Chapter Summaries

Xu Tianxi killed Old Tang and claimed the Clear Sky Sect elder’s Storage Ring, including a trove of Soul Bones, Gold Soul Coins, and sect techniques. As he fought the Former Clear Sky Sect Master, he recovered with the Water Dragon Soul Bone and prepared to join forces with Ba Bo while the Snow Empress drew another enemy away.

• Xu Tianxi retrieved Old Tang’s Storage Ring and found more than fifty million Gold Soul Coins, numerous Soul Bones, and records of the Clear Sky Sect’s techniques, including the Great Sumeru Hammer.
• Xu Tianxi assessed his Soul Power weakness and decided he needed to cultivate quickly before the coming upheaval between the Sun Moon Empire and the Douluo Continent.
• The Former Clear Sky Sect Master charged Xu Tianxi, using the Great Sumeru Hammer and Ring Detonation to boost his strength as he smashed through Xu Tianxi’s mountains and waves.
• Xu Tianxi used the Water Dragon Soul Bone’s Divine Water Descent to recover his strength while holding the Former Clear Sky Sect Master back with his other abilities.
• The Snow Empress and Ba Bo joined Xu Tianxi, who agreed to fight alongside Ba Bo and asked the Snow Empress to draw one of the Clear Sky Sect’s Titled Douluo away.

Ba Bo and Xu Tianxi battled Tang Kuang while Gu Yuena and Gu Zhaoqiu defeated the Clear Sky Sect Ninth Elder. As Tang Kuang detonated his final Soul Ring, Xu Tianxi used Mysterious Underworld Displacement, leaving the deadly clash unresolved.

• Snow Empress left to lure another opponent away, while Ba Bo entered his true form and used Baxia Divine Domain to support Xu Tianxi and battle Tang Kuang.
• Tang Kuang detonated Soul Rings and used Gravity Control Domain to drive Ba Bo back, but Xu Tianxi countered with stronger gravity and wounded him with the Mountain Dragon Sword Technique.
• Gu Yuena blasted the Clear Sky Sect Ninth Elder, and Gu Zhaoqiu shattered his hammer, killed him with the White Silver Dragon Spear, and collected his Soul Bones and storage ring.
• Xu Tianxi and Tang Kuang fought across the sea, trading devastating blows as Tang Kuang destroyed his Soul Rings and Xu Tianxi drew on the Mountain Dragon King's power.
• Tang Kuang detonated his final hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring to fight to the death, and Xu Tianxi used Mysterious Underworld Displacement as Snow Empress lured away the last surviving elder.

Xu Tianxi killed Tang Kuang with the Mountain Dragon Sword Intent after defeating the Clear Sky Sect master’s desperate hammer strike, then watched as the battle turned decisively against Sea God Island. Just as Sea God Island’s remaining fighters faced defeat, several Ferocious Beast-level auras arrived and called for the fighting to stop.

• Tang Kuang’s hammer strike hit the wounded Clear Sky Sect Seventh Elder after Xu Tianxi vanished, and Xu Tianxi answered with a Mountain Dragon Sword Intent that pierced Tang Kuang and his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Snow Empress checked Xu Tianxi’s severe injuries and helped him reach Tang Kuang, whom Xu Tianxi killed with the Clear Sky Nine Absolutes’ Quake Art before collecting the fallen Soul Bones.
• Xu Tianxi surveyed the battle as Ba Bo joined the fight, Di Tian suppressed the Sea God Island High Priest, and Gu Yuena, Gu Zhaoqiu, and the Heavenly Tyrant Bixis overwhelmed the Sacred Pillars.
• The Sea Princess and Sea God Island’s remaining fighters fell into desperate positions as more of their forces were killed, leaving only Sea Spear and Hai Wang among the Sacred Pillars.
• Several Ferocious Beast-level auras approached, and their arrivals called on the Heavenly Tyrant Ancestor and Di Tian to stop fighting and spare Sea God Island’s dependents.

