Chapter Summaries

Tang Lan purchased the Knight Academy’s Super Aggregation Soul Armor for Shrek Academy, recognizing the academy’s need for research funding. He then presented Tang Sect Soul Tools as a gesture of cooperation and demonstrated an Azure Gold Lightning sphere at the testing grounds.

• Tang Lan praised the Super Aggregation Soul Armor, and Qiao Na, Lin Zheng, and Xu Yanjiao discussed its flaws and limitations.
• Qiao Na offered to sell the Soul Tool to Shrek Academy for two and a half million Gold Soul Coins, explaining that the Knight Academy needed money for research.
• Tang Lan paid with twenty-five Gold Soul Crystals, and Lin Zheng said the sale showed trust and could begin cooperation between their academies.
• Tang Lan assessed fourteen other Soul Tools, judging the three Eighth-Rank models to be among the weakest of their rank.
• Tang Lan placed several Tang Sect spheres on the table and demonstrated the Sixth-tier Soul Tool Azure Gold Lightning, which spread lightning across a thirty-meter area and carved patterns into the ground.

Tang Lan demonstrated several novel Tang Sect Soul Tools to the Knight Academy academicians, impressing them with their unusual capabilities and power. He ended by revealing the Soul Replication Sticker, leaving them stunned by its potential.

• Tang Lan demonstrated a sixth-tier Soul Tool that reformed its Azure Lightning Serpent after striking, then showed a Mandala Soul-Returning Thunder that filled the area with hallucinogenic pink mist.
• Tang Lan used the seventh-tier Ring of Death to pierce a heavy shield with a thin beam, and Qiao Na judged its attack powerful enough to threaten opponents above its rank.
• Tang Lan explained that the Ring of Death relied on highly compressed energy and could be countered by evasion or a prepared defensive soul skill.
• Tang Lan revealed the Soul Replication Sticker, which could temporarily store most Soul Power-based soul skills for up to eight days, though its copied abilities could not exceed seventh-tier strength.
• Qiao Na, Lin Zheng, and Xu Yanjiao reacted with amazement at the sticker’s potential to let Soul Engineers use copied abilities and provide Food-Type Soul Master effects.

Tang Lan refused to sell the Soul Replication Sticker and revealed Tang Sect’s return to the Soul Master World, inviting Knight Academy to pursue future cooperation. Later, he showed Qiao Na a Ninth-Rank Soul Tool made from a Dark Underworld Dragon and left her shaken by the depth of his abilities.

• Tang Lan told Lin Zheng, Xu Yanjiao, and Qiao Na that Tang Sect would not sell the Soul Replication Sticker while its technology remained under development.
• Tang Lan confirmed that Tang Sect had returned, identified himself as its Vice Sect Leader, and gave Lin Zheng a sect token as an invitation to visit its headquarters.
• Lin Zheng invited Tang Lan to dinner, and the group went to Ming Cuisine Pavilion at Knight Academy.
• As Tang Lan walked through a bamboo grove with Qiao Na, she praised his Soul Tool knowledge and urged him to consider the profession’s potential.
• Tang Lan revealed a Ninth-Rank Soul Tool glove made from the scales and claws of a Dark Underworld Dragon that he had killed.
• Qiao Na struggled to believe Tang Lan’s strength and questioned whether he was truly as young as he appeared.

Tang Lan returned with Qiao Na and accepted Lin Ni’s supplies, then Lin Ni asked to travel with them to the Eastern Continent and join the Tang Sect. The chapter left Tang Lan studying a map that lacked details of the Sea of Death’s interior.

• Tang Lan reassured Qiao Na that the Sea of Death was real and led her back to the Bamboo House to meet Lin Ni.
• Tang Lan thanked Lin Ni for buying supplies and gave her the remaining Gold Soul Coins, while Qiao Na noticed their closeness.
• Lin Ni asked Qiao Na if she could travel to the Eastern Continent, and Qiao Na agreed on the condition that Lin Ni stay within a hundred meters of her.
• Lin Ni told Qiao Na that Tang Lan had invited her to become an elder of the Tang Sect, prompting Qiao Na to worry about the Weil Family’s reaction.
• Tang Lan examined Lin Ni’s map and discovered that it did not show the interior of the Sea of Death.

