Chapter Summaries

Yang Ming fought Xue Qinghe after Xue Qinghe unleashed his Angel Domain and its evolved attack, Angel Descent. Yang Ming suppressed and shattered the domain, leaving Xue Qinghe badly injured as the battle reached its end.

• Xue Qinghe transformed through his Martial Soul Avatar and expanded the Angel Domain around Yang Ming.
• Yang Ming destabilized the domain, while Xue Qinghe attacked with Angel Descent and tried to stun him with golden energy strikes.
• Yang Ming blocked Xue Qinghe’s Sacred Twin Swords with his Space Restriction White Flame and turned aside his repeated attacks.
• Yang Ming unleashed overwhelming energy and suppressed the Angel Domain until its golden light shattered.
• Yang Ming remained largely unharmed while Xue Qinghe bled from his nose and mouth.

Yang Ming defeated Xue Qinghe and secured his promise to return Yang Wushuang to the Breaking Clan. After leaving the palace, Yang Ming reassured Yang Wudi and promised Dugu Bo that he could protect Xue Xing when Heaven Dou changed hands.

• Yang Ming defeated Xue Qinghe while Yang Wudi and Dugu Bo held back She Long and Ci Xue.
• Xue Qinghe admitted defeat and promised that Yang Wushuang would return to the Breaking Clan, though he warned Yang Ming he would remember the encounter.
• Yang Ming and his companions teleported away after he urged Xue Qinghe to send Yang Wushuang quickly.
• Xue Qinghe ordered Ci Xue to tell Bibi Dong to send Yang Wushuang to Heaven Dou City, insisting she would comply.
• Back at the Breaking Clan's residence, Yang Ming assured Yang Wudi that he would secure Yang Wushuang's release.
• Yang Ming promised Dugu Bo that he would protect Xue Xing and handle the dangers surrounding Heaven Dou and the Spirit Hall.

Bibi Dong learned that Yu Xiaogang had arrived at the Pope Palace, and her composure faltered as she prepared to see the man she had not met in over twenty years. When they met, Yu Xiaogang played on her lingering feelings, and Bibi Dong asked why he had come.

• Bibi Dong read a letter from Heaven Dou City saying Qian Renxue had threatened her over Yang Wushuang, then reconsidered whether he might be useful.
• A knight reported that Yu Xiaogang, calling himself Great Master, had arrived with a Pope Decree, and Bibi Dong ordered him brought to the Council Hall and treated well.
• Bibi Dong hurried away to prepare for the meeting while Yu Xiaogang waited alone in the Council Hall.
• Bibi Dong entered in her papal attire, and she and Yu Xiaogang exchanged a tense, emotional greeting.
• Yu Xiaogang expressed concern for Bibi Dong, who insisted he address her as Your Majesty, then asked what had brought him there.

Yu Xiaogang secured a generous cooperation agreement between the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and Spirit Hall, while Bibi Dong mistook his motives for affection and welcomed their reunion. Their agreement helped end the Soul Hunting operation before it began, and Qian Renxue’s subordinate was still waiting for a response about Yang Wushuang.

• Yu Xiaogang told Bibi Dong that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan wanted to cooperate with Spirit Hall, and Bibi Dong believed he had done it to prevent conflict with her.
• Bibi Dong agreed to generous terms that gave the Yu Family major benefits and few obligations, and Yu Xiaogang left pleased with the deal.
• Yang Ming sensed an unexpected blessing while cultivating in the Breaking Clan’s Clan Land.
• Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong exchanged warm farewells, and Bibi Dong smiled sincerely after seeing him again.
• The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan effectively broke with the Two Great Empires, while the Soul Hunting operation ended before it began.
• Yu Xiaogang left the Pope Palace and noted the hostile Hall Guardian Knight, while Qian Renxue’s subordinate still awaited a response about Yang Wushuang.

Qian Renxue learned that Bibi Dong refused to hand over Yang Wushuang and ordered an investigation into Bibi Dong’s changed behavior. After Yu Xiaogang returned to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan with a generous Spirit Hall agreement, he was abducted while descending the mountain.

• Shadow Three reported that Bibi Dong claimed Yang Wushuang was dead, and Qian Renxue dismissed the claim as an excuse to keep him.
• Qian Renxue ordered Shadow Three to question the Messenger Knight about Yu Xiaogang’s visit to Pope Palace.
• Qian Renxue sent She Long to capture Yu Xiaogang after he reported to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, while telling him not to attract Old Dragon’s attention.
• Yu Xiaogang presented the generous cooperation agreement to Yu Yuanzhen, who summoned the Elder Council and let him enjoy a brief moment of recognition.
• Yu Xiaogang left the clan after the meeting and was struck over the head and carried away by someone with ulterior motives.

