Chapter Summaries

Su Sanjia and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm traveled to the Far North to recruit the Ice Empress for Su Sanjia’s second martial soul. After Sky Dream Ice Silkworm offered her a chance at eternal life and warned that they would use force if she refused, the Ice Empress was left to decide whether to cooperate.

• Su Sanjia and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm arrived in the Far North, where Sky Dream Ice Silkworm revealed his million-year soul-beast aura to lure the Ice Empress.
• The Ice Empress emerged and accused Sky Dream Ice Silkworm of betraying soul beasts by becoming a human’s soul ring.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm introduced Su Sanjia as his host, revealing that Su Sanjia was fifteen years old and had level 87 Soul Power.
• Su Sanjia admired the Ice Empress, while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explained that he wanted her to join Su Sanjia’s second martial soul.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm promised the Ice Empress eternal life if she sacrificed herself and offered up the origin of her spiritual power, then warned that they would use force if she refused.

Ice Empress sacrificed herself to Su Sanjia, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm preserved her intelligence by fusing her spiritual origin with him. Su Sanjia gained Ultimate Ice and absorbed Ice Empress’s 400,000-year Soul Ring, reaching Level 88 as chaos spread through the Far North.

• Ice Empress questioned whether Sky Dream Ice Silkworm could preserve her intelligence, and he swore an oath before the Ice God.
• Su Sanjia rejected Ice Empress’s offer of a Soul Bone and asked her to pour its power into her Soul Ring instead.
• Ice Empress released her spiritual origin and sacrificed herself, creating a 380,000-year Soul Ring that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm fused into Su Sanjia.
• Su Sanjia gained the Ultimate Ice attribute and practiced Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Martial Soul Possession.
• Ice Empress’s Soul Ring gained a fourth golden pattern and reached 400,000 years, which Su Sanjia absorbed with ease.
• The Ice Jade Scorpion clan mourned, the Snow Woman flew toward Ice Empress’s vanished aura, and Su Sanjia opened his eyes at Level 88, sensing something extraordinary was coming.

Su Sanjia defeated the Titan Snow Demon King and met Snow Empress after Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explained what had happened to Ice Empress. Tian Meng offered Snow Empress a chance to survive by sacrificing herself to Su Sanjia, but she refused to leave the Far North, until A-Tai spoke up.

• Su Sanjia sensed the approaching Titan Snow Demon King and sent the giant soul beast flying with a single kick.
• Snow Empress arrived and demanded to know why Su Sanjia had entered the Far North and where Ice Empress was.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm emerged from Su Sanjia and explained the events, convincing Snow Empress that Su Sanjia was a god's heir.
• Tian Meng offered Snow Empress a chance at eternal life if she sacrificed herself to Su Sanjia and kept her consciousness.
• Snow Empress refused because she could not abandon her role as the Far North's king.
• A-Tai addressed Snow Empress, interrupting the discussion.

The Snow Empress agreed to sacrifice herself so Su Sanjia could pursue immortality, after naming A-Tai the new Lord of the Far North. Her spiritual origin joined Ice Empress's within Su Sanjia, and her soul ring helped him achieve the rank of Titled Douluo.

• A-Tai and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm persuaded the Snow Empress to seek immortality through sacrifice rather than face her coming tribulation.
• The Snow Empress named A-Tai the Lord of the Far North and bid farewell to her homeland and its soul beasts.
• The Snow Empress sacrificed her body to nourish the Far North and gave Su Sanjia her spiritual origin and nearly seven-hundred-thousand-year soul ring.
• The Snow Empress's spiritual origin settled beside Ice Empress's in Su Sanjia's sea of spirit, while her soul ring merged with his second martial soul, the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion.
• Su Sanjia's aura erupted across the Far North as he achieved the rank of Titled Douluo.

Su Sanjia reached level 90 at fifteen, then gathered seven soul rings for his Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion martial soul and rose to level 97. With his second martial soul complete, he prepared to leave the Far North and resume searching for the Heart of Freedom.

• After Su Sanjia reached level 90, he asked the Titan Snow Demon King to identify powerful Soul Beasts for his remaining soul rings.
• The Ice Bear King asked Su Sanjia to preserve his intelligence after death, and Su Sanjia agreed to reserve a soul ring for him.
• Over two months, the Ice Bear King guided Su Sanjia through the Far North, where Su Sanjia obtained four Hundred-Thousand-Year and three ninety-thousand-year Soul Beast rings.
• Su Sanjia completed nine rings for his Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion martial soul, reached level 97, and obtained three Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bones.
• Su Sanjia considered what title to take, then decided to leave the Far North to seek the ninth soul ring for his Radiant Light martial soul and resume searching for the Heart of Freedom.

