Chapter Summaries

Tang San struggled with the rebel forces’ plan to rescue Dai Mubai as their operation grew beyond the Tang Sect’s control. At Pope’s Palace, Luo Hao and Zhu Zhuqing were interrupted by a knock while alone together.

• Oscar and Ma Hongjun urged Tang San to stop opposing Spirit Hall, but Tang San accepted that rescuing Dai Mubai remained the priority.
• Tang San realized that more than twenty rebel groups and over a thousand fighters had joined the operation, leaving the Tang Sect unable to control the plan to attack in the city center.
• Luo Hao spent time drinking wine and being intimate with Zhu Zhuqing in his room at Pope’s Palace.
• Someone knocked at Luo Hao’s door, interrupting him and Zhu Zhuqing.

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion warned Luo Hao and Zhu Zhuqing that it had foreseen bloodshed to the south, near a new commercial district. Luo Hao suspected a major riot was coming but chose to let it happen and planned to suppress the survivors afterward.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion interrupted Luo Hao and Zhu Zhuqing, and Luo Hao angrily opened the door to confront it.
• Zhu Zhuqing comforted the crying Three-Eyed Golden Lion and coaxed it into explaining that it had seen blood and many bad people.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion pointed south, and Zhu Zhuqing suggested its connection to fate might let it foresee the future.
• Luo Hao realized a battle might break out near the newly built commercial district, where many civilians could die.
• Luo Hao dismissed the warning and decided not to intervene, intending to wait until the rioters were exhausted before suppressing them.

Luo Hao waited in Heaven Dou City for an unknown disturbance, confident he could deal with whatever happened. At Black Water Prison, wardens evacuated 1,320 prisoners, sealed the prison entrance, and began marching them toward a new prison under the warden’s watch.

• Luo Hao told Zhu Zhuqing to take Three-Eyed Golden Lion downstairs, protect Bibi Dong, and avoid getting involved in what happened outside.
• As night deepened, Luo Hao watched southward and quietly waited for the disturbance he expected.
• Wardens transferred 1,320 prisoners out of Black Water Prison, including inmates who might have been imprisoned without committing crimes.
• The warden ordered the prison entrance collapsed and sealed with molten rock after the transfer was complete.
• The warden made the prisoners march to their new prison and dismissed concerns about being short-handed, confident that a veteran Soul Saint could stop any escape attempt.

Tang San, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun joined an ambush to rescue Mu Bai as rebels attacked Black Water Prison. The battle erupted, and the Soul Saint warden faced more than a dozen Soul Emperors while Spirit Hall reinforcements rushed in.

• Tang San told Oscar and Ma Hongjun to cover him while he found Mu Bai and used the Flying Sky Divine Claw to rescue him.
• The three saw the chained prisoners approaching as rebels shouted for the attack to begin.
• Rebels launched soul skills and arrows, and two Soul Saints fought above the city.
• Spirit Hall soldiers rushed to support the prison, but the rebels greatly outnumbered them.
• The warden faced more than a dozen Soul Emperors and tried to hold them back without risking a fatal weakened state.

A battle broke out at Black Water Prison as the warden fought rebels and prisoners seized the chance to escape. Dai Mubai, crippled and starving, hid nearby as the fighting reached him.

• A Soul Emperor recognized the warden as the man who had tortured his older brother, and the warden mocked him and the other rebels.
• A black-clad Niu Family member revealed his identity by unleashing his Martial Soul Avatar, but the warden shattered its attack with his whip.
• The Niu Family member fled to warn his clan, while the warden stayed to fight the remaining Soul Emperors.
• The battle spread through Black Water Prison as prisoners escaped, were rescued, or were killed by the fighting.
• Dai Mubai hid beneath a tree, and a nearby Soul Elder's attack shattered a hut and sent stone fragments crashing toward him.

A prison riot broke out as Tang San and his companions rescued Dai Mubai and fled amid the chaos. After watching the rebellion grow for two minutes, Luo Hao decided to intervene and ordered Ghost Douluo to join him in suppressing it.

• A hook pulled Dai Mubai out of the path of falling stones and into the night.
• A prisoner revealed himself as a powerful Soul Saint and attacked Li Gang, while other prisoners fought back against the guards.
• Tang San, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun reunited with Dai Mubai and hurried to escape before Spirit Hall reinforcements arrived.
• Tang San led Dai Mubai and the others away, planning to leave Heaven Dou City and disappear.
• Luo Hao observed the riot from the Pope's Palace and summoned Ghost Douluo to help suppress the rebellion.

