Chapter Summaries

Dugu Bo restrained the Shrek group until Yu Xiaogang presented a Pope Decree and claimed to be Spirit Hall’s Honorary Elder. Li Xun arrived and secretly confirmed to Dugu Bo that the decree was real, hinting at Yu Xiaogang’s past relationship with the Pope.

• Flender asked Dugu Bo to let the Shrek group leave, but Dugu Bo mocked him and refused.
• Yu Xiaogang presented a Pope Decree, and Dugu Bo questioned how a rank twenty-nine Soul Grandmaster had obtained it.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed the Pope had personally appointed him an Honorary Elder and offered to verify the decree with her.
• Li Xun arrived with a group of students, drawing hostile or curious reactions from Tang San, Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, Yu Tianheng, Ye Lingling, and Oscar.
• Li Xun teased Yu Xiaogang about kneeling and praised his research while Dugu Bo played along.
• Dugu Bo privately asked Li Xun whether the Pope Decree was genuine, and Li Xun confirmed it while suggesting the Pope had once been involved with Yu Xiaogang.

After Yu Xiaogang and the Shrek group left Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Qin Ming resigned and followed them. Li Xun told Dugu Bo that Bibi Dong had killed Qian Xunji and that Spirit Hall’s conflict with Tang Hao and the Clear Sky Sect served a larger plan, while Qian Renxue might eventually learn the truth.

• Dugu Bo drove Yu Xiaogang and the Shrek group away after questioning Yu Xiaogang about knowing the Pope.
• Qin Ming resigned from Heaven Dou Royal Academy, explaining that he could not stay after Flender and the others had been humiliated, then chased after the Shrek group.
• Prince Xue Xing left without interfering in Li Xun and Dugu Bo’s relationship, while Meng Shenji and the other committee members departed on friendly terms with Li Xun.
• Li Xun confirmed that Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong had once been unusually close and asked Dugu Bo why Spirit Hall had not pursued revenge against Tang Hao more fiercely after Qian Xunji’s death.
• Li Xun revealed that Bibi Dong had killed Qian Xunji and Qian Daoliu knew the truth, then explained that Tang Hao and the Clear Sky Sect would be made Spirit Hall’s apparent targets until the time was right.
• Li Xun asked what Qian Renxue would do if she learned who had really killed her father.

Li Xun and Dugu Bo arrived in Heaven Dou City and met Qian Renxue at the Spirit Hall temple. After discussing their business plans and exchanging polite probes, Li Xun began testing Qian Renxue over their shared preference for tea.

• Li Xun admired Heaven Dou City's walls, and Dugu Bo joked that he could take the city by releasing poison.
• Bishop Salas welcomed Li Xun and Dugu Bo to Spirit Hall and escorted them to meet Qian Renxue.
• Li Xun gave Salas a document outlining planned storefronts for the Spirit Beast restaurant chain, and Salas agreed to leave the business details to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Li Xun greeted Qian Renxue, and the two recalled meeting in Sunset Forest four years earlier.
• Qian Renxue served Li Xun tea and asked why he had arranged the meeting; Li Xun remarked that the tea matched his senior brother's, then clarified that he was the one who liked it.

Li Xun proposed that Qian Renxue partner with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to open restaurants in Spirit City, and they agreed to split the profits equally. Qian Renxue then asked whether he would consider a deeper cooperation with her.

• Li Xun showed Qian Renxue a map marking the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's restaurant locations across the continent.
• Li Xun proposed opening restaurants in Spirit City through a partnership with Qian Renxue.
• Li Xun and Qian Renxue negotiated their shares and settled on an equal split of the profits.
• Qian Renxue recalled their past conversation and agreed to the partnership.
• Qian Renxue asked Li Xun if he was willing to cooperate with her on a deeper level.

Li Xun negotiated with Qian Renxue over the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect joining Spirit Hall, using the offer to test her authority and raise his side’s value. Qian Renxue accepted his demand concerning Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo, and Li Xun left to prepare for further talks with his teacher.

