Recaps

Tang Hao and Ah Yin set out for Asura Valley, where Tang Yuehua planned to learn forging techniques and develop Soul Tools. Huang Tian analyzed Qian Renxue’s prototype Offensive Soul Tool, identified its shortcomings, and encouraged her to improve it.

• Tang Hao reassured Ah Yin that their son should face trials on his own, shaved his beard at her request, and promised to regain his strength and protect her.
• Tang Hao and Ah Yin flew east toward Asura Valley, where Tang Yuehua looked forward to learning forging from her second brother.
• Huang Tian analyzed Qian Renxue’s Spatial Ring and found that its sealed Angel’s Sword could kill Soul Douluos but required too much Soul Power for too few attacks.
• Huang Tian proposed two possible paths for improving the ring into an Offensive Soul Tool, then dismantled it in Black Hole Space.
• Qian Renxue accepted Huang Tian’s advice and returned to studying ways to strengthen the Offensive Soul Tool.

Tang Hao returned to Asura Valley with Ah Yin, settled their arrival with Yanhuang Hall’s elders, and brought her to meet Tang Yuehua. The chapter ended as Tang Yuehua explained how Ah Yin should address her in private and in public.

• Tang Hao presented his identity token to Wang Jiefu, who recognized him and arranged for a house near the woods and mining district.
• Huang Tian summoned Tang Hao and Ah Yin to the eastern district, and Tang Hao left Wang Jiefu to prepare their home.
• Wang Jiefu explained to a newly advanced Title Douluo why the guards needed to respect Tang Hao and the Guardian Elders.
• Tang Hao brought Ah Yin to meet Huang Tian and Tang Yuehua, and Huang Tian left them to talk.
• Tang Yuehua welcomed Ah Yin and explained that she could call her Sister Yuehua privately and Second Madam around outsiders.

Tang Yuehua welcomed Tang Hao and Ah Yin to Asura Valley, exchanged forging knowledge with Tang Hao, and gave the couple gifts before turning to her Spatial Soul Tool studies. Huang Tian criticized Liu Erlong’s Three-Type Fusion Soul Tool and told her to focus on making defensive equipment.

• Tang Yuehua welcomed Tang Hao and Ah Yin, agreed to let them settle in Asura Valley, and asked Tang Hao to record his forging knowledge.
• Tang Hao gave Tang Yuehua a jade tablet of his techniques, and she studied it before offering him and Ah Yin Sweet Dew Rain and Spatial Soul Tool instructions.
• Tang Yuehua met Bibi Dong at the southern pavilion, where Bibi Dong began crafting a Spatial Soul Tool for Huang Tian to assess.
• Liu Erlong showed Huang Tian her Three-Type Fusion Soul Tool, and he criticized its mixed purpose and weak offense despite its strong defense.
• Huang Tian advised Liu Erlong to stop making ring-shaped tools and focus on defensive Soul Tools, such as shields or armor.

Huang Tian advised Liu Erlong to focus on Defensive Soul Tools, then created a powerful Spatial Ring of his own. Bibi Dong crafted a five-thousand-cubic-meter Spatial Ring, and Huang Tian praised her focused progress before both rings were sacrificed to his Black Hole Space.

• Huang Tian advised Liu Erlong to focus on Defensive Soul Tools or continue studying Spatial Soul Tools rather than attempt Three-Type Fusion.
• Huang Tian created a Spatial Ring that stored items, attacked with spatial power, and let its user hide in an alternate space.
• Huang Tian sent Liu Erlong to prepare dinner and told her where to find venison and ribs in the kitchen.
• Bibi Dong emerged from her mental calculations and created a golden, phoenix-patterned Spatial Ring with a five-thousand-cubic-meter capacity.
• Huang Tian inspected Bibi Dong's ring, praised her mastery, and agreed she should focus on Spatial Soul Tools.
• Huang Tian crushed and devoured his and Bibi Dong's rings in Black Hole Space as Liu Erlong announced that dinner was ready.

