Chapter Summaries

After the Spirit Tool Academy examinations, Lan Hong warned Flender that Ma Hongjun’s evil fire could turn him into a Fallen One and said castration was the only cure. Bibi Dong decided to accompany Lan Hong to the City of Slaughter, and he brought her to the prison, where she faced Yu Xiaogang and his crippled father.

• Ning Rongrong told Flender that Ning Fengzhi could not help free Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun, who had been arrested for harassing girls.
• Lan Hong said Ma Hongjun could remain in the security office without dying, while Bibi Dong warned Flender that Spirit Hall would intervene if Ma Hongjun showed signs of becoming a Fallen One.
• Lan Hong explained that castration could cure Ma Hongjun’s evil fire, then oversaw the final Spirit Tool Academy examination and dismissed the successful candidates.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Lan Hong to look after Ning Rongrong and left Gengjin City with Bone Douluo after discussing future cooperation.
• Bibi Dong agreed to travel with Lan Hong to the City of Slaughter, where they planned to destroy the Asura God’s inheritance and prevent Tang San from obtaining the Asura Demon Sword.
• Lan Hong took Bibi Dong to the prison, where Yu Xiaogang was caring for the crippled Yu Yuanzhen, and Yu Xiaogang angrily confronted Lan Hong.

Lan Hong arranged for Xiao Wu and the others to cultivate safely before heading to Spirit City, while Bo Saixi entered the City of Slaughter searching for Tang Chen. After receiving a divine oracle to protect Tang San, she watched him begin his arena victories and grew troubled by his ruthless conduct.

• Bibi Dong tortured Yu Xiaogang and learned from Yu Yuanzhen that he had arranged Yu Xiaogang’s earlier involvement with her, then threatened the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Lan Hong left Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and the others at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with the Blue Silver Emperor to support their cultivation, then went to Spirit City to find Bibi Dong.
• Bo Saixi confronted the Slaughter King and demanded Tang Chen’s whereabouts, but the Slaughter King fled before she realized he was Tang Chen under the Nine-Headed Bat King’s control.
• The Sea God ordered Bo Saixi to protect Tang San and help him win one hundred Slaughter Arena matches in exchange for a chance to meet Tang Chen.
• Tang San won his first Slaughter Arena match with his hidden weapons and Clear Sky Hammer, while Bo Saixi watched from the shadows and questioned his suitability as the Sea God’s heir.

Lan Hong and Bibi Dong entered the City of Slaughter to confront the Slaughter King, whom Lan Hong revealed was Tang Chen controlled by the Nine-Headed Bat King. Lan Hong freed Tang Chen from the parasite, and Bo Saixi arrived as Tang Chen regained himself.

• Bibi Dong and Lan Hong entered the City of Slaughter through a hidden passage near Spirit City.
• Lan Hong told Bibi Dong that the Slaughter King was Tang Chen, possessed by the Nine-Headed Bat King during his attempt to inherit the Asura God's God Position.
• The Slaughter King confronted them, and Lan Hong fought him with the Bright Sword, purifying his corrupted power and grievously wounding him.
• The Nine-Headed Bat King fled Tang Chen's body, and Bibi Dong blocked its escape while Tang Chen returned to his original form.
• Bo Saixi arrived and rushed toward Tang Chen, but Lan Hong stopped her and urged Tang Chen to speak with her before he died.

Lan Hong fought Tang Chen and Bo Saixi in the City of Slaughter, defeating Tang Chen with the Bright Sword. Bo Saixi took up the Asura Demon Sword and gained a new level of power, leaving her poised to continue the battle.

• Tang Chen and Bo Saixi joined forces against Lan Hong, but his Ice Fire Domain and swordsmanship overwhelmed their defenses.
• Tang Chen summoned the Clear Sky Hammer and used the Clear Sky Nine Extremes while Bo Saixi supported him with Sea God's Light.
• Tang Chen detonated all nine Spirit Rings and unleashed the Great Sumeru Hammer, but Lan Hong countered with a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon that shattered Tang Chen's hammer and critically wounded him.
• Lan Hong pierced Tang Chen's heart, and magma swallowed his body as Bo Saixi failed to stop the attack.
• Bo Saixi charged Lan Hong in fury, then seized the Asura Demon Sword and absorbed its power, reaching a new level of strength.

