Chapter Summaries

Hu Liena tried to recruit Fang Yuan into Spirit Hall after seeing the power of his Level-Seven Soul Ray Gun, but he refused to commit and rejected the idea of bringing his people into the faction. As Fang Yuan and Hu Liena continued along Hell Road, he suspected that its final trial had already begun.

• Fang Yuan used a Level-Seven Soul Ray Gun, shocking Hu Liena and convincing her that he could overpower opponents even where soul skills were forbidden.
• Hu Liena revealed that she was the Spirit Hall Pope's disciple and a likely future Holy Maiden, then invited Fang Yuan to join Spirit Hall.
• Hu Liena offered to recruit Fang Yuan's relatives and friends too, but Fang Yuan said his people wanted peace and would not join.
• Hu Liena realized Fang Yuan had not ruled out joining himself, but he said he would not casually enter an unfamiliar faction, leaving her unable to finish her appeal.
• Fang Yuan and Hu Liena resumed their journey, and Fang Yuan told her that he thought the final trial of Hell Road might already have begun.

Fang Yuan explained how the Blood Sea’s evil aura tested their ability to control their killing intent, then revealed a Flying Soul Tool to carry Hu Liena across the submerged path. The chapter ended as its propulsion lifted them toward the exit.

• Fang Yuan warned Hu Liena that the rising heat and evil aura were stirring her killing intent, making the third trial more dangerous than the first two.
• Hu Liena realized Fang Yuan’s mental-control lessons had helped her resist the aura and thanked him for teaching her.
• Fang Yuan and Hu Liena found the path ahead submerged beneath the Blood Sea, with nearly a thousand meters separating them from the exit.
• Fang Yuan took a Flying Soul Tool from his Storage Soul Tool, secured it to his back, and pulled Hu Liena into his arms.
• Fang Yuan activated the Flying Soul Tool, and its propulsive energy carried them into the air.

Fang Yuan and Hu Liena escaped Slaughter City through Hell Road and each obtained the Divine Slaughter's Domain. Afterward, Fang Yuan declined Hu Liena's invitation to join Spirit Hall for now, promising they would meet again.

• Fang Yuan explained that his Flying Soul Tool could carry Hu Liena at high speed, then flew with her toward Hell Road's exit.
• Fang Yuan and Hu Liena passed through the white light together, and Fang Yuan awakened outside Slaughter City with the Divine Slaughter's Domain within him.
• Hu Liena awoke and realized she had also obtained the Divine Slaughter's Domain after crossing Hell Road with Fang Yuan.
• Hu Liena thanked Fang Yuan and asked him again to join Spirit Hall, but Fang Yuan declined for now and promised they would meet again.

Fang Yuan left Hu Liena and returned to his Immortal Aperture, where he collected a newly completed Soul Tool Mecha and began studying the Divine Slaughter's Domain. After eight months of seclusion, his Soul Power reached level ninety, leaving him ready to seek his ninth Soul Ring.

• Hu Liena asked Fang Yuan to reveal his true face, but he refused and flew away.
• Fang Yuan entered the Central Continent Soul Guidance Technology Research Center and received an experimental Humanoid Soul Tool Mecha.
• Fang Yuan traveled to Little White Heaven and began modifying the Divine Slaughter's Domain into a domain of his own.
• Fang Yuan secluded himself in Little White Heaven to research and cultivate for eight months.
• Fang Yuan reached the threshold of level ninety Soul Power and prepared to obtain his ninth Soul Ring.

Fang Yuan perfected the Fourfold Regret Blood Refining Pool, a domain that refined living beings, objects, and energy into power. He planned to obtain his ninth Soul Ring, infiltrate Spirit Hall as Liu Guanyi, and visit his disciples.

• Fang Yuan tested his Divine Slaughter's Domain on a Two-Winged Tiger and weakened the Soul Beast with his killing intent.
• Fang Yuan activated the Fourfold Regret Blood Refining Pool, which absorbed the tiger's attack and refined the Two-Winged Tiger into energy.
• Fang Yuan explained that he had built the domain by combining his Regret Gu, Divine Slaughter's Domain, and knowledge from his previous life.
• Fang Yuan recognized that his two domains would help him survive another enemy siege and believed his strength now neared the continent's peak.
• Fang Yuan planned to obtain his ninth Soul Ring, assume the name Liu Guanyi to infiltrate Spirit Hall, and visit his disciples.

