Recaps

Meng Qianqiu told Meng Zhongqi that his Soul Power had reached level fifty-three, and learned that Nangong Wan'er was preparing to hunt a ninety-eight-thousand-year Flame-Devouring Beast King for her Ninth Soul Ring. Meng Zhongqi explained how the Five Great Hidden Families would undertake the dangerous hunt together and leave the Meng Family balanced between Spirit Hall and the Heaven Dou Empire.

• Meng Qianqiu revealed that absorbing his forty-eight-thousand-year Soul Ring had raised his Soul Power to level fifty-three, and Meng Zhongqi urged him to return home to see Nangong Wan'er.
• Meng Qianqiu learned that Nangong Wan'er had reached level eighty-eight and that Meng Zhongqi had gathered six Soul Bones for her.
• Meng Zhongqi said he had arranged for the four other great families to help capture the Flame-Devouring Beast King in the Black Spirit Abyss as Nangong Wan'er's Ninth Soul Ring.
• Meng Zhongqi explained that the nearly hundred-thousand-year Beast King was especially dangerous on its home ground, so the Five Great Families would hunt it together.
• Meng Zhongqi told Meng Qianqiu that he planned to position Nangong Wan'er as a leader among the families, balancing the Meng Family's ties to Spirit Hall and the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Meng Zhongqi reminded Meng Qianqiu that the Five Great Hidden Families had shared glory and hardship for over a thousand years, with the Mu, Jin, and Zhang Families standing behind the Meng Family and Dugu Family.

Meng Zhongqi returned to the Meng residence with Meng Qianqiu, and Nangong Wan'er absorbed six Soul Bones, including a hundred-thousand-year one, to reach Level 90. The family prepared to hunt a ninth Soul Ring for her and settle Meng Zhongqi’s old score with the Flame-Devouring Beast King.

• Meng Zhongqi told Meng Qianqiu that the four other reclusive families had pledged allegiance to the Meng Family after he became a Titled Douluo.
• Meng Zhongqi and Meng Qianqiu returned to the Meng residence, where Nangong Wan'er welcomed her grandson and learned he was a rank-53 Soul King.
• Meng Zhongqi presented Nangong Wan'er with six Soul Bones, and she absorbed them to complete her set and break through to Level 90.
• Meng Zhongqi congratulated Nangong Wan'er and arranged for her to hunt a Soul Beast at Black Spirit Abyss, intending to settle his old score with the Flame-Devouring Beast King.
• Meng Zhongqi explained that Dugu Feng and Dugu Xin’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Souls had evolved and formed embryonic poison Soul Cores.

Nangong Wan'er and Meng Zhongqi left to hunt for Soul Rings after learning that Dugu Feng and Dugu Xin had condensed embryonic Soul Cores. In Spirit City, Qian Daoliu revealed that Qian Xunji’s six Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones had ruined his chance at the Angel God Trial, but Qian Xunji vowed to claim the position of Pope anyway.

• Nangong Wan'er and Meng Zhongqi said farewell to Meng Qianqiu and flew off on a Soul Hunting trip.
• Meng Qianqiu watched them leave and reflected on the worlds beyond the Douluo Continent.
• Qian Daoliu scolded Qian Xunji for absorbing six Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones and filling his Soul Bone slots.
• Qian Daoliu explained that Qian Xunji had destroyed his chance to inherit the Angel God Trial and become a god.
• Qian Xunji rejected his father’s advice and declared that he would claim the position of Pope.

Qian Daoliu warned Qian Xunji not to let his rivalry with Meng Qianqiu interfere with Spirit Hall’s interests, while Qian Xunji resolved to win the tournament. As the individual competition began, Meng Qianqiu shared Potential Potions with Ling Yuan and She Long, and the group revealed that the potion had helped their teammates grow stronger.

• Qian Daoliu told Qian Xunji that Meng Qianqiu must not be harmed, and Qian Xunji resolved to win the Elite Selection Tournament decisively.
• A year later, the individual competition began in Spirit City, and Meng Qianqiu’s Soul Power had reached rank fifty-nine.
• Wang Zhan, Ling Yuan, and Xu Qianqian discussed their cultivation progress, while Wang Zhan avoided revealing the Immortal Herbs’ role in it.
• Meng Qianqiu gave Ling Yuan and She Long black Potential Potions to help them reach rank forty and absorb Soul Rings beyond their limits.
• She Long described the potion’s grades and rarity, and Yue Guan revealed that he, Dugu Bo, and Gui Mei had also used the black potion to improve their cultivation.

