Chapter Summaries

Yan demonstrated a powerful revolver to Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin, arguing that it could protect the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s support-type Soul Masters. He intended to use firearms to undermine Tang San’s future hidden-weapon influence, and Ning Fengzhi recognized the weapon’s value.

• Chen Xin told Ning Fengzhi that Yan’s firearm was fast and powerful enough to seriously injure high-level Soul Masters, though he had caught the shots after preparing himself.
• Yan handed Ning Fengzhi the loaded pistol, and Ning Fengzhi fired it into the ground and felt its strong recoil.
• Yan explained that firearms could give support-type Soul Masters a way to defend themselves, and he asked Ning Fengzhi if he was tempted.
• Yan reflected that he could not safely eliminate Tang San or interfere with the immortal herbs yet, so he planned to challenge Tang Sect hidden weapons by producing cheaper, more powerful firearms.
• Ning Fengzhi understood that the weapon could protect members of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and could not refuse Yan’s offer.

Yan explained to Ning Fengzhi why firearms would not immediately threaten Soul Masters and revealed that he was using them to buy time while developing Soul Tools. He expected Soul Tools to eventually surpass firearms and reshape the balance between Soul Masters and ordinary people.

• Ning Fengzhi questioned whether Yan's firearm could bring future harm to Spirit Hall, noting that ordinary people might use it to threaten Soul Masters.
• Yan argued that the firearm's extreme recoil and the limits of ordinary people made it difficult for them to use effectively, while Soul Masters could handle its power.
• Yan explained that firearms would be difficult to reproduce because their gunpowder formula and chemical processes were hard to understand, though Tang San might help nobles uncover some secrets.
• Yan reasoned that widespread firearms would still favor Soul Masters, who could endure greater recoil and use soul skills to improve their aim.
• Yan revealed that he was advancing Soul Tool research with Dawn and hoped the empires would invest in firearms until his new technology could eclipse them.

Yan secured Ning Fengzhi’s agreement to cooperate with Spirit Hall, using firearms and the resettlement of former Clear Sky Sect members as leverage. He then proposed that Ning help obtain imperial subsidies and support a Mercenary Guild to give soul masters ways to earn a living.

• Ning Fengzhi agreed to cooperate with Yan after seeing the value of the firearms.
• Yan said Spirit Hall would verify the identities of soul masters requesting firearms and charge separately for bullets.
• Yan asked Ning to help secure Tian Dou Royal Family subsidies for the thousands of soul masters Spirit Hall planned to register.
• Ning recognized that approaching the royal family would damage his relationship with it, but agreed to do his best.
• Yan proposed creating a Mercenary Guild with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to connect soul masters with paid work and expand Spirit Hall’s influence.

Yan proposed a plan to cultivate new crops that could improve Soul Power awakening and support cultivation, persuading Ning Fengzhi that his ambitions could reshape the continent. Ning Fengzhi agreed to help spread the news through the Heaven Dou Empire, and Yan left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s camp.

• Yan told Ning Fengzhi that he wanted to be remembered throughout history and gained his reluctant agreement.
• Yan proposed cultivating new resources to increase the chance of awakening Innate Soul Power and aid support Soul Masters’ cultivation.
• Yan explained how plant Soul Masters could use their martial souls and Soul Power to accelerate crop cultivation and produce valuable new resources.
• Ning Fengzhi asked how he could help, and Yan asked the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to spread the news across the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Yan led his group away from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s temporary camp and returned to the castle.

Yan planned a visit to Heaven Dou City as Spirit Hall’s influence expanded and the Tian Dou Royal Family gathered troops. He traveled toward the city with powerful guards and Yang Wudi, leaving the royal family’s response to come.

• She Long reported that the Tian Dou Empire had gathered nearly five hundred thousand troops around Heaven Dou City and summoned nearly twenty thousand soul masters there.
• Yan reviewed Spirit Hall’s growing influence and asked She Long about an auction in Heaven Dou City before deciding to visit the city and unsettle the royal family.
• Ci Xue reported that the Strength and Defense Clans were building a Mercenary Guild branch, while the Speed and Breaking Clans were cooperating with Spirit Hall.
• Yan asked She Long to summon Yang Wudi, then invited Yang Wudi to join the trip and bid on any treasures he wanted at the auction.
• Yan told Yang Wudi that Xue Ye would understand what to do, and their carriage approached Heaven Dou City’s eastern gate as the guards gripped their spears.

