Chapter Summaries

Lin Yu used his Golden Dragon Martial Soul and martial techniques to defeat the Blood Tiger Soul King and eight Soul Ancestors in seconds, earning entry to the City of Slaughter. Liu Erlong also won her melee and entered, where Lin Yu took her hand and led her into the underground passage.

• Liu Erlong wondered what kind of Dragon Martial Soul Lin Yu had summoned, while Lin Yu charged into the melee with his Golden Dragon Martial Soul Possession.
• Lin Yu killed the Gale Demon Wolf Soul Ancestor and defeated the other Soul Ancestors with the Mountains and Seas Fist Scripture and Fierce Strength Leg Art.
• Lin Yu broke the Blood Tiger Soul King's arms and blasted him into the crowd, then received permission to enter the City of Slaughter.
• Lin Yu collected his identity token and waited at the iron gate while Liu Erlong entered the next life-and-death melee and killed the other Fallen Soul Masters.
• Liu Erlong collected her token and entered through the iron gate, and Lin Yu took her hand and led her down the passage toward the City of Slaughter.

Lin Yu led Liu Erlong into the City of Slaughter, where her concern for Yu Xiaogang had begun to weaken under the Yuelao Red Thread's influence. After entering, Liu Erlong asked the Black Veil Woman whether Yu Xiaogang and Tang San were there, but learned that visitors used token numbers and likely hid their real identities.

• Lin Yu held Liu Erlong's hand and guided her down the passage toward the City of Slaughter, while she blushed and let him lead her.
• Lin Yu and Liu Erlong emerged beneath the purple moon, and Liu Erlong confirmed that Soul Skills could not be used there.
• Lin Yu and Liu Erlong presented their tokens to the black-armored guards and entered the City of Slaughter.
• The Black Veil Woman introduced herself as their guide and offered to answer questions for twelve hours.
• Liu Erlong asked whether Yu Xiaogang and Tang San had entered, and the Black Veil Woman explained that people used token numbers and would likely conceal their names.

Lin Yu and Liu Erlong entered the City of Slaughter with the Black Veil Woman, who showed them the lawless Inner City District and the Hell Slaughterfield. After the guide left, Liu Erlong took Lin Yu to search for Yu Xiaogang and Tang San.

• The Black Veil Woman led Lin Yu and Liu Erlong through the Outer City District toward the Inner City District while Liu Erlong searched anxiously for Yu Xiaogang and Tang San.
• Lin Yu asked about the Hell Slaughterfield and the path to becoming a Slaughter God, and the Black Veil Woman confirmed how the challenge worked.
• The Black Veil Woman guided Lin Yu and Liu Erlong through the Inner City District, where they witnessed violent fights and deadly traps, then showed them the Hell Slaughterfield and explained its rules.
• Liu Erlong restrained herself from searching while the Black Veil Woman accompanied them, then used fatigue as a reason to stop at a house.
• After the Black Veil Woman departed, Liu Erlong grabbed Lin Yu and hurried out to search for Yu Xiaogang and Tang San.

Liu Erlong and Lin Yu searched the City of Slaughter’s Outer City District for Yu Xiaogang and Tang San, and eventually found them weak and sleeping in an alley. Liu Erlong reunited with Yu Xiaogang, who feared she would die there, while Tang San hoped her strength would improve their lives.

• Lin Yu guided Liu Erlong into the Outer City District, secretly following the Mental Mark he had placed on Tang San.
• Liu Erlong searched the alleys with a blazing fireball while Lin Yu comforted her after they found no sign of Yu Xiaogang or Tang San.
• Lin Yu and Liu Erlong found Yu Xiaogang and Tang San huddled together and sleeping in a remote alley, weak from the City of Slaughter’s blood offerings.
• Liu Erlong woke Yu Xiaogang, who recognized her and realized she had truly come to find him.
• Yu Xiaogang warned Liu Erlong that she would die in the City of Slaughter, while Tang San excitedly hoped her strength would end their oppression and let him cultivate.

Liu Erlong joined Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, and Lin Yu in the City of Slaughter, then beat the Vile Five Gang after Tang San identified them. Yu Xiaogang feared the gang would expose his secret, and Lin Yu’s pointed question about his sweat left him badly rattled.

• Liu Erlong introduced Lin Yu, who used the name Long Aotian, to Yu Xiaogang and Tang San.
• Tang San told Liu Erlong that he and Yu Xiaogang had been bullied, and she insisted on finding the offenders despite Yu Xiaogang’s attempts to stop her.
• Tang San led Liu Erlong, Lin Yu, and Yu Xiaogang to the Vile Five Gang, while Yu Xiaogang worried the gang would reveal their secret.
• Liu Erlong beat the five members of the Vile Five Gang nearly to death, and Tang San recovered his and Yu Xiaogang’s belongings.
• Lin Yu asked the sweating Yu Xiaogang whether the gang had bullied him badly, and Yu Xiaogang nervously claimed he was overwhelmed by Liu Erlong’s fight.

