Chapter Summaries

Bibi Dong persuaded Hu Liena to infiltrate the Maoshan Sect, kill Ye Zhou, and impersonate him so she could undermine Qian Renxue. Two months later, the Heaven Dou Alliance and Spirit Hall destroyed the Clear Sky Sect, though Tang Xiao and a small group escaped and Tang Hao never appeared.

• Bibi Dong ordered Hu Liena to enter the Maoshan Sect as the orphaned daughter of a fallen Soul Master, then kill Ye Zhou and take his place.
• Hu Liena accepted the mission, hoping to surpass Qian Renxue and become Bibi Dong’s chosen heir.
• The Heaven Dou Alliance and Spirit Hall gathered their forces and launched a joint assault on the Clear Sky Sect outside Heaven Dou City.
• After a day and night of fighting, the attackers stormed the mountain and killed nearly all the Clear Sky Sect’s disciples.
• Tang Xiao and the Sixth Elder, Tang Lie, escaped with more than a dozen direct-line disciples, while Xue Qinghe joined the assault and regretted that Tang Hao had not appeared.

After the Clear Sky Sect fell, the victors divided its resources and disbanded their alliance, while Ye Zhou reviewed Maoshan Sect’s losses and gains. He approved compensation and rewards, then granted He Shen ten million Gold Soul Coins to develop his fief into the Blazing Flame Duchy.

• The Heaven Dou Alliance, Spirit Hall, and Maoshan Sect claimed the largest shares of the Clear Sky Sect’s spoils, then the factions agreed to hunt the surviving Clear Sky Sect members and disbanded the alliance.
• Yan Chixia led Spirit Hall’s Soul Masters away after they burned the Clear Sky Sect’s buildings to ashes.
• He Shen reported Maoshan Sect’s casualties, compensation needs, orphans, and seized resources to Ye Zhou.
• Ye Zhou ordered rewards for Maoshan Sect’s disciples and proper care for the orphans.
• He Shen requested ten million Gold Soul Coins to develop Ye Zhou’s fief, and Ye Zhou approved the funding.

Hu Liena infiltrated the Maoshan Sect as Huang Wenwen, hoping to get close to Ye Zhou, but he remained in secluded cultivation. After Ye Zhou stabilized his realm and left his residence to find food, he unexpectedly encountered her.

• Ye Zhou dismissed He Shen and resumed secluded cultivation to stabilize his Rank 77 Soul Saint realm.
• Hu Liena entered the Maoshan Sect disguised as Huang Wenwen, an orphaned outer sect disciple whose identity Spirit Hall had stolen.
• Hu Liena followed the sect’s training and work routine for weeks but grew anxious when she could not find Ye Zhou.
• Hu Liena bribed an outer sect disciple to deliver meals to the inner sect, where she learned Ye Zhou was in secluded cultivation.
• Ye Zhou finished stabilizing his realm and went to find food, then encountered Hu Liena, who nearly called him by name.

Ye Zhou uncovered Hu Liena posing as Huang Wenwen and captured her after she tried to bewitch him. He left her in the Maoshan Sect dungeon, considering whether to use her as an infiltrator in Spirit Hall.

• Ye Zhou questioned Huang Wenwen, who claimed to be the orphaned daughter of an Outer Sect Disciple, and she asked to serve him.
• Hu Liena used her fox martial soul to bewitch Ye Zhou, but he resisted with the Soul Shifting Great Law and hypnotized her into revealing her identity.
• Ye Zhou had Hu Liena thrown into the Maoshan Sect dungeon and told her she had been exposed and captured within two minutes.
• Hu Liena threatened him with her teacher’s retaliation, but Ye Zhou dismissed her threat and criticized her teacher’s motives.
• Ye Zhou declared that he might use Hu Liena to plant someone in Spirit Hall, leaving her terrified.

Ye Zhou decided to retaliate against Spirit Hall by replacing Hu Liena with an impostor, then summoned Kaito Kuroba for the task. He planned to give Kaito a Demon Fox Martial Soul and matching soul rings before sending him to Spirit Hall.