Tang Lan, Lin Ni, and Qiao Na sought a map of the Sea of Death and went to the Ten Thousand Treasures Commerce auction, where Tang Lan bought three invitations from a street vendor. The trio prepared to enter the auction, and Lin Ni chose a Rose Flame Jade Stone bracelet from the vendor’s stall.

• Lin Ni explained that she had found only an ordinary sea chart because even the Will Family lacked a detailed map of the Sea of Death.
• Tang Lan invited Lin Ni and Qiao Na to the Ten Thousand Treasures Commerce auction, and the three agreed to find a way inside despite lacking reservations.
• Tang Lan, Lin Ni, and Qiao Na joined the crowd outside the auction and learned that the inner hall required at least five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins in spending.
• Tang Lan bought three invitations from a goateed vendor after the man claimed a Ten Thousand Treasures Commerce supervisor had supplied them.
• The vendor offered each of them a free item, and Lin Ni chose a bracelet made of Rose Flame Jade Stone.

Tang Lan, Qiao Na, and Lin Ni entered the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion auction after choosing items and having their invitations verified. The auction began with fierce bidding for a Golden Winged Flying Tiger cub, and Tang Lan learned that influential families and factions were competing for it.

• Qiao Na chose a rare metal material, while Tang Lan picked up a manual called Substitute Soul Control Technique despite the stallkeeper advising him to focus on Soul Tools.
• Tang Lan, Qiao Na, and Lin Ni presented their Earth Grade Gold Invitations and were admitted to the auction, while they saw guards beating a man accused of using a fake invitation.
• A receptionist led the three to Earth Grade seats fifteen, sixteen, and seventeen, where Lin Ni ate the complimentary fruit and pastries as they waited.
• Sang Sang opened the auction by presenting a Golden Winged Flying Tiger cub, whose starting price was fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Auction guests rapidly raised their bids to one hundred eighty thousand Gold Soul Coins, and Tang Lan realized that influential families and factions were competing for the cub.

Tang Lan and Qiao Na watched several items sell at the auction before the Mixed Gold Hands drew Qiao Na’s interest. As the gloves’ price climbed beyond what she and Lin Ni could afford, Qiao Na decided to give up bidding.

• A Golden Winged Flying Tiger sold for 350,000 Gold Soul Coins, and a Nine Section Mixed Poison Whip sold for 220,000.
• Tang Lan found little to interest him and decided to bid on useful items to make up 500,000 Gold Soul Coins.
• Sang Sang presented the Mixed Gold Hands, and Grandmaster Yan De demonstrated that the gloves could withstand molten alloy metal.
• Bidders drove the Mixed Gold Hands’ price past 340,000 Gold Soul Coins, while Qiao Na and Lin Ni realized they could not afford them.
• Qiao Na told Lin Ni that they could make the gloves themselves and gave up on bidding.

Tang Lan won the Mixed Gold Hands for six hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins and offered Qiao Na a place in the Tang Sect’s Soul Tool Research and Development Department. After Qiao Na accepted, the group was invited to the VIP auction hall, where Tang Lan learned their guide was not an ordinary staff member.

• Tang Lan raised his bid to six hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, and the masked woman withdrew from the bidding.
• Tang Lan paid for the Mixed Gold Hands and handed the item to Qiao Na.
• Tang Lan offered to support Qiao Na’s Soul Tool research and development if she joined the Tang Sect, and Qiao Na accepted an elder position.
• Qiao Na said she would discuss the Tang Sect with Ding De'er, whom she believed would also be interested.
• A staff member invited Tang Lan and his two friends to the VIP auction hall, and Tang Lan learned she was not an ordinary staff member.

