Chapter Summaries

After the traitors were dealt with, Xue Zhaoming outlined his plans to reform and strengthen the Heaven Dou Empire with Prime Minister Su Yanru and Marshal Ge Long. Lin Feng reassured the two officials of his goodwill, and Su Yanru asked what he truly wanted.

• Xue Zhaoming ended court, praised by Lin Feng for handling the ministers well, and invited Prime Minister Su Yanru and Marshal Ge Long to the Imperial Study.
• Lin Feng sent Ning Fengzhi back to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with Xiao Qing, then accompanied Xue Zhaoming to meet Su Yanru and Ge Long.
• Xue Zhaoming proposed curbing abusive nobles, developing commoner soul masters, and supporting the Five Elements School, and the three discussed his plans through the morning.
• Xue Zhaoming invited Su Yanru and Ge Long to lunch, then left the Imperial Study so Lin Feng could speak privately with them.
• Lin Feng assured Su Yanru and Ge Long that he meant no harm to them or the Heaven Dou Empire, and Su Yanru asked what Lin Feng truly wanted.

Lin Feng persuaded Ge Long and Su Yanru to serve the people of Heaven Dou rather than the imperial family, helping Xue Zhaoming take power. He strengthened Xue Zhaoming’s security and accepted him as his second disciple, while leaving him to govern with his ministers’ support.

• Lin Feng told Su Yanru and Ge Long that he sought to unify the continent without prolonged warfare, would eliminate the ruling families but spare ordinary people, and would reform Spirit Hall rather than destroy it.
• Lin Feng said he would not take the throne and challenged Su Yanru and Ge Long to choose between loyalty to the imperial family and service to Heaven Dou’s people.
• Su Yanru and Ge Long accepted Xue Zhaoming as ruler and agreed to work with him after Su Yanru revealed that he was the late emperor’s lost son.
• Lin Feng left Heaven Dou’s palace affairs to Xue Zhaoming, backed by Su Yanru, Ge Long, capable officials and generals, a Soul Douluo guard, and the Sea Bottom Lotus.
• Lin Feng decided to accept Xue Zhaoming as his second disciple after the boy repeatedly showed that he wanted to learn from him.

Lin Feng brought Tang San back from the City of Slaughter, where Tang Hao had tried to kill him, and revived Ah Yin at Five Elements Academy. Tang San and his family settled into a happy life there, and the Sea God Island group returned after completing their trials.

• Lin Feng sent Lin An to retrieve Tang San, and Lin An fought off Tang Hao after Tang Hao attacked his son for leaving him to join Five Elements Academy.
• Lin Feng revived Ah Yin, and Tang San and his mother reunited; Ah Yin vowed to have nothing more to do with Tang Hao.
• Ah Yin joined the Healing Department, while Tang San began studying Soul Tools and forged acupuncture needles for her from Banjin Fagin.
• Tang San decided to let go of his grievances with Yu Xiaogang and leave his former teacher's affairs behind after the Soul Master Competition.
• Lin Feng gave Tang San's family a courtyard, where Tang San, Ah Yin, Xiao Wu, and their companions lived happily.
• Dugu Yan and the rest of the Sea God Island group returned to Five Elements Academy after completing their assessments, and Dugu Yan brought back the Sea God's Trident.

Qian Renxue learned the truth about Bibi Dong’s past but remained torn between sympathy for her mother and loyalty to Qian Daoliu and Spirit Hall. As Bibi Dong’s failures weakened her standing, Qian Renxue began contesting her power while both women struggled to address their strained relationship.

• Qian Renxue heard Qian Daoliu explain what Qian Xunji had done to Bibi Dong and understood why he had tolerated Bibi Dong’s actions.
• Qian Renxue repeatedly visited Bibi Dong, but neither woman knew how to overcome their mutual discomfort and resentment.
• Qian Renxue began her divine trials and challenged Bibi Dong for control of Spirit Hall, gaining support as Bibi Dong’s decisions cost the organization many people.
• Bibi Dong abandoned her search for Xiao Wu and the other two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts and sought other powerful soul beasts to complete her godhood trials.
• Bibi Dong suspected Hu Liena had fallen in love with a Clear Sky Sect boy but chose not to interfere.
• Qian Daoliu worried that Qian Renxue’s sympathy for Bibi Dong could hinder her divine trials and admitted that his indecision had allowed Bibi Dong’s power to grow.