The Heavenly Tyrant Ancestor defeated the Sea Princess and the Purple Azure Dragon Lord after Sea God Island’s Sacred Pillars were destroyed. He crippled the Sea Princess by extracting her Spiritual Power and gave three of her light orbs to Xu Tianxi, leaving the other sea soul beasts warned against invading his clan.

• The Sea Lion Emperor, Old Octopus, and Purple Azure Dragon Lord arrived with sea soul beasts, and Snow Empress explained their differing loyalties to Xu Tianxi.
• The Heavenly Tyrant Ancestor offered to spare the Sea Princess if her clan swore to retreat thirty thousand miles from the Heavenly Tyrant Bixi Clan.
• The Sea Illusion Douluo and Sea Spear Douluo were killed, completing the destruction of all nine Sacred Pillars, and the Purple Azure Dragon Lord attacked the Heavenly Tyrant Ancestor.
• The Heavenly Tyrant Ancestor overpowered the Purple Azure Dragon Lord and shattered the Sea Princess’s body before reforming it under his control.
• The Heavenly Tyrant Ancestor summoned Xu Tianxi and Snow Empress, forcibly extracted six Spiritual Power orbs from the Sea Princess, and gave three to Xu Tianxi.
• The Heavenly Tyrant Ancestor threw the ruined Sea Princess toward the three Ferocious Beasts and warned the sea soul beasts not to invade his clan.

After Di Tian defeated the Sea God Island High Priest, Xu Tianxi returned to the continent and advanced to Soul Sage alongside Gu Zhaoqiu. The chapter ends with the Snow Empress warning him that news of his Soul Spirit research has begun leaking.

• Di Tian defeated the Sea God Island High Priest and forced him to swear he would not again target the Heavenly Tyrant Bixi Clan or the Dragon Race.
• The Heavenly Tyrant Bixi Clan celebrated its victory and migrated toward the deep sea, while the Heavenly Tyrant Ancestor gave Xu Tianxi cultivation insights, a Spiritual Origin, and valuable ocean goods.
• During the journey back, Xu Tianxi broke through to rank seventy, and he and Gu Zhaoqiu reached the Soul Sage realm with help from the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Radiant Dragon King.
• Xu Tianxi returned to the Xuanming Sect, reunited with Xu Xiaoyun, and joined him in preparing a family banquet attended by Gu Zhaoqiu, Gu Yuena, and the Snow Empress.
• The Snow Empress told Xu Tianxi that news of his Soul Spirit research had begun leaking.

After learning that Xu Tianran had exposed the Soul Spirit research, Xu Tianxi prepared to return to Mingdu and heard that Su Tong, a talented Heavenly Snow Woman soul master, had been brought there for him. Meanwhile, Xu Tianran and Xu Guozhong planned to use a bounty and false intelligence to lure the Body Sect into attacking Mingde Hall.

• Snow Empress told Xu Tianxi that Xu Tianran had uncovered the Soul Spirit experiments after Princess Xu Tianzhen joined the Ming Soul Guard and his spies investigated the deployed Soul Spirits.
• Xu Tianxi blamed Xu Tianran and Xu Tianzhen for the leak, resolved to return to Mingdu, and agreed to take in Su Tong, whom Xiao Bai and A Tai had captured and trained.
• Snow Empress watched Xu Tianxi leave her guest room and wondered why she found it difficult to tell him to rest.
• Xu Tianran asked Xu Guozhong about the God Sealing Platform, and Xu Guozhong revealed that his spies had found its location.
• Xu Tianran planned to publish the location and information about other experimental zones through the Adventurers Association so the Body Sect would attack Mingde Hall and Jing Hongchen would suffer.

Xu Tianxi received Xu Xiaoyun’s elite disciples and resources to build a Soul Engineer Legion before returning to the Sun Moon Empire with Gu Yuena and Gu Zhaoqiu. On the way, Xu Tianxi and Di Tian used moonlight to help Gu Yuena recover, leaving her angry and increasingly sidelined as they approached Mingdu City.