Meng Qianqiu gave Ling Yuan and She Long a potion that helped them break through to level forty, then warned them about stronger tournament rivals. Half a month later, the individual selection competition began in Spirit City's Great Soul Arena, where Xu Qianqian discovered she had drawn Xiong Shan as her opponent.

• Meng Qianqiu gave Ling Yuan and She Long Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue Potion, and both broke through to level forty.
• Meng Qianqiu told the group that Qian Xunji had reached level fifty-eight, Yan Yang had reached level fifty, and both might possess Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones; he also admitted he had absorbed three Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones.
• Meng Qianqiu urged Ling Yuan and She Long to report to the bishop and obtain their fourth Soul Rings before the individual competition, while Wang Zhan teased Dugu Bo about possibly becoming Meng Qianqiu's junior martial uncle.
• Half a month later, Qian Jun Douluo announced the start of the individual selection competition at Spirit City's Great Soul Arena, and contestants drew their arena assignments.
• Wang Zhan drew arena seven and Meng Qianqiu drew arena fifteen, while Xu Qianqian learned that she would face level-thirty-eight Defense System Soul Elder Xiong Shan in arena twenty-three.

At the Great Soul Arena, Meng Qianqiu’s overwhelming strength drew attention from Yan Yang and Qian Xunji, who decided to join forces against him. The chapter ended with Xu Qianqian and Xiong Shan preparing to fight on another platform.

• Meng Qianqiu’s Three-Ring opponent forfeited after learning he faced a level-fifty-nine Soul King.
• Yan Yang assessed Meng Qianqiu’s powerful team and admitted he could not match them.
• Qian Xunji grew jealous of Meng Qianqiu’s strength, then ordered Shi Lei to approach Yan Yang about an alliance.
• Meng Qianqiu declared that he would defeat Qian Xunji openly and become Spirit Hall’s Holy Son.
• Xu Qianqian tried to charm Xiong Shan before their match, but he refused to go easy on her.

Xu Qianqian used her Star Crown Martial Soul’s control and ranged Soul Skills to fight Xiong Shan, but his powerful attacks and defense turned the battle against her. Meng Qianqiu predicted her defeat and compared her odds with Ling Yuan’s, while Ling Yuan acknowledged the advantage of Meng Qianqiu’s broad attack range.

• Xu Qianqian trapped Xiong Shan with her Star Guiding Technique, but he used his bear roar to attack her through sound waves.
• Xu Qianqian protected herself with Star’s Protection, while Xiong Shan tore through her restraint and cracked her shield with Berserk Bear Critical Strike.
• Xu Qianqiu launched Starfall Technique as she retreated, and Meng Qianqiu predicted that she would lose.
• Xiong Shan used Demon Bear Body Protection to withstand the meteor attacks, leaving Xu Qianqian without an effective counter.
• Meng Qianqiu said Xu Qianqian had a thirty-to-forty-percent chance against Xiong Shan, while Ling Yuan might have an eighty-percent chance because she could fly.
• Ling Yuan remarked that Meng Qianqiu’s wide-ranging attacks would make it difficult for her to fly within his range.

Meng Qianqiu and Qian Xunji began their individual tournament final, each revealing confidence in their powerful abilities. The chapter ended with Meng Qianqiu stopping Qian Xunji’s Angel Holy Sword between two fingers and preparing to strike back.

• The individual tournament’s final four were announced as Meng Qianqiu, Qian Xunji, Yue Guan, and Dugu Bo, while Gui Mei and Ling Yuan had been eliminated in the quarterfinals.
• The contestants drew lots, pairing Dugu Bo against Yue Guan and Meng Qianqiu against Qian Xunji.
• Meng Qianqiu and Qian Xunji challenged each other over their Soul Power and Soul Bones before the match began.
• Qian Xunji summoned his Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul and charged Meng Qianqiu with Angel Assault.
• Meng Qianqiu caught the Angel Holy Sword between two fingers and announced his Lingxi Finger technique.

Meng Qianqiu overwhelmed Qian Xunji in their arena battle, countering his attacks with powerful close combat and poisonous flames. He revealed three rare External Soul Bones, leaving the spectators stunned as the fight continued.

