Chapter Summaries

Tang Hao fled with Tang San while Jin Peng pursued them and exposed the secrets that had poisoned Tang San and Yu Xiaogang’s master-disciple relationship. Lin Hao’s forces prepared to destroy the Clear Sky Sect and its allies.

• Tang Hao reassured Tang San about seeking revenge against Lin Hao, then Tang San asked him to explain his origins and Martial Soul.
• Jin Peng caught up with Tang Hao, Tang San, and Yu Xiaogang, forcing Tang Hao to flee with Tang San and abandon Yu Xiaogang.
• Jin Peng showed Image Stones revealing Tang San had treated a man’s poisoning and Yu Xiaogang had planned experiments involving Tang San’s soul rings, driving a wedge between teacher and student.
• Tang Hao attacked Yu Xiaogang before escaping with Tang San, but Jin Peng rescued Yu Xiaogang and continued the pursuit.
• Lin Hao’s forces, working with Spirit Hall and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, targeted factions connected to the Clear Sky Sect as Lin Hao set out to destroy it.

Tang Hao and Tang San endured Jin Peng’s relentless pursuit until the Clear Sky Sect’s signal led them toward a valley, where Tang Hao planned to turn the tables. Jin Peng recognized the trap, welcomed the chance to confront the rescuers, and surrounded the valley with mortars.

• Jin Peng’s men repeatedly chased Tang Hao and Tang San across the continent, while Lin Hao’s publicity spread news of the pursuit and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s condemnation.
• After Tang Xiao argued for intervention, the Clear Sky Sect sent secret signals to guide Tang Hao toward a rescue.
• Tang Hao found the Clear Sky Sect’s signal, hid its meaning from Tang San, and promised they would soon collect a debt from the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association.
• Jin Peng noticed Tang San’s suspicious behavior and inferred that Clear Sky Sect rescuers were waiting in the valley.
• Jin Peng received a secret signal from his own side, took a high vantage point, and ordered his attendants to surround the valley with mortars.

Jin Peng’s mortar barrage left Tang Hao and Tang San badly injured, but reinforcements from the Clear Sky Sect and the Black-Robed Men arrived before he could finish them off. As the two forces faced off, Yan Lingji told Jin Peng that she and others were coming to support him and ordered him to hold on until they arrived.

• Jin Peng ordered his attendants to bombard the valley, and Tang Hao shielded Tang San as rubble struck them both.
• Jin Peng fired more shells at the buried pair, forcing Tang Hao to spend his strength protecting Tang San until he lost consciousness.
• The Clear Sky Sect and the Black-Robed Men appeared, and Jin Peng held his fire while sizing up their strength.
• Jin Peng and the reinforcements remained in a tense standoff for half an hour.
• Yan Lingji contacted Jin Peng and said she was bringing Tian Qing and Wang Yiheng, while Titan and the others were supporting the Dragon Emperor.

Jin Peng killed two Titled Douluo and several Soul Douluo among the reinforcements before Yan Lingji and Titan joined him against Tang Xiao and the other three Titled Douluo. The battle remained underway, with Yan Lingji severely wounding Tang Xiao.

• Jin Peng severely wounded Evil Bone, killed him despite a bone-club attack, then used his eighth Soul Skill to nearly kill the attacker, who was finished off by mortar fire.
• Jin Peng killed the remaining Soul Douluo and returned to his camp, while the surviving Titled Douluo hesitated to attack.
• The Clear Sky Sect's three Titled Douluo suddenly charged Jin Peng, and Yan Lingji and Titan appeared to join the fight.
• Yan Lingji, Titan, Cheng Gang, and Jin Peng battled Tang Xiao and the other three Titled Douluo in a four-on-four clash.
• Yan Lingji countered Tang Xiao's forceful attacks and left him drenched in blood.

Yan Lingji and her allies fought Tang Xiao and the forces supporting Tang Hao while the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association waged war on three fronts. The chapter left Long Xiaoyao battling the revealed Tang Chen, whose strength and origins raised questions about Slaughter City and the gods Rakshasa and Asura.

