Chapter Summaries

Wu Qi’s overwhelming strength persuaded Bai He to bring the Speed Clan into the Gathering Righteousness Sect, while Tang San planned to recruit the former affiliated clans into his Tang Sect. On the Defense Clan’s roof, Wu Qi suggested Feng Xiaotian seek an inheritance in Hurricane Canyon, leaving him to consider the advice.

• Wu Qi defeated Bai He and persuaded him that the Speed Clan should join the Gathering Righteousness Sect; Bai He agreed to return to his clan and spread the news.
• As the Clear Sky Sect and Strength Clan traveled through the Balak Kingdom, Titan pledged to join Tang San’s proposed Tang Sect.
• Titan told Tang San that the former Clear Sky Sect affiliated clans would soon gather, and offered to help recruit them after the migration.
• Wu Qi suggested Feng Xiaotian train in Hurricane Canyon and seek the inheritance of the legendary figure said to have created it.
• Feng Xiaotian considered Wu Qi’s suggestion while Chen Ping wondered what the continent’s future would bring.

Bai He offered Wu Qi the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng to help win over Yang Wudi and the Breaking Clan, while Wu Qi gave Bai He an Eight Petal Immortal Orchid in return. When Yang Wudi arrived at the Defense Clan, Wu Qi provoked him by invoking Spirit Hall, leaving the two poised to fight.

• Bai He told Wu Qi that Yang Wudi needed an explanation about Yang Wu Shuang, and Wu Qi revealed that Yang Wu Shuang was alive and had joined Spirit Hall.
• Bai He gave Wu Qi the Speed Clan's Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng to offer Yang Wudi, and Wu Qi exchanged it for an Eight Petal Immortal Orchid for Bai Chenxiang.
• Two days later, Yang Wudi arrived at the Defense Clan and reunited with Bai He and Niu Gao, while learning that the Strength Clan had allied with the Clear Sky Sect again.
• Wu Qi released his Soul Pressure and challenged Yang Wudi in Spirit Hall's name, prompting Yang Wudi to summon his Soul Breaking Spear and unleash his Soul Douluo aura.

Wu Qi fought Yang Wudi at the Defense Clan, overwhelming him with his strength and spirit skills. He left Yang Wudi alive but defeated, and Bai He hurried to check on him.

• Wu Qi revealed his Azure Luan Spirit and attacked Yang Wudi, who fought back with his Soul Breaking Spear.
• Wu Qi stopped Yang Wudi’s spear with two fingers, rebounded his attack, and hurled him into the air.
• Yang Wudi activated his Martial Soul Avatar and fought on, but Wu Qi’s Golden Cloud Wings overpowered the Soul Breaking Spear.
• Yang Wudi used his eighth soul skill, Extinguish, as Wu Qi immobilized him with Wind's Moment.
• Wu Qi unleashed Golden Wing Ripping Slash but deliberately missed Yang Wudi, then shattered his Martial Soul Avatar.
• Yang Wudi fell, gasping, and Bai He hurried over to ask whether he was all right.

Wu Qi recruited the Breaking Clan into the Gathering Righteousness Sect and gave Yang Wudi the Aromatic Silk Beauty. After Wu Qi left for Gengxin City to approach the Blacksmiths' Association, the three clans prepared to relocate to the sect.

• Wu Qi subdued Yang Wudi, and Bai He and Niu Gao explained that Wu Qi had come to recruit the Breaking Clan.
• Yang Wudi agreed to join after Wu Qi promised to reunite him with his brother, Yang Wu Shuang, and offered the same terms as the other clans.
• Wu Qi gave Yang Wudi the Aromatic Silk Beauty, which left him too excited to continue their discussion.
• Wu Qi, Bai He, and Niu Gao left for Gengxin City, where Wu Qi intended to recruit the Blacksmiths' Association before Tang San could reach it.
• After Yang Wudi learned Wu Qi had departed, he urged Bai He and Niu Gao to hurry their clans' relocation to the Gathering Righteousness Sect.

Tang Xiao’s group learned that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had entered the Seven Great Sects Re-election Assembly, prompting Yu Xiaogang to accuse it of plotting against its rivals. Meanwhile, Wu Qi’s group arrived in Gengxin City to seek the Blacksmiths’ Association, where a waiter warned them to stay away from Spirit Hall.