Lan Hong fought Bo Saixi, whose body the Asura Demon Sword controlled, as the City of Slaughter’s blood qi fueled a devastating attack. After Lan Hong and his companions destroyed Bo Saixi and shattered the sword, Bibi Dong arrived with the captured Nine-Headed Bat King and acknowledged Lan Hong’s god-level strength.

• Bo Saixi attacked Lan Hong with the Asura Demon Sword while Tang San watched from afar and despaired at the gap between their strength.
• Lan Hong sensed the Asura God gathering blood qi through the City of Slaughter as Bo Saixi’s body cracked and the Fallen Ones descended into madness.
• The Asura Demon Sword absorbed the Fallen Ones’ blood mist, and Bo Saixi unleashed the Asura Blood Slash at Lan Hong.
• Lan Hong, Hong Mao, and Blue Cat joined their powers through the Three Talents Formation and met the blood sword with the Bright Sword.
• The clash destroyed Bo Saixi and shattered the Asura Demon Sword, while Lan Hong was injured and Xuan Di carried him to safety.
• Bibi Dong arrived with the Nine-Headed Bat King and told Lan Hong she believed his strength had reached the level of a level-one-hundred god.

Lan Hong killed Tang San after Tang San tried to assassinate him, then began imposing new rules on the City of Slaughter. He recruited the surviving Slaughter Envoys to enforce those rules, though he suspected Tang San might not be dead.

• Bibi Dong absorbed the Nine-Headed Bat King's sacrifice, completing the Spirit Rings on both of her Martial Souls.
• Tang San attacked Lan Hong with King Yama's Decree, but Lan Hong caught the poison needle and sent it back at him.
• Bibi Dong pierced Tang San with a spider spear, and he fell into the lava; Lan Hong's Spiritual Power could not penetrate it.
• Asura God resented the Goddess of Life and the other God Kings for restricting his interference in the lower realm.
• Lan Hong announced plans to make the surviving Fallen Ones work and cleanse their sins, then ordered the surviving Slaughter Envoys to serve him.
• Nightingale pledged obedience to Lan Hong, who warned her to follow his rules and promised a chance to leave the City of Slaughter.

Lan Hong imposed strict rules on the City of Slaughter and used the Bright Sword to purify its evil aura, gaining a new way to cultivate. Meanwhile, Tang Xiao agreed to bring the Clear Sky Sect out of seclusion at the Star Luo Empire’s request, as Dai Yutian planned to counter the Heaven Dou Empire and pursue its annexation.

• Lan Hong ordered the Slaughter Envoys to enforce new rules in the City of Slaughter, and he crushed the Fallen Ones who resisted them.
• Lan Hong used the Bright Sword to purify the City of Slaughter’s evil aura, refining and increasing his Soul Power in the process.
• The Third Elder told Tang Xiao that the Star Luo Royal Family wanted the Clear Sky Sect to emerge from seclusion to counter the Heaven Dou Empire’s growing threat from Soul Tools.
• Tang Xiao accepted the invitation after learning that the elders supported the sect’s return, despite the risk of drawing Spirit Hall’s attention.
• Dai Yutian intended to use the Clear Sky Sect to counterbalance the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and prepare to annex the Heaven Dou Empire.

The Clear Sky Sect emerged from seclusion and pressured the four single-attribute clans to submit while the Star Luo Empire prepared for war. Zhu Zhuqing received an urgent letter from her father about the continent’s situation, but her response was not yet revealed.

• Dai Yutian pursued a risky plan to attack the Heaven Dou Empire, and Tang Xiao sent Clear Sky Sect elders to visit the four clans as a show of force.
• Taino pledged the Strength Clan’s allegiance to the Clear Sky Sect in exchange for help taking revenge on Lan Hong.
• Yang Wudi refused to submit to the Clear Sky Sect despite being defeated, and the elders of the Defense and Speed Clans also rejected submission.
• Ning Fengzhi, Bone Douluo, and Sword Douluo discussed the Clear Sky Sect’s return and chose to wait for Spirit Hall’s and Lan Hong’s responses.
• Zhu Lintian opposed Dai Yutian’s war preparations and sent Zhu Zhuyun a letter; she asked Dugu Bo to deliver it to Zhu Zhuqing.
• Dugu Bo brought the letter to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Zhu Zhuqing read it with a deepening frown.

