Chapter Summaries

Yuan Yan killed Black Fist Soul Douluo while Red Lotus trapped Fire Crow Soul Douluo in her Red Lotus Domain. Fire Crow escaped and fled, and Yuan Yan pursued him as Red Lotus warned him not to get overconfident.

• Red Lotus revealed that her mutated martial soul and Blood Lotus Shackles let her control enemies inside the Red Lotus Domain, trapping Fire Crow Soul Douluo as he tried to escape.
• Yuan Yan struck Black Fist Soul Douluo with his Ice Profound Sword, leaving him mortally wounded in a huge crater.
• Black Fist Soul Douluo recalled the Tang Sect before dying, and Yuan Yan buried him beneath a storm of sword qi.
• Red Lotus bound Fire Crow with hundreds of demonic flood dragons, but he blasted Yuan Yan away and broke free from the domain.
• Fire Crow fled, and Yuan Yan pursued him on his sword as Red Lotus warned him to be careful.

After the Tang Sect captured Purple Bamboo Pavilion’s branch, Yuan Yan returned gravely wounded but reported that he had killed the enemy’s high-level Soul Master. At Wind Moon Tower, Dai Rong and Hou Li faced the defenders as reinforcements were expected, and the opposing sides prepared to fight.

• Most of Purple Bamboo Pavilion’s surviving Soul Masters surrendered, and the Tang Sect disciples took over the branch.
• Red Lotus treated Yuan Yan after he collapsed from his wounds, and Yuan Yan told her that he had killed his target.
• At Wind Moon Tower, Hou Li and Dai Rong confronted the enemy’s Soul Douluo while their groups stood ready behind them.
• Dai Rong declared that Cloud Top Abode had become a Tang Sect Affiliate and demanded that Wind Moon Tower surrender.
• Kui Hai and the woman in the blue gown prepared to attack, while Hou Li summoned his Thunder Fire Mad Soul Drum and offered to fight Kui Hai.

Hou Li unleashed his mutated Martial Soul and overwhelmed Kui Hai, revealing a transformation that briefly gave him Half-Step Titled Douluo strength at the cost of losing his Soul Power afterward. Kui Hai fell in the ruins, and Hou Li pursued the fleeing woman in blue as Dai Rong went after him.

• Hou Li used his Thunder Fire skills against Kui Hai, then blocked Kui Hai’s counterattack with his drum and activated Thunderfire Berserk.
• Dai Rong explained that Hou Li’s mutated Martial Soul gave him immense strength for half an incense stick, after which his Soul Power would collapse and he would need a month to recover.
• Hou Li battered Kui Hai, shattered his defenses and Martial Soul Avatar, and left him grievously injured in the ruins.
• Ma Xiaotao recognized Hou Li’s power as comparable to a Half-Step Titled Douluo, while Fang Zi realized Red Lotus had planned for it.
• The woman in blue fled, and Hou Li chased her while Dai Rong followed to protect him.

The Tang Sect forces defeated the Wind Moon Tower branch, while Vina supported their advance with healing and Soul Power recovery. After the raid succeeded, Tang Lan gave the gathered fighters pills to restore their condition, and Hou Li and the others were astonished by their effects.

• Ma Xiaotao led the Tang Sect's assault while Huo Yuhao coordinated with Mental Detection and the others attacked Wind Moon Tower's forces.
• Vina used her Snow Lotus martial soul to heal Tang Sect disciples and accelerate their Soul Power recovery.
• Ma Xiaotao offered surrender, and nearly all surviving Wind Moon Tower Soul Masters laid down their arms.
• The Cloud Top Abode Soul Sages took charge of the captives, completing the Tang Sect's night raids on the three sects.
• At Spring Swallow Tower, Tang Lan gave Tang Wutong pills to distribute, and Hou Li, Red Lotus, Yuan Yan, and Dai Rong reacted with disbelief after taking them.

