Chapter Summaries

Tang Lan’s forces secured Two Moon Pass and prepared to take the offensive against sects across the Dou Ling Empire. He brought his companions into the Hundred Yue Landscape Map to choose rare treasures for cultivation, where Tang Ya’s excitement over an immortal herb led her to kiss him.

• The Tang Sect seized Two Moon Pass, and news of heavy allied casualties spread through the Dou Ling Empire.
• Tang Lan marked the Rizhao Sect, Hidden Moon Sect, and East Rising Pavilion as targets and took his companions into the Hundred Yue Landscape Map.
• Tang Lan displayed rare spirit treasures and invited everyone to choose one and cultivate in the map, where one night outside equaled a month inside.
• Bei Bei accepted a five-hundred-thousand-year Xuanhuang Fruit from Tang Lan and began consuming it as his martial soul emerged.
• Tang Ya recognized an Immortal Soul Grass, grabbed it, and kissed Tang Lan before realizing everyone was watching.

Tang Lan guided his companions as they chose Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, then used the Heaven and Earth Chessboard to study Five Elements power. After thirty days, the others had advanced toward Soul Douluo, while Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire Phoenix began transforming.

• Tang Ya took the Immortal Soul Grass to fuse with it and prepare for a breakthrough.
• Jiang Nannan chose a red spirit fruit at the urging of her Soft Bone Charm Rabbit spirit, and Ma Xiaotao picked the True Phoenix Soul Attaching Fruit.
• Tang Lan let Lingling choose three spirit fruits, then played chess with the artifact spirit elder to comprehend the Five Elements laws.
• Thirty days passed as Tang Ya, Jiang Nannan, Ning Tian, and the others broke through toward level eighty and refined the treasures’ medicinal effects.
• Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire Phoenix turned golden, and her flames changed from black to crimson with seven-colored light within them.

After Tang Lan gathered the newly strengthened Tang Sect members, Ning Tian received news that the Holy Spirit Cult had attacked the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School. Tang Lan kept Ning Tian and Wu Feng from returning, warned that a wider invasion might be coming, and prepared the sect to expand its power.

• Tang Lan congratulated everyone on their breakthroughs, and Huo Yuhao, Bei Bei, and Xu Sanshi left to handle intelligence and inspect the city walls.
• Ning Tian received a secret message that the Holy Spirit Cult had attacked the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, then fainted from grief and anxiety.
• Wu Feng tried to rush back to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, but Tang Lan stopped her and promised to gather intelligence and help avenge the attack.
• Tang Ya warned that the Holy Spirit Cult might be conspiring with the Sun Moon Imperial Family to invade the Eastern Continent while the empires were weakened by war.
• Tang Lan ordered everyone to remain within Tang Sect territory and announced that he would lead an attack on three northern sects in three days.

Ning Tian grieved over the fall of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, and Tang Lan comforted her as she offered him her mother's protective jade pendant. Wu Feng interrupted their embrace and asked Tang Lan whether he would marry her too if he married Ning Tian.

• Ning Tian woke up crying and blamed herself for being unable to save her school and family.
• Tang Lan reassured Ning Tian that they needed time to gather information and grow strong enough to avenge the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School.
• Ning Tian embraced Tang Lan, then gave him her mother's jade pendant to protect him, and Tang Lan accepted it.
• Tang Lan and Ning Tian held each other's hands and embraced as they acknowledged their feelings.
• Wu Feng entered with chicken soup, saw them embracing, and asked Tang Lan if he would marry her alongside Ning Tian in the future.

Tang Lan accepted Wu Feng and Ning Tian’s feelings, then organized Tang City’s forces and led them to Two Moon Pass to prepare for a campaign against the three sects. The Tang Sect sealed the city, and its overwhelming strength silenced six Hidden Moon Sect disciples who challenged the order.

