Chapter Summaries

Tang San confronted Tang Hao over his neglect and refused to stop seeking the truth behind his parents’ past, while Ah Yin tried to mend their relationship. Zhou Qing guided Ah Yin toward earning Tang San’s trust through agricultural research, then she recognized the rare Golden Ancient Tree growing on the Spirit Rhyme Turtle.

• Tang San condemned Tang Hao’s parenting, said he had repaid Ah Yin’s birth with Martial Soul Gestation, and took the two black Soul Bones to return to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Ah Yin stopped Tang Hao from acting rashly, but Tang San rejected his plea to abandon the past and said he sought the truth to protect future generations.
• Zhou Qing returned Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone and advised her to earn Tang San’s trust by joining agricultural research rather than relying on gifts.
• Ah Yin offered to become Zhou Qing’s godmother, and Tang Hao revealed that Zhou Qing was an orphan raised with help from Holy Soul Village.
• Ah Yin recognized the Spirit Rhyme Turtle’s Golden Tree as a rare tree with the potential to become an Eternal Tree, then watched the turtle affectionately rub against Zhou Qing.

Zhou Qing brought Tang Hao and Ah Yin to Holy Soul Village, where they registered as residents and arranged temporary housing. Tang Hao’s return as a crippled former Titled Douluo drew Old Jack’s familiar sarcasm as he prepared to keep watch over him when he met Tang San.

• Zhou Qing told Ah Yin and Tang Hao that his cultivation no longer required Soul Rings and explained why Tang San’s Twin Martial Souls slowed his progress.
• Old Jack met the group at the Worker-Peasant Council entrance and took them to the village affairs office to register.
• Hu Liena registered Tang Hao and Ah Yin, learning that Tang Hao was a former Clear Sky Douluo and blacksmith while Ah Yin identified her Martial Soul as Blue Silver Grass.
• Tang Hao insisted that he would support Ah Yin, but she said she wanted to work because he was injured and they needed to make a living.
• Old Jack offered to take the couple to temporary housing and mocked Tang Hao by saying Holy Soul Village would not rename itself Douluo Village for him.

Tang Hao and Ah Yin settled into the village, while Zhou Qing weighed the Heaven Dou Empire’s tax increase and prepared to visit the Clear Sky Sect with Tang San. The chapter ended with Zhou Qing and Tang San setting out to examine how the sect was organized.

• Old Jack escorted Tang Hao and Ah Yin to their new home, where Huyan Li recognized Tang Hao as the Clear Sky Douluo and alerted the major factions’ spies.
• Zhou Qing decided to accept the Heaven Dou Empire’s increased taxes for now, judging that open resistance would be premature.
• Tang Hao began forging Soul Tool components, choosing difficult work despite his missing right arm and left leg.
• Zhou Qing asked Tang San whether he would acknowledge Ah Yin, and Tang San said he felt no connection to a mother he had never met.
• Zhou Qing told Tang San he had learned the Clear Sky Sect’s location from Hu Liena, and the two planned to visit it and study its organization.

Zhou Qing and Tang San traveled to the Clear Sky Sect’s village to return two inherited soul bones on Tang Hao’s behalf and propose cooperation. The sect’s inner disciples summoned them to meet the Sect Leader.

• Zhou Qing and Tang San found the Clear Sky Sect’s collateral village and explained their visit to its farmer sentries.
• Tang San discussed farming with the villagers, who described years of hardship and how Blue Silver Rice had improved their harvests.
• Three inner disciples arrived, and Tang San showed them the two Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones in a Lead Box.
• Tang San warned the Clear Sky Sect not to trouble Holy Soul Village, and the leading disciple told them the Sect Leader wished to see them.

Zhou Qing and Tang San crossed the Clear Sky Sect’s perilous mountain chains with Tang Long, Tang Tian, and Tang Yu, impressing the disciples along the way. After Zhou Qing warned them that the chains were cracking, the group reached the sect gate, where guards stopped Zhou Qing and Tang San to demand tokens.