Yan attended the Great Auction House with his companions, hoping to find valuable items and waiting for someone to arrive. When a strange metal pillar appeared at auction, he recognized it and stood up in surprise.

• She Long showed the group’s token at the Imperial City Auction House, and an attendant led them inside.
• Yan and his seven companions entered the auction center, took seats in the white section, and watched the early lots sell.
• Yan waited at the auction for someone he expected to arrive while the host presented ordinary items.
• The host unveiled a blue-patterned metal pillar as a Soul Tool, and Yan stood up in surprise at seeing it.

At the Grand Auction House, Yan recognized an auctioned Soul Tool fragment as belonging to the same device as one he had found before, and bought it to investigate. As he waited for the premium auction, a luxurious carriage escorted by Palace Guards entered the imperial capital.

• Yan recognized the auction item as a fragment from the same Soul Tool as the one he had found in a Solar Worm's nest.
• The auction host described the fragment as a spatial Soul Tool that might contain a vast store of ancient supplies.
• Yan rejected the storage-space theory, recalling that his research showed the fragment's spatial properties differed from conventional storage Soul Tools.
• When nobody else bid, Yan offered one thousand Gold Soul Coins and won the fragment.
• As Yan waited without bidding on later items, a luxurious carriage escorted by Palace Guards entered the imperial capital.

Emperor Xue Ye visited the Heaven Dou Imperial City Auction House to meet Spirit Hall’s guests and approached Yan in the VIP seating. Dugu Bo challenged Yan’s authority, but four Titled Douluo pressured him into submission.

• Xue Ye arrived at the auction house with Prince Xue Xing and Dugu Bo, escorted by elite guards, and asked whether Spirit Hall’s guests were inside.
• Yan noticed Xue Ye’s entourage enter the auction venue and had Yue Guan give up his seat so the emperor could sit beside him.
• Dugu Bo mocked Yue Guan, then tried to sit beside Xue Ye despite Yan telling him that his seat was behind them.
• Guimei and three other Titled Douluo released their pressure on Dugu Bo, warning him to respect Spirit Hall’s Holy Son.

Yan bid for the fox girl at the auction, then confronted Emperor Xue Ye over the slave trade and burned the auction supervisor until he revealed who ran and protected such businesses. The chapter left the supervisor being interrogated while Xue Ye faced Yan’s accusation about slavery in the imperial capital.

• Xue Ye approved Yan’s request to let the auction continue, and the host unveiled a fox girl in an iron cage.
• Bidders raised the price for the fox girl, and Prince Xue Xing won her for two hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Prince Xue Xing offered the fox girl to Yan, who explained that she had been awakened by Spirit Hall and condemned her enslavement to Xue Ye.
• Yan set the auction supervisor on fire and demanded that he name the people behind businesses trafficking fox girls and other demi-human women, along with their protectors.

Yan confronted Emperor Xue Ye over the auction house’s sale of a Fox Girl and used the scandal to press three demands. Emperor Xue Ye readily agreed to provide a royal estate for Spirit Hall’s crop research, while Yan’s request for more subsidies remained unresolved and he ended by asking to borrow the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.

• Yan burned the auction house manager to ashes, and Prince Xue Xing knelt to accept responsibility for the slave-trading scandal.
• Emperor Xue Ye ordered Xue Xing to investigate and uproot those responsible, while Yan warned against auctioning women with unusual Beast Souls.
• Yan asked the empire to add five million Gold Soul Coins in annual subsidies for Clear Sky Sect’s five thousand unregistered soul masters, and Emperor Xue Ye gave no clear answer.
• Yan requested the royal estate on the Lima Plain for Spirit Hall’s high-yield crop research, and Emperor Xue Ye agreed to provide it.
• Yan asked Emperor Xue Ye to lend him the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.

