Chapter Summaries

Dugu Yan took the Man Faced Demon Spider’s corpse after Tang San killed it, prompting a dispute with the Shrek group over whether it might contain a soul bone. After dissecting the corpse and finding nothing, Dugu Yan suspected the External Soul Bone was hidden in Tang San’s soul ring and resolved to dig it out by force.

• Zhao Wuji and the Shrek Six Monsters helped Tang San kill the Man Faced Demon Spider so he could absorb its soul ring.
• While Tang San absorbed the ring, Dugu Yan stored the spider’s corpse, prompting Ning Rongrong, Oscar, and Dai Mubai to demand an inspection.
• Feng Xiaotian revealed his six soul rings and left with Dugu Yan and Meng Yiran after Dai Mubai challenged them.
• Zhao Wuji rebuked the Shrek students for provoking Dugu Yan, while Ning Rongrong insisted her grandfathers could recover any stolen soul bone.
• Dugu Yan dissected the spider’s corpse but found no soul bone and suspected the External Soul Bone was inside Tang San’s soul ring.

Dugu Lin gave Meng Yiran an immortal herb and entrusted Dugu Yan and Feng Xiaotian with Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bones before returning to Shrek’s group. There, he challenged Dai Mubai’s cowardice and urged Zhu Zhuqing to take control of her own fate, leaving Dai Mubai demanding a one-on-one fight.

• Dugu Yan told Dugu Lin that her negotiations had failed, and Dugu Bo decided to spare Tang San for now because Tang Hao’s whereabouts were unknown and Dugu Yan was still weak.
• Dugu Lin gave Meng Yiran the Blazing Sun Dragonblood Vine and warned the Dragon Duke and Serpent Grandmother to keep her out of public view while she absorbed it.
• After Meng Shu and Meng Yiran left, Dugu Bo gave Feng Xiaotian a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Boned Charming Rabbit head Soul Bone and Dugu Yan a Sky Azure Bull Python head Soul Bone to absorb while they awaited Dugu Lin’s return.
• Dugu Lin found Shrek’s group while Tang San was unconscious after absorbing his Soul Ring, and he questioned Dai Mubai about fleeing the Star Luo Empire and losing his brother in the succession struggle.
• Dugu Lin told Zhu Zhuqing to take control of her own fate, provoking Dai Mubai to release his martial soul and demand a one-on-one fight despite Zhao Wuji telling him to stand down.

Dugu Lin confronted Dai Mubai after Dai provoked him, overwhelming him with his Soul Power and demanding that he call him Dad. After Zhao Wuji realized Dugu Lin’s strength, Dai Mubai apologized and complied, while Zhu Zhuqing thanked Dugu Lin.

• Dugu Lin summoned his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor and forced Dai Mubai to his knees with his Soul Power.
• Dugu Lin revealed that he was a Level 74 Soul Sage, shocking Zhao Wuji and the Shrek students.
• Dugu Lin threatened to let Little Lin swallow Dai Mubai, and Zhao Wuji tried to intervene.
• Dugu Lin displayed his soul rings, including two hundred-thousand-year rings, and Zhao Wuji told Dai Mubai to apologize.
• Dai Mubai begged Dugu Lin to spare him, then called him Dad under pressure.
• Dugu Lin asked Zhu Zhuqing if she had seen what happened, and she thanked him.

Dugu Lin helped Zhao Wuji rescue Tang San after the Titan Giant Ape abducted him, but secretly removed Tang San’s Eight Spider Lances External Soul Bone first. He returned to camp with the bone, and Dugu Bo planned for Dugu Yan to absorb it after the Sky Azure Bull Python soul bone.