• Qian Renxue invited Li Xun to join Spirit Hall, and he said he would not leave the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect without securing its future.
• Qian Renxue offered the sect generous terms, including entry into the Elder Palace for Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo, without requiring them to relocate or obey the Pope.
• Li Xun asked that Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo be brought before Dugu Bo to settle their old grudge without losing their lives.
• Qian Renxue agreed to the demand on the condition that Li Xun demonstrate enough value to help her overcome opposition within Spirit Hall.
• Li Xun said he would discuss the sect’s possible entry with his teacher, then asked Qian Renxue whether their next contact could bypass Salas.

After leaving Spirit Hall, Li Xun took Dugu Bo to an auction house to investigate rumors about Ning Fengzhi secretly buying female slaves. They encountered Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, Tang San, and Xiao Wu there, while Qian Renxue considered drawing powerful figures to her side.

• Qian Renxue watched Li Xun and Dugu Bo leave and told Snake Lance Douluo She Long that she had plans concerning Spirit Hall’s elders and the Pope.
• Li Xun told Dugu Bo that Ning Fengzhi might be secretly buying female slaves and brought him to an auction house to investigate.
• Li Xun and Dugu Bo spotted Tang San and Xiao Wu at the auction house, then followed Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo into the auction center.
• Xiao Wu criticized an attendant’s revealing clothes, and Li Xun and Dugu Bo struggled to hold back their laughter.
• Sword Douluo recognized Tang San and Xiao Wu, warned Ning Fengzhi through a voice transmission, and Ning Fengzhi abruptly stopped talking to them.

At the auction, Ning Fengzhi bought a captive cat-eared girl and later offered Tang San a lucrative deal for his Hidden Weapons. Li Xun stopped viewing Tang San’s earnings as a threat, while Ning Fengzhi grew more receptive after Dugu Bo relayed Li Xun’s suggestion; Tang San agreed to supply blueprints and assemble the weapons but refused to sell their designs.

• Ning Fengzhi outbid Prince Xue Xing for the captive cat-eared girl, paying eighteen hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Xiao Wu recognized the Hidden Sand Projectiles on the auction stage as Tang San’s, and Ning Fengzhi offered to buy his weapons at a high price.
• Ning Fengzhi offered five thousand Gold Soul Coins apiece for a hundred Hidden Sand Projectiles and asked Tang San about his other Hidden Weapons.
• Li Xun realized Tang San’s earnings posed little threat, then whispered a suggestion to Dugu Bo, who relayed it to Ning Fengzhi.
• Tang San agreed to provide the blueprints and assemble the weapons if Ning Fengzhi supplied materials and craftsmen, but refused to sell the designs.

Tang San sold the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect an initial order of hidden weapons, while Li Xun persuaded Ning Fengzhi to secretly organize a large-scale effort to copy them. The chapter ended with Li Xun planning a factory and wondering how to reclaim the money Tang San would earn.

• Ning Fengzhi agreed to buy five hundred Hidden Sand Projectiles, Godly Zhuge Crossbows, and Sleeve Arrows from Tang San, then left the auction house with Sword Douluo.
• Ning Fengzhi questioned Dugu Bo and Li Xun about why they had been at the auction, and Li Xun explained that they had stayed hidden to avoid trouble.
• At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's residence, Li Xun told Ning Fengzhi to arrange future purchases through a trusted intermediary and proposed replicating Tang San's weapons by analyzing finished products and blueprints.
• Li Xun planned a factory employing twenty thousand people, including craftsmen, painters, and homeless children, and Ning Fengzhi approved the plan.
• Li Xun's smile faded as he thought about the Gold Soul Coins Tang San would receive, and he resolved to find a way to take the money back.

Li Xun proposed rewarding and expanding research into Hidden Weapons, especially by recruiting ordinary people, and argued that they could become a force to counter Soul Masters. After telling Ning Fengzhi about his preliminary agreement with Spirit Hall, Li Xun revealed that he had reached rank fifty and prepared to hunt for his fifth Spirit Ring.