• Yan Lingji struggled to overcome Tang Xiao and learned that an Evil Spirit Master Limit Douluo had forced Long Xiaoyao to call in reinforcements.
• The Heaven and Earth Commerce Association divided its thirteen Titled Douluo among the Clear Sky Sect base, Tang Hao’s pursuers, and the battles against the incoming reinforcements.
• Yan Lingji used her illusion to make Tang Xiao’s attack hit one of his own allies, leaving that Titled Douluo severely injured.
• Yan Lingji’s side turned the fight into a four-on-three, and an allied Soul Douluo finished the injured Titled Douluo with mortars.
• Long Xiaoyao recognized the opposing Limit Douluo as Tang Chen, the Slaughter King, and suspected that the Evil Spirit Masters came from Slaughter City.

Long Xiaoyao defeated and killed Tang Chen with Old Zhuang’s help, then headed for the Clear Sky Sect. Lin Hao arrived at the sect with his companions to watch its destruction, but its guards dismissed him as an unworthy merchant.

• Long Xiaoyao overwhelmed Tang Chen, and Old Zhuang restored Long Xiaoyao’s strength after their martial souls shattered.
• Long Xiaoyao killed Tang Chen and left Cheng Gang and his men to clean up the scene before going to the Clear Sky Sect with Old Zhuang.
• Lin Hao arrived near the Clear Sky Sect with Tu Shan Hong Hong, Xian Lin'er, Cai Meier, and Dugu Bo, intending to watch his forces destroy it.
• Lin Hao told two Clear Sky Sect guards that he was a merchant, and they ordered him to leave.
• Lin Hao remarked on the guards’ arrogance and questioned the Clear Sky Sect’s reputation as the continent’s foremost sect.

Lin Hao led the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association in an assault on the Clear Sky Sect, destroying its warning village and surrounding the mountain range. After the sect’s elders refused to come out, guides led Lin Hao and his companions over a steep cliff toward the sect’s base.

• Lin Hao sealed the Clear Sky Sect’s warning village and exits, then demanded an explanation for the sect sheltering Tang Hao.
• Tu Shan Hong Hong killed the gatekeeping disciples and destroyed the village and its collateral members with her Soul Power.
• The Clear Sky Sect’s elders threatened the attackers but stayed inside, while Dugu Bo taunted them and nearby scouts reported the assault.
• Lin Hao’s forces captured scouts approaching the sect and followed two infiltrators who revealed a route over a steep cliff.
• Dugu Bo dealt with defenders at the mountaintop, and Xian Lin'er carried Lin Hao up before the group advanced toward the Clear Sky Sect’s base, killing blockers along the way.

Lin Hao’s forces crossed the Haotian Mountain Range’s defenses and launched a devastating attack on the Clear Sky Sect. After Long Xiaoyao joined them with news of Tang Chen’s defeat and a clue involving the Darkness God, Lin Hao suspected the god had tampered with Tang Chen.

• Lin Hao’s group crossed the ravine on iron chains, defeating the Clear Sky Sect’s guards and strange birds along the way.
• At the Clear Sky Sect’s secluded residence, Tu Shan Hong Hong, Xian Lin'er, Cai Meier, and Dugu Bo attacked the sect members and overwhelmed their defenders.
• Long Xiaoyao arrived and told Lin Hao that Tang Chen, Tang Xiao, and the other Evil Spirit Masters and Clear Sky Sect members on his front had been defeated.
• Long Xiaoyao gave Lin Hao nine Soul Bones, including a hundred-thousand-year Soul Bone from Tang Chen, and reported that the folding fan linked to the Darkness God had reacted after Tang Chen’s death.
• Yan Lingji sensed that the fan’s divinity had grown stronger, and Lin Hao suspected that the Darkness God had tampered with Tang Chen.

