Chapter Summaries

Gong Yu succeeded at Spirit Forging and taught Gong Xiao more about forging before sending Spirit-Forged Metal and a message to Lou Gao. He then left for secluded cultivation in Slaughter City, but Tang Hao ambushed him on the way and Gong Yu prepared to fight.

• Gong Yu failed at the final step of Soul Forging but explained Spirit Forging and Fusion Forging to Gong Xiao, who practiced them herself.
• Gong Yu sent Spirit-Forged Metal and a letter about forging life and souls to Lou Gao, then bought the metals he needed.
• Gong Yu told the women he would leave for up to a year to cultivate in Slaughter City and asked them to keep training while he was gone.
• Gong Yu departed alone and, after noticing he was being followed, lured Tang Hao out in the wilderness.
• Gong Yu activated his One-Word Battle Armor, revealed his golden Soul Rings, and attacked Tang Hao with a Golden Dragon Claw.

Gong Yu reached Slaughter City, passed its entry test, and began fighting in the Hell Slaughter Arena. After winning thirty matches in a month, he used his spare time to upgrade his One-Word Battle Armor while awaiting his next match.

• Gong Yu fought Tang Hao with his Golden Dragon Claw, Golden Dragon Roar, and Soul Tool bombs, then flew away after lightly wounding him.
• Gong Yu found the hidden tavern entrance to Slaughter City and killed its patrons without using his Martial Soul or Soul Skills.
• Gong Yu entered Slaughter City as newcomer 9527 and asked his guide to take him directly to the Hell Slaughter Arena.
• Gong Yu took a cup of Bloody Mary from a brute, registered for a match, and killed all nine opponents to become the sole survivor.
• Gong Yu won thirty arena matches in a month, drove others away from his residence, and used Simulation to complete an inheritance before upgrading his One-Word Battle Armor.

After reaching one hundred victories in Slaughter City, Gong Yu rejected the King of Slaughter’s offer and demanded to enter Hell Road. The King of Slaughter began opening the path, while Gong Yu resisted his oppressive presence and the arena crowd unknowingly faced death as sacrifices.

• Gong Yu completed his hundredth slaughter match, and the King of Slaughter appeared to praise him and offer him the title of God of Slaughter.
• Gong Yu refused the title and challenged the King of Slaughter’s authority, with Break Evil Dragon’s will driving his insults.
• The King of Slaughter restrained his anger and allowed Gong Yu to challenge Hell Road, having been forbidden by a god from attacking him.
• The King of Slaughter released an evil red presence across the arena, pressuring Gong Yu and targeting the spectators as sacrifices to open Hell Road.

Gong Yu crossed Hell Road, defeated the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent, and claimed its Inner Core before awakening Divine Slaughter's Domain. After returning to Heaven Dou City, he came home to Gong Xue, who mistook him for a beggar.

• The red light drove the spectators in the Hell Slaughter Arena to mutilate themselves, and their blood formed a bat pattern that drew Gong Yu into Hell Road.
• Gong Yu crossed the first trial without encountering the big bat and continued along the narrow path toward the next danger.
• The Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent attacked Gong Yu, who wounded it, struck the golden-red ball from its nine growths, and killed the serpent with his staff.
• Gong Yu claimed the serpent's Inner Core and flew out of Hell Road through a cave opening.
• Gong Yu passed out, awakened Divine Slaughter's Domain, and discovered that his Soul Power had reached level 57.
• After traveling back to Heaven Dou City, Gong Yu returned home, where Gong Xue offered him a Gold Soul Coin, mistaking him for a beggar.

Gong Yu returned from Slaughter City with a powerful killing aura and went to Moonlight Pavilion, where Tang Yuehua helped him control it. After three months of nightly visits, he mastered his aura, but Tang Yuehua asked him not to take revenge on the Clear Sky Sect for Tang Hao’s crimes.

• Gong Yu reunited with Gong Xue and the other women, explained his journey to Slaughter City, and said he would stay in Heaven Dou City while learning to suppress his killing aura.
• Gong Yu forced his way into Moonlight Pavilion, where Tang Yuehua recognized his killing aura and agreed to help him control it.
• Gong Yu revealed that Tang Hao owed more than a hundred lives and threatened to take revenge on the Clear Sky Sect, then restrained Tang Yuehua and began visiting her nightly.
• Over the next three months, Gong Yu controlled his killing aura, while Tang Yuehua grew attached to him.
• Tang Yuehua asked Gong Yu to spare the Clear Sky Sect, explaining that Tang Hao had been expelled and his crimes were not the sect’s responsibility.

