Chapter Summaries

Tang San blamed Ning Qiu for the collapse of his plans and left with his hair turned white, while Ning Qiu prepared to strike Spirit Hall by destroying its Saint Palace in Heaven Dou City. The chapter ended with Bai He revealing his identity to Emperor Xue Ye.

• Tang San watched Old Jack and Zhu Er leave, then flew into a rage and blamed Ning Qiu for his losses.
• Tang San's hair turned completely white as he left the area in silence.
• Ning Qiu told Holy Soul Village that they would destroy Spirit Hall's Saint Palace in the Two Great Empires rather than attack Spirit City.
• Ning Fengzhi and Yu Yuanzhen agreed to join the campaign and led their Soul King-and-above clan members to the Mission Hall.
• Ning Qiu ordered Dai Mubai to prepare five hundred Holy Soul Army soldiers to attack the Saint Palace in Heaven Dou City.
• Bai He entered the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace and identified himself to Xue Ye as a commander of the Holy Soul Army.

Xue Ye learned that Holy Soul Village had absorbed several powerful clans and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, making it a force the Heaven Dou Empire could not easily challenge. As Ning Fengzhi asked him to keep the city’s troops out of the conflict, Holy Soul Village’s forces attacked the Spirit Hall Saint Palace, and Xue Ye ordered the city guards to protect the imperial palace instead.

• Xue Ye recalled how Holy Soul Village had taken control of the Balak Kingdom and grown into a formidable power, while the Heaven Dou Empire could not risk intervening.
• Bai He identified himself as the Holy Soul Army’s Reconnaissance Army Commander, and Ning Fengzhi told Xue Ye that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had joined Holy Soul Village.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Xue Ye to keep the Heaven Dou Empire out of the coming conflict, and a flash revealed an attack near the Spirit Hall Saint Palace.
• A general reported that at least ten Titled Douluo had breached the Saint Palace and were killing its occupants; Xue Ye ordered the Crown Prince to withdraw and the city guards to protect the imperial palace.
• Xue Ye summoned Xue Xing and Dugu Bo, then asked whether Ning Fengzhi was satisfied with his arrangements; Ning Fengzhi thanked him on behalf of Holy Soul Village.

Bibi Dong learned that Ning Qiu’s forces had destroyed Spirit Hall’s Saint Palace in Heaven Dou City and that the Balak Kingdom had seized Spirit Hall’s holdings there. After another Saint Palace was destroyed in the Star Luo Empire, Ning Qiu brought his allies to a village near Heaven Dou City, where he revealed that the Clear Sky Sect lived nearby and continued his Sea’s Ten Trials.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo told Bibi Dong that Ning Qiu’s forces had massacred everyone at the Saint Palace in Heaven Dou City while Xue Ye kept the empire’s troops inside the palace.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo reported that the Balak Kingdom had taken over Spirit Hall’s branch halls and sub-halls there and expelled its members.
• Ghost Douluo informed Bibi Dong that Yang Wudi had led an attack that destroyed Spirit Hall’s Saint Palace in the Star Luo Empire, prompting Bibi Dong to blame Ning Qiu.
• Ning Qiu led the Holy Soul Army to a village near Heaven Dou City, where Xiao Wu learned that its unusually strong villagers were disciples of the Clear Sky Sect.
• Ning Qiu acknowledged that he had come to continue his seventh Sea Trial: preventing Spirit Hall’s Soul Hunting Operation and subduing the Upper Three Sects.

Ning Qiu and his companions arrived at the Clear Sky Sect to persuade it to merge into Holy Soul Village. The sect agreed to join if one of them could defeat its Second Elder, and Xiao Wu stepped forward to fight.

• Ning Qiu used a self-created Soul Skill to send uprooted trees flying toward the mountains as a calling card, bringing Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect's elders to meet them.
• Ning Fengzhi and Yu Yuanzhen explained that they wanted the Clear Sky Sect to merge into Holy Soul Village, and Ning Qiu introduced himself as the village chief.
• Tang Xiao said the Clear Sky Sect would join if Ning Qiu defeated him, but the Second Elder offered to accept a duel against anyone except Chen Xin, Gu Rong, or Yu Yuanzhen instead.
• Ning Qiu accepted the Second Elder's terms, and Xiao Wu stepped forward to fight him.
• Xiao Wu revealed nine Soul Rings, including three red hundred-thousand-year rings and a pale-gold ring.

