Chapter Summaries

Shi Jian emerged from seclusion after breaking through to the eighth level of the Maoshan Mental Method, then met with Yan Chixia and Spirit Hall’s elders, who asked him to locate Tang Hao. Shi Jian agreed to divine Tang Hao’s whereabouts in exchange for two of his soul bones, and began the calculation.

• Shi Jian broke through his cultivation bottleneck, destroyed the secret chamber’s stone door with lightning, and emerged to the welcoming Maoshan disciples.
• Shi Jian learned that Yan Chixia, Yue Guan, and Ghostly had come from Spirit Hall, then met them in the reception hall.
• Yan Chixia said Tang Hao had destroyed six Spirit Hall main halls and asked Shi Jian to divine his location.
• Shi Jian weighed keeping Tang Hao’s soul bones for himself against the danger of facing him, then demanded two soul bones as payment for his help.
• Yan Chixia agreed to the terms, and Shi Jian rose to calculate Tang Hao’s location.

Qian Renxue learned Tang Hao’s location and arranged for several Titled Douluo to hunt him down, hoping to avenge her father and the fallen Spirit Hall Soul Masters. Shi Jian also discussed the soul bones connected to Tang Hao as Qian Renxue’s agents set out for Molingfei City.

• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin concluded that Tang Hao’s attacks had thwarted Spirit Hall’s plan to challenge the Top Three Sects.
• Qian Renxue asked Pufferfish Douluo and Snake Lance Douluo to join Elder Yan in killing Tang Hao, and planned to recruit other Titled Douluo as well.
• Shi Jian calculated Tang Hao’s location as Molingfei City and told Yan Chixia and his companions, who departed to pursue him.
• Qian Renxue visited Shi Jian and learned Tang Hao’s location, then sent Pufferfish Douluo and Snake Lance Douluo to find Elder Yan and attack him.
• Shi Jian learned that Tang Lian had been tasked with retrieving Tang Hao’s hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor soul bone and declared his interest in Tang Hao’s other soul bones.

Qian Renxue went to inform Xue Ye about Tang Hao, while Yan Chixia and four Spirit Hall Elders joined forces to hunt him. Ye Zhou received a letter and a seventy-five-thousand-year soul bone from Tang Lian, but decided to use other materials for the sacrifice he had been asked to perform.

• Qian Renxue headed to the imperial palace after asking Shi Jian about Tang Hao, and passed Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect branch.
• Yan Chixia, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Ghost Douluo encountered Pufferfish Douluo and Snake Lance Douluo, who had come at the young mistress's instruction to hunt Tang Hao.
• Yan Chixia arranged for his group of three to confront Tang Hao while Pufferfish Douluo and Snake Lance Douluo stayed hidden to prevent his escape, and the five set out together.
• Ye Zhou defeated an Elephant Armor Sect disciple at the Great Soul Arena and received a letter and box bearing the Tang Sect's mark.
• Ye Zhou learned that Tang Lian had become a Guest Elder of the Barak Royal Family, reached rank eighty-two, and sent him a seventy-five-thousand-year Vajra Bear torso soul bone as a sacrifice.
• Ye Zhou decided to save the soul bone and use ten-thousand-year soul beast corpses for the sacrifice instead.

Ye Zhou used sacrifices to summon Tang Ze, Tang Kuan, Blood Bodhi, and the Nine Yin Manual, then helped Tang Lian’s junior brothers join the new Tang Sect. He left Shi Jian and Daoist Qian He with gifts to strengthen them and gave Yue Buqun the Nine Yin Manual to copy and study.

• Ye Zhou sacrificed soul beast corpses and summoned the B-rank Tang Kuan.
• After washing his hands and praying, Ye Zhou sacrificed five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins and summoned five Blood Bodhi.
• Ye Zhou sacrificed a thirty-thousand-year Phantom Spirit Cat soul bone and summoned Tang Ze and the Nine Yin Manual.
• Ye Zhou summoned Tang Ze and Tang Kuan, awakened their Thousand Mechanisms Hundred Refinements martial souls, and sent them to meet Tang Lian in Suotuo City after reading Douluo Continent.
• Ye Zhou gave Shi Jian and Daoist Qian He one Blood Bodhi each, then gave Yue Buqun the Nine Yin Manual to copy and cultivate.

