Chapter Summaries

After spending a joyful night with Bibi Dong, Dai Yao agreed to meet Hu Liena as the “Asura Emperor” and end her hopes. He rejected her affection and left, but Hu Liena interpreted his claim that he was ugly as insecurity and resumed searching for him.

• Bibi Dong thanked Dai Yao for helping her feel happy again, then left the lakeside and returned to her role as pope.
• Bibi Dong told Hu Liena that the “Asura Emperor” had arrived, and Hu Liena hurried to meet him after asking whether he would like her.
• Dai Yao disguised himself and used the Divine Slaughter's Domain to confirm his identity to Hu Liena at the pavilion on Pope Mountain.
• Hu Liena told Dai Yao she had thought of him every day for 521 days and offered back the mask she had kept, but he told her to throw it away.
• Dai Yao rejected Hu Liena, refused to give his name or show his face, and left her crying in the rain.
• Hu Liena found the discarded mask and decided that Dai Yao had rejected her because he was ashamed of his appearance.

Hu Liena refused to give up on the Asura Emperor despite Bibi Dong’s attempt to make her move on, while Dai Yao prepared to leave Spirit City and found a sect. Dai Yao traveled toward Dragon Arising City with Feng Wutong, determined to recruit neutral forces and settle his score with the Dai Family and the Star Luo Empress.

• Bibi Dong comforted Hu Liena in the rain, but Hu Liena insisted that she would keep waiting for the Asura Emperor to change his mind.
• Dai Yao told Bibi Dong he planned to leave Spirit City and establish his own sect, and she gave him the remaining ten thousand prisms while urging him to recruit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect into neutrality.
• Dai Yao learned that Zhu Zhuqing would stay behind to absorb Ghost Douluo’s Spirit Bone, and he examined the Golden Lotus in his spiritual world but decided to keep it hidden.
• Dai Yao left with Feng Wutong for Dragon Arising City, planning to build his sect with help from the Azure Scale Clan and branches of the Four Single Attribute Clans.
• At Wu Pass, Dai Yao recalled his escape from the Star Luo Empire and vowed to settle accounts with the Dai Family and the Star Luo Empress.

Dai Yao and Tang San both moved to establish sects and headed toward Dragon Arising City to seek allies. Ning Rongrong also set out for the city to find Dai Yao, while Dugu Yan hoped their reunion would secure the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s support for his plans.

• Dai Yao and Feng Wutong traveled toward Dragon Arising City, where Dai Yao planned to establish a neutral sect with help from the Azure Scale Lineage.
• Tang San returned to Shrek Academy, told Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong about Xiao Wu’s death and Dai Yao’s role in her sacrifice, then announced his plan to establish the Tang Sect.
• Yu Xiaogang introduced Tang San to Ma Hongjun and Oscar, who agreed to help, but Tang San lacked funds and went to seek Ning Rongrong’s support.
• Ning Fengzhi told Tang San that Ning Rongrong had already left, so Tang San visited the Strength Clan and departed with Titan toward Dragon Arising City to meet the former Four Single Attribute Clans.
• Dugu Yan revealed Dai Yao’s destination to Ning Rongrong, who left with Sword Douluo Chen Xin to find him; Dugu Yan planned to follow and hoped Ning Rongrong would bring the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to Dai Yao’s side.
• Dai Yao, Tang San, Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, and the continent’s clans and factions all headed toward Dragon Arising City for their separate purposes.

Dai Yao reunited with Ning Rongrong in Dragon Arising City, accepted her confession, and gave her a Golden Lotus that transformed her martial soul into a Ten Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. As Sword Douluo and Feng Wutong interrupted them, Sword Douluo was shocked by Ning Rongrong’s changed appearance.

• Dai Yao and Feng Wutong spotted a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect carriage, and Ning Rongrong recognized Dai Yao and stopped it to meet him.
• Sword Douluo invited Dai Yao into the carriage while he stayed outside to speak with Feng Wutong and offered her a place in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Rongrong thanked Dai Yao for protecting the sect, then confessed that she had come to Dragon Arising City to help him and had loved him for five years.
• Dai Yao accepted Ning Rongrong’s feelings and gave her a Golden Lotus, which transformed her appearance and evolved her martial soul into a Ten Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda with a flickering tenth floor.
• Sword Douluo and Feng Wutong opened the carriage curtain and found Dai Yao and Ning Rongrong embracing, and Sword Douluo failed to recognize Ning Rongrong at first.

