Chapter Summaries

Yu Xiaogang revealed a strength far beyond Bing Le’s expectations and brutally attacked him after Bing Le mocked him. As Yu Xiaogang tormented his captive, the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King watched a vision of him and began considering whether it could possess the powerful stranger who had opened Hell Road.

• Bing Le recognized Yu Xiaogang’s name and, believing him weak, mocked his cultivation and taunted him about the dangers of the Icebound Forest.
• Yu Xiaogang struck Bing Le with a technique called Hitting Someone Like Hanging a Picture, sending him crashing into a tree and breaking his bones.
• Yu Xiaogang told Bing Le that he had learned the technique through Transforming Strength and declared that Bing Le did not have the right to kill him.
• Inside a spiritual world, the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King watched an armored figure resemble Yu Xiaogang in a crystal bubble and felt an unexplained ache.
• The Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King recalled its survival after Wu Wudi defeated it and considered parasitizing the Soul Emperor who had opened Hell Road.

Yu Xiaogang returned to Lingyun City after two years, carrying a slaughterous aura and unstable mind after tormenting Bing Le. He met Ling Yi at the Martial Soul Research Institute, revealed he had become a seven-ring Soul Sage, and learned that Ling Yi recognized his Blood Shadow Demon Dragon advancement route.

• In the Spiritual Sea of Consciousness, the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King recognized Hannibal and invited him to make a deal.
• Yu Xiaogang used Luo San Pao to bite and kill Bing Le, savoring the revenge as his negative emotions overwhelmed him.
• One month later, Yu Xiaogang refused Yu Luomian's demand to return to the Jade Dragon Mountain Range and entered Lingyun City.
• Yu Xiaogang met Ling Yi at the Martial Soul Research Institute, where Ling Yi noticed his exhaustion, slaughterous aura, and unstable mental state.
• Yu Xiaogang revealed his seven Soul Rings and identified himself as a Soul Sage, but Ling Yi instead questioned his choice of the Blood Shadow Demon Dragon advancement route.

Ling Yi examined Yu Xiaogang’s new Slaughter God Domain and warned him that his unstable mental state made the Path of Slaughter dangerous. Yu Xiaogang rejected Ling Yi’s criticism and advice, left determined to prove himself, and Ling Yi hoped he would retain his true heart.

• Yu Xiaogang summoned Luo San Pao and displayed a Slaughter God Domain that Ling Yi judged stronger than Tang Hao’s from six years earlier.
• Ling Yi recognized the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King and Hannibal within Luo San Pao and inferred how Yu Xiaogang had gained his strength in Slaughter City.
• Ling Yi urged Yu Xiaogang to stop cultivating and recover, but Yu Xiaogang rejected the advice and accused Ling Yi of hypocrisy over his treatment of captive Soul Masters and Wolf Bandits.
• Yu Xiaogang declared that he would follow the Path of Slaughter and prove himself inferior to no one, while the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King quietly encouraged his defiance.
• Yu Xiaogang left Ling Yi’s room, and Ling Yi asked him to continue on his path while keeping his true heart.

After Yu Xiaogang rejected Ling Yi’s help, he sought another way to control his murderous impulses and considered asking Tang Hao for guidance. In a restaurant, Flender recognized him and offered to discuss a Dragon Claw Orchid, leaving Yu Xiaogang curious about its age.

• Ling Yi viewed Yu Xiaogang’s departure as an unexpected chance to study a slaughter-oriented cultivation path.
• Yu Xiaogang regretted rejecting Ling Yi but resolved not to turn back, and decided Tang Hao might help him control his mind.
• The Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King and Hannibal suppressed Yu Xiaogang’s killing intent after a bespectacled man confronted him in the street.
• Flender met Zhao Wuji, Shao Xin, Lu Qibin, and Li Yusong, refused to join Lingyun City, and left their gathering on sour terms.
• After spotting Yu Xiaogang at a restaurant, Flender approached him and offered a Dragon Claw Orchid; Yu Xiaogang asked how old it was.

Ling Yi and his companions sailed from South Call City aboard the Cloudsoarer to hunt the eighty-thousand-year Void Escaping Whale for Gu Rong’s ninth soul ring. They reached the Star Moon Islands and planned to scout Star Moon Lake Island ahead of the approaching Full Moon Tide.

