Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ze persuaded Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo to have the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect join Spirit Hall, then revealed that Xue Qinghe was actually Qian Renxue and destined to become a god. He planned to return to Heaven Dou City and bring three of the Single Attribute Clans under his control.

• Xiao Ze convinced Ning Fengzhi that joining Spirit Hall would protect the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Sword Douluo agreed to put the sect’s interests first.
• Xiao Ze told Sword Douluo that Qian Daoliu would die as a sacrifice when an Angel God candidate ascended, then revealed that Xue Qinghe was Qian Renxue.
• Ning Rongrong eavesdropped on the conversation, clung to Xiao Ze, and left with him as Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo went to meet Bibi Dong.
• Xiao Ze returned to his room and told the women he would go back to Heaven Dou City the next day despite the danger.
• Xiao Ze said he would take control of the Speed Clan, Breaking Clan, and Defense Clan, while dismissing the Strength Clan as loyal to Tang Hao.

Xiao Ze and his companions traveled to Dragon Rise City to recruit the Defense Clan, accompanied by Ling Yuan, a Title Douluo assigned to protect him. After Ling Yuan discovered the effects of Xiao Ze’s special crops through Meng Yiran’s cooking, the group arrived in the bustling border city.

• Xiao Ze decided to recruit the other single-attribute families before confronting the Strength Clan, and the group set out the next day.
• Ling Yuan introduced herself as the Title Douluo sent by the Pope to protect Xiao Ze, prompting the women to eye her warily.
• Meng Yiran cooked with Xiao Ze’s special ingredients, and Ling Yuan devoured the meal after initially refusing to eat.
• Ling Yuan noticed that the food had improved her Soul Power, body, and Soul Rings, then warned Xiao Ze to keep his crops’ effects secret.
• Four days later, Xiao Ze and the others entered Dragon Rise City after paying its steep toll.

Xiao Ze visited the Defense Clan with the Pope’s Papal Edict and offered Niu Gao a place in Spirit Hall, warning that refusal would make the clan an enemy. Niu Gao sampled Xiao Ze’s special crops and was astonished by their effects.

• Xiao Ze presented the Pope’s Papal Edict at the Defense Clan’s gate, and Niu Gao came to meet him.
• Niu Gao told Xiao Ze that he blamed Tang Hao for the Four Single-Attribute Clans’ troubles and had rejected Tai Tan’s invitation to join Tang Hao’s son.
• Xiao Ze invited the Defense Clan to join Spirit Hall and warned Niu Gao that refusal would put the clan in danger.
• Xiao Ze showed Niu Gao special crops he had grown with his Martial Soul, and Niu Gao tasted the wheat and millet in disbelief.

Niu Gao agreed to join Spirit Hall after Xiao Ze showed him the benefits of special crops, and he was tasked with contacting the Speed Clan and Breaking Clan. Meanwhile, Bibi Dong persuaded the Lower Four Sects and Sacred Dragon Sect to submit, leaving them with special food to test.

• Niu Gao joined Spirit Hall after seeing how special crops improved his body and Soul Power, and Xiao Ze gave him supplies for the Defense Clan.
• Xiao Ze asked Niu Gao to contact Bai He and Yang Wudi, and Niu Gao set off to write to them.
• Bibi Dong summoned the Lower Four Sects and Sacred Dragon Sect leaders and declared her intention to have them join Spirit Hall.
• Tuoba Xi and Hu Yan Zhen pledged their sects, prompting Hu Qian Xing and the remaining leaders to kneel and submit as well.
• Bibi Dong gave the sect leaders Spatial Soul Tools containing special crops and animal meat to take home and test.

Tuoba Xi and Hu Yan Zhen persuaded the other Lower Four Sects leaders that joining Spirit Hall could protect them and help them become Title Douluo. At Niu Gao's invitation, Bai He, Yang Wudi, and Bai Chenxiang arrived at the Defense Clan, where Yang Wudi learned the person Niu Gao wanted them to meet was from Spirit Hall and angrily confronted him.

