Chapter Summaries

Yang Ming left Gengxin City after arranging a long-term rare-metal trade with Lou Gao, then returned to the Breaking Clan. There, he learned that Spirit Hall had been making moves across several kingdoms and prepared to explain its next plan to Yang Wutian.

• Yang Ming completed a rare-metal deal with Lou Gao, demonstrated Ether White Gold, and gave him a manuscript and a Storage Bracelet containing Spirit Refined Metal and four million Gold Soul Coins.
• Lou Gao studied Yang Ming’s Spiritual Forging notes and resolved to live up to the expectations Yang Ming had placed in him.
• Yang Ming used Teleportation Technique to return to the Breaking Clan and went to meet Yang Wutian.
• Yang Wutian showed Yang Ming a top-secret report describing a successful coup in the Nili Kingdom, a change in the Buffalo Kingdom’s succession, and frequent Spirit Hall personnel transfers.
• Yang Ming told Yang Wutian that Spirit Hall was about to act and began to reveal its next plan.

Yang Ming prepared the Breaking Clan for Spirit Hall’s Seven Great Sects Hegemony Tournament, which would determine the New Seven Great Sects through Soul Fighting. He led the clan into Spirit City with a grand procession and accepted Ning Fengzhi’s challenge, leaving the rival sects poised to compete.

• Yang Ming assured Yang Wutian that the Breaking Clan would claim Number One Under Heaven and spent the following months forging weapons and cultivating.
• Spirit Hall announced that the New Seven Great Sects would be selected through Soul Fighting in Spirit City two months later, stirring hidden clans and increasing conflict in Heaven Dou City.
• Yang Ming reviewed reports of the growing violence in Heaven Dou City and considered the tournament’s rules and potential opponents.
• Yang Ming and the Breaking Clan arrived at Spirit City in an elaborate procession, drawing attention from the waiting clans and receiving a welcome from Spirit Hall’s gate officials.
• Yang Ming met Dugu Bo and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile trio, and Ning Fengzhi challenged the Breaking Clan to compete for the final victory.
• Yang Wudi accepted Ning Fengzhi’s challenge and said they would settle the matter through strength.

The Seven Great Sects Hegemony Tournament began in Spirit City, with sixteen sects competing for four places among the Seven Sects. Yang Ming watched the opening matches and assessed the clash between Huyan Zhen and Huo Bao, while Yu Yuanzhen resolved to make him pay in a later contest.

• Spirit Hall began the tournament and explained the group and elimination format for selecting four sects to join the Seven Sects.
• Ning Fengzhi exchanged pointed greetings with Yu Yuanzhen, who took offense at Yang Ming's indifference and decided to use his full strength against him.
• Yang Ming and Yang Wudi watched the opening matches, including the battle between Elephant Armor Sect leader Huyan Zhen and Fire Leopard Sect leader Huo Bao.
• Huo Bao charged Huyan Zhen with a flame-powered attack, and Yang Ming praised how Huo Bao combined his Martial Soul's speed and explosive power.
• Huyan Zhen braced himself and struck Huo Bao with his trunk, shattering the granite beneath them; Yang Ming identified Huyan Zhen's Martial Soul as a Diamond Mammoth.

Yang Ming watched the sect selection conclude, identified Tuoba Xi as a future Title Douluo, and saw the preliminary results establish the Seven Sects. After Chrysanthemum Douluo announced the ranking tournament, Yang Ming asked Yang Wudi and Yang Wutian to decide on his proposal, and they agreed to go all out.

• Hu Yanzhen defeated Huo Bao after the Diamond Mammoth's defense withstood his attacks and the recoil injured him.
• Yang Ming assessed the first-round contenders and explained that Tuoba Xi's White Armor Earth Dragon Martial Soul was advancing as he approached the Title Douluo realm.
• The remaining group matches eliminated the Rock Antelope Sect, while the Wind Sword Sect and Sparrow Bee Sect qualified before later losing in the second-day head-to-head matches.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan announced the eight selected sects: the Soul Break Sect, Breaking Clan, Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, Elephant Armor Sect, Saint Dragon Sect, Black Tiger Sect, and Fire Leopard Sect.
• Yang Ming asked Yang Wudi and Yang Wutian whether they had decided about his proposal, and Yang Wutian agreed that they would go all out.

