Chapter Summaries

Xu Mingxi’s Moonlight Essence helped the Star Crown Sect cultivate beneath the Starry Tree, bringing breakthroughs to many sect members while he trained for more than three years. After reaching Level 50, Xu Mingxi prepared to obtain his fifth soul ring, and the Sect Master asked which soul beast he would choose.

• Vine Elder agreed to let Star Crown Martial Soul users at Soul Saint level or above cultivate beneath the Starry Tree, provided they cultivated for Xu Mingxi’s sake.
• The Star Crown Sect used its Star Power Fusion Method to link its members’ Soul Power while Xu Mingxi drew down starlight and Moonlight Essence.
• Xu Mingxi cultivated beneath the Starry Tree for more than three years and reached Level 50 shortly after his eighteenth birthday.
• The Sect Master, the elders, and other Star Crown Sect members broke through bottlenecks, bringing the sect to three Titled Douluo, eight Soul Douluo, and forty-one Soul Saints.
• The Sect Master asked Xu Mingxi which soul beast he wanted to hunt for his fifth soul ring, suggesting a Starry Tiger, Gathering Star Turtle, Moon Embracing Flower, or Bewitching Butterfly.

Xu Mingxi chose a Moon Embracing Flower for his fifth soul ring, and the Star Crown Sect organized a powerful team to escort him into the dangerous Star Dou Great Forest. As the team prepared to depart, Xu Mingxi cared for his newborn brother and learned about the shifting political situation across the continent.

• Xu Mingxi rejected the Bewitching Butterfly and chose the Moon Embracing Flower, with the Howling Moon Silver Wolf and Blood Moon Wolf as alternatives.
• The Sect Master gathered the ten elders, and the First Elder, Second Elder, three new elders, and Fourth Elder agreed to join the soul-hunting team.
• Xu Mingxi's parents asked him to care for his newborn younger brother, but he handed the infant back to his mother and went to pack for the next day's departure.
• Xu Mingxi learned that the team included two Titled Douluo and four Soul Douluo, while the Sect Master stayed behind to guard the Mountain Gate.
• Xu Mingxi reviewed reports that Yu Xiaogang had left the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, the Clear Sky Sect Twin Stars had reached Soul Saint, and Spirit Hall's recruitment of Luo Yi had left the Star Luo Kingdom undecided.

Xu Mingxi and the elders traveled through a devastated countryside to the town near the Star Dou Great Forest, where they met Dugu Xin, who offered to guide them to Moon Lake in exchange for poison treatment or a Soul Bone. Xu Mingxi recognized a chance to treat Dugu Xin and build ties with Dugu Bo, and the First Elder asked him to speak with Dugu Xin.

• Xu Mingxi and the six elders witnessed the hardships of ordinary people as they traveled toward the Star Dou Great Forest.
• The First Elder searched for a guide to Moon Lake, but no one in town dared accept the job.
• Dugu Xin approached the First Elder and offered to guide them in exchange for a detoxifying medicinal treasure or a Soul Bone.
• Dugu Xin revealed that he was Dugu Bo’s son and that he was suffering from Jade Phosphorous Serpent poison.
• Xu Mingxi proposed forcing the poison into a Soul Bone and suggested using the treatment to establish ties with Dugu Bo.
• The First Elder agreed with Xu Mingxi and told him to speak with Dugu Xin.

Xu Mingxi revealed a possible way to delay Dugu Xin’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent poison and secured the Dugu Family’s friendship. After Dugu Bo received the news and began searching for medicinal herbs, Xu Mingxi’s group traveled with Dugu Xin into the Star Dou Great Forest toward Moon Lake.

• Xu Mingxi introduced himself to Dugu Xin as a member of the Star Crown Sect and offered him a method to delay the poison in exchange for the Two-Thousand-Year Soul Bone.
• Dugu Xin learned that the method involved soul bones, accepted Xu Mingxi’s help, and sent an urgent letter to Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Bo read Dugu Xin’s letter, rejoiced that his son might be saved, and searched his medicinal garden for herbs to support the treatment.
• After resting for a day, Xu Mingxi and the others entered the Star Dou Great Forest with Dugu Xin guiding them toward Moon Lake.
• Dugu Xin realized how powerful Xu Mingxi’s group was and resumed guiding them after Xu Mingxi asked how far they were from Moon Lake.

