Recaps

Qi Ling tried to reach the Skeleton King's throne while Jian Lan and Bei Na held off Cao Yang and Dongfang Ye. When Qi Ling grabbed the key embedded in the Skeleton King, the creature awakened and wounded him, revealing a five-skull mark.

• Dongfang Ye introduced himself to Qi Ling and proposed joining forces against Cao Yang, but Cao Yang warned him that Qi Ling also wielded evil power.
• Qi Ling revealed his Blood Devil Emperor power, then headed up Skeleton Mountain as Jian Lan blocked Cao Yang and Bei Na fought Dongfang Ye.
• Qi Ling reached the Skeleton King's throne and discovered that the golden key around its neck was embedded in its body.
• The Skeleton King awakened, struck Qi Ling with its enormous sword, and inflicted a poisonous wound on his palm.
• The Skeleton King rose and roared, startling the fighters as Qi Ling saw a five-skull mark on it.

Qi Ling fought the five-skull Skeleton King, whose strength, Teleportation, and ability to reassemble made it nearly impossible to defeat. After it summoned countless skeletons and a Bone Dragon, Qi Ling led the others in retreat, leaving the battle unresolved as he fired the Gaia Energy Cannon at the cavern ceiling.

• The Skeleton King used Teleportation to attack Qi Ling, and Qi Ling fought back with his Xuanyuan Sword and Dragon God Armor.
• Qi Ling split the Skeleton King with a focused sword strike and blasted it apart with Holy Dragon Judgment, but its bones reassembled.
• The Skeleton King summoned countless skeletons and a Bone Dragon, forcing Qi Ling, Bei Na, Jian Lan, Dongfang Ye, and Cao Yang to fight for survival.
• Cao Yang attacked the Skeleton King, but it countered with Teleportation and severely injured him.
• Qi Ling called for everyone to retreat, then used the Skeleton King's attack to propel himself toward the exit and fired the Gaia Energy Cannon at the cavern ceiling.

Qi Ling escaped the Skeleton King with Bei Na, Jian Lan, Cao Yang, and Dongfang Ye, then persuaded his former enemies to cooperate. After making a plan to fight the Skeleton King and its summoned minions, the group reached the skeleton hall and prepared to attack.

• Qi Ling collapsed the mountain passage to trap the Skeleton King temporarily, and the group found a place to rest.
• Qi Ling proposed that everyone stop fighting each other and cooperate against the Skeleton King; Cao Yang and Dongfang Ye agreed after Qi Ling promised they could try to claim the demonic weapon first.
• Qi Ling assigned himself and Jian Lan to fight the Skeleton King while Bei Na, Cao Yang, and Dongfang Ye held off its summoned minions.
• The group followed Cao Yang and Dongfang Ye’s route back toward the skeleton hall, passing monsters and skeletons they had defeated.
• Qi Ling and the others reached an opening above the hall, where the Skeleton King waited on its throne, and prepared to begin the battle.

Qi Ling and Jian Lan fought the Skeleton King by combining Qi Ling’s bone-shattering vibrations with Jian Lan’s sword-based defense. After several coordinated attacks, they broke the Skeleton King’s arm and knocked its enormous sword from its grasp.

• Qi Ling stunned the Skeleton King and nearby monsters with his dragon’s roar while Bei Na, Cao Yang, and Dongfang Ye moved to hold off the skeleton army.
• Jian Lan wounded the Skeleton King with her Immortal Slayer, prompting it to awaken the surrounding skeletons and charge at Qi Ling.
• Qi Ling used his Eighth Soul Skill to divert the Skeleton King’s sword thrust, then broke four of its ribs with a vibration-infused Tyrant Dragon Fist.
• When the Skeleton King attacked again, Jian Lan blocked its sword through her Sword God Godhood, allowing Qi Ling to strike its arm.
• Qi Ling and Jian Lan repeated their coordinated attacks until the Skeleton King’s arm broke and its enormous sword fell to the ground.

Qi Ling battled the Skeleton King, which absorbed the surrounding skeletons to rebuild its arm and grow stronger. Qi Ling used his giant form and World-Destroying Black Flame to gain the upper hand, with Jian Lan helping him press the attack.

• Qi Ling realized the Skeleton King was absorbing the power of the nearby skeletons and rebuilding its destroyed arm into a larger one.
• The Skeleton King struck at Qi Ling, but Qi Ling used Blood Devil Avatar to grow enormous, seize its arm, and batter it until the bones broke apart.
• The Skeleton King summoned its skeletal sword and pierced Qi Ling's palm, but Qi Ling trapped the blade and attacked with World-Destroying Black Flame, forcing the monster to defend itself with a bone shield.
• Cao Yang learned that Qi Ling's World-Destroying Black Flame could burn through the undead but was dangerous to allies and limited to three uses.
• Qi Ling drove the weakened Skeleton King back with his attacks, while Jian Lan stood on his shoulder and helped cover his weaknesses.

