Chapter Summaries

Salas arrested Tang Yuehua after exposing her connection to the Clear Sky Sect’s crimes, while Qian Renxue proposed a royal campaign against the sect and asked the Maoshan Sect to lead it. As Salas took Tang Yuehua away, Tai Tan and the Strength Clan attacked the Martial Soul Holy Hall forces and rescued her.

• Salas revealed that one of the corpses might be Yu Yuanzhen’s missing grandson and ordered his men to arrest Tang Yuehua.
• Salas refused to let Shi Jian share credit, then left with Tang Yuehua and most of the corpses while Qian Renxue dismissed the Moonlight Pavilion students.
• Qian Renxue told Shi Jian she would urge the Emperor to condemn the Clear Sky Sect and asked the Maoshan Sect to command a coalition campaign against it.
• Salas ordered his men to report to the Pope, keep Tang Yuehua from harming herself, and spread notices accusing the Clear Sky Sect of becoming Evil Soul Masters.
• Tai Tan attacked Salas and the Martial Soul Holy Hall forces, rescued Tang Yuehua, and led the Strength Clan into battle against them in the city.

Tai Tan’s Strength Clan ambushed the Martial Soul Holy Hall to rescue Tang Yuehua, but the battle turned against them as Salas and his fighters rallied. Qian Renxue arrived with Imperial Guards to stop the fighting, but neither side listened.

• Tai Tan ordered the Strength Clan to wipe out the Martial Soul Holy Hall and kill Salas before reinforcements could arrive.
• Salas recovered and fought Tai Tan while the Martial Soul Holy Hall’s varied Soul Masters coordinated to counter the Strength Clan’s brute strength.
• Tai Tan sent Tang Yuehua away with a clansman and clashed with Salas using their Eighth Soul Skills.
• Shi Jian refused to commit the Maoshan Sect to Qian Renxue’s plan against the Clear Sky Sect, and Qian Renxue left with two thousand Imperial Guards after hearing the distant explosion.
• Tai Tan defeated Salas and seized him, but the Martial Soul Holy Hall’s Soul Masters attacked together and freed their unconscious bishop.
• Qian Renxue arrived and ordered both sides to stop, but neither side paid her any attention.

Qian Renxue ordered the Imperial Guards to join the Martial Soul Holy Hall in attacking the Strength Clan after Tai Tan admitted Tang Hao was his master. As the battle turned bloody, Yu Yuanzhen killed the clansman carrying Tang Yuehua and took her captive.

• The Martial Soul Holy Hall steward accused the Strength Clan of aiding Evil Soul Masters, and Tai Tan revealed that Tang Hao was his master.
• Qian Renxue sent Tai Tan away, then declared the Strength Clan traitors and ordered the Imperial Guards to attack alongside the Martial Soul Holy Hall.
• Tai Tan rallied his clansmen and fought the six Martial Soul Holy Hall stewards as the Imperial Guards joined the battle.
• A Strength Clan member tried to carry the paralyzed Tang Yuehua out of Heaven Dou City, but Yu Yuanzhen and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect blocked his path.
• Yu Yuanzhen killed the Strength Clan member, ordered his disciples to seize Tang Yuehua, and left with her.

Ye Zhou failed to master Three Elements Return to One but summoned Uncle Jiu/Lin Fengjiao with a fifth-grade medicinal pill. Meanwhile, the Martial Soul Holy Hall defeated the Strength Clan, captured Tai Tan, and agreed with Qian Renxue to divide custody of the survivors.

• Ye Zhou tried to cultivate Three Elements Return to One after reaching Soul Power level fifty, but his attempt failed and left him with chest discomfort.
• Ye Zhou sacrificed a bottle of fifth-grade medicinal pills and summoned an A-rank character card for Uncle Jiu/Lin Fengjiao, then activated it.
• The Martial Soul Holy Hall's six Soul Saints defeated the wounded, depleted Tai Tan and captured him as the Strength Clan was crushed.
• Qian Renxue offered to take the surviving Strength Clan members while the Martial Soul Holy Hall took Tai Tan, and the deacon agreed.