• Wu Feng tied her golden silk wrist cord around Tang Lan’s wrist and declared that he would marry both her and Ning Tian; Tang Lan took her hand and promised them carefree lives.
• Tang Lan handed Tang City’s administrative work back to Huo Yuhao and appointed several capable Soul Masters to management roles.
• After two days of rest, Tang Lan led half of Tang City’s experts and a thousand Soul Masters north to Two Moon Pass, where the Tang Sect barred residents from leaving.
• A Tang Sect disciple warned travelers that the city would remain sealed for three to seven days and that escape attempts would be stopped.
• Six Hidden Moon Sect disciples challenged the Tang Sect’s authority, but the Tang Sect disciples displayed powerful cultivation and intimidated them.
• Tang Ya and Jiang Nannan condemned the three sects’ arrogance, and Jiang Nannan offered to guard against anyone trying to force their way out.

Tang Lan divided the Tang Sect forces into three groups to attack the Hidden Moon Sect, East Rising Pavilion, and Spirit Martial Gate before dawn. He reached the Spirit Martial Gate alone and confronted two drunken disciples on the mountain path.

• Jiang Nannan reached level eighty-three and obtained her Eighth Soul Ring, while Tang Lan gathered more than thirteen hundred followers for the northern campaign.
• Duan Changfeng asked how the Tang Sect would overcome the three weakened sects, and Tang Lan ordered them to split into three groups and kill those who refused to surrender.
• Tang Lan assigned Tang Ya, Jiang Nannan, Lingling, Duan Changfeng, and Ge Yuan to attack the Hidden Moon Sect, and Ning Tian, Wu Feng, Bai Chenyuan, Li Qian, and Shang Chen to attack East Rising Pavilion.
• Tang Lan sent the Azure Flood Dragon and Poison Dragon to support the two groups, left the Two-Headed Sky Eagle to guard Tang City, and flew toward the Spirit Martial Gate.
• Tang Lan landed on the Spirit Martial Gate's mountain path and encountered two drunken disciples, who challenged him for mocking their sect.

Tang Lan stormed Spirit Martial Gate, overpowering its disciples and elders as he advanced toward the sect master, Shi Fei. He defeated Shi Fei’s attacks and began brutally slamming the transformed sect master into the ground.

• Tang Lan froze two Spirit Martial Gate disciples with his aura, sealed their acupoints, and continued up the mountain, killing some of those who attacked him.
• Tang Lan shattered a Soul Emperor’s spiked umbrella martial soul and knocked a Soul Saint flying with a sweep of his sleeve.
• Tang Lan summoned the Dragon Soul Overlord Spear and sent three more Soul Saints flying, then pierced the Spirit Martial Gate plaque with his spear.
• Shi Fei confronted Tang Lan, transformed into a stone ape, and used his Earth Vein Rock Spine soul skill, but Tang Lan stomped the attack into powder.
• Tang Lan grabbed Shi Fei’s stone ape form and hurled it into buildings and trees, then smashed through the crimson barrier from Shi Fei’s sixth soul skill and slammed him into the ground.

Tang Lan defeated Shi Fei and forced the Spirit Martial Gate to submit to the Tang Sect, then learned about the sects behind the alliance against him. He took Shi Fei and the elders to the mountaintop and revealed his Titled Douluo strength to them.

• Tang Lan beat Shi Fei out of his Martial Soul Avatar and demanded that the Spirit Martial Gate submit to the Tang Sect.
• Shi Fei agreed to surrender and protect his Disciples, and Tang Lan ordered the sect to open its gates the next morning.
• Shi Fei told Tang Lan that three major sects and six medium-sized sects had backed the allied forces, warning that they had numerous Titled Douluo.
• Tang Lan dismissed Shi Fei's concerns and led him and the elders to the mountaintop to show them his strength.
• Tang Lan rose into the air, revealing himself as a Titled Douluo, and summoned the Dragon Soul Overlord Spear.

