Chapter Summaries

Tang San fought Terror Knight Scott to gain entry to the City of Slaughter but was badly outmatched and left gravely wounded. As Scott moved to finish him, a purple figure carrying an ornate scepter emerged from the passageway.

• Terror Knight Scott confronted Tang San for violating the City of Slaughter’s rules and challenged him to defeat him to enter.
• Tang San pushed Yu Xiaogang aside and attacked Scott with his Clear Sky Hammer, but Scott swept him away with his lance.
• Tang San tried Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, Purple Demon Eyes, Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon, and hidden weapons, yet Scott repeatedly battered him and left him covered in wounds.
• Tang San crashed into a tree and feared he would never avenge Tang Hao as Scott prepared to finish him.
• A purple figure holding an ornate scepter emerged from the passageway.

Bibi Dong pursued Tang San into the City of Slaughter, where her presence alerted the Slaughter King. She identified the disguised Tang San, and the Slaughter King turned his murderous attention on him.

• The Slaughter King sensed a familiar aura and flew toward the City of Slaughter's entrance.
• Terror Knight Scott's Black Armor Knights blocked Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, and Scott beat Tang San until he coughed up blood.
• Bibi Dong entered the City of Slaughter and used her Divine Slaughter's Domain, frightening Scott and alarming Yu Xiaogang.
• The Slaughter King arrived and warily asked why Bibi Dong had returned.
• Bibi Dong revealed that she had come for Tang San and pointed him out to the Slaughter King.
• The Slaughter King recognized the disguised Tang San and looked at him with murderous intent.

Tang Chen briefly broke free from the Blood Red Nine-headed Bat King after learning Tang Hao was dead and attacked Bibi Dong, forcing her out of the City of Slaughter. He let Tang San and Yu Xiaogang enter before the Blood Red Nine-headed Bat King reclaimed control.

• The Slaughter King asked about Tang Hao, and Bibi Dong told him that Tang Hao was dead.
• The news triggered Tang Chen’s consciousness, which began resisting the Blood Red Nine-headed Bat King’s control.
• Tang San vowed to avenge Tang Hao and threatened Spirit Hall, while Bibi Dong dismissed his words.
• Tang Chen took control of his body, summoned the Clear Sky Hammer, and attacked Bibi Dong with Great Sumeru Hammer—Blast Ring.
• Tang Chen detonated all nine rings, injured Bibi Dong, and drove her out of the City of Slaughter.
• Tang Chen allowed Tang San and Yu Xiaogang to enter the City of Slaughter before the Blood Red Nine-headed Bat King took control again.

The Slaughter King let Tang San and Yu Xiaogang enter the City of Slaughter after Tang Chen’s threat stopped him from attacking Tang San. The two settled in the outer city, where Tang San began planning to grow stronger before entering the Hell Slaughterfield, but the purple moon prevented him from cultivating Purple Demon Eyes the next morning.

• Tang Chen threatened to destroy his soul if the Slaughter King harmed Tang San, and the Slaughter King ordered Terror Knight Scott to let Tang San and Yu Xiaogang enter.
• The Slaughter King drove Bibi Dong away after mistaking Tang San for his grandson, leaving Tang San confused about whether the Slaughter King was his great-grandfather.
• Terror Knight Scott gave Tang San and Yu Xiaogang identity tokens, and the Black Veil Woman guided them through the City of Slaughter.
• Tang San and Yu Xiaogang explored the city, then settled in the outer city so Tang San could train before attempting the Hell Slaughterfield.
• Tang San woke beneath the purple moon, failed to cultivate Purple Demon Eyes, and prepared to collect food with Yu Xiaogang.

Tang San and Yu Xiaogang went to collect food in the City of Slaughter, where they learned that the free ration was a revolting black sludge. Five Soul Masters spotted them as newcomers and followed them away from the distribution point, then surrounded them and demanded their Storage Soul Guidance Devices and blood.

• Tang San woke Yu Xiaogang and suggested they collect food rather than use their limited emergency rations.
• Tang San and Yu Xiaogang queued at a food distribution point and received two lumps of black, mushy food they could not bring themselves to eat.
• Five Soul Masters noticed the pair had not eaten their rations and suspected they were newcomers carrying outside food.
• Tang San and Yu Xiaogang stored the food and left, unaware at first that the five Soul Masters were following them.
• The five Soul Masters caught up, surrounded Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, and demanded their Storage Soul Guidance Devices and blood.

