Chapter Summaries

Yan traveled to Sea God Island with the Ice Empress and Snow Empress, passing through the waters of the nearly million-year-old Deep Sea Demonic Whale King. He arrived to see Bai Xiuxiu, who was training at the Sea Witch Holy Pillar, and she spotted him just as the Sea Witch teased her.

• Jia Lin scattered a violent storm with her roar as she carried Yan, the Ice Empress, and the Snow Empress south toward Sea God Island.
• Yan explained that the dangerous creature beneath the Demon Whale Sea Region was the nearly million-year-old Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, but decided not to disturb it.
• Jia Lin reached Sea God Island, where Sea Horse Douluo recognized Yan and escorted him toward the Sea Witch Holy Pillar.
• Yan learned that Bai Xiuxiu had reached level seventy but was waiting for her seventh soul ring, and he had brought Jia Lin as a possible choice.
• The Sea Witch teased Bai Xiuxiu during their sparring, and Bai Xiuxiu finally turned toward shore and saw Yan arrive.

Yan reunited with Bai Xiuxiu on Sea God Island and introduced the Ice Empress and Snow Empress as her companions. He confronted Bo Saixi about the sacrifice required by Xiuxiu’s divine trial and warned her not to let her feelings for Tang Chen interfere with Sea God Island’s alliance with Spirit Hall.

• Bai Xiuxiu joyfully reunited with Yan, who introduced the Ice Empress and Snow Empress to Bo Saixi and the people of Sea God Island.
• Yan told Bo Saixi that he knew the Sea God’s final trial could require her sacrifice and that she had struggled with the prospect of dying for Xiuxiu.
• Bo Saixi admitted she had been unwilling but said she would fulfill her duty and would not harm Xiuxiu.
• Yan revealed that he knew Bo Saixi’s feelings for Tang Chen and cautioned her not to let them undermine Sea God Island’s relationship with Spirit Hall or its stance toward the Clear Sky Sect.
• Bo Saixi promised to separate her friendship with Tang Chen from her public duties, and Yan urged her to reconsider Tang Chen himself.

Niu Gao and Bai He discussed an invitation from the Clear Sky Sect, whose return to the world they believed would bring disaster. They decided to meet the sect’s representatives in Dragonrise City, where they discovered a gathering of powerful old acquaintances.

• The chapter described Dragonrise City’s growing importance as the Sect Assembly approached and the continent’s political tensions mounted.
• Niu Gao and Bai He, leaders of the Defense Clan and Speed Clan, debated whether to meet the Clear Sky Sect after receiving its invitation.
• Bai He said the Mercenary Guild had learned the Clear Sky Sect had left its ancestral land and had no chance against Spirit Hall.
• Niu Gao agreed to accompany Bai He, and they traveled to a tavern near the city lord’s residence.
• Bai He and Niu Gao entered a private room and found a pair of middle-aged siblings and five elderly men whose strength seemed to surpass Soul Douluo.

Bai He and Niu Gao warned Tang Xiao that Clear Sky Sect’s return in Dragonrise City would provoke Spirit Hall, but Tang Xiao refused to retreat. The two clansmen left for the Spirit Hall Main Branch, while Tang Xiao’s elders remained confident that Clear Sky Sect could rise again with Star Luo Empire’s support.

• Tang Yuehua welcomed Bai He and Niu Gao, and Niu Gao criticized Tang Xiao for bringing Clear Sky Sect into danger by leaving its ancestral grounds.
• Niu Gao confronted the Seventh Elder over Clear Sky Sect’s past betrayal of the Four Single-Attribute Clans and said the clans had long since gone their separate ways.
• Bai He urged Tang Xiao to return to Clear Sky Sect’s ancestral grounds, warning that Spirit Hall was too powerful to oppose and was close to unifying the continent.
• Tang Xiao refused to retreat, explaining that Clear Sky Sect had six Titled Douluo and needed to act before its older generation weakened.
• Niu Gao and Bai He left for the Spirit Hall Main Branch after declaring that they would not oppose Spirit Hall or help Clear Sky Sect.
• The Seventh Elder proposed joining forces with the Star Luo Empire to fight Spirit Hall, while Tang Xiao warned that Bai He’s concern suggested Spirit Hall was stronger than they realized.

At the selection tournament for the new Seven Great Sects, Spirit Hall announced that factions would battle for the vacancies left by the Clear Sky Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Hu Yanli challenged for the Elephant Armor Clan, but Tuoba Hong quickly defeated him, leaving the contest poised to continue.

