Chapter Summaries

Bibi Dong accused Meng Chen of being a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, but Ning Fengzhi, Dugu Bo, and Yu Yuanzhen defended him, bringing Spirit Hall and the upper three sects to the brink of battle. Amid the clash, Ye Xishui secretly took Meng Chen and Xiao Wu away, leaving Bibi Dong to abandon the fight.

• Meng Chen challenged Bibi Dong’s reliance on Yu Xiaogang’s unverified theories, and the crowd questioned the basis of her accusation.
• Ning Fengzhi, Dugu Bo, and Yu Yuanzhen testified that Meng Chen was not a transformed Soul Beast, with Yu Yuanzhen citing Meng Chen’s fifth Soul Ring from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect’s Thunder Hell Valley.
• Bibi Dong summoned six Titled Douluo and ordered Meng Chen and his defenders to remain in Spirit City, prompting the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Dugu Bo, and Yu Yuanzhen to stand against Spirit Hall.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei attacked, but Gu Rong blocked their strike while Ning Fengzhi’s support empowered the defenders.
• Dugu Bo released poisonous mist, and Ye Xishui used the chaos to take Meng Chen and Xiao Wu away.
• After Pufferfish Douluo absorbed the mist and Bibi Dong discovered the pair were gone, she suspected Ye Xishui and gave up continuing the fight.

After returning to Heaven Dou City, Meng Chen met with Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, who offered him protection and tried to recruit him. Meng Chen declined and chose to travel with Xiao Wu, leaving Xue Qinghe’s offer open for the future.

• Ye Xishui rescued Meng Chen and Xiao Wu from Spirit City, and Meng Chen returned to a warm welcome at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Xue Qinghe invited Meng Chen to the Crown Prince’s Residence and condemned Bibi Dong for sending elders after him.
• Meng Chen called Bibi Dong foolish and credited Heaven Dou’s leaders and consecrated masters with helping him, while Xue Qinghe questioned his account.
• Xue Qinghe asked Meng Chen to remain in Heaven Dou and serve the empire, but Meng Chen said he would travel with Xiao Wu.
• Xue Qinghe accepted Meng Chen’s decision, offered help if trouble arose, and told him the Crown Prince’s doors would remain open.

Meng Chen said farewell to his friends at Heaven Dou Academy and set out with Xiao Wu, first visiting the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to repay Ning Fengzhi for supporting him against Spirit Hall. He gave Ning Rongrong an immortal herb that could evolve her martial spirit, but she kissed him in gratitude, leaving Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing stunned.

• Meng Chen told Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling that he was leaving to travel with Xiao Wu, and they wished him well.
• Xiao Wu greeted Meng Chen with kisses, then learned he planned to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to fulfill a promise to Ning Fengzhi.
• Ning Fengzhi welcomed Meng Chen, who presented him with Aromatic Silk Beauty and explained that it could evolve the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Ning Rongrong to accept the herb, and Meng Chen urged her to eat it.
• Ning Rongrong kissed Meng Chen, took the Aromatic Silk Beauty, and thanked him, while Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing stood stunned.

Meng Chen brought Xiao Wu to the Star Dou Great Forest and revealed that he had long known she was a Soul Beast. He accepted her and confessed his feelings, leaving Xiao Wu relieved and teasingly frustrated by his cluelessness.

• Meng Chen led Xiao Wu deep into the Star Dou Great Forest, while Er Ming drove away nearby Soul Beasts.
• Meng Chen brought Xiao Wu to a glowing lake and told her he had chosen the place because they were there.
• Meng Chen revealed that he had known Xiao Wu was a Soul Beast since their time in Notting City.
• Meng Chen told Xiao Wu that her identity did not matter to him and that he liked her, and Xiao Wu cried with relief.
• Xiao Wu asked what Meng Chen meant by being openly together, but he misunderstood her and said they could continue as before.

