him financial help, and encouraged him to keep giving Spirit Hall trouble.