Ning Rongrong revealed that her Martial Soul had evolved into the Ten Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, astonishing Sword Douluo and changing the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s stance toward Dai Yao. Sword Douluo abandoned the sect’s marriage conditions and pledged the sect’s unconditional support for Dai Yao’s plans.

• Sword Douluo confirmed that the transformed woman was Ning Rongrong, who concealed that Dai Yao had given her a precious opportunity.
• Sword Douluo tested Dai Yao’s speed, then told him the sect’s three conditions for marrying Ning Rongrong: give her wife status, reach Soul Douluo within ten years, and obtain a One Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Ning Rongrong befriended Feng Wutong, learned more about Dai Yao’s plans, and promised to help him establish his sect.
• Ning Rongrong showed Sword Douluo her ten-story Ten Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, whose tenth story indicated the potential to become a god.
• Sword Douluo discarded the marriage conditions and promised that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would support Dai Yao’s neutral sect unconditionally.

Dai Yao and Ning Rongrong visited the Defense Clan to recruit Niu Gao into a neutral sect, while Dai Yao concealed his identity until Tang San arrived. The chapter ended with Dai Yao revealing himself to Tang San, who recognized the man he hated.

• Ning Rongrong introduced herself to Niu Gao, and Sword Douluo’s presence secured the group a warm welcome at the Defense Clan estate.
• Ning Rongrong proposed founding a neutral sect, but Niu Gao questioned the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s motives and refused to accept an unknown man as its leader.
• Dai Yao insisted Niu Gao wait for someone who would reveal his identity, while Niu Gao offered to introduce him to the other Four Single Attribute Clans.
• Titan arrived with Tang San, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun, and he and Niu Gao greeted each other with a strength-testing embrace.
• Oscar invited Ning Rongrong to join Tang San’s new sect, but she responded coldly and looked toward Dai Yao.
• Dai Yao removed his hood and revealed himself to Tang San, telling him he would not forget Dai Yao even in his next life.

Dai Yao disrupted Tang San’s attempt to recruit the Four Single Attribute Clans by exposing his plan to establish a sect and raising doubts about Tang San’s ties to the Clear Sky Sect. When Titan challenged Dai Yao’s presence, Dai Yao proposed a fight, and Titan accepted.

• Tang San ended the Tang Sect’s cooperation with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and threatened to destroy its hidden weapons, but Ning Rongrong demanded compensation and refused to back down.
• Niu Gao learned that Tang San was Tang Hao’s son and became angry at the Clear Sky Sect, while Ning Rongrong insisted that Dai Yao would stay with her sect’s support.
• Dai Yao revealed that Tang San had come to recruit the Four Single Attribute Clans and establish a sect, then questioned whether Tang San might eventually merge it with the Clear Sky Sect.
• Titan admitted he had known Tang San’s purpose and urged Niu Gao to drive Dai Yao away, but Niu Gao chose not to take either side.
• Dai Yao challenged Titan to a fight, offering to leave if he lost, and Titan accepted.

Dai Yao defeated Titan Ape in a duel at the Defense Clan’s estate, then asked Niu Gao to hear his offer before committing to Tang San. Niu Gao arrived to listen, though Dai Yao sensed Tang San had already made a persuasive case.

• Titan Ape dismissed Dai Yao’s strength, but Tang San warned him that he had never managed to defeat Dai Yao.
• Dai Yao overpowered Titan Ape in a contest of strength, then used Eight Extremes Collapse to batter him and blast him through a wall after Titan invoked his Martial Soul Avatar.
• Titan Ape admitted defeat and left, while Dai Yao urged Niu Gao not to accept Tang San’s offer before hearing his own.
• Dai Yao explained to Ning Rongrong and Sword Douluo that his Eight Extremes Collapse was an evolved version of a more powerful technique he had used at the Clear Sky Sect.
• Dai Yao considered how to win over the Defense Clan, and Niu Gao came to his room and asked him to make his case.

Dai Yao persuaded Niu Gao to join the newly established Cyan Lotus Sect by explaining his feud with the Star Luo Empress and revealing his extraordinary spirit rings and two External Soul Bones. Niu Gao then left to tell the other clans, while Tang San and Titan worried that he would help Dai Yao recruit the Speed Clan and Breaking Clan.