After the Tang Sect’s successful raid, Tang Lan distributed recovery pills and set strict rules for recruiting loyal disciples. Luyuan City Lord Qu Heng visited Tang Lan to ask about the sects’ retaliation, and Tang Lan answered that they would kill anyone who came after them.

• Tang Lan praised the group’s work, distributed three pills to each original Tang Sect member, and assigned Fang Zi to test recruits for loyalty.
• Tang Lan said he would personally judge candidates whose cultivation exceeded Fang Zi’s ability, and the meeting ended at dawn.
• News spread that the Tang Sect had seized three branch halls, and Luyuan City Lord Qu Heng arrived at Spring Swallow Tower to meet Tang Lan.
• Qu Heng asked how Tang Lan planned to handle retaliation and explained that he came as a colleague with ties to Shrek Academy.
• Tang Lan said the Tang Sect would keep killing its attackers until they stopped, citing the branch halls seized from them in four cities.

Tang Lan reassured Vina that Tang Sect would protect her after Qu Heng warned them of the danger of sheltering her. Far away, the Mad Lion Sect’s vice sect leader ordered an investigation into Tang Sect and the powerful young man leading it.

• Qu Heng recognized Vina as a wanted princess and warned Tang Lan that their actions could draw three Titled Douluo into conflict.
• Tang Lan declared that Tang Sect would protect Vina, and Qu Heng promised to hold back their enemies as much as his duties allowed.
• Vina apologized for bringing trouble to Tang Sect, but Tang Lan reassured her and led the group back into Spring Swallow Tower.
• A wounded Soul Douluo reported to the Mad Lion Sect’s vice sect leader that Tang Sect disciples had defeated the Luyuan City branch and killed several elders.
• The vice sect leader ordered his men to investigate Tang Sect and identify its young leader, then a red-clad woman entered and asked why Brother Chu was angry.

Chu Xiong and Li Wan discussed the Mad Lion Sect’s losses and the danger of answering to their mysterious Sect Leader after White Bone’s death and the loss of the Luyuan City stronghold. Li Wan urged Chu Xiong to capture Tang Lan so her Ghost Flower Martial Soul could consume him, offering a Yellow Springs Ghost Flower fruit in return.

• Chu Xiong rejected Li Wan’s advances and warned that the Mad Lion Sect had lost Luyuan City and gained little from its other victories.
• Li Wan expressed interest in Tang Lan, who had killed White Bone, and called him a suitable cultivation furnace.
• Chu Xiong recalled Li Wan’s history of devouring a city and the Sect Leader’s intervention that had forced her to stop acting on her own.
• Chu Xiong remembered how the new Sect Leader had defeated the elders and how the Mad Lion Sect’s hidden strength had deterred the Blue Sea Sect from pursuing him.
• Li Wan suggested Chu Xiong defeat Tang Lan and bring him back, promising him a Yellow Springs Ghost Flower fruit that might help him reach Level Ninety-Six.

Chu Xiong agreed to Li Wan’s proposal and obtained three Yellow Springs Ghost Flower seeds before ordering an investigation into Tang Sect. Three days later, Luyuan City’s factions gathered at Tang Sect’s establishment banquet, where Zhuge Xian asked how it would handle retaliation from the three factions.

• Chu Xiong traded for three Yellow Springs Ghost Flower seeds from Li Wan and sent a Soul Douluo to investigate Tang Sect.
• Three days later, representatives of Luyuan City’s factions arrived at Spring Swallow Tower to celebrate Tang Sect’s establishment.
• Tang Lan entrusted Tang Sect’s recruitment preparations to Tang Ya, Fang Zi, and the other women, while Fang Zi entered seclusion with the Bewitching Eye.
• Tang Ya and Tang Lan welcomed the visiting leaders, including Qu Heng, Lin Bai, Lu Yin, and Zhuge Xian, at a banquet.
• Zhuge Xian asked how Tang Sect planned to handle retaliation from the Mad Lion Sect, Purple Bamboo Pavilion, and Wind Moon Tower.