• In a teahouse, Tang Xiao’s group heard that Ning Fengzhi and the Sword Bone Douluo had appeared in Spirit City and wondered why the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was there.
• Yu Xiaogang speculated that Ning Fengzhi had gone to attend a newly advanced Titled Douluo’s ceremony, but the group then learned that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had officially entered the tournament.
• Yu Xiaogang accused the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect of plotting to eliminate the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and Clear Sky Sect, while Tang Xiao rejected the theory and Tang San sided with him.
• Wu Qi’s group arrived in Gengxin City and went looking for the Blacksmiths’ Association.
• After Wu Qi tipped a waiter, the waiter warned the group to stay away from Spirit Hall.

Wu Qi and his companions investigated complaints that Bishop Myers was exploiting Gengxin City's businesses and visited the Blacksmiths' Association to learn more. After Wu Qi bought its entire stock of Sinking Silver, Grandmaster Si Long asked what he intended to forge, and Wu Qi suggested they discuss business elsewhere.

• A waiter told Feng Xiaotian that Bishop Myers imposed taxes on Gengxin City's businesses, and Qian Gu Changkong pointed out that the blacksmiths were likely his main target.
• Wu Qi decided to visit the Blacksmiths' Association before acting against Myers, since a direct intervention could make Spirit Hall seem to be attacking itself.
• Wu Qi asked Xiao Liu to take the group to the second floor and requested a large quantity of Sinking Silver-type metals from a merchant struggling with Spirit Hall's protection fees.
• Wu Qi showed his red Gold Spirit Card, drawing Grandmaster Si Long, Lou Gao's direct disciple, to meet him.
• Wu Qi bought all the merchant's Sinking Silver, including Deep Sea Sinking Silver Silver Matrix, and Si Long asked what he planned to forge.

Wu Qi brought the Nine Treasure Ruyi Soft Armor to the Blacksmiths' Association to secure a meeting with Divine Blacksmith Lou Gao. Lou Gao agreed to forge an item in exchange for the armor, but balked when Wu Qi asked him to make another Nine Treasure Ruyi Soft Armor from Sinking Silver.

• Si Long escorted Wu Qi's group to the VIP area after Wu Qi qualified for VIP treatment.
• Wu Qi showed Si Long the Nine Treasure Ruyi Soft Armor, and Si Long recognized it as his grandmaster's lost masterpiece and offered to introduce Wu Qi to Lou Gao.
• Si Long led Wu Qi's group to Lou Gao's forging room, where Lou Gao inspected the armor and questioned how Wu Qi had obtained it.
• Wu Qi presented the armor and its Heaven Dou Auction House authentication, and Lou Gao offered to forge an item for him in exchange for the armor.
• Wu Qi asked Lou Gao to forge a new Nine Treasure Ruyi Soft Armor from Sinking Silver, and Lou Gao objected that the task was unrealistic.

Wu Qi tried to recruit the Blacksmiths' Association into Spirit Hall, offering compensation and a promise to bring them Soul Tool technology. Lou Gao warmed to the offer, but Myers arrived to extort the association before he could decide.

• Wu Qi offered Lou Gao the Nine Treasure Ruyi Soft Armor in exchange for the Blacksmiths' Association joining his faction, then revealed he represented Spirit Hall.
• Lou Gao rejected Wu Qi, and Qian Gu Changkong threatened the association when it refused to answer.
• Feng Xiaotian eased Lou Gao's suspicions by explaining that not everyone in Spirit Hall shared Myers's corruption.
• Wu Qi promised direct oversight, compensation for blacksmiths, action against Myers, and Soul Tool technology within ten to twenty years.
• Lou Gao grew interested in the offer, but a commotion downstairs announced Myers's arrival to extort the association again.

Wu Qi and his allies confronted Myers at the Blacksmiths' Association, exposed his crimes, and killed him. Wu Qi then offered the blacksmiths a choice between joining Spirit Hall under written terms or receiving severance pay, leaving the Association to decide its future.