Lin Qing faced the seven-hundred-thousand-year-old Evil Eye Tyrant in the Spiritual Desert as the eighth trial of the Death God Trial. After resisting its attacks and seeing through its Space-Time Corridor, he found the beast’s spiritual true body.

• Lin Qing entered the Evil Eye Tyrant’s territory to kill it and obtain his ninth spirit ring.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant emerged and unleashed its Spiritual Desert domain and seventy-two Spirit Annihilation Rays against Lin Qing.
• Lin Qing countered with Death God's Whisper · Soul Tremor, then survived the Destruction Death Ray with his Soul Barrier · Triple Gate.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant distorted space and perception with its Space-Time Corridor, showing Lin Qing illusions of his deepest fears.
• Lin Qing drew on his experience in the Abyss of Inner Demons and used Death God Authority · True Death to erase the illusions and locate the Evil Eye Tyrant’s spiritual true body.

Lin Qing killed the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord with the Death God Forbidden Technique and obtained its soul ring and head soul bone. After Lin Feng helped him recover and guarded him through their absorption, Lin Qing reached Rank 91 and gained four soul-type skills, while the Death God took most of the remaining energy for his ninth trial.

• Lin Qing destroyed the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord's stars, then used Final Judgment to annihilate its soul and make it collapse into spiritual origin, a crimson soul ring, and a head soul bone.
• Lin Qing prepared to recover before absorbing the soul ring, and Lin Feng arrived with a pill and told him to focus on restoring himself.
• Lin Qing recovered with the pill, reunited with Lin Feng, and began absorbing the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord's soul ring and soul bone under his protection.
• After a day and night, Lin Qing completed the absorption and reached Rank 91, while the Death God claimed the excess energy for the ninth trial.
• Lin Qing gained four powerful soul-type skills, and Lin Feng considered how he could combine spiritual attacks with his physical fighting style.

Lin Qing completed his eighth Death God Trial and reunited with Lin Feng, who updated him on events across Douluo Continent and Sun Moon Continent. Lin Jian passed his sixth Asura trial and received a seventh trial that required him to claim the Asura Demon Sword, forcing him to plan how to awaken Tang Chen rather than fight him directly.

• Lin Qing reunited with Lin Feng, shared his longing after years of Death God Trials, and said he no longer cared about the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Lin Feng told Lin Qing that Spirit Hall had devastated the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and updated him on events in Sun Moon Continent, including the Sun Moon Empire’s plans and its handling of the Tianhe Federation affair.
• Lin Feng brought Lin Qing back to Douluo Continent after they traveled around Sun Moon Continent for several days.
• Lin Jian passed his sixth Asura trial by killing ten thousand ten-thousand-year soul beasts, gaining two levels of Soul Power and reaching level 85.
• The Asura God assigned Lin Jian a seventh trial to seize the Asura Demon Sword and earn its recognition.
• Lin Jian decided that his best chance was to awaken Tang Chen, the sword’s current holder, and negotiate using the information and trump card Lin Feng had given him.

Lin Jian challenged the King of Slaughter, who was possessed by the Nine-Headed Bat King, and used his transformed Asura Judgment Domain and battle techniques to wound him but was badly injured in return. With the King of Slaughter preparing a finishing blow, Lin Jian secretly grasped the Purification Ball and searched for a way to use it.

• Lin Jian entered the great hall after refining the Slaughter Beads, and his Asura Judgment Domain began purifying the King of Slaughter's chaotic domain.
• Lin Jian met the King of Slaughter's opening claw with Nine Yin Divine Claw and scratched his armor, then dodged the King of Slaughter's bloody claw barrage while suffering deep wounds.
• Lin Jian used the Asura Finger to scorch the King of Slaughter's helmet, but the King of Slaughter spread evil bat wings and charged at him.
• Lin Jian blocked the charge with his defensive stance but was hurled into a wall, gravely injured and near death.
• The King of Slaughter gathered a destructive energy sphere to finish Lin Jian, while Lin Jian took out the Purification Ball from Lin Feng and considered how to strike the King of Slaughter's true body.

Lin Jian used the Purification Ball to free Tang Chen from the Nine-Headed Bat King and received the Asura Demon Sword. After Tang Chen prepared to leave, Lin Jian stopped him and began explaining what had happened to the Clear Sky Sect.