Xu Mingxi’s group reached Moon Lake and found a fourteen-thousand-year Moon Embracing Flower, which Xu Mingxi chose to absorb despite the elders’ warnings. As he endured the soul ring’s intense physical and spiritual impact, the First Elder sensed danger in the forest.

• The First Elder defeated a swarm of Thousand Jun Ants and found a Ten Thousand Year Right Leg Bone, which Xu Mingxi declined to keep.
• The party reached Moon Lake, camped overnight, and began searching its shore for a suitable Moon Embracing Flower.
• After a day of searching, Xu Mingxi’s group found a fourteen-thousand-year Moon Embracing Flower and warned Xu Mingxi that absorbing it could be fatal.
• Xu Mingxi insisted on absorbing the flower’s soul ring, and the elders pinned and wounded it so he could kill it.
• Xu Mingxi began absorbing the Black Soul Ring and endured severe pain as the First Elder sensed something approaching from the forest.

Xu Mingxi and the elders escaped Moon Lake after killing a Hundred-Thousand-Year Golden Toothed Tiger and brought its Soul Bone back to the Star Crown Sect. The Sect Master convened the elders to decide who should absorb it, while Xu Mingxi considered the coming upheaval on the continent and other powerful Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest.

• The First Elder ordered the elders to protect Xu Mingxi and attack the Golden Toothed Tiger, and they killed it using their combined skills.
• The Second Elder retrieved the Golden Toothed Tiger's Soul Bone, and the elders rushed with Xu Mingxi and Dugu Xin to the town outside the forest.
• Xu Mingxi stopped the First Elder from silencing Dugu Xin, and the First Elder invited Dugu Xin back to the Star Crown Sect while promising to increase his reward.
• The Second Elder presented the Soul Bone to the Sect Master, who gathered the elders to discuss who should absorb it.
• The First Elder and Second Elder declined to compete for the Soul Bone, and Xu Mingxi thought about the coming continental conflict and the powerful Soul Beasts still in the Star Dou Great Forest.

Xu Mingxi helped the Star Crown Sect decide to give a hundred-thousand-year Soul Bone to Xu Fangming, then delivered a Mandala Snake Soul Bone to Dugu Xin. After testing his Fifth Soul Skill and reaching Rank 54, Xu Mingxi gained permission to travel abroad, setting his destination in the southeastern Star Luo Empire.

• Xu Mingxi argued that Xu Fangxing should receive the Soul Bone, but Xu Fangxing recommended Xu Fangming instead, and the Sect Master agreed to give it to him.
• Xu Fangming was summoned to the Sect Master Hall and accepted the hundred-thousand-year Soul Bone after the elders urged him to become a Titled Douluo.
• Xu Mingxi gave Dugu Xin a Mandala Snake left-arm bone and asked him to keep the Star Dou Great Forest events secret; Dugu Xin promised and left for Heaven Dou City.
• Xu Mingxi tested Gathering Star on the Training Field and saw its light blade cut through a target and continue into the clouds.
• After 450 more days of cultivation, Xu Mingxi reached Rank 54, celebrated his twentieth birthday, and requested permission to travel abroad.
• Xu Mingxi received the Sect Master's and several Elders' approval to travel, choosing the southeastern region of the Star Luo Empire as his destination.

Xu Mingxi headed toward East Peak City and rescued Chen Qinghuang from the Wild Wolf Gang, then learned she was the Chen Family Head’s daughter. After Chen Qinghuang reunited with her protector Lingyi, she invited Xu Mingxi to travel with them to the city.

• Xu Mingxi traveled toward East Peak City while his grandfather, Xu Chunyi, secretly followed as his bodyguard.
• Xu Mingxi stopped his carriage when he saw Chen Qinghuang collapsed, and drove off four Wild Wolf Gang members by revealing his 100,000 Year Soul Ring.
• Xu Mingxi revived Chen Qinghuang, gave her food, and learned about her family and sheltered upbringing as they neared the city.
• Lingyi arrived with the Black Armor Cavalry, confirmed Chen Qinghuang was safe, and thanked Xu Mingxi for helping her.
• Chen Qinghuang invited Xu Mingxi to accompany them, and Lingyi boarded his carriage with her.

