Chapter Summaries

Lin Hanye and Bibi Dong intervened to save Spirit Hall’s survivors from Bo Saixi, and Lin Hanye wagered that Bo Saixi could defeat him within an hour. The two began fighting over the deep sea while Bibi Dong prepared the survivors to leave.

• Lin Hanye told Bo Saixi he had come to repay Spirit Hall for helping him awaken his martial soul, and Bibi Dong arrived to support him.
• Lin Hanye warned that Bibi Dong’s poison and his own abilities could threaten Sea God Island, then proposed that Bo Saixi defeat him within one hour or let Spirit Hall’s survivors leave.
• Lin Hanye and Bo Saixi flew out to the deep sea, while Bibi Dong ordered the Spirit Hall members to free their ships and prepare to depart.
• Bibi Dong identified the stranger as Lin Hanye, shocking the survivors and Spirit Hall’s four Titled Douluo elders.
• Lin Hanye released nine crimson soul rings and attacked Bo Saixi with a vast storm of Frost Sword Qi, and Bo Saixi raised a Seawater Barrier with her fifth soul skill.

Lin Hanye and Bo Saixi fought an hour-long battle over the sea, with their ice and ocean powers countering each other and neither gaining the upper hand. While they continued fighting, Bibi Dong led Spirit Hall’s survivors back to the Douluo Continent.

• Lin Hanye froze Bo Saixi’s seawater barrier and countered her Sea Soul Beast summons with his ice domain, trapping her among towering ice prisms.
• Lin Hanye attacked with five enormous ice dragons, and Bo Saixi used her Sea God True Body to repel them and freeze the surrounding sea.
• Lin Hanye summoned his Mysterious Ice True Body and clashed with Bo Saixi, whose ocean powers were gradually consumed by his icy attacks.
• After an hour of evenly matched combat, Lin Hanye suggested they continue, and Bo Saixi agreed.
• Bibi Dong asked Sea Dragon Douluo and Sea Demoness to let Spirit Hall leave, then led the survivors aboard their remaining warships toward the Douluo Continent.
• Black Rhino Douluo thanked Bibi Dong for saving them from being wiped out.

Bibi Dong reunited with Spirit Hall members, concealed her past and explained why she would delay returning, while Lin Hanye and Bo Saixi ended their three-day battle without a victor. Lin Hanye proposed that they put aside their fight and share a drink.

• Bibi Dong reminded the Spirit Hall members to thank Lin Hanye and told them she had been stranded on an island, where hunting Sea Soul Beasts had helped her become a Titled Douluo.
• Bibi Dong learned that Qian Xunji had married into the Radiant Sword Lion Family and that Tang Hao and Tang Xiao had gained renown across the continent.
• Bibi Dong said she would complete the Soul Rings of her Second Martial Soul overseas and return within ten years, and she ordered the Spirit Hall members to keep their meeting secret.
• Bibi Dong flew to the place where Lin Hanye had told her to wait while he remained on Sea God Island to investigate the Sea God Inheritance Ground.
• Lin Hanye and Bo Saixi fought for three days, but neither could defeat the other, so Lin Hanye proposed that they bury the hatchet and have a drink.

After fighting to a draw, Lin Hanye and Bo Saixi returned to Sea God Island and shared wine as Lin Hanye explained why he had given up inheriting the Sea God’s position and confessed his feelings for her. Meanwhile, Azure Luan and Ling Yuan found the surviving Expeditionary Army, where Ling Yuan was recognized as Spirit Hall’s eighth Enshrined.

• Lin Hanye and Bo Saixi returned to Sea God Island together, and Bo Saixi dismissed the islanders before leading him to Sea God Hall.
• Lin Hanye and Bo Saixi drank wine by the hall and talked about his former plan to inherit the Sea God’s position.
• Lin Hanye told Bo Saixi he had abandoned that plan because he would rather forge his own path than accept a godhood tied to the death of someone he loved.
• Bo Saixi and Lin Hanye exchanged names and shared a quiet moment after his indirect confession.
• Azure Luan and Ling Yuan found the Expeditionary Army, and the soldiers greeted Ling Yuan as Spirit Hall’s eighth Enshrined after learning she had reached Level Ninety-Six.

