Chapter Summaries

Di Hong revealed that his Vermilion Bird Martial Soul had mutated into one with an aura more sacred than the Six-Winged Angel, while he and Tang Yuehua discussed their different paths and the Clear Sky Sect. They reached a town for the night and learned that its only inn had just one room available.

• Di Hong showed Tang Yuehua his mutated Vermilion Bird Martial Soul, and she recognized its extraordinary sacred aura.
• Di Hong and Tang Yuehua talked as they traveled, and he encouraged her to pursue other paths while she explained why she studied etiquette, music, and management.
• Di Hong and Tang Yuehua left Sunset Forest and reached a town where Spirit Masters had gathered.
• At the town's only inn, Tang Yuehua ordered inexpensive dishes, and Di Hong added several meat dishes.
• The inn's server insisted that only one room remained, and Tang Yuehua learned there was no other hotel in town.

Di Hong escorted Tang Yuehua back to the Clear Sky Sect but refused to enter, giving her a letter to deliver to the Silves Kingdom and returning the ashes of the sect’s fallen disciples. After Tang Yuehua reported the attack and Di Hong’s help, the Clear Sky Sect raged against Spirit Hall, while its father suspected the attack had been unauthorized.

• Di Hong spent the night cultivating while Tang Yuehua rested, then bought a carriage and took her toward the Clear Sky Sect.
• On the journey, Tang Yuehua asked about Di Hong’s interest in medicinal herbs, and he said he studied them occasionally.
• At the Clear Sky Sect gates, Di Hong refused Tang Yuehua’s invitation to enter and gave her a letter to deliver to the Silves Kingdom.
• Di Hong returned to hand Tang Yuehua the fallen disciples’ ashes and his Soul Tool, then left again, while she also carried his clothes back to the sect.
• Tang Yuehua reported the attack and Di Hong’s rescue, prompting the Clear Sky Sect disciples and Tang Hao to call for revenge against Spirit Hall.
• The sect’s father suspected Spirit Hall’s leaders had not ordered the attack, and Tang Yuehua arranged for the letter to be delivered to the Silves Kingdom.

Di Hong searched Sunset Forest for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and found it after tracing dense fire elements and sulfur. He reached the spring and identified its rare herbs, but left the dangerous waters and dragon remains untouched for now.

• Di Hong returned to Sunset Forest, camped for the night, and planned to search for the well using his sensitivity to fire elements.
• Di Hong spent the next day searching mountain peaks while avoiding unnecessary fights with spirit beasts.
• Di Hong found a secluded mountain with unusually dense fire elements, flourishing herbs, and a sulfurous smell, then followed its path to a mist-covered valley.
• Di Hong entered the valley and discovered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, with its divided white and red pools surrounded by rare herbs.
• Di Hong recognized the danger of entering the spring and the potential value of the Dragon Kings' remains beneath it, so he stayed at the edge.
• Di Hong identified many Immortal Grade Herbs, including the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, which he intended to save for Di Yuan.

Di Hong consumed the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then cultivated beneath its waters to absorb their energies. At the Clear Sky Sect, Tang Yuehua thought about Di Hong while Tang Hao teased her about him.

• Di Hong dug up the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, then swallowed both herbs.
• Di Hong entered the spring where its waters met, endured the herbs' ice-and-fire energies, and began cultivating beneath the water.
• As night fell, Di Hong remained absorbed in cultivation at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• At the Clear Sky Sect, Tang Hao asked Tang Yuehua if she was thinking about Di Hong, and she asked whether he had delivered her letter.
• Tang Hao teased Tang Yuehua about Di Hong and boasted that no woman could captivate him before he became a Titled Douluo.
• Tang Yuehua grew furious at Tang Hao's teasing and chased him across the martial arena.

After cultivating at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Di Hong reached level 60 and claimed the site before returning to the Silves Kingdom. He reunited with his family and told Di Yuan about his discoveries, leaving his father stunned by the news of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Di Hong finished seven days of cultivation, reached Soul Emperor level 60, and gained Water Immunity from the two herbs.
• Di Hong took many Immortal Grade Herbs, left their roots and seeds, and guarded the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Li Fire and a warning sign.
• Di Hong searched Sunset Forest for a suitable fire-attributed spirit beast for his Sixth Soul Ring but found none and returned to Silvis City the next day.
• Di Ming greeted Di Hong tearfully, and Di Yang promised to speak to their father about Di Ming's confinement.
• Di Hong told Di Yuan about his recent experiences, including rescuing Tang Yuehua and discovering the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, shocking his father.

