Chapter Summaries

Tang Jiu defeated the Amethyst Spirit Master and the rest of Spirit Hall's Enforcement Team by activating Heavenly Curse Seal One, but his Soul Power plunged after he ended the fusion skill. Master examined him and urgently asked whether his physical constitution and base strength had changed.

• The Heavenly Curse Seal absorbed the Amethyst Spirit Master's spiritual attack, and Tang Jiu realized its commas charged the seal's states.
• Tang Jiu pierced the Amethyst Spirit Master, whose counterattack shattered Tang Jiu's meridians and left his body on the verge of exploding.
• Flender flew to fetch Master, while Tang Jiu activated Heavenly Curse Seal One, repaired his meridians, and killed the Amethyst Spirit Master.
• Tang Jiu looted the corpses and celebrated defeating Spirit Hall's Enforcement Team before Flender and Master arrived.
• Master told Tang Jiu to cancel the fusion skill, and Tang Jiu's Soul Power rapidly fell several levels.
• Master questioned Tang Jiu about changes to his physical constitution and base strength.

Tang Jiu learned that losing Soul Power Levels had strengthened his body, then angered Flender by revealing his loot and mocking him. Tang Hao appeared, beat Flender, thanked the Master for teaching his sons, and scolded Tang Jiu, who teased him about Spirit Hall’s Saintess.

• The Master explained that Tang Jiu’s lost Soul Power had tempered his body, and Tang Jiu realized his strength, speed, and endurance had improved.
• Tang Jiu revealed he had looted 1.8 million Gold Soul Coins, prompting Flender to demand half and then threaten to discipline him.
• Tang Hao emerged and beat Flender after challenging him to attack without using his martial soul, while instructing Tang Jiu about the power of strength.
• Tang Hao gave the Master a high-level Spirit Hall token and thanked him for teaching Tang San and Tang Jiu.
• Tang Hao rebuked Tang Jiu for causing trouble, and Tang Jiu retorted by joking that his father had ruined Spirit Hall’s Saintess.

Tang Hao sent Tang Jiu to the Star Dou Great Forest to hide from Spirit Hall, where Tang Jiu spent months cultivating and chose a Ten Thousand Year Azure Carved Demon Statue for his second Soul Ring. As the beast fled from him, a Soul Master arrived and reported it to a handsomely dressed child.

• Tang Hao confiscated Tang Jiu's money, ordered him to train in the Star Dou Great Forest until he was eleven, and altered the words Tang Jiu had carved on the ground to blame Tang Heizhi, son of Tang Hao.
• Tang Jiu persuaded Flender to take him to the Star Dou Great Forest by offering two thousand Gold Soul Coins and forgiveness of his debt.
• After months of cultivation, Tang Jiu decided his Spirit Ring Spirit's second Soul Ring should amplify Soul Power and sought a Ten Thousand Year Azure Carved Demon Statue.
• Tang Jiu found the Azure Carved Demon Statue, but it fled, stirring up nearby Soul Beasts as he pursued it.
• A flying Soul Master reported the Ten Thousand Year Azure Carved Demon Statue to a handsomely dressed child, addressing the child as Young Master.

Qian Renxue led a team of Spirit Hall Soul Masters into Star Dou Forest to hunt the Azure Carved Demon Statue, where they encountered Tang Jiu. Their clash escalated when Tang Jiu made a shocking claim about the previous Pope’s wife, leaving Qian Renxue furious and ordering him killed.

• Qian Renxue directed five level 50 Soul Masters to weaken the Azure Carved Demon Statue for her soul-ring trial.
• The Azure Carved Demon Statue found itself caught between Qian Renxue’s team and Tang Jiu, so it pretended to give up and hoped they would fight.
• A Spirit Hall Soul Master ordered Tang Jiu to stand aside, but Tang Jiu dismissed Spirit Hall and refused to leave.
• Qian Renxue deduced that Tang Jiu had Twin Martial Souls and offered him the beast in exchange for becoming her guard, but Tang Jiu rejected her offer.
• Tang Jiu claimed that Tang Hao had run away with the previous Pope’s wife, and Qian Renxue, devastated and enraged, ordered her team to kill him.

