Chapter Summaries

Li Xun persuaded Qian Renxue that he could absorb a Ten Thousand Year Spirit Ring and discussed hunting a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, though he left the target undecided pending a plan. As he and Sword Douluo walked away from Heaven Dou Royal Academy, they overheard Yang Qianjun arguing with someone from the Breaking Clan about the Clear Sky Sect.

• Qian Renxue questioned whether Li Xun could survive absorbing a Ten Thousand Year Spirit Ring, and he revealed that his Fifth Spirit Ring was already nearly seventy or eighty thousand years old.
• Li Xun weighed hunting the Titan Giant Ape in the Star Dou Great Forest against the Titan Snow Demon Ape in the Northernmost Land, and Qian Renxue warned him that the Northernmost Land was dangerous.
• Li Xun said he had an idea for the hunt but needed to see whether his next plan succeeded, and Qian Renxue agreed to discuss it later.
• Sword Douluo asked whether Li Xun had been too open with Qian Renxue, and Li Xun explained that displaying his strength would earn her support.
• Li Xun and Sword Douluo heard Yang Qianjun arguing with a Breaking Clan member who refused to visit the Young Master at Blue Lightning Academy and said the clan wanted nothing more to do with the Clear Sky Sect.

Li Xun and Sword Douluo arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy as Yang Qianjun fought with Tai Long over the Breaking Clan’s alliance with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. After returning to the dormitory, Li Xun found Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing sharing snacks, and Ning Rongrong teased him about visiting a girl.

• Tai Long accused Yang Qianjun of betraying the Clear Sky Sect, but Yang defeated him and revealed he had reached level forty.
• Yang Qianjun explained to Li Xun and Sword Douluo that Tai Long had tried to take him to meet the Strength Clan’s Young Master.
• Li Xun and Yang Qianjun discussed the upcoming All-Continent Soul Master Elite Competition and the academy’s lack of team training.
• Li Xun returned to the dormitory, where Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing were shelling nuts together.
• Ning Rongrong protested when Li Xun ate her snacks, then asked whether he had gone to see that girl again.

Li Xun was relaxing with Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing when he learned that Yang Qianjun had been attacked at the foot of the academy’s mountain. He arrived to find Zhu Zhuqing fighting Tai Nuo and stepped in to face him.

• Li Xun teased Ning Rongrong, wrestled her for her food, and playfully spanked her before falling asleep.
• Ning Rongrong woke Li Xun and told him Yang Qianjun had been beaten while escorting his fiancée with Shi Mo and Shi Mo; Zhu Zhuqing had gone to help.
• Li Xun flew to the mountain’s foot and found Yang Qianjun and Shi Mo injured, while Zhu Zhuqing fought Tai Nuo beside Tai Long and Yang Qianjun’s anxious fiancée.
• Tai Nuo struck Zhu Zhuqing with a punch, but she defended herself with her sword and landed without serious injury.
• Li Xun took Zhu Zhuqing’s place and challenged Tai Nuo, revealing five Soul Rings—one yellow, two purple, and two black.
• Li Xun summoned a mass of vines toward Tai Nuo, who activated his third Soul Ring and sent blasts of air and debris at them.

Li Xun defeated Tai Nuo by trapping him in a storm of electrified vines, leaving the Strength Clan conflict unresolved. He urged Yang Qianjun and Bai Jing to stay at the academy and decided to leave the dispute to Yang Wudi rather than let Dugu Bo attack the clan.

• Tai Nuo used his fourth Spirit Ability to create an energy field, but Li Xun surrounded it with vines and electrified them with his fourth black Soul Ring.
• The vines swallowed Tai Nuo before he could use his fifth Spirit Ability, and the current overwhelmed him as Tai Long watched helplessly.
• Poison Douluo arrived with Dugu Yan and Ning Rongrong, while Tai Nuo remained trapped in the lightning for half an hour.
• Li Xun withdrew the plants and revealed Tai Nuo unconscious and badly burned; Tai Long carried his father away after glaring at Yang Qianjun.
• Li Xun warned Yang Qianjun and Bai Jing to remain at the academy and said Senior Yang Wudi should handle the Strength Clan matter, rejecting Dugu Bo's offer to eliminate them.

