Chapter Summaries

Tang Lan escorted the blue-clad woman out of the Bewilderment Array, then returned inside to demand Ninth-Rank Soul Tools from the trapped Titled Douluos in exchange for guiding them out. A young, androgynous-looking man offered a Ninth-Rank Soul Tool containing a rare Treasure Hunting Bird, and Tang Lan took him along as he prepared to leave.

• Tang Lan led the blue-clad woman through the Bewilderment Array and brought her safely outside.
• The woman in blue invited Tang Lan to join forces to claim the treasure, but he declined and went back into the array.
• The trapped Soul Masters argued over whether Tang Lan had rescued or killed the woman in blue.
• Tang Lan demanded a Ninth-Rank Soul Tool from anyone who wanted him to guide them out of the array.
• A young man offered Tang Lan a storage sachet containing a thirty-thousand-year-old Treasure Hunting Bird, and Tang Lan accepted it and led him away.

When the trapped Titled Douluo tried to seize Tang Lan so he would take them out, he revealed overwhelming strength by badly injuring Black Bat Douluo in one strike. Thirteen Titled Douluo then surrounded Tang Lan and Gao Cheng, while Gao Cheng prepared to use a secret weapon and Tang Lan stood ready to fight.

• The Titled Douluo threatened to capture Tang Lan, and Black Bat Douluo attacked him first.
• Tang Lan met Black Bat Douluo with his Overlord Spear and severely wounded him with one strike.
• Thirteen Titled Douluo decided to attack Tang Lan together, despite warnings that they might exhaust their Soul Power.
• The attackers surrounded Tang Lan and Gao Cheng, demanding more treasures from Gao Cheng.
• Gao Cheng told Tang Lan he had a secret weapon and urged him to wait for a signal, while Tang Lan prepared to face the encirclement.

Tang Lan fought off a group of Titled Douluo who tried to stop him, defeating several and frightening the rest into holding back. He left with Gao Cheng, who grew evasive after he hinted that she was concealing her true identity.

• Golden Eyed Lion Titled Douluo, White Elephant Titled Douluo, and five others attacked Tang Lan from multiple directions.
• Tang Lan wounded several attackers, killed none outright, and took Storage Rings from defeated opponents.
• Tang Lan fused his martial souls into the Dragon God Overlord Spear and swept five Titled Douluo away with a single strike.
• The remaining Titled Douluo backed down, and Tang Lan turned to leave with Gao Cheng.
• Gao Cheng asked whether Tang Lan was an old Monster in disguise, and Tang Lan suggested she was hiding something herself.
• Gao Cheng hurried ahead and avoided answering, saying they should leave before discussing it.

Tang Lan rescued Soul Masters from the Bewilderment Array while profiting from their Ninth-Rank Soul Tools, then tracked Xie ZhiKuan and the Radiant Dragon Sect juniors who had escaped with the auction items. He caught sight of them at sunset and wondered whether the five figures with them were reinforcements.

• Tang Lan warned Gao Cheng that she was in danger, parted ways with her, and watched her leave for Holy Flame City.
• Tang Lan made four more trips into the Bewilderment Array, rescued seven people, and killed groups that tried to rob him.
• As the formation’s fog contracted and battle erupted inside, Tang Lan warned the rescued Soul Masters to keep their distance and then left alone.
• Tang Lan tracked Xie ZhiKuan and three Radiant Dragon Sect juniors north, realizing they had used fake auction items to mislead the Soul Masters inside the array.
• After pursuing them for two hours, Tang Lan spotted the juniors and five other figures below and questioned whether they were reinforcements.

Tang Lan caught up with Long Heng and Yuan Jing as Yi Chong’s group confronted them over the Three-Eyed Macaque. Yuan Jing tried to hire Tang Lan to help the Radiant Dragon Sect, and the chapter ended with Tang Lan rejecting his promises and demanding a better deposit.

• Tang Lan pursued the Radiant Dragon Sect’s airship and struck Yuan Jing, a Level 94 Titled Douluo, hard enough to injure him.
• Yi Chong and his allies arrived aboard another airship, revealing that two powerful elders had joined them to seize the Three-Eyed Macaque.
• Yi Chong told Long Heng that several groups were after the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and that the Radiant Dragon Sect had failed to bring enough elders.
• Yuan Jing offered Tang Lan ten million Gold Soul Coins to help drive off Yi Chong’s group, but Tang Lan demanded immediate payment.
• Yuan Jing offered two million Gold Soul Coins and then a Level 9 Soul Tool valued at four million as a deposit, while Tang Lan remained skeptical.

Tang Lan accepted two Ninth-Rank Soul Tools from Yuan Jing in exchange for helping the Radiant Dragon Sect escape, while secretly eyeing their Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. The standoff turned into a battle as the Water Moon Realm fighters confronted Tang Lan, Yuan Jing, and Long Heng.

