Chapter Summaries

Gu Han tested his strength against Tang Hao and used the fight to study the Clear Sky Hammer’s force-generation techniques. He defeated Tang Hao with ease, then checked his brief feelings of invincibility and resolved to pursue stronger opponents.

• Tang Hao challenged Gu Han to a spar, revealing his level 67 strength, while Gu Han showed his level 76 strength and orange-gold Soul Ring.
• Gu Han used Tai Chi to neutralize Tang Hao’s Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer and studied his movements to improve the Mystic Ice Nine Slashes.
• Tang Hao used Explode Ring, Divine Slaughter’s Domain, and Soaring Sky Strike, but Gu Han froze him with his yin-yang power.
• Gu Han dispersed Tang Hao’s unleashed Soul Power with a palm strike, sending him crashing to the ground without seriously injuring him.
• Gu Han briefly felt lonely at having no rival among his peers, then suppressed his arrogance and resolved to pursue opponents stronger than himself.

Gu Han defeated Tang Hao, then later met Yu Xiaogang in Spirit Hall's library and heard why he had come to Spirit City. Yu Xiaogang remained determined to overcome his level-thirty bottleneck, while Gu Han politely kept their new acquaintance at arm's length.

• Gu Han helped Tang Hao up after defeating him, and Tang Hao admitted defeat while vowing to surpass him one day.
• Bibi Dong joked that Tang Hao resembled a mocked protagonist destined to rise to greatness, and Gu Han teased her before they returned to cultivation.
• Bibi Dong secluded herself in Saintess Hall to pursue a breakthrough to Level 80, while Gu Han checked on Shi Dong and continued refining his combat techniques.
• Gu Han returned to Spirit Hall's library and found Yu Xiaogang studying there, having spent a year memorizing its books.
• Yu Xiaogang told Gu Han he had come to find a way past his level-thirty bottleneck, then proposed that they become sworn brothers.
• Gu Han declined the proposal, saying he did not like being the younger brother, and Yu Xiaogang accepted his answer.

Gu Han discovered that Dongfang Lingyun might possess a rare Body Martial Soul and arranged for her to be brought to Spirit City. As he cultivated with Sword Spirit Xue Di, they discussed finding a way to preserve the Far North Land’s order if its powerful soul beasts joined him.

• Gu Han reviewed a Martial Soul Awakening report and noticed that orphaned Dongfang Lingyun had no awakened Martial Soul but possessed Innate Level Seven Soul Power.
• Gu Han suspected Dongfang Lingyun had a Body Martial Soul and ordered the Starfall City Spirit Hall branch to send her to Spirit City.
• Gu Han considered training Dongfang Lingyun’s body and Spiritual Power and hoped to bind her closely to Spirit Hall.
• Sword Spirit Xue Di revealed that her cultivation had reached seven hundred thousand years and wondered what would happen to the Far North Land if she, Bing'er, and Xiao Bai joined Gu Han.
• Gu Han suggested using Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow to raise another Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, but Xue Di admitted she and her companions had eaten their supply as snacks.
• Gu Han considered searching for Sky Dream Ice Silkworm but decided to wait until he reached Level 80 and traveled to the Far North Land.

Gu Han discovered that Dongfang Lingyun possessed a rare Body Martial Soul consisting of her entire body and accepted her as his disciple. He began training her in Spirit City, where she would attend Martial Soul Academy alongside his other student.

• Dongfang Lingyun arrived at the Surveillance Department, and Gu Han examined her after she said Soul Masters had found no Martial Soul.
• Gu Han recreated a Martial Soul Awakening, revealing that Dongfang Lingyun’s entire body was her Body Martial Soul.
• Gu Han explained her Martial Soul and asked her to become his apprentice, and Dongfang Lingyun immediately accepted.
• Gu Han arranged for Dongfang Lingyun to study at Martial Soul Academy and began teaching her Tai Chi Fist and Spiritual Power cultivation.
• Gu Han gave Dongfang Lingyun cultivation manuals and a Soul Tool, then showed her around Spirit City and handled her enrollment.