Meng Chen broke through to Rank seventy after a month of cultivation in the Thunder Marsh and went with Xiao Wu, Da Ming, and Er Ming to hunt a hundred-thousand-year Thunder-Winged Golden Roc. With Da Ming and Er Ming restraining the beast, Meng Chen killed it and watched its scarlet Soul Ring condense.

• Meng Chen cultivated in the Thunder Marsh for a month while Xiao Wu kept him company, then broke through to Rank seventy, Quasi-Soul Saint.
• When Meng Chen announced he wanted to hunt for his seventh Soul Ring, Xiao Wu called Da Ming and Er Ming to take him to the Thunder-Winged Golden Roc.
• Er Ming carried Meng Chen to the roc, which blasted the ground with golden lightning and tried to flee, but Er Ming knocked it down and Da Ming and Er Ming restrained it.
• Meng Chen formed a long spear from Thunder Hell Vines and drove it through the Thunder-Winged Golden Roc's eye into its brain.
• The Thunder-Winged Golden Roc died, and a scarlet Soul Ring condensed above its body.

Chapter Summary: At Last, Soul Saint—External Soul Bone: Jiuxiao Thunder Wings

Key Plot Points and Events

• Meng Chen begins absorbing the Thunder-Winged Golden Roc’s 100,000-year Soul Ring.
• The absorption proves far more intense than that of the Thunder Kui’s Soul Ring. The energy feels like molten iron filling and scorching his meridians, while crimson lightning tears through his body.
• The Thunder-Winged Golden Roc’s remnant soul launches a powerful Soul Shock against Meng Chen’s mind. Having experienced this before, Meng Chen successfully protects his consciousness and withstands the attack.
• The remnant soul eventually dissipates, allowing Meng Chen to fully absorb the Soul Ring. His Soul Power rises dramatically, and the ring’s inherited abilities condense into his Seventh Soul Skill.
• Immediately afterward, Meng Chen experiences severe pain in his back. Two wing bones break through his skin and rapidly grow into a complete pair of six-meter-wide wings marked with golden lightning.
• Meng Chen discovers that the wings are an External Soul Bone. He can control them naturally, use them to fly at tremendous speed, and conceal them beneath his skin.
• He names the External Soul Bone Jiuxiao Thunder Wings, bringing his total number of Soul Bones to four:
  • Jiuxiao Thunder Wings
  • Thunder Hell Vine Whip
  • Thunder Kui Soul Bone
  • Blue Silver Emperor right leg bone
• In the God Realm, the God of Destruction celebrates Meng Chen’s progress and views him as an exceptionally promising potential heir. He eagerly awaits Meng Chen’s advancement to the seventh ring so he can begin the divine examination.
• The Asura God visits the God of Destruction’s castle and notices his interest in Meng Chen. The God of Destruction attempts to conceal the depth of his investment by claiming that Meng Chen is merely interesting because of his Thunder Hell Vine martial soul.

Character Developments

• Meng Chen demonstrates greatly improved endurance and mental strength by resisting the 100,000-year Soul Ring’s violent energy and Soul Shock.
• His successful absorption marks a major power increase and confirms his advancement to the Soul Saint level.
• The emergence of the Jiuxiao Thunder Wings significantly expands his combat and mobility capabilities, giving him true aerial superiority.
• Meng Chen becomes increasingly confident and delighted with his growing collection of powerful Soul Bones.
• The God of Destruction becomes more emotionally invested in Meng Chen, considering him an almost ideal successor and growing impatient to begin the divine inheritance process.
• The Asura God shows suspicion toward the God of Destruction’s unusual attention to a mortal.

Significant Themes

• Endurance and growth through suffering: Meng Chen’s advancement requires him to withstand extreme physical pain and spiritual attacks.
• Transformation and evolution: The Soul Ring does more than increase his Soul Power; it causes a dramatic bodily transformation through the birth of an External Soul Bone.
• Power and inheritance: Meng Chen’s achievements draw the attention of higher divine beings, foreshadowing a possible divine examination and succession.
• Concealed intentions and rivalry: The God of Destruction tries to hide his true plans from the Asura God, suggesting future tension within the God Realm.

