Chapter Summaries

Tang Feng persuaded Tai Tan to return the Strength Clan to the Clear Sky Sect, then revealed the sect’s formidable strength through Tang Lie’s demonstration of a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring. He offered the four clans opportunities as a gesture of amends and began by presenting one to Niu Gao.

• Tang Feng condemned Tang Hao for abandoning the Clear Sky Sect and the Four Great Single-Attribute Clans, and challenged Tai Long to say whether he would repeat Tang Hao’s actions.
• Tai Long declared that he would never sacrifice his clan or hide from responsibility, breaking Tai Tan’s conviction in Tang Hao.
• Tai Tan knelt, admitted he was wrong, and agreed to return the Strength Clan to the Clear Sky Sect if Tang Hao could someday earn forgiveness through service; Tang Feng promised to consider it.
• When Bai He and Niu Gao questioned the claim that the Clear Sky Sect had eight Titled Douluos, Tang Lie displayed his rank ninety-five Soul Power and nine Soul Rings, including a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Tang Lie explained that Tang Xiao had reached rank ninety-seven and that seven others had become Titled Douluos, while the sect continued preparing to take revenge on Spirit Hall.
• Tang Feng assured Niu Gao, Bai He, and Tai Tan that the sect’s opportunities would also benefit the four clans, then took an object from the Wishful Hundred Treasure Purse for Niu Gao.

Tang Feng gave Niu Gao, Bai He, and Tai Tan immortal herbs that transformed their Martial Souls and increased their strength. He outlined plans for the Clear Sky Sect’s return, including his journey to Slaughter City and the four clans’ relocation near Heaven Dou City, then asked Tai Tan to choose a site for the new headquarters.

• Tang Feng gave Niu Gao the Earth Dragon Golden Melon, Bai He the Wind Plume Flower, and Tai Tan the Vajra Arhat Fruit, and all three chiefs consumed their herbs.
• Niu Gao’s Armored Giant Rhino evolved into an Armored Earth Dragon at rank eighty-seven, Bai He gained sharp offensive feathers and reached rank eighty-five, and Tai Tan broke through to rank eighty-eight.
• Niu Gao knelt to thank Tang Feng, who predicted that the three chiefs could grow stronger and perhaps reach the Titled Douluo realm after fully refining the herbs.
• Tang Feng told the clan chiefs that he planned to train in Slaughter City for two or three years before the Clear Sky Sect returned to the Soul Master World.
• Tang Feng proposed moving all four clans near Heaven Dou City and rebuilding the sect headquarters, then asked Tai Tan to recommend a defensible site.

Tang Feng secured Cloud Mist Mountain as the four clans’ secret base and began building ties with the younger generation by gifting Bai Chenxiang a Soul Bone. After commissioning Tai Tan to forge a heavier cudgel, Tang Feng told Tang Lie that they still had a long road ahead and it was time to depart.

• Tang Feng and the clan chiefs chose Cloud Mist Mountain for the new sect base, arranged one million Gold Soul Coins for its construction, and agreed to keep the project secret from Spirit Hall.
• At a banquet, Tang Feng welcomed Tai Long, Bai Chenxiang, and Niu Zhen as fellow sect members and vowed that the four clans would share honor and disgrace.
• Tang Feng gave Bai Chenxiang a twelve-thousand-year Blade-Hunting Golden Eagle right arm bone, and promised Tai Long and Niu Zhen he would seek Soul Bones suited to them.
• Tang Feng asked Tai Tan to forge a longer, thicker cudgel from Nine Revolutions Wrought Iron, and Tai Tan hurried off to begin the work.
• Tang Lie praised Tang Feng for securing the four clans’ allegiance, and Tang Feng said they still had a long road ahead and should set off.