• Soul masters from across the continent gathered in Dragonrise City as Spirit Hall prepared to select the new Seven Great Sects.
• Hu YanZhen greeted Tuoba Xi and positioned the Elephant Armor Clan to compete for a place among the Upper Three Sects.
• The Dragonrise City bishop announced that arena battles would determine the replacements for the Clear Sky Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan before the remaining sects faced challenges for rankings.
• Hu Yanli entered the arena to represent the Elephant Armor Clan, making other young challengers hesitate because of his powerful defense.
• Tuoba Hong of the Sacred Dragon Clan challenged Hu Yanli and knocked him flying with a single punch.

Tuoba Hong dominated the first contest at the Seven Sect Selection Conference, securing the Sacred Dragon Clan’s place among the Upper Three Sects. The contest for the world’s number one Weapon Soul began with Yang Hao and Feng Cang, then drew in Tang Long and Tang Hu of the Clear Sky Sect.

• Tuoba Hong defeated challenger after challenger, and Tuoba Xi’s arrival and Titled Douluo aura secured the first spot for the Sacred Dragon Clan.
• Spirit Hall’s referee named the Diamond Sacred Dragon Soul the new generation’s number one Beast Soul and opened the contest for the number one Weapon Soul.
• Yang Hao of the Breaking Clan entered the arena, followed by Feng Cang of the Wind Sword Clan, whose clash stirred other factions to join the melee.
• Tang Xiao ordered Tang Long and Tang Hu to uphold the Clear Sky Sect’s prestige, and the two brothers leaped into the arena with their Martial Souls unleashed.

The Clear Sky Sect returned to the Spirit Arena and demonstrated its strength as Tang Long and Tang Hu defeated their opponents. Tang Xiao announced the sect’s return and challenged Ning Fengzhi, but a voice questioned the sect for breaking its agreement with Spirit Hall.

• Tang Long and Tang Hu entered the battle, and Yang Hao and Feng Cang each challenged a Clear Sky Sect fighter.
• Tang Long defeated Yang Hao, who left the arena after warning that the Clear Sky Sect would not meet a good end.
• Tang Hu defeated Feng Cang, and Tang Long urged him to win allies as well as demonstrate the sect’s strength.
• Tang Xiao arrived with five elders and declared that the Clear Sky Sect had returned, prompting its disciples to rally behind him.
• Tang Xiao confronted Ning Fengzhi and asked whether the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect agreed that the Seven Great Sects needed the Clear Sky Sect.
• An unidentified voice warned that the Clear Sky Sect had broken its hundred-year pact with Spirit Hall before even twenty years had passed.

Yan arrived at Dragonrise City riding the true dragon Jia Lin and confronted Tang Xiao, revealing Tang Hao and Tang San’s remains. When Tang Xiao opened the final box, its contents left him terrified.

• Yan appeared above the plaza on Jia Lin, a true dragon, and taunted Tang Xiao about the Clear Sky Sect’s decline.
• Tang Xiao charged Yan after he insulted Tang Xiao’s late father, but Yan tossed three boxes toward him.
• Tang Xiao opened the first large box and found a complete set of six Soul Bones, which Tang Yuehua recognized as Tang Hao’s.
• Yan said the other boxes held ashes from Tang Hao and Tang San, then urged Tang Xiao to open the final box.
• The final box released a slaughter-filled aura, and Tang Xiao staggered back in terror, insisting that what he saw was impossible.

Yan taunted Tang Xiao with evidence of Tang Chen’s death and challenged the Clear Sky Sect to fight, then defeated the Seventh Elder with a gigantic flaming palm. Tang Xiao saved the elder, and Yan offered him a place in Spirit Hall if the sect surrendered.

• Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect elders rejected Yan’s claim that Tang Chen was dead, dismissing the boxes’ contents as a Spirit Hall deception.
• Yan claimed he had killed Tang Chen, Tang Hao, and Tang San, then threatened to destroy the Clear Sky Sect if it refused to submit.
• The Seventh Elder attacked Yan, but Yan’s flaming palm overwhelmed his soul skills and crushed his twin Clear Sky Hammers.
• Tang Xiao used his Martial Soul Avatar to stop the flaming palm and rescued the falling Seventh Elder.
• Yan praised Tang Xiao’s strength and offered him a Titled Elder position if he led the Clear Sky Sect to surrender to Spirit Hall.

Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect fought Yan after rejecting Spirit Hall’s offer to recruit them. Yan defeated Tang Xiao in a devastating clash over Dragonrise City, then demanded the sect surrender or die.

• Tang Xiao refused Spirit Hall’s recruitment and rallied the Clear Sky Sect disciples to fight Yan.
• Yan revealed his extraordinary soul rings and unleashed a massive flaming attack, while Tang Xiao joined forces with the five elders and the sect disciples to withstand it.
• Tang Xiao charged Yan in the sky, and their clash sent shockwaves through Dragonrise City and destroyed much of the plaza.
• Yan used two hundred-thousand-year soul skills to overpower Tang Xiao and send him crashing into a crater.
• Yan held a flaming palm over the Clear Sky Sect’s powerhouses and demanded their surrender, but the Seventh Elder defiantly refused.

