Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan left Vast Sea City for Slaughter City with Little Yin after sending Zi Ji to the Star Dou Great Forest, while Bald Whale and Little Whale joined his growing circle of followers. At Slaughter City’s entrance, Chen Fan and Little Yin were given Bloody Mary before entering.

• Chen Fan named the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King Bald Whale and his wife Little Whale, then told them to pray to him if they faced an enemy they could not defeat.
• Bald Whale revealed to Zi Zhenzhu that Chen Fan was the Lord of Darkness, and she began preparing to sail around the world.
• After returning to Vast Sea City, Chen Fan agreed to let Zi Ji visit the Star Dou Great Forest while Little Yin stayed with him.
• Chen Fan and Little Yin left for Slaughter City, where Chen Fan intended to find Tang Chen and obtain the Asura Sword for his Synthesis Platform.
• At the entrance to Slaughter City, Chen Fan and Little Yin were offered Bloody Mary; Chen Fan drank his cup, and Little Yin tasted hers but disliked it.

Chen Fan protected Little Yin from Slaughter City's entrance test, then used his Darkness Domain and shadow figures to kill the attackers. After entering the city, he learned its rules and considered what to do with its violent inhabitants while planning to find Tang Chen and obtain the Asura Sword within a week.

• Chen Fan smashed the Bloody Mary instead of letting Little Yin drink it and declared that he alone would decide whether she could enter Slaughter City.
• A group of Soul Masters attacked Chen Fan and Little Yin, but his Darkness Domain absorbed their Soul Skills and summoned three black shadows that killed them.
• The bartender accepted Chen Fan's strength and led him and Little Yin into Slaughter City, explaining its rules and how contestants could leave.
• Chen Fan asked about the King of Slaughter and learned he would appear for someone who won one hundred consecutive matches, but Chen Fan said he had only a week to find Tang Chen and obtain the Asura Sword.
• Little Yin suggested exterminating Slaughter City's inhabitants if they could not be saved, while Chen Fan considered transforming the city or wiping everyone out to prevent chaos.

Chen Fan explored Slaughter City with Little Yin, then used his Soul Skills and Dark Power in the Asura Arena to challenge its rule and declare himself its new master. As a blood-red killing domain spread across the arena, King of Slaughter appeared and headed toward them.

• Chen Fan and Little Yin explored Slaughter City, where Little Yin defeated attackers in the outer city and Chen Fan found no sign of King of Slaughter Tang Chen.
• After registering at a hotel, Chen Fan noticed something in the distance and told Little Yin he had a plan for the next day.
• Chen Fan entered the Asura Arena, manifested the Book of Darkness, and used Soul Skills despite the city's restrictions to kill his opponents.
• Chen Fan declared himself the new master of Slaughter City, struck a defiant spectator, and used Dark Power to terrify much of the crowd.
• A blood-red killing domain erupted above the arena, and King of Slaughter appeared and sped toward Chen Fan and Little Yin.

Chen Fan defeated and controlled the King of Slaughter, discovering that Tang Chen was trapped inside the body and could only be purified with Sea God's Light. After deciding to leave Slaughter City's residents to their own devices, Chen Fan planned to take Tang Chen to Sea God Island, but a sudden killing intent shook the city and woke everyone.

• Tang Chen appeared as the King of Slaughter, and Chen Fan fought him using his Darkness Domain.
• Little Yin used plants to sense the battle while Tang Chen's consciousness began to awaken, but Chen Fan realized darkness could not purify him.
• Chen Fan subdued Tang Chen with a giant hand and placed a mark on him, then told Slaughter City's residents to disperse.
• Chen Fan and Little Yin discussed whether to recruit or kill Slaughter City's residents, and Chen Fan chose to leave them alone.
• Chen Fan planned to take Tang Chen to Sea God Island for purification and then have him lead the Clear Sky Sect.
• An intense killing intent erupted from the inner city palace, shaking Slaughter City and waking Chen Fan, Little Yin, and the residents.