• Hu Qian Xing, Feng Bailong, and Huo Yan Bao accused Tuoba Xi and Hu Yan Zhen of secretly planning to join Spirit Hall, and the two admitted they had joined for their friends' benefit.
• Tuoba Xi said the crops from His Holiness the Pope could help them gain at least one level of Soul Power each year and promised they would not be cannon fodder in the coming war.
• Several days later, Bai He, Yang Wudi, and Bai Chenxiang arrived at the Defense Clan after Niu Gao summoned them.
• Niu Gao urged Bai He and Yang Wudi to meet someone from Spirit Hall, saying the opportunity could restore the Speed Clan's strength.
• Yang Wudi tried to leave when he learned the visitor was from Spirit Hall, and Niu Gao argued that Tang Hao, not Spirit Hall, was responsible for the clans' hardship.
• A Spirit Hall representative confronted Yang Wudi about his dissatisfaction with Spirit Hall.

Xiao Ze met with Bai He and Bai Chenxiang to discuss bringing the Speed Clan into Spirit Hall. He argued that their Swift Swallow Martial Soul was worthless if it could not help the clan survive, leaving Bai He to acknowledge his point.

• Niu Gao warned Yang Wudi not to speak carelessly when Xiao Ze arrived.
• Niu Gao introduced Xiao Ze as Spirit Hall’s Holy Son and the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament champion, and Xiao Ze explained why he had joined Spirit Hall.
• Xiao Ze allowed Niu Gao to take Yang Wudi aside to discuss medicines, then asked Bai He to join Spirit Hall; Bai He said he would consider it.
• Xiao Ze criticized the Speed Clan’s Swift Swallow Martial Soul for failing to support its members, and Bai Chenxiang repeatedly challenged him.
• Bai He agreed that a Martial Soul was useless if it could not help the clan support its own people.

Xiao Ze competed with Yang Wudi in pill refinement to secure Yang Wudi’s allegiance. After Xiao Ze produced nine flawless Pills, Yang Wudi accepted defeat and agreed to join Spirit Hall, and Bai He followed with the Speed Clan.

• Yang Wudi proposed a pill-refining contest, saying he would join Spirit Hall if Xiao Ze’s Pills were better, but otherwise would join Xiao Ze’s own faction.
• Xiao Ze and Yang Wudi each refined Pills in separate chambers while Niu Gao, Bai He, and Bai Chenxiang waited outside.
• Xiao Ze emerged with nine Body Strengthening Pills, while Yang Wudi appeared exhausted.
• Yang Wudi examined Xiao Ze’s Pills and admitted that their quality surpassed anything he could refine.
• Yang Wudi agreed to join Spirit Hall, and Bai He immediately pledged the Speed Clan as well.

Xiao Ze gave the Strength Clan and Speed Clan valuable crops and tools as they prepared to move to Spirit City. The clans discussed cutting ties with Tai Tan and considered Bai Chenxiang’s possible relationship with Xiao Ze, while Ning Rongrong encouraged him to take Bai Chenxiang as another partner.

• Xiao Ze gave Bai He and Yang Wudi Spatial Soul Tools containing special crops and explained that the crops grown elsewhere were much poorer in quality.
• Xiao Ze told the three clans to prepare to move to Spirit City, then left with the women.
• Niu Gao and Yang Wudi agreed that the clans should distance themselves from Tai Tan and strengthen their ties with Spirit Hall.
• Niu Gao suggested that Bai Chenxiang become close to Xiao Ze for the clans’ benefit, but Bai He said she should choose for herself.
• Bai He asked Bai Chenxiang what she thought of Xiao Ze, and her blush made him suspect she liked him.
• Ning Rongrong urged Xiao Ze to take Bai Chenxiang as a partner, reasoning that it was safer for her to find him women herself.