Huang Tian and the women took a hot-pot dinner break from their calculations, while the Lanba Seven Devils headed into Heaven Dou City to celebrate their return to the rankings. The Seven Devils arrived at the city gates and continued toward dinner, with Tang San wondering whether he could qualify for the upcoming Divine Craftsman Ranking.

• Liu Erlong prepared hot pot, and Huang Tian called Tang Yuehua and Qian Renxue away from their calculations to eat and rest with him and Bibi Dong.
• Huang Tian poured Feitian Maotai for the group, and the five toasted before eating together.
• The Lanba Seven Devils left Blue Tyrant Academy for Heaven Dou City, while ten Title Douluo secretly followed to protect them.
• Dai Mubai led the Seven Devils toward a grand hotel, and they joked about Ma Hongjun missing the rankings as they walked through the bustling city.
• Tang San recalled the preview of the Divine Craftsman Ranking and wondered whether his hammer training and years of forging would qualify him for it.

Dai Mubai took his friends to the Rose Hotel in Heaven Dou City to celebrate their achievements and discuss their plans after graduation. When Tang San revealed his dream of founding a sect, Dai Mubai offered him money to support it, and Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu offered loans as well.

• Dai Mubai brought the group to the Rose Hotel and seated them in a diamond VIP private room for dinner.
• Dai Mubai stopped Ning Rongrong from teasing Ma Hongjun and spoke with his friends about their coming graduation and parting.
• Tang San told the group he planned to establish a sect, and Dai Mubai invited him to join him in the Star Luo Empire instead.
• Tang San said he wanted to try founding the sect first, while leaving open the possibility of seeking Dai Mubai's help later.
• Dai Mubai offered Tang San 100,000 Gold Soul Coins, and Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu each offered him 200,000 Gold Soul Coins.

Tang San explained that he planned to fund a small sect by making and selling Hidden Weapons, while Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing’s betrothal agreement was accidentally revealed at the Rose Hotel. The chapter ended with their companions questioning them about the engagement.

• Tang San refused Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu’s offers of money, saying Dai Mubai and his own funds would be enough for now.
• Tang San told Oscar and the others that he planned to make and sell Hidden Weapons to finance his sect and protect their crafting techniques.
• Zhu Tianfu recognized Zhu Zhuqing and Dai Mubai at the Rose Hotel and offered their companions gold VIP cards after initially proposing silver ones.
• Zhu Tianfu and the waiter discussed Zhu Zhuqing’s betrothal to Dai Mubai outside the private room, and everyone inside overheard them.
• Oscar, Ma Hongjun, Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Wu reacted with surprise and questioned Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing about their betrothal agreement.

Zhu Zhuqing reaffirmed that she had ended her childhood betrothal to Dai Mubai and intended to pursue godhood, while her companions tried to dissuade her. The group shared an elaborate meal at the Rose Hotel, where Tang San was reminded of Yu Xiaogang and mourned his teacher’s death.

• Dai Mubai explained that his betrothal to Zhu Zhuqing had been arranged when they were children, and Zhu Zhuqing said she had no emotional ties to him and would focus on cultivating to godhood.
• Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Tang San warned Zhu Zhuqing that becoming a god could take decades or centuries, but she said her decision was final.
• Zhu Tianfu brought the group more than twenty dishes and Rose Wine, and Dai Mubai explained the wine’s strict membership rules and his Diamond Member status.
• The companions praised the wine and began eating, while Dai Mubai reminded them to return to the Academy before it closed at ten.
• Tang San recalled shared meals with Yu Xiaogang and grieved that he could not investigate whether his teacher’s death had been an accident.

Huang Tian investigated a sudden attack on the World Membrane while Tang Yuehua explained its purpose and revealed why he had founded Yanhuang Hall. The chapter left Bibi Dong stunned by the revelation and learning that the others had only accepted her after she abandoned her plans for war.