Xiao Wu and Cai Ji demonstrated Holy Soul Village’s overwhelming strength to the Clear Sky Sect. After Cai Ji defeated Tang Yan, the Clear Sky Sect’s elders and disciples were left stunned.

• Tang Xiao sensed that Xiao Wu’s Soul Power was above level 97, and Xiao Wu returned to Ning Qiu’s side when he called her back.
• Ning Qiu sent Cai Ji to face Tang Yan, who challenged the nineteen-year-old Healing System Titled Douluo.
• Tang Yan attacked Cai Ji with his Clear Sky Scorching Sun, but she redirected the fireballs with her Fire Blowing Palm and pulled him toward her with her Suction Palm.
• Tang Yan used his Clear Sky Clone, Clear Sky True Body, and Flame Whirlwind Hammer, but Cai Ji dodged his attack using a talisman that carried her through the air.
• Cai Ji shattered Tang Yan’s Impregnable Defense with her Mountain Shattering Fist and sent him flying into the forest, winning the duel.

Cai Ji defeated Tang Yan, demonstrating Holy Soul Village’s strength and prompting Tang Xiao to agree that the Clear Sky Sect would join. Ning Qiu’s Sea’s Seventh Trial was completed, and he received doubled rewards, including ten Level Four Reservoir Upgrade Cards.

• Cai Ji defeated Tang Yan, and the Clear Sky Sect elders recognized the strength Holy Soul Village had displayed in the battle.
• Tang Xiao offered to join Holy Soul Village, but Ning Qiu said Tang Hao and Tang San could not join.
• Ning Fengzhi explained Tang San’s schemes against Zhu Er and Tang Hao’s failure to help Holy Soul Academy at Spirit City’s Pope’s Palace.
• The Clear Sky Sect’s Second Elder and Tang Yan rejected Tang San, while Xiao Wu and the Second Elder accused Tang Hao of endangering Ah Yin; Tang Xiao struggled to accept their claims.
• After weighing the benefits and Holy Soul Village’s overwhelming strength, Tang Xiao agreed to bring the Clear Sky Sect into the village.
• Ning Qiu’s Sea’s Seventh Trial was declared complete, earning him 40% Sea Affinity and ten Level Four Reservoir Upgrade Cards; the Silver Dragon King recognized one of the cards.

After gathering the resources and selecting a team, Ning Qiu used a Myriad Worlds Travel Card to take Holy Soul Village’s trial group to another plane. They arrived in a strange forest, where they would have to establish and protect a new base.

• Ning Qiu used ten Level 4 Reservoir Upgrade Cards and mobilized Holy Soul Village’s people and soul beasts to build seven reservoirs, earning rewards for completing Sea's Seventh Trial.
• Eight months later, Ning Qiu and Xiao Wu completed another task and gathered one hundred Level 4 Animal Husbandry Upgrade Cards, then prepared to travel to another plane.
• Ning Qiu organized the Holy Soul Village Inaugural Spirit Fight Tournament and selected thirty-nine contestants to join him in the village-upgrade trial.
• Ning Qiu asked the Silver Dragon King to guard Holy Soul Village while the group was away, and she promised to protect it.
• Ning Qiu activated a Myriad Worlds Travel Card, and the group crossed over to a strange forest in another plane.

Ning Qiu and the others crossed into the Battle Qi Plane, where they discovered they could walk through the air and learned about the nearby city of Wutan. As they examined their village identity cards, a heavenly voice announced the arrival of rankings and rewards.

• A silver vortex brought Ning Qiu and forty-seven others to a village in an unfamiliar world.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Dugu Bo discovered they could stand and move in the air, and the others tried it too.
• Zhu Zhuqing learned that they were in WoWo Village near Wutan City, in the Gamma Empire, where cultivators used different ranks from those of the Douluo Plane.
• Ning Qiu recognized that they had crossed into the Battle Qi Plane and identified the strange force as its Space Lock.
• Ning Fengzhi and the others checked their Crystal Cards for information about their new identities and levels.
• Nine-colored light appeared in the sky as a heavenly voice announced that the rankings had descended and those listed would receive rewards.