Ling Yuan and Qian Daoliu learned that Bibi Dong and Lin Hanye had survived Sea God Island, where Lin Hanye had held off its Great Priestess. As the chapter ended, Lin Hanye promised Bo Saixi he could become a god without inheriting godhood, and she said she believed in him.

• Ghost Leopard told Ling Yuan and the others that Lin Hanye and Bibi Dong had rescued the Expedition Team at Sea God Island and had both become Titled Douluo.
• Qian Daoliu learned that Bibi Dong was alive and that Lin Hanye had held off Sea God Island’s Great Priestess.
• Qian Daoliu reassured Ling Yuan that he would protect Lin Hanye, while Tang Chen asked how Spirit Hall had gained such a powerful Honorary Elder.
• Lin Hanye told Bo Saixi that fate could change and promised he could become a god without inheriting godhood.
• Bo Saixi told Lin Hanye she believed in him, and he recognized trust as the nature of her love.

Lin Hanye watched Bo Saixi defeat Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen, then learned that she had indirectly confessed her feelings for him by rejecting both men. He left Sea God Island with a promise to return, while Tang Chen set off to pursue the Asura God's Trial.

• A maidservant told Bo Saixi that Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen had come to see her, and Lin Hanye identified the two Peerless Douluo.
• Bo Saixi fought Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen for three days and three nights, defeating them in turn.
• Lin Hanye discussed Bo Saixi's suitors with her maidservant, who said that Lin Hanye was the one best suited to Bo Saixi.
• Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen declared their love, and Bo Saixi rejected them by saying she would marry only a man who became a god through his own power.
• Lin Hanye left Bo Saixi a revised Soul Master Cultivation Manual and said he would return.
• Tang Chen flew to the Clear Sky Sect before planning to take the Asura God's Trial, while Qian Daoliu acknowledged that Bo Saixi had rejected him.

Bo Saixi realized Lin Hanye was the one she cared for, while Qian Daoliu accepted his own defeat and resolved to find and train an Angel God successor. Lin Hanye then met Tang Chen, who proposed a wager over a fight with their Soul Power matched at Level Ninety-Five.

• Qian Daoliu inferred that Bo Saixi loved Lin Hanye and learned that Lin Hanye was only twenty-five years old.
• Qian Daoliu decided to remain in Spirit Hall and devote himself to preparing a successor for the Angel God.
• Bo Saixi received Lin Hanye’s Soul Master Cultivation Manual and his message asking her to wait for him.
• Tang Chen caught up with Lin Hanye and said he wanted to protect the Clear Sky Sect from possible conflict with him.
• Tang Chen proposed fighting Lin Hanye while suppressing his Soul Power to Level Ninety-Five, with the loser owing the winner one condition.

Lin Hanye and Tang Chen agreed to fight at Clear Sky Peak in ten days, while Qian Daoliu offered Lin Hanye Spirit Hall’s support. Lin Hanye then turned his attention to the continent’s three great sects, as Qian Xunji learned that Yu Xiaogang’s prison sentence was ending.

• Lin Hanye challenged Tang Chen to stake the Clear Sky Sect’s Ring Explosion manual, and Qian Daoliu arrived to mock Tang Chen for hesitating.
• Tang Chen agreed to fight Lin Hanye at Clear Sky Peak in ten days with his soul power suppressed to Level Ninety-Five, and challenged Qian Daoliu to a battle as well.
• Tang Chen flew back to the Clear Sky Sect to make preparations, while Qian Daoliu offered to help Lin Hanye and invited him to Spirit City if needed.
• Lin Hanye declared that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Clear Sky Sect would have to answer to him.
• Qian Xunji learned that Yu Xiaogang’s eight-year sentence was ending and asked which Yu Xiaogang the warden meant.

