Chapter Summaries

Tang Xiao tried to unite Clear Sky Sect against Spirit Hall, but the Hao Zis blamed Tang Hao and considered abducting women from nearby villages. Meanwhile, Titan returned to find the Strength Clan massacred, and as Tai Nuo and Tai Long questioned their loyalty to Tang Hao, Titan approached them with a whip.

• Tang Xiao urged Clear Sky Sect to unite against Spirit Hall, but the Hao Zis continued blaming Tang Hao and threatened to kill him.
• Tang Xuan proposed abducting women from nearby villages, while Thousand Jun Douluo ordered the area around Hao Zi Sect cleared of women and allowed an envoy to pass to find Tang Hao.
• Titan, Tai Nuo, and Tai Long returned to the Strength Clan and found their relatives murdered and their bodies marked as Tang Hao's dogs.
• Tai Nuo and Tai Long questioned why the Strength Clan had stayed loyal to Tang Hao, and Titan overheard their resentment.
• Titan took a whip and approached Tai Nuo and Tai Long, prompting Tai Long to ask what his grandfather was trying to do.

Titan punished Tai Nuo and Tai Long for blaming their master and vowed that the Strength Clan would remain loyal to him. Tang Hao learned that Spirit Hall had crushed the Clear Sky Sect, then destroyed nearby hills and villages in rage and swore revenge before promising to atone for the disaster he had caused.

• Titan whipped Tai Nuo and Tai Long for speaking treasonously about their master, then ordered them to kneel with him and kowtow until their foreheads bled.
• Spirit Hall declared war on the Clear Sky Sect, and Tang Hao turned back toward the sect to support it.
• Tang Hao learned that the Clear Sky Sect had surrendered, been renamed the Hao Zi Sect, and suffered mass casualties, while Tang Tian and Tang Yuehua had been taken by Spirit Hall.
• Tang Hao raged and used his Clear Sky Hammer to flatten nearby hills and villages, then swore he would never share the same sky with Thousand Thief.
• Tang Hao knelt and kowtowed toward the Clear Sky Sect, vowing that he would avenge it and atone with his death.

Tang Hao endured the Clear Sky Sect’s decree expelling him and stripping him of the Clear Sky Douluo title, blaming Spirit Hall and Qian Xunji while suppressing his anger. He agreed to return his two inherited Soul Bones eventually but refused to give them up for now so he could protect Xiao San.

• Tang Hao restrained his fury toward Spirit Hall and left to search for the person who had taken Ah Yin.
• Hao Zi delivered Tang Xuan’s decree permanently expelling Tang Hao from the Clear Sky Sect.
• Hao Zi announced that the sect had stripped Tang Hao of the Clear Sky Douluo title because he had brought disaster upon the sect without contributing to it.
• Hao Zi demanded that Tang Hao return the two inherited Soul Bones he carried.
• Tang Hao accepted the sect’s punishments but asked for time before returning the Soul Bones, promising that he would give them back.

Tang Hao accepted the Clear Sky Sect’s demand to choose a new title after refusing to return its inherited Soul Bones, then named himself Sky Piercing Sky Douluo. Meanwhile, Ning Fengzhi warned leaders of other powers that Spirit Hall could use any opportunity to target them and invited them to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to discuss a response.

• Hao Zi told Tang Hao that the Clear Sky Sect had stripped him of his title and that Spirit Hall would still consider him a sect member until he returned the inherited Soul Bones.
• Tang Hao blamed Qian Xunji for his punishment, suppressed his anger, and chose the title Sky Piercing Sky Douluo.
• After Hao Zi left, Tang Hao summoned his Clear Sky Hammer and vented his fury.
• Ning Fengzhi warned Yu Yuanzhen that Spirit Hall needed only an opportunity, not a valid excuse, to weaken other powers.
• Ning Fengzhi invited Dai Tianfeng, Xue Qinghe, and Yu Yuanzhen to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to discuss an important matter.