Lan Hong learned that the Star Luo Royal Family was joining forces with the Clear Sky Sect and plotting war, so he planned to overthrow the royal family and install Zhu Zhuqing as Empress. The group then discovered the Clear Sky Sect had recruited four single-attribute clans, leaving Lan Hong to prepare for the threat.

• Zhu Zhuqing received a letter from the Netherworld Duke asking her to save the Zhu Family if necessary, and she chose to wait for Lan Hong’s advice.
• Lan Hong learned from Qian Daoliu that the Clear Sky Sect planned to emerge from seclusion with the Star Luo Royal Family’s support and that Spirit Hall would back Lan Hong against them.
• Lan Hong returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, helped Ye Lingling and Fei Ju Condense Spirit Rings, and promised to take everyone to the Extreme North Land once they reached Rank Sixty.
• After reading Zhu Lintian’s letter, Lan Hong proposed making Zhu Zhuqing Empress of the Star Luo Empire and explained that he intended to overthrow the royal family because it had allied with his enemy.
• Zhu Zhuqing agreed to serve as Empress if Lan Hong needed her, while the group learned that four Clear Sky Sect elders had each gone to recruit one of the four single-attribute clans.

Lan Hong learned that the Strength Clan had gone to the Star Luo Empire and warned Ning Fengzhi that the Clear Sky Sect's pillar had fallen. In Longxing City, the Breaking, Defense, and Speed Clans refused Taino's appeal to submit to the Clear Sky Sect, despite the threat of its four Titled Douluo.

• Lan Hong told Dugu Bo that he had killed Tang Chen and decided to visit the Strength Clan, but found its residence in Heaven Dou City deserted.
• Ning Fengzhi confirmed that the Strength Clan had gone to the Star Luo Empire, and Lan Hong hinted that Tang Chen was dead before leaving the city.
• Sword Douluo identified Tang Chen as the Clear Sky Sect's fallen pillar, and Ning Fengzhi ordered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to sever ties with the Clear Sky Sect.
• Yang Wudi and Bai He brought the Breaking and Speed Clans to Niu Gao's residence in Longxing City, where the three clan leaders discussed resisting the Clear Sky Sect.
• Taino urged the three clans to join the Clear Sky Sect and warned that its four elders had arrived, but Yang Wudi, Niu Gao, and Bai He refused to submit.

The Clear Sky Sect attacked the Defense Clan after the Breaking, Defense, and Speed Clans refused to submit, and the four elders used the Haotian Formation to break the Defense Clan’s formation. As the elders moved to finish off the wounded Yang Wudi, Lan Hong arrived and faced them.

• Taino reported the clans’ refusals, and the Clear Sky Sect’s four elders sent the Strength Clan and Longxing City’s soldiers to surround the Defense Clan’s compound.
• Niu Gao, Yang Wudi, and Bai He prepared to resist as the Clear Sky Sect elders broke through the gates and demanded submission.
• Yang Wudi used a secret medicine and fought the third elder, but the elder’s ninth spirit skill struck him down.
• Niu Gao led the Defense Clan’s defensive formation, but the four elders joined the Haotian Formation and shattered it, severely injuring Niu Gao.
• The third elder moved to kill Yang Wudi, but Lan Hong and his group appeared, prompting the Clear Sky Sect elders to vow revenge for their second brother.

Lan Hong and his allies defeated the Clear Sky Sect elders and younger disciples, destroying the Strength Clan’s remaining forces. After collecting four Soul Bones, Lan Hong left to deal with the Star Luo Royal Family, while Dai Yutian sensed danger.