Tang San discovered that his mother Ah Yin had vanished from her grave and feared Tang Hao had neglected her. Fang Yuan comforted him and took him to a Blue Silver Grass plain, where he was about to reunite him with his mother.

• Tang Hao praised Tang San for completing the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer test and took him to see his mother.
• Tang Hao revealed that Ah Yin had been a hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor, and Tang San found her grave empty.
• Tang Hao blasted apart the mound and rushed away to search for Ah Yin, leaving Tang San behind.
• Tang San suspected that Tang Hao had neglected Ah Yin and was grieving when Fang Yuan appeared.
• Tang San told Fang Yuan what had happened, and Fang Yuan transported him to a plain covered in Blue Silver Grass.

Tang San reunited with his mother, Ah Yin, in the form of the Blue Silver Emperor and asked her about the events surrounding her sacrifice. Her account revealed that she had received no nourishment while unconscious, leading Tang San to suspect she had been kept in a barren cave.

• Tang San recognized the Blue Silver Emperor as his mother and ran to embrace her, weeping as she gently comforted him.
• Fang Yuan stood with Tang San and Ah Yin as Ah Yin manifested an almost lifelike human form, and the family reunited.
• Tang San asked Ah Yin to recount what happened in the past, then questioned her about where she had been after sacrificing herself for Tang Hao and before Fang Yuan transplanted her.
• Ah Yin said she had no memories of that period because she had been too weak and had received no energy replenishment.
• Tang San clenched his fists and suspected Ah Yin had been kept in the dark, dry stone chamber he had seen, with almost no sunlight or nutrients.

Tang San reconsidered Tang Hao’s past conduct after Fang Yuan framed his neglect as a consequence of his expulsion from the Clear Sky Sect. Tang San then questioned whether Tang Hao had exposed Ah Yin to Spirit Hall, leaving Ah Yin unable to dismiss the suspicion.

• Fang Yuan defended Tang Hao’s change in behavior by pointing to his hardships and urged Tang San to help him return to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang San concluded that Tang Hao had begun training him after learning he had awakened the Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul.
• Tang San asked Ah Yin about Spirit Hall finding her shortly before she gave birth and noted that her Blue Silver Grass abilities should have concealed her aura.
• Tang San reasoned that Ah Yin had stayed hidden while Tang Hao went out for supplies, suggesting Tang Hao may have exposed her.
• Ah Yin could not offer a convincing explanation, and Fang Yuan calmed them both and suggested discussing the matter later.

Tang San considered bringing Fang Yuan and his mother, Ah Yin, together but decided to leave the choice to his teacher. That night, black-clad attackers failed to kill two Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect sentries, and their assault escalated into a full attack on the sect.

• Tang San thought Fang Yuan and Ah Yin suited each other, but remembered Xiao Wu’s feelings for his teacher and chose not to interfere.
• Several black-clad men ambushed two Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect patrol disciples, but pale yellow Soul Tool Shields protected them from the blades.
• One sentry fired a signal, and the attackers’ soul skills failed to break through the shields before the disciples used Level-Five Fixed-Mounted Soul Cannon Shells against them.
• The explosion injured the sentries and badly wounded the ambushers, while the two disciples fled toward the sect’s castle.
• The black-clad elder realized the ambush had failed, but reinforcements charged up the mountain to assault the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Bibi Dong questioned Spirit Hall’s leaders after the failed attacks on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect, then recognized that Tang Sect Soul Tools had helped foil the operation. Spirit Hall had failed to destroy either target and had exposed its ambitions, leaving Bibi Dong to face the consequences.

• Bibi Dong ordered Mirror Elder to explain how the assault on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had failed.
• Mirror Elder said the strike teams failed to eliminate the patrols, and the sect’s powerful Soul Tools inflicted heavy losses during the frontal attack.
• Mirror Elder admitted that reinforcements had been diverted from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect operation, allowing more than half its members to escape.
• Bibi Dong examined a damaged Soul Tool shield taken from a patrol disciple and realized that Tang Sect equipment had helped defeat Spirit Hall’s attack.
• Bibi Dong reflected that Spirit Hall could not yet manufacture comparable Soul Tools and that the failed operations had exposed its ambitions.

Bibi Dong considered Spirit Hall’s defeat and saw Liu Guanyi as a chance to improve its Soul Tools, while confirming the operation’s next phase was underway. In the Star Dou Great Forest, Fang Yuan spotted Hu Liena’s team with four Title Douluo and wondered why Spirit Hall had come to hunt there.

