Chapter Summaries

Yu Xiaoheng reached the secret passage exit, where Yang Wudi ambushed him with his Soul-Breaking Spear. Yu Xiaoheng sent Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi away and prepared to face the Spirit Saint, while the spear strike's noise threatened to draw further enemies.

• Yu Xiaoheng stopped Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi near the exit and went ahead to scout.
• Yang Wudi blasted through the rock wall and confronted Yu Xiaoheng with his Soul-Breaking Spear and seven Soul Rings.
• Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi prepared to fight, but Yu Xiaoheng blocked them and ordered them to leave.
• Yang Wudi attacked Yu Xiaoheng, confident that his strength would overwhelm him.
• Yang Wudi recognized the spear blast might alert Tang San or bring Tang Hao to the passage.

Yang Wudi fought Yu Xiaoheng in a narrow passage, using Tang San’s warning to keep clear of Yu Xiaoheng’s Purple Flame and overwhelm him with spear aura. As Yang Wudi prepared to finish the badly wounded Yu Xiaoheng, a fast-moving sound and distant fighting suggested reinforcements were approaching.

• Yang Wudi repelled Yu Xiaoheng’s Purple Flame with an explosive shockwave after recognizing its ability to burn through stone.
• Yang Wudi recalled Tang San’s warning to treat Yu Xiaoheng like an assassin wielding poison and attack from a distance.
• Yang Wudi unleashed a storm of spear flares, wounding Yu Xiaoheng as the Purple-Gold Sacred Dragon failed to distract him.
• Yang Wudi prepared to end the one-sided fight when a fast-moving sound and distant shouts and explosions came from outside.

Yu Xiaoheng recalled absorbing a dangerous fifty-thousand-year Rainbow Dragon Spirit Ring to gain a destructive fourth spirit skill. As Yang Wudi’s spear descended, Yu Xiaoheng activated Burning Body Explosion, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Yang Wudi dismissed Yu Xiaoheng’s fifty-thousand-year Spirit Ring and drove his sixth spirit skill’s massive spear toward him.
• The pressure tore Yu Xiaoheng’s skin open, revealing dark violet-gold crystals beneath it.
• Yu Xiaoheng recalled Da Ming warning that a failed Rainbow Dragon’s chaotic Spirit Ring could destroy his meridians, but he absorbed it anyway.
• Yu Xiaoheng’s fourth spirit skill, Burning Body Explosion, made light and air collapse toward him as Yang Wudi’s spear struck down.

Yu Xiaoheng’s transformed Burning Body Explosion trapped Yang Wudi and began destroying his Soul-Breaking Spear as Yu Yuanzhen and the other sect leaders arrived. The chapter ended with Yang Wudi caught in the Purple-Gold Storm and his spear cracking apart.

• Yu Yuanzhen raced toward Yu Xiaoheng’s Golden Holy Dragon aura while Tang Wei and the other sect leaders followed.
• Tang Wei assumed Yang Wudi would kill Yu Xiaoheng and mocked Yu Yuanzhen as they approached.
• The sect leaders found a vast cavity filled with a Purple-Gold Storm instead of Yu Xiaoheng’s corpse or Yang Wudi standing victorious.
• Yu Xiaoheng’s transformed Burning Body Explosion clamped onto Yang Wudi’s Soul-Breaking Spear and began dissolving it.
• Yang Wudi failed to escape the storm, and his black spear cracked apart under the gathered attacks.

After Yu Xiaoheng crippled Yang Wudi, Tang Wei and Ning Zhenyuan joined forces to kill him, while Yu Yuanzhen fought to protect his son. The allied factions launched an assault on Blue Lightning, directing their attacks at the wounded Yu Xiaoheng.

• The Spirit Hall bishop and the gathered clans feared Yu Xiaoheng’s strength after he defeated Yang Wudi, while Blue Lightning’s elders celebrated their young master.
• Tang Wei attacked Yu Xiaoheng with his Clear Sky Hammer Avatar, and Ning Zhenyuan amplified his strength with the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Yu Yuanzhen transformed into a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon and intercepted Tang Wei’s hammer strike, suffering injuries in the clash.
• The major factions charged Blue Lightning’s camp and focused their attacks on the bloodied Yu Xiaoheng as Blue Lightning’s elders were pinned down.
• Tang Wei pressed his assault on Yu Yuanzhen with Clear Sky Hammer Disorder Splitting Wind.

Yu Xiaoheng gave Yu Yuanzhen a Dragon Blood Vine, which healed him and helped him break through to Rank Ninety-Three. Newly empowered, Yu Yuanzhen killed the Feng family Spirit Douluo who had ambushed his son and turned his attention to Tang Wei.

