Chapter Summaries

Gu Han visited the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to obtain materials for a spear for Dongfang Lingyun, but Chen Xin intercepted him and challenged him to a sword spar. Their duel showed how far Gu Han had advanced, while Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong watched and considered the consequences of their growing ties with Spirit Hall.

• Gu Han traveled alone to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect for rare gemstones and metals, deciding to keep Spirit Hall’s immortal herbs and Whale Rubber undisclosed.
• Chen Xin sensed Gu Han’s Sword Intent, intercepted him, and challenged his apprentice to test his swordsmanship.
• Gu Han and Chen Xin exchanged Nine Slaughter Words and clashed with their domains, with Gu Han holding his own against the Level 97 Chen Xin.
• Chen Xin and Gu Han used their sword-human unity techniques and continued their aerial duel, damaging the forest below.
• Ning Fengzhi watched with Gu Rong and concluded that opposing Gu Han would risk a disastrous rift with Chen Xin and Spirit Hall.
• Gu Rong praised Gu Han’s strength and privately vowed to defeat the man who had recently beaten him once he reached Level 96.

Gu Han demonstrated his strength against Chen Xin, blocking the Sword Douluo’s Eighth Soul Skill with a Snow Emperor soul bone skill and revealing that his orange soul ring came from a seven-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Snow Woman. After visiting the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and accepting Ning Fengzhi’s offer of rare metals, he unexpectedly reunited with Tang Yuehua.

• Gu Han and Chen Xin activated their Martial Soul Avatars, and Gu Han revealed his seven-hundred-thousand-year orange soul ring.
• Chen Xin attacked with his Eighth Soul Skill, and Gu Han met it with the Snow Emperor torso bone skill, Emperor’s Sword · Ice Pinnacle Peerless.
• Gu Han and Chen Xin’s attacks collided, devastating the surrounding forest, while Gu Rong protected Ning Fengzhi.
• Chen Xin praised Gu Han’s power after his attack was matched, and Ning Fengzhi welcomed Gu Han to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Fengzhi let Gu Han choose rare metals, and Gu Han took several pieces suitable for forging weapons for Dongfang Lingyun.
• At the reception hall, Gu Han encountered Tang Yuehua, who greeted him with delight.

Gu Han visited the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Tang Yuehua asked him to name her new etiquette academy and invited him to its opening. Back at Spirit Hall, Bibi Dong agreed to attend but told Gu Han to handle Tang Yuehua himself, while Ling Yuan asked him and Bibi Dong to help care for Qian Renxue.

• Tang Yuehua told Gu Han she planned to build an etiquette pavilion on land in Heaven Dou City and asked him to name it.
• Gu Han suggested Moonlight Pavilion, accepted Tang Yuehua’s invitation to its opening, and said he would attend with Bibi Dong.
• Gu Han returned to Spirit Hall and told Bibi Dong about Tang Yuehua; Bibi Dong agreed to visit the pavilion but urged him to reject Tang Yuehua tactfully himself.
• Bibi Dong told Gu Han she wanted to return to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with him to congratulate Chen Xin on reaching Level 97.
• Ling Yuan brought Qian Renxue to the Holy Son Hall, where Gu Han amused the child with a bamboo dragonfly.
• Ling Yuan asked Gu Han and Bibi Dong to help look after Qian Renxue.

Bibi Dong took over caring for little Qian Renxue while Gu Han went alone to Moonlight Pavilion’s opening ceremony in Heaven Dou City. Tang Yuehua waited eagerly for him there, while Tang Hao and Tang Xiao worried about her feelings for him.

• Ling Yuan left little Qian Renxue with Bibi Dong for the day, and Bibi Dong eagerly played with her while Gu Han made her paper toys.
• Half a year later, Gu Han received an invitation to Moonlight Pavilion’s opening ceremony and set out alone after Bibi Dong chose to stay with Xiao Xue Er.
• Xiao Xue Er asked Bibi Dong about Gu Han’s departure, and Bibi Dong comforted her by offering to tell her a story.
• Ling Yuan asked whether Bibi Dong was confident about Gu Han going alone, and Bibi Dong said she trusted him.
• At Moonlight Pavilion in Heaven Dou City, Tang Yuehua waited at the entrance for Gu Han while Tang Hao and Tang Xiao worried about her affection for him.