• Myers and his guards beat the blacksmiths, and Chen Ping and Si Long challenged him.
• Wu Qi confronted Myers and demanded that he confess his crimes, but Myers ordered his guards to seize Wu Qi.
• Qian Gu Changkong revealed his Papal Order, and Myers recognized him and fell to his knees.
• Feng Xiaotian killed Myers, and Wu Qi said Spirit Hall had already arranged new leadership and a purge of Gengxin City’s Spirit Hall.
• Lou Gao told the blacksmiths that joining Spirit Hall could bring better treatment and future Soul Tool technology, while some blacksmiths objected.
• Wu Qi offered written terms, settlement subsidies and free housing to those who joined, and one hundred Gold Soul Coins to those who refused.

Wu Qi helped Lou Gao bring most of the Blacksmiths' Association into Martial Soul Hall and arranged for its relocation and future training academies. The Seven Great Sects Re-election Assembly concluded with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Elephant Armor Sect, and Sacred Dragon Sect named the Upper Three Sects.

• Wu Qi offered blacksmiths Martial Soul Hall positions and severance pay, while Feng Xiaotian reported that many opponents were Strength Clan disciples.
• After three days of recruitment, Lou Gao gave Wu Qi a list showing that nearly eighty percent of the association's blacksmiths had agreed to join Martial Soul Hall.
• Wu Qi distributed severance pay and prepared to relocate the association, which would keep fulfilling weapon orders while Martial Soul Hall planned academies for blacksmiths and Soul Engineers.
• At the re-election assembly, Gu Rong and Sword Dao Chen Xin criticized Tang Xiao, while Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin discussed which sects might join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect among the Upper Three Sects.
• The assembly finished its sect master and Elder battles in five days and named the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Elephant Armor Sect, and Sacred Dragon Sect as the Upper Three Sects.

With the continent’s sect rankings settled, Wu Qi’s group prepared for the coming war and Hurricane Canyon’s storm period, while Tang San’s allies struggled to establish a new sect. Qian Gu Changkong broke through to Soul Saint, and the group reached Hurricane Canyon as its dangerous storms began.

• The New Seven Great Sects rankings were announced, and the continent entered a brief calm before Bibi Dong’s plan.
• Wu Qi and the others returned to Seven Treasures Academy to intensify their cultivation before the storms began in Hurricane Canyon.
• Tang Xiao refused Titan’s proposal to have the Defense Clan build the Clear Sky Sect’s residence, while Tang San agreed the Strength Clan would stay in tents and planned to recruit the Three Single-Attribute Clans.
• Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong discussed selling the former Shrek Academy land to fund Tang San’s sect, but feared the Heaven Dou Empire would seize the money.
• Qian Gu Changkong broke through to Soul Saint, then returned to the academy with Dugu Bo’s help.
• Feng Xiaotian led the group to Hurricane Canyon and warned them that the storm and flying stones could kill anyone who lost their footing.

Wu Qi began the Divine Trial in Hurricane Canyon, while Tang San and Titan traveled to Gengxin City to seek the Blacksmiths' Association for the Tang Sect. The association had disappeared from its former headquarters, leaving Titan to confront how much the city had changed.

• Wu Qi and the others received the Fourth Trial instructions, and Wu Qi advanced to eight hundred meters into Hurricane Canyon before stopping to cultivate against the wind pressure.
• Ning Rongrong and the other group members settled at cultivation points they could endure, while Feng Xiaotian stopped around four hundred fifty meters and advised Wu Qi on handling the wind.
• Tang San and Titan found the Defense Clan's residence in Longxing City abandoned, and Titan realized the clan had relocated without informing them.
• Titan proposed that they travel to Gengxin City, where he hoped to recruit the Blacksmiths' Association to support the Tang Sect's hidden weapon production.
• Tang San and Titan arrived in Gengxin City and found the former Blacksmiths' Association building converted into a shop, with its sign gone.

Tang San and Titan learned that Wu Qi had brought the Blacksmiths’ Association into Spirit Hall and feared he would restore Spirit Hall’s public support. Meanwhile, Wu Qi and the others continued training in Hurricane Canyon, where he deepened his understanding of wind power but had not yet formed a domain.