• Meng Qianqiu caught Qian Xunji’s Angel Holy Sword, then broke through his Angel’s Blessing barrier with Explosive Heavy Fire Fist.
• Qian Xunji unleashed his six Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones and took to the air, but Meng Qianqiu’s Manggu Vermilion Toad scorched him with poisonous fire.
• Qian Xunji attacked Meng Qianqiu at close range while Meng Qianqiu dodged and struck him back with a palm strike.
• Meng Qianqiu summoned wings of wind and fire, revealing a rare flight-type External Soul Bone.
• Meng Qianqiu revealed two more External Soul Bones in his palms, astonishing the onlookers with his collection of three.

Meng Qianqiu defeated Qian Xunji in the individual selection tournament by combining his close-combat strength with the Manggu Vermilion Toad’s poison. After Yue Guan conceded the final, Meng Qianqiu and Yue Guan were declared the tournament’s winners.

• Qian Xunji saw Meng Qianqiu’s three Ten Thousand Year External Soul Bones and resolved to kill him, then attacked with his Soul Bone Skill.
• Meng Qianqiu fought Qian Xunji with his own skills while directing the Manggu Vermilion Toad to attack from the side.
• The Manggu Vermilion Toad’s ultimate fire poison wore Qian Xunji down, and Meng Qianqiu declared that he had lost.
• Qian Jun Douluo ended the tournament, naming Meng Qianqiu and Yue Guan as the winners after Qian Xunji fell short of the final.
• Yue Guan conceded the final, and Demon Subduing Douluo agreed that facing Meng Qianqiu and the Manggu Vermilion Toad would be unfair.

After Meng Qianqiu defeated Qian Xunji in the individual selection tournament, he became the leading candidate for Spirit Hall’s Holy Son, while Qian Daoliu weighed whether to support his rise. Meng Qianqiu expected his grandparents and Nangong Wan'er to arrive in Spirit City, where Spirit Hall’s decision would determine whether his family stayed or left.

• Qian Daoliu recognized the Meng Family’s value and considered winning over Meng Zhongqi and Meng Qianqiu rather than risking conflict with them.
• Qian Xunji accepted his loss to Meng Qianqiu but vowed to challenge him with his team in the team competition.
• Meng Qianqiu’s allies celebrated his championship and noted that his tournament results had put him ahead in the race to become Spirit Hall’s Holy Son.
• Dugu Bo explained that Nangong Wan'er had joined the Heaven Dou Empire because she represented interests beyond the Meng Family, including those of the Fire Leopard Sect and the Five Great Hidden Families.
• Meng Qianqiu anticipated that Meng Zhongqi and Nangong Wan'er would come to Spirit City to protect him and learn whether Spirit Hall would support or oppose his rise.

After winning the individual selection tournament, Meng Qianqiu met Qian Daoliu, who praised his talent and theories and asked to become his teacher. Qian Daoliu accepted him as a disciple and promised to announce him as Spirit Hall’s Holy Son after the tournament.

• Qian Jun Douluo and Demon Subduing Douluo invited Meng Qianqiu to meet Qian Daoliu after his tournament victory.
• Qian Jun Douluo told the tournament’s top ten that Spirit Hall’s elders would consider taking personal disciples.
• Qian Daoliu praised Meng Qianqiu’s talent and Martial Soul Theory, then asked to become his teacher.
• Meng Qianqiu accepted Qian Daoliu as his teacher, recognizing that Qian Daoliu had chosen to win him over rather than oppose him.
• Qian Daoliu promised to formally invest Meng Qianqiu as Spirit Hall’s Holy Son after the Elite Selection Tournament ended.

Qian Daoliu gave up the Pope’s position to win Meng Qianqiu’s alliance, then planned to make Qian Xunji Law Enforcement Elder and Hidden Crown Prince. Outside Spirit City, Meng Qianqiu celebrated his victory and revealed that he already knew Xu Qianqian was spying on his team.

• Qian Xunji questioned Qian Daoliu about surrendering the Pope’s position, and Qian Daoliu explained that the alliance with Meng Qianqiu and the other factions was worth the seat.
• Qian Daoliu urged Qian Xunji to cultivate, gather allies, and eventually become Law Enforcement Elder, a role that could also make him Spirit Hall’s Hidden Crown Prince.
• Meng Qianqiu reflected that his strength, reputation, and growing influence had forced Qian Daoliu to draw him in rather than oppose him.
• Yue Guan warned Meng Qianqiu that Qian Xunji had planted spies in the team, and Meng Qianqiu said he already knew about them.
• Meng Qianqiu identified Xu Qianqian as the most suspicious spy and said he would settle accounts with her after the team competition.