• Xu Xiaoyun gave Xu Tianxi three hundred elite Xuanming Sect disciples, a Black Tortoise Token, funds, rare metals, and three Clear Sky Sect manuals.
• Xu Tianxi ordered the elites to enter the Sun Moon Empire in groups and prepare to serve under him as the Black Tortoise Soul Engineer Legion.
• As Xu Tianxi traveled toward Mingdu City with Gu Yuena and Gu Zhaoqiu, he explained that sunlight could nourish Gu Zhaoqiu’s Golden Dragon bloodline and moonlight might help Gu Yuena recover.
• Xu Tianxi summoned a giant moon and, with Di Tian restraining Gu Yuena, bombarded her with moonlight for a minute, raising her Soul Power from level seventy-one to level seventy-two.
• Gu Yuena protested as Xu Tianxi, Di Tian, Gu Zhaoqiu, and Snow Empress discussed her treatment and future, while Gu Zhaoqiu established that she would pose as her younger twin sister.
• When Mingdu City came into view, Di Tian stayed behind and asked Xu Tianxi to protect Gu Yuena and Gu Zhaoqiu.

After two years away, Xu Tianxi returned to Mingdu with Snow Empress and Gu Yuena, reuniting with Jing Hongchen and the others at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. He revealed that he had reached level 71 and Soul Sage, then began consulting Jing Hongchen about their next steps.

• Xu Tianxi entered Mingdu with Snow Empress and Gu Yuena, drawing attention as he presented his Moon Marquis Token at the gate.
• Jing Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and the others welcomed Xu Tianxi back to the academy, where he introduced Gu Yuena as his sister.
• Jing Hongchen gave Xu Tianxi eight Rank 8 and three Level 9 Fixed Soul Cannon Shells, then discovered that Xu Tianxi had reached level 71 and Soul Sage.
• Xu Tianxi explained that rare pills, a Hundred-Thousand-Year Heavenly Little Bixi Soul Spirit, and Dragon Race legacies had helped him advance eighteen levels in two years.
• Xu Tianxi told Jing Hongchen that his strength depended on his surroundings and Soul Tools, then said he had three major matters to discuss.

Xu Tianxi proposed establishing an independent Soul Spirit faction and a heavily equipped guard legion, using wealth and Xuanming Sect elites to fund and staff them. He also introduced the three powerful women he had brought back and demonstrated New Metal that greatly improved Soul Tool strength, leaving Jing Hongchen impressed by its military potential.

• Xu Tianxi proposed founding a Soul Spirit faction independent of Mingde Hall, and Jing Hongchen agreed.
• Xu Tianxi revealed that he and his allies had defeated Clear Sky Sect and Sea God Island Titled Douluo and seized enormous wealth to fund the faction.
• Xu Tianxi asked Jing Hongchen to help equip a five-hundred-person guard legion, including three hundred Xuanming Sect elites and two hundred Sun Moon Empire recruits.
• Xu Tianxi asked Jing Hongchen to provide cultivation spaces and private facilities for the Snow Empress, Gu Zhaoqiu, and Gu Yuena while keeping their identities secret.
• Xu Tianxi showed Jing Hongchen a Rank 5 Soul Guidance Ray Gun made with New Metal that pierced two plates designed to resist Rank 6 Soul Tools, and declared his plan to build a powerful army with it.

Xu Tianxi organized his core team to establish a new Soul Spirit organization and named it Heavenly Court. He also proposed expanding free Martial Soul awakenings and developing ways for commoners to gain Innate Soul Power, while Ning Tian resolved to reach Level 50 and investigate Shrek's recent activity.

• Xu Tianxi and his team discussed the organization's structure and name, and they agreed to call it Heavenly Court and build it outside Mingdu City.
• Xu Tianxi approved Ye Guyi's proposal to take over free Martial Soul awakenings and announced plans to help commoners gain Innate Soul Power through medicinal resources and improved Meditation Methods.
• Xu Tianxi considered drawing on Hidden Sect cultivation methods, the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, and Tang San's legacy to advance his research.
• Xu Tianxi invited the team to lunch, and Gu Zhaoqiu brought the reluctant Gu Yuena along while Ning Tian watched them leave.
• Ning Tian resolved to reach Level 50, fuse with a Soul Spirit, and reveal information about Shrek as she suspected its recent contacts signaled a plan.

