Chapter Summaries

Gu Chen took Gu Yuena on a romantic night-market outing and went to buy her a ring. At a jewelry store, he tried to exchange the Eight Extremes Collapse manual for the rare Neon Gemstone.

• Gu Chen kissed Gu Yuena on the cheek, and she blushed as they continued their night out together.
• Gu Chen left Gu Yuena at a café and went to a jewelry store to find her a gift.
• Gu Chen discovered that the store's Neon Gemstone contained traces of nine elements and that its owner would only trade it for something of equal value.
• Gu Chen offered the owner the Eight Extremes Collapse manual, describing it as a Self-Created Soul Skill that could give even Support System Soul Masters combat ability.

Gu Chen exchanged the Eight Extremes Collapse manual for a Neon Gemstone, then used it to make a ring for Gu Yuena and confessed his love to her. Gu Yuena accepted him as her boyfriend, and the two settled together in the café.

• A middle-aged support-system Soul Emperor traded a Neon Gemstone for Gu Chen's Eight Extremes Collapse manual and had the gemstone set into a silver cat-ear ring.
• On his way back, Gu Chen bought a rose from a young boy and let him keep the extra money.
• Gu Chen gave Gu Yuena the ring, knelt before her with the rose, and asked her to be his girlfriend.
• Gu Yuena accepted Gu Chen's confession and kissed him, but asked him to wait until they were married before going further.
• Gu Chen agreed, and Gu Yuena rested against his shoulder and fell asleep.

Gu Chen led Ye Wuyou and their companions to the Night Clan to help Ye Wuyou take control, while Lin Luo arranged to seal off news from the clan. They entered the Ye Family Courtyard, where Ye Yao taunted Ye Wuyou about his murdered family and demanded the Purple Winged Angel.

• Gu Chen gathered Gu Yuena, Luo Chen, Ye Wuyou, and Lin Luo, explaining that Ye Wuyou would use his Night Clan bloodline to settle the clan's affairs.
• Ye Wuyou told Gu Chen about the Night Clan's Title Douluo, Ye Tianji, and Lin Luo reported that Ye Tianji was away hunting a Spirit Ring for his grandson.
• Lin Luo left to gather Lin Family members and block news from the Night Clan, while Gu Chen led Ye Wuyou and Luo Chen toward the Ye Family Courtyard.
• A Night Clan disciple recognized Ye Wuyou as a traitor and attacked him, but Ye Wuyou killed him with the Purple Winged Angel; Luo Chen then shot Ye Yan.
• Gu Chen and his companions entered the courtyard, where three Soul Douluo elders emerged and Ye Yao mocked Ye Wuyou's murdered family before demanding the Purple Winged Angel.

Gu Chen used overwhelming force to defeat the Night Clan and demanded that it become an affiliated force of Spirit Hall. Ye Mu appeared to submit, but Gu Chen saw through his hidden plans and prepared to control him.

• Gu Chen killed a Night Clan elder who had insulted Gu Yuena, while Ye Wuyou seized the distraction to kill Ye Yao.
• Gu Chen demanded the Night Clan submit to Spirit Hall, and eight of its nine Soul Saints turned against their elder.
• Ye Junci killed the remaining rebellious Soul Saint and offered his head as proof of allegiance, so Gu Chen named him the Night Clan's new elder and used an Enslavement Talisman on him.
• Ye Mu offered to submit, but Gu Chen's system panel revealed his loyalty was only 49 percent and warned against recruiting him.
• Ye Mu knelt and called Gu Chen his master, raising his loyalty to 51 percent and meeting the threshold for an intermediate Enslavement Talisman.

Gu Chen chose to make the Night Clan his own and gained Ye Mu’s complete loyalty, but Ye Tianji returned and attacked Ye Wuyou. Gu Chen intercepted him and left the clan head badly wounded.