Meng Qianqiu’s family discussed his future in Spirit Hall, Nangong Wan’er’s coronation, and the risks of revealing their strength. Nangong Wan’er planned to use her new post as a Heaven Dou Empire consecrator to obtain the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, which Meng Qianqiu knew was actually the Sea God’s Heart.

• Meng Qianqiu told Yue Guan he would reconsider recruiting Ling Yuan and She Long after the team competition.
• Yue Guan reported that Meng Zhongqi and Nangong Wan’er had arrived, and that Nangong Wan’er’s coronation ceremony was scheduled for the day after tomorrow.
• Meng Zhongqi lamented that Nangong Wan’er had missed a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Soul Bone, while she reassured him that her ninety-eight-thousand-year ninth Soul Ring was already exceptional.
• Meng Zhongqi and Nangong Wan’er discussed protecting Meng Qianqiu and ensuring Spirit Hall recognized the Meng Family’s strength and value.
• Nangong Wan’er planned to become a Heaven Dou Empire consecrator and obtain the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud for Meng Qianqiu, who knew it was the Sea God’s Heart and intended to claim it before Tang Xiaosan.

Nangong Wan'er was crowned Fire Leopard Douluo after reaching rank ninety-one, stirring unease among the continent's powers as Spirit Hall and the Seven Great Sects raced to strengthen themselves. The chapter ended with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's aging sect master entrusting its future to the younger generation, including Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin.

• Nangong Wan'er revealed nine Soul Rings and was recognized as a Titled Douluo, with her final ring nearing a hundred thousand years old.
• Qian Daoliu crowned Nangong Wan'er Fire Leopard Douluo, while the Fire Leopard Sect's members reacted to her rise and her decision not to join Spirit Hall.
• Tang Chen considered recruiting the Clear Sky Sect's four subordinate families to expand its forces amid the shifting balance of power.
• Chen Jianjun observed that the Meng Family seemed to be hedging its bets by keeping Nangong Wan'er outside Spirit Hall.
• Sect Master Ning lamented that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda had kept him at rank seventy-nine and said the sect would depend on Ning Fengzhi and other younger members.

After breaking through to Soul Emperor, Meng Qianqiu learned that his parents had gone to Slaughter City to pursue the Slaughter God's inheritance and might never return. He received their secret techniques and decided to enter Slaughter City himself.

• After the ceremony, the Meng Family became home to two Titled Douluo, while the Five Great Hidden Families and Exotic Beast Academy gained influence in the Soul Master World.
• Meng Qianqiu broke through to rank sixty as his grandparents, Meng Zhongqi and Nangong Wan'er, guarded him.
• Meng Zhongqi and Nangong Wan'er told Meng Qianqiu that his parents had entered Slaughter City seeking the Slaughter God's inheritance more than ten years earlier.
• Meng Zhongqi explained that the Seven Kill Sword lineage could unlock the inheritance through the Seven Kill Sword Technique and Divine Slaughter's Domain, then warned Meng Qianqiu about the technique's dangerous killing intent.
• Meng Zhongqi gave Meng Qianqiu the Ring Refining Secret Technique and Seven Kill Sword Technique, and Meng Qianqiu decided to go to Slaughter City.

Meng Qianqiu mastered the Ring Refining Secret Technique, refined his Soul Rings into the Manggu Vermilion Toad, and decided to hunt the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent for his sixth Soul Ring. As he left his companions and flew toward Slaughter City, Xu Qianqian struggled with her divided loyalties as an undercover agent for the Star Crown Sect.

• Meng Qianqiu understood that the Ring Refining Secret Technique strengthened a Martial Soul's origin and refined his Soul Rings into the Manggu Vermilion Toad, turning their Soul Skills into innate divine abilities.
• Meng Qianqiu decided to hunt the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent on Slaughter City's Hell Road for his sixth Soul Ring.
• Meng Qianqiu told his companions he would be away for at least half a year, entrusted the team's arrangements to Yue Guan, and invited Ling Yuan, She Long, and Xu Qianqian to join him after the team competition.
• Ling Yuan agreed to join Meng Qianqiu's side, while She Long and Xu Qianqian were tempted by his offer and the resources he had provided.
• Meng Qianqiu bid farewell to his companions and flew away on his Twin Wings of Wind and Fire.
• Xu Qianqian worried that her duty as a Star Crown Sect undercover agent conflicted with her growing attachment to Meng Qianqiu's team.

