Chapter Summaries

Spirit Hall rejected Clear Sky Sect’s denial of responsibility for attacks on its branches and dismissed offers of compensation, citing the deaths of its members and civilians. A papal decree formally declared war on Clear Sky Sect, leaving the gathered leaders stunned.

• Ning Fengzhi offered to have the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect compensate Spirit Hall, but Gui Mei said money could not repay the dead.
• Dai Tianfeng, Yu Yuanzhen, Titan, and Tang Tian dismissed the deaths as insignificant and defended Clear Sky Sect.
• Yue Guan said the blood debt could only be repaid with blood, and Tang Xiao accused Spirit Hall of using the deaths as an excuse.
• Yue Guan ordered a Red Cardinal to read the Pope’s declaration, which blamed Clear Sky Sect for the attacks and declared it an enemy of Spirit Hall.
• The Red Cardinal formally declared war on Clear Sky Sect, and the venue fell silent.

Spirit Hall declared war on the Clear Sky Sect, and Tang Tian ordered Tang Xuan and Tang Xiao to attack Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo. Light Feather Douluo ambushed Tang Xuan, then the pair's Martial Soul Fusion Skill froze the Clear Sky Sect's fighters as Light Feather aimed a second arrow at Tang Xiao.

• Tang Tian accepted Spirit Hall's declaration of war and saw the Star Luo Empire, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect hesitate to support the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Xiao urged Tang Tian to capture Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo, and Tang Tian sent Tang Xiao and Tang Xuan to attack them.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo revealed their Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, while Light Feather Douluo's arrow pierced Tang Xuan's chest.
• Light Feather Douluo sent instructions to Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo, who used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to freeze Tang Tian, Tang Xiao, Tang Xuan, and the Clear Sky Sect's elders.
• Light Feather Douluo aimed his next arrow at Tang Xiao and declared, "Game over!"

Ning Fengzhi saved Tang Xiao from Light Feather Douluo’s arrow, then Spirit Hall’s reinforcements arrived as the Clear Sky Sect tried to counterattack. Spirit Hall’s Wormholes opened across the Clear Sky Sect, allowing its forces to seize many checkpoints.

• Ning Fengzhi had Bone Dragon block Light Feather Douluo’s arrow, saving Tang Xiao but leaving Gu Rong badly weakened.
• Light Feather Douluo withdrew through a Wormhole, and Ning Fengzhi healed Gu Rong and Tang Xuan while urging the sides to make peace.
• Tang Xiao and Tang Tian attacked Yue Guan and Gui Mei, but Thousand Jun and Jiang Mo emerged from Wormholes and drove them back.
• Tang Xiao realized Spirit Hall’s Wormholes could threaten the Clear Sky Sect’s defenses as well as its elders.
• Wormholes opened at checkpoints across the Clear Sky Sect, and Spirit Hall’s forces poured through and seized many of them.

Spirit Hall launched a coordinated assault on Clear Sky Sect, capturing its three gates and escape tunnel before Qian Xunji confronted Tang Tian. Ning Fengzhi attempted to mediate, but Qian Xunji dismissed the threat of allied forces and turned to address the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and Star Luo Empire.

• Spirit Hall's Angel Legion seized Clear Sky Sect's main, east, and west gates, while Raging Rhino Douluo captured its escape tunnel and slaughtered its guards.
• Tang Tian received news that all four routes were lost and challenged Subduing Demon Douluo and Thousand Jun Douluo as Spirit Hall forces gathered.
• Qian Xunji arrived with Light Feather Douluo, Ci Xue, and Snake Lance Douluo, and Tang Tian questioned Spirit Hall's decision to risk war over the deaths of peasants.
• Ning Fengzhi urged Qian Xunji and Tang Tian to negotiate, but Spirit Hall's Titled Douluo pressured him and Qian Xunji openly dismissed his Three Arrows Theory.
• Qian Xunji pointed his sword at Ning Fengzhi, Yu Yuanzhen, and Dai Tianfeng, then began addressing their factions.

