Chapter Summaries

The Hook-nosed Middle-aged Man reneged on his promise to release Tang San and demanded that Liu Erlong apologize. Yu Xiaogang begged Liu Erlong to save his disciple, even kneeling before her as Lin Yu urged her not to give in.

• The Hook-nosed Middle-aged Man said he would not release Tang San, and Liu Erlong angrily accused him of breaking his word.
• After Yu Xiaogang shouted at the Fallen Soul Masters, one of them slapped him across the face and sent him sprawling.
• The Hook-nosed Middle-aged Man demanded that Liu Erlong bow and apologize, then added that she had to repeat a humiliating confession three times.
• Lin Yu refused to apologize or intervene for Tang San, and he advised Liu Erlong to hold her ground.
• Yu Xiaogang pleaded with Liu Erlong to save Tang San and knelt before her, invoking their past friendship.

Yu Xiaogang begged Liu Erlong to save Tang San, and the Fallen Soul Masters repeatedly changed their demands while holding Tang San hostage. As Yu Xiaogang’s pleas made Liu Erlong feel unable to refuse, she prepared to kneel again, while Lin Yu tried to persuade her not to give in.

• Yu Xiaogang knelt before Liu Erlong and begged her to save Tang San, bringing up their past relationship and promising to agree to anything.
• Liu Erlong apologized to Lord Tieying and repeated his demanded phrase, but he mocked her and refused to release Tang San.
• Yu Xiaogang stopped Liu Erlong from attacking, and Lin Yu condemned his behavior and warned Liu Erlong that the Fallen Soul Masters would keep pushing their luck.
• Lord Tieying demanded that Liu Erlong kneel and repeat another apology, swearing that the group would release Tang San afterward.
• Yu Xiaogang kowtowed until his forehead bled, and Liu Erlong, feeling pity and pressure, prepared to accept the new demand.

Lin Yu tried to stop Liu Erlong from sacrificing her dignity for Yu Xiaogang, but Yu Xiaogang threatened suicide and she agreed to the Fallen Soul Masters’ demands. After Lin Yu left, the Fallen Soul Masters broke their promise to release Tang San, leaving Liu Erlong furious and ready to fight.

• Lin Yu urged Liu Erlong not to kneel for Yu Xiaogang and warned her that Yu Xiaogang was selfish and hypocritical.
• Liu Erlong defended Yu Xiaogang, and Lin Yu told her he would leave if she chose to listen to him.
• Yu Xiaogang threatened to kill himself with a dagger unless Liu Erlong saved Tang San, and Liu Erlong agreed to his demand.
• Lin Yu left, while Liu Erlong asked the Hook-nosed Middle-aged Man to release Tang San after she fulfilled the Fallen Soul Masters’ conditions.
• The Hook-nosed Middle-aged Man and the other Fallen Soul Masters laughed and refused to release Tang San, prompting Liu Erlong to erupt in anger and summon her Dragon Flames.

Liu Erlong refused to trade her dignity for Tang San’s release after Yu Xiaogang urged her to comply with the Fallen Soul Masters’ demand. Disgusted by Yu Xiaogang’s selfishness, she severed all ties with him, just as a streak of golden light struck the group holding Tang San.

• The Hook-nosed Middle-aged Man threatened to kill Tang San unless Liu Erlong kept the Fallen Soul Masters company.
• Yu Xiaogang pleaded with Liu Erlong to give in, believing he could not lose Tang San.
• Liu Erlong recognized Yu Xiaogang’s selfishness and rejected his plea.
• Liu Erlong condemned Yu Xiaogang and declared that she had severed all ties with him.
• A streak of golden light crashed into the Fallen Soul Masters.

Lin Yu rescued Tang San and reunited with Liu Erlong, who rejected Yu Xiaogang and chose to leave with Lin Yu. They settled in the City of Slaughter and fought in the Hell Slaughterfield as the twenty-ninth livestream approached.

• Lin Yu returned and rescued Tang San from the Fallen Soul Masters, then comforted Liu Erlong.
• Liu Erlong told Lin Yu she would sever ties with Yu Xiaogang and pursue a hundred victories with him so they could leave the City of Slaughter.
• Liu Erlong returned Tang San to Yu Xiaogang and ended her relationship with him, ignoring his pleas to stay.
• Lin Yu and Liu Erlong settled in the Inner City District, cultivating and competing in the Hell Slaughterfield while growing closer.
• Half a month passed, bringing the twenty-ninth livestream close.