• Zi Yaoshi reported that the Cloudsoarer was ready and that he had charted a relatively safe route to the Star Moon Islands, so Ling Yi chose to depart in two days.
• Ling Yi’s group boarded the Cloudsoarer at South Call City and set sail under Zi Yaoshi’s command.
• Ling Yi estimated a fifty-percent chance of success overall, explaining that the Void Escaping Whale might not appear, but that they had about a ninety-eight-percent chance of defeating it if it did.
• After twelve days at sea, the Cloudsoarer reached the Star Moon Islands, and Zi Yaoshi used a chart to recommend approaching Star Moon Lake Island by small boats.
• Ling Yi accepted Zi Yaoshi’s plan and assigned Mo Yuan and Yun Lan to investigate the Starlight Clam distribution with assistance from skilled sailors.

Ling Yi’s group trapped the Void Escaping Whale in a starlight-and-moonlight array and prepared it for Gu Rong’s use. The next day, Ling Yi began a ritual involving the whale’s corpse and four precious materials, but the chapter ended as the Holy Embryo gathered the elements’ spiritual forces.

• Ling Yi activated the God Sealing Array, binding the Void Escaping Whale in a net of light after Mo Yuan, Yun Lan, Zi Yaoshi, and the Viper Group’s sailors had repositioned the Starlight Clams and planted Blue Silver Grass.
• Ling Yi examined the trapped whale, then Gu Rong manifested his Bone Dragon and prepared to use the captive beast.
• Ling Yi carved a formation into a plaza, and Chen Xin and Gu Rong brought the whale’s ice-sealed corpse there the next day.
• Dugu Bo melted the ice and opened the corpse so its blood could flow through the formation, while Ling Yi placed a Blue Silver King, Deep Sea Silver Silver Mother, Molten Flame Crystal, and Cold Spring Water in the four circles.
• Ling Yi summoned Sun True Fire over the plaza; the materials and whale’s corpse began changing as the fire transformed them.
• The Holy Embryo gathered the spiritual forces of metal, wood, water, and fire and reached toward the island.

Ling Yi entered the Void Escaping Whale’s inner space, expanded and stabilized it with his martial arts, and used the whale’s body to enlarge it further. Three days later, he had begun shaping the space into an island world beneath a starry sky.

• Ling Yi vanished into the Void Escaping Whale’s inner space as five elemental lights flowed into the whale, leaving Chen Xin and Dugu Bo puzzled by his plan.
• Ling Yi used his Tri-Point Double-Edged Blade and Two Forms Fist to stabilize and expand the shrinking space, then set the Starlight Sapphire into the weapon as its eighth star.
• Ling Yi absorbed the Void Escaping Whale’s corpse into the space, expanding it and leaving behind whale glue and a torso Soul Bone before returning to the plaza.
• Zi Yaoshi spotted Ling Yi at the plaza after the others realized both he and the whale had disappeared into an unknown space.
• Three days later, Ling Yi stood atop an island he had formed inside the Star Sea Space as starlight and moonlight gathered into an illusory moon and stars above him.

Ling Yi used his understanding of the Yin-Yang Five Elements to create a small world and refine his Two Forms Fist, eventually awakening the Dragon Tiger Golden Pill within himself. He left his companions astonished by the transformation, then explained it in cryptic verse.

• Ling Yi opened a small world using the Void Escaping Whale’s inner space, the Starlight Sapphire, and the laws of the five elements, then used it to study the sun and moon.
• Ling Yi practiced Two Forms Fist at Lingyun City while Chen Jianjun and the others watched and examined the Lingyun Nine Heavens Diagram.
• Ling Yi combined solar and lunar power with the Five Qi Yin-Yang, causing dragon and tiger cries as the Dragon Tiger Golden Pill settled into his core and tempered his body.
• Ah Rou rushed into Ling Yi’s arms after catching his new fragrance, while Yang Shelly, Ah Yin, Liu Erlong, and the others gathered around him.
• Ling Yi recited a cryptic verse about refining the Five Elements and uniting Yin and Yang, and Yang Shelly told him to speak plainly.

Ling Yi reflected on his cultivation and developed a Human Immortal path by refining a Dragon Tiger Golden Pill within his body, which transformed his qi and blood toward an immortal physique. In Lingyun City, he displayed the Lingyun Nine Heavens Diagram for martial artists to study, hoping their insights would help him make its teachings easier to pass on.