• Yuan Jing offered Tang Lan a whip and four million in promised payment, but Tang Lan demanded ten million before agreeing to help.
• Long Heng gave Tang Lan the Dragon Shadow Ninth-Rank Soul Tool, and Tang Lan accepted it while looking for the Soul Gathering Bag containing the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Yuan Jing asked Tang Lan to hold off one opponent while he dealt with the other, and Tang Lan advanced with his Overlord Spear.
• The Water Moon Realm middle-aged man summoned a two-headed Mystic Tortoise, while the old woman called forth a two-headed water python and targeted Tang Lan.
• Yi Chong challenged Long Heng and attacked with water arrows, but Long Heng released his Fire Dragon Spirit and struck back with a flaming dragon claw.

Tang Lan questioned Chao Yunxi about the Peerless Dragon Snake and learned that she was descended from Chao Tianxiang and served as a guest elder of the Water Moon Realm. Although they discovered their shared history, both refused to let the other pass, while the battles around them continued.

• Long Heng and Yi Chong exchanged soul skills and fought through repeated attacks, while Yuan Jing battled a middle-aged man and the younger fighters bombarded one another with Soul Tools.
• Tang Lan recognized Chao Yunxi's independent Nine-Winged Demon Snake spirit and asked whether she knew the Peerless Dragon Snake.
• Chao Yunxi revealed that the Snake among the Peerless Dragon Snake was her ancestor, then asked Tang Lan about his ties to them and why he was on the Sun Moon Continent.
• Tang Lan identified himself as a Shrek student and Tang Sect Vice Sect Leader, and learned that Chao Yunxi's clan had fled to the Sun Moon Continent after declining and facing persecution.
• Chao Yunxi said she had joined the fight for a personal reward and could not let Tang Lan pass, while Tang Lan said he had also accepted payment to stop her.

Tang Lan fought Chao Yunxi, breaking through her Nine-Winged Demon Snake’s attacks and discovering the limits of its devouring ability. After seeing through her concealing mist, he pursued Chao Yunxi as she fled, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Chao Yunxi summoned the Nine-Winged Demon Snake to attack Tang Lan, but he knocked it flying with a single strike from the Overlord Spear.
• Chao Yunxi enlarged the demon snake and sent poisonous mist at Tang Lan, who countered with spear attacks and a Soul Power blade.
• Chao Yunxi used the demon snake to swallow Tang Lan’s energy-based attacks and explained that her soul skill sent them into the Earth-Core Cave.
• Tang Lan kept attacking until he noticed the demon snake slowing, then moved as if to bypass it and strike Chao Yunxi.
• Chao Yunxi concealed herself in black mist, but Tang Lan used the Ancient Dragon Eye to locate her.
• Chao Yunxi fled and summoned the Nine-Winged Demon Snake to protect her as Tang Lan pursued.

Tang Lan defeated Chao Yunxi’s Nine-Winged Demon Snake and spared her after she surrendered, then reached Yuan Jing’s battle with the Rock Armor Battle Bear. He demanded extra payment to help, and Yuan Jing offered him a Ninth-Rank Soul Tool.

• Tang Lan kicked the Nine-Winged Demon Snake to the ground and repeatedly smashed it until Chao Yunxi was badly injured through their soul connection.
• Tang Lan threatened to kill the snake, forcing Chao Yunxi to reveal herself and plead for its life.
• Tang Lan spared Chao Yunxi and her martial soul because of the Dragon-Snake Family’s past ties to the Tang Sect.
• Tang Lan arrived as Yuan Jing and the Rock Armor Battle Bear continued their fierce fight, and Yuan Jing asked him to help kill the bear.
• Tang Lan demanded extra payment, so Yuan Jing threw him a Ninth-Rank Soul Tool in exchange for his help.

Tang Lan kidnapped a Radiant Dragon Sect girl after suspecting she carried the Soul Gathering Bag, then brought her back to the Knight Academy bamboo forest. He told Qiao An and Lin Ni that she was a direct disciple and carried the auction house’s final item.

• Tang Lan demanded three Ninth-Rank Soul Tools from Yuan Jing, then seized the Radiant Dragon Sect girl while Yuan Jing was distracted by his fight.
• Tang Lan flew west with the girl and tried to make her hand over the Soul Gathering Bag, but she stayed silent and he could not detect it on her.
• Tang Lan threatened to keep the girl captive and flew with her through the night toward Holy Flame City.
• Tang Lan returned to the Knight Academy bamboo forest, where Qiao An and Lin Ni came to meet him.
• Tang Lan told Qiao An and Lin Ni that the girl was a direct disciple of the Radiant Dragon Sect and carried the auction house’s final item.