• Hu Liena warned Ye Zhou that Bibi Dong would recognize any impostor, but Ye Zhou dismissed her confidence in her teacher and left her imprisoned.
• Yue Buqun reported that Spirit Hall had planted three more spies among the outer sect disciples, and Ye Zhou ordered him to keep them unaware so they would send false information.
• Ye Zhou used two eighty-thousand-year soul beast corpses to summon a young disguise expert and received Kaito Kuroba, also known as Kaito Kid.
• Ye Zhou decided Kaito could convincingly impersonate Hu Liena and told him he would awaken his Martial Soul and summon a Demon Fox Martial Soul with matching soul rings.

Ye Zhou awakened Kaito Kuroba’s Phantom White Crow Martial Soul and discovered that Kaito had Innate Full Soul Power at level ten. He planned to use Kaito’s new abilities to impersonate Hu Liena and deceive Bibi Dong.

• Ye Zhou gave Kaito Kuroba a Japanese edition of Douluo Continent and explained that Tang San was eight years old.
• Ye Zhou awakened Kaito Kuroba’s Phantom White Crow Martial Soul, a rare mutation with illusion abilities.
• Ye Zhou summoned a Martial Soul Encyclopedia and gave Kaito pages about the Phantom White Crow, then summoned a Translation Konjac so Kaito could read them.
• Ye Zhou tested Kaito Kuroba’s Soul Power and found that he had Innate Full Soul Power at level ten.

Ye Zhou outfitted Kaito Kuroba with a Demon Fox martial soul, soul rings, a soul bone, and pills so he could impersonate Hu Liena and infiltrate Spirit Hall. Kaito reached level thirty-four and became a Soul Elder before Ye Zhou took him to meet Hu Liena in the dungeon.

• Ye Zhou explained Soul Power and soul rings to Kaito, then told him to impersonate a girl and leave with him.
• Ye Zhou summoned a Demon Fox martial soul and three matching soul rings for Kaito, who absorbed the first ring and reached level eleven.
• Ye Zhou gave Kaito a fifty-thousand-year-old left arm soul bone, helping him reach level twenty before he absorbed a second ring and became a Soul Grandmaster.
• Ye Zhou fed Kaito two Bodhi Pills and helped him absorb his third soul ring, raising him to level thirty-four and making him a Soul Elder.
• Kaito agreed to impersonate Hu Liena, and Ye Zhou took him to the dungeon to see her.

Ye Zhou revealed Hu Liena’s true appearance and told Kaito Kuroba to learn her habits so he could impersonate her and infiltrate Spirit Hall. While Spirit Hall’s agents celebrated Hu Liena’s supposed success, Kaito disguised himself as Huang Wenwen, finished reading the novels, and began stabilizing his Soul Power.

• Ye Zhou dispelled Hu Liena’s disguise, and Kaito Kuroba admired her true appearance.
• Ye Zhou explained that Kaito would impersonate Hu Liena and use hypnosis to learn her habits; Kaito agreed and returned with Ye Zhou disguised as Huang Wenwen.
• Spirit Hall’s three agents heard that an Outer Sect Disciple was attending Ye Zhou and believed Hu Liena had infiltrated his side, so they secretly informed the Pope.
• Kaito finished reading the Japanese editions of the Douluo Continent novels and decided to remain in the world, grow stronger, and help Ye Zhou undermine Spirit Hall.
• Kaito followed Ye Zhou’s incantations and meditated to stabilize his Soul Power realm.

A year after Kaito Kuroba began impersonating Hu Liena, he prepared to pose as Ye Zhou and accompany Shi Jian to Spirit City, where Spirit Hall would believe the mission had succeeded. Ye Zhou killed Hu Liena, then arranged to leave Heaven Dou City and travel across the continent with Uncle Jiu.

