Chapter Summaries

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.

Huang Tian reunited with Zhu Zhuqing at Blue Tyrant Academy, refused her request to marry him until she turned eighteen, and gave her a Spatial Soul Tool before leaving. Zhu Zhuqing hid her feelings from Xiao Wu, who guessed that a sweetheart had given her the ring, and asked Zhu Zhuqing to keep the romance secret until graduation.

• Huang Tian met Zhu Zhuqing and rejected her proposal, telling her she could marry him after she turned eighteen.
• Huang Tian returned to give Zhu Zhuqing a phoenix-patterned Spatial Ring with a capacity of one thousand cubic meters, and she happily accepted it.
• Xiao Wu found Zhu Zhuqing grinning and noticed the golden ring she tried to hide.
• Zhu Zhuqing admitted that someone had given her the ring and asked Xiao Wu to keep it secret until graduation.
• Xiao Wu guessed that Zhu Zhuqing's sweetheart had given her the ring and asked whether he was handsome.

Huang Tian gathered vast quantities of deep-sea ores and organized Tang Hao and the blacksmiths to establish a Metal Smelting Center for developing stronger materials. He later took Qian Renxue, Liu Erlong, and Tang Yuehua underwater, where he showed them deep-sea fish with powerful defenses.

• Huang Tian collected two hundred thousand cubic meters of seabed ores and delivered them to Tang Hao at the research center in Asura Valley.
• Huang Tian appointed Tang Hao to lead the Metal Smelting Center, and Tang Hao and Zhang Tianning arranged blacksmiths, guards, and resources to process the ores.
• Huang Tian made five more trips to the seabed over two days and brought the center a total of one million cubic meters of metal ore.
• Qian Renxue, Liu Erlong, and Tang Yuehua asked to join Huang Tian on an underwater excursion, and he teleported them beneath the sea.
• Huang Tian illuminated the depths and explained how tough the deep-sea fish were, then demonstrated their strength by letting Qian Renxue attack one.

Huang Tian and the three women descended into the deep sea, collecting fish and a giant octopus while avoiding powerful Sea Soul Beasts. They reached an underwater ore vein and filled ten Spatial Rings with ore.

• Liu Erlong tested the deep-sea fish with a punch, then accepted Huang Tian's explanation of their toughness, while Qian Renxue and Tang Yuehua rejected her idea of making fish soup.
• Huang Tian gathered the dead fish as the group descended, and the Ten-Thousand-Year Sea Soul Beasts following them fled when a Deep Sea Giant Octopus approached.
• Liu Erlong recognized the fifty-thousand-year octopus and listed ways to cook it, so Huang Tian killed it without damaging its body and stored its severed tentacles.
• Huang Tian gave Qian Renxue, Liu Erlong, and Tang Yuehua Spatial Rings and led them to an underwater mineral vein.
• The four of them cut ore from the mountain wall and filled ten Spatial Rings before Huang Tian flicked Qian Renxue's forehead for complaining that they were too small.

Huang Tian returned from collecting seabed ores, delivered them to the research center, and joined his family for dinner made from giant octopus meat. The group finished the meal and toasted their successful expedition.

• Huang Tian collected the Spatial Rings from Qian Renxue, Liu Erlong, and Tang Yuehua, then took them back to Asura Valley.
• Huang Tian deposited the ores from the rings at the research center and brought giant octopus tentacles to Liu Erlong in the kitchen.
• Huang Tian sliced thirty kilograms of octopus tentacles, and Liu Erlong cooked five dishes for dinner.
• Bibi Dong joined Huang Tian, Qian Renxue, Tang Yuehua, and Liu Erlong in the pavilion, where they ate the octopus dishes and drank wine.
• Huang Tian told the others that he would keep one ton of the remaining octopus meat and share the rest with the cafeteria, and the group finished all five dishes.

Huang Tian made Qian Renxue a larger Spatial Ring before taking her inside after she teased him. Bibi Dong discussed her covert plans with Liu Erlong and Tang Yuehua, then faced Tang Yuehua’s suspicion that she was not Qian Renxue’s true mother.

• Huang Tian destroyed his old Spatial Rings and crafted a twenty-five-thousand-cubic-meter ring for Qian Renxue.
• Qian Renxue teased Huang Tian about his stamina, and he took her into their room while Liu Erlong, Tang Yuehua, and Bibi Dong stayed outside.
• Bibi Dong told Liu Erlong that Spirit Hall was secretly stockpiling grain and iron, and Tang Yuehua asked about Hu Liena’s mission in Gengxin City.
• Tang Yuehua confronted Bibi Dong about her missing twin sister and questioned whether Qian Renxue was truly her daughter.
• Bibi Dong recalled that her sister had taken her place during Qian Xunji’s assault, that her sister later died by suicide, and that Bibi Dong had assumed her identity and raised Qian Renxue as her own.