Luo Hao arrived at the prison riot and used his gravity-controlling power to subdue the attackers before ordering Spirit Hall’s forces to seize them. Tang San and the others recognized him as the Pope and realized he was the man who had killed Tang San’s father.

• Ghost Douluo heard Luo Hao’s voice, saw flames in the distance, and hurried to the disturbance with Spirit Hall’s forces.
• Luo Hao descended over the battlefield and used overwhelming gravity to pin the attackers in place.
• Luo Hao ordered Spirit Hall’s soldiers, led by Ghost Douluo, to capture everyone and kill anyone who resisted or fled.
• Tang San, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun recognized Luo Hao’s gravity-controlling soul skill from the Soto Great Spirit Arena.
• Tang San saw Luo Hao’s face and realized that the Pope who had killed his father was the man he had once regarded as his big brother.

Luo Hao crushed the Spirit City rebellion, captured its surviving rebels and prisoners, and ordered the prisoners sent to dig pits while the rebels were reserved as sacrifices. The next day, Spirit Hall announced the uprising’s defeat and planned a public execution.

• Tang San recognized Luo Hao as the Pope and, overwhelmed by the gulf between their strength, lost the will to resist.
• Spirit Hall soldiers found Tang San, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun and shackled them.
• A Spirit Emperor detonated all his Soul Rings, killing more than a dozen Spirit Hall soldiers before dying in the blast.
• Luo Hao ended his suppression after Spirit Hall troops captured 386 Black Water Prison inmates and 760 rebels, with more than 3,000 battlefield deaths.
• Luo Hao ordered the prisoners’ Soul Power sealed and sent them to dig pits, and he reserved the rebels as sacrifices after he unified the continent.
• Spirit Hall announced that the rebellion had been crushed and posted information about the main rebels in major cities ahead of a planned public execution.

Luo Hao used the civilian massacre to rally public anger against the rebels and strengthen his influence, then learned from Three-Eyed Golden Lion that the victims’ resentment had gathered around him. He effortlessly destroyed the resentment, leaving Three-Eyed Golden Lion stunned by his power.

• Luo Hao reviewed the many reports sent to Spirit Hall after he publicized the rebels’ massacre, satisfied that the outrage was advancing his plans.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion confronted Luo Hao about failing to stop the massacre, and he admitted he could have prevented it but saw no need.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion explained that the dead’s karma and resentment clung to Luo Hao, and he used True Sight to see the blood-red threads.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion tried to use the resentment to bargain for rewards, but Luo Hao tore it apart with casual flicks of his fingers.
• Three-Eyed Golden Lion realized she had underestimated Luo Hao’s strength and faltered under his half-smiling gaze.

Luo Hao sent the Three-Eyed Golden Lion into the Transmission Tower to find it a suitable cultivation technique, then told Zhu Zhuqing and Bibi Dong that they would return to the Heaven Dou Empire in a few days. The lion emerged battered without a technique, and a thick book promptly flattened it again, leaving Luo Hao puzzled about what it had done inside.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion tried to flee, but Luo Hao grabbed it and frightened it with a belt until he tossed it into the Transmission Tower.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Bibi Dong entered after hearing the screams, then stayed with Luo Hao while he explained that he was seeking a fate-related cultivation technique for the lion.
• Luo Hao said they would return to the Heaven Dou Empire in a few days and teased Zhu Zhuqing while Bibi Dong went to fetch her a drink.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion flew out of the Transmission Tower, battered and singed, and crashed into a tea table.
• A thick book flew out of the tower and smashed the Three-Eyed Golden Lion flat, leaving Luo Hao wondering what had happened inside.

After the Transmission Tower expelled Three-Eyed Golden Lion, Luo Hao discovered she had received a Fate Master manual after apparently being punished for using her third eye to inspect something dangerous. As Bibi Dong tried to make peace with the injured Three-Eyed Golden Lion, Luo Hao left with Zhu Zhuqing, while news of the captured rebels spread and the factions behind them panicked.

