Chapter Summaries

Tang San won his hundredth consecutive match in the Hell Slaughterfield, and the Slaughter King opened the Hell Road while arranging for enemies to ambush Tang San beyond its exit. Tang San entered the Hell Road and raced through its first dangers, confident he could survive them.

• Tang San earned his hundredth consecutive victory despite the Fallen Soul Masters' hostility, and the Slaughter King arrived to open the Hell Road.
• The Slaughter King forced the spectators to attend and sacrificed about half of them to form the blood-colored bat pattern that would teleport Tang San.
• The Slaughter King revealed that Spirit Hall and the Immortal Palace had been warned to ambush Tang San outside the City of Slaughter, while Lin Yu sent Shangqing Avatar Long Aotian to wait there as well.
• Tang San stepped into the teleportation array and entered the Hell Road, recognizing that it resembled the route shown in the live stream.
• Tang San used Purple Demon Eyes and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to navigate the darkness and narrow path, then passed several Soul Beast attacks.

Lin Yu and Liu Erlong crossed the first trial on Hell Road by wiping out the Blood-colored Bat Swarm and its Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King. They continued deeper into the road and encountered the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent, the second trial.

• Lin Yu warned Liu Erlong about the approaching Blood-colored Bat Swarm and entered Golden Dragon Martial Soul Possession.
• Lin Yu's dragon might sent most of the bats plunging into the river of blood, and his Mental Storm attacks killed or incapacitated many more.
• Liu Erlong swept away the remaining bats with flames, and Lin Yu killed the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King with a spear after stunning it with a mental attack.
• Lin Yu led Liu Erlong farther along Hell Road, where the blood river's heat and light intensified.
• After about half an hour, Lin Yu spotted the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent coiled on Hell Road.

Lin Yu fought the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent on the Hell Road, hoping to obtain its inner core for Liu Erlong to absorb and evolve her Martial Soul. After wounding the serpent, he successfully provoked it into launching its inner core at him.

• Liu Erlong was shocked by the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent’s bizarre appearance as she followed Lin Yu along the Hell Road.
• Lin Yu decided to wound the serpent and obtain its inner core for Liu Erlong, whose Fire Dragon Martial Soul might evolve by absorbing it.
• When the serpent prepared to attack, Lin Yu suppressed it with Golden Dragon might and a mental shock, then rushed in and wounded it with his Oracle Bone Dragon Claw.
• The wounded serpent flew into a rage and launched its gold-red inner core at Lin Yu as a powerful attack.
• Lin Yu saw the inner core coming and was delighted, exclaiming, “Perfect!”

Lin Yu killed the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent and stored its inner core before leading Liu Erlong farther along Hell Road. The blood mist triggered Liu Erlong’s inner demons, and she began falling into an abyss as Lin Yu grabbed her hand.

• Lin Yu dodged the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent’s inner core, killed the serpent with the Oracle Bone Dragon Claw, and stored the core.
• Liu Erlong asked Lin Yu about the core, and he told her it was a treasure before they continued along Hell Road.
• Lin Yu recognized the rising heat and blood mist as signs of Hell Road’s third trial and suppressed the mist’s evil influence with the Eternal Life Art.
• The blood mist stirred Liu Erlong’s painful memories and illusions about her childhood, Yu Xiaogang, and the City of Slaughter.
• Liu Erlong stumbled backward from the pursuing souls of Yu Xiaogang and Tang San and began falling into an abyss, but Lin Yu seized her hand and called out to her.

Lin Yu rescued Liu Erlong after an inner demon nearly made her fall from the Hell Road, then comforted her and helped her continue onward. A new illusion made Liu Erlong mistake Lin Yu for her groom and pounce on him, so he knocked her unconscious and carried her toward the exit.

• Liu Erlong was bewitched by an inner demon and fell from the Hell Road, but Lin Yu caught her hand and pulled her back to safety.
• Lin Yu explained inner demons to Liu Erlong and comforted her as she trembled over memories of her childhood.
• Liu Erlong felt moved by Lin Yu's tenderness, released her tight embrace, and continued along the Hell Road with him.
• After inhaling the evil blood mist, Liu Erlong fell into another inner demon and saw Lin Yu as her groom in a bridal chamber.
• Liu Erlong pounced on Lin Yu, but he dodged, knocked her unconscious, and carried her onward.

Lin Yu carried the unconscious Liu Erlong across the blood river and out of Hell Road, gaining the Divine Slaughter's Domain as he passed through the exit. After he chose to postpone giving her the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's Inner Core until it could be appraised, Liu Erlong awoke and was overwhelmed with shame over her actions in the heart-demon illusion.

