Chapter Summaries

Lin Hao and Qian Renenxue discussed the Heaven Dou Empire’s plans to back a rival commerce association, then Qian Renenxue revealed that she knew Lin Hao had uncovered her identity. She explained that the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association’s arrival had disrupted her plans to take the throne and remove it from the empire.

• Lin Hao tried to end the conversation, but Qian Renenxue offered a deal involving the Heaven Dou Empire Royal Family’s plan to support a commerce association and the taxes the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association paid.
• Lin Hao agreed to hear Qian Renenxue out and asked what she wanted in return.
• Qian Renenxue asked whether Lin Hao knew her surname, and Lin Hao answered that she was Xue Qinghe.
• Qian Renenxue revealed that she knew Lin Hao had sent Long Xiaoyao to investigate the royal family and had discovered her true identity.
• Lin Hao explained that he had investigated the royal family because Long Xiaoyao sensed two Titled Douluo there, and Qian Renenxue said the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association’s arrival had ruined her plan to ascend the throne and expel it.

Lin Hao negotiated with Qian Renxue to keep her identity secret in exchange for several rewards, including the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and the banquet planner. After securing the deal, he took the planner to a secret base, where Yan Lingji revealed the man had come from another world.

• Qian Renxue offered Lin Hao a fifty-thousand-year Soul Bone and help from the Heaven Dou Empire Royal Family, but Lin Hao demanded more.
• Lin Hao asked for the banquet planner and the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, promising not to expose Qian Renxue and to help her ascend the throne.
• Qian Renxue required Lin Hao to swear to the Angel God that the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association would not use or deliberately reveal her secret, and Lin Hao agreed.
• Qian Renxue and Lin Hao sealed the deal, and she sent him away with the young man who had opened the door.
• At a secret base, Yan Lingji questioned the young man, Liu Yun, who said he came from Rain Star and had appeared in Heaven Dou City after being shot and seeing a pink raindrop.

Lin Hao questioned Liu Yun, suspected the Rain God was behind his arrival, and ordered him kept alive for the Flame God to handle. As the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association’s Soul Tool auction began, Bibi Dong arrived undercover and discovered two Super Douluos guarding the entrance with Rank 8 Soul Tool Cannons aimed at her group.

• Lin Hao concluded that Liu Yun might have been sent by the Rain God, then had Yan Lingji release her control over him, sealed his cultivation, and ordered him imprisoned.
• Lin Hao told Yan Lingji to contact Tian Qing about Meow Meow and planned to take Liu Yun to the underground space after the auction for the Flame God to deal with.
• Lin Hao and his allies prepared for the auction while summoned underlings set up Commerce Association branches and hid across Douluo Continent.
• Bibi Dong arrived in Heaven Dou City with Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo, and the words on the Commerce Association’s plaque nearly bewitched her.
• Bibi Dong recognized Jin Peng and Titan as Super Douluos guarding the entrance beside two Rank 8 Soul Tool Cannons, and the two men turned the cannons toward her group.

Bibi Dong and her two attendants faced Tu Shan Hong Hong after being stopped at the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association, and Bibi Dong chose to apologize rather than risk a fight. After entering the auction house, she investigated its unusual space and defenses but could not locate Long Xiaoyao.

• Tu Shan Hong Hong stopped Bibi Dong, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei from fighting and warned that anyone who fought on the association’s grounds would be killed.
• Bibi Dong apologized for arriving without contacting the association, and Tu Shan Hong Hong accepted the explanation and escorted the three inside.
• Tu Shan Hong Hong explained the auction’s rules: no fighting and mandatory verification of each faction’s funds.
• Bibi Dong and her attendants entered their private room, where Bibi Dong investigated the association with her spiritual power.
• Bibi Dong failed to sense Long Xiaoyao and discovered that an unseen restriction on the third floor repelled her spiritual power.

Ning Fengzhi and his companions assessed the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association’s strength before the association’s Soul Tool Auction began. As the factions gathered, the first set of Soul Tools appeared on the platform, alarming the audience.

• Ning Fengzhi asked Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo about the auction venue, and Sword Douluo warned that the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association had at least nine Titled Douluo, including six he could not confidently defeat.
• Ning Fengzhi decided the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect should avoid provoking the association and resolved to try to buy one of the Metal Giant Cannons or another Soul Tool.
• Lin Hao welcomed the arrival of major and lesser-known factions, hoping the crowd would spread the association’s reputation and bring in wealth.
• With the doors closed and the auction underway, Tu Shan Hong Hong announced the start and Ya Fei stepped onto the stage.
• Tu Shan Hong Hong brought out three cannon-like Soul Tools, and their threatening appearance frightened many factions and left them wary of the association.