Chen Fan and Xiao Yin encountered a Shura-connected god who confronted them over disrupting Slaughter City, and Chen Fan easily overpowered him. The youth unleashed a god-bestowed soul skill as Slaughter City felt the disturbance, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Chen Fan reassured Xiao Yin that he could protect and revive her, and they left the hotel with Tang Chen after sensing the disturbance.
• A cold youth in a blood-red robe appeared and accused Chen Fan of disrupting his Shura territory.
• The youth attacked Chen Fan with his giant sword, but Chen Fan caught it between two fingers and struck him with a dark figure, sending him flying and making him vomit blood.
• The youth recognized Chen Fan's powerful faith power and attacked again, but his blade light could not harm Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan declared that the youth had earned his death, then a small black hand seized the youth by the throat as he unleashed a god-bestowed soul skill that shook Slaughter City.

Chen Fan killed the intruder in Slaughter City, escaped with Little Yin and Tang Chen, and returned to Sea God Island. There, Bo Saixi agreed to serve only Chen Fan, who began strengthening her with a Darkness Mark, while he prepared to address a weapons robbery in the Star Luo Empire.

• Chen Fan killed the young man who attacked him in Slaughter City and took his blood-red divine sword.
• Chen Fan controlled Tang Chen to open the King of Slaughter's exit passage, and the three of them left Slaughter City.
• Tang Yuehua told Chen Fan that someone had robbed the Clear Sky Sect's weapons base in the Star Luo Empire, and Chen Fan said he would investigate.
• Chen Fan brought Tang Chen to Sea God Island, where Bo Saixi used the Sea God's Light to cleanse him.
• Bo Saixi told Chen Fan that she would serve only as his High Priest, and he placed a Darkness Mark on her to strengthen her Martial Soul.

After helping Bo Saixi evolve and spending time with Little Yin on Sea God Island, Chen Fan completed the mission to turn the island’s Sea God believers toward the Lord of Darkness. The system rewarded Chen Fan and his followers, while a new mission appeared on the map of Hell.

• Chen Fan helped Bo Saixi evolve her Martial Soul into powerful Yin Water, and she wondered whether he valued her loyalty or had feelings for her.
• Little Yin asked Chen Fan to cultivate their relationship, then spent time with him as they explored Sea God Island together.
• Bo Saixi entered seclusion after reaching level one hundred, gaining greater strength and freedom from the Sea God’s authority.
• Chen Fan received notice that the Sea God Island mission was complete, along with one hundred million Faith Power and rewards for the Sea God, the High Priest, the Guardian, and ordinary believers.
• Chen Fan questioned how the Sea God could evolve without a Darkness Mark, then saw that a first mission had appeared on the map of Hell.

Chen Fan planned to use the Dark Core in a Super Divine Artifact, then met with Bo Saixi and learned that Tang Chen was nearly recovered. After Tang Chen awoke, Chen Fan demanded the Asura Sword, but Tang Chen refused to hand it over.

• Chen Fan learned that collecting the Hell Core would earn him the Dark Core, and planned to embed it in a weapon forged by fusing the Sea God Trident and the Asura Sword.
• Bo Saixi asked Chen Fan whether he had given her the God-bestowed Soul Ring, shared her cultivation progress, and said Tang Chen needed a few more days to recover.
• Bo Saixi used Sea God's Light to restore Tang Chen, who awoke on Sea God Island and realized that Bo Saixi had changed and no longer welcomed his affection.
• Chen Fan told Tang Chen that he had rescued him from Slaughter City and demanded the Asura Sword.
• Tang Chen admitted his trial had failed but refused to surrender the sword, telling Chen Fan to take the trial himself if he wanted it.

Chen Fan took control of Tang Chen, claimed the Asura Sword, and fused it with the Sea God Trident into the Yinming Sunshrouding Blade. After testing the weapon and considering a future Hell Core quest, he sensed trouble and hurried to Bo Saixi and Tang Chen.

