Recaps

Yang Jian helped establish the Extreme Alliance, strengthened its leaders, and removed Dugu Yan’s poison before heading to the Star Dou Great Forest for a Soul Ring. After pursuing a Void-Mark Spirit Sable into a hidden realm and absorbing its eighty-thousand-year Soul Ring, he gained Space Leap and approached an ancient black tower.

• Yang Jian survived Hu Xiaotian’s poisoned needle and turned the combined poisons against him, while Dugu Bo recovered Hu Xiaotian’s External Soul Bone.
• Yang Jian and Dugu Bo searched the Black Tiger Sect’s Treasure Vault, where Yang Jian found three Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones and left Dugu Bo to guard the spoils.
• The Star Luo Emperor forbade anyone from seizing the Black Tiger Sect’s resources, and Yang Wudi announced the formation of the Extreme Alliance.
• Yang Jian gave Tai Tan, Bai He, and Niu Gao Soul Bones, then used golden flames to purge Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison.
• After nearly half a year of seclusion, Yang Jian broke through and traveled alone to the Star Dou Great Forest, where he reunited with Xiaotian.
• Yang Jian pursued a Void-Mark Spirit Sable for two weeks, followed it through an invisible barrier, and found it exhausted in a hidden paradise.
• Yang Jian killed the Void-Mark Spirit Sable and absorbed its eighty-thousand-year Soul Ring, reaching level sixty-five and gaining Space Leap.
• Yang Jian tested Space Leap and found a towering ancient black stone tower in the distance.

Yang Jian brought Xiaotian to the Beast God’s inheritance, helped Dugu Yan gain a Soul Ring and External Soul Bone, then left to cultivate in Slaughter City. He entered the city by force and faced a starving crowd as he headed for the Hell Slaughter Arena.

• Yang Jian accepted the Beast God’s task to find a Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff worthy of inheriting its Godhood, then brought Xiaotian and his father into the secret realm.
• The Beast God chose Xiaotian for the trial in the Ancient Tower, gave his father a golden light, and granted Yang Jian the Beast God Domain.
• Yang Jian helped Dugu Yan hunt a Purple Mist Poison Spider, and she absorbed its Soul Ring and gained the Purple Mist Spider Web from an External Soul Bone he gave her.
• Yang Jian told Yang Wudi he needed to cultivate in Slaughter City, said farewell to Bai Chenxiang, Zhu Zhuqing, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling, then left without revealing his destination.
• Yang Jian entered a tavern near Slaughter City and killed the criminals who attacked him, then forced his way through a passage beneath the counter.
• Yang Jian defeated Scott at Slaughter City’s gate, entered the city with the black-veiled woman, and ordered her to take him to the Hell Slaughter Arena.
• As starving residents charged him, Yang Jian raised his spear and unleashed Follow the Waves, filling Slaughter City with golden light.

Yang Jian dominated the Hell Slaughter Arena, forged the third form of his Primordial Spear Art, and reached one hundred victories. The Slaughter King then appeared in the arena and addressed him before the frenzied crowd.

• Yang Jian entered the Inner City, claimed a house by killing Blood Butcher, and began cultivating the killing intent gathered from his arena fights.
• Yang Jian won match after match, reaching seventy-two victories as his killing intent fused with his Soul Power and formed a dark core.
• Yang Jian fought off challengers brought in to face him, while the Slaughter King watched his progress and wondered whether he could survive Hell Road.
• Yang Jian completed the Third Form of the Primordial Spear Art, Blood Prison, and killed a cat-eared woman who tried to ambush him after her Soul Bone incarnation was destroyed.
• Nearly two hundred Fallen Ones pursued Yang Jian for the woman’s Trunk Soul Bone, but he killed many, spared the survivors, and ordered them to fight alongside him in daily arena matches.
• The Slaughter King secretly helped Yang Jian accumulate victories, while Yang Jian focused on his spear technique and obtaining Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• Yang Jian won his hundredth match, ending his participation in the Hell Slaughter Arena as the crowd celebrated.
• The Slaughter King descended into the arena, and Yang Jian recognized that his effortless flight suggested the strength of a Title Douluo.

Yang Jian completed Hell Road, emerged with Divine Slaughter's Domain, and returned to the Star Dou Great Forest seeking a seventh Soul Ring. The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sacrificed itself to Yang Jian, and Di Tian attacked while the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff defended him as he fused the rings.

• Yang Jian challenged the Slaughter King for Divine Slaughter's Domain, and the Slaughter King opened Hell Road with a blood sacrifice.
• Yang Jian crossed Hell Road, defeating swarms of blood-red bats, the Darkgold Three-Headed Bat King, and the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent before emerging with Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• Yang Jian traveled to Beast God's Secret Realm, learned that Xiaotian had reached the tower's fifth level, and then set out through the Star Dou Great Forest with the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm emerged from underground, recognized Yang Jian's extraordinary mental power, and sacrificed itself by merging its energy and ten golden rings into him.
• Di Tian arrived as Yang Jian fused the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's rings and demanded that the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff hand him over.
• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff stood between Di Tian and Yang Jian, weakened Di Tian's enormous black sphere with a golden beam, and endured the attack to shield Yang Jian.
• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff burned its blood essence and attacked Di Tian, but Di Tian stopped the beam and advanced as the Lion Mastiff remained barely standing.