Chapter Summaries

Mu Yuan forced the Clear Sky Sect to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and prepared to bring the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan into the alliance. Meanwhile, Tang Hao returned to Holy Soul Village with Tang San to retrieve Ah Yin’s soul bone, but Tang San remembered the Immortal Herbs just before absorbing it.

• Tang Xiao led the Clear Sky Sect in pledging allegiance to Mu Yuan, who arranged for their injuries to be treated.
• Mu Yuan brought the Clear Sky Sect back to Heaven Dou City, where Xue Ye granted them land, and began preparing to recruit the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Bibi Dong learned of Mu Yuan’s strength and resolved to hasten her divine trials, while Qian Renxue committed to hers and imagined subduing Mu Yuan.
• Tang Hao returned to Holy Soul Village with Tang San and explained Tang San’s origins as he prepared to give him Ah Yin’s Hundred Thousand Year Blue Silver Emperor’s Right Leg Bone.
• Tang San wept over his mother’s soul bone, then recalled the Immortal Herbs before absorbing it.

Mu Yuan united the Upper Three Sects and asked Xue Qinghe to become emperor so she could legitimize reforms he planned to carry out himself. The next day, Mu Yuan and the sect leaders entered Xue Ye’s court, where the Clear Sky Sect’s Second Elder silenced an official who challenged them.

• Mu Yuan defeated Yu Yuanzhen, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan agreed to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Xue Ye sent Xue Qinghe to discover Mu Yuan’s intentions, and Xue Qinghe openly explained the emperor’s request to Mu Yuan.
• Mu Yuan asked Xue Qinghe to ascend the throne and issue decrees for his planned reforms; she agreed after learning he did not expect her to help carry them out.
• Mu Yuan gave Xue Qinghe an Immortal Herb, which she refined after he pressed her to accept it.
• The next day, Mu Yuan, Ning Fengzhi, Yu Yuanzhen, Tang Xiao, and other elders entered Xue Ye’s court, and the Clear Sky Sect’s Second Elder sent a protesting official flying with Soul Power.

Mu Yuan installed Xue Qinghe as emperor of the Heaven Dou Empire and backed his reforms while suppressing the resulting rebellions. As the tournament finals in Spirit City approached, Zhu Zhuqing asked Mu Yuan to accompany her to meet Dai Mubai, then confessed that she wanted to follow him rather than return to the Star Luo Empire.

• Mu Yuan forced Xue Ye from the throne, installed Xue Qinghe as emperor, and silenced opposition with Blazing Sun Douluo’s attack on a protesting minister.
• Xue Qinghe enacted reforms for farmers, merchants, and public security, while Mu Yuan’s followers suppressed rebellions and Mu Yuan rewarded Huo Zhong and Yang Wudi with Immortal Herbs.
• The nobles contacted the Star Luo Empire and Spirit Hall to oppose Mu Yuan, who continued cultivating and reached Level 74 as the academy tournament began.
• Zhu Zhuqing gave Mu Yuan a letter from Dai Mubai asking her to meet him before the expected match against Star Luo Royal Academy, and Mu Yuan agreed to accompany her.
• Zhu Zhuqing embraced Mu Yuan and told him she regretted hesitating before, did not want to return to the Star Luo Empire, and wanted to follow him.

Tang San deceived Tang Hao into believing he had absorbed his mother's spirit bone, then plotted to trade it for Immortal Herbs by using Dai Mubai to lure Zhu Zhuqing into a trap. The chapter ended as Zhu Zhuqing arrived and Tang San attacked her.

• Tang San hid the spirit bone from Tang Hao and left Holy Soul Village without absorbing it, hoping to trade it to Mu Yuan for Immortal Herbs.
• Tang San learned of the misfortunes of Shrek Academy and discovered that Dai Mubai had revealed Zhu Zhuqing's importance and the Star Luo Empire's succession system while drunk.
• Tang San convinced Dai Mubai to lure Zhu Zhuqing out by promising Tang Hao's protection and help assassinating Dai Weisi, though Tang San planned to abandon Dai Mubai after capturing her.
• Dai Mubai waited outside the city for Zhu Zhuqing, and Tang San hid in a tree above him.
• When Zhu Zhuqing arrived, Tang San leapt down and used Blue Silver Grass to block her escape routes.

