Chapter Summaries

Xiao Tianyang used the Heaven Sealing Stone Pillar to ground the Barbarian Tribe Soul Masters and draw their high-level fighters away from the prison. Saber led her troops against the exposed prison front, devastating the Barbarian Bull Cavalry before its commander charged her.

• Xiao Tianyang used the Heaven Sealing Stone Pillar to force the Barbarian Tribe Soul Masters to the ground, then resumed attacking them.
• Xiao Tianyang and Yuwen Chengdu drew the high-level combatants to the flanks, leaving the prison front exposed.
• Saber ordered her soldiers to advance and form a disciplined battle formation as the Barbarian Bull Cavalry charged.
• Saber's archers, crossbowmen, spearmen, and shield soldiers trapped and slaughtered most of the Barbarian Bull Cavalry.
• The Barbarian Bull Cavalry commander revealed his Soul Saint strength and charged Saber, who raised her lance as pale blue Soul Power surrounded her.

Xiao Tianyang and the Divine Might Army captured the Barbarian Tribe’s prison after killing most of its defenders, forcing the survivors to retreat. After the victory, Saber eased Xiao Tianyang’s concern that the Barbarian Tribe might threaten his hidden town, and he resolved to have Bubu guard it.

• Saber killed the White Rhinoceros Soul Douluo as the Divine Might Army attacked the prison, while Yuwen Chengdu slew the enemy Soul Douluo and two Soul Saints on his front.
• The Divine Might Army broke through the prison’s defenses and rear gate, trapping and slaughtering the Barbarian Tribe troops inside.
• Xiao Tianyang defeated the Black Bear Soul Douluo, who ordered the remaining Barbarian Tribe forces to retreat; Xiao Tianyang stopped Yuwen Chengdu from pursuing them.
• The system announced Xiao Tianyang’s campaign rewards and completion of the [New Legion] side quest as the army secured the prison and released its captives.
• Saber reassured Xiao Tianyang that the Barbarian Tribe would struggle to search the vast Savage Forest, and Xiao Tianyang decided to have Bubu guard his hidden town.

Xiao Tianyang let the prison captives choose whether to stay or leave, then sent most of them toward town while he and Saber moved on to plan their next strike. After narrowing their options, Saber identified Lookout Cliff and Coral Lake as the remaining targets.

• Xiao Tianyang offered the captives protection if they stayed and maps and supplies if they left, and Yuwen Chengdu directed them to choose sides.
• Most ordinary people chose to stay, while most Soul Masters chose to leave; about one-third of the Soul Masters remained.
• Xiao Tianyang ordered the prison burned and assigned Yuwen Chengdu twenty Sword and Shield Soldiers to escort the ordinary people back to town.
• Xiao Tianyang and Saber led their troops to a river valley a hundred li north of the prison and made camp.
• Saber eliminated targets that were too strong or too politically connected, leaving Lookout Cliff and Coral Lake on the sand table.

Xiao Tianyang settled his mission rewards, lucky draws, and New Legion resource pack, then assessed how the new items could strengthen him and the legion. He decided to ask Saber before making changes to the soldiers’ training.

• Xiao Tianyang claimed his mission rewards for defeating the Barbarian Tribe Soul Masters, along with two lucky draws and the New Legion strategic resource pack.
• The system granted Xiao Tianyang the Nine Nether Wind Flame Martial Soul, several magic treasures and manuals, two legion mounts, a Time Freeze Card, a Blood Red Cloak, and a Legion Standard Equipment Auto Forge.
• Xiao Tianyang chose a secluded mountain forest near town as the mounts’ home and planned to ask Uncle Mo to watch over it.
• Xiao Tianyang recognized that the Time Freeze Card, Three-Color Armament Haki Training Method, and Blood Red Cloak could substantially boost his strength.
• Xiao Tianyang considered giving the legion soldiers the new cultivation methods and manuals, but decided to discuss the idea with Saber first.

Xiao Tianyang showed Saber magical treasures, military manuals, and new cavalry options, then agreed to learn legion command from her while she trained the troops. Saber planned to teach him within a month and forge an Iron Army in two, setting the pair on a path to combine their forces.

• Xiao Tianyang woke beside Saber as she copied a map, then showed her a Commander's Flag, a War Horn, and manuals on cultivation and combat techniques.
• Saber accepted the manuals and Three-Color Haki methods, agreeing to develop her own techniques and compare them with Xiao Tianyang's.
• Xiao Tianyang told Saber about the Velociraptors and Triceratops, which gave her a way to address the legion's need for cavalry.
• Saber offered to teach Xiao Tianyang to command the legion within a month and train the soldiers into an Iron Army within two.
• Xiao Tianyang agreed to learn from Saber and resolved to work hard at military matters while she trained the troops.