A mysterious Heavenly Rankings appeared across the worlds and began listing flames, awarding Spirit Stones and other treasures to their owners. As the rankings reached Heavenly Flames and granted the Flame Mantra, Ning Qiu realized its rewards would drive flame wielders to pursue one another.

• Ning Qiu and the villagers questioned the system and learned nothing about the sudden Heavenly Rankings.
• The Flame Ranking List began naming flames and granting rewards that rose from Spirit Stones to Immortal Spirit Stones.
• Ning Qiu recognized several Beast Fires and their owners as the list revealed increasingly powerful entries.
• Han Feng learned that his ranked Sea Heart Flame would earn him the Flame Mantra and celebrated in Maple City.
• Ning Qiu explained that the Flame Mantra could evolve by absorbing Heavenly Flames and foresaw conflict among its new recipients.

Ning Qiu and his companions watched the Heavenly Rankings distribute rewards for the top Heavenly Flames, stirring interest and greed among powerful clans. After the rankings announced that the Power Rankings would appear in three months, Ning Qiu established Holy Soul Village as a second base and began its Level 5 advancement trial, which required the village to survive for a year.

• Yao Chen urged Xiao Yan to leave for the Demon Beast Forest the next day, warning that the Heavenly Rankings could expose his Heavenly Flame and put them in danger.
• Gu Yuan decided the Gu Clan needed to find a way to obtain the Purification Lotus Demon Fire after seeing its reward exceed that of Xun Er's flame.
• A black-clothed man received the Void Swallowing Flame's rewards and wondered whether they could help him reach the Emperor Realm, while a white-clothed man grew greedy for the flame.
• Ning Qiu reassured the forty-nine experts from the Douluo Plane that they could compete in the Power Rankings, then renamed WoWo Village as Holy Soul Village.
• Ning Qiu used a Village Building Order to obtain a second base and trigger the Level 5 village advancement trial, starting a one-year countdown.

Ning Qiu renamed WoWo Village to Holy Soul Village and bought the villagers’ acceptance with Gold Soul Coins. He then established a home on a nearby hill while Zhu Zhuqing reported that the payouts had cost over seventeen million Gold Soul Coins.

• Ning Qiu declared himself village chief and renamed WoWo Village Holy Soul Village, then used Zhu Zhuqing to pay villagers until they greeted him as chief.
• Ning Qiu offered the villagers unconditional membership, told them to keep farming and selling as before, and promised monthly dividends through Zhu Zhuqing.
• Ning Qiu explained to Xiao Wu that Holy Soul Village’s goods made it enormously profitable, then chose a hilltop as their home site.
• Ning Qiu crushed a card to create a modern two-story house, and Zhu Zhuqing reported that the village’s 176 residents had received a total of 17,711,000 Gold Soul Coins.

Ning Qiu used his cards to upgrade Holy Soul Village across the Douluo and Battle Through the Heavens planes, then spent Contribution Points to build and upgrade a Treasure Pavilion. After Xiao Wu volunteered to choose a site for the Mission Hall, they wondered whether the village could place in the Power Rankings, due to be released in just over ninety days.

• Ning Qiu upgraded the village’s 500 plots, ponds, and livestock buildings to Level 4 while keeping the village’s rural appearance.
• Ning Qiu learned that villagers and Prosperity were shared across planes, village chiefs had ranks, and buildings had to be rebuilt separately in each plane.
• Ning Qiu spent 5.2 million Contribution Points on construction and upgrade cards for a Treasure Pavilion and Mission Hall.
• Ning Qiu used the Treasure Pavilion cards to transform a simple thatched house into a grand Level Four building.
• Xiao Wu asked Ning Qiu whether Holy Soul Village could place in the Power Rankings, and Ning Qiu said it depended on how the rankings measured strength.

