Chapter Summaries

Ye Yuan led the assault that destroyed the Clear Sky Sect and confronted Tang Hao with his captured family and Ah Yin, now a Blue Silver Grass. Tang Hao awoke to find his brother and the sect defeated, and Ye Yuan hinted that he had brought another gift connected to Tang Hao’s son.

• Ning Rongrong revealed that she had sold the Clear Sky Sect’s intelligence to Ye Yuan, helping the attackers breach its natural barrier.
• Tang Xiao recognized Ah Yin’s aura in the Blue Silver Grass Ye Yuan carried, then Spirit Hall forces led by Golden Crocodile Douluo raided the sect from behind and captured Tang Xiao.
• Ye Yuan entered the ruined main hall and used the Primordial Chaos Bell’s laws to wake Tang Hao, whose body remained crippled and helpless.
• Tang Hao saw his captured brother, his sister Tang Yuehua beside Ye Yuan, and Ah Yin in the flowerpot; Tang Yuehua disowned the sect and Tang Hao threatened Ye Yuan.
• Ye Yuan told Tang Hao that he had brought another gift after hearing him call his son’s name in his sleep.

Ye Yuan returned to Spirit City with Tang Xiao and Tang Hao as prisoners and ordered a public execution ceremony to establish the Spirit Hall Empire. He planned to use Tang San’s suffering to destroy the prisoners’ resolve, and the chapter ended as the Death Dungeon’s door opened.

• Ye Yuan showed Tang Hao an image of Tang San being dragged away in the Capital of Slaughter, causing Tang Hao to collapse after spitting blood.
• Ye Yuan ordered Tang Hao and Tang Xiao taken back to Spirit City alive, and Spirit Hall’s forces returned with them three days later.
• Ye Yuan told Spirit Hall’s leaders to invite every major faction and the Star Luo Imperial Family to a ceremony in half a month, where Tang Xiao, Tang Hao, Ning Fengzhi, and Shrek’s remnants would be publicly executed.
• Ye Yuan threatened to destroy any faction that failed to attend, and Qian Daoliu agreed to mobilize the Worship Hall and secure Spirit City.
• Ye Yuan told Liu Erlong and Xiao Wu that he planned to humiliate Tang Hao and the Shrek prisoners by revealing Tang San’s fate before executing them.
• The next morning, the Death Dungeon’s iron door opened and Soul Tools began to glow inside.

Ye Yuan brought Ning Rongrong and the collared Xiao Wu into the dungeon, where he confronted the imprisoned survivors of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Tang San’s former companions. After Xiao Wu obeyed Ye Yuan in front of Oscar and Ma Hongjun, he crushed their hopes by revealing Tang San’s desperate condition and left them awaiting execution in half a month.

• Ye Yuan entered the dungeon with Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu, and Ning Fengzhi saw his daughter standing beside Ye Yuan.
• Ning Rongrong taunted Ning Fengzhi, claiming her cooperation with Ye Yuan had saved the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and made her mistress of the empire’s armory.
• Oscar and Ma Hongjun recognized Xiao Wu and shouted at Ye Yuan, while Xiao Wu wept at the sight of her tortured former companions.
• Ye Yuan ordered Xiao Wu to wipe a chair, and she knelt to clean it and addressed him as Master to protect Daming and Erming.
• Ye Yuan told Oscar and Ma Hongjun that Xiao Wu had seen Tang San crippled and reduced to scavenging and being dragged away, shattering their hope in him.
• Ye Yuan announced that the prisoners would be executed in half a month and said he would bring Xiao Wu to witness it.

Dai Mubai tried to send his five-year-old fiancée Zhu Zhuqing to Spirit City in his place, but she exposed his cowardice and agreed to go only after severing her ties to him and the Xing Luo royal family. Ten days later, she arrived alone at Spirit City and told the guards she knew secrets about Tang San and the God Realm inheritance; Yue Guan brought her to meet the Holy Son.