Tang San and Yu Xiaogang were ambushed by the Vile Five Gang in the Outer City District of the City of Slaughter. Tang San was beaten and robbed, and Yu Xiaogang surrendered his own Storage Soul Guidance Device to protect him.

• Five Soul Masters from the Vile Five Gang demanded Tang San and Yu Xiaogang's Storage Soul Guidance Devices and threatened to draw their blood.
• Tang San summoned the Clear Sky Hammer and attacked the gang, but their five-on-one assault overwhelmed him.
• The Spear Soul Master knocked Tang San down, ground his face into the ground, and discovered food in Tang San's Twenty-Four Bridges, Moonlit Night.
• The Blood Wolf Soul Master kicked Yu Xiaogang down and pinned him while the gang demanded his Storage Soul Guidance Device.
• Yu Xiaogang handed over his bracelet-shaped Storage Soul Guidance Device, which the Spear Soul Master seized and inspected.

The Vile Five Gang robbed Tang San and Yu Xiaogang and prepared to drain their blood for their Bloody Mary quota. Yu Xiaogang offered himself to protect his injured disciple, but the gang became interested in abusing him instead.

• The Spear Soul Master found no food in Yu Xiaogang's Storage Soul Guidance Device, slapped him, and the Vile Five Gang kept the device and its contents.
• The Vile Five Gang took Tang San's water and prepared to draw blood from him to meet their monthly Bloody Mary quota.
• Yu Xiaogang pleaded with the gang to take his blood first because Tang San was badly injured.
• The Blood Wolf Soul Master took a lewd interest in Yu Xiaogang and whispered a proposal to the other four gang members.
• The Vile Five Gang looked at Yu Xiaogang with desire after hearing the Blood Wolf Soul Master's plan.

Yu Xiaogang agreed to the Vile Five Gang’s demand after they threatened to take Tang San’s blood. The gang took four jin of blood from Yu Xiaogang and nearly one jin from Tang San, leaving Yu Xiaogang pale and unsteady.

• The Blood Wolf Soul Master demanded that Yu Xiaogang keep the five Fallen Soul Masters company in exchange for sparing Tang San.
• The Blood Wolf Soul Master threatened Tang San and cut his arm when Yu Xiaogang hesitated.
• Yu Xiaogang, thinking of his injured disciple and his own hopes of proving himself, agreed to the gang’s terms.
• The Blood Wolf Soul Master took four jin of blood from Yu Xiaogang.
• The five Fallen Soul Masters also took nearly one jin of blood from Tang San.

Tang San woke after the Vile Five Gang robbed him and Yu Xiaogang of their Storage Soul Guidance Devices, while Lin Yu and the major factions prepared for the twenty-fifth live stream. The stream revealed that Bibi Dong had killed Tang Hao but failed to capture Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, leaving Tang Xiao furious and vowing revenge.

• Tang San woke beside an injured Yu Xiaogang and learned that the Vile Five Gang had stolen their Storage Soul Guidance Devices and drained their blood.
• Tang San realized that Twenty-Four Bridges, Moonlit Night and the hidden weapons stored inside it were gone.
• Lin Yu spent the month arranging for the remaining clans to come to Heaven Dou Imperial City while tracking Bibi Dong's pursuit of Tang San.
• The twenty-fifth live stream began, and Yue Guan asked Bibi Dong whether she had killed Tang Hao and Tang San.
• Bibi Dong revealed that she had executed Tang Hao but lost Tang San and Yu Xiaogang after pursuing them into the City of Slaughter.
• Tang Xiao learned that Tang Hao was dead, restrained his anger in the live stream, and vowed to avenge him.

The live stream showed a researcher in the former Soul Guidance Empire inventing and testing a powerful Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon. The playback ended with a question asking who the inventor was, offering the cannon’s manufacturing technology as the first-place reward.

• The live stream showed the Imperial Soul Guidance Technology Research Institute in the former Soul Guidance Empire’s capital.
• A middle-aged researcher completed a cannon-like Soul Tool, which surrounding researchers identified as an offensive Soul Tool.
• The researcher tested the Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon, firing a blazing-white blast that destroyed a target and cratered the metal wall.
• The playback froze, and the system asked who invented the Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon, announcing rewards for the answer.

Lin Yu won the Fixed-Mounted Soul Guidance Cannon manufacturing technology by correctly naming Disila as the inventor, while only one other person answered correctly. He mocked Tang San and Yu Xiaogang for their hardships in the City of Slaughter, and Yu Xiaogang vowed to protect Tang San.