• Tang Chen rejected Chen Fan’s help and insisted he could free himself, but Bo Saixi rebuked him for mocking the man who rescued him.
• Chen Fan threatened Tang Chen with the Clear Sky Sect’s fate, and Tang Chen stopped resisting and summoned the Asura Sword, which Chen Fan took.
• Chen Fan ordered Tang Chen to return to the Clear Sky Sect after speaking with Bo Saixi, and Bo Saixi left with Tang Chen to talk privately.
• Chen Fan fused the Sea God Trident and Asura Sword through the Synthesis Platform, creating the Yinming Sunshrouding Blade.
• Chen Fan tested the blade’s blood-red and dark powers, then considered obtaining a Dark Core to forge a weapon suited to Zi Ji.
• Chen Fan sensed an unstable aura, followed it, and found Bo Saixi and Tang Chen.

Chen Fan ended Tang Chen’s hopes with Bo Saixi and traveled to Gengxin City, where he confronted the obstacles the Star Luo Empire had placed in the Clear Sky Sect’s way. He gave Titan and Lou Gao materials for making array-based Soul Tools and demonstrated how runes could empower an ordinary weapon.

• Bo Saixi told Tang Chen that their relationship was over and left with Chen Fan, while Tang Chen blamed Chen Fan and imagined that he had forced Bo Saixi into their relationship.
• Chen Fan bid farewell to Bo Saixi, then traveled with Little Yin toward Gengxin City carrying the Yin Nether Sun-Shrouding Saber.
• Chen Fan recalled how a prince of the Star Luo Empire had robbed weapons, killed Clear Sky Sect members, and suppressed Titan’s blacksmithing operation.
• Chen Fan found Titan and met Divine Craftsman Lou Gao at the Blacksmith Association, where he presented materials about magic arrays and Soul Tool construction.
• Chen Fan inscribed runes into an array and embedded it in an ordinary weapon, demonstrating how even a low-level Soul Master could use it to unleash greater power.

Chen Fan introduced Soul Tools and Soul Pillars to Tai Tan and Lou Gao, promising to handle the Star Luo Empire’s pressure while they learned the craft for the Darkness God Cult. After reuniting with Xiao Wu and Little Yin in Gengxin City, he learned that Shrek had reached the competition finals and considered how Zhu Zhuqing and Dai Mubai could help secure the Star Luo Empire for his followers.

• Chen Fan demonstrated Soul Tools and Soul Pillars to Tai Tan and Lou Gao, who recognized their potential to transform the status of craftsmen.
• Chen Fan told Tai Tan and Lou Gao to learn the craft and spread it, while he would deal with the military base and the Star Luo Empire’s suppression.
• Chen Fan returned to the hotel and reunited with Xiao Wu, who explained that she had abandoned etiquette lessons after fighting off men who harassed her in Auto City.
• Chen Fan learned that Shrek had reached the competition finals after merging with Blue Tyrant Academy and Thunderclap Academy, and Xiao Wu said she had injured Oscar for pursuing Ning Rongrong.
• Chen Fan planned to leave the Star Luo Empire’s political struggle to his subordinates and trusted Zhu Zhuqing to bring Dai Mubai’s supporters into his fold.
• That night, Chen Fan heard prayers in the darkness and learned that Zi Ji had returned to Auto City and Tang Chen had returned to the Clear Sky Sect.

Little Six became an official Clear Sky Sect disciple and reported on Tang San while Chen Fan prepared to leave Gengxin City for Spirit City. On the journey, Xiao Wu told Chen Fan about the Far North, while Zi Ji returned to the Star Dou Great Forest and made clear she had chosen to leave it and follow Chen Fan.

• Little Six told Chen Fan that his Soul Power had reached level ten, his Martial Soul had become the Dark Scythe, and Tang San had reached level thirty-one while Tang Hao remained imprisoned.
• Chen Fan spent several days guiding Lou Gao and Tai Tan in formation inscriptions, then told them to wait at least a year before spreading their teachings.
• Little Yin stayed behind to guard Gengxin City as Chen Fan and Xiao Wu set off by air toward Spirit City.
• Xiao Wu told Chen Fan that the Far North had small kingdoms, a great forest, and possibly powerful Soul Beasts he could recruit.
• Zi Ji returned to the Star Dou Great Forest, told Di Tian she had shed her dragon bloodline with the Cult Master's help, and said she would leave the forest again.
• Di Tian confessed that he had long liked Zi Ji, but she maintained her resolve to leave and went to seek Bi Ji.