• The Xing Luo Emperor ordered Dai Mubai to travel to Spirit City as an envoy, warning that Spirit Hall would attack if the empire refused.
• Dai Mubai claimed his own capture would endanger the empire and pressured Zhu Zhuqing to take his place.
• Zhu Zhuqing rejected Dai Mubai's excuses, called him afraid of dying, and agreed to go to Spirit City on the condition that she severed all ties with him and the royal family.
• Ten days later, Zhu Zhuqing arrived alone at Spirit City's gates and asked to see the Holy Son, claiming she knew secrets about Tang San and the God Realm inheritance.
• Yue Guan escorted Zhu Zhuqing into the Holy Son's Estate, where the Holy Son was waiting.

Zhu Zhuqing crossed into Spirit City to offer her loyalty to Ye Yuan, who used the Primordial Chaos Bell’s Time Law to mature her body. The chapter ended with Zhu Zhuqing accepting a place as Ye Yuan’s personal maid despite having no Soul Power.

• Zhu Zhuqing entered Ye Yuan’s residence and recognized Xiao Wu kneeling as his maid.
• Zhu Zhuqing rejected her ties to Dai Mubai and the Xing Luo Empire, offering Ye Yuan her secrets and service in exchange for a place at his side.
• Ye Yuan used the Primordial Chaos Bell’s Time Law to force Zhu Zhuqing’s body to mature to her adult form.
• Ye Yuan explained that the process had not awakened Zhu Zhuqing’s martial soul or granted her Soul Power.
• Zhu Zhuqing knelt at Ye Yuan’s feet and pledged herself to him as his personal maid.

Ye Yuan accepted Zhu Zhuqing’s submission and learned that the Xing Luo Empire and Dai Mubai had no intention of resisting him. When Qian Renxue arrived, Ye Yuan explained that he planned to use Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu at the next day’s Execution Ceremony to undermine the Clear Sky Sect and Xing Luo Empire before the continent’s envoys.

• Ye Yuan praised Zhu Zhuqing for choosing to submit and mocked Xiao Wu for kneeling only after being threatened.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Ye Yuan that the Xing Luo Emperor was preparing tribute and that Dai Mubai had refused to rescue Oscar and Ma Hongjun.
• Qian Renxue entered Ye Yuan’s bedchamber, recognized Zhu Zhuqing, and questioned why she was there.
• Ye Yuan explained that he had used the Primordial Bell’s Space-Time Law to give Zhu Zhuqing an adult body, though she lacked an awakened martial soul and Soul Power.
• Ye Yuan told Qian Renxue he would bring Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu to the Execution Ceremony to expose the Xing Luo Empire’s weakness and break the continent’s faith in its resistance.

Ye Yuan staged a public execution in Spirit City to demonstrate the consequences of resisting the Spirit Hall Empire. After exposing Xing Luo’s abandonment of Oscar and Ma Hongjun, Zhu Zhuqing declared her loyalty to Ye Yuan.

• Ye Yuan promised Qian Renxue that his campaign would make the continent submit to the Spirit Hall Empire, and Qian Renxue pledged the support of herself, Qian Daoliu, and the Worship Hall.
• Ye Yuan, Qian Renxue, and Bibi Dong appeared before a huge crowd at Pope’s Palace Plaza, where Spirit Hall soldiers presented Tang Xiao, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun as condemned prisoners.
• Ye Yuan warned the continent that those who resisted the Spirit Hall Empire would die, then questioned the Xing Luo envoys about why Dai Mubai had not come to rescue Oscar and Ma Hongjun.
• The Xing Luo envoys said Dai Mubai had been placed under house arrest and denied that their empire intended to resist Spirit Hall.
• Zhu Zhuqing appeared beside Ye Yuan, accused Dai Mubai of abandoning her and his sworn brothers, and declared her loyalty to Ye Yuan.

After establishing the Spirit Hall Empire, Ye Yuan executed the Clear Sky Sect captives and forced the continent’s envoys to accept his rule. He then named Sea God Island as the next place beyond the empire’s control.