Tang Xiao, Tang Hao, and Tang Yuehua traveled to Spirit City after Tang Hao lost to Gu Han, and Tang Xiao challenged Gu Han to test whether his sword technique could counter the Clear Sky Ultimate Technique. Gu Han accepted, while his apprentices continued training in Baji Quan.

• Tang Hao told Tang Xiao and Tang Yuehua that Gu Han had defeated him fairly with a sword technique and a black-and-white domain that hindered his movement and Soul Power.
• Tang Xiao insisted on traveling to Spirit City for a fair fight, and Tang Yuehua joined him and Tang Hao on the journey.
• On the road, Tang Xiao speculated that Gu Han's domain involved time and maintained that Tang Hao had lost because of Gu Han's strength, not because the Clear Sky Ultimate Technique had been countered.
• Gu Han taught Shi Dong and Dongfang Lingyun Baji Quan, demonstrating its explosive close-combat techniques and explaining its principles.
• Tang Xiao, Tang Hao, and Tang Yuehua arrived at the Papal Palace, where Gu Han greeted them and Tang Xiao challenged him to demonstrate his skills.
• Gu Han accepted Tang Xiao's challenge.

Gu Han fought Tang Xiao in the Back Mountain clearing, where Tang Xiao displayed the Clear Sky Nine Secrets and its ultimate technique. Gu Han countered with his Tai Chi Sword and defeated him, leaving Tang Xiao stunned by his loss.

• Gu Han led Tang Xiao, Tang Hao, and Tang Yuehua to the Back Mountain, while Tang Hao warned Gu Han that Tang Yuehua had fallen for him.
• Gu Han and Tang Xiao introduced their martial souls and began their duel, with Tang Xiao revealing his powerful Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang Xiao used the Clear Sky Nine Secrets, but Gu Han evaded and redirected his attacks with teleportation and the Tai Chi Sword.
• Tang Xiao unleashed Nine Nines Return to One, and Tang Yuehua tried to stop him before Tang Hao held her back.
• Gu Han activated Ice Spirit Guard, disarmed Tang Xiao, and kicked him more than ten meters away.
• Tang Xiao admitted defeat and stared at the sky, stunned that the Clear Sky Nine Secrets had lost.

Tang Xiao accepted his defeat to Gu Han and took Tang Yuehua and Tang Hao away from Spirit City. Back at the Holy Son Hall, Gu Han gave Shi Dong and Dongfang Lingyun Whale Rubber and prepared tailored cultivation methods and medicinal baths for them.

• Tang Xiao acknowledged Gu Han's superior strength, accepted his loss, and promised that he and Tang Hao might challenge him again.
• Tang Xiao decided the three siblings would leave Spirit City, and Tang Hao cut off Tang Yuehua's objections as he led her away with Tang Xiao.
• Gu Han returned to the Holy Son Hall, where Shi Dong and Dongfang Lingyun had been training.
• Gu Han gave Shi Dong and Dongfang Lingyun thousand-year Whale Rubber and explained that it could strengthen their bodies.
• Gu Han sent Dongfang Lingyun to a prepared medicinal bath with a special Meditation Method, then guided Shi Dong to another bath to cultivate using the Tendons and Bones Forging Chapter of the Nine Yin Manual.

Tang Yuehua returned to the Clear Sky Sect after her brothers warned her to give up on Gu Han, while half a year later Bibi Dong emerged from seclusion just short of level 80. Gu Han and Bibi Dong joined the gathering for Qian Renxue’s first birthday, where Qian Daoliu held the quiet, curious child as the guests arrived.

• Tang Xiao advised Tang Yuehua to give up on Gu Han because he already had a woman, and she denied being interested in him.
• Tang Yuehua agreed to return to the Clear Sky Sect with Tang Xiao and Tang Hao, then was sent to Heaven Dou City to study etiquette.
• Bibi Dong emerged from seclusion in tears because she had not reached level 80, and Gu Han comforted her.
• Gu Han and Bibi Dong went to Qian Renxue’s first birthday banquet and met Guang Ling Douluo, who welcomed them into the hall.
• Qian Daoliu held Qian Renxue while the child quietly looked around at the guests gathered in the hall.