Gong Yu returned to the Academy of the Gods, arranged Soul Ring plans for his team, and overheard Yu Xiaogang pressing Liu Erlong for a secret that did not exist. After Yu Xiaogang hid under Liu Erlong’s bed, Gong Yu challenged her to a fight and got her drunk; Liu Erlong became intoxicated after one jar of wine.

• Gong Yu left the Moonlight Pavilion, passed Xue Qinghe and Xue Ke, and hinted to Xue Qinghe that he knew his identity before heading to the Academy of the Gods.
• Gong Yu learned that Gong Lan and her seven sisters had reached level 50, then planned to help them acquire Soul Rings in a month and told Oscar about the Mirror Shadow Beast’s copying ability.
• Gong Yu overheard Yu Xiaogang demanding that Liu Erlong uncover how Gong Lan and the others absorbed over-limit Soul Rings, while Liu Erlong insisted they had no special method.
• When Gong Yu called for Liu Erlong, Yu Xiaogang hid under her bed, and Gong Yu challenged Liu Erlong to a fistfight after she came outside.
• Gong Yu and Liu Erlong fought for half an hour, then drank together; Liu Erlong became drunk after finishing one jar of his wine.

Gong Yu exploited Liu Erlong while Yu Xiaogang hid beneath her bed, then later overwhelmed her with his Golden Dragon King's presence when she discovered what had happened. A month later, Gong Yu prepared to take his companions to the Star Dou Great Forest and considered using the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's bead to reach level 60.

• Liu Erlong drunkenly kissed Gong Yu and agreed to play drinking games that left them with few clothes.
• Gong Yu persuaded Liu Erlong to reenact her interrupted wedding while Yu Xiaogang listened from beneath the bed.
• Yu Xiaogang escaped at dawn, cursed Liu Erlong and Gong Yu, and disturbed the Academy of the Gods dormitories.
• Liu Erlong awoke beside Gong Yu, realized Yu Xiaogang had witnessed the night, and attacked Gong Yu with her Martial Soul.
• Gong Yu suppressed Liu Erlong with the Golden Dragon King's presence, punished her, and threatened Yu Xiaogang before leaving.
• A month later, Gong Yu prepared to hunt Soul Beasts with his companions and took out the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's bead as a possible shortcut to level 60.

Gong Yu refined the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger bead and gained spatial travel and time-slowing abilities. He then used a wormhole to appear in Gong Lan’s bath, and the chapter ended with him joining her.

• Gong Yu swallowed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger bead and refined its energy overnight, gaining more than two levels’ worth of Soul Power.
• Gong Yu created a wormhole, left a spiritual imprint to mark his return, and stepped through to Gong Lan’s room.
• Gong Yu found Gong Lan bathing, joined her in the tub, and they finished washing about an hour later.
• Gong Yu returned to his room through another wormhole and discovered he could slow time for two seconds.

Gong Yu and Gong Lan reached the Star Dou Great Forest, where the Blue Silver King recognized Gong Lan’s Blue Silver Emperor bloodline and began her final awakening. Gong Yu helped her raise her new growth-type Soul Ring toward a hundred thousand years, and the chapter left Gong Lan’s ring changing from black to red as Gong Yu’s power eased the strain.

• Gong Yu discovered that the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s bead had given him spatial teleportation and time-slowing abilities.
• Gong Yu and Gong Lan traveled through the Star Dou Great Forest and met the Blue Silver King, which identified Gong Lan as the Blue Silver Emperor.
• Gong Lan accepted the Blue Silver Grass subjects’ protection, and the forest’s Blue Silver Grass gathered its energy to awaken her bloodline and grant her a black growth-type Soul Ring.
• Gong Yu urged Gong Lan to keep fusing with the ring and use her Dragon Elephant Prajna technique and soul bones to withstand the pressure.
• Gong Lan broke through to the next level of Dragon Elephant Prajna, while Gong Yu used the Seed of Life to strengthen her and help her Blue Silver Domain evolve to control all plants.
• Gong Lan’s Soul Ring continued to grow in age, its red glow gradually replacing its black color.

