Chapter Summaries

Long Tianyi and his group were investigated after Gu Han defeated him, then released when Qian Jun found no evidence that they had cultivated evil soul methods. As Gu Han and Bibi Dong continued their journey and punished abusive Soul Masters, they encountered Zhao Wuji extorting a butcher in Mo Ling City.

• Gu Han injured Long Tianyi, and Qian Jun Douluo arrived to question the group about evil soul master cultivation.
• Long Tianyi handed over a Soul Tool, and Jiang Mo Douluo destroyed the evil cultivation manual found inside.
• Qian Jun examined the group and found that none of them had cultivated evil soul methods, so he and Jiang Mo let them leave.
• Long Tianyi ordered his followers to leave the continent within half a month, while Qian Jun sent a report to the Martial Soul Hall.
• Gu Han and Bibi Dong spent the next half month punishing Soul Masters who bullied ordinary people.
• In Mo Ling City, Zhao Wuji demanded all of a butcher's monthly earnings and mocked the threat to report him to the Martial Soul Hall.

Zhao Wuji extorted money from vendors and shopkeepers in Mo Ling City, where his strength had made the local authorities powerless to stop him. After learning about his tyranny from the townspeople and the local Martial Soul Hall, Gu Han and Bibi Dong set out to confront him.

• Zhao Wuji threatened a stall owner, took his money, and demanded payments from vendors throughout the marketplace.
• A shop owner handed Zhao Wuji thirty Gold Soul Coins, and Zhao Wuji continued through the city collecting offerings.
• Gu Han and Bibi Dong arrived in Mo Ling City and noticed that its vendors seemed worried and resentful.
• Gu Han bought meat from a butcher and learned that Zhao Wuji forced the city and nearby villages to pay protection money.
• The local bishop told Gu Han and Bibi Dong that Zhao Wuji had intercepted messages seeking help and beaten the bishop.
• Bibi Dong took Gu Han by the hand and hurried toward Zhao Wuji's usual residence to deal with him.

Bibi Dong and Gu Han defeated Zhao Wuji and exposed his crimes in Mo Ling City, completing Bibi Dong’s First God Trial. She absorbed a God-given Soul Ring as her seventh ring and awakened a powerful domain.

• Bibi Dong beat Zhao Wuji unconscious, and she and Gu Han crippled and restrained him before the people of Mo Ling City.
• Bibi Dong announced that Spirit Hall would imprison Zhao Wuji and arrange compensation for his victims, with City Lord Zhao responsible for distributing the money.
• After leaving the city, Bibi Dong completed her First God Trial and received a ten-percent increase in Good and Evil Affinity, longer Soul Ring lifespans, and a God-given Soul Ring.
• Bibi Dong absorbed the God-given Soul Ring over three shichen, gaining a red seventh Soul Ring and awakening a domain that weakened Gu Han and drained his Soul Power.

Gu Han and Bibi Dong hunted evil soul masters across the continent, then returned to Spirit City as celebrated heroes. That night, the Pope’s Wife gave birth to a daughter, whom Qian Daoliu named Qian Renxue.

• Xue Di sensed the suppression of Bibi Dong’s God-tier Martial Soul, and Bibi Dong withdrew her Domain after Gu Han asked her to stop.
• Bibi Dong excitedly told Gu Han she had condensed a nearly two-hundred-thousand-year soul ring and reached level 72.
• Gu Han and Bibi Dong hunted down evil soul masters and killed corrupt officials, including Fatty Jia, as their reputation as heroes spread.
• Qian Xunji named Gu Han the Spirit Hall Holy Son and established the Surveillance Department under his oversight.
• Gu Han and Bibi Dong returned to Spirit City, where the Pope’s Wife gave birth to a daughter and Qian Daoliu named her Qian Renxue.

At Qian Renxue’s birthday banquet, Gu Han and Bibi Dong accept Qian Daoliu’s request to search for the Angel God if they reach the God Realm. He keeps the secret from the others, then teaches them the Angel Lineage’s Sword Dao.

• Light Feather accepts that he lost the bet and agrees to help Gu Han and Bibi Dong hunt for Soul Rings when they ask.
• Gu Han and Bibi Dong are summoned to the Worship Hall, where Qian Daoliu leads them through a hidden passage to Spirit Hall’s Back Mountain.
• Qian Daoliu tells them the Angel God has sent no divine oracle for several thousand years and asks them to search for her if they ascend to the God Realm.
• Gu Han and Bibi Dong promise to keep the matter secret, including from Qian Xunji.
• Qian Daoliu demonstrates the Angel Lineage’s Sword Dao and cultivation method, and the two learn the swordplay after half a day of practice.