Tang Feng secured the four clans’ return to the Clear Sky Sect and warned Tang Xiao that Crown Prince Xue Qinghe might be tied to Spirit Hall. After Tang Feng left for Slaughter City, the Shrek Academy group arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

• Tang Yuehua returned to the Clear Sky Sect with Tang Feng’s report, and Tang Xiao ordered funds and support for the four clans’ new settlement.
• Tang Xiao read Tang Feng’s secret warning about Xue Qinghe, then ordered the sect to contact Xue Ye directly, monitor the crown prince, and quietly alert the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Tai Tan presented Tang Feng with a 3,600-jin Golden Cudgel, which Tang Feng tested and praised.
• Tang Feng and Tang Lie bade farewell to Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling before flying north toward Slaughter City.
• The Shrek Academy group arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Flender hoped the school could merge with the academy and give its students a recognized academic background.

Shrek Academy arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy to seek an exchange, but Prince Xue Beng insulted the group and Dai Mubai beat him before Qin Ming escorted them to meet the Education Committee. The committee welcomed them, and Zhi Lin praised Tang San and Yu Xiaogang after learning of Tang San’s cultivation.

• Ning Rongrong, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, Zhu Zhuqing, and the others reacted to Heaven Dou Royal Academy as Flender led Shrek’s group toward its gates.
• Prince Xue Beng and his attendants mocked the group and challenged their right to enter, so Dai Mubai used White Tiger Vajra Transformation to beat Xue Beng and send the attendants fleeing.
• Qin Ming welcomed Flender and Shrek, then led them through the academy grounds to meet the three Education Committee members.
• Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin introduced themselves as Soul Douluos and welcomed the Shrek group.
• Yu Xiaogang identified Tang San as his disciple, and Tang San introduced himself as a level-thirty-four Control System Battle Soul Elder with the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.
• Zhi Lin praised Tang San’s foundations and expressed respect for Yu Xiaogang’s teaching.

Prince Xue Xing and Dugu Bo forced the Shrek group out of Heaven Dou Royal Academy, with Dugu Bo beating Yu Xiaogang unconscious. Flender led the group away, and Qin Ming resigned to follow them.

• Meng Shenji praised Zhu Zhuqing and offered to arrange the Shrek students' enrollment at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Prince Xue Xing entered with Dugu Bo and royal guards, then condemned the Shrek group for injuring Prince Xue Beng.
• Dugu Bo's pressure forced the Shrek group down, and he beat Yu Xiaogang unconscious after Yu threatened him and the Dugu Family.
• Tang San nearly attacked Dugu Bo with his Zhuge Repeating Crossbow, but Meng Yiran stopped him, and Tang San vowed revenge.
• Prince Xue Xing gave the group the choice to leave or stay; Flender carried Yu Xiaogang out, and Qin Ming resigned to join them.

After being driven out of Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Flender rejected offers to seek help from Exotic Beast Academy or the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and decided to pursue a place for Shrek at Blue Tyrant Academy. The group arrived at its recruitment office, where the teachers prepared to take the hiring test.

• Dai Mubai suggested reopening Shrek Academy, but Yu Xiaogang objected because there was too little time before the tournament and they lacked permission to compete.
• Meng Yiran offered to seek admission at Exotic Beast Academy, and Ning Rongrong offered to ask her father for help, but Flender refused both options.
• Flender decided that Shrek would stay in Heaven Dou City while he considered their next move.
• At the city gate, Flender saw Blue Tyrant Academy's notice seeking ten Soul Ancestors and learned from Qin Ming that it was a strong academy that admitted only commoners.
• Flender proposed that Shrek apply to Blue Tyrant Academy, and the teachers and students agreed to follow his decision.
• At Blue Tyrant Academy, the receptionist explained that the disciples would need an enrollment assessment and offered to take the teachers to their hiring test.

Flender brought Shrek’s teachers to Blue Tyrant Academy, where their strength won them a meeting with the dean, Liu Erlong. Liu Erlong recognized Yu Xiaogang beneath his severe injuries, welcomed Shrek, and agreed to merge the academies as they prepared for the next Soul Master Tournament.