Character Interactions

• Meng Chen, Da Ming, and Er Ming: Da Ming and Er Ming anxiously monitor Meng Chen during the dangerous absorption, worried that Xiao Wu would blame them if he were harmed. After the wings emerge, they are confused and amused, even wondering whether Meng Chen is becoming a “birdman.”
• God of Destruction and Asura God: The Asura God questions why the God of Destruction is observing Meng Chen. The God of Destruction gives a deliberately understated explanation, concealing his desire to make Meng Chen his heir.

Chapter Summary:

God King Inheritance Begins, Asura Cuts In

Key Plot Points and Events

• The God of Destruction claims that Meng Chen is not especially important, insisting that he only watches him because Meng Chen possesses a Thunder God bloodline martial soul—an ability closely related to destruction.
• Asura distrusts him and has repeatedly caught him secretly observing Meng Chen. After leaving the God of Destruction’s castle, Asura admits to himself that Meng Chen is exceptionally talented, improves rapidly, and has an outstanding temperament. He considers Meng Chen an even better inheritance candidate than Tang Chen.
• Wanting to claim Meng Chen before the God of Destruction begins his own divine trial, Asura devises a scheme to draw the God of Destruction away.
• Asura visits the Goddess of Life and falsely claims to possess a divine medicine that may allow her and the God of Destruction to conceive a child. In exchange, he asks them to help him find a suitable inheritor if the medicine works.
• Believing Asura’s offer, the Goddess of Life summons the God of Destruction, successfully removing him from Meng Chen’s side.
• Asura then reaches Meng Chen through a powerful spiritual connection while Meng Chen is asleep. Appearing as a dark crimson, armored figure with blood-red eyes, he claims to be Asura’s high priest rather than revealing his true identity.
• He tells Meng Chen that he meets Asura’s standards and offers him the chance to undergo Asura’s Divine Trial and inherit the Asura God King’s power.
• Meng Chen realizes that this inheritance fulfills one of the rewards he previously selected: the “God King Inheritance.” Although initially annoyed that it had taken so long to appear, he readily accepts.
• Asura subjects Meng Chen to overwhelming killing intent and soul pressure. Meng Chen’s Thunder Hell Vine manifests involuntarily but withstands the assault, impressing Asura.
• Asura places a dark crimson mark on the Thunder Hell Vine, officially initiating the divine trial. Meng Chen’s first task is to go to Slaughter City, kill freely, and obtain the Divine Slaughter’s Domain.

Character Developments

• Asura: Reveals himself as calculating, opportunistic, and willing to deceive other gods to secure a promising inheritor. His admiration for Meng Chen grows as Meng Chen withstands his killing intent. He is also anxious to act quickly before the God of Destruction can claim Meng Chen.
• God of Destruction: Continues secretly observing Meng Chen and appears deeply interested in his potential, despite denying it to Asura. He is easily diverted by the possibility of having a child.
• Goddess of Life: Her long-standing desire to conceive makes her receptive to Asura’s deception. She agrees to help him secure an inheritor.
• Meng Chen: Demonstrates strong mental resilience and spiritual potential by enduring Asura’s soul-level pressure. He accepts the inheritance without hesitation once he understands its connection to his earlier choice.

Significant Themes

• Rivalry and competition: Asura and the God of Destruction compete covertly over Meng Chen as a potential divine successor.
• Manipulation and deception: Asura exploits the Goddess of Life’s hopes to separate the God of Destruction from Meng Chen.
• Recognition of talent: Meng Chen’s rapid growth, temperament, and ability to endure divine pressure establish him as an extraordinary inheritance candidate.
• Destiny and delayed consequences: A choice Meng Chen made earlier—the God King Inheritance—finally begins to affect his life.
• Trials through slaughter: The coming Divine Slaughter’s Domain suggests that power and inheritance will be obtained through violence, endurance, and confrontation with the darker aspects of strength.