• Dai Yao told Niu Gao that the Star Luo Empress had murdered his mother and promised the Cyan Lotus Sect would protect neutral forces from the coming conflict.
• Niu Gao hesitated to join Dai Yao, so Dai Yao revealed his six spirit rings, including a One Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, and his two External Soul Bones.
• After learning Dai Yao was only twenty, Niu Gao agreed to entrust the Defense Clan's four hundred-plus members to him and promised to approach the Speed Clan and Breaking Clan.
• Dai Yao named his new sect the Cyan Lotus Sect, and Niu Gao declared the Defense Clan its first member.
• Niu Gao told Titan he had joined Dai Yao's sect, angering Titan, while Tang San accepted the decision and resolved to make the clans regret it in the future.
• Titan told Tang San he feared Niu Gao would recruit the Speed Clan and Breaking Clan for Dai Yao, but said he remained confident about winning over the Speed Clan.

Dai Yao secured the Defense Clan’s allegiance and prepared to recruit the Speed Clan, while Feng Wutong worried that she could not help him. The Speed Clan arrived, and Dai Yao and Tang San each introduced their new sects and sought Bai He’s support.

• Ning Rongrong offered to manage Dai Yao’s sect finances, and he agreed while reassuring her about her cultivation.
• Dai Yao comforted Feng Wutong, who felt useless, and realized her Vermilion Bird Spirit’s influence on avian spirit masters could help him recruit the Speed Clan.
• The Speed Clan, led by Bai He and accompanied by Bai Chenxiang, arrived at the Defense Clan as Dai Yao and Tang San’s groups came out to greet them.
• Tang San introduced himself as Tang Hao’s son and invited Bai He to join the Tang Sect; Bai He mocked the sect as a Clear Sky Sect hound but felt secretly pleased to meet Tang San.
• Dai Yao introduced himself as a former Star Luo Empire prince and Spirit Hall member, explained that his Cyan Lotus Sect was independent of Spirit Hall, and invited Bai He to join.

Dai Yao and Tang San competed for Bai He and the Speed Clan by offering rival alliances, while Dai Yao exposed the limits of Tang San’s promises. The chapter left Bai He weighing his choices as Dai Yao offered to state his own terms.

• Bai He accused Niu Gao of betraying the Four Single Attribute Clans, and Niu Gao explained that he had joined Dai Yao’s Cyan Lotus Sect for protection.
• Tang San fixated on the name Cyan Lotus Sect as a possible clue to Dai Yao’s weakness, then apologized to Bai He for the Clear Sky Sect’s past abandonment of the clans.
• Tang San demonstrated the Godly Zhuge Crossbow, and Bai He eagerly asked to buy two hundred before learning each one cost one hundred and fifty Gold Soul Coins.
• Tang San offered the Speed Clan hidden weapons if they joined the Tang Sect, but Ning Rongrong revealed that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s five hundred thousand Gold Coin payment could not fund such a promise.
• After Bai He questioned whether joining Tang Sect would leave the Speed Clan dependent on the Strength Clan, Dai Yao invited him to hear his terms.

Dai Yao challenged Bai Chenxiang after she mocked his promise to protect the Speed Clan, then subdued her with the pressure of his martial soul. He forgave her wager and challenged Bai He for the Speed Clan’s allegiance; Bai He accepted and stepped into the arena.

• Dai Yao promised Bai He that the Cyan Lotus Sect could protect the Speed Clan and invited the clan to join.
• Bai Chenxiang challenged Dai Yao, wagering that she would let him do as he pleased if she lost, while Ning Rongrong offered her one million Gold Soul Coins if she won.
• Dai Yao released his martial soul’s overwhelming pressure, immobilizing Bai Chenxiang until Bai He admitted her defeat.
• Dai Yao dismissed Bai Chenxiang’s wager as a joke and proposed a new bet: Bai He would receive one million Gold Soul Coins if he touched Dai Yao, but the Speed Clan would join the Cyan Lotus Sect if he failed.
• Bai He accepted the wager and stepped into the Martial Arts Arena to face Dai Yao.

Dai Yao matched Bai He's speed in their wagered battle, revealing his External Soul Bone and One Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring to the gathered clans. He used his sixth soul skill, Void, to evade Bai He's final attack, and the skill summoned Xiao Wu's phantom, leaving Tang San shaken.