• Kaito Kuroba completed his Hu Liena disguise and explained that he would pose as Ye Zhou at Tang Lian's title-conferring ceremony in Spirit City.
• Ye Zhou approved Kaito Kuroba's plan, and Kaito Kuroba changed into Ye Zhou's appearance before leaving to join Shi Jian.
• Ye Zhou told Hu Liena that she was no longer useful and killed her with Three Points Return to One Qi, taking her soul bone.
• Ye Zhou ordered Yue Buqun to bury Hu Liena's corpse without revealing it.
• Ye Zhou adopted Kaito Kuroba's appearance and invited Uncle Jiu to travel with him, and Uncle Jiu agreed.

Ye Zhou gathered Xiao Qing, Uncle Jiu, and Yue Buqun to travel from Heaven Dou City toward the Star Luo Empire, seeking challenges at major Soul Arenas. In Star Luo City, the reunited Golden Iron Triangle protected Shrek Academy from the Tang Sect, but the Tang Sect escalated the conflict by threatening the Star Luo Royal Family with a future assassination operation.

• Ye Zhou recruited Xiao Qing for his journey, and she eagerly agreed to join him, Uncle Jiu, and Yue Buqun as they set off toward the Star Luo Empire.
• At Shrek Academy in Star Luo City, Yu Xiaogang trained Tang San, Ma Hongjun, Dai Mu Bai, and Oscar while Liu Erlong reunited with Yu Xiaogang and restored the Golden Iron Triangle.
• Dai Mu Bai regained his resolve to compete with his brother for the crown prince position, helped establish Shrek Academy, and studied under Flender and the Golden Iron Triangle.
• After Tang Sect assassination attempts failed, Dai Tianfeng made the Golden Iron Triangle Guest Elders and warned the Tang Sect to keep its assassins out of the Star Luo Empire.
• Tang Lian became a Titled Douluo, and the Tang Sect threatened to target the Star Luo Royal Family in the next war, alarming the empire.

Yu Xiaogang trained Tang San and the other Shrek students for a future fight with the Tang Sect while Ye Zhou traveled to Aoting City and challenged Spirit Hall. The chapter ended with Ye Zhou defeating the hall's three Soul Emperor stewards after they attacked him.

• Dai Tianfeng kept the Golden Iron Triangle as imperial Guest Elders despite the Star Luo Empire's conflict with Tang Lian and the Tang Sect.
• Yu Xiaogang ordered Tang San to train without Hidden Weapons against Dai Mu Bai and Ma Hongjun, who used Hidden Weapons, with Oscar supporting them.
• Yu Xiaogang took pride in Tang San's rank-thirty-seven Soul Power and imagined his disciple's future fame would validate his Martial Soul Theory.
• Ye Zhou traveled with his companions to Aoting City, where Yue Buqun reported that Spirit Hall's strongest local Soul Master was Bishop Xue Beike, a rank-seventy-eight Soul Saint.
• Ye Zhou went to Spirit Hall to deliver a challenge letter, knocked down the gatekeeping Soul Masters, and then defeated the three Soul Emperor stewards who attacked him.

Ye Zhou, disguised as Kaito Kuroba, challenged Spirit Hall Bishop Xue Beike after defeating his deacons and Soul Emperors. Xue Beike revealed he was a Level 81 Soul Fighting Luo, but Ye Zhou fought him without activating his Martial Soul and sent him crashing into the Spirit Hall gates.

• Ye Zhou challenged Bishop Xue Beike to a fight after defeating three Spirit Hall deacons and several other Soul Masters.
• Xue Beike accepted on the condition that Ye Zhou join Spirit Hall if he lost, while Ye Zhou wagered that Xue Beike would leave Spirit Hall if he won.
• Xue Beike activated his Martial Soul and revealed eight Soul Rings, shocking Yue Buqun and the onlookers with his true Soul Fighting Luo rank.
• Ye Zhou refused to activate his Martial Soul and met Xue Beike's Tyrannical Bear Palm with the Heaven Frost Fist technique Frost-Chilled Long River.
• Xue Beike was battered and thrown into the Spirit Hall gates, and Ye Zhou began gathering Soul Power for his Titan Skybreak left-arm bone skill.