Tang Yuehua arranged to erase the information about Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue, while Huang Tian learned that Qian Renxue’s Cloud Illusion Soul Bone belonged to the Angel Set and analyzed how it worked. He revealed that Hu Liena had put a thirty-thousand-year soul bone up for auction, prompting the women to consider the consequences.

• Tang Yuehua told Tang Xiao to destroy the information and deal with everyone involved after Bibi Dong tacitly agreed to keep the matter secret.
• Huang Tian massaged Qian Renxue, then created nine Spatial Rings the next morning for another undersea mining trip.
• Huang Tian remembered Qian Renxue’s disguise ability and asked about her Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone; Qian Renxue explained the Angel Set and showed him her Cloud Illusion Soul Bone.
• Huang Tian analyzed the Cloud Illusion Soul Bone for thirty minutes while Qian Renxue, Liu Erlong, and Tang Yuehua watched over him.
• Huang Tian said he wanted to study whether soul-bone abilities could be replicated onto Soul Tools and revealed that Hu Liena had put a thirty-thousand-year soul bone up for auction.

Huang Tian explained that Hu Liena planned to use a simulated soul bone to lure Miles into a trap in Gengxin City, then took Liu Erlong, Tang Yuehua, and Qian Renxue to mine ore beneath the sea. After sparing the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, they returned with a large haul of ore for the metal refining center.

• Liu Erlong and Tang Yuehua questioned the soul bone auction in Gengxin City, and Huang Tian revealed that Hu Liena had disguised a three-thousand-year soul bone as a thirty-thousand-year one to provoke conflict and kill Miles.
• Huang Tian gave Liu Erlong, Tang Yuehua, and Qian Renxue Spatial Rings, then led them to the seabed mine to collect ore.
• The four mined two hundred and fifty thousand cubic meters of associated ore in four hours, and Huang Tian decided they had gathered enough for now.
• Liu Erlong considered taking the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King as a mount or killing it for its soul bone, but gave up after Huang Tian explained how hard it was for powerful Soul Beasts to survive tribulations.
• Huang Tian brought the group back and deposited their ore at the metal refining center.

Huang Tian and the three women watched Gengxin City's auction, where a spatial belt sparked fierce bidding before Red-robed Bishop Miles tried to seize it through force. Miles revealed the Elder Hall's planned split from the Pontiff's Palace, and Hu Liena ordered Gui Mei to kill him; Gui Mei confronted Miles and exposed his nine Soul Rings.

• Huang Tian joined the three women in watching a projection of the auction in Gengxin City.
• Bidders drove the price of a ten-cubic-meter spatial belt up to twenty thousand Gold Soul Coins, and Liu Erlong discussed selling larger spatial items with Huang Tian.
• Miles threatened the auctioneer and buyers, using his seven Soul Rings and fifteen Soul Emperor subordinates to take control of the auction.
• Miles defied City Lord Wang, claimed the Elder Hall would split from the Pontiff's Palace, and ordered everyone present killed.
• Hu Liena ordered Gui Mei to kill Miles, and Gui Mei revealed himself as a Title Douluo; Miles demanded that he leave.

Gui Mei executed Miles and his fifteen Soul Emperor subordinates after Miles exposed the Elder Hall’s planned split from Spirit Hall. Hu Liena recovered her soul bone from the auction house, and she, Gui Mei, and Yue Guan left for Spirit City as news of the killings and the split threatened to spread.

• Gui Mei revealed that he was a Spirit Hall elder and sentenced Miles and his subordinates to death for their crimes.
• Gui Mei killed Miles and the fifteen Soul Emperors, ending the auction for the day.
• Gui Mei warned Hu Liena and Yue Guan that Miles’s public revelations could spread across the continent and expose their stand-in.
• Hu Liena and Yue Guan decided to retrieve Hu Liena’s soul bone and return to Spirit City immediately.
• Hu Liena gave Antonlai a spatial bracelet as compensation, recovered her soul bone, and left the auction house with Gui Mei and Yue Guan.

Huang Tian learned that the Elder Hall might split from Spirit Hall and discussed how to prevent the conflict from harming civilians. He then investigated a mutated Immortal Herb and used Sweet Dew Rain to greatly enhance its power, leaving the Three-Leaf Sword Heart Grass radiating formidable Sword Intent.

• Huang Tian explained that Hu Liena's soul bone could mimic another person's appearance, aura, and cultivation for a limited time, unlike Qian Renxue's Cloud Illusion Soul Bone.
• Liu Erlong and Tang Yuehua discussed how Bibi Dong might use Miles's death and revelations about the Elder Hall to delay its split from Spirit Hall, while Huang Tian said they should be ready to intervene to protect civilians.
• Qian Renxue worried that her grandfather and mother might fight, but Huang Tian assured her they would not.
• Zhao Gang notified Huang Tian that a Sword Heart Grass had mutated into a Three-Leaf Sword Heart Grass, doubling its medicinal potency.
• Huang Tian infused the grass with Sweet Dew Rain, increasing its potency more than tenfold and strengthening its Sword Intent.