Chapter Summaries

Ji Bai wiped out Blood Prison Asura Kane’s enforcement squad and fought Kane, a level ninety-two Title Douluo, to a standstill. As the duel continued, Ji Bai began attacking Kane’s already fragile mind with the True Phoenix Heart Fire.

• Ji Bai used the Sword of Judgment to kill the Terror Knight and Shadow Knight, then slaughtered the six Soul Sages and the rest of the enforcement squad.
• Ji Bai devoured the fallen fighters, strengthening his aura while the Slaughter Envoy cowered behind Kane.
• Blood Prison Asura Kane unleashed his Title Douluo pressure and attacked with his fifth soul skill, but Ji Bai’s True Phoenix Domain dissolved the blood blades.
• Ji Bai and Kane clashed head-on, and Kane was shocked when the Soul Sage forced him back and wounded his hand.
• Ji Bai focused the True Phoenix Heart Fire on Kane’s mind, exploiting the strain caused by the Rakshasa God’s divine thoughts and Kane’s killing intent.

Ji Bai defeated Blood Prison Asura Kane and devoured his power, then faced the Slaughter King’s fury after wiping out the inner city. The slaughter’s accumulated evil overwhelmed Ji Bai’s mind, but his Divine Slaughter’s Domain began to evolve.

• Ji Bai survived Kane’s Ninth Soul Skill, pierced him with the Sword of Judgment, and killed him.
• Ji Bai devoured Kane’s Soul Power, while the Slaughter Envoy collapsed in terror among the corpses of the fallen inner-city residents.
• The Nine-Headed Bat King, possessing Tang Chen as the Slaughter King, confronted Ji Bai with fury but held back because Ji Bai was an Asura God inheritor.
• Ji Bai declared he would rather die than become the Nine-Headed Bat King’s servant, revealing that he knew the creature’s secret.
• The evil and killing intent Ji Bai had absorbed overwhelmed his defenses and clouded his mind, while his Divine Slaughter’s Domain began to evolve.

After a hundred days of resisting the killing intent, Ji Bai completed the Asura God’s third trial and received a God-Bestowed Spirit Ring. He left Slaughter City, while the Slaughter King announced his intention to lead the remaining fallen ones out to rule the world.

• Ji Bai held fast to his reason for a hundred days as his killing aura gradually became restrained and transformed.
• Ji Bai completed the third Asura God trial, gained ten percent Asura God affinity, and received a God-Bestowed Spirit Ring; he also reached level eighty.
• Ji Bai postponed the fourth trial, decided to leave Slaughter City, and passed through its entrance using Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• The fallen ones rushed toward the entrance after Ji Bai left, but the entrance repelled them.
• The Slaughter King killed one fallen one, then declared that he would lead the survivors out of Slaughter City to rule the world.

Ji Bai cleansed and reforged his body at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then endured the God-Bestowed Spirit Ring until it reached five hundred thousand years and raised his Soul Power to level eighty-five. The God Realm’s deities discussed his Phoenix Martial Soul and Asura inheritance, and Ji Bai began his fourth trial, Slay the Inner Demon.

• Ji Bai spent forty-nine days absorbing the spring’s energy, cleansing the impurities and hidden injuries from his body.
• Ji Bai shattered the God-Bestowed Spirit Ring and endured its pressure for two hundred and fifty days until it reached five hundred thousand years.
• Ji Bai absorbed the ring, and his Soul Power surged to level eighty-five as a Phoenix appeared above the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• The five deities of the God Realm discussed Ji Bai’s Phoenix Martial Soul, his Asura trials, and the return of the Phoenix God’s power.
• Ji Bai began the fourth Asura trial, Slay the Inner Demon, and found himself in a boundless white space.

Ji Bai completed the Asura God’s fourth trial by confronting and accepting his fear, then received the fifth trial: become a Title Douluo within three years. He spotted an unusually large group of Soul Masters approaching the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, including many with water attributes.