Di Hong reunited with his family, gave them herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and prepared to hunt a Spirit Beast for his Sixth Soul Ring. As Di Yuan took him toward a sixty-thousand-year Fire Feather Bird King, Di Hong learned that Dai Yutian had become Star Luo’s Crown Prince and that refugees were fleeing amid signs of an impending invasion.

• Di Hong told Di Yuan about the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and offered his family several fire-attributed herbs, including a Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower that Di Yuan and Di Yang declined.
• Di Yuan told Di Hong to rest before they hunted a Spirit Beast for his Sixth Soul Ring, and Di Hong slept until the following day.
• Di Hong asked for a sixty-thousand-year Spirit Beast, and Di Yuan selected the Fire Feather Bird King as their target.
• Di Hong noticed crowds of refugees on the road, and Di Yuan explained that Dai Yutian had seized the Star Luo Imperial Crown Prince position and Star Luo troops were massing at the border.

Di Hong and Di Yuan hunted the Sixty Thousand Year Fire Feather Bird King, and Di Hong gained a sixth Spirit Ring, a soul bone, and three Soul Power levels. Returning to Silvis City, they found the city full of refugees and increased patrols, suggesting the border crisis had worsened.

• Di Yuan lured the Fire Feather Bird King away from its flock while Di Hong waited in ambush.
• Di Hong struck the bird king with his Fourth Soul Skill, and Di Yuan wounded it until it fell.
• Di Hong killed the Fire Feather Bird King and absorbed its Spirit Ring, gaining three Soul Power levels.
• Di Hong absorbed the bird king’s left arm soul bone, raising his Soul Power Level to 63.
• Di Hong and Di Yuan returned to Silvis City, where refugees, City Defense Army patrols, and Spirit Hall forces revealed the worsening border situation.

Di Hong brought an injured boy to the palace as the Star Luo Empire massed troops at the border. After his mother tried to arrange a marriage for him, he fled, leaving Shen Ning to turn her attention to his older brothers.

• Di Hong stopped his carriage to rescue a boy who had been beaten while protecting a meat pie, then took him to the palace for treatment.
• Di Yang reported that the Star Luo Empire had stationed four hundred thousand troops at the border, and Di Yuan considered the threat and his political alliance with Xue Ye.
• Di Hong ordered a Support System Soul Master to treat the boy and had people investigate whether he had any family.
• Shen Ning showed Di Hong portraits of Sun Xin and Wang Yan and urged him to settle down, but he said he was only twelve and fled his bedroom.
• Shen Ning gave up on persuading Di Hong for the moment and decided to approach his two older sons instead.

Di Hong found a future military leader among the starving refugee boy he had rescued and considered taking him into the royal family. The chapter ended with Ge Long accepting a permanent place in the royal household.

• Di Hong reflected on avoiding political marriage pressure, growing stronger, and possibly unifying the continent himself.
• A maid told Di Hong that the rescued boy had awakened, and he went to see him.
• The boy introduced himself as Ge Long, prompting Di Hong to recognize him as the future Nine-Lives Divine Dragon.
• Ge Long explained that the Star Luo Empire had killed his parents and that he had fled as a refugee before Di Hong rescued him.
• After eating, Ge Long offered his life to Di Hong, who warned him that staying meant having no other choice.
• Ge Long agreed to stay, and Di Hong declared that his life belonged to the royal family.

Di Hong considered how to use the Star Luo Empire’s unexpected attack and pursued his ambition to unite the continent. He began preparing Ge Long for a future in the Heaven Dou Empire’s military and secured Di Yuan’s support for his training.

• Di Hong questioned how the Star Luo Empire had assembled and attacked so quickly, then reflected on the balance of power among the empires and Spirit Hall.
• Di Hong resolved that he would need Di Yuan and Di Yang’s support to unify the continent and considered using Spirit Hall as a dangerous ally.
• Di Hong wrote Ge Long, Bibi Dong, Qian Renxue, and Tang San in a notebook, then burned it.
• Di Hong asked Di Yuan to train Ge Long in Martial Soul cultivation and military studies before his Martial Soul Awakening.
• Di Yuan agreed, and Di Hong approved having Ge Long study military matters under Shen Yi.

Di Yuan showed Di Hong the Silves Kingdom’s elite Scale Armor Army as the kingdom prepared to send troops to the Lima Plain against the Star Luo Empire. Di Hong agreed to accompany the army and gain battlefield experience.