• The Titan Giant Ape seized Tang San, and Zhao Wuji asked Dugu Lin to help rescue him.
• Dugu Lin flew ahead, received the unconscious Tang San from the Titan Giant Ape, and secretly stripped out his Eight Spider Lances External Soul Bone.
• Dugu Lin healed Tang San and used his third soul skill to stage the Titan Giant Ape’s presence, allowing Zhao Wuji to rescue Tang San without a fight.
• Zhao Wuji brought Tang San back to the Shrek camp and led the group away from the forest.
• Dugu Lin returned to Dugu Bo with the Eight Spider Lances, and Dugu Bo said Dugu Yan should absorb it after the Sky Azure Bull Python soul bone.

After Feng Xiaotian and Dugu Yan absorbed their new soul bones, Dugu Lin helped Yan gain a soul ring and tested replacing his own soul bone by regenerating his leg with Nine-Heart Begonia. Feng Xiaotian then reported that reinforcements had arrived, and Dugu Bo prepared to switch Feng Xiaotian’s soul bone.

• Feng Xiaotian thanked Dugu Bo and Dugu Lin for the Hundred Thousand Year head soul bone, while Dugu Bo proposed lending him Dugu Lin’s Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone to help him absorb a stronger soul ring.
• Dugu Yan woke after absorbing her soul bone, showed Dugu Lin the Eight Spider Lances, and described her two soul bone skills; Feng Xiaotian also explained his new Void and Teleportation skills.
• Back at Ten Thousand Snake Valley, Dugu Yan hunted a thirty-thousand-year Four-Horned Heavenly Python Snake with Feng Xiaotian and reached level 64 after gaining Serpent-Python Heavenly Shield.
• At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Dugu Lin replaced his Blue Silver Emperor with Nine-Heart Begonia, cut off his right leg, and regenerated it with his first soul skill, losing one and a half Soul Power levels.
• Feng Xiaotian told Dugu Bo that his family and Godwind Academy had sent four Soul Douluo, fifteen Soul Sages, and fifteen Soul Emperors; Dugu Bo then began arranging the soul-bone switch.

Dugu Lin left for Slaughter City to gain Divine Slaughter's Domain before Tang San could pose a threat. After reaching the tavern entrance, he revealed his martial soul to intimidate its patrons and descended into the underground city.

• Feng Xiaotian learned that Dugu Lin had a second martial soul with two hundred-thousand-year soul rings and prepared to hunt the Snow Shadow Demon Wolf King.
• Dugu Lin told Dugu Bo he planned to enter Slaughter City, and Dugu Bo urged him to carry poison and healing items.
• Dugu Lin flew with Little Lin to Slaughter City and found five customers and the proprietress in its tavern.
• When a customer mocked him for asking for wine, Dugu Lin summoned Little Lin, which killed the man and frightened everyone in the tavern.
• The proprietress opened a hidden passage, and Dugu Lin stepped down into Slaughter City.

Dugu Lin entered Slaughter City, learned its rules, and claimed a room by having Little Lin kill its occupant. He then registered for a Hell Slaughter Arena match on his first day, surrendering his newcomer protection once he stepped onto the stage.

• Dugu Lin entered Slaughter City and discovered that Soul Skills and externally released Soul Power were suppressed, while martial souls could still be used.
• The Slaughter Envoy assigned Dugu Lin the number 1099 and explained the city's rules, including the twelve-hour newcomer protection and the dangers of the inner city.
• Dugu Lin entered the inner city, found a room, and had Little Lin kill its occupant when the man threatened him.
• Dugu Lin poisoned the area around his room to deter intruders, then went to the Hell Slaughter Arena.
• Dugu Lin registered for a match despite being warned that registration would end his newcomer protection.

Dugu Lin fought his first deathmatch in the Hell Slaughter Arena and survived by killing the other nine contestants. Afterward, he entered the waiting area for his next match and considered how opponents might use tricks or gang up on him.

• Dugu Lin entered the arena with nine other contestants as the host announced that only one could survive.
• Dugu Lin dodged a chained-blade attack, used another attacker as a shield, and killed the two men with kicks.
• An evil soul master killed a contestant who had threatened Dugu Lin, then attacked Dugu Lin and had his skull smashed by a knuckle duster.
• Dugu Lin killed one of the final two contestants after dodging lime powder, then slit the last man's throat with a blade.
• The audience cheered as Dugu Lin won his first deathmatch, and he went to the waiting area for his next match, wary of ambushes and opponents joining forces.