Tang San and Dai Mubai’s plan to abduct Zhu Zhuqing was exposed when Mu Yuan intervened, and Tang San revealed the scheme to save his life. Mu Yuan offered Tang San the remaining medicinal herbs and a thousand-year Soul Bone in exchange for the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, and Tang San accepted.

• Tang San abandoned his attack when he saw Mu Yuan, then crippled Dai Mubai with Dragon Beard Needles and poisoned Despair Nails.
• Tang San claimed he had come to protect Zhu Zhuqing, but Mu Yuan confronted him and demanded to know why he and Dai Mubai had come.
• Mu Yuan pinned Tang San down with Wood Thorns, and Tang San confessed the plan to abduct Zhu Zhuqing while shifting much of the blame onto Dai Mubai.
• Mu Yuan showed Tang San the remaining medicinal herbs, and Tang San objected that most of the hundreds of herbs were gone and no Immortal Herbs remained.
• Mu Yuan offered a thousand-year Monkey Soul Bone along with the herbs, and Tang San agreed to the trade for the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.

Mu Yuan traded Tang San herbs for the Hundred Thousand Year Blue Silver Emperor's Right Leg Bone, then helped Zhu Zhuqing end Dai Mubai's suffering and heard her confess her feelings. Back at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Mu Yuan told Xiao Wu about Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu insisted that he would not leave her.

• Tang San traded the Hundred Thousand Year Blue Silver Emperor's Right Leg Bone for Mu Yuan's medicinal herbs and a thousand-year soul bone, then hurried away.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked Mu Yuan to give Dai Mubai a quick death, and Mu Yuan killed him so his cultivation returned to the planet.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Mu Yuan about her engagement to Dai Mubai and made clear that she wanted him to understand her feelings.
• Mu Yuan gave Zhu Zhuqing an Immortal Herb, and she said she would quietly stay by his side.
• Mu Yuan told Xiao Wu what had happened with Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Wu said she would not let him leave her.

After Zhu Zhuqing’s strength surged, she joined Heaven Dou Royal Academy on the journey to Spirit City for the tournament finals. There, Mu Yuan openly claimed Zhu Zhuqing as his and forced Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun to kneel before him.

• Zhu Zhuqing defeated Osler and Yu Feng in training, surprising Ning Rongrong with her newfound power and appearance.
• The preliminary rounds ended, and Mu Yuan traveled to Spirit City with Xiao Wu, Xue Qinghe, and the Titled Douluo under his command.
• At the tournament’s opening ceremony, Heaven Dou Royal Academy drew Star Luo Royal Academy, and Zhu Zhuyun urged Zhu Zhuqing to return to the Star Luo Empire while Dai Weisi threatened to suppress her.
• Mu Yuan pulled Zhu Zhuqing into his embrace and declared that she would stay because of him, shocking the people around them.
• Mu Yuan released his Soul Power and forced Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun to their knees; Dai Weisi apologized and begged for forgiveness.

Mu Yuan interrupted the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, drawing Spirit Hall and the Upper Three Sects’ Titled Douluo into a tense confrontation. He claimed he had come to quell the continent’s conflict, but no one trusted his words.

• Zhu Zhuqing celebrated Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun’s submission while Bibi Dong wondered why she could not sense divine power from Mu Yuan.
• The tournament began with its Soul Bone prizes replaced, and Bibi Dong delivered a speech before the assembled dignitaries and competitors.
• Mu Yuan flew onto the stage just as the first match was about to begin, displaying two blood-red Soul Rings and a mysterious black sphere.
• Titled Douluo from the Upper Three Sects joined Mu Yuan, while Bibi Dong, Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, and two more Spirit Hall Titled Douluo prepared to face them.
• Bibi Dong asked whether Mu Yuan intended to invade Spirit Hall, and Mu Yuan said he had come to resolve the continent’s conflicts, though the onlookers doubted him.