• Ye Yuan ordered Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and Tang Xiao executed by a thousand cuts while Tang Hao was forced to watch.
• Ye Yuan gave the Xing Luo Empire ten days to surrender and ordered the former Heaven Dou territories and other states to place their military and financial authority under his empire.
• Ye Yuan rewarded Yu Yuanzhen and Chen Xin for their service, while assigning Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu to serve in his bedchamber.
• Qian Daoliu asked Ye Yuan about his plans after the continent’s unification, and Ye Yuan pointed to Sea God Island as the next target.
• Qian Daoliu reacted with complicated emotion to Sea God Island, recalling his defeat there and someone he had never forgotten.

Ye Yuan planned to claim the Sea God’s inheritance for the Spirit Hall Empire without invading Sea God Island by force. He appointed Golden Crocodile Douluo to pursue the Sea God’s Nine Trials and argued that Bo Saixi’s devotion would make her accept a legitimate heir.

• Qian Daoliu warned Ye Yuan that attacking Sea God Island would be extremely dangerous, but Ye Yuan said he had no intention of sending an army there.
• Yue Guan returned the Sea God’s Heart, which Ye Yuan identified as the key to opening the Sea God’s Nine Trials.
• Ye Yuan said he would not inherit the Sea God’s Godhood himself and chose Golden Crocodile Douluo as the Spirit Hall Empire’s candidate.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo initially refused, but Qian Daoliu urged him to reclaim the honor he had lost, and he accepted the mission.
• Ye Yuan explained that Bo Saixi’s loyalty to the Sea God would compel her to guide whoever gained the Sea God’s recognition, and he planned to sail to Sea God Island with Golden Crocodile Douluo in ten days.

As the Capital of Slaughter filled with refugees, Tang San survived in disguise as a piglike tavern servant while saving coins to forge a hidden weapon and enter the Slaughter Arena. Yu Xiaogang brought him food, while the Bat King watched from outside, waiting to provoke him and claim his Asura aura.

• Refugees in the outer city traded scarce food and water on a black market and spread rumors about Tang San and Spirit Hall's purge.
• A scar-faced patron kicked Tang San, disguised as a pigman, and made him spill drinks; Tang San silently collected the fallen coins.
• Tang San hid his coins and planned to buy iron nails to forge a Bone-Piercing Nail and win his first Slaughter Arena match.
• Yu Xiaogang brought Tang San black bread and Bloody Mary, and Tang San accepted the food without asking how his teacher had obtained it.
• The Bat King watched Tang San from a rooftop and grew impatient as he waited for the Asura aura within him to awaken.

The Bat King forced Tang San into a fight by making a scar-faced man attack him, and Tang San killed the attacker to survive. As Tang San prepared to leave with the stolen money, the Bat King appeared in the tavern courtyard.

• The Bat King sent blood-fiend aura into the scar-faced man's nostrils, driving him to attack Tang San in the kitchen.
• Tang San stumbled away from the man's sword, then used his toxic gas and scraps of iron to injure him.
• Tang San knocked the wounded man down and bit through his throat, killing him.
• Tang San took the man's money pouch and told Yu Xiaogang they needed to find another place to stay.
• The Bat King appeared outside the kitchen and challenged Tang San about serving trays again.

The Nine-Headed Bat King forced Tang San to fight daily in the Hell Slaughter Arena by threatening Yu Xiaogang, and Tang San won his first match through brutal, improvised attacks. Half a month later, Ye Yuan sailed from Vast Sea City aboard a warship with Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, Qian Daoliu, and Golden Crocodile Douluo.

• The Nine-Headed Bat King crushed Yu Xiaogang's right forearm and ordered Tang San to enter the Hell Slaughter Arena every day, threatening to kill Yu Xiaogang if he refused.
• Tang San accepted that he would have to fight without Hidden Weapons and vowed to survive until he could take revenge on Ye Yuan and the bat.
• Tang San entered the arena the next day and used poisonous gas, biting, and clawing to kill his opponents and claim his first victory.
• Yu Xiaogang watched Tang San win from the stands, clutching his broken arm and retching at his disciple's savage methods.
• Half a month later, Ye Yuan relaxed aboard a warship sailing from Vast Sea City, while Zhu Zhuqing attended him and Xiao Wu stood nearby with a sword.
• Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile Douluo stood at the front of the deck.