Qian Xunji isolated Clear Sky Sect by forcing its allies to weigh the risks of opposing Spirit Hall, then demanded that Clear Sky Sect pay for a recent death. Tang Xiao challenged Qian Xunji to a duel, and Spirit Hall’s Titled Douluo reacted furiously to his insults.

• Qian Xunji warned the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and Star Luo Empire not to side with Clear Sky Sect, and Ning Fengzhi chose not to intervene.
• Qian Xunji mocked the failed alliance and told Tang Tian that Spirit Hall would demand three Clear Sky Sect lives for every Spirit Hall member killed.
• Tang Xiao objected when Qian Xunji pointed his sword at Tang Tian, but Qian Xunji dismissed him as a junior.
• Tang Xiao declared that ambition and heroism were not determined by age or seniority, then challenged Qian Xunji to a one-on-one duel.
• Tang Xiao called Qian Daoliu and Qian Xunji cowards, angering Qian Jun, Jiang Mo, Guang Ling, and the other Spirit Hall members.

Tang Xiao challenged Qian Xunji, hoping to capture him and relieve the Clear Sky Sect’s crisis, but Qian Xunji effortlessly blocked his strongest attacks. Tang Xiao detonated all nine Soul Rings and launched the Great Sumeru Hammer, leaving Ning Fengzhi hopeful that Qian Xunji might finally be in danger.

• Qian Xunji forbade the Spirit Hall elders from interfering and accepted Tang Xiao’s challenge at the Clear Sky Sect’s grounds.
• Tang Xiao struck with the fully charged Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, but Qian Xunji blocked it with one sword strike.
• Tang Xiao used the Great Sumeru Hammer, yet Qian Xunji stopped it without being moved, while Ning Fengzhi and the others watched in shock.
• Qian Xunji urged Tang Xiao to detonate his Soul Rings as Tang Hao had, and Tang Xiao realized he needed to use his full strength.
• Tang Xiao detonated all nine Soul Rings and unleashed the Great Sumeru Hammer, while Ning Fengzhi reconsidered intervening after Gu Rong estimated the attack had reached the strength of a level ninety-seven Titled Douluo.

Qian Xunji defeated Tang Xiao, tore off his arm, and took the Soul Bone inside it, prompting Tang Tian to attack him with the Great Sumeru Hammer. Qian Xunji revealed his Fallen Angel form, leaving the gathered factions stunned and Ning Fengzhi asking Gu about his strength.

• Tang Xiao's detonated rings and Great Sumeru Hammer failed to move Qian Xunji, who struck him into a Clear Sky Sect hall and trampled him in the ruins.
• Qian Xunji tore off Tang Xiao's left arm, exposed a 70,000 Year Hammerhead Shark Right Arm Bone, and took it as payment.
• Tang Tian saw Tang Xiao crippled and detonated all nine Soul Rings to unleash the Sun Sky Hammer's Great Sumeru Hammer.
• Qian Xunji blocked Tang Tian's attack with a Fallen Angel Shield and revealed his twelve black wings and overwhelming Limit Douluo might.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Uncle Gu how strong Qian Xunji was.

Qian Xunji revealed that he had become a Limit Douluo after Tang Hao’s attacks opened his meridians, then defeated and captured Tang Tian during the Spirit Hall assault on the Clear Sky Sect. The Clear Sky Sect members warned him that their old sect master, Tang Chen, would return after completing his divine trials and seek revenge.

• Gu Rong and Ning Fengzhi realized Qian Xunji was powerful enough to kill them, while Tang Tian sensed that Qian Xunji had reached the Limit Douluo realm with a dark aura.
• Qian Xunji explained that Tang Hao’s hammer strikes six years earlier had opened his meridians and helped him reach his current strength, then threatened the Clear Sky Twin Stars.
• Tang Tian attacked Qian Xunji with the Great Sumeru Hammer and tried to self-destruct, but Qian Xunji trapped him in the Darkness Domain, sealed his Soul Power, and captured him.
• Qian Xunji emerged from a Wormhole holding Tang Tian, whose Soul Power had been crippled, and told Tang Xiao that Tang Tian was more valuable alive.
• Tang Tian, Tang Xiao, Tang Yuehua, and Tang Xuan warned Qian Xunji that Tang Chen would return after his divine trials and avenge the Clear Sky Sect.