At the Seven Sects Ranking Tournament, Yang Ming stunned the assembled sects by entering as the Breaking Clan’s sole contestant and declaring that he would defeat everyone. After his overwhelming will silenced the crowd, Hu Yanzhen charged him, and Yang Ming raised a hand to meet the attack.

• Bibi Dong announced that the tournament would be a free-for-all in which each sect sent three contestants, and Yu Yuanzhen accepted the rules after objecting.
• Yang Wutian and Yang Wudi entrusted the Breaking Clan’s contest to Yang Ming, who entered the arena as the sect’s only contestant.
• Yang Wudi declared that Yang Ming could suppress all the heroes alone, shocking Dugu Bo and the other spectators.
• Yang Ming challenged Yu Yuanzhen’s ambition and released an immense will that stirred the clouds and left the crowd oppressed.
• Hu Yanzhen activated his Martial Soul and charged Yang Ming with a powerful punch, and Yang Ming extended his left hand.

Yang Ming defeated Hu Yanzhen with a single internal-force punch, then fought off the Four Sects’ coordinated attack and forced an Elephant Armor Soul Douluo to surrender. He charged toward another Elephant Armor Soul Douluo as Hu Yanzhen shouted a warning.

• Yang Ming caught Hu Yanzhen’s punch, struck him through his defenses, and left him badly injured.
• Hu Yanzhen ordered the Elephant Armor, Fire Leopard, Black Tiger, and Saint Dragon Sects to attack Yang Ming together.
• Yang Ming used the Atlas Divine Spear and Atlas, Annihilation to tear through an Elephant Armor Soul Douluo’s defenses and wound his face.
• Fire Leopard’s flaming claws passed harmlessly through Yang Ming as he continued attacking the Elephant Armor Soul Douluo.
• The wounded Soul Douluo surrendered, and Yang Ming turned toward another target as Hu Yanzhen shouted for his clansman to be careful.

Cloud Ming defeated Hu Yan Jie and forced Hu Yanzhen to concede for the Elephant Armor Sect, then faced attacks from the leaders of the other three sects. The chapter ended with their combined strikes engulfing his position in explosions and dust, leaving his condition unknown.

• Hu Yan Jie unleashed Diamond Shattering Quake, but Cloud Ming used White Dragon Sealing Demons to freeze the attack and immobilize him.
• Cloud Ming's white dragons overcame Hu Yanzhen's Ice Prism Elephant Armor, and Hu Yanzhen conceded to protect Hu Yan Jie.
• Cloud Ming released Hu Yan Jie and Hu Yanzhen, and the Elephant Armor Sect left the tournament as the new Seventh Sect Under Heaven.
• Xuan Ye, Huo Bao, and Tuoba Xi rallied the other sect leaders and charged Cloud Ming from several directions.
• Huo Bao, Xuan Ye, and Tuoba Xi attacked Cloud Ming with fire lotuses, a shadow projectile, and Dragon Flame, leaving his position shrouded in explosions and dust.

Yang Ming defeated Tuoba Xi, Huo Bao, and Xuan Ye after the three sect leaders failed to overcome his spatial abilities and spear techniques. With the leaders and their remaining fighters defeated, Yang Ming cleared the arena and secured victory over the four sects’ forces.

• Chen Xin investigated the explosion with his Spiritual Power and was astonished by what he sensed, while Yang Ming emerged unharmed with a black Soul Ring and eight spears behind him.
• Yang Ming used Space Prohibition to suppress the nine Soul Douluo, then controlled eight spears to overwhelm the fighters while he attacked Tuoba Xi.
• Yang Ming broke through Tuoba Xi’s defenses with a spear sequence and a powerful punch, knocking him unconscious; Ghost Douluo declared the Saint Dragon Sect defeated.
• Huo Bao and Xuan Ye unleashed their strongest Eighth Soul Skills, but Yang Ming tore their attacks apart with spatial rifts and struck them with torrents of spear light.
• Yue Guan cleared the smoke and revealed Huo Bao and Xuan Ye severely injured; the Chrysanthemum Ghost Two Douluo declared both sect leaders defeated, and Yang Ming quickly defeated the remaining six fighters.