Gu Han learned Human-Weapon Unity from Qian Daoliu’s cultivation insights and tested it on a secluded mountain peak, discovering that he still needed to refine his control over energy. Meanwhile, Bibi Dong visited the newborn Qian Renxue and promised to teach her swordsmanship as she grew up.

• Gu Han secretly checked Shi Dong’s training and was satisfied with the boy’s diligence and study habits.
• Gu Han studied Qian Daoliu’s insights, understood Human-Weapon Unity, and flew to a secluded mountain peak to test it.
• Gu Han merged with the Mystic Ice Sword and unleashed its Absolute Domain, freezing the surroundings before reflecting that his energy control needed further refinement.
• Bibi Dong visited Ling Yuan Douluo and met Little Qian Renxue, promising to teach her powerful sword techniques when she grew up.
• Little Qian Renxue fell asleep after being fed, and Bibi Dong watched over her tenderly.

Tang Hao completed Hell Road in less than four years, and Tang Chen escorted him out of Slaughter City to suppress his murderous aura. In the God Realm, the Asura God noticed both men and secretly planted divine seeds in them, while continuing to watch Gu Han from afar.

• Tang Hao defeated the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent with his Clear Sky Hammer and rushed onward along Hell Road.
• Tang Chen repelled the Ten Headed Fierce Yang Serpent with a casual hammer strike, then left Slaughter City and met Tang Hao outside.
• Tang Chen suppressed Tang Hao's murderous aura and took him toward the Clear Sky Sect, while Tang Hao looked forward to fighting Gu Han again.
• The Asura God learned that Tang Chen and Tang Hao had passed Hell Road and reflected on his Slaughter City inheritance trial and the soul he had saved from another world.
• The Asura God observed that divine power could not approach Gu Han and planted a seed of divinity in both Tang Chen and Tang Hao.

Gu Han investigated how meridians affected innate soul power and began helping Shi Dong open his channels to improve his cultivation. After training and advising Shi Dong, Gu Han returned to writing Journey to the West and then began his daily cultivation.

• Gu Han found that people with higher Innate Soul Power generally had clearer meridians, while those without soul power had fully blocked meridians.
• Gu Han took Shi Dong to the Back Mountain, tested his swordsmanship, and used qi to steady his breathing.
• Gu Han explained that Shi Dong’s weak, fragile meridians required gradual training and cautioned him against overexertion.
• Gu Han corrected Shi Dong’s Tai Chi Fist Sword techniques and sent him back to the academy.
• Gu Han spent the afternoon writing Journey to the West, then ate and began his daily cultivation.

Gu Han reunited with Bibi Dong and gave her the Immortal Herb Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew to help her cultivate her Spiritual Power, but she chose to keep it for now rather than use it or pass it to Qian Renxue. Qian Xunji then asked Gu Han about staffing the Surveillance Department, and Gu Han reported that he had selected twenty trusted Soul King- and Soul Emperor-level combat Spirit Masters.

• Bibi Dong happily embraced Gu Han and promised to spend more time with him.
• Gu Han offered Bibi Dong Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew to assist her spiritual cultivation.
• Bibi Dong declined to use the herb immediately, and Gu Han let her decide later whether to use it herself or give it to Qian Renxue.
• Qian Xunji asked Gu Han how the Surveillance Department's personnel selection was progressing.
• Gu Han said he had promoted twenty trusted Spirit Hall members, all raised by the organization and at least Soul Kings.

Qian Xunji assigned Gu Han to lead Spirit Hall’s new Surveillance Department, then Bibi Dong took Gu Han to collect a moon-white birthday outfit she had designed for him. The chapter ended with Bibi Dong and Ji Yun admiring how well the new clothes suited him.

• Qian Xunji approved Gu Han’s appointment to the Surveillance Department and ordered it to monitor Spirit Halls and Spirit Masters across the regions.
• Bibi Dong remembered that it was Gu Han’s birthday and took him to collect the clothes she had prepared as a gift.
• Bibi Dong and Gu Han met the shop proprietress, Ji Yun, and viewed the custom moon-white outfit.
• Gu Han changed into the outfit, which fit comfortably and suited his tastes and bearing.
• Bibi Dong praised Gu Han’s new appearance, and Ji Yun remarked that he would captivate young women.

Gu Han established Spirit Hall’s secret Surveillance Department, assigning codenames, uniforms, and covert posts to its 108 members. After the inspectors departed, Bibi Dong led Gu Han to meet Qian Xunji, who gave them an important mission.