Tang Lan demonstrated his overwhelming strength to Shi Fei, prompting the Spirit Martial Gate to join the Tang Sect as an affiliate. After learning that two other sects had done the same, Shi Fei offered Tang Lan the Spirit Martial Gate’s rare soul bone, whose special power remained unrevealed.

• Tang Lan pierced through a mountain with a spear strike, leaving Shi Fei and the Spirit Martial Gate disciples stunned by his power.
• Tang Lan told Shi Fei to prepare a room and announce that the Spirit Martial Gate would join the Tang Sect as an affiliate.
• The Spirit Martial Gate announced its affiliation, and a disciple reported that the Hidden Moon Sect and East Rising Pavilion had also joined the Tang Sect.
• Shi Fei offered Tang Lan the Spirit Martial Gate’s rare soul bone, and Tang Lan asked what made it special.
• Shi Fei reacted in shock to an unseen power or effect.

Shi Fei led Tang Lan into the Spirit Martial Gate’s deepest secret chamber and showed him an unusual black-and-white eyeball Soul Bone. When the Soul Bone reacted to Tang Lan, he sensed the Rule of Life and Death and began releasing its opposing powers as Shi Fei fled the chamber.

• Shi Fei guided Tang Lan through the sect’s secret chambers and explained how the most precious Soul Bone was secured behind the lowest Stone Gate.
• Shi Fei used a Dragon Blood Crystal Stone to open the eighth-level chamber and raised an altar platform containing an ancient wooden box.
• Shi Fei explained that the black-and-white eyeball was a rare Soul Bone from a ten-thousand-year mutated Evil Eye Tyrant, and Tang Lan examined it.
• The Soul Bone reacted to Tang Lan, rotating and emitting black-and-white soul light that made him suspect it was a special kind of Soul Bone.
• Tang Lan sensed the Rule of Life and Death and released a wave of deathly power, warning Shi Fei to leave before his lifespan was reduced.
• Shi Fei escaped and closed the Stone Gate, glimpsing an immense aura of life emerging from Tang Lan as it shut.

Tang Lan emerged from the secret chamber after refining a strange soul bone and displayed power that terrified Shi Fei. After the Tang Sect absorbed three defeated sects, Pei Shao learned of its rapid expansion and Tang Ya’s strength, leaving the North Star Merchant Guild to assess the growing threat.

• Tang Lan emerged from the secret chamber with one black eye and one white eye, and Shi Fei felt his life was in Tang Lan’s hands until Tang Lan broke the effect by touching his shoulder.
• Tang Lan revealed that he had refined the half-black, half-white soul bone and stored it in an Acupoint, then left the secret chamber with Shi Fei.
• The Tang Sect hosted representatives from the Hidden Moon Sect and East Rising Pavilion after defeating both sects, killing their leaders and forcing the survivors to surrender.
• Jiang Nannan asked Tang Lan whether the Tang Sect should continue north, and Tang Lan said its recent victories would draw out the sects that had targeted it.
• Pei Shao learned that the Tang Sect had defeated three sects overnight and that Tang Ya had reached Soul Douluo and killed Hidden Moon Sect leader Cheng Xiyue.

Pei Shao learned that Tang Ya had reached Soul Douluo and set his sights on capturing her and Ning Tian. Meanwhile, the Sky Que Sect debated the Tang Sect’s rise and its own expansion, while Gongsun Yuan planned to investigate the Tang Sect personally.

• Pei Shao learned that Tang Ya had advanced to Soul Douluo and declared that he would capture her and make her his principal wife.
• Pei Shao vowed to capture Ning Tian, whom he resented for humiliating him, and take her as a concubine.
• Tai'an gathered the Sky Que Sect’s powerful members to discuss the Tang Sect’s victories and the threat it posed.
• Gongsun Yuan argued that the Sky Que Sect was strong enough to face the Tang Sect and raised the question of choosing a side in the war between the Two Great Empires.
• Ju Yue warned that choosing the wrong side could expose the Sky Que Sect to its rivals, while Tai'an ordered the sect to expand nearby and remain watchful of the Tang Sect.
• Gongsun Yuan announced that he would travel south to inspect the Tang Sect, and Tai'an ordered the Sky Que Sect members to divide up and carry out their duties.