• Bibi Dong reflected on the Tang Sect’s advantage in Soul Tools and hoped Hu Liena could recruit Liu Guanyi to strengthen Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong judged the first phase of the Spirit Hunt Operation a failure but said Hu Liena and four elders were progressing with its second phase.
• Fang Yuan visited the Tang Sect and Heaven and Earth One Family Great Love Academy, then learned Xiao Wu had returned to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Fang Yuan used the Star Eyes Immortal Gu to find Hu Liena’s group, led by Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan and accompanied by Demon Bear Douluo, Ghost Leopard Douluo, and Ghost Douluo Gui Mei.
• Fang Yuan wondered why Spirit Hall had sent four Title Douluo into the forest, since Xiao Wu’s identity had not been exposed and Bibi Dong was not there to hunt Daming and Erming.

Fang Yuan disguised himself and set up a camp along Spirit Hall’s route through the Star Dou Great Forest. When Spirit Hall’s Soul Saints approached, he ambushed them with Soul Ray Guns, injuring several of them.

• Fang Yuan used Attitude Gu to disguise himself and teleported to a spot ahead of Spirit Hall’s group.
• Fang Yuan and three Myriad Self phantoms built a camp, where Fang Yuan killed and roasted a nearby Soul Beast.
• Fang Yuan spotted Spirit Hall’s approach with Star Eyes Immortal Gu and warned the group not to come closer.
• Spirit Hall’s Soul Saints ignored Fang Yuan’s warning and stepped within range of the camp.
• Fang Yuan remotely fired four Level-Seven Soul Ray Guns at the Soul Saints, wounding several of them.

Fang Yuan, concealed as Liu Guanyi, used Soul Tools and Divine Slaughter’s Domain to fight off Ghost Leopard Douluo, who had attacked his camp. Just as Fang Yuan prepared a barrage, Hu Liena arrived and called for the fighting to stop.

• Ghost Leopard Douluo arrived and intercepted the Soul Ray Guns’ shots, then demanded to know whether Fang Yuan’s group came from the Heaven Dou Empire or the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Fang Yuan denied belonging to either group, and Ghost Leopard Douluo attacked him after suspecting he was hiding his identity.
• Fang Yuan spread Divine Slaughter’s Domain, slowing Ghost Leopard Douluo and revealing that he possessed a domain capable of affecting a Titled Douluo.
• Fang Yuan escaped Ghost Leopard Douluo’s strike using metal wings, then aimed an array of weapons at him from above.
• Hu Liena arrived, unleashed her own domain, and urgently ordered everyone to stop fighting.

Hu Liena recognized Liu Guanyi fighting Ghost Leopard Douluo and rushed to stop the elder from harming him. When Hu Liena and Liu Guanyi’s Divine Slaughter’s Domains merged, they reunited, though Liu Guanyi remained wary.

• Hu Liena recognized Liu Guanyi’s Soul Ray Gun and Divine Slaughter’s Domain in the battle, then hurried toward him and ordered Ghost Leopard Douluo not to harm him.
• Xie Yue and Yan wondered why Hu Liena had activated her domain and intervened in the fight.
• Hu Liena reached the clearing and saw Fang Yuan using ranged attacks to keep Ghost Leopard Douluo from approaching, while neither fighter had gained the upper hand.
• Hu Liena’s Divine Slaughter’s Domain merged with Fang Yuan’s domain, leaving her and Ghost Leopard Douluo astonished.
• Fang Yuan stopped his Soul Tools and asked whether Hu Liena was there, but stayed in the air with his Flying Soul Tool active, and Hu Liena felt hurt by his wariness.

Hu Liena tried to calm Liu Guanyi after Spirit Hall’s forces attacked him, but Yan’s insults reignited the conflict. Hu Liena ordered her allies to stand down, and Liu Guanyi lowered his weapon and descended to talk.

• Hu Liena apologized to Liu Guanyi and asked him to come down, while Xie Yue and Yan realized who he was.
• Liu Guanyi challenged Hu Liena’s claim that the attack was a misunderstanding, and Yan insulted him and demanded that he remove his mask.
• Liu Guanyi fired a Soul Tool cannon blast at Yan, and Ghost Leopard Douluo intercepted it.
• Demon Bear Douluo, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Ghost Leopard Douluo tried to suppress Liu Guanyi, but his fused Divine Slaughter’s Domain withstood their auras.
• Hu Liena ordered the three Titled Douluo to withdraw and told Yan to leave, after which Liu Guanyi withdrew his domain and descended.