Xiao Tianyang led the Divine Might Army to Lookout Cliff to seize a pass through the Savage Forest, while Yuwen Chengdu attacked the stronghold. The chapter ended with Xiao Tianyang arriving in striking armor and ordering his troops to advance.

• Xiao Tianyang led the Divine Might Army through the mountains and reached the forest near Lookout Cliff after three days.
• Yuwen Chengdu rejoined the army, and Xiao Tianyang ordered him to kill the stronghold's two Soul Douluos while keeping Saber at his side.
• Yuwen Chengdu charged the stronghold and shattered its iron-plated gate, prompting a Barbarian Tribe soldier to raise the alarm.
• Xiao Tianyang rode out of the forest in Bright Gold Dragon Scale Armor and ordered his soldiers to press forward.

Xiao Tianyang led the Divine Might Army to victory in its first battle against the Barbarian Tribe, then spent the next two months raiding settlements and rescuing people in the Savage Forest. His growing reputation drew more Soul Masters into the forest, while Spirit Hall opposed the movement.

• Saber advised Xiao Tianyang on battlefield command as Yuwen Chengdu fought two Soul Douluo.
• Yuwen Chengdu killed one Soul Douluo, and the Divine Might Army broke through the enemy lines and defeated the Barbarians within an hour.
• Xiao Tianyang ordered the army to clear the battlefield and withdraw into the forest before Barbarian Tribe reinforcements arrived.
• Over the next two months, Xiao Tianyang raided Barbarian Tribe settlements and rescued trapped Soul Masters and ordinary people while Saber trained new recruits.
• Xiao Tianyang's growing reputation prompted Soul Masters from outside the Savage Forest to join the effort, drawing opposition from Spirit Hall.

Bibi Dong learned that the Divine Might Army had disrupted the Savage Forest and ordered Spirit Hall to arrange a meeting with its commander, Light. A hidden woman mourned Xiao Tianyang and believed only he could possess such extraordinary abilities.

• Bibi Dong questioned why Spirit Hall had learned so late about the disturbance in the Savage Forest, where outsiders had entered Barbarian Tribe territory.
• Salas warned that Spirit Hall needed to deal with the intruding Soul Masters quickly to prevent the Barbarian tribes from uniting against them.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo described the Divine Might Army's leaders: Light, Cloud, and Thunder, and explained their use of martial arts.
• Bibi Dong and the others wondered whether Light's abilities resembled Xiao Tianyang's, but Ghost Douluo insisted Xiao Tianyang was dead.
• Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to contact Light and arrange a meeting, while an unseen woman cried and said only Xiao Tianyang could have such abilities.

Xiao Tianyang reorganized his army’s command structure while weighing reports of Titled Douluo among the Barbarian Tribe forces. After receiving a letter from Spirit Hall, he arranged a meeting with its leaders, leaving open the possibility of cooperation against the Barbarian Tribe.

• A scout reported a large Barbarian Tribe force seventy li north, possibly including multiple Titled Douluo, and Xiao Tianyang ordered the army to confirm their presence.
• Xiao Tianyang reviewed the sand-table layout and discussed the growing number of Soul Masters entering the Savage Forest with Yuwen Chengdu.
• Yuwen Chengdu delivered a letter from Spirit Hall, and Xiao Tianyang suspected that recent events had prompted its approach.
• Xiao Tianyang told the scouts to summon Yun so they could meet with Spirit Hall's higher-ups.
• Xiao Tianyang resolved that cooperation with Spirit Hall was possible because he hated the Barbarian Tribe and its alliance with Evil Soul Masters more than he held a grudge against Bibi Dong.

Xiao Tianyang led the Divine Might Army to investigate Sunset Mountain after suspecting it hid an Evil Soul Master lair. He launched an attack when lightning revealed activity inside, and the army fought its way into the mountain as Xiao Tianyang confronted the lair’s leader.

• After learning that the Barbarian Tribe had changed course, Xiao Tianyang ordered the army to move out, and Yuwen Chengdu helped rapidly dismantle the camp.
• At Sunset Mountain, Yuwen Chengdu told Xiao Tianyang that scouts had returned injured and unable to explain what they had encountered.
• Xiao Tianyang sent Yuwen Chengdu and four action squads into the mountain as a vanguard, ordering them to press forward regardless of what they met.
• When thunder and lightning erupted from the mountain, Xiao Tianyang ordered the Divine Might Army to charge and cut down the Evil Soul Masters who attacked them.
• An emaciated old man confronted Xiao Tianyang, who declared that Evil Soul Masters deserved execution and that killing them rid the people of harm.