Ye Zhou consumed a Blood Bodhi to strengthen his cultivation while Tang Hao walked into a Spirit Hall trap and faced Yan Chixia, Yue Guan, and Ghostly. Tang Hao refused to surrender, and Yan Chixia unleashed his full power to fight him.

• Ye Zhou swallowed a Blood Bodhi and circulated his cultivation method as his aura steadily rose.
• Tang Hao attacked an empty Spirit Hall in Molingfei City, realized it was a trap, and tried to escape through the roof.
• Yan Chixia, Yue Guan, and Ghostly attacked Tang Hao, but he broke through their techniques with his fifth soul skill.
• Yan Chixia condemned Tang Hao for murdering low-ranking Soul Masters, while Tang Hao defended his revenge and refused to surrender.
• Yan Chixia summoned a second Xuanyuan Sword, revealed nine black soul rings, and activated Xuanyuan True Body.

Yan Chixia and the Spirit Hall Douluos fought Tang Hao in Molingfei City, but Sword Dao Chen Xin, Gu Rong, and Ning Fengzhi intervened before Tang Hao could escape. With Porcupinefish Douluo and Snake Lance Douluo arriving to reinforce Spirit Hall, the battle shifted into a five-on-three confrontation.

• Yan Chixia used Heavenly Dao Judgment against Tang Hao, while Tang Hao unleashed the Great Sumeru Hammer and struck Yan Chixia with a simultaneous attack.
• Both fighters survived the clash, but Tang Hao’s old injuries worsened, and Yan Chixia pursued him with weapons from his scroll as Yue Guan and Ghostly completed the Two Polarity Stillness Domain.
• Chen Xin attacked Yan Chixia, giving Tang Hao a chance to escape the domain’s range.
• Gu Rong and Ning Fengzhi arrived, and Ning Fengzhi offered Tang Hao the support of two sect elders against Spirit Hall.
• Yue Guan called for reinforcements, and Porcupinefish Douluo and Snake Lance Douluo arrived, turning the confrontation into three against five.

Qian Renxue sought permission to recruit Tang Hao, but Xue Ye secretly sent Ning Fengzhi to recruit him himself. When Spirit Hall’s five Titled Douluo confronted Tang Hao and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect elders, Yan Chixia condemned Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin for protecting him; Tang Hao escaped during the battle, leaving Chen Xin pinned down while Gu Rong faced four opponents.

• Qian Renxue told Xue Ye that she had found Tang Hao and wanted to recruit him, so Xue Ye secretly asked Ning Fengzhi to bring Tang Hao to the imperial city for his own recruitment attempt.
• Ning Fengzhi arrived with Chen Xin and Gu Rong, hoping to recruit Tang Hao after Spirit Hall’s forces were defeated, but discovered five Titled Douluo were present.
• Yan Chixia accused Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin of sheltering Tang Hao and ordered Ning Fengzhi to kill himself; Chen Xin refused to abandon his sect’s interests.
• Yue Guan, Old Ghost, Snake Lance, and Pufferfish overwhelmed Gu Rong while Yan Chixia and Chen Xin fought Tang Hao.
• Tang Hao used his Eighth Soul Skill to trap Yan Chixia and Chen Xin, then fled into the city; after breaking free, Yan Chixia attacked Chen Xin to stop him from aiding Gu Rong.

The battle between Yan Chixia and Spirit Hall’s Titled Douluo against Chen Xin, Gu Rong, and Ning Fengzhi erupted into a seven-Douluo melee after Tang Hao fled. The fighters were left gravely injured in the ruins of Molingfei City, while Tang Hao escaped and vowed revenge.

