Recaps

Tian Chen outbid Tang San’s group for the ten-thousand-year snow lotus, driving them out of the auction hall. The auction then introduced a left arm Soul Bone with an illusion-focused skill, which Tian Chen suspected was the one Tang San had obtained from Shi Nian.

• Xiao Ya resumed the snow lotus auction after Ning Fengzhi intervened, and Tian Chen raised the bid to one million Gold Soul Coins.
• Flender confronted Tian Chen, but Grandmaster stopped him and left the hall with Tang San; Liu Erlong and Flender followed.
• Tian Chen won the snow lotus after no one else bid.
• An extra lot arrived: a roughly ten-thousand-year-old Purple Langbei left arm Soul Bone with an illusion-focused skill, starting at two million Gold Soul Coins.
• Tian Chen wondered whether the Soul Bone was the one Tang San had obtained from Shi Nian in the original story.

Ning Fengzhi won the illusion-focused Mental Attribute Soul Bone for five million Gold Soul Coins, and the auction then revealed a dead Ice Jade Scorpion with more than ten thousand years of cultivation. Tian Chen suspected that one of the next items would be the Soul Bone from its missing right claw.

• Sword Douluo and Ning Fengzhi discussed the Soul Bone and the Xuanming Sect's likely reason for auctioning it.
• Ning Fengzhi bid five million Gold Soul Coins and secured the Soul Bone without competition.
• Tian Chen declined to bid because the Soul Bone's attribute did not suit him and Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling already had left arm bones.
• A bone-piercing chill spread through the auction hall as staff brought out the eighth item, which left Tian Chen, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling unaffected.
• Xiao Ya unveiled the corpse of a ten-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion and announced that the next two items were connected to it.
• Tian Chen noticed the scorpion's missing right claw and suspected that its Soul Bone would be auctioned next.

At the Heaven Dou Auction House, Xiao Ya presented an Ice Jade Scorpion youngling and the Ice Jade Scorpion’s right arm Soul Bone, whose extreme cold and powerful effects stirred the bidders’ excitement. Tian Chen warned Dugu Yan, Dugu Bo, and Ye Lingling that only a Soul Master with the Ultimate Ice attribute could absorb the bone, leaving Dugu Bo to lament how rare such a person was.

• Two girls brought out an Ice Jade Scorpion youngling found inside the ten-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion, and Xiao Ya explained that it might acknowledge a master but needed a freezing environment to grow.
• Xiao Ya revealed the ten-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion’s right arm Soul Bone and described its powerful ice and strength enhancements, though the auction house had not identified its fixed skill.
• Dugu Bo speculated that the Soul Bone’s skill might involve the Ice Jade Scorpion’s venom, while Dugu Yan showed interest in bidding for it.
• Tian Chen told Dugu Yan, Dugu Bo, and Ye Lingling that absorbing an Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone required the Ultimate Ice attribute.
• Dugu Bo lamented that Ice-attribute Soul Masters were rare and that there might be no one on the continent capable of absorbing the Soul Bone.

The auction began bidding on the Ice Jade Scorpion corpse, and Xu Xuanyou of the Xuanming Sect asked Tian Chen to yield it because its blood essence was needed for Mystic Water Pills. Tian Chen recognized the sect’s likely interest in the remaining Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone, while an unspoken shadow passed through his eyes.

• Xiao Ya announced starting prices for the Ice Jade Scorpion corpse, cub, and right arm bone, while the auction house learned that the Soul Bone’s absorption prerequisite was unknown.
• The auction for the corpse fell silent until Xu Xuanyou bid five hundred and fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Tian Chen sensed Xu Xuanyou’s strong bloodline power and identified him as a member of the Xuanming Sect, but Xu Xuanyou felt bloodline pressure from Tian Chen.
• Xu Xuanyou asked Tian Chen to give the Xuanming Sect face because the corpse’s blood essence was needed to produce Mystic Water Pills.
• Tian Chen suspected the Xuanming Sect had also arranged the earlier Mental Attribute Soul Bone auction and sought the final Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone.
• Xu Xuanming criticized his elder brother for treating Tian Chen respectfully, and Tian Chen’s eyes darkened as he listened.

At the Heaven Dou Auction House, Tian Chen outbid Xu Xuanyou for an Ice Jade Scorpion hatchling and then challenged the Xuanming Sect over the final Soul Bone. An Earth Dragon Sect girl watched the bidding, hoping the hatchling could help save her sect, while Xu Xuanyou offered the highest price his sect could afford for the Soul Bone.