• Titan, Tang San, and Tang Xiao discovered that the Blacksmiths’ Association had moved and joined Spirit Hall, with the city’s residents praising Spirit Hall’s reforms.
• A Strength Clan disciple told Titan that a young Spirit Hall elder surnamed Wu had removed Myers, persuaded Lou Gao, and offered Soul Tool techniques and severance pay to the blacksmiths.
• Tang San suspected the elder was Wu Qi, and Titan warned that Wu Qi might also have recruited the Defense Clan.
• Titan took the Strength Clan disciples’ severance money to support Tang San’s predicament, and the group began discussing how to oppose Spirit Hall.
• In Hurricane Canyon, Wu Qi and the others made rapid training gains, while Wu Qi improved his grasp of wind-element power without condensing it into a domain.

Feng Xiaotian received a divine trial in Hurricane Canyon, while Wu Qi revealed his own trial and urged him to bring Huo Wu and the others. Meanwhile, Tang San and his companions discussed Spirit Hall’s growing influence and were directed toward Sea God Island for training.

• Feng Xiaotian found a divine statue in Hurricane Canyon, received a trial, and Wu Qi caught him when the gale blew him away.
• Wu Qi revealed that his trial was to condense an exclusive domain and told Feng Xiaotian to bring Huo Wu and the others to seek trials.
• Feng Xiaotian returned with Wu Qi and concealed the details of his trial from Huo Wu and the others.
• Tang San and Titan met with Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect elders to discuss Spirit Hall’s growing prestige and their plans for revenge.
• Second Elder recommended Sea God Island as a place for Tang San and Dai Mubai to train, and Yu Xiaogang recounted Spirit Hall’s failed invasion there.
• Tang Xiao confirmed to Tang San that gods truly existed.

Tang San agreed to seek Sea God Island’s inheritance to strengthen himself and prepare to oppose Spirit Hall, while Wu Qi completed his Wind Domain and Destruction Fourth Trial in Hurricane Canyon. The group left the canyon as the Wind God trials began for Ning Rongrong, Huo Wu, and Huo Wushuang.

• Tang Xiao and Yu Xiaogang urged Tang San to pursue Sea God Island’s inheritance and find his great-grandfather, and Tang San asked Tang Xiao to manage the Tang Sect’s affairs while he was away.
• Tang San planned to have the Strength Clan forge Hidden Weapons and sell them to the Star Luo Empire’s army through Dai Mubai to fund the Tang Sect and his journey.
• Wu Qi transformed into his Martial Soul Avatar and ventured deeper into Hurricane Canyon to comprehend his domain while Qian Gu Changkong and Chen Ping pursued their Divine Trials.
• Wu Qi condensed his Wind Domain, completed the Destruction Fourth Trial, and received increased Destruction affinity and a higher Spirit Ring year limit.
• After leaving the canyon, Ning Rongrong received a red-level seven-trial assessment from the Wind God, while Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang received red-level six-trial assessments.

Wu Qi received a perilous new God King-level trial and learned that war was brewing between the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires. As he considered Spirit Hall’s political maneuvering, Tang San’s group arrived in Vast Sea City to prepare for their journey to Sea God Island.

• Wu Qi learned that the Fifth Trial required him to dive to the bottom of the Icefire Yin Yang Well and earn the Two Great Dragon Kings’ recognition within half a year, and he told Ning Rongrong their next training ground would be Sunset Forest.
• Feng Xiaotian suggested Wu Qi return to check on the continent, and Spirit Hall’s agents briefed Wu Qi and Qian Gu Changkong after Chen Ping went into seclusion to absorb his new God-given Spirit Ring.
• Wu Qi learned that the Gathering Righteousness Sect had been established but missed the Seven Great Sects re-election, while the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires had clashed at their border.
• Qian Gu Changkong warned that the empires’ Soul Master Legions could turn the border fighting into a devastating war, while Wu Qi saw the conflict as a chance to advance his plans for unifying the continent.
• Tang San’s group reached Vast Sea City, the continent’s main shipping hub and gathering place for Sea Spirit Masters, to prepare for their voyage to Sea God Island.