Yan crushed the Clear Sky Sect’s resistance, while five elders sacrificed themselves trying to stop his attack. With the sect’s families held hostage, Tang Xiao finally admitted defeat and bowed to Spirit Hall.

• Yan’s flaming palm killed the Seventh Elder, and four more Clear Sky elders sacrificed themselves trying to protect the Clear Sky Sect’s disciples.
• Tang Xiao attacked Yan in grief, but Yan easily knocked him down and injured the disciples who rushed to help him.
• Yan offered to spare the Clear Sky Sect if it surrendered to Spirit Hall and stopped opposing it.
• Yan’s forces brought the sect disciples’ families onto the battlefield, breaking their resolve.
• Tang Xiao admitted the Clear Sky Sect’s defeat to preserve its people and prevent further sacrifices.

Yan released the Clear Sky Sect’s relatives after crippling the sect, then healed Tang Hu and warned him that Dragonrise City would soon become a battlefield. As Yan headed south to prepare for the war against the Star Luo Empire, Tang Xiao recognized that Spirit Hall had anticipated the sect’s choices and decided to go see what was happening.

• Yan ordered Spirit Hall’s powerhouses to release the Clear Sky Sect’s family members, who reunited with their relatives.
• Yan approached Tang Hu and his daughter, Tang Tiantian, and healed Tang Hu’s injuries and restored his Soul Power.
• Yan warned Tang Hu to protect Tang Tiantian during the coming battle and told the Clear Sky Sect to act carefully before leaving with Tuo Ba Hong’s group for the south gate.
• Tang Xiao told Tang Yuehua that the Star Luo Emperor’s army had likely arrived and that Spirit Hall’s Holy Son had accounted for both the army and the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Xiao and Tang Yuehua joined the forces heading south to observe the preparations.

Yan prepared Dragonrise City for Star Luo’s massive assault as Heaven Dou’s rebellious former kingdoms and duchies gathered with the invaders. He called for the Star Luo Emperor to meet him, and the emperor rose from the army in a dragon carriage to face him.

• Yan warned Tuo Ba Hong not to joke about Tang Tiantian and reunited with Xie Yue at Dragonrise City’s southern gate.
• Xie Yue reported that Star Luo’s million-strong army was approaching and that forces from Heaven Dou’s former kingdoms and duchies had joined them.
• Yan surveyed Star Luo’s disciplined forces and explained that Spirit Hall needed to stop them before they could unite with Heaven Dou’s rebels.
• Yan flew above the army and called for the White Tiger Douluo to meet him.
• The Star Luo Emperor rose in a dragon carriage and answered Yan’s challenge.

Yan led Spirit Hall's Holy Light Knight Order out against the Star Luo Emperor's million-man army at Dragonrise City, where coordinated holy-light attacks shattered the vanguard and devastated the central army. As the Star Luo forces rallied their soul masters to strike the knight order's flank, Yan watched for the next threat.

• Yan taunted the Star Luo Emperor, who ordered his million-man army to advance on Dragonrise City.
• Yan summoned the Holy Light Knight Order, and more than ten thousand coordinated soul masters charged from the southern gate while a metal storm of bullets tore through Star Luo's cavalry.
• The Holy Light Knight Order formed a golden arrow, routed the vanguard, and pushed toward Star Luo's central army despite a barrage of arrows.
• The Holy Light Knights combined their soul skills into a vast assault that cut down banners and swept across the battlefield, leaving Spirit Hall's observers stunned.
• The Star Luo Emperor ordered his central and rear armies to spread out and respond, while Yan explained that coordinated soul master forces could surpass a Titled Douluo in destructive power.
• Several thousand Star Luo soul masters regrouped and moved toward the Holy Light Knight Order's flank to launch a targeted attack.

Yan led Spirit Hall and Dragonrise City's allied soul masters against the Star Luo army, while the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Clear Sky Sect fought alongside them. After the Star Luo Emperor and empress unleashed the Hell White Tiger and were defeated by Tang Xiao and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, the Zhu Family and other Star Luo factions betrayed their empire, leaving Spirit Hall victorious.

• Yan ordered the Holy Light Knight Order to regroup as soul masters from Dragonrise City joined the battle against Star Luo.
• The Holy Light Knight Order resumed its coordinated assault, and White Tiger Douluo charged toward the city before Bone Douluo Gu Rong intercepted him.
• The Star Luo Emperor and empress fused into the Hell White Tiger and knocked Gu Rong through the city wall.
• Tang Xiao attacked the Hell White Tiger, allowing Sword Douluo Chen Xin, amplified by Ning Fengzhi, to shatter it.
• The Zhu Family and other Star Luo factions ambushed the empire's remaining forces, and the Star Luo Emperor fell as a figure descended from the walls to declare the battle over.