• Ning Fengzhi regretted joining forces with Tang Hao when Tang Hao abandoned him and Chen Xin and Gu Rong to face Spirit Hall’s five Titled Douluo.
• Chen Xin tried to rescue Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong, but Yue Guan and the others overwhelmed Gu Rong, who transformed into a bone dragon with his Ninth Soul Skill to hold them back.
• Gu Rong urged Chen Xin to take Ning Fengzhi and flee, but Chen Xin refused and unleashed his Ninth Soul Skill as the seven Titled Douluo exchanged their ultimate attacks.
• Tang Hao escaped from Molingfei City, apologized to Ning Fengzhi, and vowed to avenge the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect while seeking a place to recover.
• Tang Lian watched the distant explosion from Suotuo City and wondered whether two Titled Douluo could cause such destruction, unaware that seven had fought.
• After the battle, Yan Chixia and the Spirit Hall Douluo were badly injured, while Chen Xin, Gu Rong, and Ning Fengzhi lay gravely wounded in the ruins.

After Yan Chixia ordered Chen Xin and Gu Rong crippled and sent for public execution, rumors about the battle in Molingfei City spread while the injured Spirit Hall elders recovered in secret. Qian Renxue spent a month fearing the worst, then Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo returned and began telling her what had happened.

• Yan Chixia ordered Chen Xin and Gu Rong's Soul Power crippled and the two escorted to Spirit City for public execution, while Ghost Douluo agreed to take the injured Snake Lance and Porcupinefish back to Heaven Dou City for treatment.
• Emperor Xue Ye imagined using Tang Hao and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to strengthen the Heaven Dou Empire and eventually unite the continent.
• Yan Chixia and the other four secretly returned to the Martial Soul Holy Hall and spent a month recovering as rumors about the Molingfei City battle spread.
• Emperor Xue Ye sent Qian Renxue to Maoshan to ask Shi Jian about the battle, but Shi Jian had entered seclusion and Qian Renxue could not contact the injured Spirit Hall elders.
• Qian Renxue regretted telling Emperor Xue Ye about Tang Hao's whereabouts and worried for a month until Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo returned to her.
• Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo explained that they had been recovering at the Martial Soul Holy Hall, then began recounting the battle to Qian Renxue.

Yan Chixia secured Spirit Hall’s approval to publicly execute Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong, while continuing to pursue Tang Hao. Xue Ye, devastated by the losses of his allies, decided to arrange Xue Ke’s marriage to Marquis Ye to preserve the Maoshan Sect’s support.

• Qian Renxue learned that Tang Hao had escaped and Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong had been taken to Spirit City, while Snake Lance Douluo reported that Yan Chixia’s group was recovering.
• After healing, Yan Chixia received Bibi Dong’s approval and Spirit Hall’s agreement to publicly execute the three captives in Spirit City three months later.
• Salas posted a proclamation in Heaven Dou City accusing the captives of aiding Tang Hao, and rumors about the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s vulnerable wealth spread.
• Yan Chixia learned that Shi Jian remained in seclusion and planned to monitor Tang San in Nuoding City, expecting Tang Hao to seek out his son.
• Xue Ye collapsed after hearing of the planned executions and ordered Marquis Ye and Xue Ke summoned so he could arrange their marriage and secure the Maoshan Sect’s support.

Ye Zhou was summoned by Xue Ye, who asked him to help rescue Ning Fengzhi and the others from Spirit Hall. Xue Ye then proposed that Ye Zhou marry his young daughter, Xue Ke.

• Ye Zhou trained in the academy’s icy mimicry ground until a royal attendant summoned him to the palace.
• Ye Zhou learned that Spirit Hall planned to execute Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo in three months.
• Ye Zhou argued that Ning Fengzhi had brought the capture on himself, angering Prince Xue Xing.
• Xue Ye asked Ye Zhou to persuade Sect Master Shi to help rescue Ning Fengzhi, and Ye Zhou agreed outwardly while intending not to help.
• Xue Ye proposed that Ye Zhou marry Xue Ke.

Ye Zhou rejected Xue Ye’s plan to betroth him to the young Princess Xue Ke, insisting he would not enter a political marriage. Xue Ye then granted him the title of Duke Lieyan and a 300-li fief, and Ye Zhou accepted the decree while privately resolving not to attack the Heaven Dou Royal Family.