Character Interactions

• Asura confronts the God of Destruction about his interest in Meng Chen, but the latter dismisses the matter.
• Asura manipulates the Goddess of Life by offering a supposed fertility medicine in exchange for future assistance.
• The Goddess of Life’s request draws the God of Destruction away from watching Meng Chen.
• Asura contacts Meng Chen directly, disguising himself as a high priest and offering him the Asura inheritance.
• Meng Chen recognizes Asura despite his disguise, while Asura awkwardly denies his identity.
• Asura tests Meng Chen with killing intent, and Meng Chen’s resistance confirms his suitability as an inheritor.

Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Meng Chen regains consciousness after receiving Asura’s Divine Trial and finds Xiao Wu, Da Ming, and Er Ming worriedly waiting beside him.
• He explains that a god has chosen him to undergo a divine examination. Xiao Wu is visibly reluctant to see him leave, while Da Ming reacts with shock and envy, and Er Ming humorously worries that Meng Chen may retaliate for his past teasing.
• Meng Chen and Xiao Wu share an emotional farewell. She advises him to protect himself and remember her, then kisses him shyly while Da Ming and Er Ming deliberately look away.
• After leaving the Star Dou Great Forest, Meng Chen summons Ye Xishui, who jokingly complains that he only remembered her after parting from Xiao Wu. He asks her to train with him on the journey to Slaughter City.
• Meng Chen reveals that Slaughter City is a lawless prison for Evil Soul Masters where even Titled Douluo cannot use soul skills. Because combat there relies on Soul Power and physical techniques, he plans to improve his mastery of his Atlas Spear.
• During their journey, Meng Chen trains in spear techniques with Ye Xishui. After more than half a month, they reach the inconspicuous tavern that serves as Slaughter City’s entrance.
• Meng Chen orders a Bloody Mary, learns that it is human blood, and smashes the cup instead of drinking it. When a patron threatens him for insulting Slaughter City, Meng Chen instantly kills him with a lightning-infused spear formed from his Thunder Hell Vine.

Character Developments

• Meng Chen: Demonstrates determination to pursue divine power despite his attachment to Xiao Wu. He shows consideration by hiding Slaughter City’s dangers from her, but also reveals a ruthless and decisive side when confronted. His refusal to drink human blood highlights his personal limits and moral resistance, while his preparation with spear techniques shows his willingness to adapt to a place where soul skills are restricted.
• Xiao Wu: Displays deep affection and concern for Meng Chen. Though reluctant to part, she supports his ambitions and prioritizes his safety, revealing both emotional attachment and maturity.
• Ye Xishui: Continues to tease Meng Chen about Xiao Wu but remains dependable, agreeing to train him. She is impressed by his unexpected decision to destroy the Bloody Mary and appears protective of his moral character.
• Da Ming and Er Ming: React in contrasting but humorous ways—Da Ming envies Meng Chen’s opportunity to inherit a divine position, while Er Ming nervously fears future revenge for his past behavior.

Significant Themes

• Love and separation: Meng Chen and Xiao Wu’s farewell emphasizes their close bond and the pain of pursuing separate goals.
• Power and sacrifice: Meng Chen must leave those he cares about to pursue the divine trial, suggesting that greater strength requires personal sacrifice.
• Morality in a corrupt environment: His rejection of the Bloody Mary distinguishes him from Slaughter City’s violent culture and shows that he will not casually embrace its practices.
• Preparation and adaptability: Knowing that soul skills will be unusable, Meng Chen trains in physical combat and spear techniques before entering the city.
• Violence and survival: Slaughter City is introduced as a brutal, lawless place where hesitation is dangerous; Meng Chen immediately establishes himself as someone capable of responding decisively.