Ya Fei demonstrated the power of three Level Seven Mortars and announced their auction, drawing intense interest from the major factions. Before bidding began, a Black-Robed Man attacked the stage to seize them.

• Ning Fengzhi and Bibi Dong recognized the mortars’ military value and prepared to bid for them.
• Ya Fei explained the mortars’ firepower, ammunition, and recharging requirements, then showed footage of them nearly killing a 45,000-year-old Flame Armor Turtle.
• Ya Fei set the starting bid for the three mortars at five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, prompting debate among the guests.
• A Black-Robed Man revealed himself in the auction hall and lunged toward the stage, intending to steal the mortars.

A Black-Robed Man attacked the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association, but Tu Shan Hong Hong stopped him and Ya Fei killed him with the mortar. Lin Hao revealed that the attack had been staged to uncover the person behind the Soul Douluo, whose capture he had learned of from Titan.

• The Black-Robed Man tried to escape Ya Fei's five mortar shots, but Tu Shan Hong Hong immobilized him and the attack blasted him apart.
• Ya Fei raised a protective barrier as the guests realized how powerful the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association was and resolved not to provoke it.
• Bibi Dong asked Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo about Tu Shan Hong Hong's abilities, while Gui Mei suspected the attacker came from Slaughter City.
• Yue Guan suggested the Black-Robed Man had been controlled, and Bibi Dong turned her attention back to securing the Soul Tools at auction.
• Yan Lingji told Lin Hao the failed attack had boosted the association's reputation, and Lin Hao revealed that he had arranged the incident to investigate the Soul Douluo's backer.

Lin Hao used the Black-Robed Man as bait but learned nothing about who had sent him, so he ordered a campaign against the Clear Sky Sect and a hunt for Tang Hao. Meanwhile, the auction for the Level Seven Mortars escalated as Spirit Hall and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect competed, leaving Chrysanthemum Douluo unsure whether to keep bidding.

• Lin Hao had Yan Lingji control the Black-Robed Man, release him, and watch him after he unexpectedly attended the auction without contacting anyone.
• Lin Hao suspected Tang Chen might be behind the strange events and ordered Yan Lingji to track the Clear Sky Sect’s Soul Saint, capture its members, and prepare to destroy the sect in seven days.
• Lin Hao ordered Uncle Long and his people in Notting City to expose the Blue Silver Emperor cave’s location and kill Tang Hao if they found him, while leaving Tang San and Yu Xiaogang alive.
• Ya Fei resumed the auction, and Chrysanthemum Douluo opened bidding for the three Level Seven Mortars at one million Gold Soul Coins.
• Ning Fengzhi raised the bid to two million, Chrysanthemum Douluo countered with three million, and Ning Fengzhi bid four million, driving other factions out of the competition.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo asked Bibi Dong whether Spirit Hall should keep bidding against the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect won the Level Seven Mortars for six million Gold Soul Coins, and Ning Fengzhi admired their craftsmanship and defensive value. Ya Fei then introduced the Bright Moon Mystic Armor, whose Origin Qi gathering and protective abilities made Bibi Dong eager to acquire it.

• Bibi Dong raised the bid for the mortars, but Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo bid six million Gold Soul Coins for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ya Fei awarded the mortars to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Tu Shan Hong Hong sent them to Ning Fengzhi’s private room.
• Ning Fengzhi examined the mortars and stored them, recognizing their value to the sect’s defenses.
• Tu Shan Hong Hong revealed the Bright Moon Mystic Armor, and Ya Fei explained that it could accelerate cultivation and provide defense comparable to an eighty-fifth-level Soul Douluo.
• Bibi Dong realized the armor could help her overcome Spirit City’s insufficient Heaven and Earth Origin Qi and desperately wanted to bid for it.

Bibi Dong and Ning Fengzhi decided to pursue the Bright Moon Mystic Armor, whose active Heaven and Earth Origin Qi could greatly accelerate cultivation. Lin Hao watched the factions’ reactions, intending to test whether Ning Fengzhi valued his daughter or the Ning Family’s inheritance more.

• Bibi Dong ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo to secure the Bright Moon Mystic Armor for Spirit Hall.
• Sword Douluo urged Ning Fengzhi to buy the armor for Ning Rongrong, arguing that it could dramatically increase her cultivation speed.
• Ning Fengzhi agreed to acquire the armor for his daughter, while Bone Douluo warned that rival factions would compete fiercely for it.
• Lin Hao reflected that he had offered the armor to test Ning Fengzhi’s priorities and revealed that only seven had been made because their core material was scarce.