Li Xun investigated why his attempts to cultivate Sage Arts failed and concluded that his Martial Soul might convert external Natural Power into Soul Power. He left the library with a new theory that Douluo humanity’s Martial Souls had evolved in response to ancient outside forces, and wondered what humans might have become without that interference.

• Dugu Yan reminded Li Xun that the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament was approaching, and he promised to train with the Heaven Dou Royal Team.
• Li Xun failed another Sage Arts attempt, tore away his wooden right hand, and realized that drawing energy from the environment caused his body to turn to wood.
• Li Xun suspected that his Martial Soul was changing external energy after it entered his body, so he went to the Heaven Dou Royal Academy library to research humanity’s evolution.
• Li Xun studied legends about the ancient dragon race and theorized that the Dragon God’s bloodline and the God Realm’s aura had altered humans, beasts, and plants across Douluo Continent.
• Li Xun concluded that Martial Souls might convert harmful external energy into Soul Power and wondered whether humanity could have developed greater potential without the ancient interference.

Li Xun considered how to keep the Strength Clan and Speed Clan from aligning with the Clear Sky Sect, which he believed was too weak to withstand Spirit Hall. He proposed reporting the Strength Clan for harboring Tang Hao, claiming he could protect the Speed Clan and had an ally in Spirit Hall’s upper ranks.

• Zhu Zhuqing told Li Xun that Yang Wudi wanted to see him about the Strength Clan and the Speed Clan’s patriarchs inviting him to Heaven Dou City.
• At Yang Qianjun’s dormitory, Yang Wudi said Li Xun’s Teacher advised waiting, while Yang Wudi insisted he would never return to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Li Xun asked Yang Wudi to estimate the Clear Sky Sect’s odds against Spirit Hall, and Yang Wudi put them below thirty percent.
• Li Xun suggested persuading the Strength Clan and Speed Clan not to draw close to the Clear Sky Sect, but Yang Wudi said their patriarchs would not listen to him.
• Li Xun proposed reporting the Strength Clan to Spirit Hall for harboring Tang Hao and assured Yang Wudi that the Speed Clan would remain safe.

Tang San waited at the Strength Clan residence for Yang Wudi, hoping to recruit the Breaking Clan chief, but left when Yang failed to appear. As Tang San headed to the academy, two figures arrived at the estate, accusing its residents of sheltering a wanted criminal pursued by Spirit Hall.

• Tang San asked Titan and Bai He when Yang Wudi would arrive, and Titan angrily accused Yang of snubbing his old friends.
• Bai He explained Yang Wudi's strength, loyalty, resentment toward the Clear Sky Sect, and interest in medicine, giving Tang San hope that he could win him over.
• Tang San admitted he had no rare herbs to offer Yang Wudi, and the group waited as the day passed without Yang's arrival.
• Tang San grew angry and left the Strength Clan residence, refusing to wait any longer for Yang Wudi.
• Tang San heard a loud sound from the estate and saw a golden-armored man descend into its courtyard as a dark figure hovered nearby; the man accused the clan of sheltering a Spirit Hall fugitive.

Tang San hid as Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo confronted the Strength Clan and Speed Clan over their alleged knowledge of Tang Hao. Titan fought to cover Bai He’s escape, but Chrysanthemum Douluo overwhelmed him while Ghost Douluo pursued Bai He.