• Three demons representing greed, wrath, and delusion emerged from Ji Bai, and he realized the trial required him to subdue them without Soul Power.
• Ji Bai stopped resisting the demons and gradually brought them under his control.
• A twelve-year-old version of Ji Bai challenged him to admit his fear, and Ji Bai acknowledged that he was terrified but would keep going.
• The illusion shattered, and Ji Bai completed the fourth trial, increasing his Asura God affinity by 10%.
• Ji Bai received the fifth trial to become a Title Douluo within three years, then noticed dozens of Soul Masters approaching the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Ji Bai emerged from seclusion as an eight-ring Soul Douluo and drove away the soul masters gathered outside Dugu Bo’s poisonous valley. He learned that Slaughter City’s forces had invaded the Northern Frontier, where Huo Wu, Shui Bing’er, and others were fighting, and suspected the Slaughter King had launched the invasion partly in revenge against him.

• Ji Bai used his six black and two red soul rings and Divine Slaughter’s Domain to frighten the gathered soul masters into leaving the valley.
• Ji Bai met Sword Douluo Chen Xin and Ning Fengzhi, who were investigating the disturbance and told him the Northern Frontier was under attack.
• Ning Fengzhi revealed that the enemy could prevent soul masters from using soul skills and that Huo Wu, Shui Bing’er, and others were resisting them at the front lines.
• Ji Bai identified the invaders as people from Slaughter City, whose Slaughter King’s domain could suppress soul skills.
• Ji Bai explained that he had killed everyone in Slaughter City’s inner city and its law enforcement team, and suggested the Slaughter King had invaded to retaliate and recruit followers.

Ji Bai learned that the Slaughter King’s forces had plunged the continent into chaos and told Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin that Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu had to join forces to stop him. He went north to attack the Slaughter King’s forces and learned that their plans centered on North Capital.

• Ji Bai recounted how the Slaughter King’s forces had overrun the Northern Frontier while the Star Luo Empire threatened Heaven Dou from the south, disrupting Spirit Hall’s plans.
• Ji Bai revealed that the Slaughter King was Tang Chen, possessed by a Nine-Headed Bat King, and explained why Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu needed to work together against him.
• Ji Bai left for the north, where he used Divine Slaughter’s Domain to incapacitate the fighters in a burning city and secretly kill the Fallen Ones.
• Ji Bai questioned a Fallen One, learned the name North Capital, and concluded that the creature was trying to build a human city and establish a kingdom.
• Ji Bai asked the city’s defenders for their location and command, then flew toward the army’s main camp after learning it lay about two hundred li southeast.

Ji Bai returned to the military camp after nearly five years away and reunited with Huo Wu and his friends. He explained that the Slaughter King was Tang Chen, controlled by the Nine-Headed Bat King, and revealed his plan to confront the Slaughter King in the capital city.

• Ji Bai emerged from a spatial rift, and Huo Wu recognized him and rushed to embrace him.
• Ji Bai greeted Shui Bing'er, Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, Huo Wushuang, and the others before turning to the threat facing the camp.
• Ji Bai told Gu Rong and Ge Long that the Slaughter King was Tang Chen, a puppet controlled by the Nine-Headed Bat King, and that Tang Chen could not be defeated by anyone alone.
• Gu Rong reported that the Slaughter King had invaded the northern lands and captured Gui Mei after defeating two Title Douluo.
• Ji Bai asked where the Slaughter King had established his capital city, then assured Huo Wu that his Divine Slaughter's Domain would let him enter safely.

Ji Bai infiltrated the Slaughter King's palace and poisoned his Bloody Mary with Snowy Swan Kiss. After the Slaughter King drank it, Ji Bai used the three demons of greed, anger, and delusion, strengthened by his True Phoenix Heart Fire, to weaken him, while the Slaughter King turned on the Slaughter Envoy.

• Ji Bai disguised himself as a Fallen One and approached the Slaughter King's palace, determined to kill everyone in the city except the Slaughter King.
• Ji Bai revealed himself to the Slaughter Envoy, restrained her, and secretly poured Snowy Swan Kiss powder into the Bloody Mary she had prepared.
• The Slaughter Envoy brought Ji Bai before the Slaughter King, who drank the poisoned Bloody Mary and dismissed Ji Bai's offer to make a deal.
• Ji Bai summoned the three demons and used his True Phoenix Heart Fire to intensify their influence over the Slaughter King and Slaughter Envoy.
• The Slaughter King began coughing blood and realized he had been poisoned, then accused the Slaughter Envoy of betrayal and devoured her with his nine-headed bat phantom.