Tang Chen intercepted Gu Han outside Heaven Dou City to test the swordsmanship that countered the Clear Sky Hammer. After their duel, Tang Chen ended the fight impressed and resolved to find a way for his hammer technique to counter Gu Han’s swordsmanship.

• Tang Yuehua waited outside Moonlight Pavilion for Gu Han while Tang Hao stayed with her.
• Tang Chen stopped Gu Han outside Heaven Dou City and asked him to demonstrate his sword technique.
• Gu Han cautiously agreed to fight Tang Chen, and the two clashed with sword and hammer.
• Gu Han used his shifting swordsmanship and Tai Chi Intent to deflect Tang Chen’s attacks throughout their close combat.
• Tang Chen halted the duel after finding flaws in his own hammer technique but no clear opening in Gu Han’s swordsmanship.

At Moonlight Pavilion’s opening, Tang Chen tested Gu Han’s Tai Chi Sword Dao and tried to match him with Tang Yuehua, but Gu Han said he was already pledged to another woman. After the ceremony, Tang Yuehua invited Gu Han to walk with her and asked him to play music for a dance, leaving him beside her in the moonlit garden.

• Tang Chen praised Gu Han’s swordsmanship and proposed arranging his marriage to Tang Yuehua, but Gu Han declined because he had already pledged himself to another woman.
• Tang Chen asked Gu Han to make his rejection clear to Tang Yuehua, and Gu Han agreed while asking Tang Chen’s family to comfort her afterward.
• Tang Yuehua welcomed Gu Han and Tang Chen to Moonlight Pavilion, while Tang Chen told Tang Xiao and Tang Hao that Gu Han’s sword art could defeat him if they fought at the same level.
• Moonlight Pavilion opened with a ceremony, banquet, and dance, and Tang Yuehua invited Gu Han to walk with her alone.
• In the garden, Tang Yuehua asked about Tang Chen’s spar with Gu Han, then took out a flute and invited Gu Han to play for a dance.

Gu Han told Tang Yuehua about his past and his relationship with Bibi Dong, making clear that he would not return her romantic feelings. Tang Yuehua asked to remain his friend, and they went back toward the hall after she played the Jade Flute.

• Gu Han accepted Tang Yuehua's Jade Flute, admitted he was not skilled in music, and asked whether she would hear his story.
• Gu Han recounted his childhood, Martial Soul Awakening, apprenticeship to Qian Xunji, and his relationship with Bibi Dong, while concealing his secrets.
• Tang Yuehua said she understood his feelings for the Saintess but asked to become his confidante and friend instead.
• At Tang Chen's urging, Gu Han agreed and invited Tang Yuehua to visit Spirit Hall with him and his Senior Sister.
• Tang Yuehua played the Jade Flute, and Gu Han praised her performance before suggesting they return to the hall.
• Gu Han and Tang Yuehua headed back as the people who had been watching them also hurried toward the hall.

Gu Han persuaded Ning Fengzhi that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect should cooperate with the Clear Sky Sect and draw it into an alliance against the Heaven Dou Royal Family. The next morning, Tang Hao took Gu Han to meet Tang Chen alone.

• At the hotel, Ning Fengzhi teased Gu Han about Tang Yuehua before asking how to respond to the Clear Sky Sect's involvement in Heaven Dou.
• Gu Han urged Ning Fengzhi to cooperate with the Clear Sky Sect and unite against the Heaven Dou Royal Family, while preventing Xue Xing from winning the sect over.
• Gu Han proposed that the sects could seek influence in Star Luo if Heaven Dou's gains proved insufficient, convincing Ning Fengzhi of his broad plans.
• The next morning, Tang Hao met Gu Han outside the Seven Treasure Hotel and said Tang Chen wanted to see him alone.

Tang Chen met Gu Han privately and traded his cultivation insights and Clear Sky Sect’s Ring Detonation Secret Skill for an explanation of Gu Han’s Tai Chi Sword Dao. After three days of instruction, Gu Han left with a deeper understanding of combat and several powerful techniques.

