Chapter Summaries

Zu Zong agreed to represent the Heaven Dou Empire in negotiations with the Clear Sky Sect after Qian Renxue explained the political crisis caused by Xue Beng's death. As they planned his departure, Zu Zong revealed his strength and told Qian Renxue about the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, which she promised to obtain for him.

• Qian Renxue told Zu Zong that Emperor Xue Ye was gravely ill and that the conflict with the Clear Sky Sect had become impossible to mediate.
• Qian Renxue asked Zu Zong to negotiate with the Clear Sky Sect, seeking an apology and a ban on Tang San, Tang Hao, and their descendants returning to the sect.
• Zu Zong agreed to go in a month, and Qian Renxue said he should enter with Tang Yuehua, a member of the Clear Sky Sect.
• Zu Zong revealed that he had a Hundred Thousand Year head soul bone and reached Soul Power Level sixty-nine after killing the Vampire Spider Emperor.
• Zu Zong told Qian Renxue that the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud in the Heaven Dou treasury was the key to inheriting the Seagod's divine position, and she promised to find a way to get it for him.

After a month at Moonlight Pavilion, Zu Zong mastered Slaughter God Assault and promised to accompany Tang Yuehua to the Clear Sky Sect as her boyfriend. Qian Renxue gave him the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, which recognized him and conveyed information about the Seagod’s power.

• During his month at Moonlight Pavilion, Zu Zong integrated his murderous aura into Divine Slaughter's Domain and mastered Slaughter God Assault.
• Zu Zong told Tang Yuehua he would go to the Clear Sky Sect with her as her boyfriend and assured her that she and the others would not grow old.
• Qian Renxue gave Zu Zong the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, which she had taken from the treasury after using Mind Control Curse on Xue Ye.
• Zu Zong fed the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud a drop of his blood, and a voice declared that he could perfectly bear the Seagod's power.
• Zu Zong told Qian Renxue that the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud had recognized him, then asked how she had obtained it.

Bo Saixi learned that the Seagod had found a person recognized by the Heart of the Seagod and was told to help him complete the God Test. Zu Zong arrived in Clear Sky Sect territory under Xue Qinghe’s name, where the sect’s disciples tested his strength and led him toward a towering stone mountain.

• The Seagod told Bo Saixi that the Heart of the Seagod had recognized a uniquely talented person and ordered her to assist him when he reached Sea God Island.
• Zu Zong reached a village in Clear Sky Sect territory and presented a visiting card as an envoy for Crown Prince Xue Qinghe.
• The village elder recognized the Heaven Dou Empire’s grievance against Tang Hao and Tang San and sent for Clear Sky Sect disciples.
• A sturdy Clear Sky Sect man tried to pressure Zu Zong with his aura, but Zu Zong remained unaffected and followed the group toward the rear mountain.
• Zu Zong used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to outpace the sturdy man and bring the other disciples ahead, prompting the group to head up a towering stone peak.

Tang Yuehua told Tang Xiao that Zu Zong was the Lan Zong she had loved decades earlier, and Tang Xiao pledged to support her despite the elders’ council. Meanwhile, Zu Zong impressed Clear Sky Sect disciples by scaling a sheer cliff and crossing an iron-chain bridge as he was escorted into the sect.

• Tang Yuehua explained to Tang Xiao that Lan Zong had traveled from the future and had saved her from traffickers thirty-five years earlier.
• Tang Yuehua admitted she loved Zu Zong, and Tang Xiao promised to stand by her and handle the elders’ council.
• Zu Zong climbed the Clear Sky Sect’s sheer cliff without using footholds, shocking Tang Long and the other disciples.
• Zu Zong and Tang Long’s group safely crossed the iron-chain bridge between two peaks.
• Zu Zong told Tang Long he was the Twin Martial Souls genius Tang Yuehua had mentioned and that he had come at Crown Prince Xue Qinghe’s request.

Zu Zong accompanied Tang Long and the others to the Clear Sky Sect, where he revealed overwhelming speed after the gatekeepers challenged his entry. He left Tang Long stunned by his skill while concealing how he had moved.