Qian Xunji taunted Tang Chen and brutalized Tang Tian in front of the Clear Sky Sect, but Tang Chen never appeared. Qian Xunji left Tang Tian alive and turned to Guang Ling with a new task.

• Qian Xunji called Tang Chen an old dog and threatened to mutilate Tang Tian if Tang Chen did not appear, but Tang Chen failed to answer.
• Qian Xunji cut off Tang Tian’s arms and legs, while Light Feather Douluo killed a charging Clear Sky Sect elder and Qian Xunji crushed the other attackers with his pressure.
• Tang Tian begged the Clear Sky Sect disciples not to sacrifice themselves, and Qian Xunji ordered Ci Xue and She Long to collect the Soul Bones found in Tang Tian’s severed limbs.
• Qian Xunji castrated Tang Tian, threatened to decapitate him, then left him alive and said he would save his head for Tang Chen’s eventual arrival.
• Qian Xunji asked Guang Ling to help him pick a few lucky ones.

Qian Xunji taunted Tang Chen and ordered Light Feather Douluo to kill Clear Sky Sect disciples while Tang Chen remained absent. The sect fell into despair, but Tang Tian insisted that his father was undergoing a divine trial and would one day return as a god to avenge them.

• Qian Xunji threatened to kill Clear Sky Sect members unless Tang Chen appeared, then Light Feather Douluo shot and killed the six-year-old Tang Qizhen.
• Qian Xunji resumed counting, and Light Feather Douluo killed Tang Guancong after he tried to defect to Spirit Hall.
• Light Feather Douluo killed Tang Shuping and Tang Aping despite their pleas to join or serve Spirit Hall.
• Tang Jingtang begged to be spared by calling Light Feather Douluo his father, and Tang Jingwei offered a feigned surrender; Light Feather Douluo killed both.
• With Tang Chen still absent, despair spread through the Clear Sky Sect, and Tang Tian claimed his father was undergoing a divine trial and would return to seek justice.

Qian Xunji taunted Clear Sky Sect over Tang Chen’s absence and blamed the sect’s calamity on Tang Hao’s attacks against Spirit Hall. The disciples turned their anger toward Tang Hao while Spirit Hall’s threat still loomed over them.

• Qian Xunji questioned whether Tang Chen valued Clear Sky Sect more than Bo Saixi and pointed out that Tang Chen had not returned to defend the sect.
• Tang Xuan rallied Clear Sky Sect’s disciples by reminding them that Tang Chen had built its glory and could bring them blessings if he became a god.
• Qian Xunji said Spirit Hall had attacked in retaliation for Clear Sky Sect’s Titled Douluo destroying cities and killing innocent people.
• Clear Sky Sect’s disciples blamed Tang Hao for provoking Spirit Hall and causing the deaths and destruction facing their sect.
• Tang Yuehua tried to defend Tang Hao, but grieving disciples demanded that he lose his title, surrender his Soul Bones, and be expelled.

After the Clear Sky Sect agreed to surrender unconditionally, Qian Xunji demanded hostages and seized Tang Yuehua, then ordered the sect’s women and remaining members taken by Spirit Hall. Several Clear Sky Sect disciples rebelled, charging at Spirit Hall as the chapter ended.

• Qian Xunji blamed the Clear Sky Sect’s Titled Douluo for the calamity and stirred the disciples’ resentment toward Tang Hao.
• Tang Xuan agreed to unconditional surrender, and the sect’s members gathered before Spirit Hall’s forces.
• Qian Xunji demanded Tang Tian and Tang Yuehua as hostages, and Tang Yuehua agreed before he pulled her into his embrace.
• Qian Xunji ordered the sect’s younger and adult members divided, then demanded that most of the women be taken to Spirit Hall and the others’ Soul Power crippled.
• A Clear Sky Sect disciple summoned his Clear Sky Hammer and led several others in an attack on Spirit Hall.