Character Interactions

• Xiao Wu, Da Ming, and Er Ming anxiously question Meng Chen about his divine trial.
• Meng Chen and Xiao Wu exchange playful but heartfelt remarks before sharing a farewell kiss.
• Ye Xishui teasingly expresses jealousy over Meng Chen’s attention to Xiao Wu, then becomes his traveling companion and combat instructor.
• At the tavern, Meng Chen clashes with the waiter and a hostile patron after destroying the Bloody Mary. He kills the patron instantly, declaring that villains who talk too much bring about their own deaths.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Meng Chen confronts a tavern full of Slaughter City patrons who attack him after he demands entry. He effortlessly kills them all with his Thunder Hell Vine.
• When the tavern keeper refuses to open the passage and insults Meng Chen, Meng Chen kills him as well, then destroys the bar and floor to reveal the entrance to Slaughter City.
• Before departing, Meng Chen asks Ye Xishui to watch over Xiao Wu. Ye Xishui embraces him and tells him to return safely.
• Inside the underground passage, Meng Chen encounters the black-armored guards of Slaughter City. Rather than waiting for the traditional challenge, he provokes them and asks who will test his qualification.
• The challenger is Dread Knight Don Quixote instead of the expected Scott. Don Quixote charges on horseback, but Meng Chen sidesteps and kills him with a single thrust of the Atlas Spear.
• The stunned guards acknowledge that Meng Chen has passed the test. Meng Chen loots Don Quixote’s armor and takes the skull plaque required for entry, amusing and bewildering the guards.
• Once inside Slaughter City, Meng Chen thrives in its brutal environment. He relies primarily on the Atlas Spear rather than the Thunder Hell Vine, using the city’s battles to refine his spear technique.
• After matches, groups of fighters repeatedly ambush him. Meng Chen initially uses the Thunder Hell Vine to survive, but gradually learns to defeat them almost entirely with the Atlas Spear. His body becomes covered in scars, while his combat ability improves dramatically.

Character Developments

• Meng Chen becomes increasingly ruthless, confident, and independent. He no longer bothers negotiating with people who obstruct him and responds immediately with overwhelming violence.
• His spear skills undergo major growth. He deliberately limits his use of powerful abilities so that he can hone his physical combat and mastery of the Atlas Spear.
• Despite his brutality, Meng Chen remains attached to those close to him, particularly Ye Xishui and Xiao Wu, as shown by his request that Ye Xishui protect Xiao Wu and his acceptance of her farewell embrace.
• Ye Xishui demonstrates affection and concern for Meng Chen. Her embrace and request that he return safely reveal a warm, protective relationship beneath her usual strength.
• Don Quixote is presented as a formidable-looking but ultimately inadequate guardian, dying from Meng Chen’s single attack.
• The black-armored warriors are shaken by Meng Chen’s abnormal behavior, especially his immediate looting of the corpse and his effortless victory.

Significant Themes

• Violence as a path to power: Slaughter City rewards those capable of surviving through killing, and Meng Chen quickly adapts to its lawless rules.
• Self-reliance and defiance: Meng Chen refuses to respect authority merely because it is backed by Slaughter City. He forces his own way inside rather than submitting to intimidation.
• Growth through hardship: By limiting his reliance on the Thunder Hell Vine, Meng Chen uses repeated battles and injuries to sharpen his spear technique and improve his combat instincts.
• Absurdity and dark humor: Meng Chen’s remarks about Don Quixote fighting the “windmill called life,” his disappointment at the knight’s weakness, and his casual looting of the corpse create humor amid the violence.
• Affection amid brutality: Ye Xishui’s farewell provides an emotional contrast to the cruelty of Slaughter City and reminds Meng Chen of the relationships waiting outside.

Character Interactions

• Meng Chen clashes with the tavern patrons and waiter, treating their threats and authority with contempt.
• Ye Xishui shares a brief but meaningful farewell with Meng Chen, showing mutual trust and concern.
• Meng Chen taunts the black-armored guards before the qualification test, reversing the expected power dynamic.
• His encounter with Don Quixote is brief and one-sided: Don Quixote follows the rules and charges, while Meng Chen kills him instantly.
• The surviving guards are intimidated and confused by Meng Chen’s behavior, ultimately conceding his entry into Slaughter City.