Zi Ji refused Di Tian’s attempt to make her return, fought him, and left with Bi Ji to meet Chen Fan. Di Tian received a summons and departed, while Bi Ji listened as Zi Ji praised the Darkness God Cult’s master and wondered whether he would force her to join.

• Di Tian confessed his feelings to Zi Ji and tried to persuade her to stay, but she said she would leave and find Bi Ji.
• Di Tian attacked Zi Ji to remove what he believed was a curse, but she fought back with the Hell Scythe and Dragon King Dimension Wave, forcing him into a standstill.
• Bi Ji arrived and stopped the fight; Zi Ji explained that she wanted to take her to meet Chen Fan because they shared an interest in peace between Soul Beasts and humans.
• Bi Ji left with Zi Ji despite Di Tian’s warnings, and a voice summoned Di Tian away.
• Zi Ji told Bi Ji that Chen Fan was powerful but benevolent and said the Darkness God Cult could save the world; Bi Ji asked whether he would control her if she refused to join.

Zi Ji tried to persuade Bi Ji to join Chen Fan’s Darkness God Cult, while Chen Fan returned to Spirit City and reunited with Ning Rongrong and the Shrek leaders. He rewarded Liu Erlong with power but told Yu Xiaogang that he still needed an Immortal Herb before he could receive a similar boost.

• Zi Ji admitted that she resented Chen Fan for taking her away but said his cultivation had made her stronger, then urged Bi Ji to consider joining the cult.
• Bi Ji worried she might never return if she left the Star Dou Great Forest, and Zi Ji promised to protect her if she chose to leave.
• Chen Fan returned to Spirit City, told Zi Ji and the others he would stay there, and went with Xiao Wu to visit Shrek Academy.
• Ning Rongrong reunited with Chen Fan and Xiao Wu, told them her Soul Power had reached level thirty-nine, and recalled how her Martial Soul had evolved into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Chen Fan praised the Golden Iron Triangle and gave Liu Erlong a Darkness Mark that would let her improve like Flender.
• Chen Fan told Yu Xiaogang that his weak constitution still required an Immortal Herb before he could withstand the power, leaving Yu Xiaogang wondering if Chen Fan was lying.

Chen Fan empowered Liu Erlong’s recruits and pushed Dai Mubai to kill his elder brother, Dai Weisi. When Zhu Zhuqing confronted Dai Weisi at their agreed meeting, Chen Fan arrived and revealed his overwhelming presence.

• Chen Fan told Liu Erlong and Flender about the Darkness God Cult, offered Liu Erlong help, and urged them to keep recruiting talented people.
• Liu Erlong introduced Chen Fan to Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianzhen, and Chen Fan gave both men Dark Power and invited them to believe in the Darkness God Cult.
• Chen Fan pressured Dai Mubai to kill Dai Weisi, while Ma Hongjun remained ill from the backlash of his Evil Fire.
• Zhu Zhuqing went to face Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun alone, confident that she could defeat them.
• Chen Fan floated to Zhu Zhuqing’s side, and Dai Weisi recognized him as a Title Douluo and realized Zhu Zhuqing had powerful support.

Chen Fan protected Zhu Zhuqing from Dai Weisi and arranged for her to settle her rivalry with him while sparing Zhu Zhuyun. After learning Shrek’s competition lineup, Chen Fan agreed to accompany Dugu Bo to the Far North to investigate strange seeds and dangerous beings.