Qian Xunji imposed Spirit Hall’s conditions on the defeated Haotian Sect, taking its women and ordering the deaths of children and talented youths. The sect’s survivors chose to endure the massacre rather than unite in resistance, leaving its remaining geniuses to die alone.

• Qian Xunji threatened to kill any Haotian Sect member who resisted, and Tang Xuan swallowed his objections to preserve the sect.
• Gui Mei sent the Angel Legion to take the Haotian Sect’s women to Spirit Hall, while the surviving disciples blamed Tang Hao for their losses.
• Qian Xunji ordered the deaths of children taller than a wheel and youths with Innate Soul Power above seven.
• A Haotian youth with level 8.5 Innate Soul Power urged his fellow sect members to fight, but they lowered their heads and refused to join him.
• The doomed geniuses attacked Spirit Hall with their Clear Sky Hammers, and Qian Xunji’s forces killed them.

Qian Xunji forced the Clear Sky Sect to accept mutilation, a humiliating new name, exile from its headquarters, and the surrender of its ultimate techniques. The sect survived for now, but Spirit Hall warned that its fate remained tied to Hao Zi and the sect’s inherited Soul Bones.

• Qian Xunji demanded that Tang Xuan and the Clear Sky Sect elders each surrender an arm, and they tore off their less-used arms to preserve the sect.
• Qian Xunji ordered the Clear Sky Sect renamed the Hao Zi Sect, and Tang Xuan accepted after explaining to Tang Xiao that survival mattered more than pride.
• Qian Xunji ordered the Hao Zi Sect to leave its headquarters and settle in the hiding place once provided by Tang Chen, warning that anyone who left would be killed.
• Qian Xunji demanded the Hao Zi Sect’s ultimate techniques, and Tang Xuan handed them over while promising he had not tampered with them.
• Qian Xunji declared that Spirit Hall would consider Hao Zi part of the Clear Sky Sect until Hao Zi returned the sect’s Soul Bones and the Hao Zi Sect revoked his title.

Qian Xunji punished the Strength Clan for refusing to submit to Spirit Hall and revealed that its people had already been massacred. He left Titan, Tai Nuo, and Tai Long alive but mutilated, challenging Tang Hao to avenge his loyal followers.

• Hao Zi Sect members cursed Tang Hao and demanded that he lose his title, Soul Bones, and place in the sect.
• Qian Xunji turned to the affiliated clans and asked Titan whether the Strength Clan would submit to Spirit Hall; Titan and Tai Long proudly declared their loyalty to Tang Hao.
• Qian Xunji revealed that Spirit Hall had massacred the Strength Clan, leaving only Titan, Tai Nuo, and Tai Long.
• Qian Jun and Jiang Mo tore off Titan and Tai Nuo's arms and castrated them, while an Angel Guard severed Tai Long's arm and castrated him.
• Qian Xunji told Titan he had spared the three generations to see whether Tang Hao would avenge his loyal followers.

Qian Xunji offered the Breaking Clan an immortal herb in exchange for joining Spirit Hall, then pressured the Defense Clan and Speed Clan to submit as well. Yang Wudi, Niu Gao, and Bai He agreed, and Qian Xunji presented the latter two with Fallen Angel Contracts.

• Qian Xunji reassured Yang Wudi, Yang Wushuang, Niu Gao, and Bai He that Spirit Hall had not attacked their clans, but warned that their clansmen's safety depended on their choices.
• Yang Wushuang rejected Titan's loyalty to the Clear Sky Sect and drew his Soul Breaking Spear, while Qian Xunji invited the Breaking Clan to join Spirit Hall and offered the brothers an Aromatic Silk Beauty.
• Yang Wudi accepted the offer and received the immortal herb, provoking Titan and the Clear Sky Sect disciples to condemn the Breaking Clan as traitors.
• Qian Xunji ordered Niu Gao and Bai He to submit or die, and both agreed to lead their clans into Spirit Hall to protect their people.
• Qian Xunji gave Niu Gao and Bai He contracts to sign, and they saw the words "Fallen Angel Contract."