Lin Hao questioned the surviving Clear Sky Sect elders after his forces destroyed the sect, while Long Xiaoyao investigated a folding fan that might reveal Darkness God's involvement. Lin Hao explained that Tang Chen and the Black-Robed Man had manipulated the Clear Sky Sect, leaving one elder shocked by the possibility that its former Sect Master had betrayed it.

• Long Xiaoyao left to search the Clear Sky Sect grounds and surrounding area with the folding fan for clues about Tang Chen and Darkness God.
• Lin Hao learned that Tu Shan Hong Hong and Dugu Bo had kept three Titled Douluo alive, then led his companions to question them.
• Qian Renxue destroyed Moonlight Pavilion, delivered the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud to the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association, and major factions concluded that the Clear Sky Sect was finished.
• The crippled Grand Elder mourned the sect's destruction and dug through the ruins, while another surviving elder emerged and accused the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association of wrongdoing.
• Lin Hao described how Tang Chen and the Black-Robed Man had manipulated the Clear Sky Sect, leaving the elder stunned that Tang Chen might have betrayed his own sect.

Lin Hao broke Tang Liu’s resolve with claims about the Black-Robed Men and the Clear Sky Sect, then used Yan Lingji and Tu Shan Hong Hong to extract secrets from the defeated elders. He questioned the unknown Titled Douluo An Feng, whose story raised further suspicions, and left Dugu Bo to test his claims.

• Lin Hao blamed the Clear Sky Sect’s destruction on its ties to the Black-Robed Men and convinced Tang Liu that he had betrayed his sect.
• Yan Lingji and Tu Shan Hong Hong trapped Tang Liu in a dream and learned the sect’s secrets and how it had contacted the Black-Robed Men.
• Lin Hao’s group questioned the Clear Sky Sect’s Grand Elder, compared his account with Tang Liu’s, and sent the two elders to join their fallen sect members.
• Lin Hao recruited underlings to finish off the wounded and search for spoils, then confronted an unknown Titled Douluo hiding in the rubble.
• An Feng claimed he had awakened in the Clear Sky Sect as Tang Feng after obtaining his Ninth Soul Ring, but Lin Hao doubted his story.
• Dugu Bo challenged An Feng’s claim that he was an orphan from Notting City and approached him with a drop of poison.

Lin Hao interrogated Feng An, who revealed that he came from the Sun Moon Continent and described its factions and powers. Lin Hao spared him for now and planned to use him to help reach the continent.

• Dugu Bo and Yan Lingji threatened Feng An until he revealed that he was Prince Su of the Profound Moon Empire on the Sun Moon Continent, transported to the Clear Sky Sect and known there as Tang Feng.
• Feng An explained that his family guarded a key that lit up before he left it with his son, leading Lin Hao and Long Xiaoyao to suspect it was connected to the Darkness God’s inheritance.
• Lin Hao questioned Feng An about the Sun Moon Continent, and Feng An described its rival empires, hidden Darkness God Temple and Light God Sect, and numerous Titled Douluo.
• Lin Hao offered to spare Feng An and possibly help Prince Su Estate take revenge if Feng An helped them find a way to the Sun Moon Continent.
• Dugu Bo removed Feng An’s poison and treated his injuries, and Feng An gratefully thanked Lin Hao.

Lin Hao searched the Clear Sky Sect treasury and found a resource that guaranteed a Titled Douluo-level summon. He then forced Tang Hao and Tang San to confront their relationship and left them with a choice: only one could live.

• Lin Hao searched the Clear Sky Sect treasury and gained a third resource that guaranteed a Titled Douluo-level subordinate.
• Yan Lingji told Lin Hao that Tang Hao and Tang San had been captured, and Lin Hao went to see them.
• Lin Hao had Tang San beaten awake and pressured Tang Hao to admit he cared for Tang San because of Ah Yin’s bloodline.
• Lin Hao forced Tang San to say he hated Tang Hao, then offered them a chance to live by choosing which of them would survive.
• Lin Hao placed a dagger between Tang Hao and Tang San and gave them three minutes to choose, while ordering Old Zhuang to keep Tang Hao alive.