Tang Lan told Qiao Na and Lin Ni that he was taking Long Yao with him to the Sea of Death, then gave them a defensive Ninth-Rank Soul Tool for their voyage. After learning Long Yao had been granted the surname Long by the Radiant Dragon Sect and was protecting a Three-Eyed Macaque near the end of its life, he offered a way to save it.

• Tang Lan said he would take Long Yao to the Sea of Death and gave Qiao Na and Lin Ni his defensive Ninth-Rank Soul Tool before leaving to pack.
• Tang Lan freed Long Yao enough to walk, but kept her unable to use Soul Power, and told her he would let her go if she handed over the thing she was protecting.
• Long Yao told Tang Lan her birth surname was Lin and that the Radiant Dragon Sect's Elder Council had granted her the surname Long.
• Long Yao refused to surrender the Three-Eyed Macaque because she could sense its grief and wanted to save it.
• Tang Lan explained that the injured Three-Eyed Macaque had cultivated for 199,900 years and would likely be hunted if released, then offered Long Yao a way to save it.

Tang Lan persuaded Long Yao to accompany him to the Sea of Death, promising he could help her there. They boarded the Liang Zhou Ship and began a three-day voyage toward the dangerous waters.

• Tang Lan told Long Yao that only he could help her and invited her to travel with him to the Sea of Death.
• Long Yao agreed to go with Tang Lan, and he flew with her to Glory Port after meeting Bauer to discuss Qiao Na.
• Tang Lan paid for passage aboard the Liang Zhou Ship and rented a private suite for himself and Long Yao.
• The crew showed Tang Lan the Fifth-Rank Soul Skiff included with their passage, and the two prepared for the voyage to the Sea of Death.
• During the three-day trip, Tang Lan and Long Yao spent time on deck while passengers fished for valuable Golden Scale Fish.

Tang Lan and Long Yao discussed their backgrounds and her decision to spare the Three-Eyed Macaque while aboard the ship entering the Sea of Death. Their quiet conversation ended when the Titled Douluo Bell Helen approached and began a strange puppet performance.

• Tang Lan learned that Long Yao was born outside the Radiant Dragon Sect and was accepted into the Dragon Family after awakening the powerful Dark Sacred Dragon spirit.
• Tang Lan and Long Yao talked about their sects and her plans to grow stronger in the Sea of Death.
• Tang Lan asked whether Long Yao would let the Three-Eyed Macaque go, and she insisted that she only wanted to save its life.
• Bell Helen approached Tang Lan and Long Yao on the deck, introduced himself, and offered to perform a magic trick.
• Bell Helen summoned a black cloth doll from his top hat, and it turned toward Long Yao and laughed eerily.

Bell attacked Tang Lan and Long Yao with his Puppet Doll and paper cranes, but Tang Lan's spatial abilities and defenses stopped them. Bell then charged Tang Lan with a dark red dagger, leaving the attack unresolved.

• Bell sent his Puppet Doll at Long Yao, but Tang Lan protected her with the Merman King's Heart of Protection.
• Bell used Magic Etherealization to make the Puppet Doll intangible, but Tang Lan trapped it with an Ancient Dragon claw.
• Bell launched ethereal paper cranes at Tang Lan and Long Yao, but the Ancient Dragon Guardian blocked their attacks.
• Bell rushed Tang Lan with a Life-Stealing Dagger, and Tang Lan responded with Space Tear.

Tang Lan defeated Bell despite his paper-transformation ability and captured him alive after learning he had targeted Long Yao. Bell’s family token proved to be the Bai He Jade Token of the Bai He Sect, whose final inheritor Tang Lan had unexpectedly found.

• Bell pretended Tang Lan’s golden barrier had trapped him, but Tang Lan dodged his dagger and tore off his shoulder, only for Bell to reveal his paper-transformation soul skill.
• Tang Lan hurled the Dragon God Overlord Spear, pierced Bell’s paper illusions, and pursued him while Long Yao remained protected by a Soul Tool.
• Tang Lan returned with the badly wounded Bell, sealed his meridians, and condemned him for using women’s menstrual blood to refine his spirit.
• Tang Lan questioned Bell about a wooden token, and Bell said it had been passed down by his family and that he did not know its purpose.
• Tang Lan identified the token as the Bai He Jade Token and realized Bell was the Bai He Sect’s final inheritor, though Bell had inherited his mother’s mutated spirit instead of the White Crane Spirit.

Tang Lan revealed the Tang Sect Token, and Bell recognized him as the Bai He Sect’s superior sect and explained how the Bai He Sect had been destroyed. Bell planned to visit the Xiaweier Islands, while Tang Lan and Long Yao continued toward the Sea of Death, leaving Bell reluctant to join them.