Titan confronted Niu Gao in Spirit City over the Defense Clan joining Spirit Hall, insisting the clan still owed loyalty to Tang Hao and his son. Niu Gao, Yang Wudi, and Bai He rejected Titan’s demands and called out his continued servitude to the Tang family.

• The Three Single Attribute Families and the Lower Four Sects relocated or established halls in Spirit City as Spirit Hall made major moves across the continent.
• Titan ignored Taino’s warnings and forced his way into the Defense Clan’s courtyard, breaking the gate and assaulting its guards.
• Niu Gao rejected Titan’s objections to the Defense Clan joining Spirit Hall and said the clans had repaid Tang Hao’s favor and would no longer serve him.
• Yang Wudi and Bai He joined Niu Gao, and Bai He mocked Titan for serving Tang San despite Tang San’s uncertain strength and whereabouts.

Tai Tan attacked Yang Wudi after the former allies rejected his loyalty to Tang San, but Yang Wudi, Bai He, and Niu Gao defeated him. Xiao Ze arrived and declared Tai Tan and the Strength Clan enemies of Spirit Hall, ordering Chrysanthemum Douluo to take Tai Tan and Taino to prison.

• Yang Wudi told Tai Tan to leave, but Tai Tan called the others traitors and attacked him.
• Yang Wudi, Bai He, and Niu Gao fought Tai Tan together, exploiting his weaknesses and beating him into a crater.
• Xiao Ze arrived at the Defense Clan with Chrysanthemum Douluo and learned that Yang Wudi had defeated Tai Tan.
• Xiao Ze declared Tai Tan and the Strength Clan enemies of Spirit Hall and ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo to take Tai Tan and Taino to prison.

Taino betrayed his father, Titan, and offered to lead the Strength Clan into allegiance with Spirit Hall, while Xiao Ze arranged to keep the clan under watch. Back at Spirit Hall, Xiao Ze discussed the clan with Bibi Dong, who urged him to prepare for becoming Pope and revealed Qian Daoliu’s plans for him and Qian Renxue.

• Taino asked Xiao Ze to spare him and promised to lead the Strength Clan to Spirit Hall, even if that meant purging Tang San’s supporters.
• Titan condemned Taino and tried to strike him, but stopped before hitting his son; Xiao Ze declared Titan no longer the clan leader and ordered Taino to bring the clan to Spirit City under supervision.
• Taino apologized to Yang Wudi, Bai He, and Niu Gao, promised the Strength Clan would pay for the damage, and assured Yang Wudi that his clan would not seek revenge.
• Xiao Ze returned to Spirit Hall and told Bibi Dong about Titan and the Strength Clan; she said the clan could not be trusted and praised Xiao Ze’s growing ability to become Pope.
• Bibi Dong said Qian Daoliu might arrange for Xiao Ze to marry Qian Renxue, and Xiao Ze urged her to speak properly with her daughter.

Xiao Ze urged Bibi Dong to face her resentment toward Qian Renxue and gave her the Heavenly Yue Empire’s Soul Tool Book to help Spirit Hall develop its own Soul Tools. A year later, Spirit Hall had formed a powerful Soul Tool legion, while Xiao Ze had reached Soul Emperor and unlocked a Forest area for growing special trees.

• Xiao Ze told Bibi Dong that her past actions had also harmed Spirit Hall and that she had directed her hatred of Qian Xunji toward Qian Renxue; Bibi Dong said she would settle matters with her daughter.
• Xiao Ze gave Bibi Dong the Heavenly Yue Empire’s Soul Tool Book, and she agreed to establish Soul Tool research and manufacturing departments.
• Taino purged nearly twenty percent of the Strength Clan and settled beside the Defense Clan in Spirit City, where the clan’s blacksmiths could be monitored.
• Over the following year, Spirit Hall established Soul Tool departments and formed a thousand-member legion whose equipment let its Soul Grand Master and Soul Elder members suppress Soul Emperors.
• Xiao Ze reached level sixty-three, raised his Soul Rings and Soul Bones to over forty thousand years, and improved several Spirits to Legendary quality.
• Upon reaching Soul Emperor, Xiao Ze unlocked a sixth area and began using it to grow trees for equipment and Soul Tools.