Yan failed to secure the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud from Xue Ye, but saw the royal treasure before leaving Heaven Dou City. He arranged for the Mercenary Guild branch and prepared to move the Breaking Clan to Spirit City, while Prince Xue Xing sought Dugu Bo’s help to secretly kill someone.

• Prince Xue Xing rejected Yan’s request to borrow the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, and Xue Ye showed Yan the treasure instead.
• Yan left after reminding Xue Ye to fulfill his promise, while Xue Ye and Prince Xue Xing confirmed that the royal family’s involvement in the slave trade had been concealed.
• Prince Xue Xing asked Dugu Bo how to kill someone without being discovered, but Dugu Bo warned him against acting recklessly and walked away.
• In the carriage, Yan proposed appointing Titan to lead the Heaven Dou City Mercenary Guild branch, and Yang Wudi warned that Titan’s loyalty to the Clear Sky Sect could cause problems.
• Yan told Yang Wudi to prepare the Breaking Clan to travel to Spirit City, and Yang Wudi accepted the order.

Yan returned to Spirit City with thousands of Clear Sky Sect members and reported his work to Bibi Dong, who arranged for him to rest. After waking, Yan received a token granting him authority over the Worship Hall’s routine affairs as Qian Daoliu departed to support Qian Renxue’s cultivation.

• Yan brought tens of thousands of Clear Sky Sect outer branch members and their families back to Spirit City, leaving Titan and other conspicuous figures in Heaven Dou City to run the Mercenary Guild branch.
• Yan reported to Bibi Dong on his operations in Heaven Dou City, including the Clear Sky Sect, the Seven Sects Alliance, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, firearms, grain seeds, and the returning soul masters.
• Bibi Dong praised Yan’s arrangements, discussed developing Soul Tool technology, and carried him to bed when he was too exhausted to stay awake.
• Yan woke the next morning and ate before Qian Daoliu told him he was suited to succeed Bibi Dong and would support Qian Renxue.
• Qian Daoliu gave Yan a token authorizing him to oversee the Worship Hall’s routine affairs, then left to focus on Qian Renxue’s cultivation.

Yan cultivated in a lava-and-flame Mimetic Training Ground built specifically for his martial soul, but his low cultivation level limited how long he could endure it. After checking that his overtraining had caused no serious injuries, he left the valley and heard a familiar voice.

• Yan absorbed fire-attributed energy in his custom Mimetic Training Ground beneath the Papal Hall.
• Yan reflected that his two-ringed Soul Grandmaster cultivation was still too low for him to remain in the harsh training ground for long.
• Yan climbed out of the lava valley with signs of overtraining, while Dawn monitored his condition and helped prevent lasting injuries.
• Yan checked his body, washed, changed into a robe, and heard a familiar voice as he left the valley.

Yan visited the special training class with Hu Liena and sparred with Xie Yue after recognizing his recent breakthrough to rank twenty. He defeated Xie Yue and advised him to choose a second soul ring that would improve his blades' sharpness.

• Yan teased Hu Liena as they walked together to the training ground.
• Yan watched Xie Yue defeat Tuo Ba Hong, who lamented his seventh consecutive loss.
• Yan confirmed that Xie Yue had reached rank twenty and accepted his challenge.
• Yan deflected Xie Yue's Moon Blades with flaming stones, then broke through his defense with a fiery punch.
• Yan advised Xie Yue to seek a soul ring that enhanced his blades, and Xie Yue asked what kind would suit him.

Yan led Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Liya into the Star Dou Great Forest to find suitable soul beasts after they reached new cultivation ranks. Yueguan detected a dense life aura to the southwest, and the group headed there to search for a soul beast suited to Liya.

• Yan explained that Hu Liena should focus her Moon Blades on agility and explosive attacks, then proposed taking the newly advanced group to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Hu Liena agreed enthusiastically, and Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo agreed to lead the expedition after her pleading.
• The Spirit Hall party traveled to the forest, where Yueguan warned Yan, Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Liya to remain close while he and Guimei searched for soul beasts.
• Yueguan used his Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum domain to sense the forest's plants and detected a dense life aura to the southwest.
• Yan led the group southwest toward a life-attribute soul beast suitable for Liya's healing Martial Soul.