Tang Lan, Lin Ni, and Qiao Na toured the second-tier auction house, where Marlene showed unusual interest in Tang Lan and hinted that the best treasures would appear later. After they settled into a private room, a bidding guide introduced the first item, the powerful Nine Dragons Suppressing Territory Cauldron, but Qiao Na urged them to save their money for later lots.

• Marlene introduced herself as the manager of the second-tier auction house and led Tang Lan, Lin Ni, and Qiao Na toward the private rooms, advising them to save their money for the later auction items.
• Lin Ni warned Tang Lan not to be taken in by Marlene, while Qiao Na focused on the Soul Tools around them.
• Marlene placed the three in Heavenly Character Number Twelve and told Tang Lan she would come find him after finishing her work, leaving him puzzled by her attention.
• Two bidding guides entered the room and demonstrated the auction's dark-blue glass wall before presenting the first lot, the Eighth-Rank Nine Dragons Suppressing Territory Cauldron.
• Qiao Na said the cauldron was not useful enough to justify its price and advised Tang Lan and the others to wait for the later items.

Marlene Taylor hosted the core auction, where Tang Lan watched the Nine Dragons Suppressing Territory Cauldron sell for 1.73 million Gold Soul Coins. Tang Lan then won the Mermaid King's Heart of Protection for 4.5 million, and the auction moved on to the next lot.

• Marlene Taylor opened the auction and sold the Nine Dragons Suppressing Territory Cauldron to the guest in Sky Character Number Six Private Room for 1.73 million Gold Soul Coins.
• Marlene presented the Mermaid King's Heart of Protection, a Ninth-Rank defensive Soul Tool that could withstand attacks from Soul Masters below Level Ninety-Five.
• Lin Ni wondered at the bidders' wealth, and Qiao Na explained why defensive Soul Tools were so valuable.
• Tang Lan bid 3.3 million Gold Soul Coins, then raised the price to 4.5 million as the bidding slowed.
• Marlene announced Tang Lan, in Heavenly Character Number Twelve Private Room, as the winner and brought out the next lot.

Tang Lan inspected and purchased the Mermaid King's Heart of Protection, then won a rare spatial Soul Tool ship called the One Leaf Ark for 6.5 million. The group continued watching the auction, now better equipped for their journey at sea.

• Lin Ni and Qiao Na examined the Vengeance Doll and discussed its power and its limitation of pursuing only one target until it killed them.
• Tang Lan inspected the Mermaid King's Heart of Protection and paid forty-five Advancement Soul Crystals for it.
• Qiao Na identified the middle-aged staff member who handled the transaction as a powerful Titled Douluo, likely Level Ninety-Five.
• Tang Lan later outbid another bidder by 500,000 to buy the Ninth-Rank spatial Soul Tool One Leaf Ark for 6.5 million.

Tang Lan watched the auction reach a copy of Kun Peng Douluo’s map of the Sea of Death, a feared and rarely seen treasure. He raised the bid to 3.92 million Gold Soul Coins after another bidder made an initial offer.

• A bidder in the Heavenly Character Number Three Private Room threatened Tang Lan for winning an earlier lot, but Tang Lan’s party did not respond.
• The occupants of the Heavenly Character Number Four Private Room discussed their hostility toward the Town Sea Sect, then Scarred Man won the Dragon Soul Sword for four million.
• The auction continued until only three items remained, and Ma Lin unveiled a beast-hide scroll.
• Ma Lin identified the scroll as a copy of Kun Peng Douluo’s map covering nearly sixty percent of the Sea of Death and set its starting bid at 2.5 million Gold Soul Coins.
• After the other bidders reacted fearfully and one made a bid of 2.87 million, Tang Lan raised the offer to 3.92 million Gold Soul Coins.