• Zu Zong warned Tang Long and the others that their damaged iron chain could snap, then broke it with a kicked stone to demonstrate the danger.
• Zu Zong recognized Tang Long as Tang Zhan's son and learned that Tang Zhan had reached rank eighty-nine.
• Tang Long and the others arrived with Zu Zong at the Clear Sky Sect gate, where two gray-clothed youths demanded a sect token and refused his invitation from Xue Qinghe.
• Tang Guang and Tang An summoned their Clear Sky Hammers and attacked Zu Zong, but he used the Body Flicker Technique and knocked them unconscious with his Hell Burial Hand Blade.
• Zu Zong told Tang Long that the move was a Self-Created Soul Skill taught by Bao Shan, leaving Tang Long frustrated that Zu Zong would not explain his teleport-like speed.

Zu Zong visited the Clear Sky Sect and reunited with Tang Xiao and Tang Yuehua. Tang Xiao mistook Zu Zong for Ah Yin because of his resemblance and Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, but Zu Zong explained his parentage and denied being Tang Hao’s son.

• Tang Long escorted Zu Zong through the Clear Sky Sect to meet Tang Xiao and Tang Yuehua.
• Tang Xiao saw Zu Zong and called him Ah Yin, prompting confusion from Tang Yuehua and Tang Long.
• Tang Xiao questioned Zu Zong about his parents and age, and Zu Zong realized they suspected he was Ah Yin and Tang Hao’s son.
• Tang Yuehua explained that Zu Zong resembled Ah Yin and shared her Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.
• Zu Zong said his parents were Zu Wang and Lan Xiaoling and clarified that Tang Hao’s son was Tang San.
• Tang Yuehua embraced Zu Zong, while Tang Xiao decided to keep his remaining suspicions to himself.

Zu Zong explained the Heaven Dou Empire’s demands after Tang San killed Xue Beng and proposed a way for the Clear Sky Sect to avoid conflict while delaying Tang Hao and Tang San’s return. Tang Xiao accepted the plan for now, then turned to discuss Zu Zong’s relationship with Tang Yuehua.

• Tang Xiao interrupted Zu Zong and Tang Yuehua’s affection and asked whether Zu Zong had come as Xue Qinghe’s sworn younger brother or as Tang Yuehua’s boyfriend; Zu Zong chose to come as her boyfriend.
• Zu Zong told Tang Xiao and Tang Yuehua that the Heaven Dou Empire demanded an apology, Tang Hao and Tang San’s permanent expulsion, and compensation of two Soul Bones and fifty-one million Gold Soul Coins.
• Tang Xiao smashed the stone table in anger, but Zu Zong proposed that Xue Qinghe publicly claim the apology and compensation had been made, while the Clear Sky Sect delayed Tang Hao and Tang San’s return until after Xue Qinghe took the throne.
• Tang Xiao agreed to follow Zu Zong’s plan for the time being and then raised the subject of Zu Zong and Tang Yuehua’s relationship.
• Zu Zong joked that they could marry and go straight to the bridal chamber, making Tang Yuehua blush and leaving Tang Xiao furious.

Zu Zong attended the Clear Sky Sect gathering with Tang Yuehua to present his proposal for resolving the sect’s conflict with the Heaven Dou Empire and to affirm their relationship. The five elders tested him with Title Douluo pressure, but his evolved Divine Slaughter's Domain kept him completely unaffected.

• Zu Zong arrived at the crowded front courtyard with Tang Yuehua and learned that the five elders had authority even over Tang Xiao.
• Zu Zong addressed Tang Xiao as his big brother-in-law and told the elders he was there as Tang Yuehua's boyfriend, shocking the assembled disciples.
• Tang Zhan recognized Zu Zong from their past fight, and Tang Long questioned his father about Zu Zong and Tang Yuehua.
• At the long-browed elder’s signal, a thin, tall elder unleashed his Soul Power pressure on Zu Zong.
• Zu Zong’s spinning white barrier, formed from his evolved Divine Slaughter's Domain, split the pressure and remained effective even as the thin elder used his full strength.