• Gu Han recruited 36 Soul Emperors and 72 Soul Kings to form the Surveillance Department and assigned them secret codenames and uniforms.
• Gu Han explained the department’s secrecy rules, assigned one Heavenly Spirit and two Earthly Fiends to each city, and ordered the inspectors to send reports twice a month.
• The 108 inspectors swore loyalty to the department and left for their assigned posts.
• Bibi Dong joined Gu Han after he finished establishing the department, and they went to see Qian Xunji.
• Qian Xunji told Gu Han and Bibi Dong that he had an important matter for them to handle.

Gu Han and Bibi Dong led Spirit Hall’s disaster-relief convoy toward earthquake-stricken Starfall City, where local officials were neglecting refugees and falsifying casualty records. Ye Renxin arrived and used the Nine Hearted Begonia to save many freezing refugees, but his Soul Power soon ran out.

• Qian Xunji assigned Gu Han and Bibi Dong to lead healing Soul Masters and supplies to Starfall City, and Gu Han inspected the provisions before the convoy departed with Salas.
• Spirit Hall’s relief effort prompted other powers to send aid, while Heaven Dou’s symbolic food shipment consisted of moldy supplies.
• City Lord Wang ordered Steward Zhang to underreport deaths and losses, conceal the ruined relief grain, and rewrite the disaster records to protect the nobles’ wealth.
• Refugees outside Starfall City received increasingly watery porridge, and many froze to death before soldiers burned their bodies in a pit.
• Ye Renxin arrived with Soul Masters, used his Nine Hearted Begonia’s Martial Soul Avatar to heal the refugees, and exhausted his Soul Power as they thanked him.

Ye Renxin entered Starfall City after exhausting his Soul Power rescuing refugees, hoping to persuade City Lord Wang to release stored grain. City Lord Wang refused to help, while a little girl ran down from the city wall after witnessing starving refugees fight over discarded food.

• Ye Renxin told the Soul Emperor that he had nearly exhausted his Soul Power saving people and entered Starfall City to seek food for the refugees.
• Bishop Li confronted City Lord Wang over his refusal to release grain, but Wang claimed Spirit Hall had no authority over imperial affairs and dismissed him.
• Several children on the city wall judged the refugees while eating, until Wang Tian spotted Ye Renxin's eight soul rings and decided to report his arrival to his grandfather.
• Two boys threw their leftover food from the wall, and starving refugees fought over it while the soldiers watched without intervening.
• The little girl pleaded with the refugees to stop fighting, then ran down from the wall in tears.

Ye Renxin failed to persuade Starfall City’s nobles to open their granaries, while Gu Han’s convoy met starving refugees and began giving them food and aid. A rescued woman revealed that the city had not distributed food, leaving the refugees to flee.

• Ye Renxin asked City Lord Wang and the nobles to provide grain for the people outside the city, but they refused and claimed their stores were nearly empty.
• Ye Renxin left the City Lord’s Mansion in anger and concluded that his group would have to rely on itself.
• Gu Han learned that his convoy was about half a day from Starfall City’s Outermost Rural Area and ordered the guards to hurry.
• Gu Han’s convoy encountered starving refugees, and he ordered his soldiers to feed them and a Healing Soul Master to treat a collapsed woman.
• Bibi Dong gave bread to the woman’s daughter and comforted the recovering woman, who said she had fled because Starfall City had distributed no food.

Gu Han and Bibi Dong aided refugees on the road to Starfall City, then hurried there to confront its nobles and deliver relief. They arrived at the city gate with Spirit Hall’s forces and ordered it opened in the Pope’s name.

• Bibi Dong fed a starving girl as the girl’s mother explained that Starfall City’s nobles had stopped distributing food and that Divine Doctor Ye had guided refugees onto the road.
• Salas reported that Spirit Hall had supplied and treated the refugees, and Gu Han ordered him to keep gathering them while he and Bibi Dong rode for Starfall City with five hundred guards and fifty Healing Soul Masters.
• Gu Han’s group left guards and Healing Soul Masters along the route to guide and treat refugees, passing many corpses on the way.
• Ye Renxin, exhausted from treating refugees, directed another group toward the relief force and lamented that help from nearby cities had not arrived.
• Gu Han and Bibi Dong flew above the approaching cavalry to Starfall City’s gate and ordered it opened under the Pope of Spirit Hall’s authority.

Gu Han and Bibi Dong entered Starfall City to provide disaster relief and confronted City Lord Wang, who had been feasting while refugees went hungry. After Gu Han forced Wang to reveal where the grain was, he left to retrieve it while Bibi Dong took control of the City Lord's Mansion.