• Gu Chen accepted the task to bring the Night Clan under his private control and used an Enslavement Talisman to make Ye Mu completely loyal to him.
• Ye Tianji arrived at the ruined Night Clan courtyard with Ye Han, and the clansmen called for their clan head to save them.
• A Night Clan member told Ye Tianji that Ye Mu and eight others had joined Spirit Hall, and Luo Chen shot the informant dead.
• Ye Wuyou confronted Ye Tianji over his family’s deaths, while Gu Chen traded insults with Ye Han.
• Ye Tianji lunged at Ye Wuyou, but Gu Chen blocked the attack and struck Ye Tianji with his Golden Dragon Claw Strike and Golden Dragon Tail Sweep, sending him crashing into an iron wall.

Gu Chen defeated Ye Tianji in Spirit City after countering his shadow attacks and turning his tracking throwing knife against the Night Clan disciples. With Ye Tianji and Ye Han dead, Gu Chen faced the remaining terrified Night Clan members.

• Ye Tianji summoned his Shadow Spirit Avatar and unleashed his Ninth Spirit skill, but Gu Chen answered with Forbidden Heaven and Earth: Dragon Emperor Battle and destroyed the shadow army.
• Ye Tianji fired a tracking throwing knife at Gu Chen, who evaded it by flying through the Night Clan disciples and used it to kill dozens of them.
• Gu Chen seized the opening after Ye Tianji withdrew his throwing knife, struck him from behind with the Golden Dragon Claw Strike, and crushed his heart.
• Ye Wuyou killed Ye Han after Ye Han fell to his knees under the pressure of Ye Wuyou's Soul Emperor power.
• Gu Chen turned toward the remaining Night Clan disciples, who trembled in fear.

Gu Chen purged Night Clan members whose loyalty was too low and ordered Ye Wuyou to reorganize the clan as the Shadow Guard, a force for assassination, reconnaissance, and protection. After Gu Chen returned to Spirit Hall, he learned that the Dai Family and Zhu Family had sent powerful soul masters to the Night Clan, so he and Lin Luo hurried back to face them.

• Gu Chen reviewed the Night Clan members’ Character Panels and ordered Luo Chen to kill thirty-nine members whose loyalty did not exceed forty percent.
• Gu Chen appointed Ye Wuyou to lead the Shadow Guard and tasked him with dividing it into three departments, while Ye Mu became deputy leader.
• Gu Chen returned to Spirit Hall and learned that Lin Luo’s spies had detected the Dai Family and Zhu Family sending soul masters, including two Soul Douluo, to the Night Clan.
• Gu Chen and Lin Luo rushed back to the Night Clan, where a Soul Douluo-led group appeared and accused Spirit Hall of overreaching.

Gu Chen and Ye Wuyou returned to Spirit Hall after Dai Yi backed down from challenging the Night Clan’s new leadership. Gu Chen strengthened his and Gu Yuena’s bloodlines, then unlocked the System Mall and bought several items for future use.

• Lin Luo and Ye Wuyou argued that Ye Wuyou’s leadership of the Night Clan was an internal matter, and Dai Yi left after issuing a threat.
• Gu Chen returned to Spirit Hall and gave Gu Yuena a bloodline enhancement, increasing both of their bloodline strengths by five percent.
• Gu Yuena tried to repeat the enhancement, but Gu Chen explained that it only worked the first time, and she began cultivating with the remaining energy.
• Gu Chen chose to wait until Gu Yuena let go of her reservations, then learned that completing 500 choices had activated the System Mall.
• Gu Chen bought Golden Dragon King and Silver Dragon King bloodline enhancements, then exchanged system points for a Soul Power Replenishment Card, a Communication Talisman Stone, and a Teleportation Talisman.

Gu Chen dismissed and killed Shangguan Yu after discovering that he had diverted Spirit Hall personnel for private purposes, then set his sights on the Shangguan Family. He arranged for himself and Gu Yuena to cover a patrol shortage and strengthened the Shadow Guard’s protection of Luo Chen and Ling Xiaojiu.