Gong Lan completed her self-generated hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, and Gong Yu persuaded the Blue Silver King to sacrifice itself to Gong Yue. Oscar chose and absorbed a Pink Lady Soul Ring while Gong Xue and Gong Yue gained powerful abilities and Soul Bones; the chapter ended with Gong Yue reaching the peak of the Mustard Seed Realm in her Purple Demon Eye.

• Gong Lan woke after completing her evolving Soul Ring, thanked the Blue Silver King, and learned that the ring would grow stronger as her ability to withstand it increased.
• Gong Yu offered the Blue Silver King a chance to become a god by sacrificing itself to Gong Yue, and the Blue Silver King agreed.
• The Blue Silver King sacrificed itself to Gong Yue, while the Hell Flame Dragon's earlier sacrifice to Gong Xue also finished; Gong Yue reached level 53 and gained an embryonic Life Domain, and Gong Xue gained a True Fire Domain and an External Soul Bone.
• Gong Lan found Oscar several Soul Beasts to choose from, and Oscar selected the Pink Lady; Gong Yu and Liu Erlong took him to hunt it, and Oscar absorbed its Soul Ring to gain the Excited Pink Sausage.
• Gong Yue absorbed the Blue Silver King's Spirit Condensation Wisdom Skull, which advanced her Purple Demon Eye to the peak of the Mustard Seed Realm.

Gong Yu led Da Ming and Er Ming away from Spirit Hall’s pursuit and used copies made from their blood to divert their enemies. With the two poisoned Soul Beasts near death, he persuaded them to sacrifice themselves, assigning Da Ming’s Soul Ring to Gong Xiao and claiming he could resurrect them later.

• Gong Niuniu survived absorbing the Golden Blaze Roc’s Soul Ring after her Ten-Colored Amethyst Lamp protected her, and Gong Yu tended to her wounds.
• Gong Yu sent Liu Erlong, Oscar, and Zhu Zhuqing away as Da Ming, Er Ming, and Spirit Hall’s pursuing force approached.
• Gong Lan used Blue Silver Domain to guide Da Ming and Er Ming to Gong Yu’s group and misdirect Spirit Hall’s people.
• Gong Yu created full-strength copies of Da Ming and Er Ming from their blood, then made a duplicate of Tang Hao to attack Spirit Hall’s pursuers.
• Gong Yu told the poisoned Da Ming and Er Ming to sacrifice themselves and promised they could be resurrected, then gave Da Ming’s Soul Ring to Gong Xiao.
• Gong Yu told Er Ming that his living son was Yuanen Sitai, leaving Er Ming stunned.

Gong Yu and Gong Qianqian traveled into the Far North after she sensed a summons, and Gong Yu gave her a custom Two-Word Battle Armor before they continued deeper into the frozen wilderness. They stopped to rest after Gong Qianqian grew tired from flying, leaving the source of the summons undiscovered.

• Gong Yu chose to follow Gong Qianqian's faint summons farther north, believing it might lead to an opportunity for her.
• Gong Yu gave Gong Qianqian the Two-Word Battle Armor he had made for her, and she fused with all eleven pieces.
• Gong Qianqian tested her Battle Armor by flying alongside Gong Yu deeper into the north.
• Gong Yu and Gong Qianqian stopped to rest after flying for about an hour left her exhausted.

After Gong Qianqian was pulled into a spatial vortex in the Far North, Gong Yu used the Simulation Device repeatedly in search of a way to find her. The Heart of the Ice God opened a vortex, and Gong Yu entered a small ice-cave secret realm.

• Gong Yu and Gong Qianqian traveled deeper into the Far North, camped overnight, and became intimate while a Tang Hao sub-body kept watch.
• Gong Yu and Gong Qianqian resumed their journey, and a spatial vortex suddenly pulled Gong Qianqian inside and vanished.
• Gong Yu failed to get help from the Simulation Device and ran repeated simulations, gaining knowledge and several powerful rewards.
• Gong Yu discovered that the Heart of the Ice God reacted to the nearby secret realm and opened a vortex.
• Gong Yu put away the Heart of the Ice God, entered the vortex, and found himself inside an ice-cave secret realm.