Zu Zong faced the Clear Sky Sect elders’ test to prove he was strong enough to marry Tang Yuehua. As his spar with Tang Hu began, he revealed a startling spirit ring configuration that left the entire sect in disbelief.

• The white-browed elder acknowledged Zu Zong’s Divine Slaughter’s Domain but said the elders needed to approve his marriage to Tang Yuehua based on his strength.
• Zu Zong agreed to spar with Tang Hu, a rank-sixty-two Soul Emperor wielding the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Zu Zong revealed that he was a rank-sixty-nine Soul Emperor and would turn seventeen in less than half a year.
• Tang Hu summoned his Clear Sky Hammer and six spirit rings, preparing to fight Zu Zong.
• Zu Zong summoned his Blue Silver Emperor and revealed six rings, including a scarlet Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, astonishing everyone present.

Zu Zong defeated Tang Hu with his Blue Silver Emperor and blood poison, then asked the Clear Sky Sect elders for permission to marry Tang Yuehua. The elders set a new condition: he must defeat a second-generation disciple before he can marry her and become the sect’s eighth elder.

• Tang Hu challenged Zu Zong despite the gap in their strength and soul rings.
• Zu Zong trapped Tang Hu in a Blue Silver Cage, then poisoned and bound him when Tang Hu failed to break free.
• The white long-browed elder declared Zu Zong the winner, and Zu Zong detoxified Tang Hu.
• Tang Hu acknowledged Zu Zong’s strength but returned to the crowd without calling him uncle.
• Zu Zong asked Tang Xiao and the elders if he could marry Tang Yuehua, and the white long-browed elder required him to defeat a second-generation disciple first.

Zu Zong agreed to fight Tang Zhan, the Clear Sky Sect’s strongest second-generation disciple, to win permission to marry Tang Yuehua. Tang Zhan delayed the duel by moving it to the Iron Chain Bridge, where both fighters took their positions.

• The Second Elder promised Zu Zong could marry Tang Yuehua if he defeated Tang Zhan, and Tang Zhan stepped forward to challenge him.
• Tang Yuehua warned Zu Zong that Tang Zhan had trained fiercely and could briefly contend with ordinary Title Douluo.
• Zu Zong activated his Blue Silver Domain, and Tang Zhan panicked at the sight of the grass and asked to move the fight to the Iron Chain Bridge.
• The Second Elder approved the change of battlefield, and Tang Zhan leapt onto the frosted bridge.
• Zu Zong followed using Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, and the two faced each other on the swaying chains.

Zu Zong and Tang Zhan began their contest on the Iron Chain Bridge, where Tang Zhan revealed his powerful Clear Sky Hammer and eight Soul Rings. Zu Zong countered with two domains and his External Soul Bone, then met Tang Zhan’s Haotian True Body with his Blue Silver Overlord Hammer.

• The white-browed Second Elder set the rule that the first person to leave the Iron Chain Bridge would lose, and Zu Zong and Tang Zhan agreed.
• Tang Zhan summoned his fiery red Clear Sky Hammer and revealed eight Soul Rings, explaining that his humiliation by Zu Zong thirty-five years earlier had driven his training.
• Zu Zong revealed his Blue Silver Emperor, six Soul Rings, and the Divine Slaughter's Domain and All-Encompassing Forest, which suppressed Tang Zhan’s Soul Power and Spirit attributes.
• The Second Elder warned Tang Zhan about Zu Zong’s two domains, and Zu Zong revealed his External Soul Bone, the Eight Spider Lances.
• Tang Zhan used his Seventh Soul Skill, Haotian True Body, and charged Zu Zong with his enormous Clear Sky Hammer.
• Zu Zong activated five Soul Rings and formed his Blue Silver Overlord Hammer to meet Tang Zhan’s attack head-on.