Qian Xunji forced Bai He and Niu Gao to sign the Fallen Angel Contract, ordered the Hao Zi Sect to relocate, and warned Ning Fengzhi against opposing Spirit Hall. After Qian Xunji departed, the Hao Zis lamented their defeat and pinned their hopes on Tang Chen’s return, while Ning Fengzhi healed Tang Xiao.

• Bai He and Niu Gao signed the Fallen Angel Contract, and Qian Xunji ordered the Hao Zis to return to their Hao Zi Nest within three days.
• Qian Xunji threatened Ning Fengzhi over Gu Rong’s interference, while Guang Ling snapped three arrows to demonstrate Spirit Hall’s strength.
• Qian Xunji left with Tang Tian and Tang Yuehua, leaving Qian Jun and Jiang Mo to supervise the Hao Zi Sect’s compliance.
• Ning Fengzhi, Yu Yuanzhen, and Dai Tianfeng discussed Spirit Hall’s strength as the Hao Zi Sect prepared to abandon its home and move to a barren land.
• The Hao Zis blamed Tang Hao for their ruin and hoped Tang Chen would return, while Ning Fengzhi healed the injured Tang Xiao.

Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect rejected Ning Fengzhi’s belated help, then Spirit Hall forced the sect to march to its old site. There, Spirit Hall ignored the claimed agreement protecting the land, struck Tang Xiao, and smashed the Clear Sky Sect plaque.

• Ning Fengzhi healed Tang Xiao, but Tang Xiao and Tang Xuan condemned him for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s failure to aid the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Lie told Ning Fengzhi that the Clear Sky Sect no longer considered his sect an ally, and Gu Rong urged Ning Fengzhi to leave them alone.
• Qian Jun and Jiang Mo led Spirit Hall’s Angel Legion as they drove the Clear Sky Sect disciples toward the Reserved Land.
• Tang Xuan and Tang Xiao invoked the agreement between Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen to bar Spirit Hall from the old site, but Subduing Demon Douluo struck Tang Xiao and entered anyway.
• Qian Jun dismissed the claimed agreement, and Subduing Demon Douluo smashed the Clear Sky Sect plaque as the disciples protested.

Spirit Hall humiliated the Clear Sky Sect by renaming it the Hao Zi Sect and forcing it to hang a mocking plaque, while Tang Xuan urged the survivors to endure and preserve the sect. With Tang Tian held hostage, the disciples backed Tang Xuan as the new sect master and rejected Tang Xiao’s claim to lead.

• Thousand Jun and Subduing Demon forced the Clear Sky Sect to accept the name Hao Zi Sect, and Subduing Demon killed two disciples who resisted.
• Tang Xuan calmed the sect members and ordered them to hang the Hao Zi Sect plaque, while Jiang Mo warned them that Spirit Hall would guard the route out of their refuge.
• After Spirit Hall left, the disciples voiced their hatred, but Tang Xuan persuaded Tang Xiao not to smash the plaque and risk provoking another attack.
• Tang Lie announced that Tang Tian had been taken hostage and nominated Tang Xuan to become sect master, drawing Tang Xiao’s protest.
• Tang Lie blamed Tang Xiao and Tang Hao for bringing calamity upon the sect, and the disciples declared Tang Xiao unworthy of the sect master position.

Tang Xuan took temporary leadership of the Clear Sky Sect and announced that Tang Hao would be stripped of his title and permanently exiled. The sect then closed itself off from the world, but its men realized Spirit Hall had taken nearly all the women, leaving them unable to have children.

• Tang Xuan accepted the Clear Sky Sect disciples’ support and became temporary Sect Master until Tang Chen returned.
• Tang Lie and the disciples blamed Tang Hao for the sect’s losses and demanded that his title and inherited Soul Bones be taken away and that he be permanently exiled.
• Tang Xiao defended Tang Hao, but Tang Xuan sided with the disciples and declared Tang Hao stripped of his title and barred from the sect.
• Tang Xuan ordered the Clear Sky Sect to withdraw from the world, rebuild its strength, and wait for Tang Chen’s return before seeking revenge on Spirit Hall.
• The disciples pointed out that Spirit Hall had taken almost every woman from the sect, and Tang Xiao’s suggestion to find women outside was dismissed as too dangerous.