Qi Ling and Jian Lan destroyed the Skeleton King's head, but it transformed into an enormous third form and overwhelmed the group. Qi Ling sent the others toward the exit and trapped the monster with his Eight Desolations Heaven-Imprisoning Prison, leaving him alone to face it.

• Jian Lan restrained the Skeleton King with seven streaks of sword light, allowing Qi Ling to tear off its head and burn it to ash with his World-Destroying Black Flame.
• The Skeleton King's headless body rose in blue flames and absorbed bones from beneath the cavern floor, transforming into a gigantic upper-bodied form.
• The transformed Skeleton King battered Qi Ling and the others, breaking Cao Yang's arm, injuring the group, and forcing Qi Ling out of his Blood Devil Avatar.
• Qi Ling stepped in front of the others and told them to escape while he faced the Skeleton King alone.
• As the Skeleton King raised its hand to pursue the escaping group, Qi Ling activated his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Skill and trapped its body with eight enormous tentacles.

Qi Ling filled the cavern with World-Destroying Black Flame, burning the Skeleton King to ash while protecting himself by transforming into a Demonic Orb. When Bei Na, Jian Lan, Cao Yang, and Dongfang Ye entered and found the orb and the key, Cao Yang urged Dongfang Ye to help him kill Qi Ling before he could revive.

• Qi Ling unleashed enough World-Destroying Black Flame to engulf the cavern and burn the Skeleton King.
• The Skeleton King grabbed Qi Ling, but Qi Ling transformed into a Demonic Orb that resisted both the Skeleton King's grip and the flames.
• The Skeleton King burned to ash, leaving the Demonic Orb and the key to the demonic weapon behind.
• Bei Na, Jian Lan, Cao Yang, and Dongfang Ye entered the cavern; Jian Lan and Bei Na went to the orb while Cao Yang and Dongfang Ye fought over the key.
• Cao Yang recognized the Demonic Orb as Qi Ling and urged Dongfang Ye to help him destroy it before Qi Ling could revive.

Cao Yang tried to persuade Dongfang Ye to help kill the weakened Qi Ling, but Dongfang Ye refused and Jian Lan stopped Cao Yang from attacking Bei Na. After failing to break through Jian Lan’s defenses, Cao Yang turned to contest Dongfang Ye for the golden key, while Bei Na explained that only divine power could restore Qi Ling.

• Dongfang Ye refused Cao Yang’s proposal to attack Qi Ling, saying it would violate his principles and their agreement.
• Jian Lan blocked Cao Yang, and she destroyed his Demon Spear Killing Formation before wounding his neck with a counterattack.
• Cao Yang abandoned his fight with Jian Lan and turned to compete with Dongfang Ye for the golden key, which Dongfang Ye had already seized.
• Bei Na told Jian Lan that Qi Ling was safe but would need the power of a god to recover quickly.
• Bei Na offered to use her power to help Qi Ling, though she warned she would lose the ability to summon her Martial Soul or use Soul Power; Jian Lan proposed leaving until Qi Ling recovered.

Cao Yang and Dongfang Ye failed to find a way to use the golden key until Qi Ling arrived and used his blood to reveal the Demonic Weapon. After the doors opened and the weapon’s terrifying presence overwhelmed the cave, the Demonic Weapon appeared on a weapon rack.

• Cao Yang and Dongfang Ye stopped fighting over the golden key and searched the cave for a way to use it, but found nothing.
• Qi Ling arrived with Jian Lan and Bei Na, who had used most of her divine power to wake him.
• Dongfang Ye handed the key to Qi Ling, who cut his palm and used his blood to transform it into a golden-red power that formed a set of double doors.
• Qi Ling opened the doors, releasing a blood-red ocean that overwhelmed Cao Yang and Dongfang Ye before vanishing.
• Qi Ling explained that they had felt the Demonic Weapon’s baleful aura, and Cao Yang and Dongfang Ye saw the weapon resting on a rack.

Cao Yang tried to claim the Demon God Fangtian Halberd but was drained of his life essence and lost a hand before escaping. Qi Ling then took hold of the weapon and sensed that its artifact spirit was assessing him.