• Gu Han and Bibi Dong led the remaining Golden Armor Guards into Starfall City after the healing-type Spirit Masters helped Ye Renxin recover.
• Gu Han's troops stormed the City Lord's Mansion, where City Lord Wang and the family heads were feasting and watching dancers.
• Gu Han demanded that City Lord Wang open the granaries, but Wang claimed there was no grain left.
• Gu Han wounded Wang with a blast of sword energy and demanded to know where the grain was hidden.
• Wang agreed to lead Gu Han to the grain, while Bibi Dong and the Spirit Master army secured the hall and threatened anyone who moved.

Gu Han seized the city’s hoarded provisions and executed the City Lord and nobles who withheld grain, while Bibi Dong killed the family heads who attacked her. The nobles invoked the Star Luo Empire, but Bibi Dong challenged them to ask Dai Hao whether Star Luo dared oppose Spirit Hall.

• Wang Tian led Gu Han to his family’s grain stores but refused to reveal where the other families’ provisions were hidden, so Gu Han killed him.
• Gu Han ordered the soldiers to move the grain and demanded that the nobles surrender their stores, then slaughtered two families who had concealed provisions.
• Bibi Dong killed the family heads, and when the nobles attacked together, she cut them down with the Evil Divine Sword.
• After a survivor threatened that they were making an enemy of the Star Luo Empire, Bibi Dong told him to ask Dai Hao whether Star Luo dared challenge Spirit Hall.

Gu Han and Bibi Dong took control of Starfall City, punished the officials who had withheld disaster relief, and organized food and aid for the refugees. After meeting the exhausted healer Ye Renxin, Gu Han began considering recruiting him and his granddaughter Ye Lingling into Spirit Hall.

• Bibi Dong killed the remaining officials, and Gu Han ordered the captured families detained pending investigation.
• Gu Han announced that City Lord Wang and the other corrupt leaders had been executed and directed the refugees to enter the city for food.
• Gu Han and Bibi Dong met Ye Renxin and praised him for treating the people despite his exhaustion.
• Ye Renxin agreed to rest while Spirit Hall took over relief work, though he remained ready to help the sick and wounded.
• Gu Han considered recruiting Ye Renxin and bringing Ye Lingling to Spirit Hall to develop her Nine Hearted Begonia martial soul.

As disaster relief continued in Starfall City, Gu Han and the Martial Soul Hall faced an angry Star Luo envoy over the execution of corrupt Spirit Masters. Gu Han later offered Ye Renxin an Eight Petal Immortal Orchid to recruit him, but Ye Renxin refused while welcoming the chance for his descendants to join; after reconstruction ended, Qian Xunji sent reinforcements to protect the city’s people.

• Dai Guang confronted Gu Han and Bibi Dong over the deaths of Starfall City's city lord and Spirit Master clan heads, but Salas and representatives of other sects defended the killings as justice for the oppressed.
• Dai Guang was overwhelmed by the rebukes, spat blood, and collapsed before his followers carried him away.
• Gu Han repeatedly tried to recruit Ye Renxin, then brought him an Eight Petal Immortal Orchid from Chrysanthemum Douluo, but Ye Renxin declined to join any faction and said his descendants could join instead.
• Gu Han promised to preserve the herb for a future Nine Hearted Begonia heir and gave Ye Renxin his Holy Son Token so he could seek help from local Martial Soul Halls.
• After Starfall City's reconstruction ended, Qian Xunji sent a Soul Douluo, three Soul Saints, and hundreds of lower-ranked Spirit Masters to maintain the Martial Soul Hall and protect the commoners.

Gu Han and Bibi Dong returned to Spirit City after helping Starfall City, and Qian Xunji approved of their actions. As Bibi Dong prepared to focus on completing her Second God Trial, Tang Hao arrived seeking a fight with Gu Han, and they agreed to battle.

• On their journey back, Gu Han told Bibi Dong he believed Ye Renxin's descendants would eventually awaken the Nine Hearted Begonia, and they returned safely to Spirit City.
• Qian Xunji praised Gu Han and Bibi Dong for their actions in Starfall City, while Bibi Dong expressed her anger at Fatty Wang and confirmed that she had met her Second God Trial's requirements apart from reaching level eighty.
• Gu Han cautioned Bibi Dong to cultivate steadily, and she said she would pursue her breakthrough without rushing or risking unstable cultivation.
• A guard reported that Tang Hao had come to see Gu Han, and Gu Han and Bibi Dong went outside the Papal Palace to meet him.
• Tang Hao, who had reached level sixty-seven after fighting his way out of Slaughter City, challenged Gu Han to a fight, and Gu Han accepted.