Shadow Three reported that Bibi Dong had once been involved with Yu Xiaogang, prompting Qian Renxue to investigate and punish him. Qian Renxue left Yu Xiaogang in Shadow Three’s hands for torture, ordering that he remain alive and able to speak.

• Shadow Three told Qian Renxue and Yang Ming that a knight suspected Bibi Dong and Yu Xiaogang had once been lovers.
• Qian Renxue ordered Yang Ming to leave and swore she would not let Bibi Dong betray her father for Yu Xiaogang.
• Three days later, Qian Renxue confronted the captured Yu Xiaogang in the Crown Prince Residence dungeon, and he did not deny the relationship.
• Qian Renxue ordered Shadow Three to torture Yu Xiaogang while keeping him alive and able to speak, and she left as he screamed.

Qian Renxue visited Yu Xiaogang in the dungeon and had Shadow Three torture him until he revealed his past with Bibi Dong. Yu Xiaogang fainted after telling her that Bibi Dong had been his old love and that they had separated in 2617.

• Qian Renxue arrived at Yu Xiaogang's cell and watched Shadow Three torture him with a subtraction question and further punishments.
• Yu Xiaogang begged Qian Renxue to release him, but she ordered Shadow Three to keep beating him when he did not know what to say.
• Qian Renxue sent Shadow Three away and asked Yu Xiaogang about his past with Pope Bibi Dong.
• Yu Xiaogang recounted that he had left his family and never seen Bibi Dong again after 2617, and Qian Renxue realized he had been Bibi Dong's old love.
• Yu Xiaogang fainted from exhaustion after finishing his story.

Qian Renxue crushed the Heaven Dou coup and was crowned emperor, while Yang Ming and Ya Li traveled to Spirit City after Qian Daoliu summoned them. They arrived at the Worship Hall and found Qian Daoliu holding hands with a beautiful woman, whom Yang Ming recognized as Big Sister Xue.

• Qian Renxue ordered Shadow Three to intensify Yu Xiaogang's punishment and planned to exchange him for Yang Wushuang after half a month.
• Yang Ming and Ya Li discussed Qian Renxue's plan to use Yu Xiaogang as leverage against Bibi Dong.
• After Xue Ye died, Prince Xue Xing and Prince Xue Beng launched a coup, but Qian Renxue's ambush crushed the rebel army; Xue Beng died and Prince Xue Xing escaped with Dugu Bo's help.
• Qian Renxue was crowned Heaven Dou Emperor, completing her infiltration, while Yang Ming and Ya Li set out for Spirit City at Qian Daoliu's summons.
• Yang Ming and Ya Li arrived at the Worship Hall and greeted Qian Daoliu and Big Sister Xue, whom they saw holding hands.

Qian Renxue teased Yun Ming in front of Qian Daoliu, then led Yun Ming and Ya Li to the Pope Palace to meet Bibi Dong. Seeing that Bibi Dong still regarded her with disgust, Qian Renxue greeted her coldly as “Big Sister.”

• Qian Renxue insinuated that Yun Ming had taken advantage of her, provoking Qian Daoliu to demand an explanation.
• Yun Ming said he had beaten Qian Renxue in battle, and Qian Daoliu realized she was stirring up trouble because she had feelings for Yun Ming.
• Ya Li eased the tension with Qian Renxue, then asked her to release Yang Wushuang; Qian Renxue agreed.
• Qian Renxue led Yun Ming and Ya Li to the Pope Palace, where she prepared herself to face Bibi Dong.
• Qian Renxue saw Bibi Dong’s familiar disgust and addressed her as “Big Sister.”

Qian Renxue confronted Bibi Dong and forced her to admit that Yang Wushuang was alive by using Yu Xiaogang as leverage. Bibi Dong ordered Yang Wushuang brought from the East Three Prison, and the chapter ended as he arrived at the Pope Palace.