Tang Jiu transformed into the Evil Ring Devouring Heaven Ant and activated the Heavenly Curse Seal’s final form against Qian Renxue’s Spirit Hall Soul Masters. He killed the Ice Bird Spirit Master and charged at the next opponent.

• Tang Jiu argued with Qian Renxue and her five Soul King companions after they tried to take the soul beast he was hunting.
• The Ice Bird Spirit Master froze Tang Jiu and attacked him, but Tang Jiu crushed the ice blade with his bare hand and transformed into the Evil Ring Devouring Heaven Ant.
• Tang Jiu activated the Heavenly Curse Seal’s final form, then used Speed Deprivation to charge the Spirit Hall group.
• Tang Jiu shattered the Ice Bird Spirit Master’s repeated Ice Seals and pierced his heart before throwing him toward the healing Soul Master.
• The Azure Carved Demon Statue clapped the mortally wounded Ice Bird Spirit Master between its hands, killing him as Tang Jiu rushed toward the Agile Attack Soul Master.

Tang Jiu used his speed and the Azure Carved Demon Statue to break Qian Renxue’s siege, killing three of her Spirit Masters as his countdown ran low. As he charged at the Wind Eagle Spirit Master, Qian Renxue summoned the Angel’s Sacred Sword.

• Qian Renxue commanded the Spirit Masters to combine their attacks, but Tang Jiu survived the Fire Tiger Spirit Master’s Flame Shockwave unharmed.
• Tang Jiu targeted Qian Renxue, disrupting her formation when the Spirit Masters abandoned their attack plan to protect her.
• Tang Jiu killed the Treasure Pagoda Spirit Master and sent him into the Azure Carved Demon Statue, which killed him.
• Tang Jiu overpowered the Fire Tiger Spirit Master, and the Azure Carved Demon Statue stomped him to death.
• Tang Jiu absorbed the Fire Tiger Spirit Master’s speed and charged at the Wind Eagle Spirit Master as Qian Renxue drew the Angel’s Sacred Sword.

Tang Jiu survived Qian Renxue’s holy sword by taking her hostage and forcing the Healing Scepter Soul Master to restore him. After the Azure Carved Demon Statue killed the remaining guards, Tang Jiu released Qian Renxue and used his Spirit Ring Spirit to weaken the beast as it charged him, leaving it fleeing.

• Tang Jiu killed the Wind Eagle Spirit Master, then grabbed Qian Renxue and threatened the Healing Scepter Soul Master to prevent her from intervening.
• Tang Jiu forced the Healing Scepter Soul Master to heal him, and discovered that her healing let him recover without spending Soul Power.
• The Azure Carved Demon Statue killed the Healing Scepter Soul Master, completing its pentakill while Tang Jiu still held Qian Renxue.
• Tang Jiu released Qian Renxue and challenged the Azure Carved Demon Statue, then restricted six thousand years of its cultivation with his Spirit Ring Spirit.
• The Azure Carved Demon Statue turned and fled as Tang Jiu began using his First Spirit Skill, Evil Ring of Speed.

Tang Jiu killed the Azure Carved Demon Statue, absorbed its ten-thousand-year soul ring, and forced Qian Renxue to serve as his maid. When he demanded that she help treat his wounds, Qian Renxue revealed she was a girl, but Tang Jiu threatened her with Angel's Sacred Sword when she refused to chew up the medicine.

• Tang Jiu used Angel's Sacred Sword to split the slowed Azure Carved Demon Statue in two and confiscated the sword from Qian Renxue.
• Tang Jiu absorbed the statue's ten-thousand-year soul ring in a second, shocking Qian Renxue with his purple and black soul rings.
• Tang Jiu threatened Qian Renxue until she called him Young Master, then ordered her to exchange clothes with him.
• Qian Renxue revealed she was a girl after Tang Jiu began undressing, and Tang Jiu declared that she would be his Little Maid.
• Tang Jiu ordered Qian Renxue to chew up Five Leaf Clover and apply it to his wound, then cut her neck with Angel's Sacred Sword when she refused.

Tang Jiu forced the captured Qian Renxue to serve as his maid in the Star Dou Great Forest, while she concealed her identity and waited for a chance to escape. When Qian Renxue secretly flew away at night, Tang Jiu noticed and dismissed her hopes of getting out of the forest.