• Lan Hong sent Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Ye Lingling, Dugu Yan, and Fei Ju to attack the Clear Sky Sect’s younger disciples while he faced the four elders.
• Tang Yi led the younger disciples in a Haotian Formation, but the group’s formation was broken by Four Swords Combined, killing Tang Yi and severely wounding the others.
• Lan Hong wounded the four elders, then shattered their combined Ninth Spirit Skill and left them barely alive.
• Dugu Bo killed charging attackers with poisonous mist, and Lan Hong’s Heavy Rain Flying killed the fleeing elders; fewer than one-tenth of the survivors remained, and Taino and Tailong were among the dead.
• Lan Hong found four Soul Bones among the elders’ bodies, turned the corpses to ashes, and departed for Star Luo City to confront the Star Luo Royal Family.
• Dai Yutian felt inexplicably restless and sensed that something was wrong.

Lan Hong met with Zhu Lintian and revealed that he intended to overthrow the Dai Family and had killed every Clear Sky Sect elder. He then went to confront the Clear Sky Sect disciples in Star Luo City, while Spirit Hall stayed out of the fight.

• Zhu Lintian warned Dai Yutian that the Clear Sky Sect disciples had beaten nobles and White Tiger Sect disciples, but Dai Yutian dismissed his concerns.
• Zhu Lintian considered how to protect the Zhu Family when Lan Hong appeared at his residence with Zhu Zhuqing.
• Lan Hong confirmed Dai Yutian planned to wage full-scale war against the Heaven Dou Empire and declared that he would drive the Dai Family from power.
• Lan Hong told Zhu Lintian that he had killed every Clear Sky Sect elder and warned that he would deal with the disciples in Star Luo City.
• Lan Hong declined Spirit Kite Douluo's offer to have Spirit Hall capture the disciples, then entered the Clear Sky Sect's temporary residence with Zhu Zhuqing to attack them.

Lan Hong’s group destroyed the Clear Sky Sect’s base in Star Luo City and launched a campaign that weakened the Star Luo Royal Family’s support. Lan Hong then asked Zhu Lintian to nominate Zhuqing as Star Luo’s new Empress after the royal family was purged.

• Dugu Yan poisoned the Clear Sky Sect disciples, and Xiao Wu killed a weakened Soul Saint with a surprise attack.
• Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Ye Lingling, and Fei Ju shattered the Haotian True Body and formation, then helped slaughter the Clear Sky Sect survivors as Lan Hong burned their base.
• Dai Yutian and Tang Xiao learned of the Clear Sky Sect’s losses, while Star Luo City tightened security and the imperial family grew fearful.
• Spirit Kite Douluo gave Lan Hong a list of notorious nobles, and nobles were assassinated as their crimes were exposed, eroding support for the Dai Family.
• Lan Hong explained to Xiao Wu that he intended to destroy the Star Luo Royal Family’s legitimacy rather than simply kill the emperor.
• Lan Hong asked Zhu Lintian to nominate Zhuqing as Star Luo’s new Empress after the royal family was purged, startling him.

Lan Hong killed Dai Yutian and his empress, ending the Dai Family’s rule over the Star Luo Empire. Zhu Zhuqing then claimed the throne, and the gathered nobles submitted to her after Zhu Lintian knelt first.

• Lan Hong pressured Zhu Lintian into supporting Zhu Zhuqing as Empress and left without revealing when he would act.
• Lan Hong attacked the Star Luo Imperial Palace with a Soul Guidance Cannon, then killed Dai Yutian and his empress after defeating their Hell White Tiger fusion.
• Star Luo officials argued over the Dai Family’s future, and Zhu Lintian declared that its era as the imperial family had ended.
• Zhu Zhuqing entered the officials’ gathering and claimed the throne, while Lan Hong killed Dai Li when he challenged her.
• Zhu Lintian knelt before Zhu Zhuqing, and the other nobles followed by submitting to her rule.

Zhu Zhuqing consolidated her rule as Empress of the Star Luo Empire while Lan Hong advised her on balancing the forces around her. After Zhu Zhuyun killed Dai Weisi and reconciled with Zhu Zhuqing, Lan Hong tested her loyalty and learned she still hated Zhu Lintian.