• Lin Yu used the Chaos Azure Lotus Martial Soul to cross the blood river with Liu Erlong, then climbed the cliff and escaped through Hell Road's exit.
• Icy energy entered Lin Yu and gathered in his Golden Dragon Martial Soul, forming the Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• Lin Yu awoke in a forest outside the City of Slaughter and left Liu Erlong undisturbed while she remained unconscious.
• Lin Yu examined the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's Inner Core and decided to have his main body appraise it before giving it to Liu Erlong.
• Liu Erlong awoke, remembered how the heart-demon illusion had made her act toward Lin Yu, and blushed with embarrassment.

After leaving the City of Slaughter, Lin Yu and Liu Erlong discovered that they had both gained Divine Slaughter's Domain and traveled together to Heaven Dou Imperial City. Liu Erlong brought Lin Yu to Blue Tyrant Academy, where the gatekeeper was shocked to see her return with a handsome young man.

• Liu Erlong awakened her Fire Dragon Martial Soul's Divine Slaughter's Domain and tested its Slaughter Assault ability.
• Lin Yu agreed to accompany Liu Erlong to Heaven Dou Imperial City, and they set out together after resting outside Hell Road.
• After more than a month of travel, Lin Yu and Liu Erlong returned to Heaven Dou Imperial City.
• Liu Erlong took Lin Yu to Blue Tyrant Academy, where the gatekeeper gaped at her return and wondered if she had taken up with a younger man.

Liu Erlong returned to Blue Tyrant Academy with Lin Yu and introduced him to the students and staff as they toured the grounds. The students spread gossip about their relationship, and Vice-Dean Su Tianlong arrived to welcome her back and ask who Lin Yu was.

• Liu Erlong returned to Blue Tyrant Academy with Lin Yu and told the gatekeeper that the academy had been left in his care and Vice-Dean Su’s leadership.
• Liu Erlong affectionately led Lin Yu around the academy, leaving the gatekeeper shocked by her gentle behavior toward the handsome young man.
• Students saw Liu Erlong leaning on Lin Yu and spread rumors that she had returned with a boyfriend after giving up on Yu Xiaogang.
• Su Tianlong chased away the students who had gathered to watch Liu Erlong and Lin Yu.
• Liu Erlong praised Su Tianlong for keeping the academy running during her absence, and he asked who Lin Yu was.

Lin Yu and Liu Erlong returned to Blue Tyrant Academy, where Liu introduced him as her sworn younger brother and Su Tianlong thanked him for rescuing her. After settling in, Lin Yu went to Dugu Manor and began appraising the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent Inner Core with his Soul Skill of Destiny.

• Liu Erlong introduced Lin Yu to Su Tianlong as her sworn younger brother and said he had brought her safely out of the City of Slaughter.
• Su Tianlong thanked Lin Yu on behalf of Blue Tyrant Academy, and Liu arranged a welcome banquet for him.
• Lin Yu toured Blue Tyrant Academy with Liu Erlong and settled there.
• The next day, Lin Yu left the academy and went to Dugu Manor, where his true body awaited the Shangqing Avatar.
• The Shangqing Avatar handed Lin Yu the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent Inner Core, and Lin Yu used his External Soul Bone-Eyed Golden Lion Vertical Pupil to activate the Soul Skill of Destiny on it.

After appraising the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent Inner Core and finding no side effects, Lin Yu went to Blue Tyrant Academy to give it to Liu Erlong. Liu Erlong swallowed the core and began refining it, leaving the results for the next day.

• Lin Yu used the Eye of Destiny to learn that the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent Inner Core could increase cultivation and evolve certain martial souls without listed side effects.
• Lin Yu left a Shangqing Avatar at Dugu Manor and went to Blue Tyrant Academy as Long Aotian.
• Lin Yu took Liu Erlong to a moonlit lake and told her he had a gift for her.
• Liu Erlong guessed the gift was a ring, but Lin Yu revealed it was the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent Inner Core.
• Lin Yu explained the core could boost Liu Erlong's cultivation and evolve her martial soul, and Liu Erlong swallowed it before beginning to refine it.

Liu Erlong absorbed the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent Inner Core, evolving her Martial Soul and gaining the Fire Dragon Domain, while Lin Yu helped her obtain an eighth soul ring. Lin Yu decided to refine his plan to visit the Far North Land after the thirtieth Live Q&A, which then began across the Douluo Continent.