Yang Ming resumed his battle with Yu Yuanzhen and repeatedly overwhelmed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect leader with his spear, strength, and Eclipse domain. After Yang Ming wounded him, Yu Yuanzhen transformed into a giant dragon and unleashed a vast storm of lightning, leaving the battle poised to intensify.

• The eliminated sects argued over the selection rules until Yang Wutian and the other elders stopped their juniors after sensing Bibi Dong’s displeasure.
• Yu Yuanzhen challenged Yang Ming, and the two resumed their unfinished fight in the plaza.
• Yang Ming severed Yu Yuanzhen’s Dragon Claw, endured his Thunder Fourfold attack, and knocked him back in a clash of physical strength.
• Yu Yuanzhen unleashed Dragon Soaring Sky Thunder Burst, but Yang Ming’s Eclipse domain devoured the Thunder Dragons and let his spear pierce Yu Yuanzhen’s shoulder.
• Yu Yuanzhen lit all nine Spirit Rings, transformed into a giant dragon, and filled the plaza with lightning as he invoked True Dragon’s Fury, Sound Shakes the Nine Heavens.

Yang Ming defeated Yu Yuanzhen and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, then faced the final opponents from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. The decisive battle against Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong was about to begin.

• Yu Yuanzhen unleashed nine Lightning Dragons, but Yang Ming absorbed and refined the lightning before blasting through them with Reversal Storm.
• Yang Ming struck Yu Yuanzhen with Dragon Suppression, knocked him unconscious, and defeated the Thunder Douluo.
• Yu Luomian withdrew from the contest, while the Blue Lightning Third Elder charged Yang Ming and was knocked out within seconds.
• Ghost Douluo declared Yu Yuanzhen, Yu Luomian, and Yu Luoquan defeated, leaving Yang Ming to face the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong prepared to fight Yang Ming as his power surged.

Yang Ming explained his Spear Intent to Chen Xin, then defeated him in their duel and used a spear technique that let Chen Xin glimpse two deeper Sword Dao concepts. Chen Xin entered a state of enlightenment, and his long-stalled cultivation began to rise.

• Chen Xin asked Yang Ming how he made his Spear Light endure, and Yang Ming told him it required reaching an unextinguishable level of intent.
• Chen Xin asked Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong to hold back so he could duel Yang Ming alone.
• Yang Ming and Chen Xin clashed with their intent, and Yang Ming broke Chen Xin's Sword Intent and wounded him with a single move.
• Yang Ming struck again with a technique that revealed the Sentimental and Unsentimental Sword concepts, sending Chen Xin into enlightenment.
• Chen Xin practiced his sword techniques repeatedly as Bibi Dong, Gu Rong, Ning Fengzhi, and the spectators watched.
• Chen Xin's killing intent faded, and his Soul Power cultivation finally advanced slightly.

Yang Ming and Chen Xin tested Chen Xin’s breakthrough in a second duel, and Chen Xin revealed a vastly stronger Sword Soul. Their ultimate attacks collided, shattering the arena barrier and putting the spectators in danger.

• Chen Xin broke through his bottleneck, and Ning Fengzhi thanked Yang Ming for helping him reach the breakthrough.
• Ning Fengzhi enhanced Chen Xin’s attributes by eighty percent, and Chen Xin exchanged five hundred moves with Yang Ming before losing the contest of technique.
• Chen Xin awakened his Sword Soul and used it to attack Yang Ming, while Yang Ming’s Atlas ‘Royal Power’ broke apart Chen Xin’s Sword Soul world and left their clash in a draw.
• Chen Xin unleashed his Ninth Spirit Skill, God Demon Dual Slash, as Yang Ming activated his Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Core and answered with the Atlas ‘Sun Shooting’.
• The attacks collided, shattering the arena’s energy barrier and triggering a huge explosion that endangered the spectators.

