Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yun taught Xiangling how to conceal her identity and behave inconspicuously among humans, then introduced her to new cultivation and combat techniques. After they reached Heavenly Star City, he established a new identity for her, and Xiangling devoted herself to studying her new training.

• Xiao Yun explained that Xiangling needed a plausible background, ordinary habits, and controlled emotions to avoid drawing attention in human society.
• Xiao Yun warned Xiangling not to use her Martial Soul in public because Spirit Hall records could reveal her identity and fighting style.
• Xiao Yun gave Xiangling a booklet on meridian cultivation, taught her the Great Simplicity Art, and introduced the Ever-Changing Divine Steps, Wind God Leg, Grappling Hand, and Lunar Jade Rabbit Visualization Method.
• Xiao Yun spent 100 Gold Soul Coins establishing Xiao Wu's new identity in Heavenly Star City.
• Xiangling spent the rest of the journey studying her new cultivation method while Xiao Yun rested.

Xiao Yun returned to Years Manor in Heaven Dou City with his new disciple, Mao Xiangling, and introduced her to the residents. Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong took Xiangling to her assigned courtyard and explained the manor’s cultivation arrangements.

• Xiao Yun and Xiangling passed through Heaven Dou City’s gate and arrived at Years Manor, where Liu Erlong and the other residents welcomed them.
• Xiao Yun introduced Mao Xiangling as his disciple, and Liu Erlong invited them inside.
• Xiao Yun assigned Xiangling to Cold Frost Courtyard and asked Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong to arrange her lodging.
• Zhu Zhuqing explained the Twenty-Four Solar Terms courtyards and described how many residents lived in each garden.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Xiangling that Liu Erlong managed most manor affairs and required the younger residents to train for four hours each day.

Xiao Yun returned to Years Manor, reunited with Liu Erlong, and welcomed Xiang Ling at a banquet before settling into months of cultivation and training with the women. The chapter ended with the manor’s residents making steady progress in Xiao Yun’s cultivation system and their Soul Power.

• Liu Erlong showed Xiao Yun the manor’s accounts and described its steady pill trade with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Heaven Dou Royal Academy, the Crown Prince’s Mansion, Tang Yuehua, and Xue Qianren.
• Xiao Yun comforted Liu Erlong and helped ease her fatigue before they went into the study’s inner room together.
• Xiao Yun and the manor’s residents welcomed Xiang Ling at a dinner banquet, then Xiao Yun promised to stay and guide everyone’s cultivation.
• Over the following months, Xiao Yun arranged daily cultivation and sparring while Years Manor remained peaceful and its Spirit Gathering Array ran continuously.
• Dugu Yan advanced furthest in Xiao Yun’s cultivation system, while Liu Erlong, Tang Yuehua, Xue Qianren, Sylvia, Shenghua, Shui Bing’er, Yao Zi, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong also progressed in cultivation and Soul Power.

After months of cultivation and preparation, Xiao Yun and the women celebrated Mid-Autumn Festival with a banquet and games at Years Manor. The next morning, Xiao Yun told Liu Erlong, Shui Ruoyan, and Yao Yuerou that he was going into seclusion.

• Dai Xiaozhao condensed a self-growing first soul ring and enrolled at the affiliated middle school of Heaven Dou Royal Advanced Soul Master Academy.
• Xiao Yun decided it was time to enter seclusion and deal with the small planet inside his Martial Soul Bead.
• The women and Xiao Yun gathered at Years Manor for a Mid-Autumn banquet, then played mahjong, Fight the Landlord, and Werewolf late into the night.
• At midnight, Xiao Yun sent the women to rest, and the next morning he told Liu Erlong, Shui Ruoyan, and Yao Yuerou he was going into seclusion.

Xiao Yun entered seclusion to establish foundational laws in the newly stabilized small world within his Martial Soul Bead. He created seven laws and their Golden World Rings before the chapter ended with four laws still to establish.