Xiao Tianyang fought a level-ninety-five Evil Soul Master on Sunset Mountain and overcame his curses, mobility, and deadly mental attack. He killed the old man by reflecting the Ninth Soul Skill with the Bright Heart Mirror.

• Xiao Tianyang battled the old man in mid-air, relying on the Great Buddha Golden Body to keep pace with the Titled Douluo.
• The old man weakened Xiao Tianyang with a straw-doll curse and began casting another Soul Skill, but Xiao Tianyang used the Heaven Sealing Stone Pillar to interrupt him and send him crashing into the ground.
• Xiao Tianyang mounted Red Hare and pursued the old man, piercing his shoulder after the old man escaped the first attack with a substitute straw doll.
• The old man unleashed his Ninth Soul Skill, Death Omen, to force a series of Soul Strength judgments, and Xiao Tianyang raised the Bright Heart Mirror to block it.
• The shattered mirror reflected Death Omen back at the old man, killing him during the first judgment.

After the Divine Might Army drove the Evil Soul Masters from the mountain, Xiao Tianyang investigated a cave and found a tortured, nearly ninety-thousand-year-old Sky Fire Lion. He freed it, but as he turned to leave, the lion suddenly tore open its own abdomen and collapsed.

• The Divine Might Army and Yuwen Chengdu’s forces attacked the mountain, forcing the Evil Soul Masters to retreat after Yuwen Chengdu killed two Soul Douluo.
• A soldier told Xiao Tianyang that a force inside a cave had pushed back anyone who tried to enter and that a Soul Beast might be inside.
• Xiao Tianyang entered the cave alone and found a wounded Sky Fire Lion bound in chains and embedded with torture spikes.
• Xiao Tianyang cut the chains and melted the spikes, then urged the Sky Fire Lion not to direct all its hatred toward humanity.
• As Xiao Tianyang turned to leave, the Sky Fire Lion ripped open its own abdomen and collapsed, leaving him shocked.

Xiao Tianyang delivered the Sky Fire Lion’s cub, learned that Evil Soul Masters had poisoned and experimented on its mother, and agreed to protect the cub as the dying lion entrusted it to him. The Sky Fire Lion then offered Xiao Tianyang her black-and-red soul ring and passed away.

• The Sky Fire Lion pinned Xiao Tianyang down and directed his attention to the cub in her abdomen.
• Xiao Tianyang realized Evil Soul Masters had poisoned the pregnant Sky Fire Lion to steal her cub, then delivered the cub and kept its mother alive with Spirit of the Flame.
• The Sky Fire Lion licked and comforted her newborn cub before her strength began to fail.
• The dying Sky Fire Lion pushed her cub toward Xiao Tianyang, who promised to keep it safe despite having no experience raising children.
• The Sky Fire Lion offered Xiao Tianyang her soul ring, and he accepted so she could leave in peace; she then vanished into Soul Power.

Xiao Tianyang led the Divine Might Army through the Savage Forest and reunited with Saber and her newly trained cavalry. Saber advised him to delay responding to Spirit Hall’s invitation until they were desperate to cooperate.

• Xiao Tianyang asked Yuwen Chengdu to set up a memorial tablet before leading the Divine Might Army away from Sunset Mountain three days later.
• The Divine Might Army marched through the Savage Forest, where they encountered and defeated Barbarians and Evil Soul Masters along the way.
• Xiao Tianyang waited at camp with a little Sky Fire Lion and Bubu until a soldier announced that Instructor Yun had arrived with the team.
• Xiao Tianyang reunited with Saber, whose hundred-person unit included light cavalry and Heavy Cavalry riding Velociraptors and Triceratops.
• Saber reported on events in town, and Xiao Tianyang asked her opinion about Spirit Hall’s invitation.
• Saber advised Xiao Tianyang to delay responding to Spirit Hall until the other side was truly desperate to cooperate.

Xiao Tianyang and Saber planned how to create an opportunity against the Barbarian Tribe while preparing for Spirit Hall to act against him. After they settled on a strategy involving the Barbarian youths, Xiao Tianyang introduced Saber to a little Sky Fire Lion.

• Saber warned Xiao Tianyang that Spirit Hall might attack him despite the public backlash, and he agreed to prepare for the worst.
• Xiao Tianyang showed Saber a map of the cleared Barbarian Tribe strongholds and asked what strategic objective they should pursue next.
• Saber proposed creating an opportunity by using the first batch of Barbarian youths to stir the tribe's older powerholders into action, while Spirit Hall kept the Barbarian King from deploying his full army.
• Xiao Tianyang praised Saber, pulled her into his arms, and introduced the little Sky Fire Lion.
• The little Sky Fire Lion resisted Saber's attempt to hold it, and Saber remarked that its bearing suggested extraordinary origins.