• Qi Ling let Cao Yang and Dongfang Ye attempt to gain the Demon God Fangtian Halberd’s recognition first.
• Cao Yang lifted the halberd easily, and Qi Ling told him to use a drop of blood to test whether it would accept him.
• The halberd bound Cao Yang’s hand and drained his blood, energy, Soul Power, and Divine Power until he severed his hand to escape.
• Qi Ling taunted Cao Yang, while Dongfang Ye declined to try for the weapon after seeing Cao Yang’s condition.
• Qi Ling grasped the scorching halberd and sensed a living presence within it that would determine whether he was worthy.

Qi Ling endured the Demon God Fangtian Halberd’s test of his limits and earned its approval, becoming the Demonic Weapon’s master. When no teleportation array appeared around them, he discovered a single-use escape array hidden within the weapon and prepared to summon it.

• Qi Ling accepted the Demon God Fangtian Halberd’s oppressive Demonic Qi as it tested whether he could bear the weapon’s power.
• The Demonic Qi reached its limit and receded, and Qi Ling confirmed that he had succeeded in gaining the weapon’s approval.
• Dongfang Ye congratulated Qi Ling and expressed interest in fighting him someday, while Qi Ling urged everyone to find a way out.
• When Qi Ling could not find the expected teleportation array, Cao Yang indicated that he had sensed an array inside the Demon God Fangtian Halberd.
• Qi Ling found a single-use array within the weapon and said he would summon it to take everyone out.

Qi Ling mastered the Demon God Fangtian Halberd enough to create a portal back to Dragon's Glory City, where Blood Devil showed him how to wield the weapon. The chapter ended with Blood Devil beginning to teach Qi Ling the first three forms of the Six Severances of Ghosts and Gods.

• Qi Ling found the Demon God Fangtian Halberd suited him and used it to draw a portal in the air.
• Qi Ling kicked Cao Yang through the portal to test it, then he, Bei Na, and Jian Lan followed back to Dragon's Glory City.
• Qi Ling concluded that Dongfang Ye and Cao Yang had been sent back to their own territories, and he arranged for Bei Na to rest after she had overdrawn her strength reviving him.
• Blood Devil greeted Qi Ling and inspected the Demon God Fangtian Halberd, then demonstrated his exceptional control of the weapon.
• Blood Devil began teaching Qi Ling the first three forms of the Six Severances of Ghosts and Gods: Sever Mountains and Rivers Crosswise, Void Severance Shatters Delusion, and Gaze Through Autumn Waters.

Qi Ling practiced the first three moves of the Six Severances of Ghosts and Gods and sparred with Tang San using their divine weapons. He then asked after Tang Hao and Tang San’s mother, noting that Tang San now had the power to resurrect her.

• Blood Devil taught Qi Ling the first three moves of the Six Severances of Ghosts and Gods, which trained strength, perception, and technique.
• Qi Ling practiced the moves with the Demon God Halberd and asked Tang San to assess his technique.
• Tang San sparred with Qi Ling using the Sea God Trident, but Qi Ling’s physical strength and halberd technique overwhelmed him.
• Qi Ling stopped the spar and encouraged Tang San to keep improving.
• Qi Ling asked how Tang Hao and Tang San’s mother were doing and recalled that Tang San had gained enough power to resurrect her.

Tang San returned to Sunset Forest with Qi Ling, Xiao Wu, and Hu Liena to reunite with Tang Hao and Ah Yin and restore his father’s limbs. After Tang Hao fainted from relief at learning he was no longer a disgrace to the Clear Sky Sect, Qi Ling prepared to begin the treatment while Tang San stood ready to regrow the limbs.

• Tang San told Qi Ling that he had recovered Tang Hao’s Soul Bones from the Clear Sky Sect and learned that he was still expected to become its sect master.
• Tang San, Qi Ling, Xiao Wu, and Hu Liena traveled to Sunset Forest and reunited with Tang Hao and Ah Yin at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Tang San told his parents about recent events, and Tang Hao wept with relief upon learning that Tang Chen had returned and the Clear Sky Sect’s grievance against him had been resolved.
• Tang Hao fainted, and Qi Ling explained that his emotional surge had prepared his body for treatment while he was unconscious.
• Qi Ling stopped Tang San from using the Sea God Trident to open Tang Hao’s wounds and began preparing to perform the treatment himself.

Qi Ling used his Black Devouring Beasts to prepare Tang Hao’s wounds, allowing Tang San to restore his father’s missing arm and leg. After Qi Ling replenished Tang San’s strength, Tang San began resurrecting Ah Yin by drawing on the Blue Silver Grass throughout Sunset Forest.