• Xiao Yun told Liu Erlong, Shui Ruoyan, and Yao Zi that his seclusion could last from three months to over a year, and assigned them responsibility for the estate, trades, and Dragon Ascending Territory.
• Xiao Yun entered his Cultivation Room and used his Spiritual Sense to survey the small world, naming its two regions the Central Continent and Immortal Spirit Isle.
• Xiao Yun established the law of nature, shaping the terrain, weather, elements, and cycles, and formed the first Golden World Ring.
• Xiao Yun established the law of life, creating plants and animals, then the law of soul, scattering soul seeds and forming the second and third rings.
• Xiao Yun established order, karma, and reincarnation, forming the fourth, fifth, and sixth rings.
• Xiao Yun established destruction, allowing collapse, burning, and decay, and formed the seventh Golden World Ring.

Xiao Yun reached level 100 after completing the ten World Rings and creating a stable world, then drew soul power from across Heaven Dou City to fill his newly expanded body. The city’s soul-powered devices failed as powerful figures and officials headed for Years Manor, where Liu Erlong watched the growing vortex.

• Xiao Yun condensed the rules of Chaos, Time, and Space into the final World Rings, stabilized his world, and reached level 100 as a World-Creating God.
• Xiao Yun released his Divine Sense and pulled soul power from across Heaven Dou City into Years Manor, forming a massive vortex and a cocoon of dense energy around himself.
• Soul-powered lamps, formations, and training devices across Heaven Dou City shut down, interrupting cultivation and injuring students at Spirit Hall’s Heaven Dou main branch.
• Dugu Bo and Xue Qinghe set out for Years Manor, while Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s education committee members and state officials also responded to the vortex.
• Ning Fengzhi alerted Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo, and Liu Erlong arrived at Years Manor’s plaza as the Spirit Gathering Array weakened and the vortex kept expanding.

As Xiao Yun endured the tenth round of Soul Power body tempering, he completed his transformation and entered the god-level Soul Master realm. A colossal armored phantom appeared over Years Manor, and its newly formed crystal released an ancient pressure across Heaven Dou City as a ringed planet rose behind it.

• Liu Erlong assigned the women around Years Manor to guard its gates, walls, array, and visitors while Dugu Yan and Ning Rongrong prepared to receive their respective guests.
• Xiao Yun endured repeated Soul Power tempering that rebuilt his skin, muscles, bones, meridians, marrow, and internal organs.
• After the tenth transformation of Soul Power, Xiao Yun officially became a god-level Soul Master.
• A hundred-zhang armored phantom appeared above Years Manor and gathered the escaping Soul Power.
• A translucent crystal formed on the phantom's brow, releasing pressure across Heaven Dou City that forced common people to their knees and nearly unseated Sword Douluo Chen Xin.
• A planet surrounded by ten rotating golden rings rose behind the phantom.

Xiao Yun absorbed the power of ten supreme laws and completed his breakthrough into the divine rank, gaining a vast reserve of Divine Power. After stabilizing his new strength, he left the secret chamber as those gathered outside watched the manifestation fade.

• Dugu Bo, Xue Qinghe, the Education Committee members, the ministers, Sword Douluo, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing witnessed a phantom surrounded by ten golden rings appear over Years Manor.
• The phantom and its planet shrank into a streak of light and entered Xiao Yun's secret chamber.
• Xiao Yun's Primordial Spirit grew stronger as his Soul Power transformed into golden Divine Power.
• Xiao Yun sensed his Divine Power and ten supreme laws forming a complete cycle, establishing him at the level of Great Divine Power.
• Xiao Yun meditated until his new power settled, then left the secret chamber and walked into the courtyard.

Xiao Yun emerged from a 101-day seclusion after causing a Soul Power disturbance over Heaven Dou City, then received the influential visitors who had gathered at his manor. Sword Douluo Chen Xin confirmed Xiao Yun caused the disturbance, praised Ning Rongrong’s progress, and left after hinting that Xiao Yun should consider her as a partner.