Lin Yu and Liu Erlong entered the Hell Slaughterfield and each won a duel, slaughtering their opponents. As they headed back, a gang led by the renowned Black Yama King confronted them.

• Liu Erlong protected Tang San and Yu Xiaogang from gangs in the City of Slaughter, while her supplies improved their living conditions.
• Lin Yu and Liu Erlong refused Tang San's offer of Bloody Mary and registered for Hell Slaughterfield duels.
• Lin Yu entered the fifth duel and killed all nine opponents using his Golden Dragon Martial Soul and martial techniques.
• Liu Erlong won the sixth duel, and she and Lin Yu praised each other after returning to the hall.
• A gang led by Black Yama King, who had won twenty-three consecutive duels, stopped Lin Yu and Liu Erlong on their way back.

Lin Yu and Liu Erlong were confronted by Black Yama King, who demanded that Liu Erlong stay with him. Liu Erlong killed him after overpowering him, while Lin Yu let a disguised woman escape after discovering her true appearance and considering how to use her.

• Black Yama King threatened Lin Yu and Liu Erlong, then demanded that Liu Erlong stay with him.
• Liu Erlong revealed her Soul Sage strength and attacked Black Yama King, overwhelming him.
• Lin Yu used his Double Pupil Martial Soul and saw that the fleeing enchanting woman was actually a fat, ugly woman with a conch Martial Soul.
• Lin Yu killed the fleeing male Fallen Soul Masters but deliberately let the woman escape.
• Liu Erlong killed Black Yama King and apologized to Lin Yu, who reassured her.

After killing Black Yama King, Lin Yu caught up with his subordinate Biro Granny and exposed her disguise. He spared her in exchange for using her seduction skills to help him, leaving her newly named Bi Luo eager to comply.

• Lin Yu separated from Liu Erlong and chased after Biro Granny, catching and kicking her into an alley.
• Biro Granny pleaded for her life and tried to seduce Lin Yu, but he saw through her disguise with his Double Pupils.
• Lin Yu kicked away Biro Granny’s Illusion Snail Martial Soul and threatened to kill her if she screamed again.
• Lin Yu renamed her Bi Luo and offered to spare her if she helped him with a task.
• Lin Yu asked Bi Luo to seduce someone, and she agreed, confident in her acting and voice-changing skills.

Lin Yu arranged for Bi Luo to pose as a refined young woman with a grudge against Spirit Hall so she could seduce Tang San, while Tang San trained in the City of Slaughter with Liu Erlong’s help. Lin Yu’s revenge scheme began when Fallen Soul Masters ambushed Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, leaving Yu Xiaogang unconscious and Tang San fleeing alone.

• Lin Yu gave Bi Luo a false identity, appearance, and personality, assigned her a place in the Outer City District, and threatened her against disobedience.
• Bi Luo disguised herself as a gaunt Fallen Soul Master and hid in the Outer City District after Lin Yu departed.
• Lin Yu spent more than half a month subduing Fallen Soul Masters, while Tang San trained with Liu Erlong’s protection and grew more confident about escaping the City of Slaughter and avenging Tang Hao.
• When Lin Yu and Liu Erlong went to the Hell Slaughterfield, a group of Fallen Soul Masters confronted Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, accusing Tang San of bringing people to beat them.
• Tang San and Yu Xiaogang fled, but agility-attack-type Soul Kings blocked their path; Yu Xiaogang charged them and was kicked unconscious.
• Tang San ran on without his teacher, apologizing to Yu Xiaogang in his thoughts as he tried to avoid being caught and injured.

Tang San and Yu Xiaogang were ambushed in the City of Slaughter, but Bi Luo called the Law Enforcement Team and helped them afterward. When Tang San awakened in Bi Luo’s arms, Lin Yu used the Yuelao Red Thread to designate them.

• Tang San fled the Fallen Soul Masters but was caught and beaten, while Yu Xiaogang was knocked unconscious nearby.
• Bi Luo shouted for help, drawing the Law Enforcement Team, which drove off the attackers before leaving once it found no one dead.
• Bi Luo helped Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, then waited with them until Lin Yu and Liu Erlong returned from the Hell Slaughterfield.
• Liu Erlong questioned Bi Luo about the attack, and Bi Luo gave her name and explained how she had called for help.
• Tang San and Yu Xiaogang awoke, and Bi Luo supported Tang San as he struggled to rise.
• Lin Yu used the Yuelao Red Thread to designate Tang San and Bi Luo, and Tang San froze when he saw her face.