The Bright Moon Mystic Armor sparked fierce bidding among Douluo Continent’s major powers because it could help soul masters break through. Ning Fengzhi withdrew, leaving Spirit Hall and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan competing as the price reached eighteen million Gold Soul Coins.

• Ya Fei set the Bright Moon Mystic Armor’s starting bid at one million Gold Soul Coins, and an elder and a middle-aged man began raising the price.
• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Spirit Hall joined the bidding, driving away smaller factions.
• Ning Fengzhi consulted Sword Douluo and then withdrew from the competition.
• Yu Yuanzhen ordered the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to keep bidding because the armor could help a clan elder become a Titled Douluo.
• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan raised the bid to eighteen million Gold Soul Coins, leaving Spirit Hall as its only remaining rival.

Bibi Dong and Yu Yuanzhen drove the Bright Moon Mystic Armor’s auction price up to twenty-five million Gold Soul Coins as Lin Hao considered why both factions wanted it so badly. Short on funds, Bibi Dong asked Tu Shan Hong Hong whether the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association accepted credit purchases.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo raised Spirit Hall’s bid to twenty million Gold Soul Coins, but Yu Yuanzhen answered with twenty-five million for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Lin Hao asked Cai Meier whether the Bright Moon Mystic Armor had an overlooked effect, and Xian Lin'er and Yan Lingji suggested its ability to increase Heaven and Earth Origin Qi could explain the bidding.
• Bibi Dong wondered why Yu Yuanzhen wanted the armor and learned from Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo that Spirit Hall had brought only eighty million Gold Soul Coins.
• Bibi Dong sent Tu Shan Hong Hong a voice transmission to ask whether the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association allowed purchases on credit.

Bibi Dong declined Lin Hao’s personal loan and gave up bidding on the Bright Moon Mystic Armor, which the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan won. The auction moved on to its main event, a Level Eight Soul Tool whose Titled Douluo-level pressure stunned the assembled factions.

• Tu Shan Hong Hong told Bibi Dong that the auction prohibited credit purchases, then offered Lin Hao’s personal loan of thirty million Gold Soul Coins.
• Bibi Dong declined to borrow the money, stopped bidding, and planned to seek the Bright Moon Mystic Armor from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan after the auction.
• Ya Fei announced the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan as the winning bidder at twenty-five million Gold Soul Coins, and Lin Hao reflected that Bibi Dong had overthought his offer.
• Yun Yun reported that Yu Yuanzhen had bought the armor to help a Level 89 clan elder advance to Titled Douluo.
• After several more groups of Soul Tools were auctioned, Ya Fei revealed a fiery Level Eight saber that radiated Titled Douluo-level pressure and shocked the factions.

The Heaven and Earth Commerce Association unveiled the eighth-grade Soul Tool Illusory Flame Blade, a fiery-red sword capable of raising its wielder to Titled Douluo-level combat strength. Bibi Dong borrowed funds to pursue it, and the bidding began as Ning Fengzhi and Spirit Hall competed for the weapon.

• Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo agreed that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect needed to secure an eighth-grade Soul Tool despite their concerns about the changing situation on Douluo Continent.
• Bibi Dong recognized the Illusory Flame Blade’s potential, arranged to borrow thirty million Gold Soul Coins from Mr. Lin, and ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to obtain it.
• Ya Fei explained that the Illusory Flame Blade could let a high-level Soul Saint or stronger merge their martial soul into it and fight at Titled Douluo level, then set its starting bid at ten million Gold Soul Coins.
• Bidders raised the price to twenty million Gold Soul Coins, and Ning Fengzhi countered Spirit Hall’s bid with twenty-six million.

At the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association auction, the great powers competed fiercely for Level Eight Soul Tools, with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect winning the Illusory Flame Blade for 70 million Gold Soul Coins. Lin Hao’s auction earned 520 million in total, and Ya Fei announced the schedule for future Soul Tool auctions as the event ended.

• Yu Yuanzhen regretted buying the Bright Moon Mystic Armor and withdrew from bidding on the Illusory Flame Blade after its price exceeded his remaining funds.
• Bibi Dong told Chrysanthemum Douluo to bid up to 50 million Gold Soul Coins, while the Star Luo Empire and Heaven Dou Empire also joined the contest.
• Ning Fengzhi raised the bid to 70 million Gold Soul Coins, and the other bidders withdrew, leaving the Illusory Flame Blade to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ya Fei auctioned five more Level Eight Soul Tools, which sold for between 68 million and 80 million Gold Soul Coins to major factions.
• Lin Hao earned 520 million Gold Soul Coins, and Ya Fei announced quarterly auctions for Level Five to Level Seven Soul Tools and yearly auctions for Level Six to Level Eight Soul Tools.