Qian Renxue captured the surviving Strength Clan members while blaming Bibi Dong for Spirit Hall’s losses. At the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, Yu Yuanzhen tortured Tang Yuehua over Yu Tianyu’s death and vowed to avenge his grandson before a powerful aura entered Heaven Dou City.

• Qian Renxue ordered the Imperial Guards to bind the surviving Strength Clan members and take them back to the imperial city.
• Yu Yuanzhen grieved over Yu Tianyu’s corpse while Yu Tianheng stood beside him.
• Yu Yuanzhen questioned and whipped Tang Yuehua, who insisted Spirit Hall had framed the Clear Sky Sect.
• Yu Tianheng argued that the Clear Sky Sect had deliberately killed Yu Tianyu to weaken the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, and Yu Yuanzhen ordered Tang Yuehua tortured further.
• Tang Yuehua invoked her brothers Tang Xiao and Tang Hao, but Yu Yuanzhen dismissed her threat and told Yu Tianheng to carry on the sect’s legacy.
• A powerful, unrestrained aura entered Heaven Dou City and headed for the Martial Soul Holy Hall.

Yu Yuanzhen tried to hide his abduction of Tang Yuehua as Tang Xiao approached the Martial Soul Holy Hall, but Qian Renxue traced the killing to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect. At the Maoshan Sect, Ye Zhou helped Uncle Jiu awaken his martial soul and brokered a fragile reconciliation between him and Shi Jian.

• Yu Yuanzhen recognized Tang Xiao's aura and ordered disciples to dispose of the Strength Clan member's corpse before anyone connected the killing to him.
• Qian Renxue examined the corpse, identified lightning as the likely cause of death, suspected the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, and sent two concealed figures toward the Martial Soul Holy Hall.
• Ye Zhou confirmed that Uncle Jiu's martial soul was a Peach Wood Sword and his innate Soul Power was level seventy-nine.
• Shi Jian confronted Uncle Jiu over his son's death, and Daoist Qian He tried to mediate between the brothers.
• Ye Zhou urged Shi Jian and Uncle Jiu to reconcile by promising that, if they became Gods, he could summon Shi Jian's son's soul and help him reincarnate.
• Ye Zhou pressed Shi Jian and Uncle Jiu to shake hands and work together to strengthen the Maoshan Sect.

Ye Zhou revealed that he had reached level fifty, while the group sensed a powerful Titled Douluo approaching the Martial Soul Holy Hall. Tang Xiao arrived to demand his sister’s release and confronted the hall’s stewards, but Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo intervened as he prepared to attack.

• Shi Jian set aside his grudge against Lin Fengjiao for now, and Ye Zhou gave Uncle Jiu a novel about the Douluo Continent and asked Daoist Qian He to accompany them to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Ye Zhou revealed that he had just reached level fifty, astonishing Daoist Qian He.
• Shi Jian identified a powerful presence near the Martial Soul Holy Hall, and Ye Zhou concluded that it belonged to Tang Xiao; the group decided not to get involved.
• Tang Xiao arrived at the Martial Soul Holy Hall, activated his Clear Sky Avatar, and demanded that the stewards release Tang Yuehua.
• The stewards could not tell Tang Xiao that Tang Yuehua had already been rescued by the Strength Clan before he threatened to attack them.
• Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo arrived, activated their Martial Soul Avatars, and confronted Tang Xiao.

Tang Xiao arrived at the Martial Soul Holy Hall to rescue Tang Yuehua but learned she had already been taken elsewhere, so he restrained himself from fighting Spirit Hall’s two Titled Douluo. Meanwhile, Qian Renxue concealed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect’s involvement in the abduction and urged it to join a campaign against the Clear Sky Sect.

• Tang Xiao confronted She Long and Cixue, then offered to leave if they released Tang Yuehua rather than risk a battle with Spirit Hall.
• She Long and Cixue told Tang Xiao that the Strength Clan had rescued Tang Yuehua before Spirit Hall destroyed the clan, and Cixue said Tai Tan had arranged for her to be taken away.
• Qian Renxue disposed of the Strength Clan member’s corpse and asked the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect disciples to tell Sect Master Yu she wanted the sect to join an alliance against the Clear Sky Sect.
• Qian Renxue explained to the Imperial Guard commander that the campaign would protect the royal family’s reputation and draw Spirit Hall into a war that would weaken its forces too.
• The Imperial Guard commander declared his support and offered to petition the emperor alongside Qian Renxue.