Bibi Dong reacted to Xiao Tianyang’s refusal by ordering pressure on the Barbarian Tribe, while Qian Renxue reminded her not to worsen Spirit Hall’s reputation. Days later, Xiao Tianyang’s auction of the Barbarian youths’ possessions drew a huge crowd and left the Barbarian King unable to retaliate.

• Bibi Dong read Xiao Tianyang’s refusal and complained that the younger generation was unruly.
• Qian Renxue challenged Bibi Dong’s attitude and then left after Bibi Dong allowed her to return to her plan.
• Bibi Dong told Bishop Salas to wait and ordered Spirit Hall to pressure the Barbarian Tribe and keep its forces from moving.
• A few days later, Xiao Tianyang’s planned auction of valuable possessions taken from Barbarian youths became a major topic and attracted over a thousand invited Wild Spirit Masters.
• The Barbarian King resented Xiao Tianyang but could not stop the auction because descendants of many old-generation powerhouses had been captured.

Ma Hongjun and Oscar hunted Barbarian Tribe Soul Masters in the Savage Forest but were confronted by a Soul Saint they could not defeat. Meanwhile, Xiao Tianyang and Saber went camping by a lake, where he praised her for organizing a plan and left her blushing.

• Ma Hongjun and Oscar killed two Barbarian Tribe Soul Masters, bringing their total to seventeen.
• A Barbarian Tribe Soul Saint arrived to avenge the fallen warriors, and Oscar prepared a sausage as Ma Hongjun revealed his five Soul Rings and Evil Fire Phoenix.
• Xiao Tianyang and Saber rode into the forest with their pets and stopped by a lake to camp and fish.
• Xiao Tianyang praised Saber’s planning and told her she was the person he trusted most, making her blush.

Xiao Tianyang, Saber, and their animal companions enjoyed a lakeside barbecue until Ma Hongjun and Oscar fled into their camp while being pursued by a Barbarian Tribe Soul Saint. Ma Hongjun and Oscar prepared to face their pursuer, while Xiao Tianyang and Saber watched from nearby.

• Xiao Tianyang grilled food with Saber as their animals came ashore to eat and Bubu narrowly avoided his teasing.
• Xiao Tianyang sensed approaching trouble and saw a pillar of purplish-red fire rise from the forest across the lake.
• Ma Hongjun and Oscar burst out of the woods with their masks knocked off, arguing about whether to flee or fight the Soul Saint pursuing them.
• The Barbarian Tribe Soul Saint emerged from the forest, and Ma Hongjun and Oscar taunted him as they prepared to stand their ground.

Xiao Tianyang rescued Ma Hongjun and Oscar by killing the Barbarian Tribe Soul Saint who had cornered them, then kept his distance to avoid drawing suspicion. The Barbarian Tribe later withdrew from the Savage Forest’s outer regions, leaving the Divine Might Army in control and prompting new political trouble over the territory.

• Ma Hongjun and Oscar prepared to fight a Barbarian Tribe Soul Saint, but they spotted Xiao Tianyang across the lake and realized the Soul Saint feared Rakshasa.
• Xiao Tianyang summoned the Azure Dragon Halberd and killed the fleeing Soul Saint with a single throw.
• Oscar thanked Xiao Tianyang for saving them, and Xiao Tianyang offered them food before riding away to avoid suspicion.
• Ma Hongjun and Oscar became more cautious while exploring the Savage Forest, checking for powerful Soul Masters before entering areas.
• The Barbarian Tribe withdrew its forces from the outer regions, and the Divine Might Army took control of the territory around Gurong Town.
• With the Barbarian Tribe gone, people began scheming over the region that the Heaven Dou Empire had once abandoned.

Xiao Tianyang rejected the Heaven Dou Empire’s demand to reclaim Gurong Town, declaring that strength determined its ownership. He sent the messenger away with a warning that he would not hesitate to declare war.

• Xiao Tianyang questioned the Heaven Dou Empire’s order to leave Gurong Town and return the territory.
• The messenger claimed the empire had possessed the land for nearly a thousand years and demanded it back.
• Yuwen Chengdu challenged the empire for abandoning the town’s citizens to the Barbarians, but Xiao Tianyang ordered him to step back.
• Xiao Tianyang told the messenger that he ruled Gurong Town because he had driven the Barbarian Tribe into the Savage Forest.
• Xiao Tianyang warned that he would not mind declaring war on the Heaven Dou Empire.