Lin Yu told the major factions that the next Pill Assembly would be held in a year and feature upgraded pills. The live stream then showed Yu Xiaogang arriving at Notting Junior Soul Master Academy, where Headmaster Fellos came out to meet him.

• Dai Tianfeng asked Lin Yu when the next Pill Assembly would take place, and Lin Yu said it was expected in a year with upgraded pills.
• Ning Fengzhi, Bibi Dong, Xue Ye, and Dai Tianfeng expressed confidence in Lin Yu and anticipation for the next Pill Assembly.
• The live stream showed a carriage traveling to Notting City and stopping at Notting Junior Soul Master Academy.
• Yu Xiaogang presented the gatekeeper with a letter bearing Headmaster Fellos's seal and said he had come at Fellos's invitation.
• Headmaster Fellos came out with the gatekeeper to meet Yu Xiaogang.

Yu Xiaogang settled at Notting Academy after Fellos welcomed him, while the academy’s staff hoped to benefit from his supposed expertise. The chapter ended with Fellos and the teachers inviting Yu Xiaogang to teach there.

• Fellos greeted Yu Xiaogang warmly and brought him into Notting Academy, where Yu Xiaogang said he was satisfied with the modest surroundings.
• Fellos arranged for Yu Xiaogang to live near the top floor of the dormitory building, where the teachers stayed.
• Fellos convened a meeting, and the teachers discussed inviting Yu Xiaogang to teach because they believed his theories and reputation could help the academy.
• After treating Yu Xiaogang with respect for several days, Fellos gathered the teachers and formally invited him to join Notting Academy as a teacher.

Fellos confidently tried to recruit Yu Xiaogang to Notting Academy, believing the position would let him prove his martial soul theories. Yu Xiaogang repeatedly avoided accepting because he knew he could not train students, leaving Fellos hopeful and the academy’s teachers increasingly frustrated.

• Fellos brought Notting Academy’s teachers to invite Yu Xiaogang to join, but Yu Xiaogang tactfully said he needed time to think.
• Yu Xiaogang privately recognized that he could not teach ordinary students and feared losing his comfortable life at Notting Academy.
• Fellos waited all day for Yu Xiaogang’s answer, then continued making repeated visits and urging him to accept.
• After Yu Xiaogang rejected the invitations four times, some Notting Academy teachers mocked his arrogance, while Fellos defended him and kept trying to persuade him.
• Yu Xiaogang felt trapped by his false reputation and resolved to keep up the act rather than admit he lacked the ability to train students.

Yu Xiaogang rejected Fellos’s repeated requests to teach at Notting Academy, claiming he was too busy researching martial soul theory while continuing to stay there. His refusal soured his reputation among the academy’s teachers, who began to suspect he was a fraud who had plagiarized Spirit Hall’s knowledge.

• Yu Xiaogang told Fellos he could not join Notting Academy as a teacher because he needed to devote himself to martial soul theory research.
• Fellos proposed that Yu Xiaogang teach occasional guest lessons, but Yu Xiaogang refused again and made no promise to teach later.
• Fellos grew furious that Yu Xiaogang had moved into Notting Academy yet refused to contribute, though he kept up appearances because of their friendship and Yu Xiaogang’s background.
• Yu Xiaogang continued staying at Notting Academy, and the other teachers began doubting his ability and suspecting he had plagiarized Spirit Hall’s knowledge.

The live stream exposed Yu Xiaogang's empty research and shameless freeloading at Notting Academy before showing him meeting Tang San and accepting him as his disciple. The chapter ended with viewers mocking Yu Xiaogang's flawed deduction of Tang San's Twin Martial Souls and his hypocrisy about being too busy to teach.

• Fellos let Notting Academy's teachers criticize Yu Xiaogang for freeloading, while pretending to defend him because he had praised Yu Xiaogang before.
• Notting Academy discovered that Yu Xiaogang's research consisted of collecting data on newly awakened children's Martial Souls and Innate Soul Power, and the live stream's viewers suspected his earlier theories had been plagiarized from Spirit Hall.
• Yu Xiaogang returned to Notting Academy and intervened when the gatekeeper obstructed Old Jack and Tang San.
• Yu Xiaogang deduced that Tang San had Twin Martial Souls, causing Tang San to consider attacking him before kneeling and asking him to become his master.
• Yu Xiaogang accepted Tang San as his disciple, while viewers criticized his faulty reasoning and questioned why he could take a disciple despite claiming he was too busy to teach.