• Lin Jian dodged the King of Slaughter's attack and hurled the Purification Ball into his mouth, purging the Nine-Headed Bat King from Tang Chen.
• Tang Chen regained his clarity, thanked Lin Jian, and gave him the Asura Demon Sword after learning he was taking the Asura God Trial.
• Lin Jian stopped Tang Chen from leaving and offered to tell him about the matters he cared about.
• Lin Jian explained that Tang Hao's marriage to a hundred-thousand-year soul beast led to conflict with Spirit Hall, war against the Clear Sky Sect, and the sect's retreat into isolation.
• Lin Jian told Tang Chen that the Clear Sky Sect had recovered and produced several Titled Douluo, while Tang Hao had expelled himself from the sect.

Lin Jian told Tang Chen about the Clear Sky Sect’s retreat and showed him Bo Saixi’s recording, prompting Tang Chen to decide to return to his sect and then visit Sea God Island. Tang Chen left the City of Slaughter with the recording, while Lin Jian recovered at the Asura inheritance grounds and began studying the Asura Demon Sword, which had not yet recognized him.

• Lin Jian explained that the Clear Sky Sect had yielded to Spirit Hall to preserve itself, though he condemned its abandonment of the Single Attribute Four Great Clans.
• Lin Jian showed Tang Chen a Spirit Recording Stone in which Bo Saixi explained her god-trial sacrifice and left Tang Chen’s choice up to him.
• Tang Chen questioned Lin Jian about his young master’s plans, and Lin Jian said the Clear Sky Sect was no threat to his master and that he would pursue the Asura Godhood with or without Tang Chen’s help.
• Tang Chen kept the recording and said he would return to the Clear Sky Sect before going to Sea God Island to see Bo Saixi.
• Tang Chen left the City of Slaughter, while Lin Jian returned to the Asura inheritance grounds to recover and study the Asura Demon Sword, which had not yet recognized him.

Lin Jian passed the seventh Asura trial, received the Asura Demon Sword, and returned to Lin Manor, where he reunited with Lin Feng, Lin Qing, and Lin An. As they watched the dawn together, Lin Feng reflected that his Path of the Mortal World meant following his heart and moving forward with the people he could not leave behind.

• Lin Jian used his Asura Judgment Domain to earn the Asura Demon Sword's recognition, passed the seventh trial, and received its rewards and the eighth trial's requirements.
• Lin Jian left the City of Slaughter for Heaven Dou City after the Asura God told him he could return for the ninth trial at rank 99.
• Lin Jian found Lin Qing had reached the Titled Douluo level, and the two fought until Lin An joined them in a playful brawl.
• Lin Feng, Lin Jian, Lin Qing, and Lin An shared wine on a rooftop and traded stories about their trials and life together.
• Lin Qing said that thoughts of returning to Lin Manor and reuniting with his companions had sustained him during his trial, and Lin Feng comforted him and Lin Jian.
• As the group watched the dawn, Lin Feng concluded that his Path of the Mortal World meant following his heart and bringing along those he could not let go of.

Xue Zhaoming announced the abolition of the hereditary Soul Master subsidy and introduced programs rewarding talent, service, and military development. The noble opposition launched a coordinated run on the Imperial Bank, and crowds of smaller nobles and merchants joined in.

• Xue Zhaoming declared the hereditary subsidy wasteful and announced its replacement with talent grants, merit-based land rights, and funding for the new army and Soul Tool research.
• Duke Anguo and other nobles protested the reform, but Xue Zhaoming ordered Su Yanru to draft the new policy within a month.
• Su Yanru described the nobles’ likely tactics, and Xue Zhaoming assigned preparations to him and Ge Long.
• Xue Zhaoming ordered Ge Long to promote the new benefits among common-born soldiers and asked Su Yanru to plan how to divide or purge the opposing families.
• Seventeen hereditary noble families withdrew huge deposits from the Imperial Bank, prompting smaller nobles and merchants to join the rush.

Xue Zhaoming overcame the nobles’ resistance and formally abolished the Hereditary Soul Master Subsidy, establishing new merit-based policies. After the decree was secured, he hurried to report the victory to Lin Feng, who recognized his disciple’s political talent and saw a promising cultivation path ahead for him.

