Chapter Summaries

The news of Su Xing becoming Spirit Hall’s next Pope spread, delighting his family and drawing reactions from Ning Rongrong, Huo Wu, and others. Flender and Yu Xiaogang then argued over Su Xing’s strength compared with Tang San’s, leaving Yu Xiaogang convinced that his theories and influence would be judged more fairly by future generations.

• Xiao Wu, Su Xing’s parents, and Su Xiaotu celebrated the news that Su Xing had been chosen as Spirit Hall’s next Pope.
• Ning Rongrong felt conflicted about Su Xing, recalling his stolen kiss and resenting how he had treated Zhu Zhuqing despite having a girlfriend.
• Huo Wu told Huo Wushuang she wanted to find Su Xing, but he persuaded her to build influence at Blazing Fire Academy first.
• Flender marveled that Su Xing had reached level 72, while Yu Xiaogang insisted Tang San would surpass him if he perfected his Spirit Rings.
• Flender argued that Su Xing’s present achievements exceeded Tang San’s potential, and Yu Xiaogang reflected that future generations would judge his influence more objectively.

After becoming Spirit Hall’s Holy Son, Su Xing volunteered to approach the sects and academies that had resisted Spirit Hall’s influence. Bibi Dong approved his mission and sent Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to protect him as he set out with Zhu Zhuqing.

• Spirit Hall’s leaders discussed provoking the kingdoms within the Two Great Empires to declare independence and preparing to establish the Spirit Hall Empire.
• Su Xing volunteered to win over the remaining resistant academies and sects, and Bibi Dong accepted his proposal as a final test of their attitudes, especially those of the Upper Three Sects.
• Bibi Dong assigned Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to accompany and protect Su Xing.
• Su Xing left with Zhu Zhuqing, while Hu Liena continued cultivating in seclusion and Ye Lingling remained at Spirit Hall to treat the wounded.

Su Xing traveled to Blazing Fire Academy to see Huo Wu, stopping in Yaoyang City with Zhu Zhuqing before meeting the academy’s vice principal. The chapter ended with Su Xing and Huo Wu greeting each other after three years apart.

• Su Xing told Chrysanthemum Douluo that he would visit Blazing Fire Academy first, and Zhu Zhuqing realized he wanted to see Huo Wu.
• Su Xing took Zhu Zhuqing sightseeing around Yaoyang City, easing her gloom, while thinking about using Soul Power Pistols to persuade Ning Fengzhi to submit to Spirit Hall.
• Blazing Fire Academy’s vice principal welcomed Su Xing and praised his Soul Power Fusion Skill and Ring Detonation Cultivation System.
• Su Xing saw Huo Wu at the academy, and she stopped herself from throwing herself into his arms because students were watching.
• Su Xing greeted Huo Wu and asked whether she was now a teacher.

Su Xing reunited with Huo Wu at Blazing Fire Academy and gave her an Immortal Herb that evolved her Martial Soul and raised her Soul Power to level 50. After spending the night together, he revealed that he wanted Blazing Fire Academy to become affiliated with Spirit Hall.

• Huo Wu welcomed Su Xing and showed him around Blazing Fire Academy while telling him about her life as a senior instructor.
• Huo Wu worried that her level 48 Soul Power made her unworthy of Su Xing, but he reassured her and accepted her invitation to her room.
• Su Xing gave Huo Wu the Immortal Herb Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, evolving her Martial Soul into a Phoenix Fire Shadow and raising her to level 50.
• Huo Wu chose not to go to Spirit Hall because Ye Lingling was there, and the next morning she asked Su Xing how she could help him.
• Su Xing told Huo Wu that he wanted Blazing Fire Academy to become an affiliate of Spirit Hall and asked whether she could arrange it.

Su Xing tried to bring Blazing Fire Academy under Spirit Hall's influence, but the dean refused. Su Xing left without forcing the issue, while the dean planned to make Huo Wu the academy's future leader to preserve ties with him.

• Su Xing told Huo Wu he intended to make Blazing Fire Academy an affiliate of Spirit Hall, and she admitted she could not help with the plan.
• Su Xing met the academy dean with Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo and proposed that all graduates join Spirit Hall.
• The dean rejected Su Xing's proposal, insisting that graduates should choose their own affiliations.
• Su Xing left with the two elders, saying he would not force the academy for Huo Wu's sake.
• The dean reassured the vice dean that Huo Wu could become the academy's future dean, preserving a connection to Su Xing.