• Xue Ye proposed that Ye Zhou and Xue Ke become engaged, but Ye Zhou refused because of their ages and his wish to marry someone he loved.
• Xue Ke began crying, and Xue Ye had an attendant lead her away.
• Xue Ye offered to make Ye Zhou a duke with 200 li of hereditary territory if he accepted the engagement, but Ye Zhou refused and offered to relinquish his noble title.
• Ye Zhou left with Yue Buqun, but Xue Ye praised his refusal as a test and ordered that he be elevated to Duke Lieyan with a 300-li fief and permission to establish a principality.
• Ye Zhou accepted the decree and privately decided not to move against the Heaven Dou Royal Family.

After Spirit Hall captured Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s elders blamed Ning Fengzhi, stripped Ning Rongrong of her Young Sect Master position, and debated how to protect the weakened sect. The Elephant Armor Sect then launched a surprise attack.

• Ye Zhou ordered Yue Buqun to claim the Malier Province fief and watch the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect so the Maoshan Sect could eventually absorb it.
• The Ning Family elders discussed the danger posed by Spirit Hall’s capture of Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong, and blamed Ning Fengzhi for the sect’s crisis.
• Ning Rongrong defended her father, but Third Elder ordered her stripped of her Young Sect Master status and taken away as an ordinary disciple.
• The elders considered negotiating with Spirit Hall and buying Thunder Fire Talismans from the Maoshan Sect to defend the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Injured disciples reported that the Elephant Armor Sect had launched a surprise attack on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

The Elephant Armor Sect and Holy Dragon Sect attacked the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, defeated its defenders, and began advancing into its inner grounds. After emerging from seclusion at level ninety-six, Shi Jian ordered the Maoshan Sect to go “aid” the besieged sect, intending to make a major move before the All-Continent Sect Conference.

• Hu Yan Zhen used Tang Hao’s escape as a pretext to attack the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and joined forces with Tuo Ba Xi and the Holy Dragon Sect.
• Hu Yan Zhen and Tuo Ba Xi defeated the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s two Soul Fighting Luos and killed them when they hesitated to surrender.
• The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s defenders broke into chaos as the attackers crushed them and advanced toward the inner grounds.
• Shi Jian emerged from seclusion after raising his Soul Power to level ninety-six, and Ye Zhou told him that the sect was under attack while its leaders were captured by Spirit Hall.
• Shi Jian ordered the Maoshan Sect to rush to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s aid and declared that he would personally join the battle.

After the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was attacked and Ning Fengzhi was captured, Ye Zhou promised Ning Rongrong that the Maoshan Sect would help rescue her father and defend the sect. Ning Rongrong agreed to go with Ye Zhou and take charge of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as its Young Sect Master.

• Shi Jian and Qian He led Maoshan disciples toward the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to help repel the Elephant Armor Sect and Holy Dragon Sect.
• Ning Rongrong stayed behind in Heaven Dou City while the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's elders returned to defend their grounds.
• Ye Zhou and Yue Buqun found Ning Rongrong and promised that the Maoshan Sect would negotiate with Spirit Hall and support her sect.
• Ye Zhou told Ning Rongrong that she should return as Young Sect Master once the attackers were driven back.
• Ning Rongrong decided that the elders had no right to remove her from the position and agreed to follow Ye Zhou's plan.

Yan Chixia recovered and advanced to rank ninety-six after absorbing a powerful torso bone, then learned that the Elephant Armor Sect and Holy Dragon Sect had attacked the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. He arranged for Spirit Hall to mediate and led forces toward the sect, while Maoshan Sect also sent aid.

• Yan Chixia broke through to rank ninety-six after absorbing the fifty-thousand-year Star Amplification Torso Bone, while Ghostly and Yue Guan recovered from their injuries and gained new soul bones.
• A Holy Hall Soul Master reported that the Elephant Armor Sect and Holy Dragon Sect had invaded the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Salas admitted he had tacitly allowed the attack.
• Yan Chixia rebuked Salas and rejected Ghostly and Yue Guan’s suggestion to stay out of the conflict, ordering Spirit Hall to mediate and use force to stop the war if necessary.
• After learning that Shi Jian and the Maoshan Sect had gone to support the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Yan Chixia planned to mediate, prepare gifts for Shi Jian, and prevent the Maoshan Sect from destroying the attacking sects.
• Yan Chixia, Ghostly, and Yue Guan led Holy Hall Soul Masters toward the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Shi Jian arrived with Maoshan Sect reinforcements to save Ning Fengyuan and confront the Elephant Armor Sect and Holy Dragon Sect. In Spirit City’s dungeon, Bibi Dong offered Ning Fengzhi his life in exchange for surrender, but he refused and worried about what would happen to Rongrong.