Xu Mingxi brought Chen Qinghuang safely to East Peak City, where she returned to her family and praised him to her parents. Chen Rudong began investigating the attack and the mysterious Soul Emperor who had blocked Lingyi.

• Xu Mingxi learned that the Chen Family helped govern East Peak City and recognized Chen Rudong as a likely Soul Douluo.
• The Bandit Chief ordered his men to abandon their stronghold after they failed to capture Chen Qinghuang, and an unseen figure extinguished the candles behind him.
• Chen Qinghuang invited Xu Mingxi to the Chen Residence, but he chose to stay at the Qingyin Inn while she went home with Lingyi.
• Chen Rudong welcomed Chen Qinghuang home, and she told her parents that Xu Mingxi had saved her.
• Lingyi reported that a Soul Emperor with a curved-blade martial soul had blocked her during the attack, prompting Chen Rudong to suspect a rival family and investigate.

Xu Mingxi visited the Chen family, where Chen Qinghuang’s family questioned him and her brothers invited him to join their Adventure Team. He became interested in their expeditions and was shown a Soul Tool capable of a Soul Grandmaster’s full-force strike.

• Xu Mingxi accepted the Chen Family Head’s invitation and was greeted at the residence by Chen Qinghuang.
• Chen Rudong and Xue Yun argued over inviting Xu Mingxi, while Chen Qinghuang eagerly brought him into the main hall.
• Xu Mingxi awkwardly announced that he had no plans to marry, upsetting Chen Qinghuang and pleasing Chen Rudong.
• Chen Qingting and Chen Qingfeng thanked Xu Mingxi for saving their sister and invited him to join their Adventure Team.
• Xu Mingxi asked about the team’s discoveries, and Chen Qingting showed him a Soul Tool that could unleash a Soul Grandmaster-level attack.

Xu Mingxi joined the Demon Tiger Adventure Team and learned that its members represented several allied families preparing to explore Awakening Cloud Ravine. After agreeing to go, he visited a lavish estate, while figures linked to the Ghost Leopard Mo Family slipped out into the night.

• Chen Qingting showed Xu Mingxi a Soul Tool and invited him to join an expedition to a treasure-filled place guarded by Long-Armed Ape Soul Beasts.
• Xue Yun beat the Chen brothers after hearing them promise to protect Xu Mingxi, and Xu later met them and Chen Qinghuang at Qingyin Inn.
• Xu Mingxi joined the Demon Tiger Adventure Team, met its members, and discovered that it united several prominent families around Easternmost City.
• The team agreed to explore the undeveloped depths of Awakening Cloud Ravine, with four Soul Kings and two high-level Soul Ancestors participating alongside two family Soul Saints.
• Several black-clad figures, including the Curved Blade Soul Emperor, left the Ghost Leopard Mo Family estate, while Xu Mingxi knocked on the door of a lavish estate.

Xu Mingxi persuaded the Yuan Family to join the expedition to Awakening Cloud Ravine, using the threat posed by the Mo Family and the backing of a powerful masked man. As the nine-person party set out, East Peak City's leaders began reacting to the Yuan Family's sudden involvement.

• Xu Mingxi visited Yuan Ting and invited the Yuan Family to join the Adventure Team, claiming the Mo Family had attacked Chen Qinghuang.
• Yuan Ting resisted until a masked man intimidated him, then agreed to send Yuan Family members with Xu Mingxi.
• Xu Mingxi told Xu Chunyi that he sought greater power to protect the sect amid the continent's turmoil, and Xu Chunyi promised to report the matter to the Sect Master.
• Two days later, Xu Mingxi and the other travelers departed for Awakening Cloud Ravine with Yuan Qing and two Soul Saints accompanying them.
• The Mo Family Head told the Zhao family head that Xu Mingxi's background was likely formidable and ordered the Assassin Group to withdraw.

Chen Qingting’s party entered Awakening Cloud Ravine to investigate its rumored treasure, but a Long-Armed Ape attack drove them into the fog, where the group became scattered. Xu Mingxi was left alone to face the unknown while the First Elder watched from concealment and suddenly pulled Yuan Qing to his side.

