Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian was transported through a distorted spatial passage after leaving Slaughter City, where his golden Soul Power repelled the killing intent around him and drew a faint, startled reaction from an unseen presence. He arrived at the start of a narrow path suspended above a vast blood-red abyss and prepared to enter the darkness ahead.

• Yang Jian was swept into a chaotic spatial passage as the Hell Road passage began.
• His accumulated killing intent formed a barrier, but his golden Soul Power forced the blood-red aura back.
• An unseen existence murmured, "Huh?", and Yang Jian suspected the Hell Road held more than a trial.
• Yang Jian emerged on a small circular platform above a bubbling, blood-red expanse.
• He examined the narrow path leading into darkness, readied his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear, and faced the way forward.

Yang Jian discovered that he could use his first three Soul Rings on Hell Road and confidently began crossing the narrow path. When a swarm of blood-red bats attacked, he used the third form of the Primordial Spear Art to pierce them with spears formed from killing intent.

• Yang Jian sensed that the weakened suppression outside Slaughter City's core region allowed him to use his first three Soul Rings.
• Yang Jian stepped onto Hell Road and used his spiritual power to scout the darkness ahead.
• Yang Jian detected a swarm of more than a hundred blood-red bats rushing toward him.
• Yang Jian unleashed the third form of the Primordial Spear Art, Blood Prison, and formed hundreds of scarlet spears from his killing intent.
• Yang Jian's spears pierced the blood-red bats, sending them tumbling into the abyss.

Yang Jian cleared the blood bats from Hell Road and confronted the Darkgold Three-Headed Bat King blocking his path. He killed the giant beast instantly with three golden beams, then continued onward with the way ahead open.

• Yang Jian slaughtered the blood bat swarm with his murderous-energy spears and continued along the narrow path.
• Yang Jian encountered the Darkgold Three-Headed Bat King, which blocked the path with its claws and launched an attack from the air.
• Yang Jian put away the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear and opened the golden vertical eye on his brow as the beast charged.
• Yang Jian fired three golden beams that struck and exploded all three of the Darkgold Three-Headed Bat King's heads.

Yang Jian recovered after killing the Darkgold Three-Headed Bat King and continued along the abyssal path, where he encountered the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent. He activated all three of his soul skills and prepared to attack, leaving the confrontation about to begin.

• Yang Jian checked his Soul Power after using the Heavenly Eye, then sat down to recover on the narrow path.
• After half an hour, Yang Jian resumed walking through the darkness with his strength mostly restored.
• Yang Jian encountered the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent, which blocked the path and was stronger than the Darkgold Three-Headed Bat King.
• Yang Jian activated Domination Domain, Terrorclaw Sky-Rending, and Rapid Lightning Speed as the serpent sensed his power and rose to face him.
• Yang Jian took a fighting stance with the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear and gathered strength for his attack.

Yang Jian killed the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent with Flying Star and claimed its golden-red inner core. He stored the core and continued down the Hell Road.

• Yang Jian hurled the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear with Flying Star, piercing the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's main neck.
• Yang Jian's Soul Power erupted inside the serpent, causing its body to explode.
• Yang Jian summoned his spear and the golden-red inner core left floating above the narrow path.
• Yang Jian examined the inner core, sensed its powerful but impure energy, and stored it in his jade belt.
• Yang Jian resumed walking along the Hell Road.

Yang Jian left Slaughter City through Hell Road and underwent a transformation in the white passage, where cold energy merged with his killing intent. In a forest outside, he confirmed that he had obtained Divine Slaughter's Domain despite the lack of marks on his spear, then tested its power.

• Yang Jian reached the exit of Hell Road after a year and a half, having won one hundred Hell Slaughter matches and killed several thousand fallen ones.
• Yang Jian leaped into the white exit and felt cold energy cleanse his body and merge with the circulation of his killing intent.
• Yang Jian emerged from the white space into a dense forest and found that his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear bore no cloud patterns.
• Yang Jian activated his killing intent, and Divine Slaughter's Domain spread outward, draining the color from the grass, trees, soil, and air.

Yang Jian discovered that his newly formed Divine Slaughter's Domain increased his strength by twenty percent, then prepared to pursue a Soul Ring and break through rank seventy. He used Spatial Severing to travel toward the Star Dou Great Forest, hoping to visit Xiaotian on the way.

• Yang Jian tested Divine Slaughter's Domain and found that it suppressed vitality and weakened opponents while sharpening his spear enough to cut through the air.
• Yang Jian realized the domain's twenty-percent boost might come from entering Hell Road with a prototype of Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• Yang Jian reflected that he had reached rank seventy during his time in Slaughter City and needed a seventh Soul Ring to become a Soul Saint.
• Yang Jian decided to seek a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in the Star Dou Great Forest and visit Xiaotian and its father in Beast God's Secret Realm.
• Yang Jian used his sixth Soul Skill, Spatial Severing, to open a rift and appeared on a tree branch a hundred meters away.