Su Sanjia arrived at Slaughter City and slaughtered the tavern’s patrons after rejecting their Bloody Mary. He found the entrance to the city, killed the bartender, and stepped into the blood-red vortex.

• Su Sanjia entered a tavern outside Slaughter City and poured away the Bloody Mary offered by the bartender.
• When a scarred Soul Emperor named Xia Li attacked him, Su Sanjia decapitated him and killed the other patrons with physical techniques.
• Su Sanjia drank some Bloody Mary, then made the bartender reveal the scarlet vortex that led to Slaughter City.
• As Su Sanjia entered the vortex, he turned back and killed the bartender before leaving the tavern in ruins.

Su Sanjia embraced the sins of Slaughter City, believing its lawlessness would let him vent his darker impulses. After learning that strength ruled there, he killed the city’s guide and strode inside, ready to indulge in violence.

• Su Sanjia severed his divine sense and passed through the corrupting vortex into the barren land beneath a purple moon.
• At Slaughter City’s gates, the veiled guide gave Su Sanjia the identity token 9527 and offered to answer his questions.
• Su Sanjia asked whether the city had no rules, and the guide explained that strength mattered most, while black-armored guards enforced its protections.
• Su Sanjia declared that Slaughter City suited his desire to embrace sin, then attacked the guide and left her bleeding on the ground.
• Su Sanjia dismissed the restrictions on Soul Skills and Soul Bone skills, then swaggered into Slaughter City as its call to abandon restraint reached him.

Su Sanjia rampaged through Slaughter City's outer city, killing its inhabitants and defeating the guards who tried to stop him. The King of Slaughter set out to confront him, while the Bat King inside him sensed an ominous premonition.

• Su Sanjia slaughtered people across Slaughter City's outer city, destroying nearly a quarter of it.
• A guard captain and his enforcement squad arrived and sentenced Su Sanjia to death in the King of Slaughter's name.
• Su Sanjia killed the guards with laser beams, then ignored the captain's spear because his body was immune to physical attacks.
• Su Sanjia killed the guard captain in one move, frightening the evildoers and spreading news of his rampage through Slaughter City.
• The King of Slaughter heard about the massacre, flew into a rage, and went to confront Su Sanjia as the Bat King felt an ominous premonition.

Bibi Dong learned that Su Sanjia had likely entered Slaughter City and went to pursue him before he could obtain Divine Slaughter's Domain. Meanwhile, Su Sanjia ravaged the city and confronted the King of Slaughter, recognizing him as Tang Chen.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo reported that someone suspected to be Su Sanjia had been seen near the Dark Forest, and Bibi Dong concluded he was likely in Slaughter City.
• Bibi Dong left Yue Guan and Gui Mei in charge of the Papal Palace and set out to stop Su Sanjia from gaining Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• Su Sanjia destroyed half of Slaughter City's outer city while slaughtering its inhabitants and celebrated his growing Heart of Freedom.
• The King of Slaughter confronted Su Sanjia and attacked him with a Clear Sky Hammer.
• Su Sanjia avoided the blow, sat on the hammer, and identified the King of Slaughter as Tang Chen.

Su Sanjia confronted the King of Slaughter in Slaughter City, where Tang Chen drew on the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King and the city’s blood energy to attack him. Su Sanjia destroyed one bat phantom and evaded the King’s strikes, leaving their battle underway.

• Su Sanjia mocked Tang Chen’s slow attacks and said he had come to free the people suffering in Slaughter City.
• The King of Slaughter rejected freedom and unleashed a blood-red domain that drained blood from Fallen Soul Masters across the city.
• The King of Slaughter absorbed the collected blood energy, awakened the nine bat phantoms, and challenged Su Sanjia with power approaching Tang Chen’s peak.
• Su Sanjia fired a Laser that destroyed half of one bat phantom and caused it to explode.
• The King of Slaughter launched blood-red claw strikes and poisonous mist, but Su Sanjia dodged them as golden light and declared the King’s evil inferior to the brightest light.

Su Sanjia defeated the King of Slaughter, allowing Tang Chen to regain control of his body and awaken from the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King's possession. Tang Chen learned that the Clear Sky Sect had been destroyed by Su Sanjia, who then taunted him about the fate of its disciples.