Ye Yuan used the Sea God’s Heart to subdue Xiaobai and secure her help reaching Sea God Island. Bo Saixi and the Seven Sacred Pillar Guardians expected Tang San, but were stunned when Ye Yuan and Qian Daoliu arrived instead.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo warned Ye Yuan that Demon Soul Great White Sharks could attack the ship as it neared Sea God Island.
• Xiaobai and her shark pack surrounded the warship, but Ye Yuan revealed the Sea God’s Heart and told her Tang San was crippled and hiding in the Capital of Slaughter.
• Xiaobai recognized the Sea God’s authority, accepted Ye Yuan as the Sea God’s inheritor, and led the shark pack in escorting the ship to Sea God Island.
• Bo Saixi and the Seven Sacred Pillar Guardians gathered to welcome the expected Tang San, but froze when Ye Yuan, Qian Daoliu, and Golden Crocodile Douluo appeared instead.
• Sea Dragon Douluo and Sea Seahorse Douluo recognized Qian Daoliu and reacted with alarm.

Ye Yuan brought Golden Crocodile Douluo and his companions to Sea God Island, where he argued that the island’s own rules required Bo Saixi to accept whoever the Sea God’s Heart recognized as inheritor. Bo Saixi ordered them to undergo the Divine Trial aptitude test, leaving Golden Crocodile Douluo poised before the Sacred Pillar.

• Bo Saixi confronted Ye Yuan and demanded to know Tang San’s whereabouts and why Spirit Hall held the Sea God’s Heart.
• Ye Yuan said Tang San was a cripple hiding in the Capital of Slaughter and identified himself as Emperor of the Spirit Hall Empire.
• Sea Dragon Douluo attacked, but Golden Crocodile Douluo’s power overwhelmed him and forced him back.
• Ye Yuan argued that Sea God Island’s rules required its guardians to serve whoever gained the Sea God’s recognition, regardless of whether he was Tang San or Golden Crocodile.
• Bo Saixi ordered Sea Seahorse Douluo to take the visitors for testing, and Golden Crocodile Douluo approached the Sacred Pillar with the Sea God’s Heart.

Golden Crocodile Douluo forcibly subdued the Sea God's Heart and received the Sea God's Nine Trials, making him the Sea God's chosen successor. Bo Saixi and the Seven Sacred Pillar Guardians bowed to him, and Ye Yuan's group settled near Sea God Mountain, where Golden Crocodile Douluo and Ye Yuan began climbing beneath the Sea God's Light.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo overpowered the Sea God's Heart's resistance and fused it into his forehead.
• The Sea Horse Sacred Pillar awarded Golden Crocodile Douluo the Sea God's Nine Trials, shocking Bo Saixi and the Seven Sacred Pillar Guardians.
• Bo Saixi saluted Golden Crocodile Douluo as the Sea God's successor, and the Seven Sacred Pillar Guardians knelt with her.
• Ye Yuan told Bo Saixi that he and Golden Crocodile Douluo would stay on Sea God Island and asked the island's leaders to assist with the trials.
• Bo Saixi arranged lodging for Ye Yuan's group near Sea God Mountain, and Golden Crocodile Douluo and Ye Yuan climbed into the Sea God's Light.

Ye Yuan brought Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing onto Sea God Mountain while Bo Saixi reluctantly allowed them to remain, and Tang San won his first Hell Slaughter Arena match through brutal violence and his poisonous gas. After three months on Sea God Island, Ye Yuan continued cultivating at the 108th step as Golden Crocodile Douluo completed his first trial.

• Ye Yuan invited Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing up the steps, where Zhu Zhuqing endured the pressure through sheer physical strength and stubbornness.
• Bo Saixi told Sea Seahorse Douluo to let Ye Yuan’s group be because the Sea God’s rules allowed the inheritor to bring companions.
• Tang San entered a deathmatch in the Hell Slaughter Arena and used his poisonous gas to blind two opponents before killing them.
• Tang San killed the remaining opponents and won his first arena match, while Yu Xiaogang watched in horror from the stands.
• Three months passed on Sea God Island, and Golden Crocodile Douluo completed his first trial while Ye Yuan consolidated his Soul Power at the 108th step.