• Luo Hao found Three-Eyed Golden Lion injured after the Transmission Tower expelled her with a Fate Master Cultivation Manual as her reward.
• Luo Hao read the manual’s warning against examining unknown powerful beings and gave it to Three-Eyed Golden Lion when he could not understand its contents.
• Bibi Dong hugged and hurt Three-Eyed Golden Lion, then offered her lemonade to make amends, but Three-Eyed Golden Lion remained angry.
• Luo Hao took Zhu Zhuqing away, saying they should spend time alone before returning to the Heaven Dou Empire and being separated.
• News of the captured rebels spread through both empires, and the factions behind them scrambled for information while smaller groups fled.

The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect gathered to discuss the danger posed by Tang San’s capture after the rebel attack in Spirit City. Yu Xiaogang begged his father to save Tang San, but the sect’s leaders demanded that Yu Xiaogang be expelled, and Yu Yuanzhen silenced the hall without revealing his decision.

• The Star Luo and Heaven Dou empires’ forces and families fled across their borders, hiding from Spirit Hall’s purge.
• Yu Luomian blamed Yu Xiaogang for Tang San’s involvement in the Spirit City rebellion and warned that it endangered the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect.
• Yu Xiaogang knelt before his father, Yu Yuanzhen, and pleaded for the sect to save Tang San, calling him a genius and his hope for defeating Spirit Hall.
• Yu Luomian and the elders rejected Yu Xiaogang’s plea and urged Yu Yuanzhen to expel him from the sect.
• Yu Yuanzhen released his Soul Power and silenced the hall while the others continued glaring at Yu Xiaogang.

Yu Yuanzhen expelled Yu Xiaogang from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect over Tang San’s capture, then resigned as sect master and arranged for Yu Luomian to take over. Meanwhile, sects implicated in the rebellion waited anxiously for Spirit Hall’s response, while Luo Hao and Zhu Zhuqing arrived in Heaven Dou City after inspecting the empire on their journey.

• Yu Yuanzhen declared Tang San a traitor and expelled Yu Xiaogang from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect.
• Yu Yuanzhen resigned as sect master and ordered a handover ceremony for Yu Luomian the next day.
• Other sects and clans abandoned members involved in the rebellion, but Spirit Hall did not come to punish them, leaving them puzzled.
• Luo Hao and Zhu Zhuqing entered Heaven Dou City in Spirit Hall carriages after traveling for a week and inspecting the empire.
• Zhu Zhuqing pushed away Luo Hao’s wandering hand, while Luo Hao explained that he had arranged the carriages for a grander appearance.

Luo Hao visited Qian Renxue at the Imperial Palace and told her that Qian Daoliu had agreed to let her inherit the Angel Inheritance. The news left her thrilled until Luo Hao revealed that Qian Daoliu had betrothed her to him.

• After returning to the city, Luo Hao sent Zhu Zhuqing to take Bibi Dong back to Blue Tyrant Academy and went to the Imperial Palace to seek Qian Renxue's help unifying the empires.
• Qian Renxue resented Luo Hao for leaving her to govern the Heaven Dou Empire, which kept her from cultivating and advancing toward the Angel God's trial.
• Luo Hao entered Qian Renxue's room and told her Qian Daoliu planned to let her return that month to inherit the Angel Inheritance, and that Luo Hao had agreed.
• Luo Hao grabbed Qian Renxue's hand and revealed that Qian Daoliu had betrothed her to him.
• Qian Renxue rejected the claim and accused Luo Hao of lying, while he challenged her for looking down on him.

Luo Hao offered Qian Renxue a cultivation technique as a betrothal gift, but their tense encounter turned into a forced kiss before he sent her into the Transmission Tower. After two hours of battling inside, Qian Renxue emerged furious, while Luo Hao claimed the technique could help her advance and inherit the Angel Divine Position.

• Qian Renxue rejected marrying Luo Hao, and he said he would speak to Qian Daoliu about breaking off their engagement.
• Luo Hao cornered Qian Renxue, kissed her, and stopped when she bit his tongue as he tried to go further.
• Luo Hao put Qian Renxue into the Transmission Tower, where she fought through attacks for two hours.
• Qian Renxue came out angry and demanded to know whether the Transmission Tower was his promised gift.
• Luo Hao wiped the blood from Qian Renxue's face and said the cultivation technique he gave her could help her reach level eighty and inherit the Angel Divine Position.

After Qian Renxue’s outburst blasted Luo Hao from the palace, he left her a letter about announcing the empire’s merger and returned to Blue Tyrant Academy. There, he reunited with the Ice Empress and Gu Yuena, while Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong reacted warily to seeing them with him.

