Chapter Summaries

Yu Tianheng weighed the odds of hunting the Star Dou Great Forest’s two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts before the Asura God appeared and offered him divine trials. He accepted the Asura God Nine Trials and learned that the first trial was to pass Slaughter City.

• Yu Tianheng judged that Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo alone would struggle against the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape, but planned to bring Dugu Bo and Yu Yuanzhen to support his hunt.
• Yu Tianheng considered using Yu Yuanzhen’s strength to subdue the Sky Azure Bull Python so he could kill it and claim its Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• The Asura God recognized Yu Tianheng’s performance in Slaughter City and offered him the chance to undertake nine divine trials.
• Yu Tianheng accepted the trials because he believed becoming a god was necessary to compete with Tang San and control his own fate.
• Yu Tianheng received the details of the first trial: passing Slaughter City, where Soul Skills could not be used.

Yu Tianheng learned that his Third Trial required him to cultivate Divine Slaughter's Domain into the Asura Domain, then returned to Suotuo City after a year and a half away. He reunited with Dugu Yan, whose support and embrace eased the bloodlust he had carried back from Slaughter City.

• Yu Tianheng learned that he had to accumulate killing intent and nourish Divine Slaughter's Domain to transform it into the Asura Domain.
• Yu Tianheng considered the likely requirements of the later Asura trials, including reaching rank 90, earning the Asura Demon Sword's recognition, and completing further tests.
• Yu Tianheng rode back to Suotuo City three days later, and the gate guards let him pass when they saw his killing intent.
• Yu Tianheng reunited with Dugu Yan at the Earl's residence, and she told him she was glad he had returned.
• Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan shared dinner and recounted their time apart, then spent the night together.

Yu Tianheng refined the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent’s remains and broke through to the Martial Saint Realm, raising his Soul Power to level 70. Half a year later, Dugu Yan became a Six-Ring Soul Emperor, while Dugu Bo cultivated at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and attempted to break through to level 95.

• Yu Tianheng left Dugu Yan sleeping and began cultivating in seclusion beneath the Earl’s residence.
• Yu Tianheng combined the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent’s inner core, heart, and blood essence with his techniques to break through to the Martial Saint Realm.
• Yu Tianheng discovered that his Soul Power had also reached level 70 and decided to wait before seeking a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Half a year later, Yu Tianheng accompanied Dugu Yan to Sunset Forest, where she slew a forty-thousand-year Mandala Snake and absorbed its Soul Ring to reach level 60 and become a Six-Ring Soul Emperor.
• Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan visited Dugu Bo, who had reached level 94 and was attempting to break through to level 95 using the Hundred Poisons Mysterious Skill.

Dugu Bo refined the toxins in his body and broke through to level 95, while Dugu Yan and Yu Tianheng visited him in the Sunset Forest. Dugu Bo discovered that Yu Tianheng had reached level 73 without a Seventh Soul Ring, and Yu Tianheng explained that he was waiting for a powerful sub-dragon Soul Beast.

• Dugu Bo used the Hundred Poisons Mysterious Skill to refine the toxins and break through to level 95.
• Dugu Yan and Yu Tianheng visited Dugu Bo after Dugu Yan reached level 60 and came to the Sunset Forest for her Sixth Soul Ring.
• Dugu Bo noticed Yu Tianheng's Soul Power had reached level 73 despite his having only six Soul Rings.
• Yu Tianheng explained that his Martial Dao cultivation let his Soul Power keep rising and that he was waiting for a sub-dragon Soul Beast with at least eighty thousand years of cultivation for his Seventh Soul Ring.

Yu Tianheng, Dugu Bo, and Yu Yuanzhen discovered Spirit Hall’s force in the Star Dou Great Forest and planned to exploit its battle against a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast. Yu Tianheng joined the group alone, but Spirit Hall guards immediately surrounded him at their camp.

• Yu Tianheng, Dugu Bo, and Yu Yuanzhen hid as Yue Guan, Gui Mei, the Golden Generation, and twenty Soul Saints passed through the forest.
• Yu Tianheng proposed that he join Spirit Hall while Dugu Bo and Yu Yuanzhen remained concealed and attacked after Spirit Hall and the Soul Beast had weakened each other.
• Dugu Bo and Yu Yuanzhen agreed to the plan, and Yu Tianheng followed Spirit Hall’s group toward its camp.
• Four Spirit Hall Soul Sages spotted Yu Tianheng, surrounded him, and attacked, but he answered with the pressure of his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon bloodline.