• Tang San and his companions hurried back to the academy before the gates closed, while ten Title Douluo guards began their patrol.
• Huang Tian and the others discussed training the nine Dragon Horses and building a carriage strong enough to withstand a Third-Rank Deity's attacks.
• Huang Tian sensed energy striking the World Membrane, teleported there, and absorbed some of the energy while searching for its source.
• Tang Yuehua explained the World Membrane to Qian Renxue and later said Huang Tian might be away for hours or days investigating the attack.
• Tang Yuehua revealed that Huang Tian had founded Yanhuang Hall to prevent Bibi Dong from waging war against the two empires, and Liu Erlong said they accepted Bibi Dong only after she abandoned that plan.

Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue discussed Spirit Hall’s looming conflict with the two great empires and the need to protect civilians while preventing the Hall’s division. The next morning, Bibi Dong gave Hu Liena a Spatial Ring, while Tang Hao began helping Spirit Hall’s Title Douluo improve Spatial Soul Tool production.

• Tang Yuehua said Huang Tian had spent years building a force to prevent Bibi Dong from making mistakes, and Qian Renxue speculated that he had long cared for her mother.
• Qian Renxue explained that Spirit Hall’s support for commoners threatened the nobles of the two great empires, warned that war and an attempt to split Spirit Hall were likely, and urged Bibi Dong to protect civilians.
• Bibi Dong resolved to reinforce Spirit Hall’s borders and continue increasing its soul master forces, while planning to support Hu Liena’s efforts to address traitors within the Hall.
• Bibi Dong secretly gave Hu Liena a Spatial Ring that could be used once every seven days, then returned to the Pontiff's Palace.
• Liu Erlong, Tang Yuehua, and Qian Renxue practiced making Soul Tools in Asura Valley, while Tang Hao joined Zhang Tianning and the Title Douluo to work on improving Spatial Soul Tools.

Tang Hao organized the blacksmiths into independent research groups after forging a Spatial Bracelet with a thirty-cubic-meter interior. He gathered rare ores to improve future Soul Tools, then reunited with Ah Yin at home and promised they would never be separated again.

• Tang Hao forged a Spatial Bracelet and urged the blacksmiths to pursue larger designs and divide into three research groups.
• Zhang Tianning assigned the blacksmiths to groups of one hundred, and Tang Hao ordered them to work separately and develop independent designs.
• Tang Hao showed the bracelet, which could withstand a full-force attack from a level ninety-five Title Douluo, then left Zhang Tianning to organize the groups before the twenty-eight-day deadline.
• Tang Hao advised blacksmiths in other forges, then inspected the mine and collected more than ten cubic meters of rare ores.
• Tang Hao returned home to Ah Yin, shared her meal, and promised they would never be separated again.

Hu Liena, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei discussed how to respond to Subduing Dragon Douluo’s plot to divide Spirit Hall without exposing their investigation. After Gui Mei admitted that his dangerous plan was a pretense, he proposed misleading their watchers and disappearing for a while, leaving Hu Liena asking how they would do it.

• Hu Liena learned from Yue Guan that Subduing Dragon Douluo had colluded with the Star Luo Empire and planned to weaken Spirit Hall in exchange for a title and lands.
• Yue Guan warned Hu Liena against killing Subduing Dragon Douluo before they uncovered his accomplices, and Gui Mei suggested framing the Star Luo Empire by killing Miles, a bishop in Gengxin City.
• Gui Mei proposed that if Subduing Dragon Douluo blamed the Blacksmith Association, they could draw Tang Hao and Yanhuang Hall into the conflict, but Hu Liena and Yue Guan rejected the plan as too dangerous.
• Hu Liena accused Gui Mei of testing her with a reckless plan and pointed out that their enemies were watching their every move.
• Gui Mei revealed that he and Yue Guan had been acting and said they needed to mislead their watchers and disappear temporarily; Hu Liena asked what he meant.

Hu Liena, Gui Mei, and Yue Guan arranged for Pontiff-provided substitutes to take their places while they traveled secretly to Gengxin City. Meanwhile, Tang San left Blue Tyrant Academy for his blacksmithing work, unaware that a Title Douluo guard was following him.