• Dai Yao evaded Bai He's first attack with his speed, then used his White Tiger Eight Wings to escape Bai He's martial-soul-powered charge.
• Bai He activated his Martial Soul Avatar and eighth soul skill, while Dai Yao revealed his six soul rings and boosted his strength and speed with two transformations.
• The onlookers reacted to Dai Yao's One Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, while Tang San blamed himself and vowed to avenge Xiao Wu.
• Bai He and Dai Yao raced through the Defense Clan estate as Bai He used five swift clones to gradually trap Dai Yao.
• Dai Yao activated his sixth soul skill, Void, and Bai He's attack passed harmlessly through him as Xiao Wu's phantom appeared beside him.
• Tang San recognized Xiao Wu and moved toward her, trembling.

Tang San broke down after Dai Yao revealed Xiao Wu’s phantom, while Dai Yao reflected on his revenge and defeated Bai He’s challenge without being touched. Bai He agreed to join the Cyan Lotus Sect if Dai Yao could persuade the Breaking Clan, gave him a treasured Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng, and reacted with intense interest when Feng Wutong unveiled herself.

• Tang San tried to attack Dai Yao in grief and rage, but Titan restrained him until he calmed down and left alone.
• Dai Yao revealed that he had imprisoned Xiao Wu’s soul in his spiritual world and vowed to make Tang San suffer for the past.
• Bai He conceded the contest after his Sharp-Tailed Swifts could not touch Dai Yao, and he said the Speed Clan needed to consult the Breaking Clan before joining the Cyan Lotus Sect.
• Ning Rongrong tried the Defense Clan’s strong wine, coughed after one sip, and hid in Dai Yao’s arms as everyone laughed.
• Dai Yao told Bai He that Tang San had Twin Martial Souls, and Bai He promised to join the Cyan Lotus Sect if Dai Yao persuaded the Breaking Clan.
• Bai He gave Dai Yao a Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng, and he stood in astonishment when Feng Wutong removed her hood.

Feng Wutong revealed her Vermilion Bird Spirit, giving Bai He hope that the Speed Clan could evolve its Spirit and become stronger if it joined Dai Yao’s sect. Later, Dai Yao pressured Xiao Wu into agreeing to hand over Tang San’s Hidden Weapon Blueprints by threatening Tang Hao.

• Feng Wutong revealed her Vermilion Bird Spirit, and the Speed Clan’s members felt its overwhelming pressure.
• Bai He explained that the Vermilion Bird’s aura could help the Speed Clan evolve its bird-type Spirits and asked Feng Wutong to accept maids, but she said she would remain by Dai Yao’s side.
• Bai He insisted on waiting for the Breaking Clan before deciding whether the Speed Clan would join Dai Yao’s sect.
• After the banquet, Dai Yao comforted Feng Wutong, then entered his mental world and confronted Xiao Wu over the unfinished wager.
• Dai Yao threatened to kill Tang Hao unless Xiao Wu gave him Tang San’s Hidden Weapon Blueprints, and Xiao Wu reluctantly agreed.

Dai Yao restored Xiao Wu to a human body and sent her to meet Tang San so she could take his Hidden Weapon Blueprints. Xiao Wu escaped into the forest with the blueprints, leaving Tang San in despair as he failed to stop her.

• Dai Yao fed the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng to Xiao Wu’s recovered Soft Bone Rabbit body, allowing Xiao Wu’s soul to return to it and regain human form.
• Dai Yao gave Xiao Wu her bloodstained dress and warned her that he would monitor her meeting with Tang San and recapture her if she fled.
• Tang San wandered Dragon Arising City in grief over Xiao Wu, and his hair turned white before Titan, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun found him.
• Tang San spotted Xiao Wu and chased her out of the city, while Dai Yao urged her to take Tang San’s Hidden Weapon Blueprints.
• Xiao Wu asked Tang San for the blueprints, took them, and fled into the forest after telling him to forget her and avoid Dai Yao.
• Tang San tried to stop Xiao Wu with his Blue Silver Emperor, but she escaped, leaving him kneeling and crying out in anguish.