• Li Xun proposed performance rewards for assembling and improving Hidden Weapons, and suggested keeping the experienced workers to develop weapons for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Li Xun urged Ning Fengzhi to recruit mostly ordinary people and described building a force whose weapons could threaten Soul Ancestors below rank forty.
• Ning Fengzhi agreed that ordinary people could provide the sect with another source of strength as war between Spirit Hall and the Two Great Empires loomed.
• Li Xun told Ning Fengzhi that he had met the Spirit Hall Young Master and shared the location and terms of their preliminary agreement.
• Ning Fengzhi explained that he had once rescued Aunt Xue from an auction house, while Li Xun considered taking action against corrupt nobles.
• Li Xun announced that his Soul Power had reached rank fifty, and Sword Douluo asked what ten-thousand-year Spirit Beast he wanted to hunt.

Li Xun told Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Dugu Bo that he planned to hunt a Blue Silver King near the Blue Silver Emperor’s birthplace, and they agreed to accompany him because Tang Hao might appear. In Sunset Forest, Tang San killed a Man Faced Demon Spider and absorbed its life force before turning to treat Yu Xiaogang’s venomous wound.

• Li Xun revealed that he had brought back the Blue Silver Emperor’s true body and had learned the location of its birthplace from it.
• Li Xun explained that Tang Hao knew the location, so Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Dugu Bo agreed that the expedition needed to proceed cautiously.
• A Man Faced Demon Spider wounded Yu Xiaogang and knocked Xiao Wu aside while the Shrek group fought other spiders in Sunset Forest.
• Tang San attacked the injured Man Faced Demon Spider with his Eight Spider Lances and drained its life force, strengthening himself and the lances.
• Tang San examined Yu Xiaogang and confidently said he could handle the Man Faced Demon Spider’s venom.

Tang San used his Eight Spider Lances to remove the Man Faced Demon Spider’s poison from Yu Xiaogang, then secretly drained some of his life force and Soul Power. He left to test the lances on a ten-thousand-year Cave Demon Spider, while Yu Xiaogang woke to find his Soul Power had fallen to level twenty-one and suspected Tang San had taken it.

• Tang San drew the poison from Yu Xiaogang with the Eight Spider Lances, inadvertently absorbing some of his teacher’s Soul Power and life force.
• Tang San told the Shrek group that Yu Xiaogang might lose strength, then took the Cave Demon Spider into the forest to seek power and prepare to challenge Li Xun.
• Tang San tested the Eight Spider Lances on the Cave Demon Spider and found they could absorb only a small amount of its life force.
• Yu Xiaogang woke, learned Tang San had gone to absorb a Soul Ring, and discovered his Soul Power had dropped to level twenty-one.
• Yu Xiaogang questioned Xiao Wu about Tang San’s explanation and suspected that the Eight Spider Lances had drained his power.

Yu Xiaogang struggled to accept losing Soul Power while Li Xun flew with Dugu Bo and Sword Douluo to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. There, Li Xun approached the Blue Silver Grass and prepared to ask it for a favor.

• Yu Xiaogang tried to hide his distress over losing Soul Power, while Liu Erlong defended Xiao Wu from his glare.
• Li Xun revealed that Tang Hao's Soul Bone let him fly, then traveled with Dugu Bo and Sword Douluo to Sunset Forest.
• Tang San's group spotted Li Xun in the sky, guessed he was hunting for a Soul Ring, and resolved to train for the All-Continent Soul Master Competition.
• Li Xun, Dugu Bo, and Sword Douluo arrived at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Dugu Bo warned that its remaining plants were poisonous.
• Li Xun approached the Blue Silver Grass and told it he was ready to ask for its help.

Li Xun brought Ah Yin, the potted Blue Silver Emperor, to meet the Blue Silver King in its forest home. After revealing how Tang Hao had hidden Ah Yin, Li Xun began telling the Blue Silver King about her past with Tang Hao.