Ning Qiu’s village faced extortion from the Xiao Clan after its produce prospered, and Xiao Wu killed the Xiao Clan’s Xiao Han while defending the villagers. The Xiao Clan learned that Holy Soul Village was hurting its marketplace business and began considering how to take action against the village.

• After three months of cultivation and village improvements, Ning Qiu met A San’s convoy and learned that the Xiao Clan had seized produce, demanded doubled rent and free vegetables, and beaten the villagers.
• Xiao Han boasted of his Xiao Clan status and refused to apologize, so Ning Qiu asked Xiao Wu to deal with him.
• When Xiao Han tried to touch Xiao Wu, she used Suction Palm and drained his blood and bodily fluids, killing him.
• Ning Qiu told A San to hang Xiao Han’s corpse in the valley as a warning to anyone entering the village.
• In Wutan City, Xiao Zhan and the elders discussed Holy Soul Village’s success, the loss of customers from Xiao Clan marketplaces, and the Third Elder’s proposal to reclaim land.

The Xiao Clan considered raising the rent on Holy Soul Village’s miraculous fields, while Galie Bi and Oba Pa proposed joining forces against the village. After Xiao Han was killed by Xiao Wu, Ning Qiu sent Liu Erlong to destroy the assembled forces, and the Power Ranking appeared in the sky.

• Xiao Zhan agreed with the Xiao Clan elders to raise the land price to half the yield instead of taking back the fields.
• Galie Bi and Oba Pa asked Xiao Zhan to ally with them against Holy Soul Village, and a messenger reported that Xiao Wu had killed Xiao Han.
• A San told Ning Qiu that Xiao Han’s corpse had been taken and that the Xiao, Galie, and Oba families had gathered at the village.
• Ning Qiu ordered Liu Erlong to kill the intruders, and her three fire dragons killed nearly three thousand men, including Xiao Zhan.
• Nine-Colored Auspicious Clouds appeared, and Ning Qiu recognized the arrival of the Power Ranking.

The Heavenly Rankings revealed the Power Rankings and granted cultivation-speed rewards to the listed factions. After Thunder Venerable challenged the rankings and was killed, Ning Qiu explained that faction placement likely depended on the strength of its top experts, while Holy Soul Village’s standing remained uncertain.

• The Gamma Empire and Yun Lan Sect appeared near the bottom of the rankings, while Yellow Springs Pavilion was placed 30th and Wind and Thunder Pavilion 29th.
• The Heavenly Rankings bestowed a major cultivation-speed increase on Wind and Thunder Pavilion’s disciples, and the list continued to place Starfall Pavilion above several established forces.
• Thunder Venerable protested Starfall Pavilion’s placement, so the Heavenly Rankings struck him dead and barred Wind and Thunder Pavilion from the rankings for three years.
• Yellow Springs Pavilion took Wind and Thunder Pavilion’s former position and received an additional increase to its disciples’ cultivation speed as the rankings were recalculated.
• Yellow Springs Venerable and other powerful factions questioned Jialan Academy’s 18th-place ranking but stayed silent after seeing Thunder Venerable’s fate.
• At Holy Soul Village, Ning Qiu told Xiao Wu that the rankings likely reflected top experts’ cultivation levels, and warned that hidden forces and the Ancient Eight Great Clans could prevent the village from reaching the top ten.

The Heavenly Rankings continued revealing powerful clans and factions, with rewards growing substantially as the list approached its top positions. The chapter ended after the Xiao Clan took fifth place, leaving the top four unannounced.

• The Stone-Eating Demon Ant and Gold-Eating Rat Clan placed seventeenth and sixteenth, prompting people to speculate about the rankings’ inclusion of magical beast families.
• Ning Qiu told Xiao Wu he suspected the Heavenly Rankings had appeared for a reason and wondered whether they had also descended upon Douluo Continent.
• The Azure Luan Clan, Heaven Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast, Nine Nether Earth Python Clan, Pill Tower, and Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan took fifteenth through eleventh place.
• Feng Qing'er reflected that her teacher’s death left the Wind and Thunder Pavilion vulnerable and resolved to return to her clan and rebuild it if she could.
• The Spirit Clan placed tenth and received a 100% cultivation-speed increase plus one million Immortal Spirit Stones for each disciple.
• The Stone Clan, Medicine Clan, Thunder Clan, Flame Clan, and Xiao Clan placed ninth through fifth, with increasingly large cultivation-speed bonuses and Immortal Spirit Stone rewards.