• Xiao Yun emerged from seclusion, and Liu Erlong told him that 101 days had passed and that major factions were waiting to see him.
• Xiao Yun bathed, changed, ate with Liu Erlong and the others, then went to meet Sword Douluo Chen Xin.
• Xiao Yun told Chen Xin that a breakthrough in his cultivation method had caused the disturbance and assured him it posed no danger to Heaven Dou City.
• Chen Xin thanked Xiao Yun for helping Ning Rongrong reach the Soul Emperor level and hinted that Xiao Yun should consider her more seriously.
• Chen Xin invited Xiao Yun to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with Ning Rongrong, then departed on his flying sword.

After emerging from seclusion, Xiao Yun met with Dugu Bo, the Heaven Dou Academy’s Education Committee, and Vincent Fan Hosen. He reassured them about the disturbance caused by his breakthrough, agreed to help Dugu Bo with his meridians and return to teach when available, and confirmed that the pill trade would continue.

• Dugu Bo visited Xiao Yun, learned that his breakthrough had caused the Soul Power vortex, and said he had opened six of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians; Xiao Yun offered to examine the remaining meridians after Xue Ye’s birthday banquet.
• Xiao Yun met Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin, who congratulated him on what they believed was his advancement to Titled Douluo and asked him to teach at the academy again; Xiao Yun agreed to visit when his schedule allowed.
• Xivia told Xiao Yun that her father, Vincent Fan Hosen, was waiting in the side hall, and Xiao Yun went to meet him.
• Xiao Yun told Vincent that the phantom caused by his breakthrough would not recur and suggested explaining it as a divine ability; Vincent accepted the explanation for reassuring Heaven Dou City’s nobles and officials.
• Xiao Yun confirmed that the pill trade between their families could continue at the original quantities, and Vincent said his department would recalculate the next quarter’s procurement.

Xiao Yun met with Finance Minister Suimen, then confronted Xue Qinghe about his identity as Qian Renxue and revealed that he had long known her secret. He demonstrated his divine-level strength and warned her not to reveal it, leaving their alliance intact as unseen gods watched the world.

• Xiao Yun assured Suimen that the Administration Department’s advance pill purchase would not affect the Finance Department’s quota and accepted a larger supply order at the previous price.
• Xiao Yun returned to the Study Room and confronted Xue Qinghe, asking whether he should call him Xue Qinghe, Xue Qianren, or Qian Renxue.
• Xiao Yun explained that he had recognized Qian Renxue’s aura and uncovered evidence of her identity, but had kept the secret because she was doing well and he wanted to see how far she could go.
• Qian Renxue dropped her disguise and admitted she had spent years in Heaven Dou City working to use the empire’s power for Spirit Hall.
• Xiao Yun released a trace of his aura, making Qian Renxue realize he had reached the divine level, and told her to keep his strength secret because gods were watching the world.

Xiao Yun told Qian Renxue about the Sun Moon Continent and flew her on his sword to Spirit City because she wanted to see her grandfather. Qian Daoliu met them in the air, recognized Qian Renxue, and led them toward the city to talk.

• Xiao Yun said he had witnessed a soul beast's breakthrough and a battle with divine generals on the Sun Moon Continent, and Qian Renxue revealed that Qian Daoliu had visited it when he was young.
• Xiao Yun invited Qian Renxue onto his flying sword, and she asked him to take her to Spirit City.
• Xiao Yun flew Qian Renxue to Spirit City at twice the speed of sound, while she held on to him and thought about her grandfather and Bibi Dong.
• Qian Daoliu sensed Xiao Yun's mysterious power and approached him cautiously, while Golden Crocodile Douluo and Bibi Dong sent Azure Luan and Yue Guan to follow.
• Qian Renxue recognized Qian Daoliu and called out to him, easing the tension between the two men.
• Qian Daoliu agreed to bring Xiao Yun into Spirit City after Qian Renxue suggested they find somewhere to talk.