• Li Xun dug up Ah Yin and explained to Dugu Bo and Sword Douluo that the Blue Silver King would respond to the Blue Silver Emperor’s presence.
• Li Xun, Sword Douluo, and Dugu Bo traveled to Azure Wave Pool, where Li Xun used his Spiritual Power to keep the Blue Silver King from contacting Ah Yin directly.
• The Blue Silver King guided the three through an ancient forest to its enormous plantlike body.
• Li Xun reunited the Blue Silver King with Ah Yin and revealed that Tang Hao had hidden her beneath a sunless waterfall.
• The Blue Silver King grew furious at Tang Hao, and Li Xun offered to tell it what Ah Yin had experienced with him.

Li Xun tried to persuade the Blue Silver King to offer itself as a Sacrifice, first turning it against Tang Hao by recounting Ah Yin’s past. The Blue Silver King recognized the danger of Li Xun’s ambition but hesitated after he promised to revive it and its clan’s Blue Silver Emperors.

• Li Xun told the Blue Silver King that Tang Hao had taken Ah Yin into the human world and left her in a freezing cave after her Sacrifice, provoking its anger and doubts about Tang Hao.
• Li Xun released Ah Yin’s Spiritual Power seal, and she communicated with the Blue Silver King, which ended their conversation feeling helpless about her attachment to Tang Hao.
• The Blue Silver King refused to give Li Xun an awakening baptism because it sensed no Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline in him, so he bluntly asked it to offer itself as a Sacrifice.
• Li Xun said he could plant the Blue Silver King beside Ah Yin after the Sacrifice and use a place of Rapid Growth to help it recover, while admitting that he would force the issue if necessary.
• The Blue Silver King sensed Li Xun’s extraordinary energy and heard his promise to revive it and the Blue Silver Emperors of its clan, and Li Xun offered it the possibility of ascending to the God Realm with him.

Li Xun accepted the Blue Silver King’s offer to Sacrifice itself and persuaded it to perform a Baptism first. The Baptism awakened his Martial Soul and fused his Chakra and Soul Power, but Sword Douluo and Dugu Bo warned him that absorbing the Blue Silver King’s Spirit Ring could kill him.

• Li Xun promised to protect the Blue Silver King’s ruler and descendants, and the Blue Silver King agreed to Sacrifice itself if he also ensured His Majesty’s safety.
• Li Xun asked for a Baptism before the Sacrifice, and the Blue Silver King drew life force from Blue Silver Grass throughout the forest to surround him.
• When meditation failed to draw in the life force, Li Xun refined Chakra, and his Martial Soul began absorbing it despite his lack of the Blue Silver Emperor bloodline.
• Li Xun’s Thousand Hands Wood Sculpture turned emerald green as the Baptism weakened the barrier between Chakra and Soul Power, creating a third energy that fused both.
• Li Xun told Dugu Bo that he planned to use the Blue Silver King as his Fifth Spirit Ring, and Sword Douluo and Dugu Bo warned him that its high cultivation could kill him.

Li Xun received the Blue Silver King’s willing sacrifice, but absorbing its immense power badly damaged his body. He began to heal and gained a black Soul Ring, while Sword Douluo and Dugu Bo prepared to teach him a lesson for frightening them.

• Li Xun told Sword Douluo and Dugu Bo that the Blue Silver King had agreed to sacrifice itself, and explained that he had brought them to intimidate it and guard against Tang Hao.
• The Blue Silver King began its sacrifice, formed a blue ring of light, and gave Li Xun a spirit bone before its trunk crumbled to dust.
• The sacrifice’s energy ravaged Li Xun’s body, and he redirected the excess power into his arms, destroying them, and later lost the flesh on his left leg.
• Li Xun guided the remaining energy through his body and used the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone’s regenerative power to survive until the energy stabilized.
• Li Xun began healing, and Sword Douluo and Dugu Bo rejoiced as his wounds closed and his Soul Ring turned pitch-black.
• Li Xun overheard Sword Douluo and Dugu Bo say he needed a lesson and slowed the absorption, realizing he had frightened them again.