• Su Sanjia used a series of powerful kicks to send the King of Slaughter crashing into a vast crater.
• The Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King's control faltered, and Tang Chen regained consciousness and steadied himself in midair.
• Tang Chen thanked Su Sanjia, explained that he needed to return to the Clear Sky Sect, and learned that Su Sanjia claimed to have destroyed it.
• Tang Chen attacked Su Sanjia in anger, but Su Sanjia dodged and urged him to ask what had happened to the sect's disciples.
• Su Sanjia joked that the Clear Sky Sect disciples were like furniture because the dead could not move, leaving Tang Chen panicked.

Su Sanjia toyed with Tang Chen through Slaughter City's outer city, slaughtering its inhabitants and confronting his own sin as a new power took root within him. Tang Chen acknowledged Su Sanjia as a worthy opponent and, despite the cost, prepared to fight him without soul skills.

• Tang Chen repeatedly attacked Su Sanjia with the Clear Sky Hammer, but Su Sanjia dodged every blow and mocked him while their fight devastated Slaughter City's outer city.
• Su Sanjia used Lasers and Observation Haki to hunt down the fleeing inhabitants, leaving no survivors in the outer city.
• Su Sanjia stopped dodging, embraced the blood-soaked slaughter as a ritual of freedom, and felt a new power begin to grow within him.
• Tang Chen recognized Su Sanjia's courage and challenged him to a decisive battle, declaring that one of them would die.
• Tang Chen shattered his first ten-thousand-year soul ring to strengthen his Clear Sky Hammer, then vowed not to use soul skills in Slaughter City.
• Su Sanjia and Tang Chen agreed to fight to the death under equal restrictions.

Su Sanjia and Tang Chen fought a catastrophic battle in the Slaughter City, each answering the other’s strongest attack with overwhelming force. Their clash destroyed much of the inner city and shattered the god’s restriction, leaving the fallen soul masters able to use their soul rings again.

• Su Sanjia met Tang Chen’s hammer strikes head-on, and Tang Chen praised the younger man’s immense physical strength before learning his name.
• Tang Chen unleashed the eighty-one strikes of Disorder Splitting Wind while Su Sanjia refused to dodge and prepared his own powerful technique.
• Tang Chen detonated two ten-thousand-year soul rings and launched his final hammer strike as Su Sanjia descended with Fist Bone: Galaxy Impact.
• Their attacks collided, devastating the inner city and causing the fallen soul masters to regain the use of their soul rings.
• Tang Chen laughed with exhilaration at facing Su Sanjia, while Wu Qiankun recognized Tang Chen as the strongest soul master he had encountered and saw that their battle had broken a god’s restriction.

Su Sanjia and Tang Chen fought for three days and nights, destroying Slaughter City and breaking its restrictions. Bibi Dong learned that Su Sanjia was battling the King of Slaughter and hurried to Slaughter City, hoping to kill him while he was weakened.

• Su Sanjia and Tang Chen fought hand-to-hand for three days and nights, with Tang Chen growing tired and falling behind.
• The battle destroyed Slaughter City’s inner city and broke its restrictions, allowing four escaped soul masters to flee into the Dark Forest.
• Bibi Dong arrived in the Dark Forest and killed three of the four brothers with venomous spikes.
• Bibi Dong questioned the survivor, who told her Su Sanjia had entered Slaughter City and was fighting the King of Slaughter.
• Bibi Dong killed the survivor and headed toward Slaughter City, intent on taking advantage of Su Sanjia’s battle with the King of Slaughter.

Tang Chen and Su Sanjia continued their bare-knuckle duel until Bibi Dong tried to kill Su Sanjia, prompting Tang Chen to drive her away. The two resumed their fight, with Tang Chen asking to be buried at the former site of the Clear Sky Sect if he died.

• Tang Chen and Su Sanjia traded punches, each refusing to back down as their duel neared its end.
• Bibi Dong arrived and attacked Su Sanjia with the Rakshasa Scythe, but Tang Chen blocked her strike with his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang Chen struck Bibi Dong with his ninth soul skill, Might of Clear Sky, and sent her flying away from the battlefield.
• Su Sanjia applauded Tang Chen, who dismissed his Clear Sky Avatar and challenged him to continue their duel.
• Tang Chen asked Su Sanjia to bury him at the former site of the Clear Sky Sect if he died, and Su Sanjia agreed.

Su Sanjia fought Tang Chen through a brutal battle that left both near death, while Bibi Dong abandoned her chance for revenge and fled to pursue godhood. Tang Chen and Su Sanjia detonated their soul rings in a final clash, and Tang Chen fell with one last request for Su Sanjia.