• Dugu Bo explained that the secluded Xuanming Sect's direct descendants wielded the Xuanming Turtle Shell Shield and were rumored to carry Black Tortoise bloodline power.
• Tian Chen bid one million five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins for the Ice Jade Scorpion hatchling, and Xu Xuanyou stopped bidding after a companion advised him to save the sect's funds for the final lot.
• Tian Chen won the hatchling, while a masked girl from the Earth Dragon Sect told Uncle Ye that she hoped it could help protect her sect from the Heavenly Dragon Sect.
• Xu Xuanyou opened bidding on the Ice Jade Scorpion Right Arm Bone at eight million Gold Soul Coins, and Tian Chen immediately raised the price to ten million.
• Xu Xuanming grew resentful as the price threatened to exceed the Xuanming Sect's budget, and Xu Xuanyou offered ten million Gold Soul Coins plus fifty Mystic Water Pills.

At the Heaven Dou Auction House, Tian Chen won the baby Ice Jade Scorpion and snow lotus while the Xuanming Sect bought the Ice Jade Scorpion Right Arm Bone. Later that night, Tian Chen watched the Xuanming Sect members at the Sunset Hotel and realized they had begun absorbing the Soul Bone bearing his spiritual imprint.

• Xu Xuanyou offered fifty Mystic Water Pills for the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone, and the auction house accepted them at fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins each.
• The Xuanming Sect members left the auction hall with the Soul Bone, planning to leave Heaven Dou City once their people arrived.
• Tian Chen collected the snow lotus and baby Ice Jade Scorpion, and Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling wanted to raise the scorpion.
• Tian Chen went to the Sunset Hotel after midnight, where the Xuanming Sect members were staying with the Soul Bone.
• Tian Chen sensed that the Xuanming Sect had begun absorbing the Soul Bone and smiled because he had left a spiritual imprint on it.

Xu Xuanming died when the Ice Jade Scorpion Right Arm Bone violently rejected him, and the bone vanished before Xu Xuanyou and his Second Uncle arrived. They suspected a rival ice-attribute Soul Master, while Tian Chen secretly took the bone and returned to his building, planning to leave for Sunset Forest and prepare for Slaughter City.

• Xu Xuanming tried to fuse with the Ice Jade Scorpion Right Arm Bone, but its power froze him and burst his body apart.
• The Ice Jade Scorpion Right Arm Bone disappeared, and Xu Xuanyou and his Second Uncle found the remains in the ruined room.
• Xu Xuanyou and his Second Uncle suspected a Titled Douluo or an ice-attribute Soul Master, then considered the woman from Skywater Academy as a possible attacker.
• Tian Chen watched from a dark alley and revealed that he had used Instant Movement to take the Soul Bone without leaving a trace.
• Tian Chen returned to his building and planned to go to Sunset Forest the next day while preparing supplies for Slaughter City.

Tian Chen followed a familiar bloodline sensation and found Nan Yan'er and Uncle Ye, who had been searching for him to propose a deal. After Nan Yan'er revealed she was the Earth Dragon Sect's sect master, Tian Chen suspected their offer involved the well that nurtured ten-thousand-year Profound Ice Marrow.

• Tian Chen sensed a familiar bloodline presence near the pavilion and hurried toward it.
• Nan Yan'er and Uncle Ye searched Heaven Dou City for Tian Chen, but Uncle Ye urged her to leave because the city was dangerous.
• Uncle Ye sensed Tian Chen approaching and used his Night Dragon Martial Soul to shield Nan Yan'er.
• Tian Chen dispelled Uncle Ye's darkness and demanded to know where they came from.
• Nan Yan'er identified herself as the Earth Dragon Sect's sect master and said they wanted to make a deal with Tian Chen.
• Tian Chen told Nan Yan'er that the Earth Dragon Sect was the one asking for something and suspected their offer involved the well that nurtured ten-thousand-year Profound Ice Marrow.

Tian Chen agreed to help Nan Yan'er keep the Heavenly Dragon Sect from swallowing up the Earth Dragon Sect in exchange for access to a secret site that might contain a natural treasure. After learning that Nan Yan'er's Rouge Dragon was connected to the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon, he suspected their Martial Souls could form a fusion skill.