At Qian Renxue’s first birthday banquet, Gu Han and Bibi Dong celebrated with Spirit Hall’s powerful elders before both reached Level 80. Bibi Dong chose the Hundred-Thousand-Year Evil Orca King as her eighth soul-ring target, and an imposing expedition sailed from Vast Sea City to hunt it.

• Bibi Dong reunited with little Qian Renxue, while Gu Han gave the child a Pellet Drum and learned that Guang Ling had taken Shui Qingwu as his apprentice.
• More than twenty Titled Douluo attended Qian Renxue’s birthday banquet, after which Qian Daoliu took her to the Worship Hall to pay respects to the Angel God.
• After cultivating for more than twenty days, Gu Han and Bibi Dong both broke through to Level 80, and Bibi Dong selected the Evil Orca King for her eighth soul ring.
• Gu Han assembled Light Feather Douluo, Qian Jun, Jiang Mo, Ju, Ghost, five Soul Douluo, and twenty Soul Saints for the hunt.
• At Vast Sea City, Pufferfish warned that the Evil Orca King’s pod made the hunt dangerous, but Light Feather dismissed his concern and Pufferfish led the fleet out to sea.

Gu Han located the Evil Orca King with his Spiritual Power and helped Spirit Hall lure it into battle. The Evil Orca King’s pod suffered heavy losses, and Gu Han confronted the king directly, trading powerful attacks with it.

• Pufferfish led the group to the sea region where the Evil Orca King lived, and Gu Han found the king by sending his Yang Spirit into the depths.
• Gu Han directed Guang Ling to fire his Eighth Soul Skill, which froze and killed or wounded more than half of the demonic orca pod.
• The enraged Evil Orca King led its remaining demonic orcas to attack the ships, while five Titled Douluo and the other Spirit Masters fought back.
• The Evil Orca King tried to escape beneath the sea, but Gu Han struck it with Emperor's Palm · Great Cold Without Snow.
• The Evil Orca King broke Gu Han's first palm strike, then met his second attack with a Tiger Whale Demon-Breaking Slash, leaving both attacks shattered.

Gu Han and Bibi Dong led the hunt that wiped out the Evil Orca clan, and Bibi Dong killed the Evil Orca King and absorbed its soul ring and soul bone. After completing her Good and Evil Second Trial, she reached level eighty-three and gained stronger soul rings.

• Xiao Bai and Sea Dragon Douluo sensed the hunt near Sea God Island, while Bo Saixi decided not to intervene as long as the hunters stayed away from the island.
• The Evil Orca King, worn down by five Titled Douluo, faced Gu Han and Bibi Dong as well and attempted to self-destruct.
• Gu Han called on Uncle Chrysanthemum and Uncle Ghost to use Two Extremes Stillness Domain, stopping the Evil Orca King's self-destruction.
• Bibi Dong struck down the immobilized Evil Orca King with her Evil Divine Sword and collected its Hundred Thousand Year soul bone and whale glue.
• Bibi Dong absorbed the Evil Orca King's soul ring and soul bone, overcame its resentment with her Holy Divine Sword and Evil Divine Sword, and reached level eighty-three.
• Bibi Dong completed her Good and Evil Second Trial, increasing her soul ring age limits and Soul Power while gaining affinity; her eighth soul ring rose to two hundred thousand years.

Bibi Dong tested the two powerful soul skills granted by the Evil Orca King’s Hundred-Thousand Year soul ring, demonstrating attacks that could devastate enemies and seal off a large area. After using both skills and spending much of her Soul Power, she returned to the fleet with Gu Han and the others.