At a banquet in Luyuan City, Tang Lan defended the Tang Sect’s readiness for conflict by revealing proof that it had killed the White Bone Douluo. He then presented the guests with Tang Sect Soul Guidance Thunder as return gifts, leaving them eager to study the new weapons.

• Zhuge Xian explained that Luyuan City’s factions wanted to prevent war from causing excessive damage to the city.
• Tang Lan said the Tang Sect could defeat its enemies again and revealed the White Bone Douluo’s left arm bone as proof of his death.
• The guests concluded that Tang Lan’s claim was credible, and the banquet resumed with toasts to the Tang Sect’s sect masters.
• Tang Lan presented the guests with different kinds of Soul Guidance Thunder and let each person take four.
• The guests left the Tang Sect’s residence carrying the Soul Tools, eager to examine them and consider their potential.

Tang Lan explained Tang Sect’s stance toward the factions and helped Yuan Yan face the heart knot preventing his breakthrough by allowing him to absorb the Bewitching Eye External Soul Bone. After leaving Yuan Yan to overcome its illusions, Tang Lan found Tang Sect expanding its ranks among Cloud Top Abode members and independent Soul Masters.

• Tang Ya asked whether the factions would recognize Tang Sect’s Soul Guidance Thunder, and Tang Lan said Tang Sect did not need their recognition and might not sell to them.
• Tang Lan brought Yuan Yan to a secluded chamber and told him that a knot in his heart was holding back his breakthrough.
• Yuan Yan absorbed the Bewitching Eye External Soul Bone, which tried to exploit his inner turmoil and control him, while Tang Lan watched without intervening.
• Tang Lan saw two former Cloud Top Abode stewards cultivating the Purple Demon Eyes and praised their progress.
• Tang Lan headed to the Conference Hall and learned that independent Soul Masters had joined Tang Sect, where outer sect members could learn its improved cultivation techniques.

Tang Lan responded to attacks on Tang Sect supply convoys by planning hunting squads and assessing the sect’s available strength. After welcoming Chen Ju into the sect, he learned that an anomaly in the passage to the Secluded Cultivation Chamber had trapped several disciples.

• Red Lotus reported that the Mad Lion Sect, Purple Bamboo Pavilion, and Wind Moon Tower had robbed Tang Sect convoys in twelve incidents, with fewer than two in ten teams returning safely.
• Tang Lan ordered hunting squads to eliminate the convoy robbers, then asked Red Lotus to report the Tang Sect’s available Soul Masters.
• Tang Lan summoned the Soul Douluo who wanted to join, and Chen Ju introduced himself as Chen Tang’s younger brother and an eighty-fourth-level assault-type Battle Soul Master.
• Tang Lan accepted Chen Ju into the Tang Sect without an entry test, citing his connection to Chen Tang and his experience with forging.
• A Soul Saint rushed in and reported that an anomaly in the passage to the Secluded Cultivation Chamber had trapped many disciples.

Tang Lan entered Fang Zi’s crystallized secret chamber and used his blood essence to protect her meridians as her Soul Power surged from Level 79 to Level 89. Fang Zi awakened and embraced him, finding a sense of belonging in the Tang Sect as the illusion faded.

• Tang Lan entered Fang Zi’s secret chamber alone after his draconic aura drove away the crystallizing energy.
• Tang Lan found Fang Zi’s Soul Power rising rapidly, while the surge threatened to destroy her meridians.
• Tang Lan sent a drop of his golden blood essence into Fang Zi, protecting her meridians and helping her reach Level 89.
• Fang Zi awakened, embraced Tang Lan, and thanked him for saving her and helping her advance.
• Tang Lan told Fang Zi they would fight together to protect the Tang Sect’s Disciples, and the illusion disappeared.