The Shrek Six Monsters prepared to sail from Vast Sea City to Sea God Island while Wu Qi brought Qian Gu Changkong and Chen Ping to train at the Icefire Yin Yang Well. Tang San struggled to find a shipowner willing to cross the dangerous waters, but Yu Tianheng returned with an offer of passage.

• Tang San assigned Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing to buy sea-travel supplies, while Yu Tianheng and he searched for a ship and Tailong and Taila gathered intelligence.
• Wu Qi explained how the boundary between the two springs at the Icefire Yin Yang Well could temper the body, then helped Qian Gu Changkong and Chen Ping prepare for training.
• Tang San learned that shipowners refused to take them to Sea God Island because the route crossed the Demon Whale Sea Domain, home of the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King.
• Yu Tianheng returned and told Tang San that one shipowner was willing to give them a ride, and Tang San asked whether the vessel could survive the deep sea.

The Shrek Six Monsters agreed to pay Captain Haider twelve thousand Gold Soul Coins to take them to Sea God Island aboard the Sea Demon. Elsewhere, Wu Qi searched the Icefire Yin Yang Well, while a clash between the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires escalated into armed conflict.

• Yu Tianheng introduced Tang San and the Shrek Six Monsters to Captain Haider, who negotiated a twelve-thousand-Gold-Soul-Coin commission for the voyage to Sea God Island.
• Haider agreed to set sail in five days after the Sea Demon finished unloading, then privately considered the group easy targets once they were at sea.
• Wu Qi explored deeper in the Icefire Yin Yang Well and told Qian Gu Changkong and Chen Ping to adapt gradually to the dangerous waters.
• Wu Qi decided he would recommend Qian Gu Changkong for the Fifth Trial's additional reward if they completed the trial.
• Ge Long learned that a clash had broken out after Star Luo archers fired on the Heaven Dou Empire's Provocation Squad.

The border conflict between the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire escalated into open war as covert attacks threw both armies into chaos. As the Shrek Six Monsters departed Vast Sea City for Sea God Island, the major sects weighed their positions and the Clear Sky Sect feared becoming a bargaining chip.

• Ge Long ordered the Heaven Dou troops to reinforce the front after the vanguards clashed, then rushed to contain fires and disorder in the central camp as Star Luo forces faced a similar attack.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo watched the chaos they had engineered, and Ghost Douluo told Chrysanthemum Pass to report that the war was unlikely to stop.
• At Vast Sea City, Dai Mubai questioned the sudden outbreak of war, while Tang San urged the Shrek Six Monsters to focus on cultivation and leave for Sea God Island without delay.
• Captain Haider welcomed the group aboard the Sea Demon, and Tang San told him to set sail immediately.
• Ning Fengzhi offered only to mediate, Dugu Bo refused to join the war, and the Elephant Armor Sect and Sacred Dragon Sect declared support for the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Tang Xiao worried that the Clear Sky Sect could be offered up by the Star Luo Empire if the border conflict turned against it, while Spirit Hall's allied sects began responding to Heaven Dou's call.

The Clear Sky Sect debated how to support the Star Luo Empire without being dragged into the war, while Ning Fengzhi and Tang Xiao helped ease the border conflict. As the trial in the Icefire Yin Yang Well neared its deadline, Chen Ping completed it, but Qian Gu Changkong remained underwater as bubbles began rising.

• Yu Xiaogang urged Tang Xiao not to send Clear Sky Sect disciples into the war, while the Seventh Elder called for the elders to fight and display the sect’s strength.
• Tang Xiao decided the Clear Sky Sect would publicly support the Star Luo Imperial Family and, if asked, send disciples led by the Second Elder to mediate rather than intensify the war.
• Ning Fengzhi and Tang Xiao helped secure a public apology and clarification from the Clear Sky Sect, temporarily calming the border standoff.
• Wu Qi continued descending deeper into the Icefire Yin Yang Well, guided by his growing sense of the Dragon Kings’ power but unable to judge how far he remained from the Dragon Bone.
• Chen Ping was pulled from the spring and received a message that he had completed the trial; Qian Gu Changkong continued descending, and Chen Ping worried when he did not emerge.
• Bubbles rose from the spring as Chen Ping watched, suggesting that something was about to surface.