As the Tang Sect’s allied army advanced north, rumors of its strength spread through the Soul World. In Green Cliff City, Tang Lan’s disguised group discussed meeting Chen Yue’s contact in the Sky Que Sect, and Chen Yue argued that the elder could help them.

• The Spirit Martial Gate, Hidden Moon Sect, and East Rising Pavilion announced that they had formed an allied army to march north with the Tang Sect, causing panic and rumors across the region.
• At a Green Cliff City teahouse, Soul Masters speculated that Tang Lan was an exceptionally powerful Titled Douluo and feared the spreading conflict.
• Tang Lan, Tang Ya, Lingling, and Chen Yue listened in disguise as Lingling ate the meal Tang Ya had ordered for her.
• Chen Yue explained that the Sky Que Sect was less than three hundred miles away and described her friendship with one of its elders, who owed her a favor.
• Tang Ya questioned whether Chen Yue’s contact might expose them, but Chen Yue said he was loyal, opposed by a rival faction, and unlikely to betray them.

Tang Lan agreed to meet an elder of the Sky Que Sect in Huangxi City, but a confrontation between Cao Ran and the Giant Whale Gang erupted in the tavern before the group could leave. The chapter ended with Cao Ran facing several powerful gang members while his companions feared the consequences.

• Tang Lan agreed to meet the Sky Que Sect elder in Huangxi City, and Chen Yue urged Lingling to eat before their overnight trip.
• Several members of the Giant Whale Gang arrived and threatened the Lone Soul Masters in the tavern.
• Cao Ran punched the gang's skinny member after he blocked the four Lone Soul Masters from leaving.
• The skinny man revealed himself as a level forty-three Soul Ancestor, and the Giant Whale Gang leader and other Soul Kings confronted Cao Ran.
• Cao Ran's older companion feared they had seriously offended the Giant Whale Gang, while the fat man began to speak.

Tang Lan, Tang Ya, and Chen Yue followed Cao Ran’s group after the Giant Whale Gang drove them from the tavern, then intervened when the gang ambushed them outside Green Cliff City. The fight was still underway as the gang’s remaining Soul Kings searched for the attackers.

• Yu Kuan and another Soul Master revealed their Soul Rings to stand with Cao Ran, but the tavern owner paid the Giant Whale Gang to leave without fighting inside.
• Cao Ran’s group refused the tavern owner’s compensation and left, and Tang Lan, Tang Ya, and Chen Yue followed them out of the city.
• The Giant Whale Gang ambushed the four Soul Masters beneath a hill with twelve fighters, including six Soul Kings, and quickly overwhelmed them.
• Tang Lan attacked a Soul King with a pebble, and Tang Ya and Chen Yue joined him, leaving four enemy Soul Kings seriously injured.
• Cao Ran’s group realized someone was helping them while the two remaining enemy Soul Kings searched for their attackers.

Tang Lan and the others ambushed the Giant Whale Gang, whose members were backed by the Sky Que Sect, and Tang Lan overwhelmed them with his control over space. He left the injured gang members to the others and walked away with the three women.

• Lingling watched from the slope with Tang Lan and the others, after Tang Lan had forbidden her from using her powerful Ultimate Fire recklessly.
• The Scarred Man recognized the group from the restaurant and tried to negotiate by invoking the Giant Whale Gang’s ties to the Sky Que Sect.
• Tang Lan revealed that they held a grudge against the Sky Que Sect, and the Scarred Man attacked with a golden sphere that Tang Lan stopped with spatial power.
• Tang Lan compressed the space around the Giant Whale Gang, preventing them from using soul skills and severely injuring them before releasing the pressure.
• Tang Lan told the others to decide whether to kill or spare the gang, then led the three women toward a nearby old tree, leaving Chen Yue confused.