Dugu Lin survived his first days in Slaughter City, earned the name Blood-Handed Butcher, and discovered Hu Liena had arrived far earlier than expected. After saving her from attackers, he nearly died when she mistook him for an enemy, leaving him newly wary of trusting anyone in Slaughter City.

• Dugu Lin drank Bloody Mary and found that it eased his nerves and helped restore his mental power and Soul Power.
• Dugu Lin killed seven opponents in the third match and named himself the Blood-Handed Butcher after his first three matches left twenty-seven people dead.
• Ten days after arriving, Dugu Lin spotted Hu Liena fighting in the arena and followed her after she killed the Soul Masters who pursued her.
• Dugu Lin approached the collapsed Hu Liena, but she nearly slit his throat before recognizing him and fainting.
• Dugu Lin took the unconscious Hu Liena to his residence, where she woke beside the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor and thanked him before leaving.

Du Gu Lin agreed to work with Hu Liena and challenge Hell Road together after learning she had entered Slaughter City to catch up with him. As his victories mounted, Bloody Mary and the accumulated killing intent began to erode his composure, and he was left badly injured after his ninetieth match.

• After Du Gu Lin won his fourth arena match, Hu Liena apologized for their earlier misunderstanding and asked him to cooperate.
• Hu Liena said she had reached Soul Power Level fifty-one and had entered Slaughter City because she wanted to surpass Du Gu Lin and gain a talent domain.
• Du Gu Lin agreed to partner with Hu Liena, and she moved into the room beside his the next day.
• After fifty and then seventy consecutive victories, Du Gu Lin noticed that Bloody Mary and the killing intent were making him increasingly bloodthirsty and cruel.
• In his ninetieth match, two Soul Douluo evil soul masters severely injured Du Gu Lin, and Hu Liena cared for him through the night.

Dugu Lin and Hu Liena reached one hundred consecutive victories in Slaughter City and demanded to take the Hell Road trial rather than accept the Slaughter King's honorary title. Dugu Lin suspected the Slaughter King was resisting because the trial required a sacrifice, and he wanted to begin before the king could obstruct them.

• Dugu Lin woke beside Hu Liena, who said she had chosen to be with him despite Slaughter City's magnified desires and her fear they might never meet again.
• Three months later, Hu Liena and Dugu Lin used poison to kill their opponents in their final Hell Slaughter Arena matches and achieved one hundred victories.
• The Slaughter King appeared before the cheering crowd and offered Dugu Lin and Hu Liena the title of Slaughter God, allowing them to leave Slaughter City without taking the Hell Road.
• Hu Liena rejected the offer and said they wanted to pass the Hell Road trial and obtain Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• Dugu Lin asked the Slaughter King to open the Hell Road, suspecting the king was avoiding a trial that required a High Priest's sacrifice.

Dugu Lin and Hu Liena entered Hell Road after the King of Slaughter sacrificed the arena spectators to open it. They faced a vampire bat swarm, which Dugu Lin drove off with tons of poison, and continued deeper into the increasingly hot passage.

• The King of Slaughter turned the arena spectators into sacrifices and opened Hell Road for Dugu Lin and Hu Liena.
• Hu Liena awoke at Hell Road’s starting platform overwhelmed by killing intent, and Dugu Lin gave her a tranquilizer to calm her.
• Dugu Lin and Hu Liena set out along the narrow stone path above magma, noticing that the heat and danger increased as they advanced.
• When vampire bats flew toward them, Dugu Lin gave Hu Liena an antidote, a gas mask, and poison powder to help repel the swarm.
• Dugu Lin and Hu Liena scattered several tons of poison, weakening most of the bats and forcing the survivors to retreat before they continued onward.