The Power Rankings revealed the Xiao Clan in fifth place, prompting Soul Emperor to reconsider his plans and the Flame Clan patriarch to order Huo Zhi to destroy the Xiao Clan. Holy Soul Village took first place, and the Heavenly Rankings announced that the Territory Rankings would appear in three months.

• Soul Emperor learned that the Xiao Clan ranked fifth and decided the Soul Clan needed to move its plans forward.
• Gu Yuan suspected Xiao Xuan’s presence in the Heavenly Tomb had helped the Xiao Clan rank fifth.
• The Flame Clan patriarch ordered Huo Zhi to find and destroy the Xiao Clan so the Flame Clan could claim fifth place.
• The rankings placed the Void Ancient Dragon fourth, the Gu Clan third, and the Soul Clan second, while their rewards increased at each rank.
• The Heavenly Rankings named Holy Soul Village first, awarded its disciples the greatest cultivation boost and resources, and announced the Territory Rankings for three months later.

After Holy Soul Village ranked first on the Power Rankings, Ning Qiu realized the coming Territory Rankings would bring continent-wide conflict and decided to expand the village's territory. At the Gamma Imperial Palace, the emperor and his guardian discussed strengthening the empire before Ning Qiu and Xiao Wu appeared, interrupting their plans.

• Dou Zhe across the continent searched for Holy Soul Village after it took first place, while Soul Emperor anticipated that the Territory Rankings would spark war.
• Holy Soul Village received a three-hundred-percent increase in cultivation speed and thirty Immortal Spirit Stones for each villager, including its dog.
• Ning Qiu warned Xiao Wu that the continent's chaotic age had arrived early, then asked her to accompany him to the Gamma Imperial Palace to expand their territory.
• The Gamma Empire's emperor ordered new recruitment, border reinforcements, and efforts to attract people from neighboring empires ahead of the Territory Rankings.
• The Hemp-Clothed Old Man vowed to destroy the Yun Lan Sect after breaking through to Dou Zong, but Ning Qiu and Xiao Wu appeared in the hall and told him he had no chance.

Ning Qiu and Xiao Wu demanded that the Gamma Empire submit to Holy Soul Village, and Xiao Wu killed its leaders after they refused. Ning Qiu then gave Yun Yun ten seconds to decide whether the Yun Lan Sect would submit or be destroyed.

• Ning Qiu offered the Hemp-Clothed Old Man the choice of submitting to Holy Soul Village or having the Gamma Empire destroyed, and Xiao Wu began fighting him.
• The Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast attacked Xiao Wu, but she killed it and pursued the fleeing Hemp-Clothed Old Man.
• Xiao Wu killed Jia Xingtian with Suction Palm after he refused to submit to Holy Soul Village.
• The Gamma Empire's Emperor offered to surrender, but Ning Qiu rejected the offer, and Xiao Wu killed him and Princess Yao Ye and Princess Yue Er.
• Ning Qiu called on Yun Yun to submit the Yun Lan Sect and began counting down from ten.

Ning Qiu forced the Yun Lan Sect to become an affiliate of Holy Soul Village, killed a Soul Hall emissary, and appointed Nalan Jie to oversee the Gamma Empire. Back in the village, he met Ya Fei, who sought an exception to join because of her auctioneer skills.

• Yun Shan declared that the Yun Lan Sect would become an affiliated force of Holy Soul Village.
• Ning Qiu killed a Soul Hall Dou Zong who threatened him, then ordered Yun Shan to visit the village and appointed Nalan Jie to oversee the Gamma Empire.
• Xiao Wu asked Ning Qiu whether he wanted the Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast cooked, and villagers barbecued its meat the next day.
• Xiao Wu brought Ya Fei to meet Ning Qiu, though she lacked the cultivation or alchemy qualifications for village membership.
• Ya Fei told Ning Qiu that her auction skills made her worthy of an exception.