Qian Xunji ordered Yu Xiaogang released after his eight-year sentence in the Tube Building, though he had also ordered that Yu Xiaogang be castrated. Yu Xiaogang left prison hiding his hatred of Qian Xunji, Bibi Dong, and the Spirit Hall while vowing to take revenge.

• Qian Xunji remembered Yu Xiaogang's imprisonment and ordered his release, leaving the Temple Knight to infer that the order to remove Yu Xiaogang's root of evil meant castration.
• Yu Xiaogang endured his final hours in the Tube Building's Number Eleven cell as the prisoners threatened to torment him again.
• Two iron-clad soldiers interrupted the prisoners and announced that Yu Xiaogang could leave prison.
• The warden told Yu Xiaogang that Qian Xunji had granted him a second chance, and Yu Xiaogang thanked the Pope while concealing his desire for revenge.
• Yu Xiaogang left prison determined to make Qian Xunji and Bibi Dong pay for his suffering.

Yu Xiaogang was released from prison after being castrated and swore revenge on Spirit Hall. Qian Xunji learned that the expedition to Sea God Island had failed, that Bibi Dong was alive, and that Lin Hanye had become a Titled Douluo, leaving him terrified by the possibility that Lin Hanye had hidden his strength for years.

• The warden had Yu Xiaogang castrated, then ordered him treated and dumped outside Spirit City.
• Yu Xiaogang woke in a grove, realized what had happened, and vowed to make Spirit Hall suffer the same fate.
• Qian Xunji met Qian Daoliu, who reported that Sea God Island was protected by a Peerless Douluo stronger than he and Tang Chen at sea.
• Qian Daoliu told Qian Xunji that the expeditionary army had not suffered heavy losses and that Bibi Dong was still alive.
• Qian Xunji learned that Lin Hanye was a Titled Douluo and suspected that Lin Hanye had already reached that rank before promising not to return to Spirit City until he did.

Qian Xunji wanted Lin Hanye killed, but Qian Daoliu forbade him and warned him not to threaten Spirit Hall’s unity. At the Clear Sky Sect, Tang Chen announced he would resign as First Elder, leave the sect, and pursue godhood, leaving Tang Wei and the elders terrified about the sect’s future.

• Qian Xunji worried that Bibi Dong would take the Pope’s position, but Qian Daoliu assured him she would become an Enshrined and urged him to produce an heir.
• Qian Xunji asked whether Lin Hanye would join Spirit Hall, then urged Qian Daoliu to kill him when he learned Lin had refused.
• Qian Daoliu rejected the plan, warned Qian Xunji not to make Lin an enemy, and told him to let go of women he could not have.
• Tang Chen told Tang Wei and the six elders that he would resign as First Elder, leave the Clear Sky Sect, and pursue godhood.
• The six elders and Tang Wei pleaded with Tang Chen to stay, fearing that the Clear Sky Sect would lose its standing without him.

Tang Chen prepared the Clear Sky Sect for his departure to pursue godhood, arranging protections against Spirit Hall and plotting to give Lin Hanye a fake Ring Explosion technique. After visiting Tang Hao, Tang Chen and Qian Daoliu returned to the continent, while Lin Hanye and Bibi Dong headed for the Star Dou Great Forest to find a soul ring.

• Tang Chen refused to stay and told Tang Wei and the elders that Tang Hao would learn Ring Explosion and eventually inherit his title.
• Tang Chen reassured the sect that Qian Daoliu would keep Spirit Hall away from Clear Sky Peak and warned that Lin Hanye and Bibi Dong would shape the future Soul Master World.
• Tang Chen planned to challenge Lin Hanye and teach him a fake Ring Explosion technique that he expected would cause severe backlash.
• Tang Chen learned that Tang Hao and Tang Xiao were training in a western Heaven Dou Empire soul beast forest and decided to visit them.
• Tang Chen and Qian Daoliu returned to Douluo Continent, while Lin Hanye and Bibi Dong went to the Star Dou Great Forest to seek the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger as Lin Hanye's Heavenly Demon Eye Second Soul Ring.