• Bibi Dong explained that her evolved wings brought her flying speed close to spatial traversal, and Gu Han asked about her new soul skills.
• Bibi Dong used Evil God Tiger Whale Slash, carving a vast ravine into the sea and demonstrating its ability to ignore defenses below the god tier.
• Bibi Dong used Evil God Judgment to summon nine swords that sealed a five-hundred-meter area and devastated everything within it.
• Bibi Dong said each skill consumed thirty percent of her maximum Soul Power, and Qian Jun praised their strength despite the cost.
• Gu Han carried the fatigued Bibi Dong back toward the fleet while the Elders, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Ghost Douluo guarded them.

Gu Han and Light Feather encountered the enraged Ice Empress, who mistook Xue Di’s soul ring for proof that a human had killed her. After they fought, Xue Di explained that she had willingly sacrificed herself to Gu Han and surpassed the seven-hundred-thousand-year barrier; Ice Empress was left stunned by the revelation.

• Gu Han and Light Feather approached the Far North Land’s core circle, where Ice Empress sensed Xue Di’s aura and the two humans.
• Ice Empress attacked Gu Han and Light Feather, and the three exchanged powerful blows until both sides paused.
• Xue Di appeared and stopped Ice Empress from attacking again.
• Xue Di told Ice Empress that she had chosen to sacrifice herself to Gu Han and had safely surpassed the seven-hundred-thousand-year limit.
• Xue Di explained that hiding within a human let her evade the rules imposed on Spirit Beasts and gave her a chance to reshape her body, leaving Ice Empress bewildered.

Snow Empress persuaded Ice Empress to sacrifice herself to Gu Han, and Ice Empress tested his strength before agreeing. Ice Empress began her sacrifice in the Far North Land, where her soul entered Gu Han’s Sea of Spirit and discovered the Nameless Technique.

• Snow Empress explained that she wanted Ice Empress to sacrifice herself with her and persuaded her by describing her own experience.
• Ice Empress challenged Gu Han to prove his strength, and he countered her attacks with Tai Chi swordsmanship and All Things Lose Color until she called off the fight.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress visited Xiao Bai and asked him to protect the Far North Land while they were gone.
• Ice Empress began her sacrifice, alarming the distant Titan Snow Demon King, who stayed away.
• Ice Empress’s soul entered Gu Han’s Sea of Spirit, where she noticed the Nameless Technique and Snow Empress appeared to confirm it.

The Nameless Technique absorbed the energy from Ice Empress’s sacrifice and Snow Empress’s sealed power to create a ninth Soul Ring for Gu Han. After discussing how to help Xiao Bai and Guang Ling, Gu Han sent his Yang Spirit to the Far North Land to search for Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow.

• The Nameless Technique revealed Gu Han’s eight Soul Rings in their true colors, and Ice Empress discovered that her cultivation had surpassed Four Hundred Thousand Years.
• The Nameless Technique formed a transparent ninth Soul Ring around Gu Han’s sword using the energy from Ice Empress’s sacrifice and Snow Empress’s sealed power.
• Ice Empress warned that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had eaten most of the Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow, while Gu Han suggested more might remain in the Far North Land.
• Gu Han told Guang Ling that Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow could improve an Ice Attribute Spirit Master’s aptitude, evolve their martial spirit, and break bottlenecks.
• Gu Han left his body in the care of Light Feather Douluo and sent his Yang Spirit to the Far North Land with a Soul Tool to search for the Mysterious Ice Marrow.

Gu Han discovered and collected vast quantities of Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow in the Ice God Ruins, then shared it with Xiao Bai and Light Feather Douluo. After helping strengthen them, he and Light Feather left the Far North Land.

• Gu Han used his Yang Spirit to find Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow in the Ice God Ruins and brought back a large amount in a Soul Tool.
• Gu Han explained that he called his ability to travel and retrieve objects with Spiritual Power Yang Spirit Outing.
• Gu Han gave Xiao Bai enough Mysterious Ice Marrow to help him break through the two-hundred-thousand-year barrier.
• Gu Han returned to the ruins for more Mysterious Ice Marrow and gave most of it to Light Feather Douluo, hoping it would help him advance and potentially face the Ice God's trial.
• Gu Han and Light Feather Douluo said farewell to the Spirit Beasts and flew out of the Far North Land, with Gu Han having reached Soul Power level 81.