Tang Lan secured the Heaven and Earth Map and then drove up the price of the Chaotic Sky Dharma Robe, which Long Heng of the Radiant Dragon Sect ultimately won. The auction left Long Heng furious at Yi Chong of the Water Moon Realm, renewing the hostility between their factions.

• Tang Lan breathed a sigh of relief after winning the Heaven and Earth Map, which he needed to navigate the Sea of Death.
• Ma Lin presented the Chaotic Sky Dharma Robe, and Lin Ni lamented its high starting price as bidders competed for it.
• Tang Lan bid six million three hundred thousand for the robe, drawing the attention of the auction's private rooms, but said he was only making things harder for the other bidders.
• Long Heng and Yi Chong's sides repeatedly raised their bids until Long Heng won the robe for six million nine hundred thousand.
• Long Heng smashed a crystal table and threatened Yi Chong, while a woman in red calmed him and the chapter revealed the longstanding feud between the Radiant Dragon Sect and the Water Moon Realm.

Ma Lin revealed her connection to Tang Lan and the Lingyan Pavilion before the auction's final item was unveiled: a severely injured, 150,000-year-old Three-Eyed Macaque. The auction was left poised to begin bidding on the soul beast and its guaranteed soul bone.

• Xiao Chenyi, a level ninety-six Super Douluo known as Sword Ghost, took over the presentation of the final auction item, deterring anyone from attempting to seize it by force.
• Qiao Na explained Xiao Chenyi's fearsome reputation to Tang Lan, while Yi Chong realized that opposing the auction house would be dangerous.
• Ma Lin visited Tang Lan and revealed that she secretly controlled the Lingyan Pavilion and had come to make his acquaintance.
• Xiao Chenyi revealed a chained, severely injured Three-Eyed Macaque, and Ma Lin identified it as a 150,000-year-old soul beast whose death would yield a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and a guaranteed soul bone.

The auction for a 150,000-year Soul Beast began amid fears that capturing it could provoke war, while rival factions formed alliances to bid for it. When a bidder in Xuan-tier Private Room Number Twenty-Seven offered eighteen million, she presented a powerful Ninth-Rank Flame Soul Tool as collateral, which Xiao Chenyi accepted as worth four million five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.

• Qiao Na questioned where the Ten Thousand Treasures Commerce had captured the Soul Beast and warned that the hunt could trigger war between humans and Soul Beasts.
• Xiao Chenyi began the auction at eight million Gold Soul Coins as his Level 96 Soul Power kept bidders from trying to seize the Soul Beast.
• Aier Te negotiated a bidding alliance with a middle-aged man and an elderly woman, offering them compensation if they helped him obtain the Soul Beast.
• Several groups of Heaven-tier and Earth-tier bidders formed alliances, while Ma Lin told Qiao Na that the vanished Soul Beast King had left humanity with little reason to honor the old rules.
• A woman in Xuan-tier Private Room Number Twenty-Seven bid eighteen million, prompting Xiao Chenyi to ask for collateral.
• The woman sent out a powerful Ninth-Rank Flame Soul Tool, and Xiao Chenyi appraised it at four million five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.

The auction factions drove the bid for the heavily injured Three-Eyed Macaque into a contest between Long Heng and Yi Chong, while most others held back to seize it after the sale. Long Heng won at thirty million Gold Soul Coins, and Tang Lan and the others prepared to leave as a battle over the treasure loomed.

• Xiao Chenyi gave three golden snowflakes to the mysterious woman in Room 27, prompting guests to speculate about her identity.
• Long Heng, Yi Chong, and several groups of factions raised the Three-Eyed Macaque's price, but most factions eventually stopped bidding and waited for a chance to seize it afterward.
• Tang Lan decided not to join the bidding after Ma Lin warned that whoever obtained the macaque would be targeted outside the Ten Thousand Treasures Commerce.
• Long Heng raised his bid to thirty million Gold Soul Coins, and Yi Chong withdrew, claiming the Water Moon Realm could not afford more.
• Long Heng went backstage to complete the purchase, and the guests left the auction house amid plans to ambush winners and take their treasures.
• Tang Lan thanked Ma Lin for her help as he and his companions stood by the exit.