Xiao Ze and Bibi Dong visited Hua'an Village to witness the harvest of Xiao Ze’s unusually productive crops. The villagers harvested the grain and celebrated Xiao Ze, while he anticipated gaining more Faith and Merit from the harvest.

• Xiao Ze learned that Hu Liena, Ye Lingling, and Dugu Yan had reached level fifty-nine, while Hu Liena’s Martial Soul had evolved into the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox.
• Bibi Dong summoned Xiao Ze as the Harvest Festival approached, and he joined her and the women on a visit to Hua'an Village.
• The group saw the village’s golden fields, and Xiao Ze explained that the abundant crops could help grow Douluo Continent’s population and increase the number of Soul Masters.
• Bibi Dong asked the village chief about the yield, and Xiao Ze estimated the harvest would produce three to four thousand jin per mu, far above the previous yield of about five hundred jin.
• The villagers harvested a patch of grain, and the old village chief marveled that it could feed the village for years.
• The villagers knelt and repeatedly shouted, “Long live His Highness the Holy Son!”

Xiao Ze and Bibi Dong witnessed Hua'an Village harvest 4,500 jin of grain per mu from Xiao Ze’s new Seeds, and the remarkable yield spread across the Douluo Continent. Xiao Ze gained Merit and a surge of Faith, marking a first step toward becoming a God, then left as the villagers praised him and Bibi Dong.

• Xiao Ze and Bibi Dong watched Hua'an Village weigh its harvest, which reached 4,500 jin per mu, and Xiao Ze urged the villagers to keep growing the crops and send Soul Power users to Spirit Hall.
• Villages across the Douluo Continent celebrated or regretted their planting choices as the high yields became known, and some village chiefs who had failed to plant were beaten to death.
• Xiao Ze received Merit from the heavens and sensed the world with extraordinary clarity, while Ning Rongrong felt as if he had noticed her secretly stealing wheat ears.
• The Rakshasa God explained that Xiao Ze’s work could help him become a God, and a river of Power of Faith flowed into him from people across the continent.
• Ning Rongrong reported that each mu had yielded at least 4,600 jin overall, and Xiao Ze left with Bibi Dong and the others as Hua'an Village’s residents praised them.

The emperors of the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires reacted to Xiao Ze’s high-yield crops and considered how their harvests could strengthen their states. At the Palace of the Pope, Xiao Ze defended Spirit Hall’s strategy of winning ordinary people’s support, then realized he had forgotten to meet Old Wang.

• Qian Renxue reported that Xiao Ze’s crops had helped increase Heaven Dou’s tax revenue by thirty percent, and Xue Ye ordered the crops distributed to villages.
• The Star Luo Emperor warned Dai Weisi that Xiao Ze’s crops could win ordinary people to Spirit Hall and eventually increase its Soul Master numbers.
• The Star Luo Emperor concluded that Star Luo should use its increased tax revenue to strengthen its military because it could not stop the crops from spreading.
• Bibi Dong asked Xiao Ze about Qian Renxue’s warning, and Xiao Ze argued that farmers would support whoever helped them eat and that Spirit Hall could gain more Soul Masters over generations.
• Bibi Dong asked whether Old Wang had arrived, and Xiao Ze admitted he had forgotten about him.

Xiao Ze brought Old Wang to Spirit Hall, where he was appointed director of the Soul Tool research institute and proved his skill by repairing a weapon. Xiao Ze then discussed the research plans with Bibi Dong and said he would leave for Gengxin City in a week.