Dai Yao seized Tang San’s Hidden Weapon Blueprints from Xiao Wu and left her unconscious shell in his Soul Tool, while Tang San concluded Xiao Wu was alive and resolved to gather strength against him. Dai Yao returned to the Defense Clan, where the Breaking Clan arrived and Yang Wudi questioned the gathering’s new alliances.

• Dai Yao reclaimed Xiao Wu’s soul, took the Hidden Weapon Blueprints, and stored her unconscious shell in his Ruyi Treasure Pouch.
• Tang San discovered the blueprints were missing and decided Xiao Wu was alive but being threatened by Dai Yao.
• Tang San left the Defense Clan with Titan, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar, and planned to have the Star Luo Empire attack Dai Yao’s forces.
• Feng Wutong rebuffed Bai Chenxiang’s attempt to persuade her to leave Dai Yao and warned her not to speak ill of him.
• Yang Wudi arrived with the Breaking Clan, questioned Niu Gao about the Strength Clan’s absence and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s presence, and demanded to know who Dai Yao was.

Dai Yao introduced himself to Yang Wudi and revealed that he had joined Spirit Hall, prompting Yang Wudi to reject him and demand that Niu Gao and Bai He leave the Cyan Lotus Sect. Dai Yao challenged Yang Wudi to a duel and defeated him before his seventh soul skill could fully activate.

• Dai Yao told Yang Wudi that he led the Cyan Lotus Sect, while Niu Gao explained why the Defense Clan had joined it.
• Feng Wutong attacked Yang Wudi with her ultimate flame after he ignored Dai Yao, and Dai Yao explained that Titan had joined Tang San's Tang Sect but lost the Defense and Speed Clans to him.
• Yang Wudi learned that Dai Yao had joined Spirit Hall and tried to leave, but Niu Gao and Bai He persuaded him to stay; Yang Wudi demanded that they expel Dai Yao.
• Dai Yao challenged Yang Wudi to a spirit duel, revealed his extraordinary spirit rings, and used his spear techniques to seize the advantage.
• Dai Yao evaded Yang Wudi's attacks with Void and pressed him with rapid strikes, then stopped a finger's breadth from Yang Wudi's throat and declared that he had won.

Dai Yao defeated Yang Wudi and persuaded him to join the Cyan Lotus Sect by giving him the Aromatic Silk Beauty. The gathering was interrupted by Dugu Yan, Dugu Bo, and an Azure Scale Clan member, whom Dai Yao introduced as the sect’s first affiliated force.

• Dai Yao defeated Yang Wudi with a decisive spear strike, and Yang Wudi admitted defeat while thanking him for sparing his life.
• Dai Yao offered Yang Wudi the Aromatic Silk Beauty if he joined the Cyan Lotus Sect, and Yang Wudi eagerly accepted.
• Dugu Yan, Dugu Bo, and an Azure Scale Clan member arrived at the Defense Clan’s gathering, putting the guards and guests on alert.
• Dai Yao greeted Dugu Yan, introduced her and Dugu Bo to the gathered clans, and explained that the Azure Scale Clan was the first force to join the Cyan Lotus Sect.

Dai Yao arranged the Cyan Lotus Sect’s headquarters in Heaven Dou City and a fallback branch in Vast Sea City, then won the single-attribute clans’ commitment despite revealing that the sect would help him seek revenge against the Star Luo Empress. As the clans departed to gather their people, Dai Yao set out for Gengxin City, unaware that a storm was brewing in Star Luo Imperial City.

• Dugu Yan reassured the single-attribute clans that Dai Yao controlled the Cyan Lotus Sect and revealed that she was his lover.
• Dai Yao chose Heaven Dou City for the sect headquarters and Vast Sea City for a neutral branch, appointing Niu Ben to oversee its establishment with younger clan members.
• Dai Yao disclosed his blood feud with the Star Luo Empress, and Yang Wudi, Niu Gao, and Bai He pledged that their clans would stay in the sect.
• Dai Yao appointed Dugu Yan to manage the sect in Heaven Dou City, while Dugu Yan arranged for an Azure Scale Clan Soul Douluo to guard the Vast Sea City branch.
• The clans began departing to gather their disciples, Sword Douluo entrusted Ning Rongrong to Dai Yao, and Dugu Bo went ahead to Wu Pass.
• Dai Yao headed for Gengxin City to recruit the Blacksmiths' Association as trouble began stirring in Star Luo Imperial City.