Yang Ming defeated the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect in the Seven Sects Ranking Tournament, securing the title of Number One Sect Under Heaven for the Soul Break Sect. Days later, as the Seven Sects Conferment Ceremony approached, Yang Ming considered how to keep the Breaking Clan from swearing allegiance to Spirit Hall.

• Bibi Dong and eight other Titled Douluo shielded the audience stands from the blast of Yang Ming and Chen Xin's clash.
• Yang Ming and Chen Xin survived the explosion, while Ning Fengzhi was left exhausted and Gu Rong was badly injured protecting him.
• Ning Fengzhi conceded, and Ghost Douluo declared the Soul Break Sect the winner and Number One Sect Under Heaven.
• The new rankings spread across the continent, and Yang Ming became widely hailed as its strongest person.
• At the Breaking Clan residence five days later, Yang Ming told Ning Fengzhi he did not consider himself truly Number One.
• Yang Ming prepared for the Seven Sects Conferment Ceremony and planned a solution to the Breaking Clan's refusal to swear allegiance to Spirit Hall.

Bibi Dong prepared the New Seven Sects Conferment Ceremony and secured the submission of several sects, while Cloud Ming and the Yang Brothers planned to conceal the Breaking Clan’s involvement under the Soul Break Sect. At the ceremony, Cloud Ming challenged the announced identity of the sect master and used a series of arguments to deny that the Breaking Clan had participated, leaving Bibi Dong’s accusation at an impasse.

• Bibi Dong reviewed the Lower Four Sects’ submission documents and learned that the Soul Break Sect and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had agreed to submit, while the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had refused.
• Cloud Ming assured Yang Wudi and Yang Wutian that he had a plan to disguise the Breaking Clan’s participation as support for the Soul Break Sect.
• Two days later, Bibi Dong opened the ceremony and conferred the New Seven Sects titles, while secretly buying the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s elders’ support to secure the clan’s submission.
• As Yang Wutian approached to accept the final conferment, Cloud Ming interrupted and declared that Dugu Bo, not Yang Wutian, was the Soul Break Sect’s master.
• Bibi Dong accused Cloud Ming of disguising the Breaking Clan’s participation, but Cloud Ming denied the connection and pointed to Yu Yuanzhen’s uncertainty about Yang Wudi’s earlier remarks, leaving Hu Yanzhen unable to prove his claim.

Yang Ming forced Bibi Dong to drop her challenge by using evidence of Spirit Hall’s secret campaigns against neighboring nations. With the conflict settled, Dugu Bo became master of the Number One Sect Under Heaven, and the seven sects jointly recognized Spirit Hall as leader of the Soul Master community.

• Bibi Dong challenged Yang Ming, but Yang Wudi deflected her questions by blaming Yang Ming’s actions on poor family discipline.
• Dugu Bo presented Bibi Dong with evidence of Spirit Hall’s covert operations against surrounding kingdoms and duchies.
• Bibi Dong recognized the threat to her authority and withdrew the document, allowing the ceremony to continue.
• Yang Ming explained to Yang Wutian and Yang Wudi that publicly severing the Breaking Clan’s ties would protect the clan while giving Bibi Dong a reason to accept the humiliation.
• Dugu Bo received the documents, seal, and Honorary Elder Token from Bibi Dong and became master of the Number One Sect Under Heaven.
• The seven sects submitted a joint petition acknowledging Spirit Hall as the common leader of the Soul Master community.

Yun Ming played chess with Yang Wutian, then climbed Break Heaven Peak and found his former Empire Team gathered for a sparring match and barbecue. The reunion ended with Tang San arriving furious because everyone had eaten too much of the food.

• Yun Ming beat Yang Wutian at chess, predicted that the continent's turmoil would last four or five years, and left to climb Break Heaven Peak.
• Yun Ming watched Oscar and Yang Yi spar until Oscar used his abilities to knock Yang Yi outside the ring and win.
• Feng Xiaotian and the others greeted Yun Ming, and the group caught up while preparing and eating barbecue.
• The group joked and reminisced over the meal, while Yun Ming realized someone seemed to be missing.
• Tang San arrived with an ashen face and smoke rising from his body, angrily complaining that everyone had eaten too quickly.