Chapter Summary: Enjoying Slaughter? First Slaughter Envoy Meng Chen

Key Plot Points and Events

• Meng Chen has become deeply acclimated to Slaughter City. He no longer feels pity for its victims and has adapted mentally and physically to its constant violence, killing intent, and poisonous atmosphere.
• He refuses to drink Bloody Mary, relying on willpower to resist the city’s madness and contamination. Instead of tracking time by days, he measures it by his victories in the Slaughter Arena and by how close he feels to losing his sanity.
• After repeatedly winning arena battles—including one in which he kills nine attackers surrounding him—Meng Chen attracts the attention of the King of Slaughter.
• The King’s envoy summons Meng Chen and leads him through the oppressive central tower of Slaughter City. Meng Chen remains calm and observant, interpreting the endless staircase as a test of patience and loyalty.
• The King of Slaughter offers Meng Chen the position of Slaughter Envoy, granting him authority second only to the King in exchange for carrying out tasks on his behalf.
• Meng Chen accepts, but insists on continuing to fight in the Slaughter Arena. To justify this unusual request, he pretends to take intense pleasure in slaughter, claiming that he “enjoy[s] slaughter.”
• Impressed—or convinced—by Meng Chen’s performance, the King appoints him the First Slaughter Envoy.
• After Meng Chen leaves, the female envoy questions whether he should have been recruited. The King explains that Meng Chen’s strength and apparent love of slaughter make him useful for protecting Slaughter City, especially because he appears unrelated to either of the existing Slaughter Gods.

Character Developments

• Meng Chen: His prolonged stay in Slaughter City has transformed him from someone capable of pity into a detached, highly controlled killer. He has learned to conceal his emotions, endure psychological pressure, and manipulate others through acting. Despite this transformation, he remains strategic and uses the envoy position to reduce the King’s suspicion while continuing to pursue his own goals.
• King of Slaughter: He recognizes Meng Chen as an unusually powerful and adaptable fighter. Rather than demanding personal devotion, he values practical strength and sees Meng Chen as a potential defender of Slaughter City.
• Female envoy: She is fiercely loyal to the King and reacts with indignation to Meng Chen’s lack of outward respect. His apparent bloodlust also makes her uncomfortable and suspicious.

Significant Themes

• Corruption through environment: Slaughter City gradually reshapes Meng Chen’s emotions, values, and sense of time, showing how prolonged exposure to violence can normalize brutality.
• Performance and deception: Meng Chen survives by hiding his true thoughts and convincingly acting like a bloodthirsty fanatic.
• Power and usefulness over loyalty: The King of Slaughter does not require genuine respect; he only cares whether Meng Chen can serve and protect the city.
• Resistance versus adaptation: Meng Chen resists Bloody Mary and mental contamination, yet he simultaneously adapts to the city’s murderous culture, creating tension between self-control and moral erosion.
• The pursuit of power: Both Meng Chen and the King seek to strengthen their positions—Meng Chen to advance his hidden objectives, and the King to prevent threats to Slaughter City.

Character Interactions

• The envoy gives Meng Chen the King’s summons and guides him through the tower, displaying unquestioning devotion to her ruler.
• Meng Chen maintains a calm, unreadable demeanor with her and interprets the journey rather than showing fear.
• During the audience, Meng Chen answers the King’s praise modestly, dismissing his victories as “good luck.”
• When the King offers him the envoy position, Meng Chen negotiates instead of submitting, securing permission to continue arena combat.
• His exaggerated display of bloodlust convinces the King that he belongs in Slaughter City, while simultaneously disturbing the female envoy.
• After Meng Chen departs, the envoy and King discuss his loyalty and usefulness, revealing the King’s intention to exploit Meng Chen’s strength while believing his apparent love of slaughter will keep him in the city.

After earning one hundred victories in the Hell Slaughter Arena over the course of a year, Meng Chen was summoned by the King of Slaughter to guide a newcomer. He welcomed Hu Liena to Slaughter City, warned her about Bloody Mary, and left her stunned by his irreverent response to her threat.