Xu Tianxi decided to investigate Xu Guozhong over the threat of spies and the God Sealing Platform, then led a covert assault on his Underground Palace. Xu Guozhong survived the opening attacks, but Xu Tianxi ordered Xiao Hongchen to vent his anger while keeping him alive.

• Xu Tianxi inspected Mingde Hall's defenses, judged them vulnerable, and decided to confront Xu Guozhong, who had supplied the God Sealing Platform.
• Xu Tianxi agreed to help Xuan Ziwen with experiments on the All-Terrain Detection Soul Guidance Device and asked Gu Yuena whether she could alter someone's memories.
• Xu Tianxi recruited Xiao Hongchen to lead him and the two women to Xu Guozhong's Underground Palace, planning to cripple Xu Guozhong's remaining leg.
• Xu Guozhong descended into his hidden palace and cursed Jing Hongchen over the fortune he had been forced to surrender.
• Xiao Hongchen's concealed Soul Guided Cannons attacked Xu Guozhong, but Xu Guozhong blocked them with a Level 9 Soul Guidance light shield.
• Xu Tianxi shattered Xu Guozhong's shield with a Golden Dragon Fist, and Gu Zhaoqiu struck him down; Xu Tianxi told Xiao Hongchen to take his anger out on Xu Guozhong but leave him alive.

Xu Tianxi and his allies ambushed Xu Guozhong, crippled him, and used Xu Tianxi’s Soul Skill to force him to reveal Xu Tianran’s plans against Mingde Hall. After ordering Gu Yuena to erase Xu Guozhong’s memories and arranging a cover story for his injuries, Xu Tianxi vowed to bring Xu Tianran and his accomplices down.

• Xu Tianxi’s group ambushed Xu Guozhong in his Underground Palace, and Xiao Hongchen beat him while Xu Tianxi recorded the assault.
• Xu Tianxi broke Xu Guozhong’s mental defenses with the Silver Moon Dragon Wolf Emperor and controlled him with Thousand Eye Soul Capture.
• Xu Guozhong revealed his spies in Mingde Hall and described Xu Tianran’s plan to attack Hall Master Hongchen’s faction and sell intelligence about Mingde Hall’s research teams.
• Xu Tianxi vowed to tear Xu Tianran and his allies out by the roots, then told Gu Yuena to erase Xu Guozhong’s memories and use a Rank 8 Fixed Soul Cannon Shell explosion as the cover story.
• Xu Tianxi ordered Xiao Hongchen to collect the treasures from Xu Guozhong’s Underground Palace, and a blast near the academy startled Jing Hongchen in the Hall of Worship.

Xu Tianxi and his allies staged a rescue at the underground explosion site, where evidence exposed Prince Xu Guozhong’s smuggling and conspiracy with Xu Tianyuan to undermine Jing Hongchen. Kong Deming promised an investigation and authorized Xu Tianxi to pursue Imperial family members suspected of treason, leaving Xu Tianxi resolved to hunt down every traitor.

• Xu Tianxi, Xiao Hongchen, and the Royal Academy’s young geniuses rescued survivors and fought fires at the ruined courtyard while Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen arrived.
• Two servants claimed Prince Xu Guozhong had been underground when the explosion occurred, and Kong Deming ordered Jing Hongchen and Ye Yulin to find him.
• Jing Hongchen and Ye Yulin brought the badly injured Xu Guozhong back with a ledger implicating Imperial family members in smuggling.
• Ye Yulin presented a recording of Xu Guozhong plotting with Xu Tianyuan to target Jing Hongchen and withhold support from Mingde Hall, enraging Kong Deming and the others.
• Xu Tianxi, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen demanded permission to kill Xu Guozhong, but Kong Deming promised to interrogate him and punish all the accomplices.
• Kong Deming authorized Xu Tianxi to investigate the Imperial family and execute suspected collaborators with foreign enemies, and Xu Tianxi vowed to slay every traitor.