Zu Zong fought Tang Zhan on the Iron Chain Bridge and overcame his Clear Sky Hammer techniques with his Blue Silver Overlord Hammer, domains, and poison. Tang Zhan’s fire-based ultimate failed against Zu Zong’s fire-immune Blue Silver Emperor, leaving Tang Zhan poisoned and nearly out of Soul Power.

• Tang Yuehua explained to the elders that Zu Zong had created the Blue Silver Overlord Hammer and learned Disorder Splitting Wind from Tang San.
• Tang Zhan and Zu Zong traded hammer strikes, but Zu Zong copied Disorder Splitting Wind and gradually suppressed Tang Zhan.
• Zu Zong and Tang Zhan unleashed the eighty-first hammer, Nine-Nine Return to One, sending Tang Zhan flying toward the bank and draining most of his Soul Power.
• Zu Zong attacked with poisoned Blue Silver Blades and used Golden Silk to drain Tang Zhan’s Soul Power.
• Tang Zhan unleashed Haotian Meteor Fire Hammer, but Zu Zong’s fire-immune Blue Silver Emperor withstood the flames, and the blades poisoned Tang Zhan.
• Tang Zhan realized he had lost and asked why his fire attack had failed, and Zu Zong told him that his Blue Silver Emperor was immune to fire.

Zu Zong defeated Tang Zhan and secured the Clear Sky Sect’s recognition of his relationship with Tang Yuehua, while declining to be bound by the sect. The sect appointed him its Eighth Elder, and the chapter ended with Lieyang Douluo questioning why he had been given authority over its disciples.

• Zu Zong used his Blue Silver Flood Dragon skill to defeat and restrain Tang Zhan, then reunited with Tang Yuehua on the bank.
• Tang Xiao and the elders accepted Zu Zong as Tang Yuehua’s partner, and the white long-browed elder offered him the position of Eighth Elder and a sect token.
• Zu Zong explained that he wanted freedom to pursue his goals and support Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, then accepted the token and the authority to command Clear Sky Sect disciples.
• Zu Zong jokingly told the disciples to call him Uncle, and they obeyed after the white long-browed elder ordered them to do so.
• The white long-browed elder announced that Tang Yuehua and Zu Zong would marry that night, and the disciples celebrated as Tang Yuehua thanked Zu Zong tearfully.
• After Zu Zong and Tang Yuehua left, Lieyang Douluo asked the white long-browed elder why he had given Zu Zong so much authority.

Zu Zong married Tang Yuehua, secured the Clear Sky Sect’s apology and expulsion of Tang Hao and Tang San, then learned that Bibi Dong wanted to see him. He set off to meet her after White Zetsu delivered her message.

• The White-Eyebrow Elder and the Seventh Elder decided to win Zu Zong over through Tang Yuehua, while Tang Zhan remained bound and in pain.
• The Clear Sky Sect celebrated Tang Yuehua and Zu Zong’s wedding, and Tang Xiao extracted Soul Wine and several million Gold Soul Coins from Zu Zong.
• Zu Zong and Tang Yuehua discussed the other women in his life and what he would have done if the elders had opposed their marriage, then spent the night together.
• The next morning, Zu Zong had Tang Xiao write an apology to the Heaven Dou Empire and a statement forbidding Tang Hao, Tang San, and their descendants from returning to the sect.
• Zu Zong delivered the documents to Qian Renxue in Heaven Dou City, then White Zetsu appeared and told him that Bibi Dong wanted to see him.
• Zu Zong told White Zetsu he would go to Bibi Dong immediately.

Flender, Liu Erlong, and the Shrek Academy group waited anxiously outside Yu Xiaogang’s residence, where he was expected to give birth. As they passed the time caring for Da Yu'er and Xiao Yu'er, Oscar and Ma Hongjun discussed their futures and their hopes of marrying the girls.