After the broadcast ended, the Live Stream Room asked why Yu Xiaogang had refused to teach at Notting Academy. Lin Yu answered that Yu Xiaogang feared exposing his lack of ability, but the system judged his answer incomplete, leaving him to search for the missing reason.

• The Live Stream Room ended its playback and announced a Q&A asking why Yu Xiaogang had been unwilling to teach at Notting Academy.
• The factions and soul beasts in the Live Stream Room considered the rewards, while many concluded Yu Xiaogang had feared that teaching would expose his lack of genuine ability.
• Lin Yu submitted that Yu Xiaogang had refused to teach because he feared exposing his lack of ability.
• The system told Lin Yu that his answer was not entirely correct.
• Lin Yu reasoned that Yu Xiaogang might also have looked down on Notting Academy's students, and considered how he could have lectured using knowledge he had plagiarized from Spirit Hall.

Lin Yu correctly identified that Yu Xiaogang had avoided teaching at Notting Academy partly because he looked down on students with insufficient talent and status. Yu Xiaogang accepted the accusation publicly to claim a Thousand Year Soul Bone for Tang San, even though he expected the admission to cost him his remaining friendships.

• Lin Yu revised his answer, saying Yu Xiaogang had also looked down on Notting Academy students with little talent or status.
• The system confirmed Lin Yu's answer and awarded him a random cultivation method; Yu Xiaogang also answered correctly and won a random Thousand Year Soul Bone.
• The Live Stream Room reacted with surprise that Yu Xiaogang had admitted to his hypocrisy after previously denying Lin Yu's accusations.
• In the City of Slaughter, Yu Xiaogang accepted that his admission would ruin his reputation with friends, but prioritized gaining strength for Tang San.

After Yu Xiaogang admitted his hypocrisy, Liu Erlong and Fellos rejected him, while Lin Yu mocked him in the Live Stream Room. The session ended with the next Live Q&A scheduled for six months later.

• Liu Erlong regretted trusting Yu Xiaogang and felt relieved that she had already severed ties with him.
• Fellos became furious after learning Yu Xiaogang had refused to teach at Notting Academy because he feared being exposed.
• Lin Yu mocked Yu Xiaogang for admitting his hypocrisy, and Yu Xiaogang endured the insults without replying.
• Tang San chose not to defend Yu Xiaogang, while Yu Tianheng also stayed silent.
• The system announced that the Live Stream Room would close in three minutes and the next Live Q&A would take place six months later.

Yu Xiaogang claimed a Thousand Year Soul Bone for his second-place answer reward and gave it to Tang San. Meanwhile, Lin Yu and Liu Erlong built impressive winning streaks in the Hell Slaughterfield, prompting the Slaughter King to consider recruiting them.

• Yu Xiaogang claimed a Thousand Year right arm bone and handed it to Tang San, who vowed to grow stronger and eventually leave the City of Slaughter.
• Lin Yu and Liu Erlong continued fighting together in the Hell Slaughterfield, reaching sixty-six and fifty-eight consecutive victories respectively.
• The Hell Slaughterfield named Lin Yu the Golden Dragon King and Liu Erlong the Crimson Dragon Queen.
• The Slaughter King asked about their winning streaks and learned they had separated from Tang San and Yu Xiaogang.
• The Slaughter King ordered his subordinate to contact Lin Yu and Liu Erlong and try to recruit them rather than eliminate them.

After Lin Yu won another brutal match in the Hell Slaughterfield, the Slaughter King’s envoy offered him and Liu Erlong positions as legion commanders in exchange for joining the City of Slaughter. Lin Yu refused, and the envoy warned them about the dangers of continuing their trials.

• Lin Yu defeated his final opponent in the Hell Slaughterfield and left the arena to meet Liu Erlong.
• A black-robed man approached Lin Yu and Liu Erlong, saying he represented the Slaughter King and wanted to discuss a matter with them.
• Lin Yu guessed that the Slaughter King wanted to recruit them, and the envoy offered them legion commander positions, freedom to leave the City of Slaughter, and permission to use soul skills there.
• Lin Yu refused the offer because he and Liu Erlong had come to clear the Hell Road and obtain Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• The envoy urged them to reconsider and threatened that they might regret refusing if something happened to them in the Hell Slaughterfield.