Gong Yu rescued Gong Qianqian from the Ice God Pearl’s artifact spirit, and she emerged as the Ice God’s successor. After they escaped the secret realm, they met the Snow Empress and Ice Empress, and Gong Yu asked them to protect Qianqian.

• Gong Yu used the Seven-Colored Splendid Lotus Flame to help Gong Qianqian defeat the artifact spirit trying to possess her.
• Gong Qianqian explained that the Ice God Pearl’s artifact spirit had tried to take her body after she refused the Ice God Inheritance, and revealed that the God of the Starry Sky’s protection had helped her survive.
• Gong Yu and Gong Qianqian collected ice extreme divine crystals, then used the Ice God Pearl to leave the secret realm through a portal.
• Gong Yu and Gong Qianqian encountered the Snow Empress and Ice Empress, who mistook Gong Yu for the Ice God until Gong Qianqian showed them the Ice God Pearl.
• Gong Yu asked the Snow Empress and Ice Empress to become Qianqian’s Dao protectors, and Gong Qianqian promised to reward them.

Gong Yu helped Gong Qianqian obtain her Fifth Soul Ring from the Icefield Wolf Emperor, who agreed to sacrifice himself in exchange for the promise of godhood. After returning to Heaven Dou City, Gong Yu took Zhu Zhuqing toward Sunset Forest for her Fourth Soul Ring and left Xiao Bai to guard the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Dugu Bo.

• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress agreed to become Gong Qianqian's Soul Rings in the future, and the Snow Empress suggested the ailing Icefield Wolf Emperor as a willing sacrifice.
• The Icefield Wolf Emperor verified Gong Qianqian's inheritance with the Ice God Pearl, then sacrificed himself and gave her a sealed, over-a-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring that raised her Soul Power by four levels.
• Gong Yu brought the Ice Empress, Snow Empress, and Xiao Bai to Heaven Dou City, where the two Empresses later became vice deans and consecrated elders at the Academy of the Gods.
• After Zhu Zhuqing reached level 40, Gong Yu declined Oscar's offer to come along and set out with Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Bai for Sunset Forest.
• Gong Yu left Xiao Bai to guard the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Dugu Bo, telling Dugu Bo to beat anyone who tried to force their way into the herb garden, especially anyone surnamed Tang.

Gong Yu revealed to Zhu Zhuqing that Xiao Wu was a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast who could condense her own Soul Rings, then helped Zhu Zhuqing obtain a Shadow Leopard Soul Ring. Tang San attacked while Zhu Zhuqing was consolidating it, and although Gong Yu stopped most of his Hidden Weapons and fired a tracking Soul Cannon shell at him, Zhu Zhuqing was injured and questioned why Tang San had targeted her.

• Gong Yu showed Zhu Zhuqing Xiao Wu condensing a Soul Ring and explained that she was a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast who had taken human form.
• Gong Yu and Zhu Zhuqing found and killed a Shadow Leopard, and Zhu Zhuqing began absorbing its Soul Ring.
• Tang San sneaked up on Gong Yu, fired a Godly Zhuge Crossbow, and fled after Gong Yu’s Golden Dragon King’s Roar knocked the bolts down and struck him.
• Tang San fired a Silent Sleeve Arrow at Zhu Zhuqing while she was consolidating her Soul Ring, and Gong Yu used a Soul Tool to catch all but one needle.
• Gong Yu fired a tracking Soul Cannon shell after Tang San, then returned to Zhu Zhuqing, who had been struck and spat blood.
• Gong Yu removed the needle from Zhu Zhuqing’s back and found no visible poison, while Zhu Zhuqing recognized it as Tang San’s Hidden Weapon and wondered why he had attacked her.

After Tang San’s attack injured Zhu Zhuqing and damaged her cultivation foundation, Gong Yu treated her, helped her through the effects of an aphrodisiac, and gave her a nine-grade purple ganoderma that restored her foundation. The story left off as Gong Yu prepared to auction Tang Hao’s Soul Bone and arm in Heaven Dou City.