• Tang Lan showed Bell the Tang Sect Token, and Bell knelt, declaring his devotion to the superior sect and saying he had waited more than ten years for its return.
• Tang Lan asked about the Bai He Sect, and Bell blamed the Radiant Dragon Sect and Water Moon Realm for framing it and leading an attack that also ruined the Flying Swallow Sect and Ancient Ape Sect.
• Bell told Tang Lan he planned to visit the Xiaweier Islands to gather Maiden's Celestial Kui, which his martial soul needed to maintain his strength.
• Tang Lan told Bell that he and Long Yao were heading to the Sea of Death, and Bell warned them about the deadly Soul Beasts there.
• Tang Lan invited Bell to travel with them, but Bell declined and stepped back nervously.

Tang Lan, Long Yao, and Bell arrived at the outskirts of the Sea of Death aboard the Liang Zhou Ship and set out in a soulboat. Bell sought Tang Lan's favor and a place in the Tang Sect, but Tang Lan warned that Bell would have to follow its rules.

• Tang Lan offered Bell a share of anything they found in the Sea of Death if Bell joined them, and Bell reluctantly agreed.
• A day later, Tang Lan saw that sixty powerful Soul Masters were heading into the Sea of Death, including twenty Titled Douluos and a Ninth-Rank Soul Engineer.
• Bell pointed out several dangerous groups among the travelers, including a hunting party of Titled Douluos and an Evil Soul Master he recognized.
• Prince, the Liang Zhou Ship's captain and a Level Ninety-Five Super Douluo, announced their arrival, and the travelers boarded their numbered soulboats.
• Tang Lan took Long Yao to his spacious soulboat, where Bell praised Tang Lan's wealth and asked him to remember Bell when the Tang Sect rose again.
• Tang Lan warned Bell that he would have to obey the Tang Sect's rules and that the Sect Master might refuse to accept him.

Tang Lan identified Bell’s memory lapses and drastic changes in behavior as signs of a second personality, whom Bell’s grandfather had called his Brother. As the group traveled deeper into the Sea of Death, Tang Lan fled a seabed threat, leaving nearby stationary soul boats in its path.

• Tang Lan explained that Bell likely had another personality within him, and Bell recalled his grandfather mentioning that his Brother had returned despite Bell never meeting him.
• Bell panicked about the trouble his Brother had caused, but Tang Lan urged him not to treat his Brother as an enemy and said they needed to find a way to speak with him.
• As the weather worsened, Long Yao warned that storms would grow more frequent deeper in the Sea of Death, and Tang Lan activated the soul boat’s protective barrier and emergency defense mode.
• Tang Lan sensed danger rising from the seabed and accelerated the soul boat eastward, leaving the other nearby boats behind.
• A massive figure burst from the sea and charged toward the place where Tang Lan and the others had been, putting the boats that had not moved in danger.

A giant Soul Beast disturbed the Sea of Death, destroying soul boats and killing many Soul Masters as Tang Lan, Long Yao, and Bell escaped. After sailing deeper into the sea, they witnessed two Titled Douluo and their companions trap and wound an eighty-two-thousand-year Armored Sea Lion.

• A giant Soul Beast stirred the currents, wrecking nearly ten soul boats and killing close to twenty percent of the Soul Masters bound for the Sea of Death.
• Long Yao, Tang Lan, and Bell discussed the beast, and Tang Lan steered their soul boat east into the Sea of Death.
• After sailing for two hours, the trio found another soul boat whose crew was fighting an eighty-two-thousand-year Armored Sea Lion.
• An ice-element Titled Douluo froze the waves and sea, while another Titled Douluo pierced the Armored Sea Lion's tail with his Sea Fork.
• The Soul Douluo aboard the boat fired Ice Condensation Bullets to slow the beast, and the Titled Douluo trapped it in an Eight Direction Ice Wall.
• The Sea Fork Titled Douluo struck the trapped Armored Sea Lion with six Sea Forks, leaving it wounded and bleeding.

Tang Lan, Long Yao, and Bell sailed through the Sea of Death, where schools of fish gathered in a strange disturbance. After moving their soul boat to a safe distance, they watched as the fish leaped from the water to meet a bolt of lightning.

• Tang Lan left the battle against the bound Armored Sea Lion and steered the soul boat eastward.
• Tang Lan and Bell took turns piloting the boat, and Tang Lan cooked breakfast for Long Yao and Bell.
• As heavy rain and strong waves swept over the sea, Tang Lan noticed vast schools of fish gathering on the surface.
• Tang Lan steered the boat northeast to keep away from the restless fish, then watched from a distance.
• A bolt of lightning struck toward the fish, and countless fish leaped out of the sea to collide with it.