Yu Tianheng entered Spirit Hall’s camp in the Star Dou Great Forest and was nearly attacked before Hu Liena intervened. After they discussed their shared goal of obtaining Soul Rings, Yan challenged Yu Tianheng to a rematch, and Hu Liena moved to shield him.

• Yu Tianheng matched the combined Soul Power of four Spirit Hall members, drawing Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo Gui Mei to confront him.
• Gui Mei lunged at Yu Tianheng, but Hu Liena stopped him and urged the group not to start a fight.
• Hu Liena welcomed Yu Tianheng into the camp, and they spoke privately about seeking their next Soul Rings.
• Hu Liena revealed she had reached level sixty, while Yan interrupted Yu Tianheng and challenged him to fight.
• Hu Liena stepped between Yan and Yu Tianheng and told Yan to calm down.

Yan challenged Yu Tianheng after Hu Liena tried to stop him, but Yu Tianheng’s Soul Power pressure overwhelmed him before he could complete his attack. Chrysanthemum Douluo intervened, and Yu Tianheng withdrew his pressure and continued into the camp with Hu Liena, leaving Yan humiliated.

• Hu Liena recalled Yu Tianheng’s brutality and tried to prevent Yan from confronting him.
• Yan accused Yu Tianheng of hiding behind Hu Liena and demanded a one-on-one fight.
• Yu Tianheng accepted, but his level seventy Soul Power pressure interrupted Yan’s Sixth Soul Skill and forced him to his knees.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo stepped between them and asked Yu Tianheng to stop, so Yu Tianheng withdrew his pressure.
• Yu Tianheng followed Hu Liena farther into the camp while Yan remained behind, resentful, and Xie Yue placed a hand on his shoulder.

After Yu Tianheng defeated Yan, Xie Yue acknowledged the gulf between them while Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo discussed whether Yu Tianheng threatened Spirit Hall. The group then helped Hu Liena reach level sixty and found the Titan Giant Ape in the Star Dou Great Forest, where Chrysanthemum Douluo began the fight.

• Xie Yue stopped Yan from pushing himself and told him that defeating Yu Tianheng was nearly impossible for now.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo judged Yu Tianheng a potential threat but noted his ties to Yu Xiaogang and Hu Liena.
• Chrysanthemum Guan subdued a thirty-thousand-year Six-Tailed Demon Fox and gave it to Hu Liena for her sixth Soul Ring.
• Hu Liena absorbed the Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring and broke through to level sixty, becoming a Six-Ring Soul Emperor.
• On the seventh day of searching, Spirit Hall's group found the Titan Giant Ape in the forest's core region.
• The Titan Giant Ape charged at Chrysanthemum Douluo, who attacked it with golden chrysanthemum petals.

Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo attacked the Titan Giant Ape, but the Sky Azure Bull Python intervened and turned the battle against them. Chrysanthemum Douluo was hurled into a rock wall while Ghost Douluo was badly injured, leaving both Titled Douluo in peril.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo coordinated their attacks, wounding the Titan Giant Ape and gradually draining its strength.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python burst from the Lake of Life and forced both Douluo back with its immense power.
• The Titan Giant Ape recovered enough to fight Chrysanthemum Douluo, while the Sky Azure Bull Python pursued and injured Ghost Douluo.
• Ghost Douluo’s attacks failed to pierce the python’s scales, and its strike sent him crashing through seven trees.
• The Titan Giant Ape shattered Chrysanthemum Douluo’s chrysanthemum barrier and hurled him into a rock wall.

Yu Tianheng revealed that he had been waiting for Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to restrain the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python. With both beasts trapped in the Two Extremes Stillness Domain, Yu Yuanzhen and Dugu Bo launched their attack, and Yu Yuanzhen unleashed his ninth Soul Skill.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo used the Two Extremes Stillness Domain to freeze the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python.
• The Spirit Hall party decided to retreat, and Hu Liena apologized to Yu Tianheng and urged him to leave before the beasts broke free.
• Yu Tianheng revealed that the battle was the moment he had been waiting for and called on his grandfather and Dugu Bo to attack.
• Yu Yuanzhen and Dugu Bo emerged from hiding and pressed toward the restrained beasts.
• Yu Yuanzhen unleashed True Dragon's Fury, summoning nine lightning dragons that charged toward the two Soul Beasts.

Yu Yuanzhen shattered Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo’s domain, badly injuring them and the two great Soul Beasts, then the Spirit Hall forces surrounded Yu Tianheng. Yu Tianheng fought back with Divine Slaughter’s Domain and heavenly lightning, leaving most of his attackers down while sparing Hu Liena.