• Qi Ling summoned Black Devouring Beasts to clean Tang Hao’s wounds, reopen his meridians, and restore blood flow.
• Tang San used his Blue Silver Domain and Sea God’s Light to regrow Tang Hao’s arm and leg and rejoin his Soul Bone.
• Tang San prepared to resurrect Ah Yin, but she resisted because he was exhausted.
• Qi Ling gave Tang San a bitter recovery medicine that restored enough of his strength to continue.
• Tang San spread his Blue Silver Domain across Sunset Forest, and the Blue Silver Grass sent their power into him to resurrect Ah Yin.

Tang San restored Ah Yin by channeling the Blue Silver Grass across the forest into her, while Qi Ling promised to help Xiao Wu reach Level 90 so she could revive her mother. After more than ten days, Ah Yin formed a cocoon as she returned to the hundred-thousand-year level, and Tang Hao watched over her and Tang San.

• Tang San drew energy from the Blue Silver Grass and transferred it to Ah Yin, whose growth filled the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Xiao Wu told Qi Ling she missed her mother, and he promised to help her reach the Titled Douluo realm so she could revive her.
• Qi Ling persuaded Xiao Wu to consume her Twin-Blossomed Joined-Stalk Heartbreak Red once she reached Level 85, and they sealed their promise with a pinky swear.
• Hu Liena thought of her teacher, Bibi Dong, while Tang Hao regained consciousness and focused on Ah Yin and Tang San.
• After more than ten days, Ah Yin gathered her leaves into a cocoon, beginning her return to the hundred-thousand-year level.

Qi Ling helped Tang San revive Ah Yin and then returned Xiao Wu to the Star Dou Great Forest before preparing for the Demon God Contention Battle. Blood Devil explained the contest’s rules and revealed that it would begin in three days, leaving Qi Ling asking for more information about the competition itself.

• Tang Hao thanked Qi Ling for helping Tang San revive Ah Yin, and Qi Ling told him that Tang Hao’s devotion had preserved her memories and humanity.
• Tang Hao vowed to become a proper father to Tang San, who stayed with Hu Liena to watch over Ah Yin and seek Soul Rings.
• Qi Ling returned Xiao Wu to the Star Dou Great Forest, where Da Ming asked him to find a female dragon and admitted he had hidden wealth underwater.
• Qi Ling left Xiao Wu, Da Ming, and Er Ming and returned to Dragon's Glory City to prepare for the approaching Demon God Contention Battle.
• Blood Devil told Qi Ling the competition began in three days and explained that contestants could not be over a hundred or already belong to the Devil Realm above god level.
• Qi Ling asked Blood Devil for inside information about the Demon God Contention Battle.

Qi Ling learned that the Demon God Contention Battle would take place in a dangerous Devil Realm inner world where time flowed ten times faster and he would receive no help. After disguising himself and agreeing to fight without his usual weapons or abilities at first, he entered the Devil Realm.

• Qi Ling asked Blood Devil about the competition, and Blood Devil explained that the Devil Kings had organized it but he did not know its format.
• Blood Devil warned Qi Ling that the competitors might target him as Blood Devil’s successor and explained that the competition’s inner world made time pass ten times faster.
• Blood Devil told Qi Ling that he would be unable to appear or offer guidance once the competition began, and Qi Ling welcomed the danger and challenge.
• Qi Ling used Divine Head and Ghost Face to disguise himself, planning to conceal his identity and avoid using his weapon, Martial Soul, or familiar skills at first.
• Blood Devil opened a gateway, and Qi Ling stepped through into the Devil Realm.

Qi Ling arrived in the Devil Realm and, disguised as Bai Di, searched for the Demon God Contention Battle venue. He teamed up with Kurumi after meeting her in the forest, and they found an inn that promised to take contestants to the venue the next morning.

• Qi Ling reached the Devil Realm, changed his appearance and displayed strength, and discovered that he could not fly in the forest.
• Qi Ling met Kurumi, introduced himself as Bai Di, and agreed to search for the competition venue with her.
• Qi Ling and Kurumi found an inn and learned from its attendant that it had been prepared for contestants and would take them to the venue the next morning.
• Qi Ling and Kurumi decided to stay at the inn while remaining wary of one another.

Qi Ling and Kurumi entered a crowded Devil Realm inn, where Qi Ling secretly knocked out a hostile giant who tried to attack him. As they ate free dishes from different worlds, the inn staff served every guest a bowl of brightly colored tonic soup.