• Meng Chen explored Slaughter City's records and continued winning arena matches until he reached one hundred victories.
• The King of Slaughter ordered Meng Chen to welcome a newcomer and explain Slaughter City's rules to her.
• Meng Chen intimidated Hu Liena with his killing intent at the entrance, then withdrew it and led her into the city.
• Meng Chen explained the rules and warned Hu Liena that Bloody Mary was poisonous, while she grew curious about his apparent humanity.
• Hu Liena threatened to have Spirit Hall destroy Slaughter City, and Meng Chen baffled her by comparing that prospect to blowing up a toilet.

Meng Chen accompanied Hu Liena around Slaughter City during her newcomer protection period, where she proved she could defend herself and watched a deadly Hell Slaughter Arena match. As they headed toward the residential district, Hu Liena noticed a repaired seam in the passage wall, then suddenly attacked Meng Chen.

• Hu Liena baited an attacker into striking and killed him with a short sword while Meng Chen watched.
• Hu Liena persuaded Meng Chen to take her to the Hell Slaughter Arena, and he subdued a man to use as the entry fee.
• Meng Chen and Hu Liena watched a woman win a match by killing a burly hammer-wielding opponent with her short sword.
• Hu Liena asked to see where Slaughter City residents lived and spotted an unusual repaired seam in a passage wall.
• Hu Liena suddenly attacked Meng Chen as he came to inspect the seam.

Hu Liena tested Meng Chen with a surprise attack, then learned he had won a hundred matches in the Hell Slaughter Arena. Meng Chen demanded to challenge Hell Road, and the King of Slaughter opened it before the cheering crowd, dropping Meng Chen into the crimson abyss.

• Hu Liena attacked Meng Chen, but he dodged, restrained her, and warned her not to attack a Slaughter Envoy again.
• Hu Liena asked about Meng Chen's strength and identity, and he told her he was the only fighter of his level to compete in the arena and had won a hundred matches.
• Meng Chen left Hu Liena and went to the King of Slaughter to demand a challenge on Hell Road.
• The King of Slaughter resisted Meng Chen's request, but agreed after Meng Chen revealed that he knew Tang Hao and the sacrifice required to open Hell Road.
• The King of Slaughter announced Meng Chen's challenge to the crowd, whose blood formed a crimson bat as he cast Meng Chen into the abyss.

After entering Hell Road, Meng Chen discovered that the King of Slaughter had arranged for the bats to chew through the path while he was unconscious. He used his Jiuxiao Thunder Wings to fly toward the bat swarm and attacked it with his Thunder Hell Vine Whip, whose lightning was weaker than expected.

• Hu Liena watched Meng Chen disappear into Hell Road and realized the Slaughter Envoy might be as powerful as her teacher.
• Meng Chen regained consciousness on a stone platform above an abyss and heard distant sounds of chewing.
• Meng Chen found that the narrow path had been gnawed away and suspected the King of Slaughter had ordered the bats to sabotage his challenge.
• Meng Chen remembered his Jiuxiao Thunder Wings, spread them, and flew along the broken route.
• Meng Chen reached the bat swarm and struck it with his Thunder Hell Vine Whip, but its lightning had less power than it did outside Hell Road.

Meng Chen fought through the bat swarm and killed the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King, then overcame the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent despite a mysterious domain suppressing him and injuring his External Soul Bone. With the suppression gone, he passed through the white light and completed the first Asura Nine Trials trial, Divine Slaughter's Domain.

• Meng Chen fought through the endless bat swarm and killed the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King by severing all three heads at once.
• The Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's domain suppression forced Meng Chen from the air, injured him, and intensified the evil aura eroding his mind.
• Meng Chen used the Aromatic Silk Beauty to block the serpent's poisonous mist and bound the serpent with his Thunder Hell Vine.
• When the serpent launched its golden-red inner core, Meng Chen recalled the vines and killed it with the Atlas Spear, then caught the falling core.
• The domain suppression vanished after the serpent died, and Meng Chen entered the white curtain of light to complete Divine Slaughter's Domain, the first Asura Nine Trials trial.