Ning Fengzhi persuaded the Upper Three Sects and the Two Great Empires to sign a Secret Treaty against Spirit Hall, though Dai Tianfeng doubted the alliance could do more than help them survive. Dai Tianfeng then revealed to Zhu Tiancai a ruthless plan to strengthen the Star Luo Empire, insisting that preserving the Dai Clan’s rule justified making its people suffer.

• At Ning Fengzhi’s banquet, Yu Yuanzhen, Dai Tianfeng, Xue Qinghe, and the others discussed Spirit Hall’s overwhelming strength and the danger it posed to every faction.
• Ning Fengzhi proposed that the Upper Three Sects and the Two Great Empires aid one another if Spirit Hall attacked, and the leaders signed his Secret Treaty.
• After the banquet, Zhu Tiancai asked Dai Tianfeng whether the treaty could balance Spirit Hall, and he said it offered only limited self-preservation.
• Dai Tianfeng criticized Ning Fengzhi for failing to help the Clear Sky Sect and doubted he would come to Star Luo’s aid if Spirit Hall attacked.
• Dai Tianfeng told Zhu Tiancai that he had a way to make “them” serve the Star Luo Empire, then defended extraordinary measures to preserve the Dai Clan’s rule despite the suffering they would cause.

After returning from the Clear Sky Sect, Qian Xunji rewarded the Angel Legion with Soul Bones and handed Clear Sky Sect women over as spoils of war. When Tang Yuehua urged the women to resist, Qian Xunji and his allies threatened their families until they submitted.

• Qian Xunji displayed Spirit Hall’s Soul Bones and ordered the cardinal to distribute them to Angel Legion members who had distinguished themselves in the campaign.
• After the Soul Bones were distributed, Qian Xunji declared that the Clear Sky Sect women were rewards for the legion, and its members took them away while avoiding Tang Yuehua, whom the Pope had claimed for himself.
• Qian Xunji said he wanted the women to bear children who could pass the Clear Sky Hammer martial soul into Spirit Hall’s ranks.
• Tang Yuehua urged the women to choose death rather than submit, and the women began considering killing themselves.
• Qian Xunji, Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and Raging Rhino Douluo threatened to punish the women’s families if they resisted or died, and Qian Xunji demanded children and awakened Clear Sky Hammer martial souls within set deadlines.
• The women abandoned their plan to die and submitted for the sake of their relatives and the Clear Sky Sect.

Qian Xunji rewarded Guang Ling, Qian Jun, and Jiang Mo with Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings before confronting Tang Tian and Tang Yuehua in Spirit Hall. He demanded Tang Tian’s consent to take Tang Yuehua as his bed-warming maid, threatening the Rat Sect if he refused.

• Qian Xunji fused Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings into the ninth rings of Guang Ling, Qian Jun, and Jiang Mo, shocking the three worshippers.
• Tang Yuehua reunited with her mutilated father, Tang Tian, in a secret chamber at Spirit Hall.
• Qian Xunji told Tang Tian that the Clear Sky Sect had become the Rat Sect and offered to keep it safe if Tang Tian and Tang Yuehua cooperated.
• Qian Xunji asked Tang Tian to agree to Tang Yuehua serving him, claiming he would otherwise keep her under house arrest.
• Qian Xunji threatened to take out his frustration on the Rat Sect if Tang Tian refused.

Qian Xunji forced Tang Tian to agree to give Tang Yuehua to him in exchange for sparing the Clear Sky Sect, then carried her into another room. Tang Tian cursed him and vowed that the sect would take revenge.

• Qian Xunji threatened to capture Tang Xiao and further devastate the Clear Sky Sect if Tang Tian refused to let Tang Yuehua serve him.
• Tang Yuehua offered herself to Qian Xunji, but he pushed her away and demanded that Tang Tian make the decision.
• Tang Tian chose the sect's survival over his daughter and told Tang Yuehua to accompany Qian Xunji.
• Qian Xunji made Tang Tian say, "I am willing to offer my daughter to you," then carried Tang Yuehua into another room.
• Tang Tian cursed Qian Xunji and vowed that the Clear Sky Sect would kill him when Tang Tian's father returned as a god.