• Liu Erlong's Fire Dragon Martial Soul evolved into a Seven-Headed Dragon, and her cultivation rose to rank eighty.
• Liu Erlong revealed her Fire Dragon Domain to Lin Yu and thanked him for giving her the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent Inner Core.
• Lin Yu helped Liu Erlong hunt a roughly fifty-thousand-year fire-attribute draconic soul beast for her eighth soul ring.
• Lin Yu decided to wait until after the next Live Q&A before traveling to the Far North Land to explore turning Snow Empress and Ice Empress into Soul Spirits.
• The thirtieth Live Q&A began, transporting people across the Douluo Continent into the familiar illusory space.

Lin Yu announced that he had developed and stockpiled upgraded pills, and invited the continent’s major forces to the third Pill Assembly. The live stream then opened on a village being massacred by Evil Soul Masters.

• Ning Fengzhi asked Lin Yu about his upgraded pills and the next Pill Assembly, and Lin Yu announced the pills were ready and the gathering would take place in three months.
• Dai Tianfeng, Ning Fengzhi, Bibi Dong, Xue Ye, and other leaders promised to attend and asked Lin Yu to reserve upgraded pills for them.
• In the City of Slaughter, Tang San grew jealous of Lin Yu’s praise, then resolved to cultivate until he could escape with Bi Luo and Yu Xiaogang and avenge his father.
• The live stream began and showed a village stained with blood as screams and sinister laughter came from below.
• The camera revealed the village engulfed in fire and slaughter, with Evil Soul Masters attacking its inhabitants.

Lin Yu recognized Blood Infant as an Evil Soul Master who cultivated by consuming infants, while the livestream showed him leading a massacre of a village. Blood Infant gathered five infants and began sucking the brain from one of them.

• Blood-robed Evil Soul Masters burned and destroyed a village, slaughtered its people, and seized five infants.
• The Evil Soul Masters brought the infants to their leader, Blood Infant, outside the village.
• Lin Yu recalled that Blood Infant would use infants’ brains and hearts to cultivate and had reached the Titled Douluo realm in the original novel.
• Blood Infant summoned his Blood Infant Martial Soul, revealed eight soul rings, and activated Martial Soul Possession.
• Blood Infant grabbed an infant and bit into its head to suck out its brain as the livestream audience watched in horror.

The Live Stream Room watched Blood Infant and his fellow Evil Soul Masters slaughter villagers, while Blood Infant blamed Shrek Academy’s weakness and recalled how Spirit Hall once suppressed Evil Soul Masters. As viewers learned how poverty and abuse had driven some Soul Masters to evil, many reconsidered Spirit Hall’s restrictions on harming commoners, but Lin Yu insisted the Evil Soul Masters still had to pay for their crimes.

• Blood Infant devoured five infants in the live stream, enraging Lin Yu and viewers across the Live Stream Room.
• A blood-robed subordinate warned Blood Infant that attacking a town could delay their escape until Shrek Academy arrived.
• Blood Infant ridiculed Shrek Academy and said Spirit Hall’s free awakenings, subsidies, and protection had once prevented Evil Soul Masters from flourishing.
• The Live Stream Room revealed that poverty, lack of education, and oppression had contributed to the Evil Soul Masters’ descent into evil, but Lin Yu rejected forgiveness without atonement.
• Many Soul Masters, families, and nobles reconsidered Spirit Hall’s limits on harming commoners, fearing that removing them could let more Evil Soul Masters rise.

The live broadcast showed Shrek Academy arriving too late to investigate Blood Infant’s massacre and failing to track the Evil Soul Masters, while Lin Yu explained how Spirit Hall’s destruction left the continent without an effective force to maintain order. Viewers increasingly blamed Tang San, leaving him effectively the continent’s public enemy.

• Blood Infant led his Evil Soul Masters away from the destroyed village, and the broadcast shifted to the aftermath several days later.
• Shrek Academy’s Law Enforcement Team arrived at the village but found no clues and could not track Blood Infant’s group.
• Lin Yu explained that the two great empires had restricted Shrek Academy from replacing Spirit Hall, leaving commoners and soul masters without Spirit Hall’s support and protection.
• Viewers grew angrier at Shrek Academy’s delayed and fruitless investigation and more resentful toward Tang San for destroying Spirit Hall.
• After seeing a village of ordinary commoners massacred, people across the continent came to hate Tang San, who effectively became the continent’s public enemy.

The livestream showed how the destruction of Spirit Hall left commoners unprotected from Soul Master violence, noble abuse, and injustice, driving many victims to become Evil Soul Masters. After the broadcast ended, the live stream asked what had caused Evil Soul Masters to run rampant across the future Douluo Continent.