• Zhou Qing leaped straight to the mountain peak and revealed that he was twelve years old with Soul Power at level sixty-nine, while Tang San followed using Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.
• Tang Long, Tang Tian, and Tang Yu led Zhou Qing and Tang San across four long chains toward the Clear Sky Sect, and the visitors crossed without needing safety ropes.
• Zhou Qing pointed out cracks in the chains and warned Tang Long that they could break and cause serious injuries.
• Tang Long introduced himself and his companions, then asked Tang San about Tang Hao and whether Tang San was truly his son; Tang San confirmed their blood relationship.
• At the Clear Sky Sect’s mountain gate, two guards stopped Zhou Qing and Tang San and asked them to present sect tokens.

Zhou Qing and Tang San visited the Clear Sky Sect, where Tang Xiao tested their power and received the soul bones Tang Hao had returned. Tang Xiao assumed Tang San had come to rejoin the clan, but Tang San called Tang Hao by name and insisted the visit was only to deliver his explanation.

• Tang Long recognized Tang San as Tang Hao's son, rebuked the gate guards, and led Tang San and Zhou Qing into the sect.
• Tang Long introduced the sect's disciples and invited Tang San to compete for the Third Generation Chief position, but Tang San said he had no interest in joining the clan.
• Tang Xiao tested Zhou Qing and Tang San with his aura, and Zhou Qing shattered it with his Mind-Sense Qi Field.
• Tang San showed Tang Xiao the two Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, and Tang Xiao and the noblewoman realized Tang Hao had severed his right arm and left leg to return them.
• Tang Xiao assumed Tang San had come to acknowledge his ancestors, but Tang San said the soul bones were Tang Hao's explanation and called Tang Hao his name.
• The noblewoman told Tang Xiao that Tang San was an orphan, and Tang Xiao rebuked Tang Hao while insisting Tang San should still call him father.

Zhou Qing and Tang San visited the Clear Sky Sect on behalf of the Red Assembly to return Tang Hao’s Soul Bone and propose cooperation, but their offer exposed a clash over the sect’s pride and decline. Tang Xiao remained uncertain about the proposal after Tang San pointed out an opportunity for the sect to rise again.

• Tang San and Zhou Qing told Tang Xiao they represented the Red Assembly, and Tang Xiao objected to Tang San’s refusal to act as a member of the Clear Sky Sect.
• Zhou Qing proposed that the sect’s skilled blacksmiths work with Holy Soul Village to make Soul Tool components and earn income while training.
• Tang Xiao ordered Tang Long, Tang Tian, and Tang Yu to quarry stone and carve chairs with their Clear Sky Hammers after Tang San criticized the sect’s pride.
• Tang Yuehua introduced herself and offered to teach Zhou Qing and Tang San noble skills, but both declined, and Tang San defended farmers and workers against Tang Xiao’s contempt.
• Tang San challenged Tang Xiao’s reliance on the sect’s past glory and suggested the Red Assembly’s proposal could help the Clear Sky Sect rise again.

Zhou Qing and Tang San stayed at the Clear Sky Sect while Tang Xiao considered whether to cooperate with them and bring Tang San back into the sect. The next morning, Tang Long came to escort them to the elders, who were waiting in the courtyard.

• Zhou Qing declined Tang Xiao and Tang Yuehua’s offer of hospitality, but agreed to stay one night while Tang Xiao consulted the sect’s elders.
• Tang Yuehua warned Tang Xiao that the elders might target Tang San, but Tang Xiao resolved to seek his return to the sect and believed Zhou Qing could support him.
• Tang Xiao questioned Tang Long, who reported Tang San’s extraordinary physical ability and Zhou Qing’s Soul Power Level of sixty-nine.
• Tang Xiao concluded that Tang San had come to return to the sect and planned to use Tang Long as a punching bag so Tang San could vent his anger.
• Zhou Qing and Tang San trained, then made hot pot for breakfast; Tang Long found them and told them the elders were waiting in the courtyard.

Zhou Qing and Tang San tried to discuss cooperation with the Clear Sky Sect, but the elders turned the meeting into a confrontation over Tang San’s family ties. After Seventh Elder overruled Tang Xiao’s order to let them leave, Tang San condemned the sect and its disciples.