Tang Hao attacked Tang San under Lin Hao’s promise that one of them could survive, but Tang San killed him with a Sleeve Arrow after realizing his father had left him the chance to live. Lin Hao spared Tang San and took over the Clear Sky Sect’s base, while observers outside the Haotian Mountain Range worried about the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association’s growing power.

• Tang Hao crawled toward a dagger and attacked Tang San, stabbing him in the arm as Tang San tried to stop him.
• Tang Hao knocked Tang San down and raised the dagger to stab his heart, but Tang San countered with a Sleeve Arrow that pierced Tang Hao’s heart.
• Tang Hao apologized to Tang San and died, and Tang San realized his father had intended for him to survive.
• Lin Hao ordered his subordinates to bury Tang Hao and send Tang San away, then warned Yan Lingji and the others not to kill Tang San.
• Lin Hao claimed the Clear Sky Sect’s base and left with Long Xiaoyao and Tu Shan Hong Hong to meet the figures watching outside the Haotian Mountain Range.
• The observers discussed the Clear Sky Sect’s destruction and feared the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association could overwhelm the other factions.

After the Clear Sky Sect fell, Lin Hao warned the watching factions not to provoke the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association and left with the sect’s accumulated wealth. Yue Guan then proposed that the factions prepare an alliance under Spirit Hall, but Gu Rong opposed him and questioned Spirit Hall’s own role in the conflict.

• Gu Rong, Yu Yuanzhen, Yue Guan, Jiang Mo, Hu Yanzhen, and Meng Shenji watched as Long Xiaoyao, Tu Shan Hong Hong, and Lin Hao emerged from Haotian Valley.
• Lin Hao assured the gathered leaders that the conflict was private, then warned that the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association would retaliate against anyone who provoked it.
• Lin Hao left for Heaven Dou City with the Clear Sky Sect’s accumulated wealth, intending to stabilize his control of its forces.
• Yue Guan argued that the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association might target the Water Cloud Sect next and proposed preparing an alliance led by Spirit Hall.
• Gu Rong rejected Yue Guan’s proposal and asked whether Spirit Hall had secretly helped bring about the Clear Sky Sect’s destruction.

After the Clear Sky Sect’s destruction, Lin Hao strengthened the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association by recruiting Queen Medusa Cai Lin and three powerful Titled Douluo from another world. He learned that the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King’s corpses could not safely be removed, then checked on his underlings’ assignments and their progress breaking through bottlenecks.

• Gu Rong, Yue Guan, and the other factions left the gathering after discussing the unknown Lin Family and the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association’s strength.
• News of the Clear Sky Sect’s destruction spread, and other forces became more compliant as the Association expanded smoothly.
• Lin Hao sacrificed the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and other treasures, recruiting Cai Lin, Ye Guyi, Taiyang, and Ma Xiaotao as powerful underlings.
• Cai Lin failed to retrieve the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King’s corpses because they sustained a sealing formation, so Lin Hao sent her to search for another continent instead.
• Yun Yun reported that Taiyang and Ye Guyi had contacted Yue Guan and Jiang Mo, while Ma Xiaotao was still pestering the Dragon Emperor Crown.
• Lin Hao asked Yun Yun whether Cai Lin’s method for breaking through bottlenecks had worked.

Lin Hao welcomed the Bai, Yang, Niu, and Tai family patriarchs, who pledged their clans to the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association. He rewarded Titan with a Soul Tool crafting manual, securing the four clans’ loyalty and leaving Titan eager to earn further knowledge.