• Lin Yu used knowledge from his Taiqing Clone to answer that Disila invented the Fixed-Mounted Soul Tool, and Spirit Hall disciple Xie Rao later gave the same answer.
• The Live Stream Room awarded Lin Yu the cannon manufacturing technology and Xie Rao a random cultivation method, then punished those who answered incorrectly by stripping their soul rings.
• Lin Yu learned through his Mental Mark that Tang San and Yu Xiaogang had been robbed and attacked in the City of Slaughter, where Yu Xiaogang had made a humiliating bargain to save Tang San.
• Lin Yu mocked Tang San and Yu Xiaogang in the Live Stream Room, saying they would not survive the City of Slaughter.
• Yu Xiaogang angrily claimed he would protect Tang San, and Lin Yu retorted that Tang San was the one protecting him.

During the live Q&A, Lin Yu exposed Yu Xiaogang’s injuries and mocked his claim that he could protect Tang San, while Tang San reacted with sympathy but moved away from his foul-smelling teacher. After the broadcast ended, Lin Yu retrieved the Fixed-Installation Soul Guidance Cannon technology and learned that producing it depended on a rare Soul Guidance metal.

• Lin Yu told the live room that Yu Xiaogang had been badly beaten by the Vile Five Gang, and Tang San suspected his teacher had suffered while Tang San was unconscious.
• Tang San felt angry on Yu Xiaogang’s behalf but recoiled from his odor and quietly moved farther away.
• Yu Xiaogang insisted that his intelligence could protect Tang San, while Lin Yu mocked him and wondered how Tang San would react when the Vile Five Gang targeted his teacher again.
• The system ended the live Q&A and announced that the next one would take place in six months.
• Lin Yu retrieved the Fixed-Installation Soul Guidance Cannon technology and discovered that its key Soul Guidance metal was scarce on Douluo Continent but more abundant on Sun Moon Continent.

Lin Yu arranged for the Four Great Clans and the Nine Heart Begonia Family to build a pill marketplace outside Heaven Dou Imperial City as he prepared to establish a major sect. After learning that the Heaven Dou Auction House would auction Body Martial Soul maids, he went there with Dugu Yan to try to obtain them.

• Lin Yu planned to stockpile pills and later announce a marketplace, while the Breaking Clan, Defense Clan, and Speed Clan relocated to Heaven Dou Imperial City.
• Lin Yu told Yang Wudi, Niu Gao, and Bai He about his plans, and the clans began constructing a marketplace outside the city.
• Dugu Yan told Lin Yu that the Heaven Dou Auction House had acquired a batch of Body Martial Soul maids and would auction them in three days.
• Lin Yu decided to attend the auction because he believed he could help the maids' martial souls evolve and needed people for his future faction.
• Three days later, Lin Yu and Dugu Yan arrived at the Heaven Dou Auction House.

Lin Yu and Dugu Yan entered the Heaven Dou Auction House to attend the auction of a Body Martial Soul maid. They took seats in the crimson VIP section, where Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo Chen Xin, and Ning Rongrong soon joined them.

• A receptionist escorted Lin Yu and Dugu Yan into the auction house after Lin Yu showed the Nine Heart Begonia Family's gold VIP card.
• A second-floor guide led Lin Yu and Dugu Yan to the auction hall, where they sat in the crimson seats after scanning the card.
• Lin Yu surveyed the other VIPs and found no familiar faces among them at first.
• Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo Chen Xin, and Ning Rongrong arrived, and Ning Fengzhi greeted Lin Yu and Dugu Yan.
• Ning Fengzhi said he had come to see the Body Martial Soul maid and lamented that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect lacked capable successors.

Lin Yu met Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, who was secretly Qian Renxue, at the Heaven Dou Auction House. After the guests gathered, the auction began with the Emerald Heart necklace as its first item.

• Ning Fengzhi greeted Prince Xue Xing and Xue Beng, who took seats despite their displeasure at finding him there.
• Crown Prince Xue Qinghe arrived, and Lin Yu recognized that he was Qian Renxue in disguise.
• Ning Fengzhi introduced Lin Yu to Xue Qinghe, and they exchanged courteous greetings before Xue Qinghe sat beside Ning Fengzhi.
• After another half hour, the auctioneer opened the auction and presented the Emerald Heart necklace, starting the bidding at fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins.

At the Heaven Dou Auction House, Ning Fengzhi bought an Emerald Heart before the final auction began for five Body Martial Soul maids. Lin Yu intimidated the other bidders with his strength and claimed the opening bid, leaving the maids’ fate in his hands.