• Tang San and Zhou Qing arrived at the gathering of Tang Xiao, the elders, and Clear Sky Sect disciples, where Second Elder said the sect had matters to discuss with Tang San.
• Tang San rejected Tang Xiao’s attempt to claim kinship and said he and Zhou Qing had come only to discuss cooperation.
• Seventh Elder insulted Tang San over his relationship with Tang Hao, so Tang San and Zhou Qing decided to leave and reminded Tang Xiao they planned to seek cooperation in Gengxin City.
• Seventh Elder accused the pair of trespassing, but Tang Xiao confirmed he had invited them and ordered the disciples to let them leave.
• Seventh Elder countermanded Tang Xiao, and the disciples refused to make way; Tang San mocked the sect and declared that he looked down on them.

Tang San rejected Clear Sky Sect’s claim to authority over him, prompting the elders to surround him and demand that he abandon the Clear Sky Hammer. Zhou Qing challenged the elders’ right to judge Tang Chen’s descendants and argued that their own doctrine of strength should have led them to support Tang Hao.

• Second Elder called Tang San unfilial for addressing Tang Hao by name, but Tang San rejected the elders as outsiders and denied any family bond with people he had never met.
• Second Elder ordered the Clear Sky disciples to surround Tang San and Zhou Qing, while Tang Xiao and Tang Yuehua appealed for restraint.
• Seventh Elder offered to let Tang San return to the sect if he swore never to use the Clear Sky Hammer again, but Tang San refused to let outsiders dictate his martial soul.
• Zhou Qing questioned the elders about Tang Chen’s descendants, then argued that Clear Sky Sect’s glory and estate belonged to Tang Chen’s direct line.
• Seventh Elder blamed Tang Hao for his son’s death, and Zhou Qing retorted that the son had died because he was weak under the sect’s Strong Reign Supreme doctrine.
• Zhou Qing argued that the elders should have welcomed and supported Tang Hao for his strength, and challenged them to sacrifice for Tang Chen’s descendants after benefiting from his legacy.

Zhou Qing defeated the Seventh Elder and confronted Tang Xiao and the other Clear Sky Sect elders after criticizing the sect’s decline. He and Tang San overwhelmed them with their Mind-Sense Qi Fields, then Tang San treated the injured Seventh Elder.

• The Seventh Elder attacked Zhou Qing with the Collapse Character Technique, but Zhou Qing shattered his Clear Sky Hammer and sent him crashing into the sect gatehouse.
• The Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Elders and Tang Xiao summoned their Clear Sky Hammers to face Zhou Qing, while Tang Yuehua also turned against him.
• Zhou Qing and Tang San combined their Mind-Sense Qi Fields, knocking out the younger Clear Sky disciples and Tang Yuehua while shaking Tang Xiao and the four elders with a terrifying vision.
• Tang Xiao realized that the group could not defeat Zhou Qing and Tang San, even with six Titled Douluo fighting together.
• Zhou Qing sent Tang San to treat the Seventh Elder, and Tang San used his healing skills and Wind-Resisting Grass Right Palm Bone to repair the elder’s injuries and Meridians.

Zhou Qing and Tang San left the Clear Sky Sect after urging Tang Xiao to resolve its internal power struggles before pursuing cooperation. Their warning pushed Tang Xiao to assert his authority over the elders and declare that the sect would leave the mountains that year.

• Tang Xiao called after Zhou Qing and Tang San to discuss cooperation, and Zhou Qing said the sect should first put its internal affairs in order.
• The Seventh Elder complained about the visitors, but Tang Xiao blamed him for provoking Tang San and confined him for half a year.
• Tang Xiao declared that the Clear Sky Sect answered to its sect master and threatened to divide the family if the elders refused to accept his authority.
• Tang Xiao promised to avenge the Seventh Elder's son by killing the Spirit Hall Titled Douluo responsible for his death.
• The Second Elder asked when the Clear Sky Sect would leave the mountains, and Tang Xiao answered that it would happen that year.

Tang Xiao persuaded the Clear Sky Sect’s elders to end their isolation, seek an alliance with the Star Luo Empire, and reunite with their former affiliated clans. Outside the sect, Zhou Qing explained that he hoped the Clear Sky disciples could change and someday accept the Red Assembly’s ideals, while Tang San questioned why Zhou Qing did not use Romantina’s world-simulation ability for the Assembly.