Su Xing visited several major academies to recruit them for Spirit Hall, but they all refused, while rival factions debated whether to eliminate him. At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Rongrong reunited with Su Xing and Zhu Zhuqing, rejected his teasing proposal, and asked how he had reached level 72 at eighteen.

• Su Xing visited Godwind Academy, where he saw Feng Xiaotian but ignored him, then visited Plant Academy, Skywater Academy, and Thunder Academy; all refused to submit to Spirit Hall.
• Ning Fengzhi argued with Bone Douluo and Sword Douluo about eliminating Su Xing, but decided that attacking him before the empires allied would endanger the sect.
• Su Xing arrived at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo, and Ning Rongrong hurried out to greet him and Zhu Zhuqing.
• Su Xing reminded Ning Rongrong of her promise to marry whoever found her an Immortal Herb, but she said the promise did not count because he already had other women and had traded for the herb.
• Ning Rongrong asked how Su Xing became a level 72 Soul Saint at eighteen, and he said he had entered and left the Capital of Slaughter.

Su Xing visited the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and told Ning Fengzhi that Spirit Hall would eventually seek to unify the continent. He left Ning Fengzhi to consider whether the sect would oppose Spirit Hall.

• Ning Rongrong learned that Zhu Zhuqing had reached level 57 and resolved to cultivate harder after Su Xing teased her about being below level 50.
• Ning Rongrong guided Su Xing and his companions to meet Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo in the sect's main hall.
• Su Xing and Ning Fengzhi sent their companions out so they could speak privately.
• Su Xing revealed that Spirit Hall intended to unify the continent and asked whether Ning Fengzhi planned to stand against it.
• Ning Fengzhi realized Su Xing had come to force him to state the sect's position, and his expression turned sharp.

Su Xing tried to persuade Ning Fengzhi to make the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect an affiliate of Spirit Hall, then demonstrated his Soul Power Pistol. Ning Fengzhi tested the weapon and asked Bone Douluo to defend against its attack, leaving its strength about to be tested.

• Su Xing argued that Spirit Hall would unify the continent and warned Ning Fengzhi that refusing to compromise could endanger the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Ning Rongrong.
• Su Xing handed Ning Fengzhi a Soul Power Pistol and explained that channeling Soul Power into it unleashed an attack without requiring a Spirit Skill.
• Ning Fengzhi fired the pistol and pierced a pillar, startling him with the beam’s speed and the weapon’s ease of use.
• Sword Douluo, Bone Douluo, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Ghost Douluo entered after hearing the shot, and Ning Fengzhi asked Bone Douluo to test the weapon’s power.
• Su Xing warned Bone Douluo to use his Martial Soul Avatar, and Ning Fengzhi urged him to defend himself against the pistol’s claimed Soul Douluo-level attack.

Su Xing demonstrated the Soul Power Pistol to Ning Fengzhi, showing that it could damage Bone Douluo’s Martial Soul Avatar and might change warfare across the continent. Ning Fengzhi began reconsidering the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s opposition to Spirit Hall and had three days to decide whether to accept Su Xing’s offer.

• Bone Douluo activated his Martial Soul Avatar, and Ning Fengzhi fired the Soul Power Pistol, cracking one of the Bone Dragon’s bones.
• Bone Douluo and Sword Douluo judged the pistol’s attack to be at Soul Douluo level, while Ning Fengzhi asked Su Xing how many Spirit Hall possessed.
• Su Xing warned Ning Fengzhi that the weapon could change warfare, offered the pistol as a gift, and gave him three days to decide his stance toward Spirit Hall.
• Su Xing left with Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, and Zhu Zhuqing, while Ning Rongrong went to see to their hospitality.
• Ning Fengzhi explained the weapon’s significance to Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo, and the three discussed whether they could reproduce it.

After failing to replicate the Soul Power Pistol, Ning Fengzhi concluded that Spirit Hall had become too strong to oppose and agreed to support it, on the condition that Su Xing never hurt Ning Rongrong. Su Xing hinted that he knew a secret about Ning Fengzhi’s disciple Xue Qinghe, leaving Ning Fengzhi curious.

• Ning Fengzhi found that his replica could not fire and that the original Soul Power Pistol had stopped working after being disassembled and reassembled.
• Ning Fengzhi told Sword Douluo that the pistol would make Spirit Hall even stronger and that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect could no longer stop it.
• Su Xing told Chrysanthemum Douluo that Ning Fengzhi would agree to support Spirit Hall, reasoning that the sect had no hope of resisting it.
• Ning Fengzhi asked whether Su Xing truly liked Ning Rongrong, and Su Xing admitted that other motives had played a part but that Rongrong herself attracted him.
• Ning Fengzhi agreed to support Spirit Hall if Su Xing promised never to hurt Ning Rongrong, and Su Xing accepted the condition.
• Su Xing told Ning Fengzhi that he would be glad of his choice once he learned more about his disciple, Xue Qinghe.