• Ling Yi judged the Body Tempering Martial Path and Magnetic Field Rotation insufficient for his own advancement, then chose to pursue the Human Immortal Martial Path.
• Ling Yi used Star Sea Space as inspiration to create a method that took his body as a furnace and refined his Five Viscera Five Qi into a Dragon Tiger Golden Pill.
• The Dragon Tiger Golden Pill sublimated Ling Yi's qi and blood and began transforming his body toward golden flesh and jade bones.
• At Lingyun City's Grand Training Field, Gu Yiwang, Ni Xing, Mo Yuxiong, and Li Yang joked about their martial progress while studying the Jade Wall.
• Dugu Bo announced that the Jade Wall would remain available for three days, and Chen Xin organized groups of thirty to take turns comprehending it.
• Ling Yi watched from Green Cloud Mountain and hoped the younger martial artists' insights would help him simplify the Lingyun Nine Heavens Diagram into a teachable form.

Ling Yi awarded the winners of the first All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Unified Assessment and arranged for students to choose Lingyun City secret methods. He then reviewed the assessment’s shortcomings with academy leaders, while Bibi Dong and the other visitors toured Green Cloud Mountain and the City Lord Manor.

• Ling Yi presented the team battle, individual battle, forging, sculpting, and music winners with their prizes, then offered the other qualifying students Yellow Grade or Black Grade Secret Methods.
• Ni Xing led the top students eligible for Black Grade Secret Methods toward Lingyun City’s Library, while Ling Yi took the academy leaders to discuss improvements for the next assessment.
• Ling Yi concluded that the assessment had drawn too few top geniuses, focused too heavily on combat, and relied on prizes he had funded himself.
• Ling Yi welcomed Bibi Dong, Shui Qingyue, Lan Lan, Meng Shenji, and the others to Green Cloud Mountain and began a tour of the City Lord Manor.
• The visitors saw the Martial Arts Arena’s Stone Walls and Jade Walls, then continued their tour as Bibi Dong and Shui Qingyue focused their attention on Ling Yi.

Bibi Dong and the others visited Ling Yi’s study, where his calligraphy and books astonished them and stirred Meng Shenji and Xiao Baiyu’s curiosity. At the Grand Training Field, Yu Min challenged Ni Xing to test a secret method, and Ni Xing halted his spear just inches from Yu Min’s brow.

• Bibi Dong asked to see Ling Yi’s study, and Ling Yi readily welcomed her and the others inside.
• The visitors studied Ling Yi’s calligraphy and paintings; Meng Shenji sensed they could aid his cultivation, while Xiao Baiyu noticed books with remarkable titles.
• Ni Xing began teaching Yu Min the basics of Grizzly Bear’s Wrath, but Yu Min stopped practicing and proposed a spar.
• Ni Xing accepted Yu Min’s challenge, and both fighters summoned their Martial Souls before the watching students and instructors.
• Yu Min charged with his second Soul Skill, Demon Bear’s Wrath, and Ni Xing’s spear stopped three inches from his brow.

Ni Xing and Yu Min fought a brutal spar that left both badly injured, until Ni Xing’s Bronze Battle Spear pierced Yu Min and sent Ni Xing crashing into the Heaven Water Academy Team. At City Lord Manor, Ling Yi sensed the incident and unleashed his Blue Silver Domain, while Jiang Jiameng declared that she intended to kill Xue Ye for causing her sister’s death.

• Ni Xing and Yu Min traded fierce attacks, each suffering serious injuries as Ni Xing’s spear threatened Yu Min despite his Bear Armor.
• Dai Lin asked Nangong Yanxue whether they should stop the fight, but she said Lingyun City would not let the combatants suffer unchecked.
• Ni Xing’s Bronze Battle Spear pierced Yu Min’s chest, and Yu Min’s counterattack hurled Ni Xing into the Heaven Water Academy Team.
• Ling Yi sensed trouble from the Grand Training Field and summoned his Green Wood Blue Silver Emperor, releasing the Blue Silver Domain across Green Cloud Mountain.
• Jiang Jiameng told Meng Shenji that she had abandoned the name Little Meng and intended to kill Xue Ye to avenge her sister’s death.
• Ling Yi’s domain awakened a powerful aura of vitality throughout Green Cloud Mountain, shocking the people around him.

Ling Yi used the Blue Silver Domain’s All-Encompassing Phenomena to save Yu Min and Ni Xing and spread life force across Lingyun City. After hearing the reports, Qian Daoliu judged Ling Yi’s understanding of the life attribute to be extraordinary and said he was the person most likely to become a god.