• Chen Qingting led the group through the Long-Armed Ape habitat toward the depths of Awakening Cloud Ravine, relying on Chen Qi’s camouflage ability.
• A group of Long-Armed Apes led by a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast attacked, and Xu Mingxi ordered everyone to charge deeper into the ravine rather than risk being surrounded.
• Yuan Qing amplified the party’s speed, helping them escape the apes, but the thick fog disoriented Xu Mingxi and separated him from his companions.
• Xu Mingxi activated Star’s Protection, called for his grandfather, then steadied himself and slowly advanced alone when no one answered.
• The First Elder stayed hidden to let Xu Mingxi face the danger himself, observed that the group had been scattered, and used a Starry Giant Hand to pull Yuan Qing to his side.

Xu Mingxi confronted his dependence on the elders, then survived an encounter with a strange wolf-shaped creature in the fog. He reunited with the Chen Family brothers among some ruins, while the whereabouts of the other companions remained unknown.

• The First Elder rescued Yuan Qing from a Thousand-Year Long-Armed Ape and continued protecting him as they followed Xu Mingxi.
• As the fog drained his Soul Power, Xu Mingxi realized he had grown reliant on his elders, steadied himself, and continued onward alone.
• A wolf-shaped soul beast appeared and passed through Xu Mingxi's attacks, so he maintained Star's Protection and practiced controlling starlight against it.
• At night, Xu Mingxi trapped the creature in a curtain of starlight until it vanished, though it left no soul ring behind.
• Xu Mingxi found ruins and reunited with Chen Qingting and his brother, who had not seen Xiao Rui and the others and were marked by white scratches.

Xu Mingxi and the Chen brothers entered the Ruins, where a strange Soul Tool trapped them in a deadly fog filled with powerful monsters. As Xu Mingxi struggled to protect the group and find a way out, the First Elder watched their bodies in the real hall and feared the Soul Tool was draining Xu Mingxi's Soul Power.

• Xu Mingxi agreed to enter the Ruins with Chen Qingting and Chen Qingfeng, while the First Elder was shut out by the gate and then found an empty hall inside.
• The gate vanished behind Xu Mingxi and the others, and stronger Smoke Wolves and other mist monsters attacked them.
• Xu Mingxi used Star's Protection to shield the group as Chen Qingfeng carried him into the dense fog.
• The Chen brothers ran through the fog but found no boundary, while Xu Mingxi warned that he could not protect them for long.
• The First Elder discovered Xu Mingxi and the others unconscious in the hall beneath a strange Soul Tool containing a glowing Soul Bone, and watched Xu Mingxi's Soul Power drain away.

Xu Mingxi escaped a deadly illusion in Awakening Cloud Ravine and realized he needed to become self-reliant. He left alone for the Star Dou Great Forest, while the Star Crown Sect sealed its mountain for three years and named him its future Sect Master if he returned alive.

• Xu Mingxi recognized that the smoke monsters and the Chen Family members' sacrifice were part of an illusion, and the First Elder retrieved the Soul Tool and Soul Bone.
• The group left Awakening Cloud Ravine with no treasure, and Young Master Xiao spread the story that a mysterious black-robed person had saved them and taken the treasure.
• Xu Mingxi told the First Elder to send him to the Star Dou Great Forest so he could join the Soul Hunting Mercenary Group and train without protection.
• The First Elder agreed to collect Xu Mingxi outside the forest in three years, and Xu Mingxi departed East Peak City alone.
• The Sect Master ended the Star Crown Sect elders' argument over Xu Mingxi's departure and ordered the sect to seal its mountain for three years, declaring Xu Mingxi its next Sect Master if he returned alive.

Xu Mingxi returned to the Star Crown Sect after three years of brutal training in the Star Dou Great Forest, and revealed that he had reached Level 67. He recounted how a mercenary leader betrayed his group over a Soul Bone, while that leader and his men began searching for him.