Lin Hanye and Bibi Dong defeated a Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, and Lin Hanye planned to absorb its soul ring after securing the bead containing its remaining essence. The chapter ended with Lin Hanye preparing to collect the bead before it could teleport away.

• Lin Hanye trapped the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger in an Ice Barrier and weakened it as it struggled to escape.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger broke through the barrier, but ice chains restrained it and Lin Hanye’s Frost Sword Qi killed it.
• Bibi Dong praised Lin Hanye’s skill, and he explained how he had refined his soul techniques over many simulations.
• Bibi Dong warned that the tiger’s soul ring was less than Seventy Thousand Years old, but Lin Hanye argued that its Supreme Evil Attribute made it valuable.
• Lin Hanye delayed absorbing the soul ring and moved to collect the bead containing the tiger’s soul and most of its essence before it could teleport away.

Lin Hanye absorbed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s Soul Ring and raised it to one hundred thousand years, gaining a powerful summon whose strength matched his own. On the way out of the Star Dou Great Forest, he discovered a transformed Soul Beast but chose to leave her alone, and she revealed that she had a daughter to protect.

• Lin Hanye seized the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s bead, absorbed its Soul Ring, and used the power Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had sealed in him to raise it to one hundred thousand years.
• Lin Hanye summoned the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, while the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape sensed its breakthrough at the Lake of Life.
• Lin Hanye explained to Bibi Dong that the summoned tiger’s strength would grow with his own, though summoning Soul Beasts consumed great amounts of Soul Power and Mental Power.
• Lin Hanye and Bibi Dong left the Star Dou Great Forest and sensed a Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast in a canyon, but Lin Hanye said she would be more useful alive.
• After Lin Hanye and Bibi Dong departed, the transformed woman emerged and worried that her daughter would be left alone if she died.

Lin Hanye and Bibi Dong returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where the Soul Master Guild headquarters was under construction. Lin Hanye reunited with Dugu Bo, revealed that he was also known as Haibodong, and learned that Shao Xin was living with his family in Yelin City.

• Lin Hanye and Bibi Dong arrived at the construction site, where Defense Clan leader Niu Gao greeted them.
• Dugu Bo came out to welcome Lin Hanye and reported that his family and other Guild members had advanced in cultivation and were staying at Dugu Manor in Heaven Dou City.
• Dugu Bo introduced Lin Hanye to Niu Gao as the Soul Master Guild president and revealed that he was also Haibodong.
• Niu Gao worried that the Defense Clan had become entangled with the enemies of Clear Sky Sect, but continued the contracted construction work.
• Lin Hanye followed Dugu Bo into his cave dwelling and learned that Shao Xin was in Yelin City with his wife and child.

Lin Hanye prepared to reveal his identity to Emperor Xue Ye while arranging the Soul Master Guild’s affairs and promising Dugu Bo a solution to his poison. At a palace banquet, Xue Ye welcomed Lin Hanye as a Heaven Dou imperial guest official and offered support for his planned academy.

• Ah Yin, Bibi Dong, and Ling Yuan returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to cultivate, while Dugu Bo managed construction and negotiations for the Soul Master Guild.
• Lin Hanye told Bibi Dong to take over Dugu Bo’s duties and teach the others to condense Soul Cores, then explained that a Poison Core could resolve Dugu Bo’s toxin troubles.
• Dugu Bo swore loyalty to Lin Hanye, who reassured him that he would protect the Dugu Family.
• Lin Hanye and Dugu Bo traveled to Heaven Dou City, where Emperor Xue Ye hosted a banquet attended by Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo.
• Lin Hanye accepted Xue Ye’s Personal Visit token as a Heaven Dou imperial guest official, and Xue Ye promised support for his sect and academy, offering the site where Lin Hanye had fought Tang Hao.