• Yu Xiaoheng threw Yu Yuanzhen the Dragon Blood Vine and urged him to eat the whole thing.
• Yu Yuanzhen swallowed the vine, rapidly recovered from his injuries, and broke through the Rank Ninety-Two bottleneck to Rank Ninety-Three.
• Tang Wei and Ning Zhenyuan reacted with alarm as Yu Yuanzhen's strength surged.
• Yu Yuanzhen seized the Feng family Spirit Douluo with a hand of lightning and crushed him into bloody mist.
• Yu Yuanzhen confronted Tang Wei and taunted him about beating him earlier.

Tang Wei used the Clear Sky Sect’s Exploding Ring technique and Ning Zhenyuan’s support to overpower Yu Yuanzhen. As Yu Xiaoheng saw his father nearing defeat, he prepared an Immortal Herb that could strengthen him.

• Tang Wei shattered his first Black Spirit Ring and struck Yu Yuanzhen with the Great Sumeru Hammer, forcing him to one knee.
• Tang Wei shattered two more Black Spirit Rings as Ning Zhenyuan amplified his power, then smashed Yu Yuanzhen into the ground and gravely wounded him.
• Yu Xiaoheng realized Yu Yuanzhen could not withstand Tang Wei’s assault for much longer.
• Yu Xiaoheng produced an Aromatic Silk Beauty, intending to use its foundation-strengthening effects to help Yu Yuanzhen.

Yu Yuanzhen, unable to move after Tang Wei and Ning Zhenyuan’s assault, saw Tang Wei prepare to unleash his ninth soul ring against Xiao Heng and used the Blue Lightning Tyrant Clan’s Dragon Transformation secret art, burning his life to fight back. He charged Tang Wei with the intent to take everyone down with him, and the battle continued as Tang Wei braced for another blow.

• Tang Wei raised the Clear Sky Hammer to deliver a ninth soul ring attack while Yu Yuanzhen lay gravely injured and feared Xiao Heng would be killed.
• Yu Yuanzhen activated Dragon Transformation, burning his life, Soul Power, and the Immortal Herb’s medicinal power as he prepared to self-destruct.
• Ning Zhenyuan warned Tang Wei to retreat, realizing Yu Yuanzhen’s self-destruction could kill everyone nearby.
• Yu Yuanzhen charged Tang Wei and struck his Clear Sky Hammer, forcing Tang Wei backward and splitting open his hand.
• Yu Yuanzhen attacked again without defending himself, and Tang Wei raised the Clear Sky Hammer to block.

Tang Wei hesitated before striking Yu Yuanzhen, but cries from the battlefield revealed that Yu Xiaoheng had burned away Yang Wudi’s Martial Soul. The revelation made Tang Wei’s killing intent toward the father and son surge, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Tang Wei paused before bringing down his hammer because he feared becoming vulnerable and distrusted Ning Zhenyuan.
• Tai Tan and Bai He cried out after discovering that Yang Wudi had lost his Martial Soul.
• Tai Tan revealed that Yang Wudi’s Soul-Breaking Spear Martial Soul had been burned away, leaving him crippled.
• Bai He identified Yu Xiaoheng as the one who had destroyed Yang Wudi’s Martial Soul with his out-of-control Purple Flame.
• Tang Wei’s killing intent toward Yu Xiaoheng and Yu Yuanzhen overwhelmed his wariness of Ning Zhenyuan.

Yu Yuanzhen diverted his power to save Yu Xiaoheng, but Xiaoheng’s body disintegrated into purple-gold flames. Tang Wei held back his hammer, weighing the risk of killing Yu Yuanzhen while Ning Zhenyuan waited for an opening.

• Yu Yuanzhen abandoned his plan to attack Tang Wei and used his Soul Power to extinguish the flames engulfing Yu Xiaoheng.
• Yu Xiaoheng collapsed, and his body turned into a mass of purple-gold Core Flame, though Yu Yuanzhen sensed a faint trace of life within it.
• Yu Yuanzhen cried out in grief and shielded the flame as Tang Wei’s Clear Sky Hammer paused above him.
• Tang Wei concluded that Yu Xiaoheng had died after destroying Yang Wudi’s Martial Soul and considered the exchange an acceptable loss for the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Wei noticed Ning Zhenyuan had quietly targeted the Clear Sky Sect, and considered whether striking Yu Yuanzhen could leave him vulnerable to Ning Zhenyuan.

After the Clear Sky Sect and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect withdrew, Yu Yuanzhen and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan mourned Yu Xiaoheng, who had burned himself out after reaching the Soul Ancestor realm. Yu Xiaogang emerged from the ruins and learned that his twin brother was dead.