Qian Xunji exposed Tang Yuehua’s feelings and assaulted her, then confronted Bibi Dong over her past disclosures of Spirit Hall’s secrets to Yu Xiaogang. He declared that he would eliminate any threat to Spirit Hall and warned Bibi Dong not to betray it again.

• Qian Xunji taunted Tang Yuehua after realizing whom she loved, then attacked her with a leather whip.
• Tang Yuehua woke the next day in distress, while Bibi Dong watched over her and recognized her as Tang Hao’s younger sister.
• Bibi Dong and Tang Yuehua shared their experiences in the basement before Bibi Dong went to confront Qian Xunji.
• Bibi Dong argued that Qian Xunji could possess their bodies but not their hearts, and he accused her of revealing Spirit Hall’s secrets to Yu Xiaogang.
• Qian Xunji said he would protect Spirit Hall’s legacy, forgave Bibi Dong’s earlier actions, and threatened Yu Xiaogang if she endangered Spirit Hall again.
• Bibi Dong trembled at Qian Xunji’s warning and felt fear alongside her hatred.

After settling the Clear Sky Sect mission, Qian Xunji received an SS+ gift pack containing a Twelve-Winged Seraphim Michael Martial Soul. He fused it with his Fallen Angel Lucifer Martial Soul and used the Chaos God Seed to balance their conflicting powers, awakening divine power.

• Qian Xunji checked his system and found that the Clear Sky Sect incident had brought him eighty-seven million Emotion Values.
• Qian Xunji settled the counterattack mission and received an SS+ Abuse Pairing Gift Pack, which contained two Million Year All-Purpose Soul Bones, a Twelve-Winged Seraphim Michael Martial Soul, and a Future Recruitment Card.
• Qian Xunji realized that Michael's light attribute and Lucifer's darkness could meet the Chaos God Seed's requirements for refinement.
• Qian Xunji fused the Twelve-Winged Seraphim Michael Martial Soul into his second Martial Soul Slot, but its light clashed with Lucifer's darkness.
• Qian Xunji refined the Chaos God Seed, balanced the light and darkness within him, and sensed divine power.

Qian Xunji strengthened himself with divine power and two Million Year Soul Bones, then used a Future Summoning Card to learn about Lin Mengtong and her dangerous rescue mission. Buoyed by his restored prestige, he convened Spirit Hall’s elders, who eagerly urged him to choose their next target so they could obtain Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings.

• Qian Xunji fused with the Twelve-Winged Fallen Angel martial soul and part of the Chaos God Seed, gaining chaotic divine power that made him stronger than divine servants below god level.
• Qian Xunji fused a Million Year Chaos Divine Armor Head Soul Bone and a Million Year Seraph Divine Armor Right Arm Bone, gaining spiritual-defense and healing abilities.
• Qian Xunji used a Future Summoning Card and learned that rescuing Lin Mengtong from Shrek’s execution platform would require an S+ rank mission.
• Qian Xunji realized that Lin Mengtong’s future might involve Tang San’s powerful parents, so he decided to wait for Hua Qiang’s return before planning the rescue.
• Qian Xunji convened a Spirit Hall Elder Council meeting, where the elders urged him to choose a sect or empire to attack and argued over who deserved the chance to gain Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings.

Qian Xunji revealed widespread corruption and crimes among Spirit Hall’s bishops, prompting the Elders to approve a purge and reforms to oversight and rewards. He left them with a new incentive: Soul Rings of increasing age for collecting large numbers of Thousand-Year Soul Bones.

• Qian Xunji showed Qian Daoliu and the Seven Great Elders Gui Mei’s reports detailing bishops’ corruption, bribery, intelligence sales, and human trafficking.
• Qian Daoliu and the Elders condemned the guilty bishops, and Qian Xunji proposed prosecuting them before outsiders could expose their crimes.
• Qian Xunji announced a temporary Purge Committee and a Spirit Hall Surveillance Hall to investigate branches independently.
• Qian Xunji proposed replacing seniority-based advancement with contribution-based rewards, while granting exemptions to elders but not their criminal relatives.
• Qian Xunji offered a Thousand-Year Soul Ring for one hundred Thousand-Year Soul Bones, a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring for one thousand, and a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring for ten thousand.