• Tang Chen sent Tang Hao, Qian Jun, and Jiang Mo away so he could speak privately with Gu Han.
• Tang Chen told Gu Han that Qian Daoliu had sensed a vast, sea-like divine power in the Angel God’s Statue and invited Tang Chen to investigate it at Sea God Island.
• Tang Chen asked Gu Han to explain his Tai Chi Sword Dao and offered his cultivation insights and the Ring Detonation Secret Skill in exchange.
• Gu Han agreed to share his Tai Chi Sword Dao, and Tang Chen taught him for three days about cultivation, combat, Ring Detonation, and the intents behind Chaotic Cloak and the Clear Sky Nine Secrets.
• Gu Han thanked Tang Chen with a disciple’s bow after gaining substantial insights and new combat skills.

Tang Chen praised Gu Han’s talent, entrusted him with looking after Tang Yuehua, and asked him to investigate why she could not cultivate. Gu Han headed back toward Spirit City to search for a solution, leaving open the possibility of inviting Tang Yuehua to Spirit Hall.

• Tang Chen praised Gu Han’s exceptional comprehension and shared drinks with him.
• Gu Han warned Tang Chen that Sea God Island might have a powerful High Priest, but Tang Chen eagerly accepted the prospect of a new fight.
• Tang Chen asked Gu Han to look after Tang Yuehua, and Gu Han agreed to help if she asked him.
• Tang Chen suggested that Gu Han investigate Tang Yuehua’s inability to cultivate, and Gu Han agreed to try.
• Gu Han told Qian Jun and Jiang Mo that Tang Chen had taught him his ultimate techniques and Explode Ring in exchange for Taiji.
• Gu Han said he would return to Spirit City to search records for a solution, and suggested inviting Tang Yuehua to Spirit Hall if he found none.

Gu Han returned to Spirit City, told Bibi Dong about his time in Heaven Dou City, and learned how Shi Dong and Lingyun were progressing. An urgent report revealed that a Beast Tide had entered the Häagen-Dazs Duchy, and Spirit Hall gathered to respond.

• Gu Han left Heaven Dou City after telling Tang Yuehua he would research ways to help her cultivate, and Tang Hao and Tang Xiao found her watching him depart.
• Gu Han returned to Spirit City and told Bibi Dong about his visit, including Tang Chen teaching him Explode Ring and Tang Yuehua's unusual condition.
• Bibi Dong reported that Shi Dong had reached rank ten, absorbed an eight-hundred-year Iron Pattern Leopard, and gained Sword Radiance, while Lingyun had reached level 19.
• A report from Häagen-Dazs City announced that a Beast Tide had crossed the Star Dou Mountain Range and entered the Häagen-Dazs Duchy.
• Qian Xunji gathered Spirit Hall's Elders, and Golden Crocodile Douluo volunteered to investigate the Beast Tide in person.

Spirit Hall and allied forces marched to Häagen-Dazs City to face a Beast Tide launched by Di Tian after the Emperor Auspicious Beast Egg disappeared. Ghost Leopard was overwhelmed by the Titan Giant Ape, and Yu Yuanzhen arrived to fight it before the Sky Azure Bull Python joined the battle.

• Qian Xunji sent Second Worship, Gu Han, Bibi Dong, Spirit Hall’s forces, and allied reinforcements to Häagen-Dazs City.
• Di Tian led a Beast Tide against the city because he believed humans had stolen the Emperor Auspicious Beast Egg.
• Ghost Leopard formed a defense against the approaching beasts, but the Titan Giant Ape used Gravity Swamp to pin him down and send him flying with a punch.
• Yu Yuanzhen arrived and used his lightning attacks to injure the Titan Giant Ape and knock him into the Beast Tide.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python attacked Yu Yuanzhen, who began to struggle against its strength.

Ghost Leopard Douluo was nearly killed by the Titan Giant Ape before Chen Xin arrived and turned the battle around. Chen Xin trapped the Titan Giant Ape with his sword qi while Yu Yuanzhen held off the Sky Azure Bull Python, leaving both fights underway.