Lin Hanye introduced the Soul Master Guild as a commission-based organization that partnered with registered mercenaries, easing Emperor Xue Ye’s and Ning Fengzhi’s concerns about it becoming a rival to Spirit Hall. He then announced that he had two other matters to share, leaving the gathered leaders puzzled by his claim to be the guild’s president.

• Xue Ye offered Lin Hanye the former Crown Prince's Mansion as a residence, while Ning Fengzhi asked about the sect Lin Hanye planned to establish.
• Dugu Bo explained that the Soul Master Guild would take commissions, hire qualified mercenaries, and punish members who committed crimes or harmed clients.
• Dugu Bo described the guild’s rules, and the assembled leaders saw that it could protect their businesses without recruiting soul masters on Spirit Hall’s scale.
• Xue Ye and Ning Fengzhi concluded that the guild could benefit their factions and help counter future threats.
• Lin Hanye said he had two more matters to announce, and the gathered leaders wondered why he referred to himself as the guild’s president.

Lin Hanye revealed that he was the expelled son of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon and announced his challenge match against Tang Chen before leaving to confront the sect over his family’s deaths. He left Dugu Bo to represent him in negotiations with the Heaven Dou Empire, while Sword Douluo followed to witness what happened.

• Lin Hanye announced that he would fight Tang Chen in two days for the Great Sumeru Hammer, with Qian Daoliu also participating, and declared his true identity and grievance against the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon.
• Xue Ye and Ning Fengzhi questioned Lin Hanye’s identity, but he explained that his changed appearance came from a second awakening of his martial soul.
• Prince Xue Xing offered the Heaven Dou Empire’s support, but Lin Hanye said he would settle his personal feud himself.
• Lin Hanye appointed Dugu Bo to handle negotiations over the Soul Master Guild and its academy, then flew toward the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect.
• Ning Fengzhi sent Sword Douluo after Lin Hanye, while the banquet continued in a subdued atmosphere.

Lin Hanye arrived at the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect and attacked after demanding Yu Yuanzhen come out. He froze nearly the entire sect into an ice city, leaving the Outer Clan Disciples’ area untouched.

• Ning Fengzhi worried that Lin Hanye would connect the deaths of Yu Xinglong and Lin Xiaofeng to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while Xue Xing celebrated and ingratiated himself with Dugu Bo.
• Outer Clan Disciples at the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect grumbled that the sect forbade them from reading Lin Hanye’s Soul Master Cultivation Manual and feared they would be punished for discussing his expulsion.
• Lin Hanye flew into the Dragon’s Tomb, and the patrolling disciples recognized him as Haibodong, the newly promoted Titled Douluo.
• Yu Luomian greeted Lin Hanye and tried to flatter him, but Lin Hanye demanded that Yu Yuanzhen appear.
• Lin Hanye unleashed Profound Ice Ring, freezing and shattering everything it struck across the sect except the Outer Clan Disciples’ area.

Lin Hanye revealed his identity and destroyed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect, killing Yu Yuanzhen and its direct-line disciples after refusing Yu Yuanzhen’s surrender. He spared Yu Luomian’s family and tasked Yu Luomian with eliminating escaped direct disciples and transferring the sect’s assets to the Soul Master Guild, while Yu Yuanzhen’s claim that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect killed Lin Hanye’s father remained unverified.

• Lin Hanye attacked the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect with Ice Obstruction Quaking Star, killing most of its direct disciples and badly injuring Yu Yuanzhen.
• Lin Hanye announced his identity, told the outer clan disciples to leave with their families, and froze Yu Xiaoqiang, two elders, and fleeing direct disciples when they tried to escape.
• Yu Yuanzhen claimed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had murdered Lin Hanye’s father, but Lin Hanye said he would investigate and then destroyed the sect, killing Yu Yuanzhen and absorbing its three inheritance soul bones.
• Lin Hanye told Sword Douluo he would wait for evidence before accepting Yu Yuanzhen’s accusation against the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Lin Hanye spared Yu Luomian, his wife, and his children in exchange for Yu Luomian killing escaped direct disciples and transferring the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon’s assets to the Soul Master Guild.