Fang Zi broke through to rank eighty-nine, and Yuan Yan emerged from seclusion as a rank-ninety-three Titled Douluo. With the Tang Sect’s strength growing, Tang Lan assembled ten squads to hunt hostile Soul Masters outside Luyuan City.

• Fang Zi explained that uncontrolled Soul Power had caused her martial soul ability to expand, and the others celebrated her breakthrough to rank eighty-nine.
• Tang Lan found Yuan Yan still in seclusion, merging with the Eye of True Sight, before Yuan Yan emerged the next morning after breaking through to rank ninety-three.
• Yuan Yan thanked Tang Lan and pledged his life to him, while Tang Lan told him to repay the Tang Sect instead.
• News of Yuan Yan’s breakthrough spread, and four Soul Douluo and nearly thirty-seven Soul Saints joined the Tang Sect over the next three days.
• Fang Zi and Tang Sect Soul Engineers developed a soul tool chamber for testing recruits, bringing the sect’s Soul Douluo roster to nine besides Tang Lan.
• Tang Lan organized ten squads to eliminate hostile Soul Masters targeting Tang Sect transport teams, and the black-clad members gathered outside Luyuan City at night.

Tang Lan led the Tang Sect and Shrek Academy members on a night mission to destroy a Mad Lion Sect outpost at Goat Horn Mountain. After clearing the surrounding scouts, the group reached the mountain’s foothills, ready to begin the assault.

• Tang Lan briefed the group on their mission to destroy the mountain fortress and leave no enemies alive, then sent squads forward from three directions.
• Tang Wutong captured a Mad Lion Sect scout, learned that at least twenty more were nearby, and knocked him unconscious instead of killing him.
• Tang Lan’s forces used hidden weapons to eliminate twenty-five scouts in the surrounding forest, while several Soul Saints and Soul Emperors pursued the stronger enemies who fled.
• Tang Lan comforted Tang Wutong over sparing the captured scout and said the outpost would be removed before dawn.
• The Tang Sect group cleared more scouts on the way to Goat Horn Mountain and reached its southern foothills.

Tang Lan led his group into the mountain fortress, where they discovered the Mad Lion Sect’s stolen supplies and infiltrated the guards by capturing patrolmen and disguising themselves. They reached the eastern warehouse and confirmed the supply carriages were there, while the fortress’s powerful forces remained ahead.

• Tang Lan led thirty-six people up the mountain, where they found recent carriage tracks and ambushed a six-man patrol with Huo Yuhao’s spiritual attack.
• Jiang Nannan questioned the patrol leader, who revealed that seven supply carriages were in the eastern warehouse and that Poker King Zhuo Er was hosting Mad Lion Sect elders.
• Tang Lan’s group bound five guards, took their clothes, and split up to replace or infiltrate nearby patrols.
• Jiang Nannan forced Lao Qiao to help the group pass a checkpoint and enter the fortress without raising suspicion.
• Tang Lan’s group learned the fortress held more than eight hundred people, including five Soul Douluos, before reaching the eastern warehouse and finding the carriages.

Tang Lan and the Tang Sect infiltrated the Mad Lion Sect’s mountain stronghold by posing as patrolmen and reached a meeting with Zhuo Er and three Mad Lion Sect elders. The elders recognized Tang Lan as the man who had killed White Bone Douluo, and Zhuo Er realized the intruder was the Tang Sect leader whose supplies he had been targeting.

• Tang Ya confirmed the stolen supplies belonged to the Tang Sect and led the group toward the Conference Hall before the Mad Lion Sect elders could escape.
• Lao Qiao guided Tang Lan and the others past two guards by claiming he had urgent information for the Big Boss.
• Jiang Nannan knocked Lao Qiao unconscious, and the group approached the largest building while Tang Lan posed as a patrolman.
• Tang Lan entered and met Zhuo Er and three Mad Lion Sect elders, while the others waited outside.
• Two elders recognized Tang Lan as the Tang Sect leader who had killed White Bone Douluo, and Zhuo Er learned who had entered his meeting.