• Nangong Yanxue and the Lingyun City guards tried to stabilize Yu Min and Ni Xing after they were gravely injured during the Grand Training Field incident.
• A giant azure figure rose from Green Cloud Mountain and carried Yu Min and Ni Xing away in its hand.
• Meng Shenji told Xue Ye that Ling Yi had used All-Encompassing Phenomena to draw on Blue Silver Grass across the Green Cloud Mountain Range and spread healing power throughout Lingyun City.
• Qian Daoliu explained to Qian Xunji how powerful Soul Masters could extend their attributes over wide areas, then estimated Ling Yi’s mental realm might rival Golden Crocodile’s.
• Qian Daoliu praised Ling Yi’s innovations and said he believed Ling Yi had the greatest chance on Douluo Continent of becoming a god.

Flender delivered sixteen unconscious captives to Yu Xiaogang, who used them in his experiments and demanded twice as many for the next batch. Flender questioned whether the captives were truly criminals, while Yu Xiaogang dismissed his doubts and revealed a blood-soaked chamber filled with a towering figure and Blood Essence Fruits.

• Flender exchanged three Blood Essence Fruits with Shi Nian for sixteen captives, whom Shi Nian controlled with his martial soul.
• Shi Nian discussed finding new targets and relocating his operation after the next delivery, while assuring his subordinate that their shares would be paid.
• Flender brought the sixteen captives to Yu Xiaogang’s stone house, where Yu Xiaogang’s experiment failed and spilled blood-colored liquid from a shattered vessel.
• Yu Xiaogang ordered Flender to tell Shi Nian to double the next batch, but Flender warned that Spirit Hall and Lingyun City’s Enforcement Teams might discover them.
• Yu Xiaogang insisted the captives were Fallen Soul Masters and Prohibited Martial Artists, then sent Flender to cultivate and led one captive into a hidden cave.
• Yu Xiaogang entered a chamber containing a giant blood-red figure in a Blood Pool and human-shaped pillars topped with Blood Essence Fruits.

Yu Xiaogang’s Blood Shadow Demon Dragon experiments failed again, while he concealed his true intentions from Luo San Pao’s three heads. In Spirit City, Demon Bear Douluo learned Yu Min would remain in Lingyun City and then heard that a breach had opened in the mountains north of the Land of Extreme North, prompting preparations to guard Snow Moon City.

• Yu Xiaogang dismissed the failed bloodline fusion and ordered Luo San Pao to try Blood Dragon Essence on another person, using Vampire Grass if it failed.
• Demon Bear Douluo angrily questioned Paul and Dai Lin about Yu Min’s decision to stay in Lingyun City, then listened as Dai Lin described the city’s benefits.
• Ghost Leopard Douluo arrived and told Demon Bear Douluo that a huge gap had been blasted through the snowy mountain range north of the Land of Extreme North.
• Ghost Leopard Douluo said the Pope and Grand Elder planned to send Fifth Elder Light Feather Douluo, Demon Bear Douluo, and himself to Snow Moon City to monitor the region and a nearby forbidden zone.
• Ghost Leopard Douluo asked to give Yu Min’s vacated slot to Lin Wei Cheng, explaining that Lin Wei Cheng had gained a secret technique and new insight into two opposing attributes.

Yu Min joined Ni Xing and their companions for a meal in Lingyun City, where he learned more about comprehending intent and received an offer of further training. At the City Lord Manor, Liu Erlong and Shui Qingyue successfully gained Fire Dragon and Ice Phoenix markings, and Ling Yi told Yang Shelly, Ah Yin, and Ah Rou to prepare themselves.

• Ni Xing explained that he could not teach Yu Min how to comprehend intent, but recommended that he seek guidance from Mo Yuxiong and learn from the bear forms.
• Yu Min invited Ni Xing and Mo Yuxiong, Li Yang, Chen Ningqi, Chen Zhishen, and Chen Tianqi to share a meal made from his Soul Beast ingredients.
• During the meal, Mo Yuxiong offered to give Yu Min private lessons in Violent Bear Crushes Stone and Grizzly Bear's Wrath, while Li Yang described Mo Yuxiong's expertise in bear-type intent.
• At the City Lord Manor, Liu Erlong and Shui Qingyue completed a cultivation ritual that left a Fire Dragon marking on Liu Erlong and an Ice Phoenix marking on Shui Qingyue.
• Ling Yi confirmed the ritual had worked and told Yang Shelly, Ah Yin, and Ah Rou to prepare themselves too.