• Qian Renxue treated Tang Jiu’s wounds with chewed leaves, and Tang Jiu used the leaves to treat her neck wound as well.
• Tang Jiu questioned Qian Renxue about her identity; she gave the false name Xiao Qing and claimed her family elder was a Titled Douluo in Chrysanthemum Douluo’s family.
• Tang Jiu found Qian Renxue’s storage Soul Tool, but stopped trying to take it after she began to cry and instead made her change into women’s clothes.
• Qian Renxue changed into a white-and-gold dress, ate soul beast meat with Tang Jiu, and slept in the treehouse.
• Qian Renxue spread her angel wings and flew from the treehouse at night, but Tang Jiu woke and said she could not escape the Star Dou Great Forest.

Qian Renxue fled through the Star Dou Great Forest but was poisoned by a Jade Scale Snake before Tang Jiu rescued her. After recovering at his tree house, she agreed to stay with him for now, though their new life together began with teasing and a struggle over food.

• Qian Renxue escaped a golden eagle by diving into the forest, where a Jade Scale Snake bit her and left her paralyzed by its venom.
• Tang Jiu arrived in time to kill the snake with Angel's Sacred Sword, sucked poison from Qian Renxue's wound, and treated it with crushed Five Leaf Clover.
• Tang Jiu carried Qian Renxue to the tree house and cooked soup from the snake, which she accidentally spat across his face when she learned what it was.
• Qian Renxue agreed to stay with Tang Jiu and learned his name was Little Jiu, though she refused to call him Brother.
• The next day, Qian Renxue's attempt to cook failed, and she begged Little Jiu Brother for some of his bone soup.

Tang Jiu and Qian Renxue spent months lost in the Star Dou Great Forest, growing close as he developed a moon-essence cultivation method and resolved to pursue godhood on his own. Their teasing about revenge and marriage ended when a Titled Douluo appeared and threatened Tang Jiu.

• Five days after Qian Renxue disappeared, Yue Guan found the corpses of Spirit Hall soul masters and Tang Jiu's abandoned treehouse but failed to locate them.
• Tang Jiu and Qian Renxue wandered deeper into the forest, where he told her stories and cultivated by absorbing the moon's essence through his Heavenly Curse Seal.
• Tang Jiu discovered that moon-essence cultivation strengthened him, formed a new Soul Power method, and inspired him to seek godhood without inheriting one.
• Over the next two months, Tang Jiu's Soul Power broke through another level, while Qian Renxue treasured their life together and asked why he hated Spirit Hall.
• Tang Jiu revealed that the previous Pope had destroyed his village and joked that he might marry Qian Renxue and make the Pope's daughter his second wife.
• An icy stranger with the overwhelming aura of a Titled Douluo appeared and called Tang Jiu a brat who should be killed.

Tang Jiu fled Chrysanthemum Douluo through the Star Dou Great Forest's forbidden region, using stolen speed to stay ahead. He provoked the Titan Giant Ape and summoned Da Ming by claiming Spirit Hall was hunting Xiao Wu.

• Qian Renxue shielded Tang Jiu from Chrysanthemum Douluo and threatened to kill herself if he attacked, but Chrysanthemum Douluo knocked her unconscious and pursued Tang Jiu.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo wounded Tang Jiu with his spirit skill, but Tang Jiu shattered a throwing knife with the Angel's Sacred Sword and threw the sword away to distract him.
• Tang Jiu used Speed Deprivation on nearby Spirit Beasts to increase his speed and flew into the forbidden region, taunting Chrysanthemum Douluo to follow.
• Tang Jiu struck the Titan Giant Ape with a War Hammer and shouted that Spirit Hall intended to seize Xiao Wu's soul ring and soul bone.
• Da Ming emerged from the lake, and the Titan Giant Ape grabbed Tang Jiu as he flew above the water.

Tang Jiu used the Titan Giant Ape to drive Chrysanthemum Douluo from the Star Dou Great Forest, then explained his connection to Xiao Wu and Spirit Hall to the Sky Azure Bull Python. Da Ming accepted him as an ally and asked him to look after Xiao Wu.