• Flender worried that Yu Xiaogang was in danger during his third difficult delivery, while Liu Erlong criticized him for not taking better care of himself.
• Dai Mubai declared his devotion to Yu Xiaogang, and the others recalled how he had remained at Shrek Academy after losing his chance to compete for the throne.
• The group discussed how Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun had progressed in cultivation, with Oscar recently reaching level forty and Ma Hongjun falling behind.
• Da Yu'er asked Ma Hongjun to carry him, and Xiao Yu'er asked Oscar to carry her.
• Oscar wondered whether he might have ended up with Rong Rong and said he planned to apply for graduation after obtaining his fourth Soul Ring.
• Ma Hongjun said he planned to become a teacher at Shrek Academy and asked Da Yu'er whether he would marry him when he grew up; Da Yu'er agreed.

Zu Zong reunited with Liu Erlong at Shrek Academy, where she revealed their time-traveling history to the others. A baby’s cry then prompted Liu Erlong to explain that Yu Xiaogang was giving birth to his fourth child in a row.

• Zu Zong arrived at Shrek Academy to see Liu Erlong before leaving for Spirit City, and she rushed into his arms, afraid he had left her again.
• Liu Erlong told Flender and the others that the Xiao Zong she had loved decades earlier was actually Zu Zong, who had traveled back in time and met her before he was born.
• Flender accepted that Liu Erlong had found happiness with Zu Zong and let go of his own feelings for her.
• A baby cried from Yu Xiaogang’s room, and Dai Mubai announced that he was becoming a father again.
• Liu Erlong explained that Yu Xiaogang had become pregnant three more times after his previous birth, making this the Fourth Month Platform.

Zu Zong and the Shrek Academy group visited Yu Xiaogang after he gave birth to another child, and Yu Xiaogang realized Zu Zong had been the mysterious man he knew as Lan Zong. Zu Zong suspected Bibi Dong was responsible for some of Yu Xiaogang’s pregnancies, while Liu Erlong pulled him away to try for a child of their own.

• A midwife told the waiting Shrek Academy group that Yu Xiaogang and his newborn son were safe, and Dai Mubai led everyone into the room.
• Liu Erlong told Zu Zong about Yu Xiaogang’s four previous children and the newborn, while Zu Zong wondered who their fathers were.
• Flender explained that Zu Zong was the person Liu Erlong had searched for, and Yu Xiaogang recognized him as Lan Zong from Spirit City.
• Zu Zong recalled Yu Xiaogang’s past betrayal and suspected Bibi Dong had caused some of Yu Xiaogang’s pregnancies.
• That night, a muscular man slipped into Yu Xiaogang’s room after releasing knockout smoke, while Liu Erlong took Zu Zong to her courtyard and they spent the day together.

Tang San completed his Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer training and entered Slaughter City to gain real combat experience. Meanwhile, Hu Liena waited at Spirit City's western gate for Zu Zong.

• Tang San mastered the eighty-one-hammer Nine-Nine Return to One technique, and Tang Hao decided to send him somewhere for real combat training.
• Tang Hao led Tang San to the town near Slaughter City, where Tang San killed the tavern's customers, defeated Terror Knight Scott, and entered the city.
• The Black-Veiled Woman explained that a person could leave Slaughter City by winning one hundred consecutive Hell Slaughter Arena matches and surviving Hell Road, and Tang San learned that ten Deathgods had appeared.
• Hu Liena waited outside Spirit City and greeted Zu Zong as he approached.

Zu Zong reunited with Bibi Dong in Spirit City, where she confronted him over his other relationships before accepting that he would not abandon the women who loved him. Bibi Dong warned him to treat Hu Liena well, and they discussed Yu Xiaogang’s punishment.

• Hu Liena welcomed Zu Zong at Spirit City and brought him to Pope Hall to meet Bibi Dong.
• Bibi Dong pulled Zu Zong to her and wept as they reunited, then confronted him about his other women and Tang Yuehua.
• Zu Zong told Bibi Dong she would be his first wife and agreed to treat Hu Liena well after Bibi Dong warned him not to hurt her.
• Bibi Dong said she had sent someone from Brokeback Mountain to serve Yu Xiaogang, and Zu Zong told her he had already been sent to the Fourth Month Platform.