Mu Yuan demanded an end to war and the creation of a Peace Alliance, then fought Spirit Hall after its leaders resisted. The chapter ended with Bibi Dong asking whether his call for peace meant he intended to massacre Spirit Hall.

• Mu Yuan described how war, poverty, slavery, and unequal access to resources had prevented hundreds of thousands of potential Soul Masters from flourishing.
• Mu Yuan announced that the two empires must disband their border armies and join Spirit Hall in forming a Peace Alliance, while Blazing Sun Douluo struck down a Soul Master who called the plan a fool’s dream.
• Demon Bear Douluo attacked Mu Yuan, but Mu Yuan caught him and slammed him into the arena floor.
• Bibi Dong shielded Demon Bear Douluo from Mu Yuan’s compressed energy attack, sacrificing her armor, spider legs, and clone to withstand it.
• Mu Yuan and Bibi Dong faced off, and Bibi Dong questioned whether his promised peace meant bringing people to Spirit Hall for a massacre; Mu Yuan replied that Spirit Hall had attacked first.

Mu Yuan proposed settling the factions’ grudges through a Number One Spirit Master Tournament Under Heaven, with a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone and three Spirit Hall soul bones as prizes. Bibi Dong accepted after receiving a Rakshasa God trial to claim the title, and Mu Yuan led the gathered soul masters to the Golden Palace Mountain Range to reveal Pingding Mountain.

• Bibi Dong apologized for Demon Bear Douluo but refused Mu Yuan’s original demand, so Mu Yuan proposed a tournament where the winners lived and the losers died.
• Mu Yuan offered a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone as the tournament prize and invited Bibi Dong to add Spirit Hall’s three Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones.
• Bibi Dong received the Rakshasa God’s Fifth Trial to seize the title of Number One Under Heaven and agreed to provide Spirit Hall’s soul bones.
• Mu Yuan led Bibi Dong, the Titled Douluo, and the gathered soul masters toward the Golden Palace Mountain Range to find Pingding Mountain.
• Mu Yuan waited atop the range’s highest peak for the ordinary soul masters to arrive, then flew into the air as nearly everyone gathered.

Mu Yuan demonstrated the Path Seeking Jade’s power by cutting through a mountain, then proposed new rankings for Soul Masters and invited challengers. Golden Crocodile Douluo challenged him and was defeated, while Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue watched.

• Mu Yuan used the Path Seeking Jade to slice a mountain apart and create Pingding Mountain.
• Mu Yuan proposed Heaven, Earth, Human, and Support Soul Master Rankings, with ranked contestants able to become his disciples.
• No one accepted Mu Yuan’s challenge until Golden Crocodile Douluo descended to fight him.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo’s attacks failed against the Path Seeking Jade, and Mu Yuan pinned him down with a wooden hand.
• Mu Yuan hurled a spear formed from the Path Seeking Jade through Golden Crocodile Douluo, then spared his life for the sake of his friend.

Mu Yuan decisively defeated Golden Crocodile Douluo, then fought Bibi Dong after she challenged him. Bibi Dong unleashed Rakshasa God power and was battered by Mu Yuan’s Wood Men, while a watching god hesitated over whether to intervene.

• Mu Yuan defeated Golden Crocodile Douluo with a single spear strike and asked whether anyone else would challenge him.
• Bibi Dong entered the arena and fought Mu Yuan, who injured her with the Path Seeking Jade as the battle shook the surrounding mountains.
• Bibi Dong revealed Rakshasa God power, and Qian Daoliu recognized it as divine power opposed to Angel God power.
• Bibi Dong switched to the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor and filled the battlefield with Rakshasa-powered spider spears, but Mu Yuan countered with a Wood Man and Wood Dragon.
• Mu Yuan summoned five Wood Men, who repeatedly struck Bibi Dong until her spider armor shattered and her Rakshasa God power began to falter.
• A god watched Bibi Dong’s defeat from deep in space and considered whether to intervene for her as a promising inheritor.