Meng Qianqiu met the King of Slaughter and discovered she was his mother, Ye Chenxi. She told him his father had died protecting her, and explained that she still sought to kill the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King to complete the God of Slaughter’s examination.

• A black-armored knight reported that Meng Qianqiu had won ninety consecutive matches in three months and was nearing the hundred victories needed to open Hell Road.
• The King of Slaughter summoned Meng Qianqiu after hearing of his poison abilities and his Manggu Vermilion Toad Martial Soul.
• The King of Slaughter recognized Meng Qianqiu, revealed herself as Ye Chenxi, and reunited with her son after more than ten years apart.
• Meng Qianqiu told Ye Chenxi that his grandparents were well and had become Titled Douluo, then asked where his father was.
• Ye Chenxi explained that Meng Yunping had died protecting her during the God of Slaughter’s examination, and that she had failed to kill the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King on her first attempt.
• Ye Chenxi revealed that she had reached Level 99 Limit Douluo but remained unable to advance, while still waiting for the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King to appear.

Meng Qianqiu reunited with his mother, Ye Chenxi, in Slaughter City and revealed his extraordinary twin Martial Souls and cultivation. Ye Chenxi explained the hidden Seven Kill Sword lineage and promised to help him reach Hell Road, where he could pursue the Asura God King's inheritance.

• Ye Chenxi explained that the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King had survived her husband's attack and was recovering in a blood pool deep within Hell Road.
• Meng Qianqiu told Ye Chenxi that he had reached Soul Emperor and revealed his Manggu Vermilion Toad and Seven Kill Sword Martial Souls, convincing her that he was her son.
• Meng Qianqiu explained that he had come to Slaughter City to find his parents, hunt the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent, and seek divine inheritances.
• Ye Chenxi told Meng Qianqiu that she held the Slaughter God's examination and urged him to pursue the Asura God King's inheritance instead.
• Ye Chenxi promised to help Meng Qianqiu earn a hundred victories and enter Hell Road, while warning him to conceal his Seven Kill Sword until he became a Titled Douluo.

Ye Chenxi warned Meng Qianqiu to keep his Ring Refining Secret Technique secret and explained the Seven Kill Sword lineage’s connection to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. She also revealed the path to becoming a demigod and her own strength, while Meng Qianqiu described the Beyond-Limit Soul Ring formula that helped him advance to Soul Emperor.

• Ye Chenxi told Meng Qianqiu that the Seven Kill Sword Hidden Lineage was nearly extinct and urged him to hide his practice of the Ring Refining Secret Technique from the Seven Kill Sword Sect.
• Ye Chenxi explained that a Seven Kill Sword Sect genius had founded the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with his wife, tying the two sects together through generations of marriages.
• Ye Chenxi warned Meng Qianqiu that low-age Soul Bones could hinder his cultivation and outlined the Soul Core, divine spark, Innate Divine Artifact, and Divine Armor required on the path to godhood.
• Ye Chenxi revealed her nine Soul Rings, including two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, and explained that passing the Slaughter God’s Eighth Trial had increased every ring’s age by five thousand years.
• Meng Qianqiu showed Ye Chenxi his five Soul Rings and said a costly secret formula had raised their absorption limits, helping him reach Soul Emperor at a young age.
• Ye Chenxi sympathized with Meng Qianqiu for growing up without his parents, and he reflected on the hardships and fleeting nature of life.

Meng Qianqiu used a hundred-thousand-year Holy Soul Grass to revive Meng Yunping from the remnant soul inside the Mirror Shadow Beast skull, reuniting him with Ye Chenxi. The herb also helped Meng Qianqiu reach the early Spirit Abyss Realm and Ye Chenxi form a lucid sword heart.

• Ye Chenxi gave Meng Qianqiu the hundred-thousand-year Mirror Shadow Beast skull and told him to show it to Meng Zhongqi after leaving Slaughter City.
• Meng Qianqiu discovered Meng Yunping's remnant soul inside the skull and used a hundred-thousand-year Holy Soul Grass to restore it.
• The Holy Soul Grass's spiritual power helped Meng Qianqiu break through to the early Spirit Abyss Realm and Ye Chenxi form a lucid sword heart.
• Meng Yunping emerged from the skull as a Soul Spirit and reunited with Ye Chenxi.
• Meng Yunping greeted Meng Qianqiu, while Ye Chenxi asked how her husband had returned and Meng Qianqiu credited the soul-reviving Immortal Herb.