• The Titan Giant Ape overwhelmed Ghost Leopard Douluo with a barrage of boulders while Da Ming kept Yu Yuanzhen from rescuing him.
• Chen Xin arrived and forced the Titan Giant Ape to abandon its attack on Ghost Leopard Douluo, saving him from death.
• Chen Xin and Yu Yuanzhen began fighting the two soul beasts, with Chen Xin sealing the Titan Giant Ape inside the Nine Slaughter Words.
• Da Ming attacked Yu Yuanzhen with Sky Blue Extinction Lightning, and Yu Yuanzhen countered with Extinction Lightning Calamity, turning their battlefield into a Thunder Pool.

Chen Xin and Yu Yuanzhen fought Xiong Jun after Chen Xin drove back the Titan Giant Ape, while Di Tian warned Xiong Jun to conserve his strength for the human Limit Douluos. Ning Fengzhi’s support strengthened the two human experts, leaving them able to withstand Xiong Jun’s attacks.

• The berserk Titan Giant Ape broke through Chen Xin’s sword blockade, but their fierce exchange halted the Beast Tide and gave the exhausted defenders a reprieve.
• Di Tian stopped Xiong Jun from joining the fight, warning that the human experts had not all arrived and that their strength would be needed against Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen.
• Xiong Jun ignored Di Tian, charged the front lines, and ordered the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python to withdraw while he faced Chen Xin and Yu Yuanzhen.
• Chen Xin evaded Xiong Jun’s powerful claws and warned Yu Yuanzhen not to fight him at close range, while Yu Yuanzhen used Thunderstorm Domain to disrupt Xiong Jun.
• Xiong Jun entered a berserk state and charged Yu Yuanzhen, but Ning Fengzhi boosted both human experts with Seven Treasure True Body, allowing Yu Yuanzhen to withstand a claw strike and Chen Xin to counterattack.

Chen Xin and Yu Yuanzhen defeated Xiong Jun with the aid of Ning Fengzhi’s support, but Bi Ji healed him before Di Tian intervened. As more powerful human fighters arrived, Di Tian faced Golden Crocodile Douluo while the beast tide confrontation continued.

• Xiong Jun charged toward Ning Fengzhi, but Chen Xin blocked him and fought alongside Yu Yuanzhen, whose lightning attacks helped expose Xiong Jun’s injured claw.
• Chen Xin unleashed his sword techniques while Yu Yuanzhen struck Xiong Jun with his ninth soul skill, leaving the beast severely wounded and sending him flying.
• Bi Ji healed Xiong Jun as Di Tian blocked Chen Xin and Yu Yuanzhen’s follow-up attack, then used his Dragon Might to force them down.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo arrived and countered Di Tian’s pressure, while two Spirit Hall elders brought Chen Xin and Yu Yuanzhen back to the wall.
• Tang Tian arrived from Clear Sky Sect and landed on the city wall after recognizing that Di Tian and Golden Crocodile Douluo were both Limit Douluos.
• Di Tian and Golden Crocodile Douluo acknowledged each other’s strength, though Di Tian judged the newly advanced human to be no serious threat.

Di Tian’s massive Beast Tide clashed with the human defenders outside Häagen-Dazs City, leaving humanity at a severe disadvantage. Gu Han discovered the scale of the threat, sent Bibi Dong to the front, and rushed to Spirit City to summon reinforcements.

• Di Tian rejected Golden Crocodile Douluo’s demand for an explanation and attacked, triggering a battle between the soul beasts and human Titled Douluo.
• Gu Han used his Yang Spirit to survey the battlefield and found Di Tian and nearly all the Star Dou Great Forest’s strongest soul beasts fighting the outnumbered human forces.
• Gu Han told Bibi Dong that the Beast Tide was far larger than expected, and she flew ahead to Häagen-Dazs City while he went to gather support.
• Gu Han reached Spirit City and warned Qian Xunji that the front line faced several Fierce Beasts and numerous powerful soul beasts.
• Qian Xunji gathered the Titled Douluo in Spirit City and hurried toward Häagen-Dazs City to reinforce the defenders.

Gu Han and several reinforcements hurried toward the front line as the human defenders struggled against the powerful soul beasts. Bibi Dong arrived in time to save Yu Yuanzhen and briefly suppress the Sky Azure Bull Python, drawing Di Tian’s attention before he refocused on Golden Crocodile Douluo.