Su Xing persuaded Ning Fengzhi to cooperate with Spirit Hall by revealing that the Xue Qinghe who had become his disciple was an impostor working for Spirit Hall. After leaving the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Su Xing ordered his companions back to Spirit Hall and chose the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan as the target of Spirit Hall’s next show of force.

• Su Xing told Ning Fengzhi that the real Xue Qinghe had been replaced by a Spirit Hall agent and warned that Heaven Dou Empire would soon fall under Spirit Hall’s control.
• Ning Fengzhi accepted cooperation with Spirit Hall, reasoning that Heaven Dou Empire could no longer form an alliance with Star Luo Empire and that he had no expectations left for its royal family.
• Su Xing discussed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s cooperation with Ning Fengzhi, then emerged and told Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo that the meeting had succeeded.
• Su Xing declined to visit Clear Sky Sect and announced that Spirit Hall would target the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to demonstrate its strength and exploit public anger over Yu Xiaogang’s Ring Detonation Theory.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo praised Su Xing’s judgment, while Zhu Zhuqing watched him with growing admiration.

Ning Fengzhi asked Ning Rongrong how she felt about Su Xing and revealed that he intended to stop opposing Spirit Hall. Ning Rongrong admitted she liked Su Xing, leaving Ning Fengzhi encouraged to pursue a marriage alliance with him.

• Ning Fengzhi asked Ning Rongrong what she thought of Su Xing, and she praised his talent while criticizing his lecherousness.
• Ning Fengzhi told Ning Rongrong that he had decided the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would stop opposing Spirit Hall and explained his reasons.
• Ning Rongrong accepted her father's decision but became angry when she thought he planned to use her marriage as a bargaining chip.
• Ning Fengzhi assured Ning Rongrong that he would not force her to marry Su Xing if she did not like him.
• Ning Rongrong hesitated to deny her feelings, then admitted she had never said she disliked Su Xing and fled in embarrassment.
• Ning Rongrong decided she would agree to marry Su Xing for the sect's sake because she had feelings for him.

Su Xing reported that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had submitted to Spirit Hall and explained why he had spared the Clear Sky Sect and delayed attacking the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. He urged Bibi Dong to begin the campaign against the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and she promised to send him when the operation began.

• Su Xing told Bibi Dong that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had submitted and credited Spirit Hall's strength, along with Ning Fengzhi's desire to protect his sect.
• Su Xing explained that he had avoided provoking the Clear Sky Sect because Tang Chen was a powerful Limit Douluo whose whereabouts were unknown.
• Su Xing said Spirit Hall should destroy the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to demonstrate its military might before establishing the Spirit Hall Empire.
• Su Xing volunteered to face a Title Douluo during the campaign so he could complete his God Trial mission.
• Bibi Dong agreed to arrange for Su Xing to join the coming operation and told him to cultivate in preparation.

Su Xing helped establish a successful Kindergarten in Spirit City before Bibi Dong ordered him to join Spirit Hall’s campaign against the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect. He planned to kill Yu Xiaogang if they found him, while Yu Xiaogang sensed danger from his hiding place in the Heaven Dou Empire.

• Su Xing proposed Kindergartens to Bibi Dong, who approved the idea but planned to introduce them after the Spirit Hall Empire was founded.
• Su Xing opened Little Kindergarten in Spirit City, and after it attracted students and ran smoothly, he handed it over to its principal and teachers.
• Bibi Dong told Su Xing that Spirit Hall would attack the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect the next day, and he agreed to go.
• Su Xing resolved to kill Yu Xiaogang if he found him, possibly using his Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Hu Liena to control him first.
• Yu Xiaogang felt an unexplained sense of dread while hiding in the Heaven Dou Empire, but he did not realize that his sect was about to be destroyed.

Bibi Dong gave Su Xing command of six Title Douluos and ten thousand Spirit Masters for an assault on the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect. Su Xing organized a concealed encirclement and set the troops in motion, while Chrysanthemum Douluo warned the others to follow his orders.