• Gu Chen learned that his Hall Master duties involved overseeing Spirit Hall, making important decisions, and reporting to the main hall once a month.
• Lin Luo and Hua Bu Luo revealed that Shangguan Yu had diverted Spirit Hall’s temporary soul masters to protect his son, leaving the patrol guards short-handed.
• Gu Chen dismissed Shangguan Yu, who defied him and tried to leave, so Gu Chen shot him and ordered his head delivered to the Shangguan Family residence.
• Gu Chen volunteered to patrol the eastern part of the city with Gu Yuena and went to check on the Shadow Guard’s formation.
• Ye Wuyou described the Shadow Guard’s three departments and their members, and Gu Chen ordered three Soul King-level guards assigned to protect Luo Chen and Ling Xiaojiu.

Gu Chen arranged protection and an assassination with Ye Wuyou, then patrolled Spirit City with Gu Yuena. When Shangguan Bendao abused an elderly vendor, Gu Chen intervened, and Gu Yuena killed him, leaving the Shangguan Family to deal with the consequences.

• Gu Chen asked Ye Wuyou to protect Luo Chen and Ling Xiaojiu after training and to arrange Shangguan Yu's son's assassination, giving him a Communication Talisman Stone.
• Gu Chen and Gu Yuena joined the patrol guards in Spirit City and headed to the eastern district near the Shangguan Family residence.
• Shangguan Bendao kicked over a fruit stall, beat its elderly vendor, and ordered his guards to continue attacking him.
• Gu Chen killed four Shangguan Family guards, struck Shangguan Bendao, and pinned him to the ground.
• Gu Yuena pierced Shangguan Bendao's throat with an ice spike, and Gu Chen told the patrol guards to report that Bendao had attempted to assassinate Spirit Hall's Hall Master.

Gu Chen accepted Shangguan Yanfeng’s invitation and confronted the Shangguan Family head over his family’s attacks on Spirit Hall. After rejecting Shangguan Yanfeng’s threat, Gu Chen left a modified Soul Guiding Cannonball buried beneath the estate, setting its countdown to ten minutes.

• Gu Chen had the injured old man healed and learned from Lin Luo that the Shangguan Family had colluded with the Dai and Zhu Families.
• The patrol captain reported that Shangguan Yanfeng had killed five Spirit Hall soldiers and invited Gu Chen to the Shangguan estate; Gu Chen accepted.
• Gu Chen brought Gu Yuena to the estate, killed a guard who insulted him, and entered the family head’s courtyard.
• Gu Chen and Shangguan Yanfeng argued over the deaths on both sides, and Gu Chen resisted Shangguan Yanfeng’s threat before leaving.
• Gu Chen set a modified fixed Soul Guiding Cannonball’s countdown to ten minutes and had Gu Yuena bury it ten meters beneath the estate.

Gu Chen planted a fixed-installation Soul Cannonball outside the Shangguan Family Head’s courtyard, then used an Armed Drone to attack the estate. Shangguan Yanfeng died, and the drone continued firing as the Shangguan Family reacted.

• Gu Chen left a fixed-installation Soul Cannonball buried outside Shangguan Yanfeng’s courtyard as a supposed meeting gift.
• Shangguan Yanfeng uncovered the device, and its explosion destroyed his courtyard, killed a servant, and left him gravely wounded.
• After returning to Spirit Hall, Gu Chen used an Armed Drone to locate the wounded Shangguan Yanfeng at the estate.
• Gu Chen fired a laser through Shangguan Yanfeng’s skull and killed three healing-type Soul Emperors with another shot.
• The Armed Drone shot an armor-piercing round through a Shangguan Family elder as the clan members became enraged.

Gu Chen used the Armed Drone to wipe out the Shangguan Family, while Gu Yuena urged him to destroy everyone in the estate. After the Dai and Zhu Families confirmed that no one had survived, Gu Chen ordered Spirit Hall to conceal its role and buy the land.