Ye Zhou and Xiao Qing defeated powerful opponents and dominated the Great Soul Arenas as they traveled toward Spirit City. There, Bibi Dong prepared to meet the arriving Maoshan Sect and use Hu Liena and Ye Zhou to help remove a threat to Xiao Gang.

• Ye Zhou defeated Xue Beike, left Gold Soul Coins for his medical expenses, and became known across the continent as Kid.
• Ye Zhou and his companions traveled through Aoting City and Luma City, where he challenged and defeated each city's strongest Soul Master and swept the Great Soul Arena's one-against-seven matches.
• Xiao Qing joined Ye Zhou in the Luma City Great Soul Arena and helped sweep its matches before the group continued their journey.
• Bibi Dong learned that Tang Lian and the Maoshan Sect would arrive in Spirit City the next day and ordered preparations to welcome them.
• Bibi Dong planned to meet Hu Liena and use the Maoshan Sect to eliminate a major threat to Xiao Gang.

Yan Chixia and his allies confronted Bibi Dong in the Pope’s Palace and moved to sideline her before Tang Lian arrived in Spirit City. Bibi Dong attacked Yue Guan, but Yan Chixia’s sword forced her back.

• Ghostly, Yue Guan, and Yan Chixia entered the Pope’s Palace and warned Bibi Dong not to interfere with Tang Lian’s arrival and coronation.
• Yan Chixia announced that he would preside over Tang Lian’s coronation as Great Elder while Bibi Dong stayed away in supposed seclusion.
• Yan Chixia summoned allied bishops and armored Soul Masters, who pledged allegiance to him and demanded that Bibi Dong enter seclusion.
• Yue Guan led the crowd in calling for Yan Chixia to preside over the coronation and then urged Bibi Dong to obey.
• Bibi Dong attacked Yue Guan with her scepter, but Yan Chixia sent the Xuanyuan Divine Sword flying to force her back.

Yan Chixia defeated Bibi Dong and left her worried that he knew about her Rakshasa inheritance, while Bibi Dong plotted against Tang Lian. The next evening, Kaito Kuroba infiltrated the Pope’s Palace disguised as Hu Liena and learned Bibi Dong’s plans before escaping a search.

• Yan Chixia rebuked Bibi Dong for driving Yue Guan and Ghostly to defect, then left the palace with them and the other Soul Fighting Luos.
• Bibi Dong doubted that Yan Chixia knew her Rakshasa inheritance and decided to use Hu Liena and Shi Jian to arrange Tang Lian’s death.
• Kaito Kuroba entered Spirit City disguised as Hu Liena and then Ye Zhou, found Bibi Dong’s signal, and went to the Pope’s Palace.
• Kaito Kuroba revealed himself as Hu Liena to Bibi Dong, who gave him Breaking Clan poison and ordered him to poison Shi Jian.
• After a maid reported that Ghostly and Yue Guan had arrived to search the palace, Bibi Dong told Kaito Kuroba to incite conflict between the Maoshan Sect and the Tang Sect and kill Tang Lian.
• Kaito Kuroba agreed and hurried out through the rear of the hall to avoid being exposed.

Tang Lian accepted Spirit Hall’s honorary elder title and was crowned Thousand Mechanisms Douluo before a crowd in Spirit City. Bibi Dong watched from the shadows and resolved to eliminate him because she feared he could threaten Xiao Gang.

• After leaving the Pope’s Palace, Kaito Kuroba told Shi Jian about Bibi Dong’s plan, and Shi Jian arranged to pass the information to Tang Lian.
• Tang Lian agreed to become a Spirit Hall Honorary Elder after meeting with Yan Chixia and the Maoshan Sect guests.
• Yan Chixia crowned Tang Lian at Douluo Hall and formally bestowed the title Thousand Mechanisms.
• Tang Lian revealed his Martial Soul Avatar and nine Soul Rings, prompting the crowd to cheer for Thousand Mechanisms Douluo.
• Bibi Dong saw Tang Lian’s coronation and decided to eliminate him to protect Xiao Gang.