• Tang San sensed two Titled Douluo approaching and hid, suspecting they had come to arrest his father.
• Bai He and Titan denied knowing Tang Hao, while Chrysanthemum Douluo accused them of hiding information and Ghost Douluo said they had orders to bring them back.
• Titan warned Bai He to flee while he held off the Spirit Hall elders.
• Titan attacked Chrysanthemum Douluo as Bai He escaped toward the outskirts of Heaven Dou City, and Ghost Douluo chased him.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo defeated Titan with his energy attack, leaving him screaming as nearby buildings collapsed.

Spirit Hall arrested the Strength Clan while Tang San escaped and suspected the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had arranged the raid. At the Seven Treasure Weapon Factory, Li Xun planned to use Tang San’s late delivery to stir up trouble and explained that the factory’s recruited children were being trained as weapon researchers.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo took Titan and ordered Spirit Hall to capture the Strength Clan, while Tang San watched from hiding and fled Heaven Dou City.
• Qian Renxue ordered the release of low-ranking Strength Clan members, learned Tang San’s identity, and decided not to concern herself with him.
• Li Xun and Ning Yuan discussed Tang San’s overdue shipment of a thousand Godly Zhuge Crossbows, and Li Xun suggested deducting breach-of-contract fees.
• Li Xun advised Ning Yuan to have carpenters build a tenfold model of the Godly Zhuge Crossbow to study its internal mechanisms.
• Li Xun explained that the factory’s children would become weapon researchers who developed stronger weapons rather than laborers.

Li Xun urged the factory's children to become creators and invent weapons that could rival Soul Masters. Wang Cheng and several other youths showed him a modified arrow-firing device, leaving Li Xun recognizing its resemblance to the Nest of Bees Rockets.

• Li Xun gathered the factory's 2,500 children and told them their future could extend beyond learning trades to creating new weapons.
• Li Xun demonstrated the Godly Zhuge Crossbow and challenged the children to invent weapons that surpassed it.
• Li Xun encouraged the children to pursue any trade while promising fame, status, and financial security to anyone who created a new weapon.
• Wang Cheng asked Li Xun to inspect an invention made with several other youths, including two from Gu Rong Village.
• Wang Cheng and the youths demonstrated their enlarged Hidden Sand Projectiles device, modified to fire arrows fitted with gunpowder and fuses.
• Li Xun recognized the device as resembling the Nest of Bees Rockets from the Ming Dynasty and laughed.

Li Xun praised Wang Cheng and the other youths for inventing a Rocket Swarm and rewarded them to encourage weapon research. Tang San delivered the final two hundred Godly Zhuge Crossbows, but learned that his late delivery cost him 300,000 Gold Soul Coins, and he questioned whether the buyer would work with him again.

• Li Xun inspected the Rocket Swarm, praised Wang Cheng and the others, awarded each of them one hundred Gold Soul Coins, and named them Level One Pioneers.
• Li Xun announced plans for a weapons exhibition hall and a Grandmaster advancement path, then reunited with Ning Rongrong after the crowd dispersed.
• Tang San finished assembling two thousand Godly Zhuge Crossbows and wondered whether the buyer could help investigate who had been stealing Xiao Wu's belongings.
• Tang San met Xiao Wu and Manager Wu outside the academy to deliver the last two hundred crossbows and collect his remaining payment.
• Manager Wu deducted 300,000 Gold Soul Coins as a breach-of-contract penalty, and Tang San confirmed the contract included the overdue-delivery clause.
• Tang San signed for the payment and asked Manager Wu whether the buyer would still order from him or hire him for repairs.

Tang San and Xiao Wu investigated the suspicious buyers of his Godly Zhuge Crossbows and discovered that the shipment was headed into the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s sphere of influence. Tang San persuaded Flender and the others to keep following the caravan rather than attack it, hoping to learn the sect’s intentions and locate earlier shipments.