• Hu Yan Zhen killed Ning Fengyuan’s elder brother and prepared to kill Ning Fengyuan after the allied forces defeated the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s defenders.
• Shi Jian and several hundred Maoshan Sect disciples arrived, saved Ning Fengyuan, and ordered Hu Yan Zhen and Tuo Ba Xi to withdraw.
• Ning Fengzhi blamed himself for involving Chen Xin and Gu Rong in the battle against Spirit Hall and condemned Tang Hao for abandoning them.
• Bibi Dong offered to spare Ning Fengzhi if he publicly submitted to Spirit Hall and handed over the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s businesses, but Ning Fengzhi refused.
• Ning Fengzhi worried that the Ning Family would mistreat Rongrong and said he could not betray the sect’s ancestors by surrendering.

Shi Jian defeated Hu Yan Zhen, Tuo Ba Xi, and their two Soul Fighting Luo Elders with a single lightning attack after powering himself up with his fifth soul skill. Just as he prepared to kill the fallen sect leaders, Yan Chixia, Ghostly, and Yue Guan arrived and urged him to show mercy.

• Hu Yan Zhen and Tuo Ba Xi summoned two Soul Fighting Luo Elders and decided to attack Shi Jian together for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's fortune.
• Shi Jian used Thunder Fiend Blood Sacrifice to absorb the residual Soul Power of nearby corpses and strengthen himself.
• Shi Jian shattered Hu Yan Zhen's Diamond Mammoth Martial Soul Avatar and struck down Tuo Ba Xi and the two Elders with Lightning Flash Fist.
• Shi Jian boasted that Soul Fighting Luos were no different from Soul Kings in a Titled Douluo's eyes, then prepared to finish off the defeated sect leaders.
• Yan Chixia, Ghostly, and Yue Guan arrived with Martial Soul Holy Hall Soul Masters, and Yan Chixia asked Shi Jian to show mercy.

Shi Jian stopped the Elephant Armor Sect and Holy Dragon Sect from finishing off the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while Yan Chixia mediated their withdrawal and Spirit Hall declined to intervene further. With Ning Rongrong returned, Shi Jian prepared to discuss the sect’s future with her.

• Shi Jian dispersed his lightning after Yan Chixia arrived, and Yan ordered the Elephant Armor Sect and Holy Dragon Sect to withdraw with their injured leaders.
• Yan Chixia told Shi Jian that Spirit Hall would not help the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect recover, then promised Ning Fengyuan that Spirit Hall would condemn the attackers and would not stop any future revenge.
• Ning Fengyuan said the weakened Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would no longer oppose Spirit Hall and would avoid revenge if the two sects left them alone.
• Yan Chixia rebuked Yue Guan for considering looting the sect, and his group left after giving Shi Jian a gift in thanks for help locating Tang Hao.
• Ning Fengyuan and the remaining disciples thanked Shi Jian, who said he would discuss the sect’s future with its returning master, Ning Rongrong.

Ning Rongrong returned to the devastated Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and was named its Sect Master, but Elder Ning Fengyuan tried to kill her to seize the position. Ye Zhou stopped him and persuaded Rongrong to let the Maoshan Sect eliminate him, leaving her to accept their help.

• Ning Fengyuan blamed Ning Rongrong’s father for the sect’s losses and moved to seize the Sect Master position by attacking her.
• Ye Zhou struck Ning Fengyuan with true qi before he could grab Rongrong, leaving him badly injured.
• Ye Zhou accused Ning Fengyuan of betraying the sect or plotting to take its leadership, and the surviving disciples began to doubt him.
• Ye Zhou urged Rongrong to let the Maoshan Sect remove Ning Fengyuan as a threat, and Rongrong agreed.