• Tian Chen invited Nan Yan'er and Uncle Ye to discuss their proposed deal, and Nan Yan'er wondered about his Martial Soul.
• Tian Chen showed them a Pope Token, convincing Uncle Ye that Spirit Hall stood behind him.
• Nan Yan'er asked Tian Chen to protect the Earth Dragon Sect from the Heavenly Dragon Sect and offered access to her ancestors' frigid secret site as payment.
• Tian Chen accepted the deal and asked Nan Yan'er to release her Rouge Dragon Martial Soul.
• Tian Chen sensed a connection between Nan Yan'er's Rouge Dragon and the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon and suspected their Soul Masters might have a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Tian Chen prepared to enter Slaughter City, taking Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor Poison and arranging weapons for the journey. Before leaving Heaven Dou City, he visited its Martial Soul Sacred Hall, where he learned Bishop Salas had been waiting for him.

• Tian Chen reassured Dugu Yan that he could withstand her Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor Poison, which he planned to use as a weapon against enemies in Slaughter City.
• Tian Chen told Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling that he would leave the next day and expected to be gone for two to three months, or at most half a year, to find Hu Liena and bring her out safely.
• After teasing Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, Tian Chen left the pavilion to collect weapons he had commissioned for his trip.
• Dugu Yan wondered why she had not become pregnant, and Ye Lingling shared her concern.
• At Heaven Dou City's Martial Soul Sacred Hall, Tian Chen presented his Pope Token, and a middle-aged man told him that Bishop Salas had been waiting for him.

Tian Chen visited Heaven Dou City's Martial Soul Sacred Hall to collect the Soul Power-conducting daggers he had commissioned and discussed Spirit Hall's shifting factional balance with Salas. When Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er arrived seeking to join Spirit Hall, Tian Chen asked to meet them alongside Salas.

• Salas welcomed Tian Chen and considered how the growing influence of the Worshipper Faction might affect his own loyalties.
• Tian Chen collected three purple daggers, tested how they held his destruction-attribute Soul Power, and judged their decorative patterns impractical.
• A red-robed bishop reported that Shui Bing'er and her younger half-sister Shui Yue'er had arrived from Skywater Academy to request an audience with Salas and join Spirit Hall.
• Salas told the bishop to make them wait, but Tian Chen stopped him and asked for the two girls to be brought in so they could meet together.

Tian Chen met Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er at the Spirit Hall, where they sought protection from the Xuanming Sect. He agreed to have Spirit Hall prevent the sect from attacking Skywater Academy and left Salas to handle the matter.

• Tian Chen and Salas watched Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er enter the great hall.
• Shui Yue'er recognized Tian Chen from the Heaven Dou auction, and Shui Bing'er stopped her from revealing more.
• Shui Bing'er recalled learning that the Xuanming Sect had supported Skywater Academy to find sacrifices for its heirs, so she and Shui Yue'er decided to join Spirit Hall.
• Tian Chen said their decision to join Spirit Hall alone would not make Spirit Hall fight the Xuanming Sect, but Shui Bing'er clarified that they only wanted protection for Skywater Academy.
• Tian Chen agreed to intervene, sent Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er with a bishop to complete their joining formalities, and gave Salas the Pope Token to act on his behalf.

Tian Chen returned to the loft, gave Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan daggers he had made for them, and spent the night with them. At dawn, he left for a journey expected to last no more than six months, asking them to seek Salas's help if trouble arose.

• Tian Chen left his meeting with Shui Bing'er and decided to keep the Soul Bone for now.
• Tian Chen joined Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan for dinner and gave each of them a dagger engraved with her Martial Soul.
• Dugu Yan drew Ye Lingling into an intimate moment with Tian Chen, and the three spent the night together.
• Tian Chen told Ye Lingling he would return within six months and that she and Dugu Yan could ask Salas for help.
• Tian Chen said goodbye to Ye Lingling and the sleeping Dugu Yan, then left the loft.

Tian Chen left Heaven Dou City and headed northwest toward the Wolf Bandits, while Ning Fengzhi and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect elders discussed Spirit Hall’s protection of Skywater Academy and Tian Chen’s hidden abilities. The chapter left Ning Fengzhi planning to have Ning Rongrong absorb the Soul Bone the sect had bought at auction.

• Tian Chen left Heaven Dou City and set out toward the Wolf Bandits to test his strength before going to Slaughter City.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Chen Xin and Gu Rong what they thought about Spirit Hall protecting Skywater Academy from the Xuanming Sect.
• Chen Xin revealed that he had sensed Tian Chen’s concealed Mental Power at the auction and suspected Tian Chen had a role in Spirit Hall’s intervention.
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong considered Tian Chen’s talent and discussed Ning Rongrong’s wish to find him.
• Ning Fengzhi decided to have Ning Rongrong absorb the Soul Bone the sect had purchased at auction.

Tian Chen encountered a wounded Soul Master while tracking the Wolf Bandits and learned that one had been seen west of their current location. He flew to the western mountains, found a group of roughly three hundred Wolf Bandits, and identified three enormous leaders.