Yang Ming investigated reports that the dead land at the Breaking Clan's former Clan Land had begun expanding years after his battle with Tang Xiao. Deep in the pit, he uncovered something unexpected, but the chapter ended before revealing what it was.

• A Spirit Hall Bishop told Yang Ming that a problem had arisen at the Breaking Clan's former Clan Land, and Yang Ming accepted responsibility for resolving it.
• Yang Ming traveled to the wasteland east of Heaven Dou City and found that the deathly area had expanded about ten meters.
• Yang Ming examined the land and pit, sensing that the deathly aura was eroding the surrounding vitality and that the void below was unstable.
• Yang Ming descended into the pit and followed his senses to a buried object.
• Yang Ming used golden Soul Power to break open the ground and saw the object beneath it.

Yang Ming discovered that an organization had been expanding the Dead Realm with buried corpses and an incomplete blood-painted array, but he could not determine its purpose. He mobilized allied intelligence networks to investigate the site and diagram while the unknown conspirators gathered to plot.

• Yang Ming unearthed numerous human and Soul Beast remains in the Dead Realm and deduced that an organization had deliberately buried them there to expand the area.
• Yang Ming examined the blood-painted traces and recognized an incomplete array diagram, then returned to the Breaking Clan Land after searching the site for two hours.
• Yang Ming gave Yang Teng records of the corpses and diagram, ordered investigations and surveillance around the Dead Realm, and assigned the mission Level Four.
• Yang Ming told Yang Teng to let word spread that Spirit Hall was investigating, and allied forces began mobilizing their intelligence departments.
• Yang Ming continued studying the incomplete diagram while the people he sought gathered to plot.

A hidden organization prepared to act after drawing the Spirit Hall’s attention to Saint Abyss, while Yang Ming uncovered links between the Dead Realm victims and shadow-attribute Soul Masters. As the Spirit Hall deployed teams to Star Luo and its forces gathered near Heaven Dou City, Yang Ming waited for the culprits to return to the Breaking Clan’s old land.

• A concealed President ordered Wu Hun and the others to follow their plan after the Spirit Hall discovered their traces and began investigating Saint Abyss.
• Yang Teng told Yang Ming that the remains linked to the Dead Realm came from several places and identified missing Spirit Hall captain Ye Zhun and deceased Zhu Family members Zhu Qinglong and Zhu Qiming as possible connections.
• Yang Teng reported that an ice-attribute group had annihilated the dark-attribute Magic Goose Xu Family and King Snake Yin Family, taking all their remains.
• Yang Ming concluded the group was provoking the Spirit Hall and ordered his people to withdraw while he waited to catch the culprits at the old Clan Land.
• The Spirit Hall sent two Holy Tribunal Soul Master Teams to Star Luo, and Yang Ming disappeared from his residence as another Spirit Hall figure arrived in Heaven Dou City.

Yue Guan and Guimei investigated the force provoking Spirit Hall while the Fallen God Society ambushed Holy Tribunal Soul Masters in the Star Luo Empire. As the Society's survivors drew Spirit Hall's pursuers toward Heaven Dou City, its leader prepared to begin his plan.

• Yue Guan reprimanded Salas and the Heaven Dou Spirit Hall Holy Temple officials, then discussed the attacker's motives with Guimei.
• The Fallen God Society ambushed two Holy Tribunal squads in the Star Luo Empire, inflicting severe casualties before the survivors escaped.
• Spirit Hall identified the attackers as members of the long-quiet Fallen God Society and sent Demon Bear Douluo and eight squads to pursue them.
• The Society's remnants evaded Spirit Hall's forces for a week while continuing toward Heaven Dou City, leading Yang Ming to suspect they were luring the pursuers there.
• The Fallen God Society Leader learned that his subordinates had arrived and told Yi Lao that the show was about to begin.