Meng Qianqiu helped Ye Chenxi bind Meng Yunping’s remnant soul to a Soul Bone, then accompanied her into Hell Road to hunt a Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent for its inner core. Ye Chenxi killed the primordial beast outright, but Meng Qianqiu explained that it would yield an inner core rather than a Soul Ring.

• Meng Qianqiu explained how the hundred-thousand-year Holy Soul Grass had restored Meng Yunping as a Soul Spirit and urged Ye Chenxi to absorb the Mirror Shadow Beast skull bone so he might someday be resurrected.
• Ye Chenxi absorbed the skull bone, vowed to bring Meng Yunping back to life, and entered Hell Road with Meng Qianqiu after the latter earned a hundred victories in Slaughter City.
• Ye Chenxi and Meng Qianqiu flew across the sea of blood toward the center of Hell Road, where Ye Chenxi sensed their destination and praised her daughter’s powerful Soul Ring and Soul Bone configuration.
• Meng Qianqiu identified a Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent as the primordial beast she wanted for her sixth ring and explained that its weak point lay behind its heads.
• Ye Chenxi killed the serpent with the Seven Kill Sword, then worried that she had ruined the hunt by preventing it from returning from the dead.
• Meng Qianqiu reassured Ye Chenxi that the serpent would produce an inner core instead of a Soul Ring, revealing that the core was what she had wanted all along.

After Meng Qianqiu defeated the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent, he reached the blood lake at the end of Hell Road and received the Asura Nine Trials. The Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King then plotted to seize his body and steal the Asura inheritance.

• Meng Qianqiu collected the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's inner core and corpse before continuing with Ye Chenxi through Hell Road.
• Ye Chenxi explained that the blood lake was guarded by the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King and told Meng Qianqiu to seek the Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• Meng Qianqiu entered the altar and cultivated the Seven Kill Sword Technique as the Slaughter God watched him.
• The Asura God appeared, chose Meng Qianqiu as his inheritor, and bestowed the Asura Nine Trials upon him.
• The Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King emerged from the blood lake and plotted to take Meng Qianqiu's body so it could become the next Asura God.

Meng Qianqiu killed the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King after it tried to possess him, gaining a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and strengthening his Slaughter Domain. Ye Chenxi’s Ninth Trial changed, leaving her with ten years to gather six major Soul Bones, forge Innate Divine Armor, and create an Innate Divine Artifact before ascending to godhood.

• The Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King abandoned its body and tried to possess Meng Qianqiu, but Meng Qianqiu’s spiritual power and Lucid Sword Heart let him kill it in his sea of consciousness.
• Meng Qianqiu gained the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King's hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, two divine skills, and a left leg bone, while its resentment strengthened his Slaughter Domain.
• Ye Chenxi discovered that her Slaughter God's Ninth Trial had changed to gathering all six major Soul Bones, forging Innate Divine Armor, and creating an Innate Divine Artifact within ten years.
• Meng Qianqiu offered the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's inner core to Nangong Wan'er, hoping it would raise her Ninth Soul Ring beyond the hundred-thousand-year threshold.

After absorbing the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King's hundred-thousand-year Soul Bone, Meng Qianqiu reached level sixty-eight and gained two powerful skills. He and Ye Chenxi discussed the risks of revealing his extraordinary Soul Ring configuration, then prepared to return home so he could strengthen the Meng Family.

• Ye Chenxi learned that the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's inner core could help someone reach godhood, while Meng Qianqiu said he still had a use for it and asked her to guard him as he absorbed the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King's left leg bone.
• Meng Qianqiu woke with level sixty-eight Soul Power after absorbing the hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Soul Bone, and Ye Chenxi promised to help clear his path to godhood.
• Meng Qianqiu described the Soul Bone's Heavenly Demon Disintegration Curse and Ghost Domain Yin Wind Roar, which replenished mana through blood and launched mental attacks.
• Meng Qianqiu worried that revealing his red sixth Soul Ring would make him a target, and said he might leave Spirit Hall and build a rival force if pushed too far.
• Meng Qianqiu decided to return home and give the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's inner core to Nangong Wan'er to strengthen the Meng Family, while Ye Chenxi proclaimed her lethal reputation and her pursuit of the Dao through slaughter.