• Tang San noticed that Manager Wu knew little about the twenty-million-Gold-Soul-Coin deal and decided to follow him after suspecting the buyers had ulterior motives.
• Tang San watched Manager Wu deliver the crossbows to a merchant guild, then signaled Flender and explained his concerns.
• Flender, Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, Tang San, and Xiao Wu followed the caravan for several days as it picked up more goods and escorts.
• Yu Xiaogang identified the caravan’s destination as the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s sphere of influence, shocking Tang San and the others.
• Flender considered robbing the caravan, but Tang San urged the group to keep following it because the shipment held only a fraction of the crossbows he had sold.

Tang San and his companions infiltrated a village near the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and found a warehouse full of hidden weapons. After discovering that the sect had enlarged his designs to bypass his safeguards, Tang San decided to destroy the warehouse and began preparing to set it ablaze.

• Tang San insisted on investigating the caravan's destination, and Yu Xiaogang, Flender, Liu Erlong, and Xiao Wu agreed to accompany him.
• Liu Erlong and Flender explained that the Golden Triangle could use a rare Martial Soul Fusion Skill capable of holding off a Titled Douluo.
• Tang San and the others entered a guarded complex and found more than three thousand hidden weapons in a warehouse.
• Tang San discovered that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had enlarged his Hidden Sand Projectiles to bypass the hidden locks in his designs.
• Tang San decided to destroy the warehouse and poured Fierce Fire Oil over several racks, while Yu Xiaogang asked about the other warehouses.

Tang San and his companions infiltrated the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s weapon facilities, but a patrol discovered them and alarms drew the guards. Tang San escaped into a factory as Xiao Wu and Liu Erlong fled after setting additional fires, while Li Xun identified Tang San and sounded an alert.

• Tang San led the group through the warehouses and toward the factory buildings, then split up with Flender to search more quickly.
• Yu Xiaogang made a noise while avoiding a patrol, and Tang San used Hidden Weapons to incapacitate the four guards, but a dropped gong alerted nearby workers.
• Tang San entered a factory alone while Liu Erlong dragged Xiao Wu and Yu Xiaogang away; flames spread through the factory buildings, and Xiao Wu set fire to a warehouse.
• Li Xun sensed Tang San fleeing with his Spiritual Power and fired a Signal Device into the sky.
• Ning Yuan reported that one processing factory and three warehouses were badly damaged and that several guards had died; Li Xun ordered compensation for the victims' families as three streaks of light approached from the sect.

Li Xun and Ning Rongrong joined Sword Douluo and Dugu Bo in pursuing the Shrek group after the group raided the factory. Tang Hao rescued Tang San and Xiao Wu but abandoned Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong to face the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Li Xun arrived as their confrontation began.

• Li Xun learned the intruders were the Shrek group, then set off with Ning Rongrong to pursue them and test their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Tang San reunited with Xiao Wu and Flender, but Sword Douluo and Dugu Bo soon caught up with the group.
• Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong stayed behind to hold off the pursuers while Yu Xiaogang gave Tang San a Spirit Hall token.
• Tang Hao appeared, took Tang San and Xiao Wu away, and left Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong behind.
• Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong formed a Martial Soul Fusion Skill that transformed Luo San Pao into a golden giant dragon as Dugu Bo prepared to fight.
• Sword Douluo pursued Tang Hao, and Li Xun arrived beside Dugu Bo just as the confrontation was about to begin.

Li Xun and Ning Rongrong used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to trap Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong inside an illusory pagoda while Dugu Bo battled them. Inside the illusion, Yu Xiaogang relived the humiliation of his youth and was pushed toward the limit of his endurance.

• Dugu Bo transformed into his Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor and attacked Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong, but their golden fusion barrier withstood his tail strike.
• Dugu Bo used Medusa's Gaze to petrify Luo San Pao's golden shield.
• Li Xun and Ning Rongrong summoned the Thousand Hands Buddha Statue and used Buddha Pagoda, Compassionate Crossing to draw Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong into an illusory space.
• Yu Xiaogang found himself alone in a star-filled realm, which transformed into the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan from his memories.
• Figures from Yu Xiaogang's youth mocked his Martial Soul and low cultivation, and an illusionary figure urged him to stop humiliating himself before a resonant voice rang out again.