Xu Guozhong confessed that Xu Tianran had plotted against Jing Hongchen and betrayed Mingde Hall by selling its secrets to foreign powers. Kong Deming vowed to remove Xu Tianran as Crown Prince, but news that the Emperor had fallen unconscious suddenly complicated the succession crisis.

• Xu Guozhong confessed that Xu Tianran had ordered the plot against Jing Hongchen and sought control of Mingde Hall.
• Xu Guozhong revealed that imperial relatives profited from smuggling, and Xu Tianxi accused them of selling military Soul Tools and intelligence to rival empires.
• Xu Guozhong admitted that he and Xu Tianran had spies in Mingde Hall and had sold the God Sealing Platform's location and Mingde Hall's underground layout to foreign adventurers.
• Xu Tianxi and the Hongchen Siblings shot Xu Guozhong in anger, but Kong Deming stopped them because Xu Guozhong was needed as a witness.
• Kong Deming declared that Xu Tianran's crimes were unforgivable and that the Crown Prince's position would go to someone else.
• Eunuch Wang arrived and reported that the Emperor had been injured by the earthquake, fallen unconscious, and asked Kong Deming to send guards.

Kong Deming and Xu Tianxi exposed Crown Prince Xu Tianran’s treason and purged the Xu Family’s corrupt princes, leaving Xu Tianxi newly elevated as Duke of State Protection. After overseeing mass executions, Xu Tianxi learned that Xiao Hongchen was preparing to travel to the Star Luo Empire for an exchange and study trip.

• Kong Deming presented evidence of Xu Tianran’s treason to the Old Emperor, who stripped him of the Crown Prince title and confined him to his residence.
• The Old Emperor authorized Kong Deming to deal with Xu Tianyuan and the other guilty princes, while Xu Tianxi and Jing Hongchen received promotions and Xu Guozhong was sentenced to death.
• The Ming Soul Guard arrested the princes, and Xu Tianxi escorted the former Crown Prince Xu Tianran to the imperial prison for questioning.
• Xu Guozhong was publicly executed, and over the following month Xu Tianxi’s investigation led to thousands of executions and the destruction of the Xu Family’s corrupt faction.
• Xiao Hongchen told Xu Tianxi that their exchange trip to the Star Luo Empire could proceed soon, and Xu Tianxi agreed to see him off.

Xu Tianxi joined the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s exchange delegation to Star Luo City after leading a sweeping purge of corrupt imperial relatives. As the delegation departed, he sensed a possible Martial Soul Fusion Skill connection with Xu Jiujiu, who then asked to speak with him.

• Xu Tianxi’s purge of the Sun Moon Empire’s imperial relatives killed more than five thousand people and redistributed their confiscated wealth among the Hall of Worship, the treasury, Mingde Hall, and public projects.
• Jing Hongchen and Xu Jiawei met at Ming Dou Mountain Range and finalized the exchange arrangements between their academies.
• Xu Tianxi noticed an unusual affinity between his Martial Soul and Xu Jiujiu’s Star Crown, suggesting they might develop a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Xiao Hongchen reminded Meng Hongchen that they were to gather intelligence on the Original Three Kingdoms while studying in Star Luo City.
• Xu Jiawei entrusted Xu Jiujiu to Jing Hongchen and Xu Tianxi as the delegation boarded a Soul Guidance Aircraft for Star Luo City.
• Xu Jiujiu approached Xu Tianxi and asked if he would answer a question.

Xu Tianxi urged Xu Jiujiu to reform the Star Luo Empire by taxing nobles heavily, purging those who resisted, and expanding opportunities for commoners. Xu Jiujiu agreed to report his proposals to her brother, while Xu Tianxi planned to enlist the Heaven Dou Empire in a continent-wide campaign against nobles.