• Ge Long awakened his Ya Zi martial soul with level-nine Innate Soul Power, and Di Yuan arranged for him to train secretly in the Royal Palace under Shen Yi’s guidance.
• Tang Wei succeeded Tang Chen as Sect Master of the Clear Sky Sect, Qian Xunji became Pope after Qian Daoliu’s abdication, and Ning Fengzhi took over the troubled Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect after its old Sect Master died.
• The Star Luo Empire attacked with four hundred thousand troops, forcing Balak’s army to retreat to the Lima Plain as Heaven Dou and Hagendas reinforcements arrived.
• Di Yuan brought Di Hong to inspect the three-thousand-strong Scale Armor Army at its camp outside Silvis City.
• Di Yuan told Di Hong that Crown Prince Xue Ye had ordered the kingdom’s troops to join the empire’s forces heading to the Lima Plain, and Di Hong agreed to go.

Di Yang and Di Hong led the kingdom’s fifty thousand troops to join Xue Ye’s expedition against the Star Luo Empire. Xue Ye explained that Dai Yutian was the true commander of the Star Luo forces, and the armies continued toward the Lima Plain as the war’s political motives came into focus.

• Di Yuan appointed Di Yang to command the kingdom’s fifty thousand troops and sent Di Hong with him to join the war against the Star Luo Empire.
• Di Yang and Di Hong discussed how long the war might last and whether Spirit Hall had caused it, and Di Yang rejected the idea.
• Di Yang and Di Hong met Xue Ye, who praised Di Hong’s rapid advancement and welcomed his promise to visit Heaven Dou City.
• Xue Ye told Di Yang and Di Hong that Xu Zhong was the nominal commander of the Star Luo army, while Crown Prince Dai Yutian was its true commander.
• Di Hong questioned the cost of launching a war to strengthen Dai Yutian’s authority, and Xue Ye said he could only try to end the conflict quickly.

Di Hong and Xue Ye arrived at Jialing Pass with Heaven Dou’s reinforcements and surveyed the brutal battlefield. Xue Ye secured a one-day truce with Dai Yutian so both armies could recover their dead, then sent the fallen back to Jialing Pass.

• Di Hong learned that Xue Ye had been appointed commander as part of Xue Yu’s faction’s scheme to weaken him, though the Old Emperor sent forces to protect him.
• Xue Ye’s two hundred thousand troops reached Jialing Pass, and Di Hong reflected on the future battles that would be fought there.
• Xue Ye, Di Hong, and Di Yang observed the bloodied battlefield and the Star Luo Empire’s camp before returning from the front.
• Dai Yutian agreed to Xue Ye’s request for a one-day truce to collect the dead.
• Soldiers from both sides cleared the battlefield without weapons, and Xue Ye ordered the recovered bodies sent to Jialing Pass.

Di Hong watched the Heaven Dou and Star Luo armies clash, then saw the Silves Kingdom's Scale Armor Army turn the fighting in Heaven Dou's favor. The chapter ended as Dai Yutian sent the Tiger Guard Army to meet them.

• Di Hong and Di Yang joined Xue Ye as the Heaven Dou and Star Luo armies assembled for battle.
• Dai Yutian ordered the Star Luo forces to attack, and the two armies' infantry and cavalry collided in a chaotic melee.
• Xue Ye ordered Di Yang to send out the Silves Kingdom's Scale Armor Army, whose soldiers battered through the Star Luo ranks.
• Dai Yutian deployed the Tiger Guard Army, sending more than a thousand tiger-mounted soldiers charging toward the Scale Armor Army.

During the Battle of the Lima Plain, Dai Yutian’s surprise attack on Xue Ye’s command post was thwarted by Di Hong. Dai Yutian withdrew from the assault, unable to overcome Di Hong’s strength and three Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings.

• Di Hong sensed that Dai Yutian was hiding a plan, and Xue Ye realized the Star Luo Empire had held back most of its soul masters.
• Star Luo soul masters attacked the Heaven Dou rear and broke through the Royal Knights’ formation in an attempt to capture Xue Ye.
• Dai Yutian led his troops toward Xue Ye while Xue Ye refused to retreat and sent his Soul Saint to reinforce the fighting.
• Di Hong shielded Xue Ye from Dai Yutian’s attack with his Li Fire Bodyguard spirit skill and sent Dai Yutian flying.
• Dai Yutian saw Di Hong’s six spirit rings, including three Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings, and recognized he could not defeat him.