• Xiao Ze brought Old Wang to meet Bibi Dong, who sent him to Spirit Hall’s Soul Tool research institute.
• Old Wang corrected a Soul Tool Rifle’s core pattern, and a researcher tested it by destroying a Mysterious Iron target.
• Xiao Ze appointed Old Wang director and assigned the researchers to develop standard equipment, siege weapons, and Soul Power recovery tools.
• Xiao Ze told Bibi Dong that the Second-Grade Standard Soul Tool could overwhelm ordinary troops but needed Soul Power to operate.
• Xiao Ze said he would go to Gengxin City in a week, and Bibi Dong reminded him to arrange matters and avoid angering his girlfriends.

Xiao Ze clashed with Bibi Dong over her unexpectedly motherly concern, then helped Hu Liena obtain Soul Tools and received a kiss from her. He later advised Yan to leave Spirit City for a while and reconsider whether his feelings for Hu Liena were love or familial affection.

• Bibi Dong shouted at Xiao Ze after he compared her reminders to a mother's concern, and Xiao Ze hurried away.
• Xiao Ze collided with Hu Liena in the corridor, explained what had happened with Bibi Dong, and told her to ask Old Wang for Type V Soul Tools.
• Hu Liena kissed Xiao Ze on the cheek, became flustered, and ran off to help Bibi Dong organize documents.
• Xiao Ze found Yan upset over Hu Liena and advised him to spend time away from her and think about his feelings.

Xiao Ze and his companions traveled to Gengxin City to seek the Blacksmith Association’s help with Spirit Hall’s Soul Tool development. After arriving, Xiao Ze asked to meet its president, Lou Gao, and showed an attendant a token to secure an audience.

• Xiao Ze invited Ning Rongrong and the others to accompany him to Gengxin City, and they agreed to leave in a week.
• Xiao Ze received a selection of offensive, defensive, and flying Soul Tools from Old Wang before the group departed from Spirit City.
• Hu Liena joined the travelers after saying her teacher had approved the trip.
• After nearly twenty days on the road, Xiao Ze and his companions arrived in Gengxin City and explored its Blacksmith Association.
• Xiao Ze asked an attendant whether Lou Gao was present and showed him a token, prompting the attendant to go report his request.

Xiao Ze visited the Blacksmith Association to recruit its blacksmiths for Spirit Hall’s Soul Tool research, showing Lou Gao Soul Tools and ancient blueprints. Lou Gao was tempted by the new opportunity but worried that losing the recruited Soul Masters would leave the association nearly bankrupt.

• Hu Liena complained about the difficult journey to meet Lou Gao, and an administrator escorted Xiao Ze and his companions to the fifth floor.
• Xiao Ze introduced himself as Spirit Hall’s Holy Son and told Lou Gao that he wanted all the blacksmiths in Gengxin City.
• Lou Gao refused, insisting the blacksmiths were citizens of the Star Luo Empire and had families and lives in the city.
• Xiao Ze displayed three Soul Tools, explained that Spirit Hall had complete blueprints from the ancient Heavenly Yue Empire, and proposed working with Lou Gao’s association.
• Xiao Ze gave Lou Gao a Speed Clan report identifying suitable Soul Master blacksmiths for recruitment, and Lou Gao warned that the association would nearly go bankrupt if they all left.

Xiao Ze convinced Lou Gao to move the Blacksmith Association to Spirit City and develop Soul Tools, then showed him three Soul Tools at the association’s testing ground. Lou Gao agreed to help mass-produce them and eagerly examined the flying device.

• Xiao Ze proposed relocating the Blacksmith Association to Spirit City and creating a Soul Engineer Association, and Lou Gao agreed to leave Gengxin City in batches.
• Xiao Ze told Lou Gao that Tai Tan had been imprisoned after causing trouble in Spirit City, and Lou Gao said it was best not to kill him.
• Xiao Ze demonstrated a third-level rifle that destroyed Mysterious Iron targets from a thousand meters away, and Lou Gao tested its power and rapid firing rate.
• Xiao Ze demonstrated a defensive Soul Tool that formed a shield and could recover using Soul Power, and Lou Gao praised its reusable protection.
• Xiao Ze presented a transparent wing-shaped Flying Soul Tool, which Lou Gao identified as the device he had most wanted to see.