• Yu Yuanzhen broke Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo’s Two Extremes Stillness Domain with his lightning attack, gravely wounding the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python and injuring the two Douluos.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo accused Yu Yuanzhen of ruining their hunt, then ordered the Spirit Hall elites to seize Yu Tianheng.
• Hu Liena asked Yu Tianheng why he had opposed Spirit Hall, and he defended the Soul Beasts’ right to remain free in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Yu Tianheng unleashed Divine Slaughter’s Domain and summoned heavenly lightning against the twenty elite Soul Masters and the Golden Generation.
• Yu Tianheng’s lightning brought down more than ten Soul Masters and injured the rest, while he left Hu Liena unharmed.

Dugu Bo restrained Spirit Hall’s Soul Masters while Yu Tianheng joined his grandfather, Yu Yuanzhen, after the battle left two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts gravely injured. Yu Tianheng persuaded Yu Yuanzhen to let him kill the Titan Giant Ape and absorb its Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, then approached it to begin the fight.

• Dugu Bo arrived and used his poisonous mist and Titled Douluo pressure to hold Spirit Hall’s Soul Masters back while Yu Tianheng went to Yu Yuanzhen.
• Yu Yuanzhen told Yu Tianheng that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast would yield a Soul Ring and Soul Bone, and Yu Tianheng urged him to claim the Soul Bone instead.
• Yu Tianheng stopped Yu Yuanzhen from attacking and asked to kill one of the beasts so he could absorb its Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Yu Tianheng explained that his Martial Dao training had made his body strong enough to withstand the Soul Ring, and Yu Yuanzhen reluctantly agreed.
• Yu Tianheng headed toward the Titan Giant Ape, while the Sky Azure Bull Python turned its anger toward him.

Yu Tianheng attacked the Titan Giant Ape with his Dragon-Patterned Ancient Spear while Yu Yuanzhen fought the Sky Azure Bull Python. As Yu Tianheng prepared to finish the wounded beast, Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo Gui Mei arrived and joined forces against Yu Yuanzhen.

• The Sky Azure Bull Python warned Yu Tianheng to leave, but Yu Tianheng advanced with his Dragon-Patterned Ancient Spear.
• Yu Tianheng pierced the Titan Giant Ape with the spear, gravely wounding it.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python burned its life force to recover from Yu Yuanzhen's earlier injuries and attacked Yu Tianheng.
• Yu Yuanzhen used his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul Avatar to clash with the Sky Azure Bull Python while Yu Tianheng asked him to hold it off for a quarter of an hour.
• Yu Yuanzhen suppressed and pinned the Sky Azure Bull Python against a mountainside.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei arrived, attacked Yu Yuanzhen, and claimed the Sky Azure Bull Python for the Pope.

Yu Tianheng killed the Titan Giant Ape and absorbed its Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring despite being only level 77. He emerged at level 81 and turned his attention to killing the Sky Azure Bull Python for another such ring.

• Yu Yuanzhen fought Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and the Sky Azure Bull Python at once, keeping the three opponents at bay.
• Yu Tianheng killed the Titan Giant Ape with his ancient dragon-patterned spear, and its Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring rose from its corpse.
• Yu Tianheng sat down to absorb the ring while Spirit Hall's Soul Masters warned that it could kill him; Yu Yuanzhen struck Yue Guan when he mocked his grandson.
• Yu Tianheng endured the ring's energy and absorbed it in a quarter of an hour, raising his Soul Power from level 77 to level 81.
• Yu Tianheng stood with his new strength and resolved to kill the Sky Azure Bull Python and absorb another Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.

Yu Tianheng successfully absorbed the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and gained the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul Avatar and Thunder Mountain-Shattering Fist. He found the Titan Giant Ape’s dark-gold torso Soul Bone, leaving the Spirit Hall experts staring at it with barely restrained greed.

• Yu Tianheng rose with a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring in the seventh position and gained two Soul Skills.
• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, Yan, Dugu Bo, Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, and Yu Yuanzhen reacted with shock and pride at Yu Tianheng’s achievement.
• Yu Tianheng went to the Titan Giant Ape’s corpse to search for the Soul Bone, intending to give it to Dugu Bo or Yu Yuanzhen.
• Yu Tianheng found that the dropped Soul Bone was a Titan Giant Ape Torso Bone rather than the Left Arm Soul Bone he had expected.
• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan fixated on the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, with Yan’s greed overcoming his reason.

Dugu Bo stopped Spirit Hall's Yan from taking the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, but Ghost Douluo attacked Yu Tianheng to seize it. Yu Tianheng countered Ghost Douluo's ghostly techniques with divine lightning and left him badly injured, with the fight still underway.