• Yue Guan revealed three substitutes who could perfectly imitate their appearances and voices, and Hu Liena learned that the fake Hu Liena’s Mimicry skill lasted up to five hours per day.
• Gui Mei explained that the substitutes belonged to the Pontiff, reassuring Hu Liena, and instructed them to take the trio’s places in Spirit City.
• Gui Mei, Yue Guan, and Hu Liena entered a secret passage and headed out of Spirit City toward Gengxin City, while the substitutes went to the Pontiff’s Palace.
• Li Fu watched Tang San leave Blue Tyrant Academy and complained that he kept pursuing blacksmithing and founding his own force.
• A Title Douluo assigned to protect Tang San began following him quietly after he left the academy.

Huang Tian returned to Asura Valley after finding no nearby energy clusters and reunited with Qian Renxue, Liu Erlong, and Tang Yuehua. After bathing with Qian Renxue, he left her fuming over the clothes he had torn, while the other women hinted that they wanted to try the same game.

• Huang Tian returned to Asura Valley and reassured Tang Yuehua that no energy clusters remained nearby.
• Qian Renxue became embarrassed when Huang Tian and Liu Erlong teased her about missing him and dual cultivation.
• Huang Tian took Qian Renxue to the bathing room, where he tossed her into the tub and tore her clothes during their two-hour encounter.
• Qian Renxue destroyed her ruined clothes, then complained to Liu Erlong and Tang Yuehua about Huang Tian tearing them.
• Tang Yuehua and Liu Erlong playfully interpreted Qian Renxue's complaint as an invitation to try the clothes-tearing game themselves.

Huang Tian inspected the Soul Tools made by Tang Yuehua, Liu Erlong, and Qian Renxue, praising the first two while criticizing Qian Renxue’s limited-use ring. He carried Qian Renxue toward the house, saying he would teach her a lesson.

• Tang Yuehua presented the Ruyi Armor, and Huang Tian tested its ability to recover from damage before telling her to rest and finish her matching sword later.
• Liu Erlong demonstrated a shield that could deflect attacks from a Peak Douluo and block one attack from an early-stage Third-Rank Deity.
• Huang Tian praised Liu Erlong’s shield but suggested reducing its weight and lowering the Soul Power needed to use it.
• Qian Renxue presented a ring that could unleash ten powerful Angel's Sword attacks before being scrapped.
• Huang Tian analyzed the ring, then carried Qian Renxue toward the house to teach her a lesson.

Bibi Dong waited for Huang Tian to finish testing a Soul Tool, then discussed Spirit Hall’s looming conflict with the Elder Hall and the two empires with Tang Yuehua and Liu Erlong. Liu Erlong proposed ways to prepare for war, leaving Bibi Dong wondering whether she was testing her abandoned ambition to become empress.

• Bibi Dong arrived at Asura Valley, overheard Qian Renxue and Huang Tian, and waited in the southern pavilion with tea.
• Tang Yuehua told Bibi Dong that Huang Tian had returned four hours earlier and tested their finished Soul Tool, using much of his divine power.
• Bibi Dong revealed that the Elder Hall had colluded with the Star Luo Empire’s Royal Family, and that Hu Liena, Gui Mei, and Yue Guan were handling the matter.
• Liu Erlong inferred that Bibi Dong was secretly strengthening Spirit Hall’s defenses and training soul masters while drawing attention toward Hu Liena’s work.
• Bibi Dong admitted that Spirit Hall had only three months of food, and Liu Erlong proposed stockpiling supplies, expanding local food production, and seeking aid from kingdoms and duchies.
• Bibi Dong said Liu Erlong’s advice resembled her former plan to establish an empire and wondered whether Liu Erlong was testing her desire to become empress.

Bibi Dong rejected a return to conquest and chose to focus on Spirit Hall’s self-sufficiency, while Huang Tian approved the first two parts of Liu Erlong’s plan. The group prepared to stockpile supplies and develop large-capacity Spatial Soul Tools, leaving Bibi Dong ready to draft a three-year development plan.