Qian Renxue brought Xiao Yun to meet her grandfather, Qian Daoliu, who agreed to test Xiao Yun’s strength before accepting their relationship. Their aerial duel began above the Star Dou Great Forest, where Xiao Yun blocked Qian Daoliu’s first spear of holy light.

• Qian Daoliu took Xiao Yun and Qian Renxue to a secluded estate and learned that Xiao Yun was the man Qian Renxue had chosen.
• Qian Renxue told Qian Daoliu that Xiao Yun had brought her from Heaven Dou City to Spirit City in one hour, impressing him with Xiao Yun’s ability.
• Qian Daoliu challenged Xiao Yun to endure ten rounds of attacks made from holy light, without using his full strength or soul skills.
• Qian Daoliu flew above the clouds, and Xiao Yun followed on his flying sword while Qian Renxue tried to keep up.
• Qian Daoliu launched a golden spear at Xiao Yun, who used the Tian-Shu Sword to shatter it; Qian Daoliu then formed two more spears.

Xiao Yun faced Qian Daoliu’s ten rounds of sacred light spear attacks with his Seven Star Flying Swords and Big Dipper Sword Array. After Xiao Yun endured the final assault without using his Martial Soul or soul skills, Qian Daoliu acknowledged his strength and withdrew from the matter between Xiao Yun and Qian Renxue.

• Xiao Yun used his flying swords and their splitting sword shadows to counter Qian Daoliu’s attacks, which doubled in number through the first eight rounds.
• Qian Daoliu launched five hundred and twelve sacred light spears in the ninth round, and Xiao Yun empowered his Big Dipper Seven Star Flying Swords with starlight to shatter them.
• Qian Daoliu activated his ten-thousand-year head Spirit Bone and sent countless golden spears down from a sacred light curtain in the tenth round.
• Xiao Yun formed the Big Dipper Sword Array and blocked Qian Daoliu’s final attack with countless sword shadows, though the clash scorched his robes and left him breathing heavily.
• Qian Daoliu praised Xiao Yun’s strength and agreed not to interfere in the matter between Xiao Yun and Qian Renxue.
• Qian Daoliu departed through the air, and Xiao Yun stored his flying swords in his Storage Soul Tool after confirming Qian Daoliu’s aura had vanished.

After Xiao Yun survived Qian Daoliu’s ten-round test, Qian Renxue returned to Spirit City with him, while Qian Daoliu told the Consecrators about Xiao Yun’s strength and said he would not interfere in their affairs. Bibi Dong sensed the clash from afar and mistakenly assumed the unknown fighter had died.

• Qian Renxue confirmed Xiao Yun was unharmed and flew back to Spirit City with him.
• Qian Daoliu returned to the Worship Hall exhausted after using all ten rounds of Sacred Light Spears.
• Qian Daoliu told the Consecrators that Xiao Yun had withstood every round without summoning his martial soul and was no weaker than they were.
• Qian Daoliu told the Consecrators to leave Xiao Yun and Qian Renxue alone, and Golden Crocodile Douluo agreed.
• Bibi Dong sensed the distant clash, ordered a maid to summon Chrysanthemum Douluo, and concluded that the unknown fighter was probably dead.

Qian Renxue brought Xiao Yun to her childhood courtyard and showed him the belongings preserved there. Beneath the Ginkgo Tree, she told him about her mother's rejection, her father's mysterious death, and how she decided to go undercover; her grandfather had tried to stop her but eventually yielded to her wishes.

• Qian Renxue led Xiao Yun through Returning Snow Residence and showed him the quiet courtyard and the keepsakes from her childhood.
• Xiao Yun examined the rooms and belongings, reflecting on Qian Renxue's difficult childhood and her grandfather's love for her.
• Qian Renxue told Xiao Yun that Bibi Dong had never shown her motherly affection and had looked at her with disgust.
• Qian Renxue recounted how Qian Xunji returned gravely injured when she was ten and died days later despite his wounds not seeming fatal.
• Qian Renxue explained that she devised her undercover plan to escape Spirit Hall, that Bibi Dong agreed with apparent relief, and that her grandfather argued against it before she persuaded him.