Lin Yu used the Yuelao Red Thread and Mirage Dragon Qi to make Tang San see Bi Luo as a beautiful young woman, while she appeared to Lin Yu as an ugly old woman. After Bi Luo told Liu Erlong and Tang San a fabricated story about Spirit Hall destroying her family, Tang San believed they shared a grudge and resolved to seek revenge with her.

• Lin Yu watched Tang San fall in love at first sight with the illusionary appearance of Bi Luo, while seeing her true appearance himself.
• Liu Erlong gave Tang San Jinchuang medicine and led Bi Luo and Lin Yu to another alley.
• Bi Luo claimed Spirit Hall had killed her family over a Thousand Year Soul Bone and described how she escaped pursuit and entered the City of Slaughter.
• Liu Erlong believed Bi Luo's story and condemned Spirit Hall, while Tang San listened from the other side of the wall.
• Tang San decided that he and Bi Luo were bound by fate and would take revenge on Spirit Hall together.

Tang San fell in love with Bi Luo under the influence of the Yuelao Red Thread while Lin Yu watched in amusement. As the twenty-eighth live stream began, the camera showed a village and a sick mother warning Nannan to stop risking herself to gather herbs.

• Tang San continued fighting Fallen Soul Masters in the City of Slaughter, and Bi Luo used the Yuelao Red Thread to make him fall in love with her.
• Lin Yu observed their romance while Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong mistook Bi Luo and Tang San for a good match.
• Half a year after the previous stream, Soul Masters gathered in the Inner City District for the twenty-eighth live stream.
• Dai Tianfeng and Ning Fengzhi praised the effects of Lin Yu's pills and asked when he would hold another Pill Assembly, but Lin Yu said he needed more time to refine pills.
• The live stream showed a village and then a dilapidated hut, where a sick mother urged Nannan to stop risking her life to gather herbs.

The live stream showed Jiang Nannan trying to save her ill mother, only to learn that treatment required a rare Black Tortoise Divine Pill she could not afford. When Shrek Academy refused to help her, it offered her another way to obtain the pill: selling herself to the Profound Nether Sect.

• Jiang Nannan insisted she would not abandon her sick mother and took her to Shrek City for treatment.
• A physician diagnosed Jiang Nannan's mother with a worsening congenital heart condition and said the Black Tortoise Divine Pill might help, though it cost at least ten thousand gold.
• Unable to afford or locate the pill, Jiang Nannan swallowed her pride and asked Shrek Academy's teachers for help.
• Shrek Academy's teachers rejected Jiang Nannan's plea and did not report it to their superiors.
• Shrek Academy offered Jiang Nannan a way to get the pill by selling herself to the Profound Nether Sect.

Lin Yu condemned Shrek Academy for making Jiang Nannan trade herself for a Black Tortoise Divine Pill and criticized Zhou Yi and the academy’s treatment of commoner Soul Masters. Jiang Nannan went to the Profound Nether Sect to save her mother, where the sect’s ritual requirements were revealed.

• Lin Yu argued that Shrek Academy’s refusal to help Jiang Nannan reflected its disregard for commoners, and he cited Zhou Yi’s expulsions of struggling students as evidence.
• Jiang Nannan returned home, told her gravely ill mother that she had found a way to treat her, and left for the Profound Nether Sect.
• The Profound Nether Sect’s sect master and elders explained that its male heirs with the Xuanming Tortoise Shell Shield martial soul underwent an awakening ritual before age fifteen.
• The sect revealed that the ritual could evolve the martial soul into the Xuanwu Shield and required a maiden’s virgin body, while it searched for a suitable candidate for Xu Sanshi, the sect master’s son.

The broadcast revealed how Jiang Nannan agreed to cooperate in Xu Sanshi’s second Martial Soul Awakening ritual in exchange for the Black Tortoise Divine Pill to save her mother. As the Q&A began, Lin Yu concluded that the root cause was Spirit Hall’s disappearance, which left commoner soul masters without protection or a voice.

• Jiang Nannan found the Profound Nether Sect and explained that she needed its Black Tortoise Divine Pill for her critically ill mother.
• After verifying her background, the Profound Nether Sect gave Jiang Nannan the pill in exchange for her cooperation in Xu Sanshi’s second Martial Soul Awakening ritual.
• The broadcast showed Jiang Nannan in bridal clothes, then later leaving the Profound Nether Sect and walking toward a forest.
• The Live Stream Room asked what had caused Jiang Nannan to sell herself to save her mother and offered rewards for the top answers.
• Tang San coveted the rewards, especially the Heaven-Sent Soul Ring, because he could not hunt soul beasts in the City of Slaughter.
• Lin Yu reasoned that Shrek Academy’s refusal to help was part of the problem, but identified Spirit Hall’s disappearance and commoner soul masters’ lack of support as the root cause.