• Duke Anguo and other nobles tried to disrupt the reforms by feigning illness and triggering a bank run, but Su Yanru kept the Imperial Bank solvent while Xue Zhaoming filled vacant offices with trained personnel.
• Ge Long strengthened military support for Xue Zhaoming by promoting capable commoners and limiting the influence of noble-born commanders who opposed the new policies.
• At the court assembly, Su Yanru presented the completed policy provisions, and Xue Zhaoming confronted Duke Anguo with evidence of his family’s wealth and the frontier’s shortages.
• Xue Zhaoming dismissed the nobles’ objections, stamped the decree abolishing the Hereditary Soul Master Subsidy, and ordered the Talent Allowance and merit-based land grants implemented.
• After the assembly, Xue Zhaoming ran to tell Lin Feng the news, and Lin Feng reflected on his disciple’s political skill and potential to cultivate without training his martial soul.

Xue Zhaoming moved to curb noble landholdings and private armies, relying on Five Elements Academy’s strength to support his reforms. After Duke Lieying’s territory was implicated in an attack on an academy mine, an unknown sword strike erased the heart of Blackstone Fortress, leaving Baili Ji’s power shaken.

• Su Yanru and Ge Long warned Xue Zhaoming that powerful nobles had seized land, maintained hidden troops, and were uniting against reform.
• Xue Zhaoming ordered a nationwide land inspection and proposed reorganizing private forces into three centrally commanded Imperial Standing Corps, while sending inspection envoys to learn the facts.
• Bandits attacked a Five Elements Academy mine in Duke Lieying’s territory, killing one outer disciple and stealing rare metals while leaving fragments marked as the duke’s troops’ armor.
• Lin Qing investigated the attack, found clues leading to a collapsed valley, and publicly warned Duke Lieying that Five Elements Academy would retaliate against further attacks.
• Duke Lieying strengthened his defenses and appealed to the royal family, but a sword-shaped radiance later erased Blackstone Fortress’s central district, its wealth, and Baili Ju.

Xue Zhaoming used the crisis at Blackstone Fortress, secretly engineered by Lin Feng, to break the power of rebellious nobles and push through military and land reforms across the Heaven Dou Empire. With the Empire strengthened, Xue Zhaoming turned his attention to its increasingly disloyal subordinate kingdoms and duchies, where Lin Feng had already prepared a network of assets.

• After Blackstone Fortress was destroyed, Baili Ji realized the disaster was a warning and fell gravely ill from fear.
• Xue Zhaoming sent Ge Long’s troops and a court survey team into Duke Lieying’s Territory, allowing the court to take control of Baili Ji’s land, wealth, and army.
• Mysterious attacks crippled the families of Marquis Jinghai, Earl Zhenyue, and other nobles, weakening opposition to land limits and the new army.
• Xue Zhaoming offered cooperating nobles a share in new ventures while Ge Long reorganized private troops and Su Yanru registered land for redistribution and development.
• Xue Zhaoming, Su Yanru, and Ge Long credited Lin Feng’s covert support and continued reforms to strengthen the Empire and promote commoners.
• Xue Zhaoming turned toward the subordinate kingdoms and duchies, relying on the agents and influence Lin Feng had planted there to bring them into line.

Qian Renxue received the Angel God’s sixth trial, which required her to reform and cleanse Spirit Hall within a year without help from Worship Hall members at level ninety-seven or above. She resolved to offer Bibi Dong one last chance before confronting her, even as Qian Daoliu warned that the two women’s paths were likely incompatible.

• The Star Luo Empire hesitated to attack Heaven Dou, wary of Spirit Hall and the strength of the Five Elements Academy and its allies.
• Qian Renxue’s jealousy and anger grew as she saw Bibi Dong show Hu Liena a concern she had never received herself.
• The Angel God gave Qian Renxue the sixth trial: save Spirit Hall by removing corruption and restoring its order within one year, without assistance from Worship Hall members at level ninety-seven or above.
• Qian Daoliu acknowledged his own past failure to restrain Bibi Dong and warned that her Rakshasa influence made reconciliation unlikely.
• Qian Renxue decided to tell Bibi Dong about the trial and give her one final chance to reform before resorting to force.