• Qin Ming revealed his rank-six Soul Emperor strength, and the evaluators exempted him from further tests; the other Shrek teachers also displayed their high ranks.
• Flender led the teachers to meet Blue Tyrant Academy’s dean, but Yu Xiaogang tried to flee when he heard Liu Erlong singing.
• Liu Erlong failed to recognize the swollen Yu Xiaogang until Flender explained who he was, then offered to seek justice for his injuries.
• After learning Dugu Bo had beaten Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong set aside her threat against the Titled Douluo and proposed merging Blue Tyrant Academy with Shrek.
• Flender announced the renamed Shrek Advanced Soul Master Academy would prepare for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, and everyone celebrated.

Yu Xiaogang failed to take full control of Shrek’s training, and the students settled into separate training plans before spending their nights at the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena. Ten days later, Ning Rongrong reached rank thirty and prepared to return to her sect, persuading Zhu Zhuqing to come along by offering news about Tang Feng.

• Ning Rongrong, Oscar, and Zhu Zhuqing objected when Yu Xiaogang tried to take over all training, so Flender and Liu Erlong persuaded him to keep the existing two-group arrangement.
• After Soul Fighting, Dai Mubai accepted Ma Hongjun’s invitation to seek out women, while Zhu Zhuqing left with Ning Rongrong and Oscar escorted them back toward the academy.
• Tang San and Meng Yiran went to the night market together, while Zhu Zhuqing said she would focus on growing strong and taking control of her destiny.
• Over the following ten days, Ning Rongrong broke through to rank thirty and declined Flender’s offer to take her to Sunset Forest for a Soul Ring, choosing instead to return to her sect.
• Ning Rongrong found Zhu Zhuqing cultivating on a rear-mountain cliff and tried to persuade her to visit the sect, hinting that her father’s information network might know where Tang Feng was.

Ning Rongrong brought Zhu Zhuqing and Oscar to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Ning Fengzhi revealed that Tang Feng was the Clear Sky Sect’s young sect master but had left Heaven Dou City. Ning Rongrong also showed her father Tang San’s hidden weapons, prompting him to plan a visit to Shrek Academy to discuss buying them.

• Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Oscar traveled to Seven Treasure City and reunited with Ning Fengzhi, Gu Rong, and Chen Xin at the sect.
• Ning Rongrong introduced Zhu Zhuqing and Oscar to Ning Fengzhi, then asked him for information about Tang Feng.
• Ning Fengzhi said Tang Feng was the Clear Sky Sect’s young sect master, had met him in Heaven Dou City a month earlier, and had likely left to travel the continent.
• Ning Rongrong presented Tang San’s Silent Sleeve Arrow and Zhuge Repeating Crossbow, and Ning Fengzhi recognized their strategic value.
• Ning Fengzhi decided to visit Shrek Academy the next day to discuss purchasing Tang San’s hidden weapons.

Ning Rongrong returned to Shrek Academy after reaching rank thirty, and Ning Fengzhi visited to thank the academy and negotiate a Hidden Weapons deal with Tang San. Tang San agreed to supply five hundred sets, while Ning Fengzhi watched Rongrong train and saw how much she had changed.

• Ning Rongrong told Ning Fengzhi she had reached rank thirty and credited her progress to Shrek's training under Zhao Wuji's gravity control.
• Ning Fengzhi visited Shrek Academy, thanked Flender for teaching Rongrong, and asked to speak with Tang San about his Hidden Weapons.
• Tang San agreed to provide blueprints and assemble the cores for five hundred Hidden Weapons sets at one thousand Gold Soul Coins per set, with the first batch due in three months.
• Ning Fengzhi paid Tang San five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, and Tang San left eager to share the news with Meng Yiran.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong watched Rongrong train alongside Zhu Zhuqing and Oscar and were moved by her newfound effort and friendships.

After Ning Fengzhi visited Shrek, Tang Feng and Tang Lie reached the unnamed town outside Slaughter City. Tang Feng slaughtered the tavern’s challengers and killed the attendant, leaving the pair poised to force their way inside.