Tang Lan and Tang Ya rescued Cao Ran and his companions, then Tang Lan offered the four Lone Soul Masters a chance to join the Tang Sect. The group received Outer Sect tokens and set out to pursue their goal of becoming Tang Sect disciples.

• Tang Ya explained that Tang Lan had noticed the young Lone Soul Masters’ talent, and Cao Ran returned after dealing with their attackers, though he had let the scarred man go and taken two of his fingers.
• Cao Ran thanked Tang Lan and learned that he and Tang Ya were the Tang Sect Leaders, whom Cao Ran and his friends had hoped to seek out.
• Cao Ran explained that the four wanted to join the Tang Sect, and Tang Lan gave each of them an Outer Sect token and described the path to becoming full disciples.
• Tang Lan left with Tang Ya and the other women, while Cao Ran’s oldest companion urged the group to go to the Tang Sect instead of returning home.

Tang Lan and the three women traveled to Sky Que City to deal with the Sky Que Sect and the North Star Merchant Guild. After disguising themselves and arriving, they were stopped at the city gate by a guard demanding an unofficial fee.

• Tang Lan told Cao Ran that he was going to wipe out the Sky Que Sect and the North Star Merchant Guild, leaving Cao Ran and his companions stunned.
• Tang Lan flew north with Tang Ya, Chen Yue, and Lingling, carrying Tang Ya and Chen Yue on a cloud he had shaped beneath their feet.
• The group reached Sky Que City the next morning and disguised their appearances and auras before entering.
• A gate guard demanded a so-called Wall Repair Fee from Tang Lan and the others, and Tang Lan signaled Tang Ya to leave the matter to him.

Tang Lan, Tang Ya, Chen Yue, and Lingling entered Sky Que City after Tang Lan tricked a corrupt guard into accepting illusion-made Silver Soul Coins. Tang Lan demonstrated his mastery of illusion and offered the women guidance before they settled into an inn, where Lingling came to fetch him for dinner.

• A city gate guard demanded twelve Silver Soul Coins from Tang Lan's group, and Tang Lan paid him thirteen without arguing.
• Lingling complained about the payment, and Tang Lan revealed that the coins he had handed over were illusions made from pebbles.
• Tang Lan explained that his illusions could last for a month, and Chen Yue compared his power to turning stone into gold.
• Tang Lan advised Tang Ya and Chen Yue about the deeper control of the world's power, then the group settled into an inn in Sky Que City.
• Lingling knocked on Tang Lan's door to invite him downstairs for the meal, while Tang Ya and Chen Yue waited outside.

Tang Lan and his companions gathered information at the Green Bamboo Restaurant, overhearing that the Sky Que Sect was investigating the attack on the Giant Whale Gang and learning about conflicts across several empires. As the group discussed the Sun Moon Empire’s turmoil, they considered how its internal divisions could affect the Eastern Continent.

• Tang Lan and his companions sat down at the Green Bamboo Restaurant, where other diners quietly watched Tang Ya and Chen Yue.
• Tang Lan’s group overheard diners say that a wounded Giant Whale Gang elder had escaped, his subordinates had been killed, and the Sky Que Sect had sent experts to Green Cliff City to investigate.
• Tang Lan heard reports about ongoing border battles between the Dou Ling Empire and the Heaven Dou Empire, as well as rebellion within the Star Luo Empire.
• Tang Lan learned that Xu Tianran faced opposition from Xu Jing and other factions, so he appointed Ye Xishui Supreme Consecrator and relied on her and Long Xiaoyao for protection.
• Tang Ya remarked that life in the Tang Sect seemed more peaceful than ruling an empire, and Tang Lan said the Sun Moon Empire’s internal divisions were beneficial because it still intended to invade the Eastern Continent.