• Liu Erlong warned Bibi Dong that Spirit Hall’s small population made it vulnerable to wartime losses, and Bibi Dong reaffirmed that she had given up her ambition to become Empress.
• Liu Erlong and Tang Yuehua urged Bibi Dong to pursue peaceful development, and Bibi Dong agreed to hold rebellious elders accountable without harming ordinary soldiers.
• Bibi Dong decided Spirit Hall needed five large-capacity Spatial Soul Tools and planned to stockpile necessities, while Tang Yuehua offered to make three tools per day.
• Huang Tian arrived with Qian Renxue, cautioned the group to make reusable Soul Tools, and teased Qian Renxue about her offensive tool intended for Hu Liena.
• Bibi Dong made a six-thousand-cubic-meter Spatial Ring, and Huang Tian judged that it could safely hold up to eight thousand cubic meters.
• Huang Tian approved Spirit Hall carrying out the first two parts of Liu Erlong’s plan, and Bibi Dong resolved to adapt them and create a three-year plan for independent development.

Huang Tian told Bibi Dong, Qian Renxue, Liu Erlong, and Tang Yuehua about his plan to ascend to the God Realm with his family and powerful subordinates, and encouraged the women to pursue their own Soul Tool research. The chapter ended with Huang Tian examining Tang Yuehua’s Ruyi Armor and praising its divine-artifact-level defense.

• Huang Tian said he wanted his women and more than a hundred Yanhuang Hall subordinates to ascend with him, and Qian Renxue eagerly agreed to have children while Bibi Dong objected to raising them.
• Huang Tian asked Liu Erlong to cook, then apologized for pushing the women to learn Soul Tool manufacturing and explained why he believed divine-craftsman rankings could bring great rewards.
• Huang Tian told the women he would stop checking their progress and let each follow her own research interests.
• Tang Yuehua asked Huang Tian to assess her Ruyi Armor, and he analyzed it before declaring its defense comparable to a divine artifact.

Bibi Dong received Tang Yuehua’s Ruyi Armor for Hu Liena, hoping it would protect her disciple from Title Douluo-level attacks during her mission. Meanwhile, Hu Liena traveled toward Gengxin City, planning to strengthen Spirit Hall and eventually establish an empire of her own.

• Bibi Dong asked Huang Tian for armor to protect Hu Liena, and Tang Yuehua offered her Ruyi Armor instead.
• Huang Tian told Bibi Dong that Hu Liena, Gui Mei, and Yue Guan were traveling toward Gengxin City and would arrive in two days.
• Bibi Dong accepted the armor and planned to secretly give it to Hu Liena after she reached the city.
• Liu Erlong served dinner, and Huang Tian, Qian Renxue, Bibi Dong, and the others ate together.
• Hu Liena studied her map and planned to kill Miles, seek weapons and armor from the Blacksmith Association, and eventually become empress of a unified Spirit Hall Empire.
• Hu Liena put away her map and ate roast chicken and wine in the carriage as she and her companions continued toward Gengxin City.

Tang San finished refining iron for his Hidden Weapons and planned to recruit blacksmiths and prepare to establish his sect. He learned that Dai Mubai was away discussing a dangerous return to the Star Luo Empire, and considered how an assassination could be used to frame both the Heaven Dou Empire and Dai Weisi.

• Tang San completed processing ten thousand jin of crude iron into two hundred jin of fine iron and planned to hire blacksmiths to produce more.
• Tang San intended to visit Gengxin City for higher-grade metals after graduation and sell Hidden Weapons to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Oscar and Ma Hongjun met Tang San at the academy and offered to support him when he established his sect.
• Tang San told Oscar and Ma Hongjun that establishing the sect would take at least three more months and that he had not chosen a location.
• Oscar explained that Dai Mubai was meeting a Star Luo Empire envoy about returning home after graduation.
• Tang San reasoned that an assassination of Dai Mubai could be blamed on the Heaven Dou Empire and used to damage Dai Weisi’s claim to the throne.

Dai Mubai returned to the academy after securing ten Title Douluo guards to escort him to the Star Luo Empire, while Flender and Zhao Wuji discussed the graduating students’ futures. Zhu Zhuqing was allowed to remain at the academy as a teaching assistant, and Dai Mubai agreed to end their engagement.