After the auction, Lin Hao met with Bibi Dong, who questioned whether the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association intended to compete for control of the continent. Their conversation turned to a cryptic prophecy about a spider and blue silver, and Bibi Dong agreed to investigate it.

• After the auction ended, Lin Hao arranged to meet Bibi Dong, and Yue Guan guarded the reception room.
• Lin Hao greeted Bibi Dong and reflected on her rise to power as the Pope of Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong asked whether the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association intended to compete for supremacy, and Lin Hao said it wanted to do business peacefully.
• Lin Hao shared the elders' cryptic words, “Calamity rises from the spider and ends with the blue silver,” and asked Bibi Dong to investigate.
• Bibi Dong agreed to look into the prophecy, and she called the Clear Sky Sect a group of hypocrites and rats hiding in the gutter.

Lin Hao secured Bibi Dong’s tacit approval for the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association to target the Clear Sky Sect, then arranged a trap to draw Tang Hao out near Holy Soul Village. Long Xiaoyao confronted Tang Hao at Ah Yin’s resting place, and the two prepared to fight as Tang Hao’s hidden allies remained out of sight.

• Lin Hao told Bibi Dong that the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association planned to destroy the Clear Sky Sect, and she wished him success after weighing the possible reward of its Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones.
• Bibi Dong secretly met Qian Renxue and members of the Worship Hall while Lin Hao used the auction’s proceeds to recruit people and expand his organization.
• Long Xiaoyao spread news of treasure beneath a waterfall near Holy Soul Village and intensified the bullying of Tang San and the other boy to lure Tang Hao out.
• Long Xiaoyao confronted Tang Hao near the waterfall where Ah Yin rested, and Tang Hao asked him to keep the location secret.
• Long Xiaoyao mocked Tang Hao’s hidden supporters and summoned his martial soul, while Tang Hao vowed to fight him.

Long Xiaoyao fought Tang Hao while deliberately holding back under Lin Hao’s orders, using the battle to draw out anyone connected to the Clear Sky Sect and Tang San. After Tang Hao broke free of Long Xiaoyao’s attacks, Long Xiaoyao gathered power for a final strike, leaving Tang Hao facing his Dark Scythe.

• Long Xiaoyao transformed into his Dark Sacred Dragon form and struck Tang Hao with overwhelming speed and strength.
• Tang Hao recognized that Long Xiaoyao might be a rank ninety-nine Limit Douluo and worried about protecting Tang San.
• Long Xiaoyao trapped Tang Hao in a Dark Cage and attacked him with his Dark Sacred Dragon Wave.
• Tang Hao used the Haotian Nine Perfections to destroy the black dragons and escape the cage.
• Long Xiaoyao gathered dark Soul Power and formed his Ninth Soul Skill, Dark Scythe, while Tang Hao realized he was preparing to kill him in one strike.

Long Xiaoyao battered Tang Hao until Tang Hao detonated his first seven soul rings, then goaded him into sacrificing his eighth ring to escape. Tang Hao fled toward Notting College, where Yu Xiaogang recognized him as the battle’s connection to the city.

• Long Xiaoyao repeatedly struck Tang Hao and explained that his Young Master had ordered him to make Tang Hao pay.
• Tang Hao detonated his first seven soul rings and attacked Long Xiaoyao, but realized he could not defeat him and risked dying if he detonated another ring.
• Long Xiaoyao warned Tang Hao that his allies might abandon him and that Tang San would be in danger if Tang Hao died.
• Tang Hao detonated his eighth soul ring, used his Ninth Soul Skill, Slaughter Barrier, to trap Long Xiaoyao, and fled toward Notting College.
• At Notting College, Jin Peng and Cheng Gang watched Tang San as teachers gathered to protect the students from Tang Hao’s arrival.
• Tang Hao appeared before the crowd, and Yu Xiaogang recognized him and greeted him.

Tang Hao revealed himself as the Clear Sky Douluo and fled Notting College with Tang San and Yu Xiaogang while Long Xiaoyao’s forces pursued them. After Tang San treated Tang Hao’s injuries, Tang Hao explained that Long Xiaoyao and Lin Hao were connected to the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association.

• Tang Hao arrived at Notting College, revealed himself as the Clear Sky Douluo, and took Tang San away with Yu Xiaogang.
• Long Xiaoyao learned that Tang Hao and Tang San had escaped and heard that Jin Peng was tracking them.
• Tang Hao ran more than a hundred li before collapsing from the backlash of Exploding Eight Rings and his injuries from Long Xiaoyao.
• Tang San used Golden Needle Acupoint Transference to improve Tang Hao’s condition.
• Tang Hao told Tang San that Long Xiaoyao and his former classmate Lin Hao were from the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association.