• Dugu Bo struck Yan back and warned Spirit Hall's forces not to approach Yu Tianheng or the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo urged Ghost Douluo to take the Soul Bone while he kept Yu Yuanzhen occupied, and Ghost Douluo charged at Yu Tianheng.
• Ghost Douluo unleashed his Eighth Soul Skill, Ghostly Apparitions, but Yu Tianheng's Nine Heavens Divine Lightning destroyed the black skulls and drove Ghost Douluo back.
• Yu Tianheng used his Seventh Soul Skill, Thunder Mountain-Shattering Fist, to punch Ghost Douluo through the black mist and leave him unable to gather Soul Power.
• Yu Tianheng appeared behind Ghost Douluo and kicked him into a mountainside.

Yu Tianheng defeated Ghost Douluo and brought him back to Yu Yuanzhen, forcing Chrysanthemum Douluo and the Sky Azure Bull Python to abandon their fight. Yu Tianheng escaped Chrysanthemum Douluo’s retaliation, while Chrysanthemum Douluo helped Ghost Douluo recover and decided to retreat to Spirit Hall.

• Yu Tianheng brutally defeated Ghost Douluo and spared his life for Hu Liena’s sake.
• Yu Tianheng carried the badly injured Ghost Douluo to Yu Yuanzhen, shocking Chrysanthemum Douluo and the Sky Azure Bull Python.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo attacked Yu Tianheng, who fled into the forest rather than fight him head-on.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo treated Ghost Douluo and learned that his pulse remained steady.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo decided to return to Spirit Hall with Ghost Douluo, leaving the younger generation behind.

Yu Tianheng and Yu Yuanzhen defeated the Sky Azure Bull Python, and Yu Tianheng killed it to claim its Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring. After absorbing the ring, he reached level 83 and gained two powerful Soul Skills, leaving him closer to becoming a Titled Douluo.

• Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Tianheng attacked the Sky Azure Bull Python together after Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo escaped.
• Yu Tianheng stopped Yu Yuanzhen from delivering the final blow and killed the weakened Sky Azure Bull Python himself.
• A scarlet Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring emerged from the Bull Python, and Yu Tianheng began absorbing it while Yu Yuanzhen guarded him.
• Yu Tianheng completed the absorption and reached level 83, becoming an Eight-Ring Soul Douluo with two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings.
• Yu Tianheng gained two Soul Skills from the Sky Azure Bull Python's Soul Ring, including Thunder Sky Azure Bind.

After absorbing his second Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, Yu Tianheng learned that the Sky Azure Bull Python had dropped a hundred-thousand-year Head Soul Bone. He harvested valuable materials and essence blood from both slain Soul Beasts, then returned to Yu Yuanzhen and Dugu Bo, where Spirit Hall's captured Soul Masters awaited him.

• Yu Tianheng told Yu Yuanzhen that he had absorbed the Soul Ring without suffering backlash and asked about the Sky Azure Bull Python's Soul Bone.
• Yu Yuanzhen revealed that the Sky Azure Bull Python had dropped a hundred-thousand-year Head Soul Bone, and Yu Tianheng told him to keep it safe until they returned.
• Yu Yuanzhen left to join Dugu Bo while Yu Tianheng dragged the Titan Giant Ape's corpse beside the Sky Azure Bull Python's and dismantled both bodies for valuable materials.
• Yu Tianheng used the Blood Demon Skill to extract the two Soul Beasts' blood and condense it into three bottles of essence blood.
• Yu Tianheng returned to Yu Yuanzhen and Dugu Bo, finding more than twenty immobilized Spirit Hall Soul Masters, including the Golden Generation, waiting nearby.

Yu Tianheng spared the captured Spirit Hall Soul Masters rather than provoke a feud, then returned to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan with Yu Yuanzhen and Dugu Bo. In the clan council hall, they discussed how to distribute the two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones, with Yu Tianheng refusing them and Dugu Bo yielding the Head Soul Bone to Yu Yuanzhen.

• Dugu Bo urged Yu Tianheng to kill the Spirit Hall prisoners, but Yu Tianheng chose to release them to avoid provoking Spirit Hall.
• Yu Tianheng had Dugu Bo restore the prisoners' Soul Power and let them leave, then departed with Yu Yuanzhen and Dugu Bo.
• Two days later, Yu Tianheng returned to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan with two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones and had risen to the Eight-Ring Soul Douluo level.
• Yu Tianheng told Yu Yuanzhen and Dugu Bo that absorbing a Soul Bone would disrupt his cultivation, so he would not claim either one.
• Dugu Bo explained that his existing Medusa Head Soul Bone could not be removed safely and suggested that Yu Yuanzhen take the Sky Azure Bull Python's Head Soul Bone.