Tang Lan defeated three Mad Lion Sect Soul Douluo after they attacked him, leaving Zhuo Er unwilling to oppose him. He offered the survivors a chance to submit to the Tang Sect, and the Fire Butterfly Soul Douluo accepted.

• Tang Lan challenged the three Mad Lion Sect elders to survive ten moves against him, and they attacked with their martial souls and soul skills.
• Tang Lan used Ancient Dragon Guardian to withstand their assaults, then shattered the Mystic Tortoise and Crimson Flame Flying Tiger Martial Soul Avatars with single blows.
• The Fire Butterfly Soul Douluo tried to flee, but Tang Lan caught and sealed her soul power with the Tang Sect's Soul Sealing Hand.
• Zhuo Er stood aside and blamed the Mad Lion Sect for hijacking the Tang Sect's convoy, while Tang Lan gave the three elders three breaths to submit.
• The Fire Butterfly Soul Douluo knelt and agreed to serve the Tang Sect.

Tang Lan forced the Mountain Fortress leaders to submit to the Tang Sect and placed Dragon Soul Marks on them, which both bound them to the sect and increased their cultivation. The new recruits discovered that the marks also accelerated cultivation near Tang Lan’s Ancient Dragon Spirit.

• Zhuo Er ordered the Mountain Fortress fighters to leave and asked Tang Lan how the fortress should proceed.
• Tang Lan explained that the Dragon Soul Mark would destroy the souls of anyone who betrayed the Tang Sect.
• The old man accepted the mark and immediately advanced three cultivation levels without side effects.
• He Caitou asked Tang Lan to mark him, while the middle-aged man and the Fire Butterfly woman accepted marks and each advanced three levels.
• Tang Lan said marked Soul Masters within ten li of his Ancient Dragon Spirit cultivated more than three times faster, and the Fire Butterfly woman tested the effect and felt Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy gathering around her.

After Zhuo Er pledged himself and the Mountain Fortress to the Tang Sect, Tang Lan granted him a Dragon Soul Mark, triggering his breakthrough to Titled Douluo and drawing a lightning tribulation. With Tang Lan’s domain aiding his recovery, Zhuo Er faced the storm and charged toward the thunderclouds.

• Liang Die, an elderly man, and a middle-aged man swore loyalty to Tang Lan and the Tang Sect.
• Zhuo Er asked Tang Lan for a soul mark contract and vowed to bring the Mountain Fortress into the Tang Sect.
• Tang Lan gave Zhuo Er a Dragon Soul Mark, and Zhuo Er began breaking through amid gathering spiritual energy.
• A lightning tribulation locked onto Zhuo Er, and Tang Lan urged him to face it under the protection of his domain.
• Zhuo Er used his Magic Cards to withstand the lightning, recovered rapidly, and charged toward the thunderclouds.

Zhuo Er survived the heavenly tribulation, reached Level 94, and pledged himself to Tang Lan, who led the Tang Sect in attacking the outside forces of Purple Bamboo Pavilion and Wind Moon Tower. By dawn, the Tang Sect’s rapid rise had become the talk of Luyuan City, as the conflict with the three factions loomed.

• Zhuo Er used his Seventh Soul Skill to swallow the tribulation clouds, then advanced from Level 90 to Level 94.
• Zhuo Er knelt before Tang Lan, pledged his loyalty, and Tang Lan ordered him to gather the scouts and guide the assault on two rival factions’ strongholds.
• Tang Lan’s forces split into teams and attacked six targets around Luyuan City under cover of darkness, adding five Soul Douluo and one Titled Douluo to the Tang Sect.
• The Shrek Academy group returned to Gezi’s room at dawn, while the city lord let them enter without interference.
• People across Luyuan City discussed Zhuo Er’s submission and the Tang Sect’s growing strength, and a burly swordsman left after hearing talk of joining the sect.