Lin Yu concluded that Jiang Nannan sold herself to save her mother because commoner Soul Masters had no force to defend them after Spirit Hall was destroyed, and he answered the Live Stream Room’s question correctly. He arranged for Bi Luo to answer next and give her reward to Tang San, advancing his plan to steal Yu Xiaogang’s woman.

• Lin Yu reasoned that Shrek Academy had replaced Spirit Hall’s status but could not protect commoners or maintain order, leaving commoner Soul Masters oppressed by established families.
• Lin Yu answered that the lack of a force defending commoner Soul Masters was the root cause of Jiang Nannan’s actions, and the system confirmed he was correct.
• Lin Yu sent his answer through his Shangqing Avatar to Bi Luo and told her to give her reward to Tang San.
• Bi Luo answered correctly, and other participants, including Dugu Bo, submitted answers before the ten quick-answer slots filled.
• The Live Stream Room confirmed that Lin Yu, Bi Luo, and Dugu Bo answered correctly and issued them their rewards.

After Bi Luo explained that her sympathy for Jiang Nannan led her to the correct answer, Lin Yu argued that Spirit Hall protected commoner soul masters from exploitation. He left the Live Stream Room with a warning that without Spirit Hall, commoners like Jiang Nannan could be sacrificed by powerful factions.

• Tang San, Yu Xiaogang, and Liu Erlong learned that Bi Luo had won second place and asked how she had answered correctly.
• Bi Luo said she had thought of her own family's persecution and Jiang Nannan's desperation, arguing that both suffered because no faction stood up for commoners.
• Liu Erlong condemned Shrek Academy for refusing to help Jiang Nannan, while Yu Xiaogang agreed that its conduct had been improper.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Lin Yu why the absence of anyone defending commoners had caused Jiang Nannan to sell herself to save her mother.
• Lin Yu argued that Jiang Nannan would have received help in their era because Spirit Hall recruited and defended commoner soul masters.
• Lin Yu warned that if Spirit Hall were destroyed, commoners across the continent could face the same exploitation as Jiang Nannan.

After the broadcast, Lin Yu praised Spirit Hall’s support for commoner soul masters and condemned Tang San, prompting Flender and Liu Erlong to reconsider their views. The Live Q&A ended with the next one scheduled in six months, and after leaving, Yu Xiaogang tried to reassure Tang San while Liu Erlong grew displeased with him.

• Lin Yu argued that Spirit Hall had helped commoner soul masters, leading Flender and others to question their hostility toward it.
• Lin Yu criticized Tang San, then the system announced that the Live Q&A had ended and the next one would take place in six months.
• The participants left the Live Stream Room, including Tang San and the others in the City of Slaughter.
• Yu Xiaogang reassured Tang San that Jiang Nannan’s fate was due to her lack of talent and value to Shrek Academy.
• Tang San said Lin Yu’s words did not affect him and reflected that Tang Sect members looked out for themselves, while Liu Erlong became displeased with Yu Xiaogang.

Liu Erlong reconsidered her feelings for Yu Xiaogang after seeing his contempt for commoners, while Bi Luo offered her Ten Thousand Year Heaven-Sent Soul Ring to Tang San. The chapter ended with Tang San accepting the gift, moved by what he believed was Bi Luo’s love.

• Liu Erlong felt disgusted by Yu Xiaogang’s conflicting accounts about Jiang Nannan and began questioning whether she had ever truly loved him.
• Liu Erlong thought of Lin Yu’s warmth but told herself to give Yu Xiaogang another chance.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Bi Luo how she planned to use her Ten Thousand Year Heaven-Sent Soul Ring, hoping she would give it to Tang San.
• Bi Luo surprised Yu Xiaogang by saying she intended to give the soul ring to Tang San.
• Tang San initially tried to refuse, but Bi Luo urged him to accept it so he could become stronger and help her leave the City of Slaughter.

Lin Yu set aside his Martial Soul Evolution Opportunities while Tang San continued training in the City of Slaughter and Liu Erlong struggled with her changing feelings. After winning a brutal duel, Liu Erlong was ambushed by a group of powerful Fallen Soul Masters and found herself surrounded.

• Lin Yu learned his Martial Soul Evolution Opportunities could not improve his Chaos Azure Lotus or Double Pupil Martial Souls, and he chose to save them rather than risk evolving his Golden Dragon Martial Soul.
• Tang San trained to reach level forty and practiced his combat skills while Liu Erlong worried that her affection for Yu Xiaogang was fading and her fondness for Long Aotian was growing.
• Liu Erlong went alone to the Hell Slaughterfield, where she killed nine Fallen Soul Masters and felt some of her frustration ease.
• More than ten Fallen Soul Masters ambushed Liu Erlong outside the arena, and she narrowly dodged their first attack before they surrounded her.