• Qian Renxue erupted with Soul Power, wrecking the main hall and sending Luo Hao crashing through its bronze doors.
• Luo Hao left a letter instructing Qian Renxue to announce the merger of the Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire, then departed the palace.
• Qian Renxue calmed down and blamed Luo Hao for what had happened in the hall.
• Luo Hao returned to Blue Tyrant Academy, where the Ice Empress and Gu Yuena greeted him and Snow Empress walked away.
• Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong saw the Ice Empress and Gu Yuena beside Luo Hao, then turned back with Zhu Zhuqing as Liu Erlong watched helplessly.

Luo Hao learned that Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong had clashed with Ice Empress and the others, then spent the next seven days tending to his companions. Spirit Hall announced the founding of the Spirit Hall Empire, with Nicholas Zhang San as emperor, and the two great empires merged into it; the coronation remained unscheduled while their affairs were unified.

• Liu Erlong told Luo Hao that Xiao Wu and the others had argued with Ice Empress and the other teachers over the academy's ranking of its most beautiful teachers.
• Luo Hao spent seven days balancing cultivation, outings, and time with his companions, while comforting Xiao Wu after she was bullied by those with stronger bloodlines.
• Spirit Hall announced that the Spirit Hall Empire had been established with Spirit City as its capital and Pope Nicholas Zhang San as its first emperor.
• The kings of the two great empires simultaneously declared their empires would merge into the Spirit Hall Empire, and the news spread across the continent.
• The new empire halved taxes for three years and offered free first Soul Rings to the new generation of Soul Masters, while officials began taking over the empires' affairs.
• The coronation date remained undecided as the military, government, and laws of the former empires still needed to be unified.

Xue Ye and Ning Fengzhi reflected on the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires’ collapse, while the Clear Sky Sect learned that Spirit Hall had unified the continent without a war. Tang Xiao and the sect members were left wondering whether to remain hidden or face the new empire.

• Xue Ye grieved the fall of the Heaven Dou Empire as Ning Fengzhi discussed Luo Hao’s actions and his unresolved feelings about Qian Renxue.
• Tang Xiao received urgent intelligence that Spirit Hall had founded the Spirit Hall Empire and taken control of the continent.
• The Clear Sky Sect members reacted with disbelief when Tang Xiao announced the news.
• Tang Xiao suspected Spirit Hall had secretly turned the two empires’ new royal families into puppets.
• Clear Sky Sect members argued over whether to keep hiding, while Tang Xiao faced their questions about what to do next.

Tang Xiao and Clear Sky Sect debated whether to strike Spirit Hall while its new empire was still consolidating power. The elders urged an attack, but Tang Xiao hesitated, warning that failure could destroy the sect and questioning whether they could defeat Spirit Hall’s strongest figure.

• Clear Sky Sect’s clansmen learned that Spirit Hall’s empire threatened to keep their sect in hiding permanently, and the young members demanded an immediate attack.
• Tang Xiao silenced the uproar and said he would consult the elders before deciding.
• The Seventh Elder and the Second Elder supported striking Spirit Hall, and the other elders joined them.
• The elders criticized Tang Xiao for hesitating, but he warned that a failed surprise attack could wipe out Clear Sky Sect and asked whether they could defeat Spirit Hall’s strongest person.

Tang Yuehua told Tang Xiao that Tang Hao’s son, Tang San, was a powerful Twin Martial Souls user awaiting public execution, stirring the Clear Sky Sect’s leaders. Meanwhile, Luo Hao went to Qian Renxue’s bedchamber and found her acting unusually gentle; she revealed she had made the food he was eating.

• Tang Yuehua arrived at the Clear Sky Sect hall and told Tang Xiao and the elders that Tang Hao had a son named Tang San, who possessed Twin Martial Souls and had reached Spirit King strength before age fourteen.
• Tang Yuehua explained that Tang San had been caught up in Spirit City’s purge and was set to be publicly executed with the rebels when the new emperor ascended, stirring Tang Xiao and the five elders.
• Luo Hao entered Heaven Dou City’s Imperial Palace after Qian Renxue summoned him, having been kicked out of bed by Ice Empress over the scent of another woman on the message.
• Luo Hao found Qian Renxue waiting with a meal in Bright Splendor Hall, her bedchamber, and wondered why she was acting so demure.
• Luo Hao began eating the food and said it tasted good and was not poisoned; Qian Renxue started to tell him she had made it herself.