After leaving the auction house, Tang Lan, Qiao Na, and Lin Ni were ambushed by three Soul Kings who had targeted them for their auction purchases. Lin Ni froze the attackers with her Snow Woman martial soul, revealing its rare ice-and-snow powers.

• Tang Lan led Qiao Na and Lin Ni out through the staff passage, then guided them away from the suspicious soul masters watching the streets.
• The three entered a dead-end alley, where the Three Heroes of Linjiang confronted them and mocked Lin Ni while eyeing Qiao Na.
• Lin Ni summoned her Snow Woman martial soul and fired a series of Icy Arrows at the three men.
• Lin Ni's arrows layered frost across the alley and Ice Sealed all three Soul Kings inside their weakened soul power barrier.
• Tang Lan recognized Lin Ni's martial soul as the rare Snow Woman, whose ice-and-snow abilities strengthened her charged Soul Tool attacks.

After dealing with several attackers in Holy Flame City, Tang Lan and the two women pursued a group of Titled Douluo fighting over the auction house’s grand finale treasure. They arrived as Zhu Yan attacked Xie ZhiKuan, leaving the battle underway.

• Lin Ni froze three men who had attacked them, and Tang Lan left them alive but unable to move.
• Tang Lan easily dealt with two more groups of pursuers before spotting more than twenty-five Titled Douluo chasing one another.
• Tang Lan took Lin Ni and Qiao Na aboard the auctioned boat and caught up with the chase outside Holy Flame City.
• Zhu Yan confronted Xie ZhiKuan and the Radiant Dragon Sect disciples, seeking revenge and the treasure before their reinforcements arrived.
• Zhu Yan attacked Xie ZhiKuan, who unleashed five Soul Skills to counter him, and one seal struck the mountain below.

Xie ZhiKuan summoned the Bewitching Soul Array to escape the Titled Douluo surrounding him, but the array began devouring their Soul Power. As the pursuers realized the danger and considered finding an exit, the chapter ended before they acted.

• Zhu Yan rallied the gathered Soul Masters to attack the Radiant Dragon Sect, while four Titled Douluo went after the four juniors and sixteen surrounded Xie ZhiKuan.
• Xie ZhiKuan used the Ten Thousand Souls Array Flags to create the Bewitching Soul Array and vanished into its black mist.
• A Titled Douluo with the Holy Knight Spirit opened a Path of Light, allowing the pursuers to see through the mist, and Zhu Yan led them in pursuit of Xie ZhiKuan.
• Xie ZhiKuan fed his blood essence and Soul Power to the array's spirit essence, which grew stronger and entered the mist to devour the pursuers' Soul Power.
• The Soul Masters noticed their Soul Power draining and one warned them to find a way out before Xie ZhiKuan could defeat them one by one.

Tang Lan entered the Bewilderment Array, where trapped Soul Masters were losing their Soul Power, and offered to lead them out in exchange for a Ninth-Rank Soul Tool from each of them. He received the first tool, the Soul-Chasing Butterfly, while the others remained in danger inside the array.

• Soul Masters trapped in the Bewilderment Array failed to find an exit as their spiritual senses and Soul Power weakened.
• Tang Lan entered the formation alone, protected by Ancient Dragon Guardian, while Qiao Na and Lin Ni waited aboard the One Leaf Ark.
• The trapped Titled Douluo asked Tang Lan to lead them out and offered Eighth-Rank Soul Tools and other rewards.
• Tang Lan demanded a Ninth-Rank Soul Tool from each person and warned that Xie ZhiKuan could kill and rob them if they stayed.
• A woman in blue gave Tang Lan her Ninth-Rank Soul Tool, the Soul-Chasing Butterfly, which could locate someone within a thousand miles if given an item belonging to them.