• Tang Hao shielded Tang San from the soul cannon blast, then carried him away while Gong Yu explained Tang San’s attack to Zhu Zhuqing.
• Gong Yu treated Zhu Zhuqing’s wound and discovered that Tang San’s needle carried an aphrodisiac; Zhu Zhuqing agreed to let Gong Yu help her through its effects.
• Afterward, Zhu Zhuqing said she wanted to keep what happened from Oscar, and Gong Yu learned about the Shitrek group’s suspicions concerning the incident in Suotuo City.
• Gong Yu gave Zhu Zhuqing a nine-grade purple ganoderma, which repaired her cultivation foundation and raised her Soul Power to level forty-three.
• Zhu Zhuqing went to Gong Yu’s tent that night, and the two became intimate again before returning to the academy the next day.
• Gong Yu prepared to sell Tang Hao’s Soul Bone and severed arm at a major Heaven Dou Auction House event scheduled for the day before the Soul Master Elite Tournament opened.

Gong Yu brought the women to the Heaven Dou Auction House to expose its human trafficking and acquire a Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng for Na'er. When the auction offered a catgirl for sale, Gong Yu bid 400,000 Gold Soul Coins to rescue her, explaining that she had not yet lost herself to the auction house.

• Gong Yu entered Heaven No. 1 with Gong Lan, Na'er, and the other women, then said the Heaven Dou Auction House was a human trafficking organization.
• Gong Yu learned from a Dark Web letter that the Speed Clan possessed a Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng and told Na'er it could help heal her injuries alongside the Lovesick Heartbreak Red.
• Gong Yu and the women watched the auction begin, and he explained that the waitresses were enslaved girls who could be bought and sold.
• The auctioneer displayed a young catgirl as the first lot, and Gong Yu bid 400,000 Gold Soul Coins after the price had reached 200,000.
• Gong Yu told Gong Xue that he had bid because the catgirl still showed signs of having retained her own identity.

At the Heaven Dou Auction, Gong Yu bought a catgirl for 400,000 Gold Soul Coins and ordered Gong Lan and the others to prepare to destroy the auction house’s forces that night. As bidding for a powerful Soul Tool intensified, Ning Fengzhi tried to secure it for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while Gong Yu encouraged Gong Niuniu to bid against him; a woman then raised the price.

• Gong Yu explained that he had overpaid for the catgirl to avoid prolonged bidding, then revealed he intended Gong Lan and the others to strike the Heaven Dou Auction House that night.
• Gong Yu recognized the auctioned Shadow Shooting as a weapon made by Tang San, and Ning Fengzhi bought it for 10,000 Gold Soul Coins to study.
• Gong Yu explained that his level-six Soul Tool had a self-destruct array to prevent anyone from copying its technology.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo Chen Xin discussed buying the Soul Tool and studying or mass-producing it, while Huyan Zhen and Tuoba Xi competed with them over the price.
• Gong Niuniu showed anger toward Ning Fengzhi but kept the reason for her grudge private, and Gong Yu gave her permission to bid up to ten million Gold Soul Coins against him.
• After Gong Yu urged Gong Niuniu to bid, an unknown woman in a private room raised the Soul Tool’s price to 2.1 million Gold Soul Coins.

At the auction, Gong Yu outbid Ning Fengzhi for a Soul Tool, then used the sale of Tang Hao’s Soul Bone to expose his version of how Tang Hao obtained Ah Yin’s Soul Ring. The chapter leaves Gong Yu’s account unfinished as the audience waits to hear why the Clear Sky Sect withdrew from the world.

• Gong Yu stopped Gong Niuniu from bidding while Bibi Dong and Ning Fengzhi drove the Soul Tool’s price higher, then had her bid eight million after Ning Fengzhi offered seven million.
• Gong Yu used his Spiritual Black Hole to repel Sword Douluo Chen Xin’s attempt to probe Heaven Number One and threatened the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect; Ning Fengzhi ultimately paid eleven million Gold Soul Coins for the Soul Tool.
• The auctioneer presented Tang Hao’s left arm Soul Bone and announced that the buyer would also receive his severed arm, while identifying Tang Hao’s son, Tang San, as a possible target for anyone seeking leverage.
• Gong Yu told the crowd that the Clear Sky Sect would not dare seek revenge and began explaining that Tang Hao had deliberately exposed his pregnant wife, Ah Yin, to Spirit Hall so she would sacrifice herself and give him her Soul Ring.
• Gong Yu’s claims provoked outrage among the guests, while Tang San and Tang Xiao reacted with anger; Gong Yu paused his account and asked the crowd to let the auction continue.