Ji Bai killed every fallen one in Slaughter City with True Phoenix Heart Fire and helped Tang Chen reclaim his body from the Nine-Headed Bat King. Tang Chen died after entrusting Ji Bai with the Asura Demon Sword and a request to visit Bo Saixi and look after the Clear Sky Sect, while Ji Bai absorbed the sword’s power and advanced to Rank Eighty-Six.

• The Slaughter King accused Ji Bai of poisoning him, but Ji Bai’s blood sword mark and Heart Fire weakened him and killed every fallen one in the city.
• Tang Chen surfaced within the Slaughter King and asked Ji Bai to help destroy the Nine-Headed Bat King.
• Ji Bai used Heart Fire to help Tang Chen regain control, then refused to cure the poison in Tang Chen’s body.
• Tang Chen asked Ji Bai to visit Bo Saixi on Sea God Island and look after the Clear Sky Sect, then gave him the Asura Demon Sword and died.
• Ji Bai absorbed the Asura divine power from the sword, strengthened his soul bones, and reached Rank Eighty-Six.

Ji Bai defeated Tang Chen, took his six Soul Bones, and reported that the Northern Frontier city had been completely emptied of life. As Heaven Dou celebrated the Slaughter King's death, Gui Mei returned to Spirit Hall gravely weakened and poisoned, and Bibi Dong arrived.

• Ji Bai collected Tang Chen's six Soul Bones, burned his body, and considered how obtaining a second Martial Soul could help him advance.
• Ji Bai met Huo Wu, Gu Rong, Shui Bing'er, and the others outside the city and told them the Slaughter King and everyone inside were dead.
• Ge Long's report reached Heaven Dou City, where Xue Ye learned Ji Bai had defeated Tang Chen and promised to grant him the title of king.
• Gui Mei collapsed outside the Pope's Palace after returning to Spirit City, and a healer could only stabilize him because of his severe weakness and terrifying poison.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan grew furious at the healer, and Bibi Dong arrived at the palace.

Bibi Dong rescued Ghost Douluo, learned that Ji Bai had killed the Slaughter King and that the King had been Tang Chen, and struggled with her feelings for little Qing'er. News of Tang Chen’s death devastated Qian Daoliu, the Clear Sky Sect, and Yu Xiaogang, who still clung to a trace of hope for revenge.

• Bibi Dong removed the slaughter aura from Ghost Douluo, learned that his cultivation had fallen to Rank 94, and heard that Ji Bai had killed the Slaughter King, who was Tang Chen.
• Bibi Dong returned to her bedchamber, corrected little Qing'er about how to address her, and reflected on the guilt and maternal love she felt toward her.
• Ten months later, Qian Daoliu mourned Tang Chen after learning of his death.
• Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect elders learned Tang Chen had been the Slaughter King and abandoned thoughts of returning to the world.
• Flender, Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang learned Ji Bai had killed Tang Chen; Yu Xiaogang nearly gave up on revenge but insisted there was still hope.

Ji Bai returned to Heaven Dou City and received the title of Phoenix King and the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud from Emperor Xue Ye for his deeds at the Northern Frontier. At the palace banquet, nobles crowded around him while Crown Prince Xue Qinghe studied him with curiosity.

• Ji Bai and his companions entered Heaven Dou City and were welcomed by Xue Qinghe, Ning Fengzhi, and members of several clans.
• Ji Bai asked for the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud as his reward, and Xue Qinghe agreed to support his request.
• Emperor Xue Ye named Ji Bai the Phoenix King and awarded him the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, while Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, and the others received hereditary marquis titles.
• Xue Ye left the court feeling weak, and Ning Fengzhi worried that his health was deteriorating.
• At the palace banquet, Ji Bai ignored nobles seeking his favor as Xue Qinghe asked about his age and watched him closely.