• Tang Wei returned to safety, and the Clear Sky Sect left the battlefield.
• Ning Zhenyuan offered Yu Yuanzhen condolences before taking the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect away, and the empire observers soon followed after Yu Yuanzhen ordered them out.
• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan knelt and wept as Yu Yuanzhen held the violet-gold flame that remained of Yu Xiaoheng.
• Yu Xiaogang emerged from the ruins, declaring himself the clan's young master and demanding to know what had happened.
• A one-legged elder told Yu Xiaogang that Yu Xiaoheng had crippled Yang Wudi and burned out while trying to reach the Soul Ancestor realm.
• Yu Xiaogang struggled to understand his brother's death, remembering both his jealousy of Yu Xiaoheng and their childhood together.

After Yu Xiaoheng appeared to die, Yu Yuanzhen mourned with Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi while secretly communicating with his son, who explained that his body had collapsed but his soul and life essence survived within a Purple-Gold Core Flame. Yu Xiaoheng planned to use the apparent death to protect himself and the weakened Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan while he recovered and prepared to reshape his body.

• Yu Changkong told Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi that Yu Xiaoheng was gone, and the sisters collapsed in grief.
• Yu Xiaoheng told Yu Yuanzhen not to reveal that he was alive, since enemies might return to kill him and the clan needed time to recover.
• Yu Xiaoheng explained that his body had failed under the power of his third soul ring, but his life essence and soul were sealed in the Purple-Gold Core Flame.
• Yu Xiaoheng said that reshaping his body could give him resistance to Purple Flame and allow him to bear far more powerful soul rings.
• Yu Xiaoheng used the Core Flame to absorb the medicinal power of herbs and ingredients that survived the destruction of Tang Wei's Soul Tool.

Yu Xiaoheng was believed to have died in the battle with Yang Wudi, leaving Rou'er, Liu Erlong, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan devastated. As the clan mourned, rumors of his heroic victory over a Spirit Saint spread across the continent, and the major powers let the story stand.

• Rou'er and Liu Erlong grieved over the ashes where Yu Xiaoheng had supposedly died, while Yu Changkong tried to comfort them.
• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan held an extended mourning period, and Yu Yuanzhen appeared devastated by the loss of his heir.
• News spread that Yu Xiaoheng, a Soul Ancestor, had defeated the Spirit Saint Yang Wudi and died alongside him.
• The major powers, including the Clear Sky Sect and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, allowed the rumors to spread because Yu Yuanzhen remained a dangerous Rank 94 opponent.

Across the continent, sects and academies reacted to Yu Xiaoheng’s death, recognizing both the threat he had posed and the extraordinary feat of his battle against Yang Wudi. His death left others mourning, relieved, or regretful, while his reputation became a lasting measure for the younger generation.

• Chen Wan became convinced Yu Xiaoheng had crippled Yang Wudi and mourned the loss of his future, while Shui Lingxi broke down in tears.
• Ning Zhenyuan told Ning Fengzhi that Yu Xiaoheng’s purple flame had made Yang Wudi’s Soul-Breaking Spear seem like paper, and said his death spared the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect from a future threat.
• Tang Wei celebrated Yu Xiaoheng’s death, but Tang Hao praised his courage, while Tang San felt relieved and regretful before leaving to visit Yang Wudi.
• The Lower Four Sects and their leaders reacted with alarm and relief that Yu Xiaoheng had died.
• Feng Che lamented that Yu Xiaoheng would no longer compete in the Soul Master Tournament, while Huo Yan comforted his grieving sister Huo Ning.
• People across the continent remembered Yu Xiaoheng as a brief but brilliant star whose legacy would endure.

After Yu Xiaoheng was presumed dead, Qian Daoliu questioned whether he had been the threat foretold by the Angel God. Qian Xunji brought his pregnant relative to the Worship Hall, where they prepared for the birth of the divinely blessed child Qian Renxue, while an unidentified figure waited in a Heaven Dou City teahouse with a battered letter.

• Spirit Hall erected a memorial tablet for Yu Xiaoheng, and Qian Daoliu wondered whether the Angel God's warning had pointed to someone else.
• Qian Xunji arrived at the Worship Hall supporting his heavily pregnant relative, explaining through the backstory that the Angel God had ordered him to produce an heir with pure Angel bloodline.
• Qian Daoliu sensed the powerful, sacred aura of the unborn child and welcomed the prospect of Spirit Hall's future successor.
• Qian Xunji named the unborn child Qian Renxue.
• In a Heaven Dou City teahouse, a bamboo-hatted figure sat beside cold tea and a tightly crumpled letter.