After Lin Yu and Liu Erlong rejected the Slaughter King’s invitation, he ordered an ambush against Lin Yu. Lin Yu faced two Soul Sages sent to kill him as their life-and-death duel began.

• Lin Yu and Liu Erlong left the Hell Slaughterfield after refusing the black-robed man’s offer to join the City of Slaughter.
• The Slaughter King learned of their refusal and ordered an ambush to kill Lin Yu.
• A black-robed man arranged for Lin Yu to face two Soul Sages in the next day’s duel.
• Lin Yu recognized the two Soul Sages as suspicious, and they revealed that the Slaughter King had sent them to kill him.
• The duel began as the woman in the red dress teased Lin Yu about tasting his blood.

The Bloodshade Duo revealed their rare Shadow and Vampire Martial Souls and slaughtered the Fallen Soul Masters in the Hell Slaughterfield. Liu Erlong learned of their blood-draining fusion skill and feared it could counter Ao Tian's non-elemental Dragon Martial Soul.

• The gloomy middle-aged man and the woman in the red dress activated their Martial Souls and began attacking the other contestants.
• The woman drained her victims of blood while the pair quickly killed nearly all the Fallen Soul Masters in the arena.
• Spectators recognized the attackers as the Bloodshade Duo, who had once used a fusion skill to exploit the Hell Slaughterfield and resist physical attacks.
• A Fallen Soul Master told Liu Erlong that the Slaughter King had defeated and subdued the Bloodshade Duo decades earlier.
• Liu Erlong worried that the Bloodshade Duo's resistance to physical attacks made them Ao Tian's natural counter.

Lin Yu faced the Bloodshade Duo after they slaughtered the other Fallen Soul Masters, and they fused into the Blood God to fight him. Lin Yu discovered that his physical attacks could not harm it, leaving him to confront the Duo’s claim that their fused form was immune to physical attacks.

• The Bloodshade Duo killed every Fallen Soul Master except Lin Yu, then declared that they wanted to taste his blood.
• Lin Yu entered Golden Dragon Martial Soul Possession and charged at the gloomy middle-aged man and the woman in red.
• The two opponents retreated and used Martial Soul Fusion Technique · Blood God Descent to transform into the Blood God.
• The Blood God attacked Lin Yu with Scarlet Claw, but Lin Yu evaded it and counterattacked with the Mountains and Seas Fist Scripture.
• Lin Yu’s punch passed through the Blood God without injuring it, and the Blood God claimed that its fused form was immune to physical attacks.

Lin Yu defeated the Bloodshade Duo by using lightning-attribute true qi and mental attacks to break their Martial Soul Fusion Skill. He cremated both opponents with fire attacks, then taunted a black-robed watcher as he left the arena.

• Lin Yu dodged the Blood God's Crimson Thorn attacks and pierced it with a lightning-charged Mountains and Seas Fist Scripture strike.
• Lin Yu used successive mental attacks while the Blood God suffered from lightning, breaking the Bloodshade Duo's Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Lin Yu struck the gloomy man with a fire-charged punch, shattering his bones and reducing him to ashes.
• Lin Yu kicked the heavily made-up woman in the red dress, shattering her bones and burning her to ashes.
• The spectators cheered for Lin Yu as he gave a black-robed watcher the middle finger and left the arena.
• The black-robed watcher clenched his fists, furious that Lin Yu had won.

Lin Yu and Liu Erlong each achieved one hundred consecutive victories in the Hell Slaughterfield, and the Slaughter King offered to grant them Slaughter God status if they abandoned Hell Road. Lin Yu refused, insisting they face the trial, and the Slaughter King unleashed a wave of killing intent and Soul Power as he prepared to open the way.

• Lin Yu reassured Liu Erlong after leaving the competition passage, and she explained that she had feared the Bloodshade Duo's Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Over two months, Lin Yu won more than thirty matches while waiting for Liu Erlong to reach ninety-nine victories, secretly helping her with mental attacks when she faced stronger opponents.
• Lin Yu and Liu Erlong achieved their hundredth consecutive victories on the same day, prompting the Slaughter King to descend and congratulate them.
• The Slaughter King offered to grant Lin Yu and Liu Erlong Slaughter God status without making them enter Hell Road, but Lin Yu rejected the offer and demanded the trial.
• The Slaughter King warned them of the danger, then released a surge of killing intent, Soul Power, and crimson mist across the arena and spectator stands.