• Gu Chen announced the Shangguan Family’s end, then killed the remaining elder and two healing-type Soul Emperors with the Armed Drone.
• Gu Chen switched the drone to machine-gun fire and hunted down the Shangguan Family disciples as they tried to flee or hide.
• Gu Yuena told Gu Chen that the women, elderly, children, and illegitimate sons in the other courtyards were not innocent, and Gu Chen fired seven tracking missiles at them.
• The missiles and a secondary fuel-depot explosion engulfed the estate, and a search confirmed that all 243 Shangguan Family members were dead.
• Gu Chen returned the Armed Drone to Spirit Hall and instructed its stewards to blame the massacre on accidentally ignited gasoline barrels and negotiate to purchase the estate’s land.

Dai Heng learned that Spirit Hall had taken control of the Night Clan and was suspected of destroying the Shangguan Family, but he decided against direct retaliation. He approved a youth tournament designed to target Spirit Hall, while Gu Chen ordered an ambush against the Shangguan disciples returning to Spirit City.

• Dai Heng learned that Spirit Hall's Vice Hall Master had become the Night Clan's head and that the Shangguan Family had been wiped out in a fire.
• Dai Heng considered attacking Spirit Hall, but Dai Su warned that the Star Luo Empire could not withstand a war with it.
• Dai Wuliang proposed a youth Soul Master tournament in Spirit City, and Dai Heng approved it with an Eight-Hundred-Year Spirit Bone as the prize while barring Spirit Hall's Hall Master and Vice Hall Master from competing.
• Ye Wuyou told Gu Chen that forty-one Shangguan disciples were returning from the Heaven Dou Empire, and Gu Chen ordered them all killed.
• Ye Wuyou assigned the Shadow Guards to assassinate the returning disciples, reserving the two Soul Kings for himself and the Soul Emperor for Ye He.

Gu Chen accepted the Star Luo Imperial Family’s invitation to a Soul Master Tournament he believed was meant to kill Spirit Hall’s young fighters, and selected four subordinates to compete. At the tournament’s opening, he forced the hosts to give Spirit Hall’s leaders respectable seats, and the first match began.

• Gu Chen chose to participate in the tournament, received a Talent Enhancement Card, and learned that it could raise a soul master’s talent but could not improve god-tier talent.
• Gu Chen ordered Hua Bu Luo, Jin Zi, Xue Youyou, and Feng Xiaoyu to eliminate Dai Family and Zhu Family contestants while making any deaths appear accidental.
• Gu Chen checked his subordinates’ talents and planned to give the enhancement card to Hua Bu Luo or Feng Xiaoyu based on their tournament performance.
• Seven days later, Gu Chen, Gu Yuena, and Lin Luo arrived at the arena, where Gu Chen threw several nobles from the first-row seats and compelled Dai Heng to accommodate them.
• The tournament began with Dai Yi, a level-thirty-six Dai Family genius, facing a commoner soul master from Spirit City.

Gu Chen wagered a Thousand Mile Teleportation Talisman against Dai Heng’s spirit bones and won after Lin Tian defeated Dai Yi. The tournament narrowed to eight competitors, and Feng Xiaoyu’s match against Zhu Xiaoling began with Feng revealing five soul rings.

• Lin Tian fought Dai Yi, while Gu Chen and Dai Heng wagered a Thousand Mile Teleportation Talisman against a thousand-year spirit bone.
• Lin Tian trapped Dai Yi inside a Nether Soul Bell, then knocked him off the arena after Dai Yi broke free, winning the match and the wager for Gu Chen.
• Dai Heng exchanged a second thousand-year spirit bone for Gu Chen’s Teleportation Talisman, and Gu Chen accepted both spirit bones.
• The tournament continued through several rounds; Jin Zi defeated Xue Youyou, and eight Soul Masters remained, including Feng Xiaoyu, Lin Tian, Dai Zichen, and Zhu Xiaoling.
• Feng Xiaoyu faced Zhu Xiaoling, who was stunned when Feng revealed five soul rings.