Dugu Lin and Hu Liena continued along Hell Road, where Dugu Lin revealed that Little Lin was his martial soul and defeated the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King. Near the end of the path, they encountered a Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent, whose inner core Dugu Lin believed could help Little Lin condense a Soul Core.

• Dugu Lin told Hu Liena that Slaughter City might be an independent space connected to a godly inheritance, though passing Hell Road might only grant access to a trial.
• A Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King attacked, and Dugu Lin summoned Little Lin, who knocked the bat into the lava before merging back into Dugu Lin.
• Hu Liena realized Little Lin was Dugu Lin's detached martial soul, then continued onward with him as the heat and blood scent intensified.
• Hu Liena grew exhausted and emotionally unsettled, but took tranquilizer and calmed herself before they resumed their journey.
• Dugu Lin and Hu Liena encountered a Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent coiled around a massive pillar, and Dugu Lin decided to claim its inner core to help Little Lin condense a Soul Core.

Dugu Lin and Little Lin defeated the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent in the lava, while Dugu Lin revealed his ties to Spirit Hall to Hu Liena. The serpent unexpectedly left behind a Soul Ring and a roughly seventy-thousand-year torso Soul Bone, and Dugu Lin claimed both its inner core and the Soul Bone.

• Little Lin fought the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent in the lava, and Dugu Lin told Hu Liena that he and Little Lin were immune to ice and fire.
• Dugu Lin revealed that he was the mysterious seller of Spirit Hall’s medicinal herbs and had joined Spirit Hall, leaving Hu Liena delighted that they could stay together openly.
• As the poisoned Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent formed a golden inner core and launched it at Little Lin, Dugu Lin blocked the attack with his god-grade External Soul Bone and seized the core.
• Little Lin dragged the dying serpent into the lava and returned with its body, while Dugu Lin knocked Hu Liena unconscious when the Hell Road’s influence overwhelmed her.
• Dugu Lin discovered that the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent had formed a Soul Ring and extracted a roughly seventy-thousand-year torso Soul Bone.

Dugu Lin and Hu Liena escaped Slaughter City, but Spirit Hall elders Yue Guan and Gui Mei tried to take Dugu Lin to meet the Pope. Dugu Lin refused and revealed his powerful cultivation as he prepared to face them.

• Dugu Lin rejected the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's seventy-thousand-year soul ring, stored its remains, and carried Hu Liena toward the exit.
• Dugu Lin and Hu Liena emerged from Hell Road, where killing intent invaded Dugu Lin before he later awoke on grass beside the still-unconscious Hu Liena.
• Yue Guan and Spirit Hall members arrived, and Yue Guan helped Hu Liena awaken; Dugu Lin gave her a Flowing Gold Iris Orchid immortal herb before trying to leave.
• Yue Guan said the Pope wanted to see Dugu Lin, while Gui Mei blocked his way; Hu Liena pleaded with them to let Dugu Lin go and said he had secretly joined Spirit Hall.
• Dugu Lin refused to accompany Yue Guan and Gui Mei, summoned his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor, and revealed seven soul rings, including two hundred-thousand-year rings, shocking Yue Guan and leaving Hu Liena disheartened.

Dugu Lin fended off Yue Guan and Gui Mei, then returned to Spirit Hall with Hu Liena, who confessed her love for him to Bibi Dong. Bibi Dong rejected the match because Dugu Lin served the Worship Hall, but resolved to keep Hu Liena from suffering the separation she had endured.

• Dugu Lin used his dual domains, a clone, and the threat of Snow-Colored Swan's Kiss to make Yue Guan and Gui Mei withdraw.
• Hu Liena hugged Dugu Lin, apologized for the elders' actions, and returned with them to Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong welcomed Hu Liena back after she passed through Hell Road, and Hu Liena asked to be punished for interfering with the elders.
• Hu Liena confessed that she loved Dugu Lin and that they had consummated their marriage in Slaughter City.
• Bibi Dong refused to approve their relationship because Dugu Lin belonged to the Worship Hall, then vowed not to let Hu Liena be separated from her beloved.