• Lan Hong helped Zhu Zhuqing secure the throne, and she announced policies restricting nobles and punishing their crimes.
• Dai Weisi struck Zhu Zhuyun after learning Zhu Zhuqing had become Empress, then collapsed when poison took effect as he tried to attack her.
• Zhu Zhuyun killed Dai Weisi, left Gengjin City, and returned to Star Luo City to offer Zhu Zhuqing her help.
• Zhu Zhuqing forgave Zhu Zhuyun without denying their painful past and asked her sister to help rule.
• Lan Hong questioned Zhu Zhuyun under his Spiritual Power and learned that she hated Zhu Lintian for dividing the sisters and neglecting their mother.

After Zhu Zhuqing consolidated her rule, Tang San returned as a Soul Saint and recruited Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar to pursue Godly Inheritances and take revenge on Lan Hong. Lan Hong, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing set out for the Extreme North Land, where the Snow Empress sensed a mysterious pull from its forbidden core.

• Zhu Zhuqing warned the city lords to obey the law and publicly executed several offenders, while Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun discussed fleeing Suotuo City.
• Tang San appeared before Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun, revealed his new Soul Saint strength, and offered to help them find Godly Inheritances if they helped him avenge himself on Lan Hong.
• Tang San brought Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun to Shrek Academy and recruited Oscar, while Flender warned them about the Clear Sky Sect's destruction and the consequences of their choices.
• Lan Hong learned that Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing had reached level 60, and the three prepared to travel to the Extreme North Land.
• Lan Hong's group set out for the Extreme North Land, where the Snow Empress awoke and sensed a strange attraction from the region's forbidden core.

Lan Hong entered the Extreme North Land, rescued Shui Bing’er and Dean Shui, then tracked a Titan Snow Demon to its king, A Tai, to demand a meeting with the Snow Empress. After A Tai refused and fought him, Lan Hong struck him with a powerful fire attack, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Lan Hong and his companions rescued Shui Bing’er and Dean Shui from a fifty-thousand-year Titan Snow Demon, which fled when Lan Hong released the Ice Dragon King’s might.
• Lan Hong pursued the Titan Snow Demon to its clan’s territory and found A Tai, the Titan Snow Demon King.
• Lan Hong asked A Tai to take him to the Snow Empress and explained that he wanted cooperation between soul beasts and humans, but A Tai dismissed his proposal.
• Lan Hong challenged A Tai, froze his lower body, and shattered the ice pillars A Tai sent at him.
• Lan Hong unleashed a crimson flame Fire Dragon that ignored A Tai’s blizzard and slammed into his head, rolling his enormous body across the ground.

Lan Hong defeated the Titan Snow Demon King and met Snow Empress, seeking her cooperation to break the rules that bound spirit beasts and Spirit Masters. Snow Empress challenged him to prove his strength, and their battle began with Lan Hong’s sword qi melting her ice attacks.

• Lan Hong overwhelmed the Titan Snow Demon King with the Fire Dance Whirlwind Sword Art, and Ice Bear King Xiao Bai arrived to lead him and his companions to Snow Empress.
• Lan Hong explained Snow Empress’s origins and near seven-hundred-thousand-year cultivation, while Snow Empress recognized Xiao Wu as a Shapeshifted Spirit Beast.
• Lan Hong urged Snow Empress to help break the rules governing spirit beasts, but she doubted his ability and challenged him to fight.
• Lan Hong and Snow Empress sent their companions away and began battling; Lan Hong’s sword qi sublimated her snow and shattered her ice wall.
• Snow Empress agreed to show Lan Hong her three ultimate techniques.

Lan Hong defeated Snow Empress’s three ultimate techniques and demonstrated his sword intent, then spoke with her about the soul beast rules and proposed cooperation. As he began explaining, Ice Empress rushed into Snow Empress’s residence.

• Snow Empress unleashed Dancing Snow Sunburst, Great Cold Without Snow, and Ice Extreme Unrivaled, but Lan Hong countered each attack and shattered her Emperor Sword.
• Lan Hong stopped his sword just before Snow Empress, who conceded defeat and agreed to talk with him.
• Lan Hong brought Xiao Wu and the others to Snow Empress’s residence, where he shared tea and discussed the rules governing soul beasts.
• The Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King appeared and explained that the rules arose after the Dragon God’s fall; Snow Empress questioned Lan Hong about his offer to cooperate.
• Ice Empress charged through the ice wall and arrived at Snow Empress’s residence.