• Bibi Dong congratulated Qian Renxue on taking the Heaven Dou Empire, but Qian Renxue demanded Yang Wushuang's release.
• Qian Renxue showed Bibi Dong Yu Xiaogang's family token and threatened him, forcing Bibi Dong to admit Yang Wushuang was alive.
• Bibi Dong ordered a servant to bring Yang Wushuang from the East Three Prison, while Qian Renxue promised to return Yu Xiaogang after seeing him.
• Qian Renxue insulted Yu Xiaogang and compared him unfavorably with Yang Ming, provoking Bibi Dong and leaving Ya Li displeased.
• The servant returned with Yang Wushuang, and Yang Ming recognized the faint bloodline connection.

Yun Ming and Ya Li rescued Yang Wushuang and brought him back to the Breaking Clan, while Bibi Dong had Yu Xiaogang treated after Qian Renxue returned him gravely wounded. Bibi Dong learned that Yu Xiaogang would survive but had suffered lasting injuries, and she left him in the physician’s care.

• Qian Renxue returned the gravely wounded Yu Xiaogang to Bibi Dong, who drove her and the others out of Pope Palace without attacking her.
• Ya Li said goodbye to Qian Renxue, and Yun Ming and Ya Li brought Yang Wushuang to Ya Li’s residence.
• Yun Ming showed Yang Wushuang the Soul Breaking Token, revealed that he was Yang Wudi’s grandson and the Breaking Clan’s Young Master, and told him how the clan’s fortunes had changed.
• Yun Ming used the Teleportation Technique to take Yang Wushuang back to the Breaking Clan.
• A physician told Bibi Dong that Yu Xiaogang’s injuries had severely damaged his vitality, shortened his lifespan, and left him unable to perform as a man.
• Bibi Dong visited Yu Xiaogang in the treatment room and ordered the physician to treat him at any cost before leaving.

Yang Ming returned to Spirit City and discovered Ya Li was absent, while she and Qian Renxue had gone to Douluo Hall to receive their Angel God Trials. Qian Renxue received the Angel Nine Trials, and Ya Li’s assessment also reached a ninth golden screen, astonishing Qian Daoliu.

• Yang Ming returned to Ya Li’s residence after spending the day with the reunited Breaking Clan brothers, but Ya Li was not there.
• Qian Renxue and Ya Li knelt before the Six-Winged Angel statue in Douluo Hall after Qian Daoliu summoned them to begin their God Trials.
• Qian Daoliu told Qian Renxue that nine screens meant she had received the Angel Nine Trials, and promised to accompany her.
• Ya Li’s assessment advanced through six screens and then continued from blood-red light toward golden radiance.
• A hymn sounded through Douluo Hall as a ninth screen appeared before Ya Li, leaving Qian Daoliu stunned.

Ya Li received the scarlet-gold Seraph Nine Trials, a nine-stage god trial slightly inferior to Qian Renxue’s, and learned it would keep her in cultivation for four or five years. After Ya Li returned to Yang Ming and told him what had happened, he reassured her and asked how her trials differed from the usual god trials.

• Ya Li’s nine trial screens merged into her forehead and left her with a scarlet-gold Angel Imprint and the name Seraph Nine Trials.
• Qian Renxue questioned Qian Daoliu about Ya Li’s trial, and he admitted he did not understand the unusual situation.
• Qian Daoliu said the trials would begin the next day and last about four or five years, with one week of leave each year.
• Qian Renxue left to arrange plans for the Heaven Dou Empire, while Ya Li returned to her residence and embraced Yang Ming.
• Ya Li told Yang Ming about the trials, and he encouraged her to focus on cultivation before asking how her Seraph Nine Trials differed from the normal trials.

Yang Ming worried about Ya Li accepting the Angel God's Seraph Nine Trials, but learned that the trial served as a backup path to the Angel God Position. Before their long separation, he and Ya Li reassured each other and became intimate.

• Yang Ming questioned the meaning of Ya Li's trial and failed to inspect the Seraph's Mark with his Spiritual Power.
• Ya Li told Yang Ming that the Angel God's trial seemed safe, and he urged her to stay cautious and keep writing to him.
• The chapter explained that the Angel God created the Seraph Nine Trials as a way to prepare a second successor without breaking the God Realm's rules.
• Ya Li kissed Yang Ming to stop his further instructions, and they shared a tender embrace.
• Ya Li agreed to become intimate with Yang Ming, and he carried her into the bedroom before their separation.

Bibi Dong learned that Tang San had begun Poseidon’s inheritance trial, while Poseidon considered helping himself escape the God Realm through his new inheritor. Yang Ming arrived in Gengxin City to seek rare metals for the Breaking Clan before beginning his own seclusion.