• Chen Fan told Dai Weisi to settle matters with Zhu Zhuqing on the competition stage in two days, and Dai Weisi left without provoking him.
• Zhu Zhuqing explained why she intended to defeat Zhu Zhuyun rather than kill her, and Chen Fan told her to spare Zhu Zhuyun but show no mercy to Dai Weisi.
• Chen Fan gave Zhu Zhuqing a mission to resolve the matter of Dai Weisi’s subordinates cheating his faction in Gengxin City, and she accepted the Spirit Bone as her reward.
• At Shrek’s banquet, Chen Fan learned the team lineup and saw Dugu Bo, who had come to show him several seeds he could not cultivate.
• Dugu Bo asked Chen Fan to accompany him north to investigate dangerous unknown beings, and Chen Fan agreed to travel to the Far North after spreading his faith there.

Chen Fan returned to Spirit City, declined to join Xiao Wu and the others, and went back to Spirit Hall after more than a year away. Liu Erlong’s overnight cultivation changed her outlook, leading her to reject Yu Xiaogang and stop helping him; at Spirit Hall, Chen Fan reunited with Yan and learned he had grown stronger.

• Liu Erlong cultivated through the night with the Book of Darkness’s help, evolving her Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul into a black dragon and changing her demeanor.
• Liu Erlong refused to help Yu Xiaogang or accompany him around Spirit City, telling him to handle his own affairs as he wondered whether Chen Fan had changed her.
• Chen Fan said goodbye to Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing, then returned to Spirit Hall and reminded the gatekeeper to verify his Holy Son Token.
• Chen Fan found his old dormitory unchanged and was soon visited by Yan, who greeted him respectfully as Big Brother.
• Chen Fan praised Yan’s progress, and Yan revealed that his Soul Power had reached level fifty-seven and that his Martial Soul had gained a new power.

Chen Fan reunited with his parents and Hu Liena in Spirit City, told Hu Liena about the Darkness God Cult, and strengthened her with upgraded Dark Power. The chapter ended with Ghost summoning Chen Fan to meet Bibi Dong, who had reached rank ninety-eight.

• Yan told Chen Fan that his parents had arrived in Spirit City, and Chen Fan went to visit them.
• Chen Fan reunited with his parents and Hu Liena, who had worried about his long absence.
• Chen Fan told Hu Liena about the Darkness God Cult and invited her to join, but she declined for the time being.
• Chen Fan bestowed upgraded Dark Power upon Hu Liena, increasing her strength.
• Ghost summoned Chen Fan to Pope's Palace, where he met Bibi Dong, now a rank-ninety-eight Title Douluo.

Chen Fan told Bibi Dong about his plan to gather Faith Power, found a new divine world, and invited her to join his Darkness God Cult instead of inheriting the Rakshasa God Position. He returned home to reunite with his parents and Hu Liena, while Bibi Dong asked him to visit the next day for the event.

• Chen Fan explained to Bibi Dong that he was gathering followers and Faith Power to create his own Divine Position.
• Chen Fan urged Bibi Dong to abandon the Rakshasa God Position and join his Darkness God Cult, then described his plan to create a new divine world and oppose the God Realm.
• Bibi Dong listened to Chen Fan's account of the God Realm and asked him to return the next day so she could prepare seats for the event.
• Chen Fan returned home, where his parents and Hu Liena shared dinner with him.
• Hu Liena promised Mother Chen that she would keep Chen Fan safe, and Chen Fan spent the evening chatting with his father while his mother knitted him a sweater.

Chen Fan watched the All-Continent Elite Soul Master Competition with his parents as Shrek Academy faced the Star Luo Team. As Zhu Zhuqing and Dai Mubai battled their imperial rivals, their unexpected strength drew attention, and Dai Weisi moved to help Zhu Zhuyun.

• Chen Fan arrived at the Spirit City venue with his parents and chose to sit with them while explaining Soul Masters and the competition.
• The Star Luo Team, led by Dai Weisi, faced Shrek Academy, whose members included Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Ning Rongrong spotted Chen Fan in the audience, while Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo Chen Xin also noticed him.
• Chen Fan told his parents that he was far stronger than the competitors and had no reason to participate.
• Zhu Zhuqing overwhelmed Zhu Zhuyun with her Netherflame and Fourth Soul Skill, prompting Dai Weisi to intervene.