Qian Renxue planned to rally the Heaven Dou Empire, Spirit Hall, and major sects against the Clear Sky Sect. Tang Xiao failed to find Tang Yuehua, while Tang Lian met Clear Sky Sect disciples whose arrival made his Maoshan Peace Talisman burn hot.

• Qian Renxue decided to use the Heaven Dou Royal Family and other sects to build an alliance against the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Xiao fought Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo outside the Martial Soul Holy Hall, then left after a clash that damaged nearby buildings.
• Tang Xiao searched Heaven Dou City for Tang Yuehua but could not find her, and he later tried to sneak into the Martial Soul Holy Hall to question Tai Tan.
• The Martial Soul Holy Hall stewards had already crippled Tai Tan's Soul Power and sent him toward Spirit City.
• Tang Lian prepared to bring two soul bones to Ye Zhou, but more than a dozen Clear Sky Sect disciples arrived in Suotuo City to discuss a deal with him.
• Tang Lian's Maoshan Peace Talisman grew scorching hot when he entered the reception hall to meet the Clear Sky Sect disciples.

Tang Lian met with Tang Long and the Clear Sky Sect disciples, who sought to buy more than 6.2 million Gold Soul Coins' worth of hidden weapons. Though his Peace Talisman burned near them, Tang Lian agreed to their delivery terms and planned to investigate them after they left.

• Tang Lian's Peace Talisman burned as he approached the Clear Sky Sect disciples, warning him that something evil was nearby.
• Tang Long presented the Clear Sky Sect's order for a large batch of Tang Sect hidden weapons worth 6.2 million Gold Soul Coins.
• Tang Lian agreed to deliver half the order in six months and the rest later, despite the Tang Sect's existing military contract.
• Tang Long asked the Tang Sect to deliver the weapons to Heaven Dou City for the handover, and Tang Lian agreed.
• Tang Lian planned to conceal his identity and investigate the Clear Sky Sect disciples after they left.

Tang Xiao failed to find Tai Tan in the Heaven Dou City dungeon and wandered the city searching for clues about his sister, Tang Yuehua. At the imperial palace, Qian Renxue persuaded Xue Ye and his ministers to form a coalition against the Clear Sky Sect, leaving Xue Ye to accept the plan reluctantly.

• Tang Long left the Tang Sect at night with over a dozen Clear Sky Sect disciples, and Tang Lian followed them in disguise.
• Tang Xiao broke into the Martial Soul Holy Hall dungeon to rescue Tai Tan but found only other imprisoned Soul Masters, whose shouts alerted the guards.
• Tang Xiao fought his way out of the Martial Soul Holy Hall and wandered Heaven Dou City, unable to find Tai Tan or learn where Tang Yuehua was.
• Xue Ye berated Qian Renxue for causing Tang Yuehua's arrest, but Qian Renxue argued that the royal family had to act against the Clear Sky Sect to avoid suspicion of colluding with Evil Soul Masters.
• Qian Renxue, the commander of the Imperial Guards, and the ministers urged Xue Ye to form a coalition army against the Clear Sky Sect, and Xue Ye reluctantly told Qian Renxue to proceed.

Tang Yuehua died after prolonged torture by the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, while Spirit Hall’s accusations further ruined the Clear Sky Sect’s reputation and Tang Xiao returned to defend it. In the Star Dou Great Forest, Uncle Jiu absorbed an eighty-thousand-year Soul Ring and reached level ninety.

• Qian Renxue contacted Heaven Dou Empire forces to invite them into an alliance against the Clear Sky Sect, while Salas ordered Spirit Hall branches to publicize the sect’s alleged crimes.
• Tang Xiao ordered Clear Sky Sect disciples to conceal their identities, searched Heaven Dou City for Tang Yuehua, and returned to the sect without finding her.
• Tang Yuehua died from her injuries after nearly twenty days of torture, and her body was displayed outside Heaven Dou City with a sign calling her a Clear Sky Sect villain.
• The Barak King chose not to pressure the Tang Sect into joining Qian Renxue’s alliance, preferring to build strength and wait for developments.
• Ye Zhou, Lin Fengjiao, and Qian He hunted Soul Rings in the Star Dou Great Forest, where Uncle Jiu killed an eighty-thousand-year Wind-Sand Giant Goose-Eagle.
• Uncle Jiu absorbed the beast’s Soul Ring and advanced from level eighty-nine to level ninety, while Ye Zhou’s fifth Soul Skill had already raised him to level fifty-two.