• Tang Jiu provoked Chrysanthemum Douluo from the Titan Giant Ape's shoulder, and the ape battered the fleeing Douluo to the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Tang Jiu and the Titan Giant Ape mocked Chrysanthemum Douluo with taunts and dancing until Qian Renxue urged the injured Douluo to leave with her.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python demanded to know where Xiao Wu was, and Tang Jiu explained that she was safe at Nuoding Academy with his Third Brother and teacher.
• Tang Jiu told Da Ming that Spirit Hall had killed his family, that Tang Hao was his adoptive father, and that Chrysanthemum Douluo had pursued him after he kidnapped Spirit Hall's Saintess.
• Da Ming accepted Tang Jiu as a friend and asked him to look after Xiao Wu, then knocked the Titan Giant Ape away when it tried to copy Tang Jiu's dancing.

Tang Jiu left the Star Dou Great Forest after four years of cultivation and began hunting a Mad Blood Savage Bull for his Bullet Ant Spirit’s second soul ring. As the bull overwhelmed him in battle, Tang Jiu remembered he could use the Heavenly Curse Seal.

• Tang Jiu taught the Titan Giant Ape to dance, and its noisy performances disturbed the soul beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Qian Renxue falsely identified Tang Jiu as Tang Heizhi, a son of Tang Hao responsible for the Nuoding City massacre, and Qian Daoliu ordered an attack on the Clear Sky Sect.
• Four years later, Tang Jiu said farewell to the Titan Giant Ape and fled as the Sky Azure Bull Python beat it for wanting a Humanoid Transformation.
• Tang Jiu entered the Mad Blood Savage Bull’s habitat and used his Spirit Ring Spirit to suppress its cultivation.
• The Mad Blood Savage Bull pierced through Tang Jiu’s War Hammer and forced him to dodge its attacks, so he recalled the Heavenly Curse Seal.

Tang Jiu defeated the Mad Blood Savage Bull, absorbed its Soul Ring, and met Yu Tianheng’s group in the forest. After Dugu Yan encouraged Ye Lingling to heal him because he was Yu Xiaogang’s disciple, Yu Tianxin insulted Yu Xiaogang and angered Tang Jiu.

• Tang Jiu used his Soul Skills to replenish his Soul Power and wore down the Mad Blood Savage Bull in a brutal battle.
• Yu Tianlei led his group toward the fight, hoping the bull’s Soul Ring would suit Yu Tianlei, but they found Tang Jiu standing over the defeated beast.
• Tang Jiu absorbed the bull’s Soul Ring, gained the Blood Burn Soul Skill, and told Yu Tianlei that he had killed the beast himself.
• Dugu Yan urged Ye Lingling to heal the injured Tang Jiu, but Yu Tianheng initially stopped her from treating a stranger.
• Tang Jiu revealed that Yu Xiaogang was his master and called himself Yu Tianheng’s senior brother, prompting Dugu Yan to encourage Ye Lingling to heal him.
• Yu Tianxin called Yu Xiaogang a disgrace to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and Tang Jiu’s expression darkened.

Tang Jiu fought Yu Tianxin after he insulted Master, then Yu Tianheng stopped the conflict before it turned into a fight with Yu Tianlei. The group set out to hunt a powerful soul beast, with Tang Jiu warning them against the route Yu Tianlei chose.

• Yu Tianxin insulted Yu Xiaogang, so Tang Jiu slapped him and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Yu Tianxin attacked Tang Jiu with his spirit skills, but Tang Jiu shattered his hand bones and knocked him away with one punch.
• Yu Tianlei blocked Tang Jiu from attacking Yu Tianxin again and prepared to fight, but Yu Tianheng ended the dispute by threatening to disband the team.
• Ye Lingling treated Tang Jiu and Yu Tianxin, and Tang Jiu offered to lead the group to a Mad Blood Savage Bull.
• Yu Tianxin insisted that Yu Tianlei choose the route, and Yu Tianlei pointed northeast; Tang Jiu warned the group not to go that way.

Tang Jiu and the others were trapped by a Phantom Demon Man-Eating Tree, whose illusions and Ironwood Javelins nearly killed them. After Tang Jiu and Dugu Yan helped the group escape, he asked Dugu Yan to take him to her grandfather’s medicinal garden to improve his poison resistance.