Liu Erlong and Shui Qingyue advanced to level 67, while Ling Yi tried to guide Ah Rou, Ah Yin, and Yang Shelly in combining their wind, wood, and lightning powers but found that the attributes clashed. Three days later, Yu Min was sparring with Mo Yuxiong at the West City Grand Training Field and had to call for a rest.

• Liu Erlong and Shui Qingyue broke through to level 67, and each sensed that her martial soul had improved.
• Ah Rou blurted out that she progressed quickly through dual cultivation with Ling Yi, and Shui Qingyue was shocked to learn that Ah Yin was a level 81 Soul Douluo at thirty.
• Ah Rou, Ah Yin, and Yang Shelly summoned their martial souls and tried combining their wind, wood, and lightning powers, but the attributes repelled one another.
• Ling Yi explained that the women had not found a compatible point between their attributes and said he would continue deducing how to combine them.
• Three days later, Yu Min fought Mo Yuxiong in bear form at the West City Grand Training Field, was knocked back, and asked to rest while Li Yang teased him.

Ling Yi began a breakthrough in Blue Silver Valley, spreading his Blue Silver Domain across the continent and gathering vast Heaven and Earth Origin Qi. After the Dragon Tiger Golden Pill consumed his body and his second Martial Soul, Erlang, the Green Wood Blue Silver Emperor restored him, and he completed the Human Immortal Body.

• Ah Rou delivered the sealed Dark Demon Evil God Tiger to the Lake of Life and joined the others in guarding Ling Yi as he prepared to break through.
• Ling Yi expanded his Blue Silver Domain across Douluo Continent, drawing vitality from Blue Silver Grass and causing origin qi to converge on Blue Silver Valley.
• The Dragon Tiger Golden Pill consumed Ling Yi's qi, blood, and body until he appeared dead, then swallowed Erlang and returned to Ling Yi's ruined body.
• The Holy Embryo rooted the Green Wood Blue Silver Emperor on the golden pill, which nourished Ling Yi's flesh and rebuilt his body.
• Ling Yi opened his eyes with golden muscles and jade bones, completing the Human Immortal Body.

Ling Yi completed his Human Immortal Body transformation, condensed an eighth Soul Ring, and tested its power by turning Blue Silver Grass into armed soldiers. He discovered that his new All Plants are Soldiers skill could create and control hundreds of grass soldiers, but his mental strength limited how many he could direct at once.

• Ling Yi absorbed the ocean of origin qi, confirmed that the Blue Silver Grass bloodline had left his body, and revealed the Green Wood Blue Silver Emperor with seven Soul Rings.
• The Green Wood Blue Silver Emperor condensed Ling Yi’s eighth Soul Ring, which turned crimson as Yang Shelly, Ah Yin, Liu Erlong, and Ah Rou watched.
• Yang Shelly and the other three women approached Ling Yi, and Ah Yin raised a Blue Silver Cabin around them.
• More than two days later, Ling Yi used the red-patterned leaf on the Green Wood Blue Silver Emperor to grow a forest of Blue Silver Grass into humanoid soldiers.
• Ling Yi armed twelve hundred grass soldiers with spears, then merged four hundred into the remaining eight hundred after he found he could not control all twelve hundred effectively.

Tang Hao and his siblings visited Ling Yi after hearing he had become an Eight Ring Soul Douluo, but were shocked that his Eighth Soul Skill was not healing. They asked him to treat their father, Tang Zhen, and Ling Yi left without agreeing, focused on mastering his new skill and strengthening himself.

• Tang Hao reacted angrily when he learned Ling Yi's Eighth Soul Skill was not healing, and Tang Xiao and Tang Yuehua reprimanded him for his rudeness.
• Tang Xiao apologized to Ling Yi, and Tang Hao reluctantly thanked him after Ling Yi chose not to take offense.
• Tang Xiao and Tang Yuehua congratulated Ling Yi on reaching the Eight Ring Soul Douluo realm and asked him to treat their father, Tang Zhen, again.
• Ling Yi considered how Tang Zhen's recovery could shift the balance of power and decided that the timing depended on Lingyun City's strength.
• Ling Yi left to visit the Martial Soul Research Institute, intent on mastering All Plants are Soldiers and studying how it could enlighten straw men.