After Ye Yuan reached level fifty, he used Golden Crocodile Douluo’s authority as a Sea God inheritor to claim a God-Bestowed Soul Ring from Bo Saixi. He began absorbing it before her, and Bo Saixi watched in disbelief as it grew to nearly one hundred thousand years.

• Ye Yuan broke through to level fifty, and Zhu Zhuqing congratulated him.
• Ye Yuan asked Bo Saixi to provide his bottleneck reward, but she objected that he was not a Sea God inheritor.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo transferred his God-Bestowed Soul Ring reward to Ye Yuan and commanded Bo Saixi to hand it over.
• Bo Saixi summoned a God-Bestowed Soul Ring, and Ye Yuan began absorbing it with the Primal Genesis Sword.
• Ye Yuan’s fifth Soul Ring surpassed ten thousand years and continued growing toward one hundred thousand years, leaving Bo Saixi convinced he was nearing his limit.

Ye Yuan absorbed Bo Saixi’s God-Bestowed Soul Ring and turned it into a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, while Qian Daoliu explained why he no longer served the gods. The story then shifted to the Capital of Slaughter, where the King of Slaughter continued rigging matches to protect the weak Stench Butcher.

• Ye Yuan used the Primordial Bell to suppress the Soul Ring’s energy and transformed his fifth Soul Ring into a hundred-thousand-year ring.
• Qian Daoliu mocked Bo Saixi’s faith and told her that Ye Yuan offered a way to defy the gods’ rules.
• Bo Saixi insisted she would never betray the Sea God, while Qian Daoliu left to pursue the Spirit Hall Empire’s ambitions and his hope for a great-grandson.
• In the Hell Slaughter Arena, spectators watched the Stench Butcher enter his fiftieth deathmatch and feared the King of Slaughter’s blatant match-fixing.
• The King of Slaughter repeatedly used blood-fiend pressure to immobilize the Stench Butcher’s opponents, allowing the weak fighter to kill them.

Tang San survived fifty rigged matches in the Capital of Slaughter as the Nine-Headed Bat King protected him and cultivated his killing intent. On Sea God Island, Ye Yuan learned of Tang San’s progress and planned to let him obtain the Asura Divine Sword before replacing him as the Asura God’s inheritor.

• Tang San killed nine paralyzed Fallen Ones in the arena, completing his fiftieth match under the Nine-Headed Bat King’s protection.
• The Nine-Headed Bat King decided Tang San’s killing intent had grown enough and planned to send him to open Hell Road in a few months.
• A Spirit Hall Soul Douluo delivered Ye Yuan a report that Tang San had become a foul-gas-producing beastman and won through the King of Slaughter’s interference.
• Ye Yuan warned Qian Daoliu not to kill Tang San, fearing the Asura God might retaliate with Divine Punishment.
• Ye Yuan planned to let Tang San draw the Asura Divine Sword, then present a better inheritor so the Asura God would abandon him.

Ye Yuan used the Sea God's Light and the Primordial Chaos Bell to awaken Zhu Zhuqing's new martial soul, then planned to hunt sea soul beasts for her first two Soul Rings. The chapter ended with Ye Yuan and his companions gathered on the shore of Sea God Island.

• Ye Yuan asked Qian Daoliu whether he wanted the Asura Godhood, but Qian Daoliu laughed off the offer and left.
• Ye Yuan drew the Sea God's Light into a cocoon and told Zhu Zhuqing to endure it as Primal Law reshaped her martial soul.
• After an hour of agony, Zhu Zhuqing awakened the Void Nether Leopard and gained twenty ranks of Innate Full Soul Power.
• Ye Yuan promised to find Zhu Zhuqing two suitable ten-thousand-year sea soul beasts for her first two Soul Rings, while Bo Saixi watched in dismay.
• Ye Yuan, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Golden Crocodile Douluo gathered on a beach at the edge of Sea God Island.