• Tang Xiao argued that the Clear Sky Sect needed to reconnect with the outside world, ally with the Star Luo Empire, and bring its four former affiliated clans back under its protection.
• Tang Xiao said Spirit Hall’s pressure and the clans’ worsening circumstances would make them willing to rely on the Clear Sky Sect again, and he proposed blaming their past grievances on Spirit Hall.
• After Tang Yuehua woke, she questioned the haste of Tang Xiao’s plan and asked how Moonlight Pavilion fit into it, so Tang Xiao decided to close it rather than appear to favor Heaven Dou.
• Tang San asked Zhou Qing whether the Clear Sky Sect might attack Holy Soul Village, and Zhou Qing said the sect would likely ignore them unless its internal power struggle turned against Tang Xiao.
• Zhou Qing said he hoped the Clear Sky disciples would encounter new ideas and that some might eventually join the Red Assembly, since they were ignorant rather than irredeemable villains.
• Tang San asked why Zhou Qing did not use Romantina’s world-simulation ability to help the Red Assembly and teasingly suggested Zhou Qing was reluctant to let her.

Zhou Qing and Tang San planned to recruit Lou Gao by challenging him to a forging contest, while Tang San designed armor based on Zhou Qing’s Rakshasa Avatar blueprint. Zhou Qing also planned to bring Tang San to the Star Dou Great Forest to negotiate with Di Tian about a partnership that could help the Red Assembly develop artificial Soul Rings.

• Zhou Qing warned Tang San that relying too heavily on Romantina’s Simulations could weaken people’s initiative, and Tang San agreed that everyone should work together.
• Zhou Qing showed Tang San a blueprint copied from the Rakshasa Avatar and suggested its patterns could help forged metals bond into a unified whole.
• Zhou Qing said they would visit Gengxin City in half a month to recruit Lou Gao, and Tang San decided to challenge him by forging armor.
• Tang San designed a lightweight scale-like armor and planned to study the blueprint and Great Soul Guidance Book before the forging contest.
• Zhou Qing asked Xiao Wu whether she had persuaded the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape, and she said they followed Di Tian.
• Zhou Qing planned to take Tang San to the Star Dou Great Forest in seven days to seek Di Tian’s cooperation, hoping Soul Beasts could help the Red Assembly develop artificial Soul Rings.

Zhou Qing and Xiao Wu entered the Star Dou Great Forest, where Xiao Wu killed a wounded Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent and encountered Shrek Academy students and Meng Yiran. Zhao Wuji recognized the pair and introduced himself as the chapter ended.

• Zhou Qing and Xiao Wu walked toward the forest’s Core Area, avoiding the habitats of powerful Soul Beasts.
• Xiao Wu kicked a wounded Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, killing it and causing its Thousand-Year Soul Ring to appear.
• Zhou Qing recognized Dai Mubai, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and Yu Xiaogang among the group pursuing the serpent.
• Meng Yiran recognized Zhou Qing and Xiao Wu, obtained their autographs, and said she would apply to Nuoding Academy.
• Zhao Wuji introduced himself to Zhou Qing and Xiao Wu after confirming their identities.

Zhou Qing met Zhao Wuji’s group and the Peerless Dragon Serpent pair in the Star Dou Great Forest, where Yu Xiaogang argued over the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent and challenged Zhou Qing’s plans. Zhou Qing invited the group to the forest’s Core Area to seek spirit rings, while their divided loyalties and resentments kept them from acting as a united team.

• Zhou Qing greeted Zhao Wuji’s group, and Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun recognized him and recalled their past conflicts.
• Ma Hongjun’s Evil Fire flared, but Yu Xiaogang ordered him to calm down, and Ma Hongjun suppressed it.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent for Oscar, while Chao Tianxiang and Meng Yiran disputed his claim and explained that the serpent had escaped after Meng Shu wounded it.
• Meng Shu emerged from hiding, and Zhou Qing invited Zhao Wuji’s group to accompany him to the Core Area to discuss matters with Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts and possibly obtain spirit rings.
• Yu Xiaogang questioned Zhou Qing’s ability to enter the Core Area, and Zhou Qing reminded him of their old disagreement in Nuoding City.
• Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and the others privately judged Yu Xiaogang and Zhao Wuji’s group, revealing that their pride and grudges prevented them from uniting.