• Tang Jiu recognized the enraged ape’s roar as the Titan Giant Ape, but the others dismissed his claim and followed Yu Tianlei deeper into the forest.
• When a strange fragrance reached them, Tang Jiu pulled Ye Lingling to safety as the Phantom Demon Man-Eating Tree caught Dugu Yan, Yu Tianheng, Yu Tianlei, and Yu Tianxin in its vines.
• Tang Jiu broke Dugu Yan’s illusion with a stone, and Ye Lingling healed her; Dugu Yan used her Jade Scale Purple Poison to free herself and rescue Yu Tianheng, Yu Tianlei, and Yu Tianxin.
• The tree attacked with Ironwood Javelins, and Tang Jiu dragged Yu Tianheng to safety with a rope after Yu Tianlei escaped using his fourth Spirit Skill.
• Dugu Yan thanked Tang Jiu, who asked her to bring him to her grandfather’s medicinal garden so he could improve his poison resistance.

Dugu Yan and Yu Tianheng ended their partnership with Yu Tianlei after he abandoned his teammates, but Yu Tianlei later lured an Ironclad Dragon toward their group. Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan began fighting the beast while Tang Jiu stayed back to protect Ye Lingling and waited for a chance to act.

• Dugu Yan poisoned Yu Tianlei, and Yu Tianheng dissolved their team after Yu Tianlei admitted his spirit skill had protected only himself.
• Tang Jiu introduced himself to Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling, then claimed he needed a sixteen-thousand-year spirit beast for his third spirit ring.
• Yu Tianlei led an Ironclad Dragon toward the group, and Tang Jiu identified it as an eighteen-thousand-year beast rather than an Ironclad Giant Lizard.
• The Ironclad Dragon knocked Yu Tianxin aside and attacked Yu Tianlei, prompting Yu Tianheng to blind one of its eyes with Thunder Dragon Claw.
• Dugu Yan weakened the Ironclad Dragon with poison and ordered the others to fight while Tang Jiu protected Ye Lingling.

Tang Jiu’s team struggled against the far stronger Ironclad Dragon, and Tang Jiu kept Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling safe while the others fought. As Yu Tianheng faced death, Tang Jiu stepped in and revealed his purple First Soul Ring.

• The Ironclad Dragon overpowered Yu Tianheng and the other Assault Type Spirit Masters, so Tang Jiu carried Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to safety in a tree.
• Ye Lingling healed the wounded while Dugu Yan and the others attacked, but their skills barely affected the Ironclad Dragon’s defenses.
• Yu Tianlei transformed into a blue lightning dragon and Yu Tianheng tried to strike the beast’s eye, but the Ironclad Dragon closed its eyelid and counterattacked.
• Dugu Yan rushed to Yu Tianheng after the Ironclad Dragon sent him flying, and Yu Tianheng urged Tang Jiu to take the women and flee.
• Tang Jiu refused to run, teased Dugu Yan into calling him Little Jiu Brother, and approached the Ironclad Dragon with his Bullet Ant Spirit Possession and purple First Soul Ring revealed.

Tang Jiu fought the Ironclad Dragon with boosted strength and precise joint attacks, eventually killing it and earning the others’ admiration. He began absorbing its eighteen-thousand-year Spirit Ring, but its overwhelming energy made his body crack, leaving his survival uncertain.

• Tang Jiu revealed a thousand-year first Spirit Ring and a ten-thousand-year second Spirit Ring, shocking Ye Lingling, Dugu Yan, Yu Tianheng, and Yu Tianlei.
• Tang Jiu activated Fury, Blood Burn, and Berserk, then collided with the Ironclad Dragon and was injured before Ye Lingling healed him.
• Tang Jiu dodged the Ironclad Dragon’s charge and crippled its hind-leg joint, then built up force with the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer and shattered its jaw.
• Tang Jiu continued attacking the Ironclad Dragon until he broke its hind leg, then killed it with an eighty-one-strike hammer blow that shattered his own hand.
• Tang Jiu began absorbing the Ironclad Dragon’s eighteen-thousand-year Spirit Ring, but the powerful energy overwhelmed him and cracked his skin.