Meng Chen faced the King of Slaughter, who used his Domain of Slaughter to try to force him into submission. Just as the King of Slaughter moved to kill him, Ye Xishui arrived and struck with the Clear Sky Hammer.

• Meng Chen woke to find a white marking on the Atlas Spear and confronted the King of Slaughter, who mocked him and admitted he had come to test his strength.
• The King of Slaughter unleashed his Domain of Slaughter, suppressing Meng Chen's Divine Slaughter's Domain and forcing him toward his knees.
• The King of Slaughter taunted Meng Chen about being Tang Hao's son, and Meng Chen forced himself upright despite coughing blood.
• The King of Slaughter increased the pressure and prepared to attack Meng Chen, but a Clear Sky Hammer crashed down and blasted a crater into the ground.
• Ye Xishui caught Meng Chen in her arms and glared at the King of Slaughter, warning him with her furious presence.

Ye Xishui rescued the injured Meng Chen after the King of Slaughter retreated, while the God of Destruction discovered that Asura had tricked him into losing Meng Chen as his successor. As the God of Destruction prepared to fight, Asura claimed Meng Chen could inherit both their godhoods and tried to explain how.

• The King of Slaughter withdrew after seeing Ye Xishui's nine Soul Rings, and Ye Xishui tended to Meng Chen and helped him recover.
• Ye Xishui supported Meng Chen as he left the Slaughter City, with Hammer Protector following behind.
• The God of Destruction realized that Asura's immortal herb had been a deception and saw Meng Chen obtain Divine Slaughter's Domain on a light screen.
• The God of Destruction confronted Asura and threatened to attack him with Destruction Divine Lightning.
• Asura proposed that Meng Chen inherit both his godhood and the God of Destruction's, and the God of Destruction stopped to hear his explanation.

Hu Liena searched for the man who had entered the Hell Road and found his residence occupied by a stranger. After the stranger told her the house had been empty for a long time, she feared the man had died on the Hell Road and grieved, leaving herself vulnerable to the stranger's renewed hostility.

• Hu Liena realized that the man should have returned from the Hell Road by now and went to his residence hoping to see him.
• A burly stranger opened the door and tried to grab Hu Liena, but she dislocated his wrists.
• Hu Liena demanded to know where the house's owner had gone, and the stranger said the house had been empty when he moved in.
• Hu Liena concluded that the man might have died on the Hell Road and became unresponsive with grief.
• The burly man saw Hu Liena's distraction and prepared to attack her with a scissor kick.

Hu Liena found the burly man dead and resolved to brave the Hell Road in Meng Chen’s place, while Meng Chen recovered under Ye Xishui’s care before returning to Star Dou Great Forest. He reunited with Xiao Wu at Life’s Lake, where she welcomed him through tears of joy.

• Hu Liena killed the burly man, found only his remains in his room, and returned to the Hell Slaughter Arena grieving his death.
• After defeating nine opponents, Hu Liena suspected the King of Slaughter had tampered with the Hell Road and vowed to complete the trial for Meng Chen.
• Ye Xishui made Meng Chen rest for another day before allowing him to travel with her toward Star Dou Great Forest.
• With Ye Xishui concealing their auras, Meng Chen entered Star Dou Great Forest without Da Ming or Er Ming noticing him.
• Meng Chen surprised Xiao Wu at Life’s Lake, and she ran into his arms crying with happiness before they teased each other.

Xiao Wu and Meng Chen shared their first kisses beside Life's Lake, while Tang San endured the attention of Clear Sky Sect's male disciples. The chapter left Tang San known throughout the sect as the Witch.

• Xiao Wu kissed Meng Chen, then grew embarrassed when he moved closer and teased her.
• Meng Chen kissed Xiao Wu deeply after demonstrating how to kiss, and she stomped on his foot before walking away.
• Meng Chen returned to cultivating beside Life's Lake instead of following Xiao Wu.
• Tang San walked through Clear Sky Sect as its male disciples stared at and followed him.
• Clear Sky Sect's men called Tang San the Witch after his repeated cold refusals of their attempts to approach him.