Qian Xunji and Qian Daoliu approved reforms and launched a continent-wide purge of Spirit Hall officials involved in crimes. In Gengxin City, Bishop Miles planned to seize the Blacksmiths' Association for Spirit Hall while eyeing profits from arms sales, just as an unexpected visitor arrived.

• Qian Xunji proposed rotating Spirit Hall officials every four years, and the consecrated elders accepted the reform plan.
• Qian Daoliu forgave the elders for their past complicity but ordered the people who committed crimes to be killed.
• Qian Xunji formed a Spirit Hall Purge Committee, deployed its members across the continent, and began the operation once they reported readiness.
• Xien Deacon told Miles that the Strength Clan had nearly been wiped out, and Miles planned to bring the Blacksmiths' Association under Spirit Hall's control.
• Miles considered using the blacksmiths and Star Luo Empire trade channels to profit from arms sales when someone knocked and offered him a gift.

Spirit Hall captured and executed Miles in Gengxin City as part of a sweeping purge of corrupt personnel, alarming the Star Luo Empire and easing the Blacksmiths' Association's fears. Ning Fengzhi urged the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to keep bribing Spirit Hall, while Qian Xunji introduced anti-corruption rules and better incentives for its personnel.

• Spirit Hall agents arrested Miles and Xien Deacon, revealing that the newly established Anti-Corruption Conference acted with the Pope's authority.
• Spirit Hall publicly exposed Miles's crimes, returned the wealth he had seized, and executed him in Gengxin City.
• The Gengxin City Lord recognized that Spirit Hall's purge had disrupted the Star Luo Empire's plan to weaken Spirit Hall through corruption.
• Lou Gao and Si Long learned that Miles and his associates had been executed, relieving their fears for the Blacksmiths' Association.
• Gu Rong called Spirit Hall's purge a severe loss, but Ning Fengzhi argued that removing corruption would make Spirit Hall stronger and insisted the sect keep bribing its personnel.
• Qian Xunji promulgated Spirit Hall's Anti-Corruption Act, improved staff benefits, and established a Contribution Point System.

Hua Qiang left Slaughter City with Divine Slaughter's Domain and reflected on how the city contained Evil Soul Masters, unlike Tang San's destruction of it. While traveling through Asteka Province, she saw a slave trader abducting a boy and waited to see how Star Luo Empire guards would respond.

• Spirit Hall displayed a cabinet of Thousand-Year Soul Bones to prove its contribution-based reward system was backed by real supplies.
• Ning Fengzhi, Gu Rong, and Chen Xin discussed Spirit Hall's Soul Bone rewards, with Ning Fengzhi doubting Qian Xunji had made a foolish decision.
• Hua Qiang obtained Divine Slaughter's Domain and considered Slaughter City a prison that kept Evil Soul Masters from harming people elsewhere.
• Hua Qiang left Slaughter City to report to the Pope and traveled toward Spirit Hall through Asteka Province.
• Hua Qiang saw a slave trader carrying off a boy in Green Mountain Town and held back when Star Luo Empire guards confronted him.
• A Star Luo Empire soldier ordered the slave trader to stop and put the boy down.

Hua Qiang intervened when a Star Luo slave merchant tried to take an Asteka boy from his mother, with Star Luo soldiers helping enforce the kidnapping. The chapter leaves the mother and child in immediate danger as Hua Qiang’s rose vines restrain the soldiers’ spears, against the backdrop of the Star Luo Empire’s oppression and enslavement of the Asteka People.

• The slave merchant showed Star Luo soldiers his authorization to hunt slaves, and they apologized and praised the practice.
• The boy’s mother caught up and begged the merchant to return her child, but he demanded five hundred Gold Soul Coins and the soldiers threatened her.
• The mother offered herself in exchange for her son, then tried to pull him away when the merchant refused.
• The merchant kicked the mother, and the two soldiers thrust their spears at her.
• Hua Qiang sent rose vines from the ground to wrap around the soldiers’ spears.
• Hua Qiang recalled how the Star Luo Empire had suppressed Asteka rebellions, displaced its people, and profited from the slave trade.