Feng Xiaoyu killed Zhu Xiaoling, and three Spirit Hall Soul Masters advanced to the final four after the tournament’s remaining bouts. Feng Xiaoyu then yielded to Jin Zi in the semifinals, while Hua Bu Luo faced Dai Zichen as evening fell.

• Feng Xiaoyu used her spirit abilities to wound Zhu Xiaoling, turned invisible, and killed her with Hurricane Thrust.
• Dai Zichen vowed to avenge Zhu Xiaoling, then tore off a Heaven Dou Empire Soul Master’s arms and tortured him to death during their match.
• Hua Bu Luo defeated his Control System opponent with Thousand Cherry Blossoms, while Jin Zi split Lin Tian’s Nether Soul Bell and knocked him out of the arena.
• Hua Bu Luo, Feng Xiaoyu, Jin Zi, and Dai Zichen advanced to the final four, with three Spirit Hall Soul Masters among them.
• Jin Zi defeated Feng Xiaoyu after a brief exchange to advance to the final, and Hua Bu Luo entered the arena to face Dai Zichen.

Hua Bu Luo killed Dai Zichen in the tournament, then received Gu Chen’s reward, which raised his talent to the level of a potential god-level powerhouse. The tournament ended with Hua Bu Luo and Gu Chen’s companions gaining spirit bones, while Dai Wuliang was left to mourn his son.

• Hua Bu Luo overwhelmed Dai Zichen with his cherry blossom abilities and killed him just as Dai Zichen began to surrender.
• Dai Wuliang attacked Hua Bu Luo in anger, but Dai Heng stopped him and ordered him back to the viewing platform.
• The tournament ended with Hua Bu Luo winning the eight-hundred-year spirit bone, which he gave to Gu Chen.
• Gu Chen gave Feng Xiaoyu and Xuan Mo spirit bones and sent them to absorb them.
• Gu Chen rewarded Hua Bu Luo with a Talent Enhancement Card, which improved his abilities and raised him to level 53.
• Gu Chen told Hua Bu Luo that he now had the talent to become a god-level powerhouse, and Hua Bu Luo promised to keep working hard.

After Dai Wuliang vowed to avenge his son by assassinating Hua Bu Luo, Gu Chen chose to lure him out and kill him. Gu Chen bought a Kar-98k sniper rifle and arranged an ambush, leaving Hua Bu Luo and the others ready to draw Dai Wuliang into range.

• Dai Heng refused Dai Wuliang’s plea for revenge, and Dai Wuliang swore he would kill Hua Bu Luo himself.
• Ye Wuyou warned Gu Chen that Dai Wuliang was planning an assassination, and Gu Chen chose to use Hua Bu Luo as bait.
• Gu Chen bought a Kar-98k sniper rifle and an 8x scope from the System Mall during a limited-time discount.
• Gu Chen briefed Hua Bu Luo and the others on the ambush, assigning them to protect Hua Bu Luo and hold Dai Wuliang until Gu Chen could shoot from five hundred meters away.

Dai Wuliang ambushed Hua Bu Luo in public, but the team’s defenses thwarted his attacks and Su Bai’s spirit ability drove him into a furious frenzy. Gu Chen watched from a distant tower with a rifle, waiting for the right moment to intervene.

• Hua Bu Luo drew a crowd of Spirit City girls while Gu Chen’s team hid nearby, hoping Dai Wuliang’s attack would damage the Star Luo Imperial Family’s reputation.
• Dai Wuliang appeared and attacked Hua Bu Luo with his White Tiger Fierce Light Wave, but Xuan Mo and Feng Xiaoyu blocked it.
• Dai Wuliang’s White Tiger Meteor Shower struck Xuan Mo’s Invincible Shield and was repelled, after which Dai Wuliang sent Xuan Mo flying with a palm strike.
• Ling Xiaojiu healed Xuan Mo, and Su Bai attacked Dai Wuliang with Heart Stab—Anger, triggering enraging memories that made Dai Wuliang lose control and wreak destruction.