• Ning Fengzhi thanked Zhao Wuji for teaching Ning Rongrong, gave him a Gold Soul Coin card, and told Ning Rongrong that Grandpa Sword would take her soul hunting in three days.
• Tang Feng and Tang Lie found the mist-shrouded town and went to its tavern, where the attendant said they had to kill the customers to pass the test for entering Slaughter City.
• Tang Feng summoned his Clear Sky Hammer and killed all eighteen customers with overwhelming force.
• The attendant told Tang Feng that he also had to drink a Bloody Mary, but Tang Feng attacked and killed him before he could finish speaking.

Tang Feng and Tang Lie entered Slaughter City, defeated Terror Knight Scott, and reached the outer city. A black-veiled guide began explaining the city’s rules as the pair realized its apparently peaceful outskirts concealed a more dangerous inner city.

• Tang Feng and Tang Lie smashed through the tavern floor and jumped into the passage leading to Slaughter City.
• At the entrance, Terror Knight Scott demanded they accept punishment, but Tang Feng killed him with a Clear Sky Hammer after their Soul Skills were sealed.
• Tang Feng took identity tokens numbered 8816 and 8817 from Scott, and he and Tang Lie entered Slaughter City with a black-veiled woman.
• The black-veiled woman offered to guide them for twenty-four hours and explained that Slaughter City had an outer city and an inner city.
• Tang Feng and Tang Lie learned that Soul Skills could not be used there except by Gods of Slaughter who had passed through Hell Road, and that criminals and Fallen Soul Masters hid in the city.

Tang Feng and Tang Lie learned how to earn the right to leave Slaughter City by surviving one hundred Hell Slaughter Arena matches and clearing Hell Road. They began fighting in the arena while securing a safe base nearby, determined to finish quickly and avoid the city’s corrupting dangers.

• The girl in black gauze explained that outsiders could leave Slaughter City only after winning one hundred arena matches and clearing Hell Road, and that the Law Enforcement Team prevented anyone from forcing their way out.
• She led Tang Feng and Tang Lie through the inner city to the Hell Slaughter Arena and explained its rules, including that battles began with ten fighters and allowed at most one survivor.
• Tang Feng and Tang Lie surveyed the arena and settled in a secluded obsidian house nearby, killing attackers who ambushed them along the way.
• Tang Feng and Tang Lie agreed to take turns fighting while the other guarded, and to remain secluded outside their matches.
• After their early arena fights proved manageable, Tang Feng and Tang Lie drove away or killed nearby residents until they had secured a territory around their house.

Tang Feng and Tang Lie rose to fame in Slaughter City as Battle Asura and Hellfire while surviving increasingly brutal arena fights and suppressing the killing intent that came with them. After nearly a year and four months, they each stood one victory short of the hundred-match title, while Tang Feng feared he was close to losing control.

• Tang Feng and Tang Lie fought off repeated ambushes after arena matches, earning the titles Battle Asura and Hellfire for their slaughter of organized attackers.
• Tang Feng won his sixtieth match by defeating nine opponents and ensuring they were dead, then gave a thirty-thousand-year Soul Bone from an earlier fight to Tang Lie.
• As their victories mounted, Tang Feng and Tang Lie felt their killing intent increasingly affect their minds and began resting three days after each match to suppress it.
• The King of Slaughter rejected the suggestion to approach the two men and decided to let them challenge Hell Road after they reached a hundred victories.
• Nine months later, Tang Feng and Tang Lie had each won ninety-nine matches, but Tang Feng sensed that he was nearing the point where he could no longer restrain his killing intent.

Tang Feng completed his hundredth victory in the Hell Slaughter Arena and, alongside Tang Lie, refused the King of Slaughter’s offer to become guest elders. They chose to face Hell Road, whose opening began with the arena’s spectators caught in the ritual.

• Tang Feng won his hundredth match, defeated the nine fighters who attacked him, and collected a roughly forty-thousand-year darkness-type agility attack right leg bone.
• The King of Slaughter appeared and offered Tang Feng and Tang Lie the title of God of Slaughter and positions as guest elders if they avoided Hell Road.
• Tang Lie refused the offer and insisted on earning the title by passing Hell Road’s trial.
• Tang Feng also rejected the King of Slaughter’s offer and asked to enter Hell Road alongside Tang Lie.
• The King of Slaughter unleashed an evil red presence across the arena, and the spectators became sacrifices as Hell Road began to open.