Mu Yuan broke Bibi Dong’s Rakshasa illusion and defeated her, then spared her when Qian Renxue pleaded for her life. He won the title of Number One Under Heaven, while the remaining ranking contests reshaped the competition among the continent’s strongest fighters and drew aspiring disciples to the Human Ranking.

• Bibi Dong used Rakshasa divine power to trap Mu Yuan in an illusion, but he rejected her demand to choose which of Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing would die, shattering it and leaving her gravely injured.
• Qian Renxue rushed to protect Bibi Dong and asked Mu Yuan to spare her; Mu Yuan agreed, and Qian Renxue carried the unconscious Bibi Dong away.
• Mu Yuan won the contest for Number One Under Heaven, recovering the Blue Silver Emperor’s Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone and gaining three more soul bones.
• Sword Douluo, Tang Xiao, and Yu Yuanzhen initially claimed the Heaven Ranking spots; Azure Luan Douluo later defeated Tang Xiao, who then defeated Yu Yuanzhen and took his spot.
• Experts from across the continent competed fiercely for the Earth Ranking, while the Human Ranking became an arena for young geniuses hoping to become Mu Yuan’s disciples.

Tang San survived absorbing a second Ten Thousand Year Spirit Ring and learned from Grandmaster that the conflict between his Twin Martial Souls was making Spirit Rings dangerously difficult to absorb. Grandmaster agreed to seek help from a woman in Spirit City, where Mu Yuan was also staying for the tournament.

• Tang San endured the pressure of absorbing a fifteen-thousand-year Spirit Ring and broke through to rank fifty.
• Tang San recalled how medicines and a Spirit Bone had helped him reach rank forty-six before he began adding Spirit Rings to the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang San returned to Heaven Dou City, rescued Grandmaster from house arrest at Blue Tyrant Academy, and asked why absorbing Spirit Rings had nearly killed him.
• Grandmaster explained that conflict between Twin Martial Souls intensified as cultivation rose and made Spirit Ring absorption dangerous.
• Tang San knelt and pleaded for help, so Grandmaster prepared to travel to Spirit City and beg a woman for a solution.

Qian Renxue tried to make Mu Yuan accept her as a disciple, while Grandmaster visited Bibi Dong to learn how she cultivated Twin Martial Souls and was thrown out after insulting her. Bibi Dong then set out to bring her daughter home from Mu Yuan.

• Qian Renxue claimed first place on the Human Ranking and asked Mu Yuan to accept her as a disciple, thanking him for sparing a woman.
• Grandmaster used his Elder token to enter the Pope's Palace and asked Bibi Dong how she had cultivated Twin Martial Souls.
• Bibi Dong refused to teach Grandmaster and told him to research the method in Spirit Hall's library.
• Grandmaster insulted Bibi Dong and was dragged away and punished by the Palace Knights.
• Bibi Dong asked Snake Lance Douluo why Xue'er had not returned, learned she was with Mu Yuan, and ordered a carriage prepared.

Bibi Dong sought Mu Yuan’s help with the Rakshasa Divine Power corroding her mind, but he secretly absorbed its mark and planned to use the power to nourish his Martial Soul. The next morning, Mu Yuan woke beside Xiao Wu and Zhuqing, while Ning Rongrong cried alone in a garden.

• Bibi Dong showed Mu Yuan the Rakshasa Divine Power’s corruption and asked him to help preserve her sanity.
• Mu Yuan absorbed some of Bibi Dong’s divine power, received a Rakshasa God inheritance trial, and destroyed the god’s mark in his palm.
• Mu Yuan concealed that he could absorb all of Bibi Dong’s corruption because the divine power nourished his Martial Soul.
• Mu Yuan woke with Xiao Wu and Zhuqing beside him, and Xiao Wu pulled Zhuqing onto the bed to tease her.
• Ning Rongrong watched pairs of animals in the garden and cried, wondering why Zhuqing had won Mu Yuan’s affection.