Qian Renxue confronted Bibi Dong over the Angel God's trial and Spirit Hall's corruption, but Bibi Dong barred her from intervening in the Hall's affairs. Qian Renxue issued her own reform order and left the Papal Palace, making their break official as news of the conflict spread across the continent.

• Qian Daoliu comforted Qian Renxue and told her she could call on Elders Qian Jun and Jiang Mo to follow the path she believed was right.
• Qian Renxue told Bibi Dong the Angel God's sixth trial called for purging corruption and saving Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong rejected Qian Renxue's judgment, defended her rule, and accused her of threatening Spirit Hall's strength.
• Qian Renxue confronted Bibi Dong about her treatment of Hu Liena and the corruption within Spirit Hall, while Bibi Dong challenged her to take the Hall from her.
• Bibi Dong forbade Qian Renxue from mobilizing Spirit Hall forces or interfering in its halls, and Qian Renxue declared she would continue her mission.
• Qian Renxue ordered Spirit Hall members to obey its rules and punish corruption and abuse, and the conflict between her and Bibi Dong spread across the continent.

Qian Renxue’s purge of corrupt Spirit Hall officials ended in Bibi Dong’s carefully staged ambush, where Bibi Dong defeated Thousand Jun and Jiang Mo and warned Qian Renxue to stop interfering. The chapter left Qian Renxue furious and shaken as Bibi Dong’s forces withdrew, leaving the captured children behind.

• Qian Renxue executed a corrupt border bishop and his worst accomplices, then dealt with two more officials whose crimes were proven.
• Bibi Dong secretly let Qian Renxue’s early purges succeed while preparing a trap involving Mo Sang and a false child-trafficking deal.
• Qian Renxue, Thousand Jun, and Jiang Mo raided a hidden manor and found Mo Sang with children imprisoned in cages.
• Bibi Dong revealed the ambush, trapping the three with six Rakshasa Death Warriors and two Titled Douluo elders.
• Bibi Dong broke Thousand Jun and Jiang Mo’s combined defense with Rakshasa Soul Annihilation Wave and gravely injured them.
• Bibi Dong warned Qian Renxue to stop meddling in Spirit Hall’s affairs, then withdrew with her forces and left the children behind.

After Bibi Dong crippled Qian Renxue’s strongest allies, Qian Renxue invited Lin Feng and his companions to help her regain control of Spirit Hall. They agreed to target Bibi Dong and her most dangerous supporters, while Lin Feng promised to spare Bibi Dong’s life and hand her over to Qian Renxue.

• Qian Renxue brought the gravely wounded Qian Jun and Jiang Mo to the Worship Hall, then decided to ask Lin Feng for help despite her mixed feelings about Bibi Dong.
• Lin Feng arrived at Spirit Hall with Lin An, Lin Jian, Lin Qing, Dugu Yan, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xiao Qing to support Qian Renxue.
• Lin Feng asked Qian Renxue whether she accepted that he intended to kill Bibi Dong, and Qian Renxue requested that Bibi Dong instead be crippled and imprisoned.
• Lin Feng agreed to cripple Bibi Dong’s martial soul and leave her in Qian Renxue’s custody, while taking responsibility for fighting her.
• Qian Renxue explained her divine trial and Spirit Hall’s power balance, and the group agreed to eliminate Bibi Dong, her assassins, and her most loyal senior supporters before gradually addressing the rest.

Lin Feng confronted Bibi Dong at the Papal Palace, accused her of ordering the attack on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and revealed the corpses of those involved. After both leaders abandoned their verbal accusations, Xiao Qing incapacitated most of the Spirit Hall defenders, leaving only the two sides’ strongest fighters standing.

• Lin Feng led Qian Renxue and his companions into Spirit City and approached the Papal Palace with the Pope’s Token.
• Lin Feng accused Bibi Dong of being behind the attack on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and killed a Titled Douluo who interrupted him.
• Lin Feng presented the corpses of four Titled Douluo and ten Soul Douluo who had attacked the sect, while Bibi Dong accused Five Elements Academy of killing Spirit Hall officials.
• Lin Feng and Bibi Dong admitted that their dispute would be settled by force rather than accusations about justice.
• Xiao Qing grew larger and poisoned the Spirit Hall members defending the palace, sealing their Soul Power and leaving only Lin Feng’s and Bibi Dong’s groups able to fight.