Yu Xiaogang endured a series of painful illusions that forced him to relive rejection and humiliation. After the visions ended, Li Xun and Ning Rongrong rejected using their short-lived Martial Soul Fusion Skill for defense, wary of the trials it imposed.

• A voice repeatedly asked Yu Xiaogang whether he understood as he relived Bibi Dong rejecting him and choosing Qian Xunji.
• Yu Xiaogang experienced his wedding to Liu Erlong being interrupted by Yu Luomian, who accused him of knowingly pursuing her for her Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon bloodline.
• Yu Xiaogang broke down under the accusations, and the voice's question returned as his memories flooded back.
• Dugu Bo noted that Li Xun and Ning Rongrong's Martial Soul Fusion Skill lasted only three seconds and suggested using it defensively.
• Li Xun and Ning Rongrong refused to treat the skill as a defensive move because they feared what people trapped inside would endure.

Li Xun and Ning Rongrong’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill left Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and Flender shaken by frightening illusions, while Li Xun and Ning Rongrong joked about their relationship. Dugu Bo forced the three defeated Soul Masters to take his poison, leaving them under his control.

• Dugu Bo asked about Li Xun and Ning Rongrong’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill, but they warned him not to let it affect him.
• Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong returned from the illusion distressed, and Flender reminded them that it had not been real.
• Li Xun explained the term “simp” to Ning Rongrong, then called their relationship a harem as they teased each other.
• Dugu Bo demanded that Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and Flender surrender, and Yu Xiaogang persuaded the others to admit defeat.
• Dugu Bo gave the three Soul Masters poison and threatened them with its effects, so they swallowed the pills.

After Tang Hao rescued Tang San and Xiao Wu, Tang San proposed using Yu Xiaogang’s token to draw Bibi Dong and Spirit Hall into the conflict with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Meanwhile, Li Xun and Xue Qinghe discussed the captured attackers’ punishment and the damage they had caused.

• Sword Douluo returned with Tang Hao’s ear after Tang Hao escaped with Tang San and Xiao Wu, and Li Xun decided to bring Yu Xiaogang and the others back as captives.
• Tang Hao scolded Tang San for acting recklessly, while Tang San regretted causing his father’s injury and learned that Tang Hao had secretly protected him.
• Tang San proposed going to Bibi Dong with Yu Xiaogang’s token to shift the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s attention toward Spirit Hall, and Tang Hao agreed to take him near Spirit City without Xiao Wu.
• Li Xun told Xue Qinghe that the attackers had caused over two million Gold Soul Coins in damage and killed six people, and Xue Qinghe discussed fines, penal labor, and beheading.
• Li Xun said the captured group might pay through a student who had recently made a transaction worth over twenty million Gold Soul Coins.

Tang San met Bibi Dong and asked Spirit Hall to rescue Yu Xiaogang, while concealing the full capabilities of his hidden weapons. In the Heaven Dou Empire Prison, Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and Flender were tormented by a guard who said the Crown Prince had sent them there.

• Li Xun believed Qian Renxue’s identity as Crown Prince would help drive a wedge between her and Bibi Dong over Yu Xiaogang’s execution.
• Tang San entered Pope Palace with a Pope Decree and told Bibi Dong that Yu Xiaogang had been captured after Tang San set fire to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s warehouse.
• Bibi Dong asked Tang San to demonstrate his hidden weapon, then offered to cooperate with him after seeing its power.
• Tang San declined to discuss cooperation and asked only to rescue Yu Xiaogang, so Bibi Dong sent him to Elder Yue Guan in Heaven Dou City for help.
• A prison guard whipped Yu Xiaogang and told him, Liu Erlong, and Flender that the Crown Prince had sent them to prison.