Yang Jian returned to the Star Dou Great Forest and discovered that Divine Slaughter's Domain let him sense even faint killing intent. Using Beast God Domain to keep soul beasts at bay, he reached the cliff leading to Beast God's Secret Realm.

• Yang Jian sensed a hidden Ghost Leopard's killing intent as he entered the forest.
• Yang Jian killed the Ghost Leopard with a precisely flicked clump of soil and recognized the warning potential of Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• Yang Jian used Beast God Domain to suppress nearby soul beasts and travel through the forest without interruption.
• Yang Jian arrived at the cliff where Beast God's Secret Realm was located.

Yang Jian returned to the secret realm and discovered that the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff had become a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast after completing the Beast God's Black-Level Seven Trials. Xiaotian remained in the tower, where he had reached the fifth level and was expected to continue toward inheriting the Beast God's divine position.

• Yang Jian entered the secret realm and sensed a powerful presence approaching.
• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff appeared, and Yang Jian recognized that its cultivation had reached one hundred thousand years.
• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff told Yang Jian that it had completed the Beast God's Black-Level Seven Trials to achieve its breakthrough.
• Yang Jian asked about Xiaotian, and the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff said he had reached the fifth level of the tower and had earned praise from the Beast God's divine sense.

Yang Jian left the Beast God's Secret Realm with the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff to search for a seventh Soul Ring, then released spiritual power across a thousand li of the Star Dou Great Forest. Beneath the Lake of Life, a million-year Soul Beast detected him, created a duplicate to fool the beasts draining its power, and fled toward the surface while Yang Jian and the Mastiff continued through the forest.

• Yang Jian left the secret realm without disturbing Xiaotian, and the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff offered to help him find a suitable seventh Soul Ring.
• Yang Jian released his spiritual power across a thousand li of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• A million-year Soul Beast beneath the Lake of Life sensed Yang Jian's powerful spiritual ability and saw a chance to escape.
• The million-year Soul Beast created a convincing duplicate to deceive the sleeping ferocious beasts absorbing its power.
• The real Soul Beast burrowed toward the surface as Yang Jian and the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff strolled through the forest's core region.

While searching the Star Dou Great Forest for a suitable Soul Ring, Yang Jian sensed a powerful, unfamiliar presence approaching from underground. He activated his Heavenly Eye as the ground began to crack before him, but the newcomer had not yet emerged.

• Yang Jian detected a faint intrusion at the edge of his spiritual perception, and the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff stopped and sensed an unfamiliar, powerful Soul Beast nearby.
• Yang Jian activated his Heavenly Eye, sharply increasing the precision and depth of his spiritual perception.
• Yang Jian tracked the approaching spiritual power as it rushed toward him from underground, while the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff stayed at his side.
• Yang Jian warned that the presence had arrived, and the ground ahead began to tremble and split open.

Yang Jian recognized the enormous ice-attribute soul beast emerging from the fissure as the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was stunned that a human knew its name, leaving both of them facing an unexpected reunion.

• An unfamiliar voice spoke directly into Yang Jian’s mind and celebrated finding a spiritual-type quasi-Title Douluo.
• A fissure widened as an extreme chill spread through the forest around Yang Jian and the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm crawled out of the fissure, revealing its jade-white body and ten golden markings.
• Yang Jian identified the creature as the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm froze in surprise and wondered how Yang Jian knew its name.

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm questioned how Yang Jian knew him, then examined Yang Jian’s Heavenly Eye and discovered his extraordinary mental power despite his level-seventy cultivation. Before he could explain his sudden panic, he turned into white-gold light and rushed toward Yang Jian, promising to explain later.

• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm asked how Yang Jian knew him, and Yang Jian pointed to his Heavenly Eye as the source.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm examined Yang Jian’s vertical pupil and sensed a power beyond Soul Power or ordinary mental strength.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm realized Yang Jian was only level seventy yet possessed Quasi-Title Douluo-level mental power and an untrained secondary Martial Soul.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm recognized Yang Jian’s talent as extraordinary, then abruptly panicked.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm transformed into white-gold light and hurtled toward Yang Jian, saying he would explain later.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm began sacrificing its million-year cultivation to Yang Jian, joining its power with his Heavenly Eye and enclosing him in ten golden rings. After sensing Yang Jian’s extraordinary mental and physical strength, it became ecstatic at how well he could withstand the transfer, while its energy continued flowing into him.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm transformed into white-gold light and struck Yang Jian’s Heavenly Eye before the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff could stop it.
• The collision of Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s light and Yang Jian’s golden eye released ripples that forced the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff backward.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s ten golden rings detached and surrounded Yang Jian as its body turned into white halos that flowed into him.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm entered Yang Jian’s body and discovered his immense mental power, Twin Martial Souls, and extraordinary physical strength.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm continued transferring its energy into Yang Jian while an invisible mental fluctuation spread outward.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm completed its sacrifice to Yang Jian, and its spiritual power knocked Soul Beasts unconscious across a thousand li. As Yang Jian continued absorbing the energy, a vastly powerful, hostile aura surged from the Lake of Life toward them.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's spiritual power swept across the forest, incapacitating Soul Beasts throughout a thousand-li radius while the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff resisted the shockwave.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm merged into Yang Jian, and the ten golden rings sank into his body as he began digesting the sacrificial energy.
• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff watched Yang Jian closely until his breathing and aura began to stabilize.
• An immense aura erupted from the Lake of Life and rushed toward them with undisguised hostility.
• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff entered full combat readiness and stood between Yang Jian and the approaching threat.

Di Tian descended upon the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff and Yang Jian while Yang Jian was still fusing the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s soul rings. The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff shielded Yang Jian and prepared to face Di Tian as the Beast God’s overwhelming pressure cracked the ground.

• Thunder rolled across the Star Dou Great Forest as darkness spread through the sky and Di Tian descended.
• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff recognized Di Tian and recalled that even Bear Lord had defeated it in battle.
• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff saw that Yang Jian was still fusing the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s rings, with only three fully merged and a fourth beginning.
• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff stepped in front of Yang Jian, expanded its body, and unleashed its Domination Domain.
• Di Tian arrived overhead, and his dragon might weighed down the air and cracked the ground beneath the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff.

Di Tian confronted the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff for protecting Yang Jian after Yang Jian absorbed the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. When the Lion Mastiff refused Di Tian’s offer to step aside, Di Tian prepared to attack.

• Di Tian changed from dragon form into a man and recognized the scarred Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff as a soul beast that had escaped Bear Lord and reached the hundred-thousand-year realm.
• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff stood between Di Tian and Yang Jian and confirmed that it intended to stop him.
• Di Tian condemned the Lion Mastiff for protecting a human and demanded that Yang Jian be handed over because he had absorbed the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
• Di Tian offered the Lion Mastiff access to the Central Area and Soul Power-boosting tonics if it stepped aside, but the Lion Mastiff answered by advancing.
• Di Tian called the Lion Mastiff stubborn and formed a sphere of destructive black Soul Power in his palm.

Di Tian's expanding black sphere forced the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff to defend Yang Jian with its strongest attack. Their energies collided and unleashed a devastating shockwave, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Di Tian casually sent a black sphere toward the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff, and it grew to nearly a thousand meters wide.
• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff stayed in the sphere's path because Yang Jian was behind it and could not survive the attack.
• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff gathered all its Soul Power and fired a golden beam to weaken Di Tian's sphere and protect Yang Jian.
• The golden beam and black sphere clashed briefly before a destructive shockwave tore through the surrounding land.

The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff fought Di Tian’s black sphere while Yang Jian absorbed the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s power behind it. After the sphere overwhelmed the Mastiff, it used its last strength to protect Yang Jian’s patch of land, and its golden light still flickered beneath the darkness.

• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff’s golden pillar weakened Di Tian’s black sphere until the sphere’s outer energy was gone and its hundred-meter core remained.
• Di Tian’s black sphere pushed forward as the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff’s pillar crumbled, while Yang Jian absorbed the seventh golden ring.
• The sphere’s dark tendrils corroded the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff, but it stayed in place and refused to retreat.
• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff’s pillar vanished, and Di Tian’s sphere struck it and erupted into a torrent of darkness.
• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff concentrated its last power on its back to protect Yang Jian, and a faint golden light continued to resist the darkness.

Di Tian shrugged off the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff’s blood-essence-powered attack and advanced until he stood before the badly wounded beast. He ended its beam and told it to relax, leaving their confrontation poised for what he would do next.

• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff remained standing despite its severe wounds, while Di Tian expressed surprise that it had not fallen.
• The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff burned its blood essence and fired a powerful crimson-gold beam at Di Tian.
• Di Tian blocked the beam with his dragon-scaled claw and walked toward the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff without being pushed back.
• Di Tian clenched the beam until it burst into motes, then told the barely standing Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff, “Relax. It won't hurt at all.”