Gu Han explained how Light Feather Douluo should dilute and safely consume Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow, then returned with Bibi Dong to visit Old Gu in Qinghe Village. The chapter left Gu Han and Bibi Dong catching up with Old Gu at his home.

• Snow Empress told Light Feather to dilute the Mysterious Ice Marrow, take it in stages, and guard against cold toxin and vitality loss.
• Gu Han promised to take Light Feather to the ruins for a greater surprise once he reached level 90.
• In Cold Wind City, Light Feather took Whale Rubber and a 70,000 Year Soul Bone and left to absorb the marrow at the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Gu Han and Bibi Dong toured Cold Wind City, where the city lord's grandson proudly recalled having exchanged blows with Gu Han.
• Gu Han and Bibi Dong returned to Qinghe Village and visited Old Gu, who welcomed them and asked whether Gu Han had been treating Bibi Dong well.

Gu Han and Bibi Dong returned to Spirit City after learning the details of Bibi Dong’s Third Trial, which required her to balance the forces of good and evil for five years. Gu Han also explained his Ice Emperor-granted abilities, and they handed most of their expedition’s Spirit Bones to Worship Hall.

• Gu Han turned away City Lord Gao’s visit while accepting his gifts for Old Gu, then returned to Cold Wind City with Bibi Dong that afternoon.
• After Bibi Dong’s Third Trial appeared, she told Gu Han it required her to balance good and evil within herself for five years, with a five-percent maximum deviation.
• Gu Han described the four Soul Skills and two Spirit Bone Skills Ice Emperor had granted him, and Bibi Dong praised their power.
• Gu Han and Bibi Dong returned to Spirit City and gave most of their Spirit Bones to Worship Hall, while keeping Whale Rubber under Bibi Dong’s control.

After returning to Spirit City, Gu Han introduced Bibi Dong to his disciples and prepared Dongfang Lingyun to obtain her first Spirit Ring. Lingyun successfully absorbed a rare Sharp Metal Spirit Tiger’s soul ring, leaving her on the verge of becoming a Spirit Master.

• Gu Han and Bibi Dong visited their master and master's wife, then went to meet Gu Han’s disciples, Shi Dong and Dongfang Lingyun.
• Gu Han gave Shi Dong and Dongfang Lingyun ten-thousand-year whale jelly and instructed them to make it into pills and take them gradually.
• Gu Han and Bibi Dong spent half a month teaching their disciples martial arts, while Gu Han also developed Eight Trigrams Palm, Wing Chun, and an improved Void Severing Palm.
• A guard reported that Lingyun’s Spirit Beast had arrived, and Gu Han took her and Shi Dong to the Spirit Hall’s Spirit Beast enclosure.
• Gu Han identified the beast as a fifteen-hundred-year-old Sharp Metal Spirit Tiger, restrained it, and told Lingyun to kill it for her first Spirit Ring.
• Lingyun killed the Sharp Metal Spirit Tiger and smoothly absorbed its purple soul ring using Gu Han’s Meditation Method.

Dongfang Lingyun absorbed her first soul ring, reached level 15, and tested her new Breaking Force skill under Gu Han’s supervision. Gu Han and Bibi Dong planned her future soul skills, settling on self-healing for her second soul ring.

• Dongfang Lingyun absorbed her soul ring in half an hour, reached level 15, and told Gu Han, Bibi Dong, and Shi Dong that Breaking Force boosted her strength and attacks while adding Sharp Force.
• Gu Han asked Dongfang Lingyun to attack him, and she used Breaking Force and Void Severing Palm to demonstrate that the skill added Sharp Force to her attacks.
• Gu Han praised Dongfang Lingyun’s first soul skill and reflected that her Body Martial Soul had not undergone a Second Awakening.
• Shi Dong continued cultivating to open his meridians, while Dongfang Lingyun trained the techniques Gu Han had taught her.
• Gu Han and Bibi Dong discussed Dongfang Lingyun’s future soul skills and chose self-healing for her second soul ring.