Bibi Dong massacred Clear Sky Sect disciples to avenge Yu Xiaoheng, while Tang Hao and Tang San watched and chose not to intervene. Qian Xunji arrived to confront her as Tang Hao warned that Spirit Hall could not ignore the slaughter.

• Bibi Dong left the teahouse after hearing about the powerful factions that had killed Yu Xiaoheng and resolved to take revenge.
• Bibi Dong attacked a Clear Sky Sect outpost and killed its outer disciples with her poison and spider spear.
• Tang San urged Tang Hao to kill Bibi Dong, but Tang Hao identified her as Spirit Hall's Holy Maiden and refused to provoke Spirit Hall while the Clear Sky Sect faced the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's anger.
• Tang Hao told Tang San that Spirit Hall would deal with Bibi Dong, and Qian Xunji descended into the valley in a blaze of golden light.

Tang Hao revealed that the Clear Sky Sect had abducted Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan disciples to pressure Yu Yuanzhen, then killed them after Yu Xiaoheng’s death. Qian Xunji had Bibi Dong seized, and she left vowing revenge; two days later, the story moved to a side hall of Pope Hall.

• Tang Hao intervened as Bibi Dong attacked Qian Xunji, then warned her against giving in to murderous impulses.
• Tang Hao showed Bibi Dong the abducted Blue Lightning disciples and explained that Yu Xiaoheng had been targeted to weaken Yu Yuanzhen and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Tang Hao crushed the prison cart and its captives, destroying Bibi Dong’s hope of saving them.
• Bibi Dong charged Tang Hao, but Qian Xunji struck her down and ordered red-robed bishops to seize her.
• As she was dragged away, Bibi Dong vowed not to forgive Tang Hao, Qian Xunji, or Tang San; two days later, the scene shifted to a side hall of Pope Hall.

Yu Xiaogang rapidly raised his Soul Power with his Mutated Spirit Luo Buhui while managing the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s affairs. Memories of his late brother Yu Xiaoheng left him consumed by resentment over a lifetime spent in Yu Xiaoheng’s shadow.

• Luo Buhui devoured a spiritual herb and raised Yu Xiaogang to level 21.
• Yu Xiaogang directed Uncle Liu to use the clan’s trading profits to obtain cultivation passes and rare metals for his father, and to distribute medicinal bath ingredients to the inner disciples.
• Uncle Liu praised Yu Xiaogang for supporting the clan and recalled how Yu Xiaoheng had once managed its affairs from the same seat as a child.
• After Uncle Liu left, Yu Xiaogang fed Yu Xiaoheng’s rare Xi Guang Grass to Luo Buhui and angrily questioned whether his brother would be gratified.
• Yu Xiaogang recalled resenting Yu Xiaoheng’s greater talent, achievements, and condescending attention since childhood.

Yu Xiaoheng returned from the violet-gold flames with a reforged body, level fifty strength, and powerful resistances, then told Yu Yuanzhen he planned to visit the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well before obtaining his fifth soul ring. He revealed a violet-gold Frenzied Dragon tattoo that seemed to suppress Martial Souls, leaving Yu Yuanzhen stunned.

• Yu Xiaoheng emerged from the Thunder Pool alive, and Yu Yuanzhen rushed to confirm his son had truly returned.
• Yu Xiaoheng explained that the violet-gold flames had fused his herbs into a reforged body, raised him to level fifty, and granted him resistance to attacks and extreme elements.
• Yu Xiaoheng told Yu Yuanzhen he wanted to visit Dugu Bo's Medicine Garden at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to temper his foundation further.
• Yu Xiaoheng revealed a violet-gold Frenzied Dragon tattoo across his back, and Yu Yuanzhen sensed its suppression of Martial Souls.

Yu Xiaoheng disguised his changed appearance and Spirit Rings so he could leave the Thunder Pool without being recognized. He learned that several allies had been killed or gravely injured while he was asleep.

• Yu Xiaoheng carved a deep scar across his cheek and scorched it with Heaven's Wrath Violet Fire to alter his appearance.
• Yu Xiaoheng used Heaven's Wrath to disguise his four Spirit Rings as five-thousand-year Purple Spirit Rings.
• Yu Yuanzhen accepted Yu Xiaoheng's plan to conceal his identity and leave the Thunder Pool.
• Yu Xiaoheng asked about events outside and read a record of casualties from Yu Yuanzhen.
• Yu Yuanzhen told Yu Xiaoheng that Lei Hao had lost an arm and Qin Yue had been disfigured, while Lei Ming, Lei Xiaoyu, and Yu Hai had died.