Ye Zhou proposed hunting one of the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts near the Lake of Life and called on Yan Chixia to help. As they prepared to gather their forces, Flender, Yu Xiaogang, Xiao Wu, and Tang San were traveling through the forest nearby.

• Ye Zhou suggested that Uncle Jiu continue hunting Soul Beasts after reaching Level 90 and obtain his ninth Soul Ring.
• Ye Zhou showed Uncle Jiu and Qian He a map to the Lake of Life and proposed hunting the Titan Giant Ape or Sky Azure Bull Python.
• Uncle Jiu and Qian He warned that the two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts were too dangerous to face without help.
• Ye Zhou revealed his Den Den Mushi and proposed inviting Level 96 Swordsman Yan to join them.
• Uncle Jiu and Qian He agreed, and Ye Zhou began calling Yan Chixia.
• Flender, Yu Xiaogang, Xiao Wu, and Tang San traveled through the forest roughly fifty li away.

Tang San reached level forty-two before turning eight after absorbing his soul rings, while Xiao Wu recovered enough to walk and Yu Xiaogang survived the poison but was left unable to function sexually. Meanwhile, Ye Zhou’s group summoned Yan Chixia in the Star Dou Great Forest, and Tang San’s group changed course after hearing their signal flare.

• Tang San’s Soul Power surged to level forty-two after he absorbed his soul rings, and he believed his past-life cultivation had been unsealed as he vowed revenge on Tang Lian.
• Xiao Wu recovered enough to walk after Tang San healed her, while Yu Xiaogang’s remaining poison was cleared but his injuries had left him impotent.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, Yu Xiaogang, and Flender traveled through the forest toward the Star Luo Empire, choosing a route with fewer powerful soul beasts.
• Ye Zhou told Uncle Jiu and Daoist Qian He that Yan Chixia was nearby, and Qian He fired a signal flare to summon him.
• Yan Chixia saw the fireworks and flew toward Ye Zhou’s group, while Tang San’s group heard the blast and changed direction.

At Lake of Life, the Sky Azure Bull Python sensed Xiao Wu near humans and sent the Titan Giant Ape to bring her back. Meanwhile, Yan Chixia joined Ye Zhou, Uncle Jiu, and Qian He, realized he had encountered the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python before, and led the group toward them to settle the score.

• The Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python noticed a signal flare and discussed their hatred of humans.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python sensed Xiao Wu among several humans and sent the Titan Giant Ape to retrieve her.
• Golden eyes opened beneath Lake of Life, and an unseen being reacted to the humans.
• Yan Chixia met Ye Zhou, Uncle Jiu, and Qian He, then recognized the map's destination as the place where he had previously fought the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python.
• Yan Chixia agreed to lead the group to Lake of Life, intending to face the two soul beasts with his improved cultivation.

Yan Chixia sensed the Titan Giant Ape away from Lake of Life, so Ye Zhou, Qian He, and Uncle Jiu followed him toward it. The Titan Giant Ape captured Xiao Wu after pinning her companions with its gravity domain, but Yan Chixia arrived and the beast recognized him.

• Yan Chixia detected the Titan Giant Ape's presence, and Ye Zhou chose to change course with Qian He and Uncle Jiu.
• The Titan Giant Ape confronted Xiao Wu, Tang San, Flender, and Yu Xiaogang, then shattered Flender's protective barrier with one punch.
• The Titan Giant Ape released a gravity domain that pinned all four humans to the ground and grabbed Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu recognized Er Ming and prepared to explain that she was safe and that the others were her companions.
• Yan Chixia shouted a challenge, and the Titan Giant Ape recognized him from their encounter over a year earlier.