Yan and Spirit Hall’s allies completed the destruction of the Star Luo Empire’s ruling family as the Emperor’s supporters fell and former Zhu Family allies confronted their past. The Emperor and Empress died together, leaving the Dai royal line wiped out.

• Yan questioned the defeated Star Luo Emperor as the Spirit Cat Duke and Tang Xiao’s forces confirmed their betrayal of Star Luo.
• Zhu Zhuyun and Zhu Zhuqing revealed their allegiance to Yan, and Zhu Zhuyun condemned the Dai Family’s rules for sacrificing Zhu Family women.
• Zhu Yunxi and Xu Yan arrived with the heads of the Emperor’s remaining children, and Yan ordered the Emperor’s death.
• Xu Yan and Zhu Yunxi crippled and killed the Emperor while the Empress watched helplessly.
• The Empress rejected Zhu Zhuyun’s attempt to help her, crawled to her husband’s body, and took her own life beside him.

Yan gathered the soul master factions in Dragonrise City to discuss the future of the soul master world and unveil Spirit Hall’s Soul Spirit system. He demonstrated the system with Jia Lin, leaving the gathered experts excited about its potential.

• Yan ordered the Star Luo Empress and the others to receive proper burials, then rejected the surrender of the kingdoms and duchies that had betrayed him.
• Yan led the soul master factions to the Dragonrise City Lord's Manor, where Empress Xue Ke, Marshal Ge Long, and Prince Xue Xing were waiting.
• Yan presented Spirit Hall’s findings on the declining number of soul beasts and argued that unifying the soul master world was necessary to address the crisis.
• Yan explained that Spirit Hall’s plans centered on Soul Spirits, which could let soul masters gain soul rings and Soul Bones through contracts with soul beasts.
• Yan summoned Jia Lin and demonstrated her power as a Soul Spirit, prompting the gathered experts to recognize the system’s promise and consider its benefits.

Yan laid out plans for unifying the continent as the Douluo Empire, limiting soul beast hunts, and negotiating with the Star Dou Great Forest. Later, he went with Xue Ke to Moonlight Pavilion, where Tang Yuehua asked to speak with him alone.

• Yan secured the factions’ cooperation in stabilizing the Star Luo Empire and establishing the unified Douluo Empire under Xue Ke.
• Yan announced restrictions on soul beast hunting and said Spirit Hall would begin peace talks with the Star Dou Great Forest in three months.
• Yan left the council hall with Xue Ke and planned to help her with the empire’s new system and soul spirit promotion before traveling to Star Dou.
• Ning Rongrong told Yan that Xue Ke had gone to Moonlight Pavilion, so he took the girls there to meet her and Tang Yuehua.
• Tang Yuehua asked to speak with Yan alone, leaving him wondering what the Clear Sky Sect’s representative wanted from him.

Tang Yuehua tried to negotiate the Clear Sky Sect’s return to Heaven Dou by offering its secret techniques, while secretly seeking revenge on Yan for Tang Hao’s death. After Yan exposed her plot and left her humiliated, Tang Yuehua resolved to use Tang Tiantian to help preserve the weakened sect.

• Tang Yuehua asked Yan to teach Tang Tiantian and pleaded for mercy for the Clear Sky Sect, offering the Chaotic Cloak manual and Great Sumeru Hammer technique in exchange for his help.
• Yan realized Tang Yuehua had drugged the tea and incense, and she admitted that she was willing to make amends for the sect.
• Yan carried Tang Yuehua to bed, discovered her assassination attempt was driven by revenge for Tang Hao, and warned her not to try again or he would punish the Clear Sky Sect.
• After Yan left, Tang Tiantian emerged from the bathroom and found Tang Yuehua crying; Tang Yuehua told her that the sect’s future depended on her.

Yan learned that the three ninety-thousand-year Thousand Catties Ant Emperor brothers had returned to the Star Dou Great Forest, and he traveled there with Xiao Wu and Qiu'er to hunt them for his Second Spirit Soul. He located the brothers feeding on an ant nest and prepared to attack, focusing on their wings to prevent them from escaping.

• Ning Rongrong told Yan that the Thousand Catties Ant Emperor brothers had appeared in the Star Dou Great Forest and were testing the core region, so Yan decided to scout for them.
• Yan arranged to leave for the forest the next day and spent the night with his four secretaries.
• Yan traveled through the Star Dou Great Forest with Xiao Wu and Qiu'er while Xiao Wu explained how their friends had traced the brothers by the destroyed ant nests.
• Yan used the Blue Silver Grass to track the brothers, concealed his aura, and approached after their movements stopped.
• Yan found the three brothers devouring an ant queen and prospective queens in a ruined nest, then identified their wings as the main obstacle to keeping them from escaping.