• Lin Hao invited the four patriarchs into the courtyard and confirmed that they had decided to pledge their families to the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association.
• Bai He and Niu Gao explained that their clans needed protection after suffering from the Clear Sky Sect’s actions, while Yang Wudi and Titan agreed.
• Lin Hao gave Titan a detailed manual covering the crafting of first- through eighth-grade Soul Tools.
• Titan recognized the manual’s value and swore the Strength Clan’s loyalty to Lin Hao.
• Lin Hao offered the possibility of further Soul Tool crafting methods based on Titan’s future performance, and Niu Gao, Bai He, and Yang Wudi pledged their clans as well.

Lin Hao secured the allegiance of the four great clans by offering the Breaking Clan pill-refinement knowledge and promising support, then assigned the clans roles in the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association. In Spirit City, Qian Renxue confronted Bibi Dong about someone outside Spirit Hall discovering her identity, and Ye Guyi’s Sacred Angel martial soul revealed a connection that brought Qian Daoliu to the hall.

• Lin Hao gave Yang Wudi Pill Refinement Details, promised the four clan chiefs that he would help them reach Titled Douluo level within ten years, and gained their renewed pledges of loyalty.
• Lin Hao assigned the Breaking Clan and Strength Clan to logistics, while the Defense Clan and Speed Clan would build bases and train spies.
• Qian Renxue questioned Bibi Dong about why others knew her identity and brought Ye Guyi into the Papal Hall for an explanation.
• Ye Guyi summoned her Sacred Angel martial soul, and Qian Renxue sensed a bloodline connection.
• Qian Daoliu appeared in the hall and warmly greeted his granddaughter, Qian Renxue.

Ye Guyi revealed her angel bloodline to Qian Daoliu and joined Spirit Hall as an offering, growing closer to Qian Renxue. The plan to swap the crown prince was canceled, and Qian Renxue and Ye Guyi left to discuss the matter with Lin Hao.

• Ye Guyi demonstrated the Sun Saint Sword, and Qian Daoliu recognized her as a descendant of the Qian Family and showed her his mastery of the skill.
• Qian Daoliu invited Ye Guyi to join Spirit Hall, and Qian Renxue persuaded her to stay by her side and learn about the Qian Family.
• Bibi Dong canceled the crown prince swap plan, and Qian Renxue said they should consult the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association about the resources already paid for.
• Ye Guyi offered to accompany Qian Renxue to meet Lin Hao, and Qian Daoliu told them to return to the Worship Hall and cultivate afterward.
• Bibi Dong told Qian Renxue and Ye Guyi to be careful as they departed, then Gui Mei reported that Ye Guyi's background seemed reasonable.

Lin Hao’s group encountered Huo Yan, a young Fire Leopard Sect descendant pursued by soul masters whom Yan Lingji identified as Spirit Hall agents. After Yan Lingji killed the pursuers, Lin Hao met the frightened Huo Yan, seeing a chance to gain Fire Leopard Sect’s support.

• Lin Hao traveled toward the North Pole Land with his subordinates and came across Huo Yan fleeing from a group of soul masters.
• Yan Lingji recognized the pursuers as Spirit Hall agents, and Lin Hao told her to help Huo Yan.
• When the pursuers threatened Yan Lingji, she killed them all with a single dagger attack.
• Lin Hao spoke with Huo Yan, who introduced herself as a direct descendant of Fire Leopard Sect and cautiously offered to repay him.

Lin Hao rescued Huo Yan from Spirit Hall soul masters and revealed the strength and identity behind him to ease her fears. After Huo Yan recognized him as the head of the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association, Lin Hao grew suspicious of how much she knew about the organization.

• Huo Yan urged Lin Hao to flee because Spirit Hall would retaliate for the slain soul masters, but Lin Hao said Spirit Hall might apologize to him instead.
• Lin Hao had Yan Lingji reveal her nine soul rings, including a 100,000-year soul ring, shocking Huo Yan into believing his claims.
• Huo Yan realized Lin Hao was the head of the Heaven and Earth Commerce Association and remarked that he commanded more Titled Douluo than one could count on both hands.
• Lin Hao noticed the valley's sudden silence after Huo Yan's remark and asked why she knew so much about the association.