• Three years after Xu Mingxi entered the Star Dou Great Forest, the Sect Master and the First Elder waited for him at their agreed meeting place until he emerged, exhausted and scarred, and fainted.
• The Sect Master and the First Elder took Xu Mingxi back to the sect, while Giant Wing and his men arrived too late, destroyed the town, and spread a Wanted Poster offering a bounty for Xu Mingxi.
• After recovering, Xu Mingxi met the Sect Master and elders and displayed six Soul Rings, confirming that he was a Level 67 Battle Soul Emperor; they announced his Young Sect Master Succession Ceremony would take place in seven days.
• Xu Mingxi told his family that he had joined a Soul Hunting Mercenary Group, reached Level 60, and obtained his sixth Soul Ring by hunting a Howling Moon Silver Wolf with his teammates.
• Xu Mingxi explained that Giant Wing betrayed the mercenary group after a Soul Bone appeared, killing two members and hunting the survivors; Xu Mingxi escaped with a lasting scar and remembered Giant Wing as the culprit.

Xu Mingxi recounted how he stole a thirty-thousand-year Soul Bone from the Clear Sky Sect after killing White Ibis, explaining why the sect had issued a warrant for him. The First Elder then updated him on the sect’s affairs, including Xu Mingguang receiving a spiritual-attribute Soul Bone from Awakening Cloud Ravine.

• Xu Mingxi recalled hiding in the Star Dou Great Forest and witnessing the Clear Sky Sect kill a thirty-thousand-year Giant Strength Ape before an eighty-thousand-year one attacked.
• The Clear Sky Sect leader ordered his people to hold off the eighty-thousand-year Giant Strength Ape while White Ibis retrieved the Soul Bone from the dead ape.
• Xu Mingxi killed White Ibis as he retreated, took the Soul Bone, and escaped while the Clear Sky Sect was occupied with the Giant Strength Ape.
• Xu Mingxi explained the incident to the First Elder and his family, dismissing the danger of the Clear Sky Sect’s warrant.
• The First Elder told Xu Mingxi that his father had reached rank eighty-two after absorbing a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone and that Xu Mingguang had received a spiritual-attribute Soul Bone from Awakening Cloud Ravine.

Xu Mingxi became the Star Crown Sect’s Young Sect Master and discussed the sect’s future strategy with the Sect Master. The sect agreed to cautiously expand into the Heaven Dou Empire while keeping its foundation in the Star Luo Empire.

• At the succession ceremony, the Sect Master named Xu Mingxi the Young Sect Master, and Xu Mingguang showed no objection.
• After the ceremony, the Sect Master gave Xu Mingxi intelligence reports, including news of a mysterious woman beside the Clear Sky Sect Twin Stars and Xu Mingguang’s connections in the southeastern Star Luo Empire.
• Xu Mingxi proposed that the sect remain cautious, maintain its external contacts, and gradually shift some attention toward the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Xu Mingxi argued that the Heaven Dou Empire offered better opportunities for sect development because its imperial family was weak and its territory included several kingdoms.
• The Sect Master agreed to use the Blood Blade Pavilion’s channels for limited expansion into the Heaven Dou Empire while keeping the Star Luo Empire as the sect’s foundation.

Xu Mingxi demonstrated his new moonlight power and established his strength as the Star Crown Sect’s Young Sect Master before a letter revealed that Dugu Bo had broken through to level 90. As Xu Mingxi and the sect elders set out to meet the Dugu family, Ning Fengzhi learned of Dugu Bo’s breakthrough and wondered which allies he had called upon.

• Xu Mingxi showed Vine Elder his Moon Silver Threads, explaining that his sixth Soul Ring had transformed his Martial Soul and given him control over moonlight.
• Xu Mingxi defeated his peers at the Training Field, while Xu Mingguang reached Level 60 and left for the Star Dou Great Forest with the Third Elder.
• After half a year of cultivation brought Xu Mingxi to Level 69, he received Dugu Xin’s letter saying that Dugu Bo had broken through and invited Star Crown Sect elders to Sunset Forest.
• Xu Mingxi asked to bring his grandfather, and the Sect Master assigned the Ninth Elder to join them; Dugu Bo received the reply and departed Heaven Dou City with Dugu Xin.
• Bone Douluo Gu Rong told Ning Fengzhi that Dugu Bo’s aura had reached Titled Douluo level, prompting Ning Fengzhi to wonder whether Dugu Bo had invited forces from outside Heaven Dou City.