Di Hong fought Zong Yan, a level seventy-nine Soul Saint sent to stop him while Dai Yutian pursued Xue Ye. Di Hong exploited his flight, fire immunity, and Li Fire Domain to defeat Zong Yan, while Di Yang escorted Xue Ye toward the military camp.

• Di Yang took Xue Ye toward the military camp while Di Hong stayed behind to face Zong Yan.
• Zong Yan used his Flame Lion Martial Soul and powerful attacks, but Di Hong evaded him and revealed that flames could not harm him.
• Di Hong wore Zong Yan down with Fire Feathers and Li Fire as Zong Yan activated his Martial Soul Avatar and Spirit Bone skill.
• Zong Yan marked Di Hong and launched a flaming boulder, but Di Hong shattered it while keeping Zong Yan trapped in an area of Li Fire.
• Di Hong activated his Li Fire Domain, suppressed Zong Yan's fire-element spirit skills, and killed him with his Sixth Soul Skill, Li Fire Array.

After the Heaven Dou Empire retreated from a costly battle, Di Hong discussed the continent’s future with Di Yang and revealed that he wanted to change its balance of power. He left his brother with the warning that Spirit Hall’s ambitions would eventually draw kingdoms like Silves into a wider conflict.

• Xue Ye and the Heaven Dou army retreated in orderly fashion, while the Star Luo Empire held back after suffering heavy Spirit Master casualties.
• At a military council, Xue Ye accepted responsibility for the defeat and credited Di Hong and Di Yang with saving him; he ordered the army to hold its position while the empires negotiated.
• Di Yang praised Di Hong for saving Xue Ye and killing the Star Luo Soul Saint, but Di Hong said he cared little for fame and viewed the battle as a rare chance to gain combat experience.
• Back at the Silves camp, Di Hong told Di Yang that Xue Ye would succeed and explained that he had saved him because his death would bring trouble for them.
• Di Hong told Di Yang that he wanted to change the continent’s divided state, warning that Qian Xunji’s ambitions would eventually destroy the balance and threaten kingdoms like Silves.

Di Hong urged Di Yang to support his ambition to unite the continent by building Silves Kingdom’s strength, and Di Yang agreed despite the slim chances of success. After the battle’s heavy losses, Di Hong began absorbing a forty-thousand-year fire-attribute Right Leg Bone.

• Di Hong argued that Silves Kingdom needed to grow powerful enough to challenge the Two Great Empires and Spirit Hall, and he persuaded Di Yang with the promise of becoming emperor.
• Di Yang accepted Di Hong’s ambition and promised his support, while noting that the King of Silves also needed to be convinced.
• Di Hong reflected on Heaven Dou’s divided imperial family and Spirit Hall’s influence, seeing future conflict as an opportunity for Silves to rise.
• Di Hong took out a forty-thousand-year fire-attribute Right Leg Bone and began absorbing it.
• The battle’s casualties were tallied: nearly a hundred thousand soldiers had died, and more than a hundred Spirit Masters had been killed or injured.

After a month of stalemate and negotiations, Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire reached a treaty that ended the war, with Heaven Dou surrendering two mines. Before Di Hong departed, Xue Ye asked him to join Spirit Hall’s Soul Master Exchange Meet in half a year, and Di Hong agreed.

• After absorbing the Spirit Bone, Di Hong’s Soul Power Level rose to sixty-seven, and he considered his future spirit rings and possible divine trials.
• Over two months, negotiations at Spirit Hall repeatedly stalled while Star Luo Empire’s supply lines came under pressure and neither side resumed large-scale fighting.
• Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire agreed that Heaven Dou would give up two important mines in exchange for Star Luo withdrawing its troops.
• Spirit Hall announced a Soul Master Exchange Meet in Spirit City for participants below Soul Saint rank, with no age or background restrictions.
• Before Di Hong left with the withdrawing armies, Xue Ye asked him to participate in the exchange meet despite his likely impending breakthrough, and Di Hong agreed.

Di Hong realized he could use Xue Ye’s political ambitions to expand his own influence and decided to pursue a new goal. He told his family he wanted the world.

• Di Yang explained that Xue Ye wanted Di Hong to attend the Soul Master Exchange Meet to gain fame and strengthen the Crown Prince’s position.
• Di Hong decided to earn Xue Ye’s trust and use the Crown Prince’s power to expand his own.
• The expeditionary army returned without a victory ceremony, and Di Yuan agreed that Di Hong should avoid obtaining a Spirit Ring before the meet.
• Di Hong drew a sword and declared that he wanted the world.