• Bibi Dong cursed Qian Daoliu and reacted eagerly to a report, anticipating that events would soon turn against the Angel Clan.
• Poseidon watched Tang San trigger the Sea God inheritance trial and noticed an unstable Blood Demon Seed within his Martial Soul.
• Poseidon decided he might use Tang San’s trial to help himself leave the God Realm, then wished the young man success.
• Yang Ming paid Uncle Wan for the journey and entered Gengxin City after parting from the driver.
• Yang Ming recalled that Ya Li had entered closed-door cultivation and set out to find rare metals for the Breaking Clan before his own seclusion.

Yang Ming visited Gengxin City's Blacksmiths' Association to buy rare metals and discovered they were far cheaper than he expected. He proposed a long-term purchasing agreement and followed Mina to meet her supervisor.

• Yang Ming entered Gengxin City and found the Blacksmiths' Association headquarters.
• Mina approached Yang Ming and explained the headquarters' five floors and their functions.
• Yang Ming gave Mina a list of rare metals and said he would buy everything the headquarters had.
• Mina estimated the purchase would cost at least six hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, and Yang Ming accepted the price.
• Yang Ming proposed buying the metals long-term, and Mina led him upstairs to meet her supervisor.

Yang Ming met Blacksmiths' General Association president Lou Gao and identified the mysterious metal in his Forging Room as Ether White Gold. He offered to explain its properties and demonstrate forging it in exchange for buying the entire piece, leaving Lou Gao to consider the deal.

• Mina brought Yang Ming through the guarded floors of the Blacksmiths' General Association, where Si Long escorted him to the fifth floor.
• Si Long led Yang Ming to Forging Room Number One and summoned his teacher, the God Craftsman Lou Gao.
• Yang Ming entered Lou Gao's workshop and recognized the silver-white, rune-covered metal on its central platform.
• Yang Ming identified the metal as Ether White Gold and explained that it could raise the quality of other metals by a grade.
• Yang Ming offered to explain and forge with the Ether White Gold if Lou Gao agreed to sell him the entire piece, but Lou Gao found the condition difficult to accept.

Yang Ming bargained with Lou Gao for the Ether White Gold, then accepted a forging contest to win the metal. He began refining ordinary Pig Iron with astonishing precision, leaving Lou Gao amazed by his skill.

• Yang Ming refused Lou Gao's request to keep part of the Ether White Gold and offered four million Gold Soul Coins for the whole piece.
• Lou Gao proposed a forging contest: Yang Ming would forge an artifact from mortal iron, and Lou Gao would get half the metal if he won.
• Yang Ming agreed to the contest and used a Soul-Forged Tungsten Copper Hammer to forge red-hot Pig Iron.
• Yang Ming's first hammer blow expelled impurities and reduced the Pig Iron to a third of its size, bringing it to the Hundred Refinements level.
• Lou Gao forgot about their wager and praised Yang Ming's forging as godlike.

Yang Ming demonstrated forging techniques far beyond Lou Gao’s era, transforming iron into Spirit Iron with three strikes and revealing the path beyond Thousand Refinements. After witnessing the breakthrough, Lou Gao knelt and accepted Yang Ming as his teacher.

• Yang Ming refined iron into First Grade Thousand Refined metal with two hammer strikes, astonishing Lou Gao.
• Yang Ming used Spiritual Forging with his Martial Soul as a bridge, causing the metal to become Spirit Iron and give birth to a golden dragon-like spirit.
• Lou Gao watched the transformation and realized that metal tempering could advance beyond what he had believed was its limit.
• After half an hour of reflection, Lou Gao knelt before Yang Ming and thanked him as his teacher.

Yang Ming won Ether White Gold from Lou Gao in their forging wager, then negotiated a large metal order with the Blacksmiths' Association. While Lou Gao arranged the available supplies, Yang Ming explored the Second Floor Trading Area and collected several valuable bargains.

• Lou Gao tried to make Yang Ming his master, but Yang Ming firmly refused and told him to end the matter.
• Lou Gao conceded the forging wager and handed the Ether White Gold to Yang Ming, who stored it in his Phoenix Cry Ring.
• Yang Ming gave Lou Gao his Procurement List and proposed long-term orders, and Lou Gao agreed to have the association determine how much it could supply.
• While Lou Gao tallied the association's metal reserves, Yang Ming wrote down information about Ether White Gold and Spiritual Forging.
• Yang Ming explored the Second Floor Trading Area and bought valuable metals for a few Gold Soul Coins before returning to the fifth floor.