• Xu Jiujiu asked Xu Tianxi for advice on reforming the Star Luo Empire's bureaucracy, and he recommended killing noble families and taxing nobles at more than ninety percent.
• Xu Tianxi proposed free Martial Soul awakenings and training commoner geniuses to fill positions left vacant by the purge.
• Xu Tianxi asked Xu Jiujiu to return Sun Moon Empire nobles who had fled to Star Luo, but she said only her brother could decide.
• Xu Jiujiu warned that powerful nobles could flee to other empires, and Xu Tianxi resolved to ask Heaven Dou's Prince Xue Yu and Princess Wei Na to join the purge.
• Xu Jiujiu agreed to write her brother and pass along Xu Tianxi's advice on using the threat of execution to force nobles to pay.

Xu Tianxi advised Xu Jiujiu to use ruthless confiscations and executions to suppress nobles, and she relayed his proposals to Xu Jiawei. Xu Jiawei and the Heaven Dou Empire’s royals embraced the idea, and Du Busi agreed to help the Body Sect seize noble property.

• Jing Hongchen brought the exchange group to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, where Lin Jiayi issued students Campus Cards and temporary Mingdu identification cards.
• Xu Tianxi told Xu Jiujiu that confiscation and executions had silenced noble resistance, then left to pursue Imperial family fugitives in the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Xu Jiujiu sent Xu Jiawei a letter describing Xu Tianxi’s advice, and Xu Jiawei asked the Shattered Star Douluo to summon the Prime Minister to discuss raising taxes on nobles.
• Wei Na and Prince Xue Yu brought Xu Tianxi’s proposal to Long Aotian, who sent them to consult Du Busi.
• Du Busi agreed to have the Body Sect help confiscate noble property in exchange for thirty percent of the proceeds, then said the sect was preparing to do something big.

Du Busi planned to attack Mingde Hall with the Body Sect, while Wei Na warned that the raid could strengthen the Sun Moon Empire’s War Faction and provoke Xu Tianxi. In Mingdu, Xu Tianxi directed Xu Jiujiu through another mass execution and confiscation, leaving her shaken by the day’s violence.

• Du Busi told Prince Xue Yu that the Body Sect would use Drilling Soul Tools to strike Mingde Hall and seize the God Sealing Platform and Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo, then asked for help obtaining the tools.
• Wei Na warned Du Busi that attacking Mingde Hall could push its researchers toward the War Faction, but Du Busi refused to abandon the plan.
• On the journey back to Heaven Dou City, Prince Xue Yu accused Wei Na of worrying about Xu Tianxi, and she insisted that her concerns were political as well as personal.
• Prince Xue Yu reminded Wei Na that Mingde Hall’s Soul Tools supported the military and urged her to remember her ties to the Body Sect and her expected marriage to Long Aotian.
• At Mingdu’s execution ground, Xu Tianxi instructed Xu Jiujiu to present the condemned imperial-clan members and their servants as oppressors of the Commoners, while Xu Sanshi and Ye Guyi rallied the crowd.
• Xu Jiujiu issued the execution edict, Ji Juechen beheaded the prisoners, and Xu Jiujiu watched the executions continue until midnight.

Xu Tianxi prepared Mingde Hall’s exposed site for an enemy attack, then tested Martial Soul resonance with Xu Jiujiu and triggered a powerful fusion vision. Zhang Lexuan witnessed the Stars Surrounding the Moon and recognized Xu Tianxi, but wondered who had fused Martial Souls with him.

• Xu Tianxi inspected the fortified construction at the old Mingde Hall site while Jing Hongchen and Kong Deming discussed its defenses and the limits of their weapons.
• Xu Tianxi visited Xu Jiujiu at night to test their Martial Soul compatibility, and their Soul Power fused with over ninety-five percent compatibility after he isolated his mutated bloodline.
• Xu Tianxi and Xu Jiujiu joined hands to experiment with triggering a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, while he promised to help her obtain her Seventh Soul Ring.
• Zhang Lexuan arrived outside Xu Jiujiu’s villa and sensed eighteen stars surrounding a full moon in a vast Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Zhang Lexuan recognized the young man in the fusion image as Xu Tianxi and wondered who had fused Martial Souls with him.