Li Xun recovered from his injuries and discovered the abilities granted by the Blue Silver King's Head Spirit Bone. He tested his new Azure Spear Spirit Ability, then revealed that its spears could theoretically last forever unless he recalled them.

• Li Xun's wounds healed rapidly through the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone and Wood Style, while Sword Douluo and Dugu Bo marveled at his regeneration.
• Li Xun learned that the Head Spirit Bone doubled his Spiritual Power and granted Perception Feedback through nearby plants, which he tested at increasing distances.
• Li Xun stopped pretending to sleep and told Dugu Bo and Sword Douluo that he had reached rank 54 after absorbing the Blue Silver King's energy.
• Li Xun summoned Azure Spear, creating blue spears that were harder than metal and could carry additional attributes such as lightning.
• Li Xun demonstrated the spear's power by throwing a lightning-infused spear through the forest, then explained that the spears could theoretically remain indefinitely unless recalled.

Li Xun returned toward the sect with Sword Douluo and Dugu Bo after testing the Azure Blue Spear’s durability. Meanwhile, Qian Renxue’s plan to bring the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect into Spirit Hall by handing over Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo met Qian Daoliu’s objections, and Bibi Dong confronted her as she left Worship Hall.

• Sword Douluo tested the Azure Blue Spear, and Li Xun demonstrated that he could turn it and the ground into blue dust and leave behind seeds.
• Sword Douluo and Dugu Bo took turns carrying Li Xun as they flew back toward the sect.
• Bibi Dong ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo to return to Spirit City and assigned him and Ghost Douluo to watch the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s activities.
• Qian Renxue told Qian Daoliu that she had agreed to hand over Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo in exchange for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect joining Spirit Hall.
• Qian Daoliu rejected the exchange unless Ning Fengzhi changed the condition, and told Qian Renxue to persuade Bibi Dong or negotiate another offer.
• Bibi Dong approached Qian Renxue and asked, “You’re back,” prompting Qian Renxue to turn and ask what she wanted.

Qian Renxue failed to secure Bibi Dong's support for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's demand, leaving her unsure how to honor her promise to Li Xun. When she met with Li Xun and Sword Douluo, Li Xun accepted her request to change the condition and asked how many Titled Douluo she could mobilize.

• Qian Renxue refused to call Bibi Dong her mother, and Bibi Dong warned her that Ning Fengzhi might be using her.
• Qian Renxue told Bibi Dong that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would join Spirit Hall if Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo were handed over, but Bibi Dong made her grandfather's approval a condition.
• Qian Renxue returned to Heaven Dou, troubled that she might not be able to fulfill her promise to Li Xun.
• Snake Lance Douluo told Qian Renxue that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect representatives were expected at the branch hall, and she went to meet Li Xun and Sword Douluo.
• Li Xun said he had expected the demand to change and asked Qian Renxue how many Titled Douluo she could currently mobilize.

Li Xun negotiated with Qian Renxue for Spirit Hall’s help obtaining a Ten Thousand Year Spirit Ring, while offering the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s support. Qian Renxue learned the ring was intended for Li Xun himself, leaving her stunned and convinced his teacher had put him in mortal danger.

• Li Xun saw that Qian Renxue was struggling within Spirit Hall and offered three Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Titled Douluo to help hunt the Spirit Ring.
• Qian Renxue refused the offer at first, determined to show Spirit Hall her sincerity, but Li Xun warned her that too many people from Spirit Hall could not be trusted.
• Qian Renxue asked which Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect senior would receive the ring, and Li Xun secretly told her it was meant to be his sixth Spirit Ring.
• Qian Renxue reacted in disbelief, thinking her teacher had gone mad by letting Li Xun risk death to absorb a Ten Thousand Year Spirit Ring at level sixty.