• Two groups of Soul Masters fought in a tavern, wrecked it, and killed nearby residents with the shockwaves of their battle, but no one sought justice for the victims.
• The livestream showed a noble abducting a commoner girl, whose brother became an Evil Soul Master to seek revenge after she died resisting him.
• A commoner boy became an Evil Soul Master after a noble took his beloved, then killed her after finally taking revenge.
• The livestream showed oppressive nobles forcing commoners to flee their homes and turn to banditry and Evil Soul Master cultivation.
• The broadcast ended, and the live stream posed a question about what caused Evil Soul Masters to run rampant in the future.

Lin Yu reasoned that Evil Soul Masters ran rampant in the future because the two great empires prevented a new Spirit Hall from emerging, leaving commoner Soul Masters without protection. He concluded that nobles could exploit or divert Soul Master stipends, driving some commoners toward becoming Evil Soul Masters.

• The Live Stream Room announced the Holy Light Feather as the second-place reward, prompting Qian Daoliu, Qian Renxue, and the Heaven Dou Imperial Family to covet its power to evolve their Martial Souls.
• The factions considered why Evil Soul Masters had run rampant in the future and suspected that the absence of Spirit Hall was only part of the answer.
• Lin Yu argued that the question had to be answered from the era of the Peerless Tang Sect, when no force replaced Spirit Hall to protect commoner Soul Masters and maintain order.
• Lin Yu reasoned that the two great empires would prevent another Spirit Hall from rising after the Spirit Hall Empire’s upheaval.
• Lin Yu concluded that without Spirit Hall’s oversight, nobles could embezzle Soul Master stipends, provoke commoner Soul Masters, and drive some toward becoming Evil Soul Masters.

Lin Yu reasoned that Evil Soul Masters spread across the future Douluo Continent because Spirit Hall’s duties went unmet after its destruction, commoners faced worsening oppression, and Tang San destroyed the City of Slaughter. He submitted his answer and learned it was correct, while other factions hurried to compete for the remaining rewards.

• Lin Yu concluded that the empires’ failure to replace Spirit Hall would worsen noble exploitation and push commoner Soul Masters toward becoming Evil Soul Masters.
• Lin Yu reasoned that the City of Slaughter had contained dangerous criminals, and that its destruction drove them to commit further atrocities while fleeing pursuit.
• Lin Yu answered that Spirit Hall’s destruction, the empires’ inaction, and Tang San’s destruction of the City of Slaughter caused Evil Soul Masters to run rampant.
• Xie Yu, Lin Xuan, Su Yao, and others submitted their own answers as factions raced for the remaining rewards.
• The Live Stream Room confirmed Lin Yu’s answer was correct, and he felt relieved.

The Live Stream Room confirmed Lin Yu’s answer that Evil Soul Masters later ran rampant because Tang San destroyed Spirit Hall and the City of Slaughter but failed to replace Spirit Hall’s role. Lin Yu won two random rewards, while the other factions lost Soul Power, and the discussion left Tang San’s responsibility in focus.

• The Live Stream Room declared Lin Yu’s answer correct and awarded him two random rewards.
• The Live Stream Room announced that Xie Yu, Lin Xuan, Su Yao, and other participants had answered incorrectly and stripped away their Soul Power.
• Ning Fengzhi lamented that Lin Yu had won the Holy Light Feather, which he had hoped to obtain for Ning Rongrong’s Martial Soul.
• Lin Yu told Ning Fengzhi that his answer had been close but had omitted Tang San’s failure to establish a force to take over Spirit Hall’s responsibilities.
• Lin Yu argued that Tang San’s destruction of Spirit Hall without restoring its role had helped leave the future continent vulnerable to Evil Soul Masters.

Ning Fengzhi realized Tang San could have replaced Spirit Hall after destroying it, while Tang San angrily challenged Lin Yu over the blame. Lin Yu used Tang San’s neglect of his relatives and teacher to expose his selfishness, leaving Yu Xiaogang stunned by the revelation that Tang San had four chances to bring people to the God Realm.

• Ning Fengzhi reconsidered his explanation for the future spread of Evil Soul Masters and recognized Tang San’s failure to replace Spirit Hall as another cause.
• Tang San grew furious at being blamed and publicly demanded to know why he should have established a replacement force.
• Lin Yu accused Tang San of disregarding the harm to his relatives and friends on Douluo Continent.
• Lin Yu mocked Tang San for leaving Yu Xiaogang behind despite having four opportunities to bring people to the God Realm.
• Yu Xiaogang was stunned to learn that Tang San had possessed four such opportunities.