Dugu Lin returned to Heaven Dou City struggling to control the Divine Slaughter's Domain, then discussed Tang San's progress and tournament plans with Dugu Bo. At Moonlight Pavilion, he confronted Tang Yuehua over the nobles' abuses and ended by threatening her.

• Dugu Lin returned to Heaven Dou City and recognized that the Divine Slaughter's Domain was disturbing his emotions and aura.
• Dugu Bo welcomed Dugu Lin home, tested the Divine Slaughter's Domain, and told him Tang San had reached rank thirty-nine after joining Shrek Academy.
• Dugu Lin and Dugu Bo discussed Tang San's likely breakthrough and made detailed plans for the Soul Master Tournament.
• Dugu Bo went to the Crown Prince's Residence to arrange tournament matchups while Dugu Lin visited Moonlight Pavilion.
• Dugu Lin criticized Tang Yuehua for excusing the nobles' abuses, then released the Divine Slaughter's Domain and ordered her to serve him as he bathed or die.

Dugu Lin used his killing intent and knowledge of Tang Yuehua’s ties to the Clear Sky Sect to coerce her, and rumors about them spread through Heaven Dou City. He returned to the Soul Master Tournament, where the promotion matches began with Shrek Academy facing Blazing Fire Academy.

• Dugu Lin revealed that he knew Tang Yuehua supported the Clear Sky Sect and that Tang San had arrived in Heaven Dou City, then threatened their safety to make her serve him.
• Dugu Lin forced Tang Yuehua to prepare his bath and pulled her into the tub, while promising not to target Moonlight Pavilion or Tang San.
• Half a month later, Moonlight Pavilion closed off its rear courtyard, and a rumor spread that Dugu Lin had forced himself on Tang Yuehua.
• A second rumor revealed that Yu Xiaogang had married and lived with his cousin Liu Erlong, scandalizing the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• The Soul Master Tournament promotion matches began with Shrek Academy facing Blazing Fire Academy, and Dugu Lin returned to the spectator stands.
• Dugu Yan questioned Dugu Lin about Tang Yuehua and warned him against taking risks like his trip to Slaughter City.

Dugu Lin explained his behavior around Tang Yuehua to Ye Lingling before watching Tang San reveal a ten-thousand-year fourth soul ring and defeat two Blazing Fire Academy opponents. The chapter left Huo Wushuang poisoned by Tang San’s mixed poison as his team conceded the match.

• Dugu Lin told Ye Lingling that his Divine Slaughter's Domain had made his killing intent dangerous and that Tang Yuehua had been injured by it.
• Tang San shocked the spectators by revealing a ten-thousand-year fourth soul ring, and Dugu Bo explained that Tang San had endured the absorption by force.
• Tang San defeated Huo Lie with Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and Mysterious Jade Hand after dodging his attack.
• Huo Wushuang fought Tang San, but Tang San revealed that Blue Silver Grass had scratched him and infected him with a mixed poison.
• Tang San warned Huo Wushuang that circulating Soul Power would spread the poison, and Blazing Fire Academy's team leader conceded the match.

Huo Wu revealed herself as a level-51 Soul King and fought Tang San, overwhelming his Blue Silver Grass with her fire abilities. She unleashed her fifth Soul Skill and blasted Tang San into a corner, leaving the match’s result unannounced.

• After Huo Wushuang lost to Tang San, Huo Wu comforted her brother and stepped onto the arena to fight Tang San.
• Huo Wu revealed that she was a level-51 Control-Type Battle Soul King, shocking Yu Xiaogang and the spectators.
• Tang San used Blue Silver Grass and hidden weapon techniques to briefly suppress Huo Wu, while Yu Xiaogang and Flender praised his performance.
• Huo Wu used her fifth Soul Skill, Heavenly Fire Meteor, and blasted Tang San into a corner after he dodged several falling flames.
• Huo Wu confidently asked the referee to announce the result and called for the next opponent.