Bibi Dong ambushed Tang Lian outside Windwhisper City and nearly killed him after he and his allies were overwhelmed. Ye Zhou’s group arrived during the fight and launched an attack on Bibi Dong, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Bibi Dong left Tang Lian’s coronation and secretly followed his convoy after deciding to kill him herself.
• Ye Zhou’s group chose to head toward Holy Dragon City to challenge Tuo Ba Xi, but sensed a powerful battle nearby and discovered Tang Lian and Tang Kuan were fighting its source.
• Bibi Dong defeated Tang Lian’s allies and wounded Tang Lian and Tang Kuan while her Divine Slaughter’s Domain strengthened her attacks.
• Tang Lian recognized Bibi Dong and provoked her by insulting her relationship with Yu Xiaogang as he prepared to use his last King of Hell’s Post.
• Ye Zhou arrived with Xiao Qing, Uncle Jiu, and Yue Buqun, then struck Bibi Dong with Azure Annihilation Thunder.

Ye Zhou arrived with his companions to save Tang Lian from Bibi Dong, and Xiao Qing challenged the Spirit Hall Pope to a fight. Bibi Dong weakened Xiao Qing with Divine Slaughter's Domain and began charging a devastating soul bone attack.

• Ye Zhou rescued the injured Wang Zhen and gave healing pills to him, Tang Lian, and Tang Kuan while Xiao Qing confronted Bibi Dong.
• Xiao Qing transformed into a giant green snake and destroyed Bibi Dong's spider webs, revealing herself as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Bibi Dong and Xiao Qing clashed with soul skills and demonic arts as Ye Zhou helped Wang Zhen recover.
• Bibi Dong narrowed Divine Slaughter's Domain around Xiao Qing, weakening her and strengthening herself.
• Bibi Dong formed soul bone armor over her chest and began charging Rakshasa Ghost Eyes Scorch Heaven and Earth.

Ye Zhou, Uncle Jiu, and Xiao Qing joined forces against Bibi Dong outside Windwhisper City. After their attacks collided with her beam, Bibi Dong stood motionless and then shattered, leaving Yue Buqun stunned.

• Ye Zhou urged Uncle Jiu to help Xiao Qing as she prepared Mysterious Water Yin Thunder against Bibi Dong.
• Uncle Jiu summoned his Peach Wood Sword Martial Soul Avatar and attacked Bibi Dong with a giant sword wrapped in Spirit Talismans.
• Ye Zhou and Xiao Qing struck Bibi Dong with Three Points Return to One Qi and Mysterious Water Yin Thunder as she fired a massive red beam.
• The clash sent a shockwave across the area, alarming Soul Masters in Windwhisper City, while Old Yue sheltered Tang Lian, Tang Kuan, and Wang Zhen in his shadow space.
• After the blast, Xiao Qing was injured, Uncle Jiu appeared unharmed, and Ye Zhou revealed armor formed from his Hundred-Thousand-Year Titan Crocodile Turtle Trunk Bone.
• Bibi Dong stood with vacant eyes, cracked apart, and exploded into fragments as Yue Buqun watched.

Bibi Dong survived her defeat by using her Ninth Soul Skill, Undying Body, and fled while Ye Zhou sensed that powerful beings were watching them. In the God Realm, the God of Destruction observed Ye Zhou and his companions and decided to keep an eye on them.

• Bibi Dong reassembled her shattered body with Undying Body, threatened Xiao Qing, Uncle Jiu, and Ye Zhou, then escaped using her Six-Winged Violet Light Wings.
• Xiao Qing wanted to pursue Bibi Dong, but Ye Zhou stopped her because she was injured and Bibi Dong would be difficult to catch or kill.
• Ye Zhou sensed two unseen gazes and suspected the Rakshasa God was watching after Bibi Dong's apparent death, so he chose not to pursue her.
• Ye Zhou descended to treat Xiao Qing while remaining wary of the unknown beings observing them.
• In the God Realm, the God of Destruction watched Ye Zhou and his companions through a mirror and decided to keep an eye on Ye Zhou.