Tang Feng and Tang Lie entered Hell Road after the King of Slaughter sacrificed the arena’s fallen, and Tang Feng sensed that his Clear Sky Hammer was drawn to the blood sea below. They began the challenge, defeated the Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King, and continued onward with their guard raised.

• The King of Slaughter’s red light drove the fallen spectators to mutilate themselves, and their blood formed a birdlike pattern that transported Tang Feng and Tang Lie into Hell Road.
• Tang Feng and Tang Lie arrived on a narrow platform above a vast sea of blood, which Tang Feng suspected was the source of Slaughter City's strange domain.
• Tang Feng felt his Clear Sky Hammer respond to power in the blood sea, but he and Tang Lie rested before starting down the narrow path.
• Tang Feng and Tang Lie pushed through a swarm of small blood-colored bats as they descended toward the blood pool.
• The Dark Gold Three-Headed Bat King attacked, and Tang Feng and Tang Lie destroyed all three of its heads at once, killing it and scattering the smaller bats.
• Tang Feng found no Soul Bone on the bat and continued onward with Tang Lie, remaining cautious.

Tang Feng and Tang Lie fought their way along Hell Road, killing the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent and resisting the growing murderous aura. After Tang Feng flew them through the exit, he was separated from Tang Lie and endured the pure killing aura alone as it invaded his body and merged with his own.

• Tang Feng and Tang Lie encountered the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent, whose poisonous flames forced them to charge along the narrow path.
• Tang Feng blocked the serpent’s tail with his Clear Sky Hammer, and Tang Lie destroyed it with Nine Nines Return to One.
• Tang Feng collected the golden-red ball formed from the serpent’s nine growths and stored it in the Wishful Hundred Treasure Purse.
• As they descended Hell Road, the killing aura grew harder to suppress, so Tang Feng and Tang Lie ran toward the exit.
• Tang Feng used his Flame Dragon Wings to carry Tang Lie across the gap and through the white curtain of light.
• Inside the white world, Tang Feng was separated from Tang Lie as pure killing aura invaded him, numbed his senses, and began merging with his own.

Tang Feng and Tang Lie emerged from Slaughter City with Divine Slaughter's Domain but struggled to control their leaking killing aura. They settled in a cave near the Far North to cultivate and live quietly until they could return safely.

• Tang Feng and Tang Lie awakened outside Slaughter City and discovered that Divine Slaughter's Domain weakened opponents by ten percent while boosting their own strength by ten percent.
• Tang Lie remained at the peak of rank ninety-five, while Tang Feng reached the peak of rank fifty-nine; both had gained three Soul Bones and greatly improved their combat strength.
• Tang Feng and Tang Lie decided to avoid Heaven Dou City and travel to the Far North, where they hoped the isolation and cold would help them control their killing aura.
• Tang Lie cleared a cave near the Far North, and Tang Feng shaped its interior into a simple home.
• Tang Feng carved a Chinese chess set and taught Tang Lie to play as they enjoyed a peaceful life in the cave.

Tang Feng and Tang Lie spent two peaceful months cultivating and playing in the Far North, breaking through to levels sixty and ninety-six before choosing to stay longer. Meanwhile, the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament approached, and Shrek Academy prepared its team for the preliminaries.

• Tang Feng and Tang Lie spent their days playing games, building snowmen, and refining their control over their killing aura in the Far North.
• After two months, Tang Lie broke through to level ninety-six, and Tang Feng reached level sixty, needing one more Soul Ring to become a Soul Emperor.
• Tang Feng and Tang Lie decided to remain in the Far North for two more months to stabilize their realms and perfect their control of their killing aura.
• Heaven Dou City filled with Soul Masters as the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament approached, drawing particular attention to the Five Elements Academy.
• Flender and Yu Xiaogang gathered the Shrek Team for a final rally, presenting a lineup led by Dai Mubai and Tang San that had three Soul Ancestors and could contend for the top three.