• Ning Fengzhi won the Emerald Heart auction for five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• The auctioneer presented five Body Martial Soul maids and announced their Martial Souls, Innate Soul Power, and one-million-coin starting price.
• Lin Yu stood and bid two million Gold Soul Coins, releasing his seven Soul Rings and Soul Power pressure.
• Ning Fengzhi, Prince Xue Xing, and the other attendees backed down rather than compete with Lin Yu.

Lin Yu bought five Body Martial Soul maids at the Heaven Dou Auction House, brought them to Dugu Manor, and began preparing them for cultivation while building his faction. In the City of Slaughter, Tang San endured hardship and resolved to grow stronger despite lacking a way to obtain a soul ring.

• Lin Yu intimidated the auction hall into letting him buy five Body Martial Soul maids for two million Gold Soul Coins, and Ning Fengzhi offered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's help with his planned faction.
• Lin Yu took the five maids to Dugu Manor, named them Luli, Holo, Ali, Jingxiang, and Tess, and arranged for them to learn the Xuanwu Inner Art and train their bodies.
• Lin Yu continued refining pills at Dugu Manor while the Defense Clan built a market outside Heaven Dou Imperial City, and the five maids gradually grew familiar with him.
• Tang San struggled with poor food and protection fees in the City of Slaughter, while Yu Xiaogang repeatedly endured beatings to protect him from the Vile Five Gang.
• Tang San resolved to cultivate until he could defeat the Vile Five Gang, but worried that he could not break through without a soul ring; he remembered that the quiz live stream could reward him with one and refused to give up.

As the twenty-sixth live stream began, Lin Yu announced that he had refined three types of pills and would sell them at a marketplace outside Heaven Dou Imperial City when it opened in one month. Major factions across the continent agreed to attend, and the live stream's buffering period ended with a familiar cluster of buildings appearing.

• After six months of hardship in the City of Slaughter, Tang San and Lin Yu settled in safe places to await the twenty-sixth live stream.
• The live stream pulled people across the Douluo Continent into its illusory space, where Dai Tianfeng and Yue Guan looked forward to the new Q&A.
• Lin Yu announced that he had refined Soul Nourishing Pills, Soul Replenishing Pills, and Body Tempering Pills and would sell them at his marketplace in one month.
• Dai Tianfeng, Zhu Xuanfeng, Bibi Dong, Ning Fengzhi, Meng Shu, and other leaders said they would visit Lin Yu's marketplace.
• The buffering period ended, and a familiar cluster of buildings appeared in the illusory space.

Huo Yuhao and a Shrek Academy delegation traveled to Maple Leaf City for a student exchange with the Sun Moon Royal Soul Guidance Academy. The chapter ended with Huo Yuhao facing a test to create a Level 3 Soul Guidance Device Core Formation.

• Yan Shaozhe led Huo Yuhao, He Caitou, and eight Shrek inner courtyard students out of Shrek Academy using Flying Soul Guidance Devices.
• The delegation reached Maple Leaf City after traveling for nearly half a day and rested overnight.
• Yan Shaozhe and Jing Hongchen exchanged students with the Sun Moon Royal Soul Guidance Academy in Maple Leaf Square.
• Jing Hongchen brought Huo Yuhao and the others to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Guidance Academy.
• Xuan Ziwen led Huo Yuhao to the Third Laboratory and told him to make a Level 3 Soul Guidance Device Core Formation within the time it took to burn an incense stick.

The broadcast revealed Ju Zi’s relationship with Huo Yuhao, how she secretly conceived his child and was threatened into silence by Tang San. Three years later, the Sun Moon Empire had destroyed the Heaven Dou and Dou Ling Empires and was driving the last remaining Douluo Continent power, the Star Luo Empire, toward defeat.

• Huo Yuhao impressed Xuan Ziwen with Soul Tools based on Zhuge Crossbow principles, then wagered that ten future achievements would persuade Xuan Ziwen to join the Tang Sect.
• Huo Yuhao and Ju Zi became friends and fell for each other, but parted because Ju Zi served Xu Tianran and Huo Yuhao knew she opposed the Star Luo Empire.
• Xu Tianran forced Ju Zi to seek an heir, and Ju Zi secretly used a special Soul Tool to inseminate herself with Huo Yuhao’s seed during their reunion in the Far North Land.
• When Ju Zi tried to tell Huo Yuhao the truth, Tang San threatened her and her child, forcing her to keep silent.
• Three years later, soldiers reported that the Sun Moon Empire had destroyed the Heaven Dou and Dou Ling Empires and was attacking the Star Luo Empire.