• Tian Chen camped in the northwestern Heaven Dou Empire and spotted a village below the mountains.
• A wounded middle-aged Soul Master approached Tian Chen, but Tian Chen killed the Wolf Bandit pursuing him with lightning.
• The Soul Master told Tian Chen he had encountered the Wolf Bandit about twenty kilometers west.
• Tian Chen flew west and found a group of roughly three hundred Wolf Bandits.
• Tian Chen used his Evil God Domain to conceal himself and spotted three enormous cyan Wolf Bandits he suspected were the leaders.

Tian Chen unleashed his sixth Soul Skill, Heavenly Attraction of Ten Thousand Thunderbolts, to wipe out the Wolf Bandits who had been eating human corpses. He then faced the three green Wolf Bandits as they launched a coordinated attack.

• Tian Chen dropped into the Wolf Bandits and crushed several gray Wolf Bandits beneath him.
• Tian Chen activated his first two Soul Skills, and his shield shattered a dozen gray Wolf Bandits into bloody mist.
• Tian Chen summoned a thousand-meter purple dragon and used Heavenly Attraction of Ten Thousand Thunderbolts to destroy the surrounding Wolf Bandits.
• Tian Chen turned toward the three green Wolf Bandits, who attacked him from the front, above, and behind.
• Tian Chen's dark golden blades cut through the rear Wolf Bandit's ring of green light, while his shield nullified the other two attacks.

Tian Chen killed the last three Wolf Bandits after torturing them, but found only one Soul Bone among them. He kept the Azure Right Leg Bone and continued north.

• Tian Chen immobilized two Wolf Bandits with his black-purple barrier and lightning, then confronted the last one.
• Tian Chen used Instant Movement and compressed lightning to overcome the azure Wolf Bandit's Intangibility and Bloodthirst abilities, piercing its abdomen with a lightning arrow.
• Tian Chen tortured the three Wolf Bandits with heated rods until they died, then found a single Right Leg Bone in the largest one.
• Tian Chen stored the Soul Bone in his Soul Tool and continued hurrying north.

Tian Chen reached Slaughter City and entered by slaughtering the tavern’s patrons before descending through a hidden passage. After Terror Knight Scott welcomed him and issued him an identity token, a veiled woman appeared to guide him into the city.

• Tian Chen arrived at the town above Slaughter City after half a month of travel.
• Tian Chen killed the tavern’s patrons with a poisoned dagger, then smashed through the floor and jumped into the passage below.
• Tian Chen discovered that his Soul Ring Soul Skills were restricted in Slaughter City, though his Soul Power and Soul Bone abilities still worked.
• Terror Knight Scott welcomed Tian Chen, gave him token 6888, and led him toward the city gates.
• A veiled woman appeared at the gates and offered to guide Tian Chen into Slaughter City.

Tian Chen entered Slaughter City and asked his guide about a Spirit Hall member who had arrived two years earlier. She led him to the Hell Slaughter Arena, where he killed two experienced fighters for their Bloody Marys, leaving her alarmed by the danger he posed.

• The girl in black gauze explained that she would guide Tian Chen for twenty-four hours, and he asked her about the Spirit Hall member who had entered Slaughter City two years earlier.
• The girl in black gauze led Tian Chen through the inner city to the Hell Slaughter Arena and told him he needed a cup of Bloody Mary to enter as a spectator.
• Tian Chen approached a burly man and a seductive woman to take their Bloody Marys, and the woman attacked him with a dagger.
• Tian Chen killed the woman by crushing her hand and twisting her neck, then killed the burly man and took both Bloody Marys.
• The girl in black gauze feared Tian Chen and the other Spirit Hall member could threaten Slaughter City, so she resolved to warn the King of Slaughter.

Tian Chen found Hu Liena after she won her fiftieth match in the Hell Slaughter Arena and followed her to her home. When Hu Liena attacked him under the influence of Slaughter City's toxin, Tian Chen explained that his blood could neutralize it, and she began drinking it.

• Tian Chen entered the Hell Slaughter Arena with the girl in black gauze and watched Hu Liena defeat a black-robed opponent to earn her fiftieth victory.
• Hu Liena noticed Tian Chen and left the arena, and Tian Chen dismissed the girl in black gauze before following her.
• At a secluded wooden house, Hu Liena asked Tian Chen why he had come, then stabbed his palm when he took her hand.
• Tian Chen explained that Slaughter City's toxin was intensifying Hu Liena's killing intent and that his blood could counteract it.
• Hu Liena calmed down and began sucking blood from Tian Chen's injured hand of her own accord.