Yan and the Spirit Hall group found a dying Emerald Swan and suspected a dangerous predator had attacked it. After Liya absorbed the swan’s spirit ring, Guimei returned from scouting and confirmed that a disguised Dark Demon Evil God Tiger of at least fifty thousand years was nearby, leaving the group on alert.

• Yue Guan led Yan, Guimei, and Liya to an injured Emerald Swan in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Yan detected an evil aura on the swan’s fatal wounds and warned that a dangerous Spirit Beast might be hiding nearby.
• Yue Guan drove away nearby tiger-type Spirit Beasts, while Guimei went into hiding to investigate.
• Yan told Liya that the Emerald Swan could not be saved, and Liya ended its life and began absorbing its spirit ring.
• Guimei returned after encountering a fifty-thousand-year Dark Demon Evil God Tiger disguised as an ordinary dark-attribute tiger.
• Guimei reported that the tiger had left and that his ghost shadow was monitoring it nearby.

Liya absorbed the Emerald Swan's life force and gained emerald wings, while Yan's group left the area to avoid the powerful Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. Hu Liena obtained her second soul ring and tested a new spiritual attack on Yan before distant roars drew the group's attention to an unusual bear-type soul beast.

• Liya absorbed the Emerald Swan's soul ring and life force, and Yan told Yue Guan to bury its corpse and lead them away from the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
• Guimei attempted to leave a tracking aura as Yue Guan escorted Yan and the others from the area.
• Hu Liena absorbed a Purple Spirit Wolf-Badger as her second soul ring after Yan captured it and advised her to pursue the path of a spiritual-type soul master.
• Hu Liena used Bewitching Eye combined with the Purple Spirit Wolf-Badger's spiritual weakening on Yan, but he resisted the attack.
• Guimei heard a bear's roar and suspected that an unusually powerful bear-type soul beast was attacking the Nether Wolf pack.

Yan and the others discovered a young Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, and Guimei subdued it so Xie Yue could claim its soul ring. After Xie Yue began absorbing it, Guimei searched the corpse for the expected soul bone but found no trace of one.

• Yan and the others watched a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear slaughter a Nether Wolf pack, and Yue Guan identified it as a rare beast with less than six hundred years of cultivation.
• Guimei ambushed the bear, dodged its counterattack, and knocked it unconscious with a single step.
• Yue Guan brought Xie Yue to the bear, and Xie Yue killed it with his twin-bladed martial soul and absorbed its yellow soul ring.
• Yan and Guimei began stripping the bear's valuable hide and flesh while Yue Guan, Hu Liena, and Liya guarded Xie Yue.
• Guimei searched the bear's limbs for a soul bone but found no sign of one.

After Xie Yue absorbed the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear’s soul ring, Yan discovered an External Soul Bone in its right paw and offered it to him. Xie Yue could not absorb the bone and gave it to Yan, who accepted it, leaving the rare soul bone in Yan’s possession.

• Yan dissected the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear’s right paw and found a dark-gold palm bone.
• Xie Yue struggled to refine the bear’s soul ring but eventually absorbed it successfully.
• Hu Liena mocked Xie Yue for taking longer than she had to absorb her soul ring, and Xie Yue traded barbs with her and Yan.
• Xie Yue tried to absorb the palm bone but recoiled when its power burned and injured his hand.
• Xie Yue told Yan to keep the bone because it suited him, and Yan accepted the offer.

Yan absorbed the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's Soul Bone, using his flames to suppress its violent metallic power. He emerged with powerful dark gold claws and demonstrated their destructive reach.

• Yan began fusing the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's Soul Bone while Xie Yue, Yueguan, and Guimei guarded him.
• The Soul Bone's violent energy transformed Yan's right hand, and he activated his Martial Soul and both Soul Ring skills to suppress it with flames.
• Yan's palm and fingers became dark gold, with sharpened bones and claw-like markings.
• Yan extended five dark gold claws and slashed through the air, sending rays that tore through the air and burned a corridor through trees more than a hundred meters away.