• Bibi Dong ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, Snake Lance Douluo, Porcupinefish Douluo, Mad Lion Douluo, and Vermilion Bird Douluo to obey Su Xing during the assault.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo agreed immediately, and the other four Title Douluos followed despite their surprise at taking orders from a Soul Saint.
• Bibi Dong assigned Su Xing ten thousand Spirit Masters to attack the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect.
• Su Xing sent the Spirit Masters out in concealed groups to surround the sect, with the Title Douluos leading them to avoid detection.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo told Snake Lance Douluo that Su Xing was no ordinary man and warned the other Title Douluos to follow his instructions.

Su Xing led Spirit Hall forces toward the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and resolved to kill Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan rather than leave them to seek revenge. At the clan, Yu Tianheng trained with Yu Tianxin and told Dugu Yan he believed a clash with Spirit Hall was inevitable.

• Su Xing recalled the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s strength and decided to eliminate Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan when the clan was destroyed.
• Yu Tianheng defeated Yu Tianxin in a sparring match, and Dugu Yan brought them water afterward.
• Yu Tianheng said he trained so he would not be powerless if he faced Su Xing in battle.
• Dugu Yan asked whether the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and Spirit Hall would truly fight, and Yu Tianheng said the conflict was certain.

Su Xing ordered Spirit Hall to launch a surprise attack on the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. He killed Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan from a distance as the battle began, leaving Yu Yuanzhen enraged.

• Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan accepted that they might have to stand against Su Xing because he had joined Spirit Hall.
• Su Xing listened from a thousand meters away, summoned two Flying Swords, and ordered Spirit Hall to attack the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo, Porcupinefish Douluo, and their forces began a quiet assault, but the clan soon discovered the attack.
• Yu Yuanzhen rallied the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s disciples to fight back against Spirit Hall.
• Su Xing pierced Yu Tianheng’s heart with a Flying Sword, then killed Dugu Yan when she tried to reach him.
• Yu Yuanzhen saw Yu Tianheng die and roared furiously at Spirit Hall.

Spirit Hall’s six Title Douluo attacked the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and Su Xing admitted that he had killed Yu Tianheng. He arranged for the others to fight Yu Yuanzhen while he faced Yu Luomian, leaving the battle about to begin.

• Yu Yuanzhen confronted Spirit Hall’s six Title Douluo and demanded to know who had killed Yu Tianheng.
• Su Xing arrived and admitted that he had killed Yu Tianheng, prompting Yu Yuanzhen to attack him.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo intercepted Yu Yuanzhen, but Yu Yuanzhen soon suppressed him in their fight.
• Su Xing ordered the other Title Douluo to join forces against Yu Yuanzhen and chose to fight Yu Luomian himself.
• Yu Luomian countered Su Xing’s eighteen Flying Swords, and Su Xing ordered the other fighters to focus on Yu Yuanzhen before challenging Yu Luomian.

Su Xing fought Yu Luomian while the Spirit Hall elders battled Yu Yuanzhen, and Yu Luomian unleashed powerful lightning attacks. The chapter ended with Su Xing revealing that he was immune to lightning and could absorb and control it.

• Yu Luomian attacked Su Xing with his Third Spirit Skill, Thunder's Fury, but Su Xing dodged and countered with his Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Swords.
• Yu Luomian forced Su Xing's swords back with his Eighth Spirit Skill, Purple Lightning Firmament, and sent lightning bolts raining down on him.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and the others worried when Su Xing let the lightning strike him, while Yu Yuanzhen kept them occupied so they could not intervene.
• Su Xing stood unharmed as blue-violet lightning surrounded him, stunning Yu Luomian and reassuring the Spirit Hall elders.
• Su Xing told Yu Luomian that he was immune to lightning and could suppress, absorb, and control it.

Su Xing used his Lightning Immunity to evade Yu Luomian’s attacks and wear down the Title Douluo while Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo joined their allies to kill Yu Yuanzhen. The battle continued with Su Xing insisting that Yu Luomian was his prey so he could complete the Fourth Trial of the Asura God.

• Yu Luomian learned that Su Xing was immune to Lightning and charged at him, hoping to defeat him with close-range attacks.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, while Porcupinefish Douluo, Vermilion Bird Douluo, and two other Title Douluo restrained Yu Yuanzhen.
• Su Xing evaded Yu Luomian and attacked him with Flying Swords, leaving Yu Luomian unable to land a hit.
• Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan disciples despairing over their leaders’ plight launched a fiercer counterattack against Spirit Hall’s forces.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo froze Yu Yuanzhen with the Polar Stasis Domain, and four Title Douluo attacked and killed him.
• Su Xing told Chrysanthemum Douluo and the others not to help him, declaring Yu Luomian his prey so he could complete the Fourth Trial of the Asura God.