After Hu Liena treated Tian Chen’s wound, he began competing in the Hell Slaughter Arena and rapidly built a reputation as a dangerous killer. Six months later, he had won eighty matches and believed his growing killing aura was the nascent form of Divine Slaughter’s Domain.

• Hu Liena bandaged Tian Chen’s hand, but told him to leave after he apologized.
• Tian Chen set out to earn a hundred victories in the Hell Slaughter Arena within a year and registered to compete.
• Tian Chen killed more than a hundred opponents during five matches on his first day, then killed attackers who tried to ambush him.
• Tian Chen’s victories made challengers increasingly reluctant to enter matches with him, slowing his progress.
• Six months later, Tian Chen had won eighty matches and recognized his killing aura as the early form of Divine Slaughter’s Domain.

Tian Chen and Hu Liena continued their rise in Slaughter City, where Tian Chen reached seventy-three victories and third place in the rankings. After Hu Liena’s killing intent drove them to try a more intimate way of easing it, they realized the King of Slaughter was sending stronger opponents to stop them from leaving.

• Tian Chen’s Soul Power reached level sixty-five, and his five Soul Bones made him stronger than an ordinary Soul Saint even without using Soul Skills.
• Tian Chen won his seventy-third match, earning third place in the slaughter rankings, while Hu Liena killed a man who called her the Evil God’s companion.
• Back at their cabin, Hu Liena stopped Tian Chen from using his blood to ease her killing intent and chose the second method instead.
• The next morning, Tian Chen complained that Hu Liena had worn him out, and she teased him about wanting a relationship with three women.
• Tian Chen observed that their opponents had grown stronger and suspected the King of Slaughter was trying to keep them from leaving Slaughter City.

The King of Slaughter ordered a powerful fighter to kill the Evil God and the Hell Messenger, giving him a rare Soul Bone to strengthen him. Meanwhile, Tian Chen reached ninety-nine victories but struggled to control his growing killing intent, and Hu Liena surprised him with a new ability.

• The King of Slaughter rejected the suggestion to recruit the Evil God and the Hell Messenger and resolved to prevent them from surviving the rules or passing Hell Road.
• The King of Slaughter gave a black-robed middle-aged man a powerful Torso Bone and ordered him to kill the Evil God and the Hell Messenger within the arena’s rules.
• The King of Slaughter punished the young woman in black gauze for questioning the cost of his plan and insisted that Slaughter City could not allow more Slaughter Gods to emerge.
• After a year in Slaughter City, Tian Chen had ninety-nine arena victories and found his growing killing intent increasingly difficult to control.
• Hu Liena used an unfamiliar ability to decompose Tian Chen’s lightning, then teased him when he asked how she had gained it.
• Tian Chen refused to guess about Hu Liena’s new ability and walked toward the door.

Tian Chen entered the Hell Slaughter Arena for his hundredth victory and faced Flame Demon, whose King of the Earth Martial Soul and left-arm Soul Bone made him a dangerous opponent. After they killed the other contestants, Flame Demon unleashed his Soul Bone skill against Tian Chen.

• Tian Chen and Hu Liena registered for their hundredth Hell Slaughter Arena victories, qualifying them to challenge the Hell Road if they won.
• Eight contestants surrounded Tian Chen and Flame Demon, whom Tian Chen recognized as his final opponent and suspected of possessing a left-arm Soul Bone.
• Flame Demon revealed his King of the Earth Martial Soul, while Tian Chen transformed with purple scales, claws, and wings.
• Tian Chen and Flame Demon swiftly killed the contestants who attacked them, leaving the two men to face each other.
• Flame Demon slammed his left pincer into the arena floor and used his Soul Bone skill to distort the space and unleash waves of heat.

Tian Chen defeated Flame Demon in the Hell Slaughter Arena, tore away his Left Arm Soul Bone, and used Soul Deprivation to absorb his soul and memories. After reliving Flame Demon's life, Tian Chen opened his eyes with a dazed gaze.

• Flame Demon used Lava Purgatory, but Tian Chen quickly recovered and dispersed the heat with his wings.
• Tian Chen overwhelmed Flame Demon in close combat, breaking his pincers and forcing him to use Lava Purgatory again.
• Tian Chen used Invincible Golden Body to withstand the attack, tore off Flame Demon's left arm, and severed his remaining limbs and scorpion tail.
• Tian Chen revealed he had been holding back, then used Soul Deprivation to absorb Flame Demon's soul and memories.
• After nearly an hour of reliving Flame Demon's life, Tian Chen opened his eyes, dazed.