Xiao Yun helped Qian Renxue advance her plans to take control of the Heaven Dou Empire, then asked Liu Erlong about her wishes. Liu Erlong chose to rebury her mother in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s ancestral graves, but Xiao Yun sensed a blood-tainted presence beneath Blue Tyrant Academy’s back mountain.

• Xiao Yun gave Qian Renxue a concealed poison disguised as a life-extending pill to weaken Xue Ye gradually, and offered to handle Xue Beng.
• Xiao Yun brought Qian Renxue back to Heaven Dou City, where she resumed her Xue Qinghe disguise and left Years Manor.
• Xiao Yun asked Liu Erlong about her unfulfilled wishes, and she asked to bury her mother in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s ancestral graves.
• Xiao Yun and Liu Erlong traveled to Blue Tyrant Academy to move her mother’s grave.
• Xiao Yun sensed blood and a chilling aura from beneath an abandoned house on the back mountain, where a middle-aged man sat in a blood pool surrounded by dark red threads.

Liu Erlong returned to Blue Tyrant Academy to relocate her mother's grave, but Flender repeatedly delayed her while Yu Xiaogang secretly underwent a blood-pool ritual beneath the back mountain. Xiao Yun discovered the ritual and then left the academy to observe Xue Beng at Prince Xue Xing's Residence.

• Xiao Yun sensed that Yu Xiaogang had reached Soul Power Level fifty-two and marked his location.
• Liu Erlong arrived at Blue Tyrant Academy with Xiao Yun and told Flender she had come to move her mother's grave.
• Liu Erlong noticed the injured students, while Flender and Zhao Wuji concealed their unease about her visiting the back mountain.
• Flender repeatedly changed the subject when Liu Erlong asked to visit the grave, and Xiao Yun used his Spiritual Sense to discover Yu Xiaogang in a hidden chamber undergoing a blood-pool ritual.
• Xiao Yun left an illusion in the washroom and flew to Prince Xue Xing's Residence, where he found Xue Beng reading alone in the Study Room.

Xiao Yun abducted Xue Beng and placed him in Yu Xiaogang’s blood pool, then returned to Blue Tyrant Academy as if nothing had happened. Flender allowed Xue Pofeng’s search, and the chapter ended with Xue Pofeng discovering the ritual and Yu Xiaogang attacking him.

• Xiao Yun knocked out Xue Beng, planted clues, and carried him away from Prince Xue Xing’s Residence while making the guards spot him.
• Xiao Yun brought Xue Beng to the underground blood pool and left him there, then returned to the academy instructor and followed him to the dean’s office.
• Flender hurried toward the secret chamber, but Xue Pofeng and his guards intercepted him while searching for the missing Xue Beng.
• Flender let Xue Pofeng’s party enter the underground passage, where Xue Pofeng discovered Yu Xiaogang performing a blood ritual with Xue Beng beside the pool.
• Yu Xiaogang attacked Xue Pofeng with blood-red threads, and Xue Pofeng met them with feathers from his Swan Martial Soul.

Yu Xiaogang and Flender fought Xue Pofeng and his guards in the underground chamber while Yu Xiaogang drained the blood pool to strengthen himself. Liu Erlong and Xiao Yun discovered the chamber and hid after recognizing the remains of her former students.

• Yu Xiaogang and Flender attacked Xue Pofeng as Lu Qibin restrained five Soul Emperors, while two Soul Saints fought Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaogang drew more Life Essence from the blood pool, causing the figure beside it to wither as his aura grew stronger.
• Xue Pofeng used his Wind Blade Storm to rush toward Xue Beng, but Flender and Yu Xiaogang slowed and wounded him.
• Xue Pofeng unleashed his Swan Avatar and Eighth Spirit Skill, forcing Flender down as Zhao Wuji sensed the battle and rushed toward the back mountain.
• Liu Erlong and Xiao Yun found the hidden chamber, recognized the remains of former academy students, and concealed themselves behind Xiao Yun's barrier.