• Bibi Dong decided she could not risk fighting Su Sanjia and left, resolving to seek revenge after becoming the Rakshasa God.
• Su Sanjia struck Tang Chen down, but Tang Chen forced himself up and detonated his seventh, eighth, and ninth soul rings for one final attack.
• Su Sanjia revealed his million-year Sky Dream Ice Silkworm soul ring and detonated it as Tang Chen prepared to strike.
• Tang Chen and Su Sanjia exchanged their finishing blows, and both fell with grievous injuries as Tang Chen's life came to an end.
• Tang Chen asked Su Sanjia to deliver a message to Bo Saixi if he ever encountered her.

After defeating Tang Chen, Su Sanjia honored his request, destroyed the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King, and froze Slaughter City before setting out to hunt down the escaped Soul Masters. In the God Realm, the Asura God accepted the God of Freedom’s demand to rebuild his inheritance site after Su Sanjia ascended.

• Tang Chen died after asking Su Sanjia to deliver a shell to Bo Saixi and pass on his apology.
• The Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King tried to take over Tang Chen’s corpse, but Su Sanjia erased its consciousness and preserved Tang Chen’s body.
• Su Sanjia recovered by eating, then used his Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion to freeze Slaughter City and its ruins.
• Su Sanjia went to a nearby town to pursue the escaped Soul Masters, intending to prevent them from harming others.
• The God of Freedom told the Asura God that Su Sanjia had left and that the Asura God could rebuild his inheritance site after Su Sanjia ascended.

For two months, Su Sanjia had hunted the Fallen Soul Masters who escaped after Slaughter City was destroyed, protecting a remote border town from them. He met Qian Daoliu to ask Spirit Hall for help, and Qian Daoliu’s response left the offer of assistance unresolved.

• Su Sanjia had guarded the border town by hunting down escaped Fallen Soul Masters, though he feared some might have evaded him.
• Qian Daoliu entered the tavern and privately greeted Su Sanjia, marveling at how much his power had grown.
• Su Sanjia told Qian Daoliu that he had destroyed Slaughter City while fighting Tang Chen, and admitted the escape of the Fallen Soul Masters was his mistake.
• Su Sanjia asked Spirit Hall to help find the remaining Fallen Soul Masters and offered Qian Daoliu two jade boxes in gratitude.
• Qian Daoliu shook his head, signaling that Su Sanjia did not need to offer gifts, but leaving the request unanswered.

Su Sanjia left Qian Daoliu in charge of Slaughter City and traveled to the Clear Sky Sect to bury Tang Chen. By following the wind and facing his true heart, he completed the God of Freedom's second trial and awakened the divine artifact Heart of Freedom.

• Qian Daoliu refused Su Sanjia's Soul Bone reward and learned from Tang Chen's storage soul-tool ring that Tang Chen had died after their battle.
• Su Sanjia told Qian Daoliu he would return Tang Chen to the Clear Sky Sect, then left Slaughter City in Qian Daoliu's care.
• Su Sanjia buried Tang Chen on the Clear Sky Sect's highest peak and wondered what freedom remained for him to discover.
• Su Sanjia emptied his mind and drifted on the wind for nine days, remaining unmoved by dangers and worldly distractions.
• Su Sanjia completed the second trial, reached 100% compatibility, and awakened the Heart of Freedom after realizing it beat within his chest.
• Su Sanjia's divine rewards began to manifest as a Divine-bestowed Soul Ring descended and rapidly grew in age.

At sixteen, Su Sanjia completed his breakthrough to Rank 99 Limit Douluo, gained powerful Soul Rings and Soul Bones, and declared himself the Heavenly Radiance Douluo. After receiving the God of Freedom’s third trial, he decided to seek the Sky Temple and visit Spirit Hall to protect commoners’ path to advancement.

• Su Sanjia’s million-year Soul Ring transformed, his Soul Power rose to Rank 99, and he received two god-bestowed Soul Bones and more divinity.
• Su Sanjia reached the peak of his two martial souls and announced that he would be known as the Heavenly Radiance Douluo.
• The God of Freedom assigned Su Sanjia a trial to find the Sky Temple and challenge its guardian, and Su Sanjia suspected it might be near Star-Picking Mountain.
• Su Sanjia resolved to visit the Star Luo Empire to investigate the temple, then go to Spirit Hall and preserve its service to commoners.
• The next day, Su Sanjia arrived at Spirit City.