• Gu Han’s Yang Spirit told Chrysanthemum Douluo and Azure Luan Douluo about the situation, and Dugu Bo stayed at the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well to guard it.
• Azure Luan carried Light Feather Douluo and Yue Guan toward the front line at full speed, while Gu Han flew there on his sword.
• Xiong Jun overwhelmed Qian Jun Douluo after Bi Ji’s barrier protected him, while the Spider Emperors kept Jiang Mo occupied.
• Scarlet King joined the Titan Giant Ape against Sword Douluo, and Ten Thousand Demons King’s Spiritual Shock gave Zi Ji an opening to attack Tang Tian.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python struck Yu Yuanzhen down and prepared to finish him, but Bibi Dong blocked its lightning and counterattacked.
• Di Tian noticed Bibi Dong’s God-tier Martial Soul but continued fighting Golden Crocodile Douluo, keeping the Auspicious Beast Egg as the soul beasts’ main objective.

Yu Yuanzhen joined Tang Tian against Zi Ji and Ten Thousand Demons King, while Bibi Dong fought the Sky Azure Bull Python, Ah Rou, and Xiao Wu. After Bibi Dong was knocked down and nearly struck by lightning, Gu Han arrived to protect her, and the two prepared to fight together.

• Yu Yuanzhen leaped from the crater and joined Tang Tian, but he and Tang Tian remained at a disadvantage against Zi Ji and Ten Thousand Demons King.
• Bibi Dong countered the Sky Azure Bull Python’s attack with her Hundred Thousand Year soul bone skill, then blocked Xiao Wu’s sneak attack with her Holy Divine Sword.
• Bibi Dong wounded Xiao Wu through her Invincible Golden Body with the Evil Divine Sword, but the Sky Azure Bull Python, Ah Rou, and Xiao Wu joined forces and drove Bibi Dong to the ground.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python launched Sky Blue Extinction Divine Lightning at Bibi Dong, but Gu Han arrived and protected her with his Ice Spirit Guard.
• Gu Han helped Bibi Dong up, and the senior sister and junior brother prepared to face Xiao Wu together.

Gu Han and Bibi Dong fought the transformed Soft Bone Rabbits and the Titan Giant Ape’s group, killing Da Ming with a combined attack. As the battle against Er Ming continued, Qian Xunji arrived and confronted the Soul Beast Clan.

• Gu Han used his ice abilities and summoned Ice Empress and Snow Empress to attack Xiao Wu, Ah Rou, and Da Ming while Bibi Dong fought Da Ming.
• Snow Empress and Bibi Dong struck Da Ming together, killing him and leaving behind a red Soul Ring and a cyan right arm Spirit Bone.
• Er Ming charged at Bibi Dong in a rage, but Gu Han and Bibi Dong joined forces against him while Xiao Wu and Ah Rou helped him resist.
• Xiong Jun attacked Gu Han and Bibi Dong with a Dark Gold Terror Claw, but a Six-Winged Angel blocked the strike.
• Qian Xunji arrived with the aura of a Rank 98 Soul Master and challenged the Soul Beast Clan over the Beast Tide.

Reinforcements arrived and strengthened the human forces, prompting Di Tian to end the daylong battle and withdraw with the Spirit Beasts. The humans held the fortress, while Gu Han wondered what had caused Di Tian to launch the Beast Tide earlier than expected.

• The Clear Sky Sect formed the Clear Sky Formation, empowering Tang Tian to strike Zi Ji back, while the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda restored Yu Yuanzhen’s Soul Power.
• Qian Xunji joined Golden Crocodile Douluo against Di Tian, but Di Tian knocked aside his Angel Holy Sword and continued pressing Golden Crocodile.
• Di Tian attacked the battlefield, forcing Gu Han and Bibi Dong to abandon their assault on the Titan Giant Ape and retreat; Er Ming withdrew with Ah Rou and Xiao Wu.
• Reinforcements gathered as the exhausted human and Spirit Beast forces disengaged, and Di Tian chose to withdraw rather than face the assembled Super Douluo.
• Golden Crocodile returned to the fortress wall to recover, while Gu Han wondered why Di Tian had launched the Beast Tide at this time.