Mu Yuan convened the Heaven Dou Empire, Star Luo Empire, and Spirit Hall in Spirit City to negotiate a continent-wide peace agreement, but the empires’ representatives hesitated over committing to peace. The chapter ended as Mu Yuan began to respond to their calls for further discussion.

• Mu Yuan invited the Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire to Spirit City to sign a peace agreement with Spirit Hall.
• The Heaven Dou Empire accepted after Xue Qinghe eliminated nobles who opposed the proposal, while the Star Luo Empire debated stalling and sent Xu Changwei to represent it.
• Qian Renxue began the sixth Angel God Trial in the Star Dou Great Forest, preparing to hunt a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast alone.
• Bibi Dong, Prince Xue Xing, and Xu Changwei gathered in the Pope's Palace for the three-party peace conference.
• Bibi Dong agreed to follow Mu Yuan's instructions, while Prince Xue Xing requested time to consult the emperor and Xu Changwei agreed only in principle pending detailed negotiations.
• Mu Yuan smiled at their hesitation and began to answer, saying, "Discussion, is it..."

Mu Yuan forced Star Luo Empire and Heaven Dou Empire to sign a peace agreement by killing Star Crown Sect’s master when he refused. He marked the treaty’s signing by creating the Tree of Peace, then ordered Star Luo Empire to withdraw its border troops within a month.

• The Star Crown Sect Master demanded that Heaven Dou Empire accept more than twenty terms, and Prince Xue Xing countered with even harsher conditions of his own.
• After both empires refused to yield, Mu Yuan threatened the Star Crown Sect Master with the Path Seeking Jade spear and killed him when he refused to sign.
• The remaining Star Luo Empire envoys signed the bloodstained agreement, and Prince Xue Xing signed after Mu Yuan demanded his decision.
• With Bibi Dong’s signature already included, Mu Yuan declared the agreement between the three great powers effective and raised the Tree of Peace outside the Pope’s Palace.
• Mu Yuan ordered Star Luo Empire to withdraw its border troops within one month and warned that he would inspect and sanction any failure to comply.

Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun chose to stay with Mu Yuan, while Qian Renxue advanced her Angel trials and Tang San set out for Sea God Island to seek a way to solve his Twin Martial Souls problem. Mu Yuan continued cultivating slowly and had reached level seventy-seven.

• Mu Yuan told Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun they could leave or stay, and Dai Weisi chose to stay and agreed to try persuading his father.
• Qian Renxue passed the sixth Angel God Trial, received Angel Domain, and began the seventh trial to draw the Angel Sacred Sword.
• Tang San entered Spirit City to look for Grandmaster, found him disguised as a beggar, and took him aside to ask what had happened.
• Grandmaster told Tang San that Sea God Island might help with his Twin Martial Souls problem, and Tang San believed him and left for the island.
• Mu Yuan reflected that his cultivation had advanced to level seventy-seven in the months since the Heaven Dou Palace Coup.

After the Star Luo emperor defied Mu Yuan’s orders, Mu Yuan’s Titled Douluo replaced him with Dai Weisi and arranged work for the discharged soldiers. A year later, Snow Empress discovered that Ice Empress had vanished and followed her trail to the edge of the Extreme North, where she identified a suspicious human presence.

• Mu Yuan sent five Titled Douluo to Star Luo City to punish the emperor for violating the peace pact and to suppress the troops spreading rumors.
• Huo Zhong destroyed part of the Star Luo Palace, while Yu Yuanzhen and Bone Douluo defeated the emperor and empress; Huo Zhong killed the fleeing empress.
• Dai Weisi inherited the throne, and his side assigned work to the discharged soldiers, who then praised the new arrangement.
• After a year passed, Snow Empress awoke in the Extreme North and went to visit Ice Empress.
• Snow Empress found an Ice Jade Scorpion occupying Ice Empress’s nest and followed Ice Empress’s fading aura to the sea, where she found battle traces but no remains.
• Snow Empress spotted a lush forest in the snowy landscape, suspected a human was connected to Ice Empress’s disappearance, and memorized the human’s scent.