Fang Yuan agreed to a ceasefire with Spirit Hall’s group but demanded that Yan leave, prompting Hu Liena to remove him from the operation. As night fell, Spirit Hall set up camp beside Fang Yuan, who had weakened their force by arranging for Yan to depart with ten Soul Saints.

• Hu Liena approached Fang Yuan after he put away his Soul Tools and praised his abilities.
• Fang Yuan demanded that Yan leave before he would discuss a ceasefire, and Hu Liena invoked her authority as Spirit Hall’s Holy Maiden to have Yan removed from the team.
• Yan agreed to leave the Star Dou Great Forest at dawn under the escort of ten black-clad Soul Saints, while Xie Yue avoided intervening.
• Xie Yue spoke privately with Hu Liena, who asked Fang Yuan whether Spirit Hall’s group could camp beside him for the night.
• Fang Yuan reluctantly allowed the group to set up camp and share his campfire, and Hu Liena sat beside him.

Fang Yuan deduced that Spirit Hall had come to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and agreed to travel with them temporarily. The next morning, Spirit Hall sent Yan away under escort while the rest of the group continued into the forest.

• Fang Yuan guessed that Hu Liena and the four Titled Douluo were hunting a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and Hu Liena's reaction confirmed it.
• Ghost Douluo told Fang Yuan he had to stay with the group so he would not alert their target, and Fang Yuan agreed on the condition that he was not helping or joining Spirit Hall.
• Hu Liena told Ghost Douluo that Bibi Dong had ordered her to recruit Liu Guanyi, embarrassing him after he had said Spirit Hall would not compete for Fang Yuan.
• At dawn, ten healthy Soul Saints escorted Yan away, while the injured Soul Saints remained with the group as it continued through the Star Dou Great Forest.

Fang Yuan learned why Spirit Hall had tracked Xiao Wu and traveled with Hu Liena’s team into the Star Dou Great Forest. When Xiao Wu appeared beside the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python, four Titled Douluo attacked the Soul Beasts and prepared to capture her.

• Fang Yuan learned that Spirit Hall suspected Xiao Wu was a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and had sent four elders to capture her.
• Fang Yuan and Hu Liena’s team advanced toward the Lake of Life in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• The Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python appeared, with Xiao Wu standing on the Titan Giant Ape’s shoulder.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan ordered the four Titled Douluo to split into pairs, hold off the Soul Beasts, and seek a chance to capture Xiao Wu.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo confronted the Titan Giant Ape, whose Gravity Control Domain slowed them, and Chrysanthemum Douluo deflected its fist with his Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.

Fang Yuan and Hu Liena fused their Divine Slaughter's Domains to counter the two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts' domains and aid Spirit Hall's elders. Their support shifted the aerial battle in the elders' favor, while Xiao Wu watched Fang Yuan with hatred.

• The Sky Azure Bull Python activated its Sky Azure Slowing Domain alongside its Gravity Control Domain, weakening Spirit Hall's fighters on the ground and in the air.
• Fang Yuan suggested that he and Hu Liena fuse their Divine Slaughter's Domains, recalling that they had merged before.
• Fang Yuan and Hu Liena activated their domains, and the fused domain offset more than half the beasts' domain effects.
• Fang Yuan flew into the air and expanded the fused domain across the battlefield, strengthening the four elders while slowing the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape.
• Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo praised Fang Yuan's ability and discussed recruiting him into Spirit Hall, while Xiao Wu glared at him in hatred.

Fang Yuan engineered a sudden ambush during the battle between Spirit Hall and the two great soul beasts, then revealed himself after restoring his body. His identity shocked both sides as the fight stood on the brink of the Chrysanthemum Ghosts’ fusion skill.

• Xiao Wu proposed attacking Fang Yuan, but the Titan Giant Ape refused and tried to strike him while he evaded with his soul tools.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape began to lose ground against the Spirit Hall elders and prepared to escape.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo began their Nether Domain of Absolute Static, while the other elders restrained the Sky Azure Bull Python.
• Fang Yuan used the distraction and his domain to prepare a phantom, then detonated his Divine Slaughter's Domain and injured Hu Liena through their linked domains.
• Fang Yuan restored himself with the As Before Immortal Gu and appeared beside the injured Liu Guanyi, who accused him of an ambush.
• The people on the battlefield recognized Fang Yuan, and he greeted the Spirit Hall members.