Yan Chixia and the others confronted the Hundred-Thousand-Year Titan Giant Ape, which fled toward the Lake of Life with Xiao Wu after realizing it could not win. Tang San chased after it to save Xiao Wu, and Ye Zhou and the others recognized him as the protagonist.

• The Titan Giant Ape revealed its Hundred-Thousand-Year status and fought off Yan Chixia's flying swords while protecting Xiao Wu.
• Yan Chixia, Daoist Qian He, Uncle Jiu, and Ye Zhou arrived and resisted the Titan Giant Ape's gravity field.
• The Titan Giant Ape realized Xiao Wu's identity might be exposed, smashed the ground, and fled toward the Lake of Life with her.
• Yan Chixia pursued the Titan Giant Ape while Daoist Qian He and Uncle Jiu stayed behind to help the endangered Soul Masters.
• Tang San chased after the Titan Giant Ape to rescue Xiao Wu, and Ye Zhou, Daoist Qian He, and Uncle Jiu recognized him as Tang San.

Ye Zhou unexpectedly encountered Tang San's group while hunting soul beasts and attacked Yu Xiaogang and Flender to control what they might learn about Yan Chixia. He ordered Daoist Qian He to erase their memories of Swordsman Yan, leaving the Maoshan Sect free to pose as their benefactor.

• Ye Zhou considered using Tang San's future Sea God and Asura God inheritances as sacrifices, while planning to monitor Tang San's progress and intervene if needed.
• Ye Zhou concluded that Tang San's group probably had not seen Yan Chixia, but decided to prepare for the worst.
• Ye Zhou immobilized Yu Xiaogang with One Yang Finger and struck Flender with Three Points Return to One Qi.
• Flender's Cat Eagle Cross Slash collided with Ye Zhou's attack, and Ye Zhou's Immobilization Talisman then froze Flender.
• Ye Zhou ordered Daoist Qian He to erase the group's memories of Swordsman Yan so the Maoshan Sect could appear to have saved them.

Ye Zhou controlled Yu Xiaogang and Flender’s memories before joining Uncle Jiu and Qian He in pursuit of Tang San and the Titan Giant Ape. Yan Chixia caught the giant ape, severed its arm, and left it facing another devastating strike as the Sky Azure Bull Python sensed danger and rushed toward them.

• Ye Zhou used the Soul Shifting Great Law to make Yu Xiaogang and Flender forget Yan Chixia and their defeat, then flew off with Uncle Jiu and Qian He.
• Yan Chixia caught the Titan Giant Ape and wounded it with his Mountain River Slash while Xiao Wu rode in its hand.
• The Titan Giant Ape activated its Gravity Control Domain and slammed Yan Chixia into the ground, but Yan Chixia’s righteous qi let him resist the domain.
• Yan Chixia used Rift-Splitting Void Slash to appear behind the Titan Giant Ape and sever its left arm as Xiao Wu cried out.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python sensed danger to Er Ming and Xiao Wu, rushed out of the Lake of Life, and the being with golden eyes murmured, “Humans...”

Di Tian watched the strange humans hunting soul beasts in the Star Dou Forest and decided to keep observing them without revealing himself. Yan Chixia wounded the Titan Giant Ape, exposed Xiao Wu as a soul beast in human form, and identified Tang San as a half-demon, while Tang San recognized Yan Chixia as a Spirit Hall elder.

• Di Tian refused Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's demand to save the hunted soul beasts, then resolved to observe the humans and investigate their abnormal soul rings.
• Yan Chixia severed both of the Titan Giant Ape's arms, and Xiao Wu pleaded with him to stop hurting Er Ming.
• Yan Chixia recognized Xiao Wu as a soul beast taking human form and called her a demoness, but Tang San arrived and called her his brother.
• Ye Zhou, Uncle Jiu, and Daoist Qian He had previously subdued Tang San, erased his memory of Yan Chixia, and crippled his Purple Extreme Demon Eye before letting him chase the Titan Giant Ape again.
• Ye Zhou arrived and pretended not to know Yan Chixia, who understood through a secret transmission that Xiao Wu and Tang San were the novel's female and male leads.
• Yan Chixia called Tang San a half-demon, and Tang San recognized him as a powerful Spirit Hall elder and grew wary.