Chapter Summaries

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.

After Tian Chen and Hu Liena each completed their hundredth victory in the Hell Slaughter Arena, the King of Slaughter sent them into Hell Road. As they were swallowed by the blood-red light, Tian Chen sensed that Slaughter City's secrets lay within the trial.

• Tian Chen examined Flame Demon's memories, found nothing about the Asura God Inheritance, and claimed two valuable Soul Bones from his ashes.
• Tian Chen signaled Hu Liena, who won her hundredth arena match an hour later.
• The King of Slaughter appeared and, after Tian Chen demanded it, agreed to open Hell Road for him and Hu Liena.
• The King of Slaughter released an evil red presence that drove the arena spectators into madness and gathered their blood into a pattern.
• The blood-red light transported Tian Chen and Hu Liena into Hell Road, where Tian Chen shielded Hu Liena and sensed Slaughter City's secrets ahead.

Tian Chen and Hu Liena advanced along Hell Road and fought off a swarm of blood-red bats before confronting the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King. Tian Chen disabled the creature’s flight with his Demon-Suppressing Domain, and Hu Liena killed it by piercing all three heads with her fox tails.

• Tian Chen and Hu Liena awakened on a narrow platform on Hell Road and set off together, using flight and mental detection to navigate the darkness.
• Tian Chen told Hu Liena that the rising heat meant lava lay beneath them and that they were nearing the end of Hell Road.
• More than a thousand blood-red bats attacked, but Tian Chen’s golden domain caused them to plunge into the abyss.
• Tian Chen warned Hu Liena about the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King and used his Demon-Suppressing Domain to restrain it and strip away its ability to fly.
• Hu Liena evaded the bat king’s dark red shock waves, used her fox tails to steady herself, and struck all three heads at once, killing it.

Tian Chen and Hu Liena recovered after defeating the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King, then continued along Hell Road in search of the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent. They encountered the serpent and prepared to combine their domains as it attacked.

• Hu Liena revealed her fox-tail abilities, and Tian Chen recognized her external soul bone and domain.
• After resting, Tian Chen and Hu Liena continued along the increasingly hot path through Hell Road.
• Tian Chen used his Evil God Domain to shield them from the heat and suppress his rising impulses.
• Tian Chen and Hu Liena spotted the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent as it advanced toward them.
• The serpent breathed a wave of fiery light and toxic mist, and Tian Chen urged Hu Liena to combine her domain with his.

Tian Chen and Hu Liena defeated the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent and reached the exit from Hell Road. As they passed through the white curtain, the power of Slaughter eroded their bodies and consciousness.

• Hu Liena weakened the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent with her nine-colored domain while Tian Chen drained its vitality with his Evil God Domain.
• Tian Chen stopped the serpent's released inner core with his Mental Power, then killed the beast with his Dark Gold Dreadclaw and collected the core.
• Tian Chen explained the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's origins and the inner core's ability to neutralize snake venom and suppress snakes.
• Tian Chen and Hu Liena flew through the rising heat toward the exit, then crossed the blood lake under the protection of Tian Chen's Evil God Domain.
• Tian Chen and Hu Liena entered the white curtain and felt the pure slaughter Qi eroding their bodies as their consciousness faded.

Tian Chen and Hu Liena left Slaughter City after Tian Chen awakened the Divine Slaughter's Domain, then traveled toward Spirit City. Meanwhile, Grandmaster explained to Tang San and Oscar how they could restore their incomplete third Soul Skills, though the remedy would limit their fourth Soul Rings.

• Tian Chen woke with Hu Liena in his arms and discovered white markings on his wrist that let him wield the Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• Tian Chen and Hu Liena set off for Spirit City, and he slowed their journey so Hu Liena could enjoy a brief respite from her duties.
• Near a lake in the Silves Kingdom, Tian Chen and Hu Liena discussed their responsibilities before sharing an intimate moment.
• At Shrek Academy, Zhu Zhuqing kept her distance from Dai Mubai as Grandmaster gathered the students and Flender asked about Tang San's and Oscar's incomplete third Soul Skills.
• Grandmaster said Tang San and Oscar could restore their third Soul Skills by hunting Soul Beasts like those that gave them their third Soul Rings, but doing so would restrict their fourth-ring choices.