• Dai Mubai told Tang San, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun that the academy had arranged ten Title Douluo to escort him home.
• Tang San reasoned that the academy’s escort protected its reputation and promised to see Dai Mubai off.
• Flender dismissed the students, pleased that the Star Luo Empire’s envoys had paid the academy service and escort fees.
• Zhao Wuji invited Flender for drinks and reviewed the graduating students’ plans, including Tang San’s preparations to establish a force.
• Flender confirmed that Zhu Zhuqing could stay at the academy as a teaching assistant and receive its resources, and Zhao Wuji said Dai Mubai would end their engagement.

Huang Tian resolved to take Zhu Zhuqing in once she came of age and returned to cultivating with Qian Renxue. Meanwhile, Hu Liena, Gui Mei, and Yue Guan arrived at a Spirit Hall villa and were welcomed by its bishop, Charles, after his guards initially surrounded them.

• Huang Tian scanned the continent, learned that Zhu Zhuqing had joined Blue Tyrant Academy, and decided to take her in when she came of age.
• Huang Tian took Qian Renxue to cultivate, while the other three women returned to their homes.
• Hu Liena, Gui Mei, and Yue Guan reached a villa after traveling for more than ten hours and decided to stay overnight.
• Bishop Charles sent soldiers to surround the party, then recognized Gui Mei and Yue Guan and ordered the guards to withdraw.
• Gui Mei introduced Hu Liena as Spirit Hall's Saintess and designated heir, and Charles arranged rooms for the visitors.

Hu Liena, Gui Mei, and Yue Guan spent the night at Bishop Charles’s house before setting out at dawn. In Asura Valley, Tang Hao settled into his new life and enthusiastically ate two bowls of porridge before going to the workshop.

• Charles offered Hu Liena, Gui Mei, and Yue Guan food and rooms, and they chose where to stay for the night.
• Hu Liena cultivated the Nine Heavens Profound Technique instead of sleeping, then got ready when Yue Guan called her at dawn.
• Hu Liena joined Gui Mei and Yue Guan, and their two carriages set out toward the main road.
• Tang Hao woke before dawn, washed, and headed to the smithy after greeting the blacksmiths.
• Tang Hao gulped down two bowls of millet lean-meat porridge at the workshop cafeteria and went to the workshop.

Huang Tian visited the Asura Valley workshop and insisted that Yanhuang Hall members stop kneeling to greet him. He inspected the Soul Tool department’s Spatial Ring and repaired its structure, leaving Tang Hao with a stronger foundation for further research.

• Huang Tian scolded the workshop’s workers for kneeling and ordered them to greet him with a cupped-fist salute instead.
• Zhang Tianning explained that the workers had chosen the kneeling greeting themselves, and Huang Tian questioned several people to confirm it.
• Huang Tian told everyone he did not want such a solemn salute, then dismissed them to return to work.
• Tang Hao and Zhang Tianning showed Huang Tian the Spatial Soul Tools, including Tang Hao’s two-hundred-cubic-meter Spatial Ring.
• Huang Tian analyzed the Spatial Ring, repaired its unstable spatial structure, and encouraged Tang Hao to study spatial knowledge further.

Huang Tian reviewed Yanhuang Hall’s early Spatial, Defensive, and Offensive Soul Tool research, setting technical goals and strict confidentiality rules for explosive weapons. He left Zhang Tianning responsible for organizing the research centers and recruiting researchers in a month.

• Huang Tian identified weak materials and spatial-structure knowledge as problems, then set goals for the Spatial Soul Tool group.
• Huang Tian praised Tang Hao’s armor as a strong basis for Defensive Soul Tool research and urged the group to develop practical designs beyond armor.
• Tang Hao showed Huang Tian explosive Offensive Soul Tools, and Huang Tian ordered their technology kept secret under threat of execution.
• Tang Hao and Zhang Tianning promised strict safeguards against leaks, while Huang Tian renamed the workshops research centers and tasked Zhang Tianning with organizing further research groups.