Hua Qiang rescued Jia Ping and his mother from slave traders, then learned that the Star Luo Empire blocked the Asteka People from awakening their martial souls. She awakened Jia Ping’s martial soul, but he turned out to be an ordinary child rather than the powerful hero he had wished to become.

• Hua Qiang killed the slave traders and soldiers with rose vines, allowing Jia Ping’s mother to free him from a sack.
• Jia Ping’s mother explained that the Star Luo Empire controlled the Asteka People and prevented them from reaching Spirit Hall for martial soul awakenings.
• Hua Qiang offered to awaken Jia Ping’s martial soul, and he wished for the strength to free the Asteka People from Star Luo rule.
• Hua Qiang awakened Jia Ping’s Wok Shovel martial soul and discovered that his Innate Soul Power was only 0.1.

Hua Qiang returned to Spirit Hall after helping Jia Ping face his limited martial soul, then revealed that she had completed the Slaughter City's trial and mastered Divine Slaughter's Domain. Qian Xunji summoned her to the rear hall alone, where she asked what he wanted after he rejected her suggestive advances.

• Hua Qiang encouraged Jia Ping to keep fighting against the Star Luo Empire and warned him not to reveal his shovel martial soul.
• Hua Qiang returned to Spirit City, learned that Qian Xunji had forced the Clear Sky Sect into seclusion, and presented him with thousands of Thousand-Year Soul Bones.
• Hua Qiang revealed that she had mastered Divine Slaughter's Domain, shocking the Titled Douluo present and Bibi Dong.
• Tang Yuehua claimed that her Hao Ge was the only Slaughter God of the era, and Bibi Dong overwhelmed her and Liu Erlong with her own Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• Qian Xunji took Hua Qiang to the rear hall alone, but denied that he had summoned her for the reason she implied.

Qian Xunji used a Soul Bone Replacement Card to give Hua Qiang six hundred-thousand-year soul bones, then tasked her with building Spirit Hall’s influence in Asteka and preparing a team to defeat Shrek. He also gave her cards to strengthen the children and create a Blue Silver Emperor, aiming to block Tang San’s path.

• Qian Xunji removed Hua Qiang’s six existing soul bones without harming her and gave her six hundred-thousand-year replacements, raising her cultivation toward Rank 97.
• Hua Qiang reported Asteka’s history of rebellions and oppression under the Star Luo Empire, suggesting Spirit Hall support its people and gain an ally.
• Qian Xunji ordered Hua Qiang to establish an academy in Asteka and train seven six-year-old children chosen for their character to defeat Shrek and challenge the Star Luo Empire.
• Qian Xunji gave Hua Qiang Top-Tier Martial Soul Cards so she could strengthen the children without relying on their talent.
• Qian Xunji gave Hua Qiang a Blue Silver Domain Card and ordered her to turn a talented Blue Silver Grass soul master into a Blue Silver Emperor, blocking Tang San’s future awakening.

Hua Qiang’s convoy was attacked by the Black Mountain Gang, whose Soul Saint leader proved to be a dead soldier connected to the Star Luo Empire. After finding kidnapped civilians and a reference to the Ghost Legion concentration camp, Hua Qiang destroyed the gang and freed the captives, but one orphaned girl stayed behind.

• Hua Qiang’s convoy was stopped by the Black Mountain Gang, and Li Xuan revealed his Soul King strength when the bandits demanded a toll.
• The gang’s Soul Saint leader attacked, but Hua Qiang emerged as a Titled Douluo and bound him with thorn-covered brambles.
• The bandit leader died by poison, and Hua Qiang suspected the Star Luo Empire was behind the gang before deciding to investigate its stronghold.
• Hua Qiang searched Black Mountain Stronghold and found records saying abducted civilians would be sent to a concentration camp called Ghost Legion.
• Hua Qiang killed the gang members, freed the imprisoned civilians, and gave them travel money.
• One orphaned girl refused to leave, telling Hua Qiang she had no parents or home.