• Qi Ling and Kurumi found the inn full and shared a table with a giant who threatened them.
• When the giant swung at Qi Ling, Qi Ling kicked his knee and struck his neck, making him appear to knock himself unconscious in a fall.
• Qi Ling returned to his seat and ordered food with Kurumi, discovering that the inn served free dishes from many worlds.
• The waiter stopped guests from leaving and announced that the inn had prepared nourishing tonic soup for everyone.
• A group of staff brought bowls of brightly colored soup to every table, including Qi Ling and Kurumi's.

Qi Ling and the other contestants were forced to drink poisoned soup as a preliminary test for the competition, with the poison measuring their strength by how quickly they woke. Qi Ling pretended to be drowsy and chose to wake on the second day, where he found Kurumi emerging from her room at the same time.

• A contestant attacked the waiter over the suspicious soup, but the waiter broke his saber with his bare hand and revealed that the soup contained Thousand-Day Drunkenness.
• The waiter explained that contestants who did not drink the full bowl would be disqualified, and that stronger contestants would recover from the poison sooner.
• Qi Ling, Kurumi, and the other contestants drank the soup, and Qi Ling pretended to yawn despite feeling no drowsiness.
• Qi Ling decided to hide his strength by waiting until the second day to wake, expecting Kurumi to wake earlier.
• On the second day, Qi Ling left his room just as Kurumi emerged from hers, and she greeted him.

Qi Ling and Kurumi left the inn for the competition venue and agreed to let the shy Zhuge Xiaoyu travel with them. Xiaoyu said she had entered the competition to prove herself, not to claim its rewards.

• Qi Ling and Kurumi woke at the same time, ate breakfast, and took a map from the waiter before setting off.
• Kurumi told Qi Ling she would follow him and would find him wherever he went.
• Zhuge Xiaoyu asked to accompany Qi Ling and Kurumi to the competition venue, and Qi Ling agreed after Kurumi nodded.
• Qi Ling, Kurumi, and Zhuge Xiaoyu set out on the day-and-a-half journey to the venue.
• Zhuge Xiaoyu told Qi Ling she wanted to prove herself rather than win the competition's rewards.

Qi Ling and the two women were ambushed by three competitors on the way to Magic Fairy Castle. He protected Kurumi and fought back after Zhuge Xiaoyu was incapacitated by poison, but his overwhelming counterattack may have exposed his strength.

• Xiaoyu told Qi Ling that she wanted to prove her strength and usefulness, but she could not reveal her unusual Support System Martial Soul to someone she did not yet trust.
• Qi Ling, Kurumi, and Zhuge Xiaoyu followed the map toward Magic Fairy Castle, where Xiaoyu triggered a hidden trap that filled the path with smoke and arrows.
• Qi Ling caught the arrows, but they released Soul-Numbing Powder; Kurumi escaped unharmed, while Zhuge Xiaoyu breathed it in and collapsed.
• Qi Ling carried Zhuge Xiaoyu to fresh air and confronted the three ambushers, who were surprised that their poison had no effect on him.
• Second Brother attacked Qi Ling with a golden-lit fist, and Qi Ling struck back so hard that Second Brother's arm exploded.
• The two remaining brothers drew their weapons and surrounded Qi Ling, while he worried that his punch had broken his disguise.

Qi Ling defeated three would-be thieves, then traveled with Kurumi and the exhausted Xiaoyu to Magic Fairy Castle for the competition. There, they found a massive crowd of contestants and learned they had three hours to enter the castle or be disqualified.

• Qi Ling took the spear from one attacker and knocked out him and his companion without killing them.
• Qi Ling carried the sleeping Xiaoyu as he and Kurumi continued toward their destination.
• Qi Ling, Kurumi, and Xiaoyu arrived at Magic Fairy Castle, where Kurumi estimated that only about two hundred of the roughly twelve hundred contestants were qualified.
• A staff member announced that contestants had three hours to enter the castle or face disqualification.

Qi Ling and his companions qualified for the Demon God Contention Battle, where the first round became a three-hour free-for-all in which contestants had to collect more than five points to advance. Surrounded as an easy target, Qi Ling watched Kurumi draw away three attackers and prepared to face the four who remained.

• The man in charge closed the gates and announced that 1,243 contestants at the venue had qualified, with five other venues also hosting participants.
• He explained that contestants would earn points by defeating others, that killing was permitted, and that only those with more than five points after three hours would qualify unless the field dropped below two hundred sooner.
• The first round began, but contestants hesitated to attack because they could not assess one another's strength.
• Several contestants targeted Qi Ling, reasoning that his late arrival and two female companions made him an easy source of three points.
• Kurumi leaped away and drew three attackers after her, leaving Qi Ling facing four wary opponents.