Zhou Qing persuaded Grandpa Dragon, Grandma Serpent, and Yu Xiaogang’s group to accompany him and Xiao Wu into the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest, offering compensation and a chance to learn about Artificial Soul Rings. The group set off under Zhou Qing’s power, while Yu Xiaogang mistakenly assumed his flight came from a Soul Bone.

• Zhou Qing offered the two groups compensation for the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent and invited them to the core region to discuss cooperation with Soul Beasts over a Hundred-Thousand-Year in cultivation.
• Zhou Qing revealed that the cooperation concerned Artificial Soul Rings and offered free Secondary Refinement for two Soul Rings if the groups declined to go.
• Meng Yiran persuaded Grandpa Dragon and Grandma Serpent to accept Zhou Qing’s invitation, and Yu Xiaogang agreed to join so he could investigate Artificial Soul Rings.
• Zhou Qing lifted everyone into the air and flew toward the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Yu Xiaogang suggested Zhou Qing’s flight came from a Soul Bone, but Zhou Qing said he would never absorb one, even if it reached Hundred-Thousand-Year level.

Zhou Qing and his companions reached the Star Dou Great Forest’s Core Area, where the Ferocious Beasts confronted Xiao Wu and the others. The revelation that Xiao Wu was a transformed soul beast and the local beasts vastly outclassed the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python left the humans fearing for their lives.

• Zhou Qing brought the group to the lake and sensed the Silver Dragon King sleeping beneath it without disturbing her.
• Xiao Wu tapped the lake’s surface, drawing Di Tian and several powerful soul beasts out of the forest.
• Yu Xiaogang recognized the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King, Darkgold Dreadclaw Bear, Emerald Swan, Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff, Demonic Eye Magic Tree, and Hell Demonic Dragon.
• Bi Ji transformed into a woman, carried the Three-Eyed Golden Lion aside, and watched Xiao Wu’s group.
• Xiong Jun struck Da Ming and Er Ming, sending them flying, before ordering them to leave; the Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff demanded that Xiao Wu be left behind.
• The humans realized Xiao Wu was a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and that the surrounding beasts had at least Two-Hundred-Thousand-Year cultivation, and they feared being silenced.

Xiao Wu brought Zhou Qing to the Star Dou Great Forest to seek cooperation with Di Tian, who tested Zhou Qing in battle and discovered his extraordinary strength. After Zhou Qing explained his cultivation, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion connected with him, and Di Tian realized he was the World's Favorite Son.

• Xiao Wu introduced Zhou Qing as the hope for cooperation between humans and Soul Beasts, and Di Tian transformed into human form to face him.
• Di Tian attacked Yu Xiaogang, but Zhou Qing blocked the strike and protected the group.
• Zhou Qing and Di Tian fought in the sky for ten minutes, and Zhou Qing eventually knocked Di Tian into the lake.
• Di Tian recognized that Zhou Qing was only a Level 69 Soul Emperor but had combat power beyond a Level 100 powerhouse.
• Zhou Qing revealed his Light Form and described how he had integrated his cultivation with the world.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion ran to Zhou Qing, and Di Tian concluded that he was the World's Favorite Son.

Zhou Qing demonstrated his abilities and proposed artificial Soul Rings as a way to end the conflict between Soul Masters and Soul Beasts. Di Tian listened to his terms, but the chapter ended with Zhou Qing asking whether Di Tian had killed Xiao Wu’s father.

• Zhou Qing revealed that he no longer needed Soul Rings and showed Di Tian his inner scenery, then transformed into Di Tian and a Darkgold Dreadclaw Bear to demonstrate his abilities.
• Zhou Qing explained that he could copy the appearance and abilities of beings whose auras he had perceived, convincing Di Tian to hear his proposal.
• Zhou Qing offered artificial Soul Rings, saying his companion Tang San had made progress using a Star of the Ocean.
• Zhou Qing called Soul Beasts people, and Di Tian fell silent as Zhou Qing argued that their ability to take human form showed their shared nature.
• Zhou Qing asked whether Di Tian had killed Xiao Wu’s father, and Di Tian admitted that the Ten-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit had died at their hands.