Chapter Summaries

Yang Wudi overwhelmed Yu Xiaoheng and prepared a fatal strike, but Yu Xiaoheng revealed an extraordinarily powerful fourth soul ring just before impact. The chapter ended with Yang Wudi stunned by the ring’s apparent fifty-thousand-year age.

• Yang Wudi repelled Yu Xiaoheng’s purple flames from a distance, following Tang San’s warning not to let the unusual attacks touch him.
• Yang Wudi drove Yu Xiaoheng backward with a barrage of spear strikes, wounding him while brushing aside his Purple Gold Sacred Dragon.
• Hearing fighting and a whistle nearby, Yang Wudi decided to end the battle quickly and activated his Martial Soul Avatar and sixth soul skill.
• Yang Wudi’s giant spear pinned Yu Xiaoheng in place as the Shui Family Sisters cried out and Shui Yun'er was thrown back by the pressure.
• Yu Xiaoheng summoned his fourth soul ring, and Yang Wudi recognized its black aura as that of a ring that might be fifty thousand years old.

Yu Xiaoheng used his unstable Fourth Soul Skill, Body Burning Explosion, together with Heavenly Punishment Form to counter Yang Wudi’s lethal attack. His purple-gold storm began tearing apart Yang Wudi’s spear manifestation and battering his defenses, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Yang Wudi pressed his attack, but the spear’s wind pressure tore Yu Xiaoheng’s skin open and revealed purple-gold crystals beneath it.
• The story revealed that Yu Xiaoheng had absorbed a fifty-thousand-year Rainbow Dragon Soul Ring despite Da Ming and Er Ming warning that its chaotic power could destroy him.
• Yu Xiaoheng activated Body Burning Explosion while Heavenly Punishment Form was active, turning himself into a purple-gold storm of mist.
• Yu Xiaoheng’s storm shredded Yang Wudi’s Soul Breaking Spear manifestation and struck his protective Soul Light, shocking Yang Wudi.

Yu Xiaoheng transformed his fourth Spirit Skill with Heavenly Punishment Fire, shattering Yang Wudi’s Soul Breaking Spear and blasting him away. Using the explosion and Yang Wudi’s body as cover, Yu Xiaoheng broke through the encirclement and reached Yu Yuanzhen, gravely wounded.

• Yu Yuanzhen, Tang Wei, Ning Zhenyuan, and other sect experts rushed toward the passage after sensing Yu Xiaoheng’s aura.
• Yu Xiaoheng’s purple-gold storm consumed Yang Wudi’s spear, broke his Martial Soul Avatar, and sent him flying.
• Yu Xiaoheng hid beneath Yang Wudi’s body during the explosion and used the smoke to escape.
• Yu Xiaoheng charged toward Yu Yuanzhen, who opened his Thunder Domain to protect him.
• Yu Xiaoheng reached Yu Yuanzhen’s side, bloodied and struggling to breathe.

Yu Xiaoheng’s devastating attack on Yang Wudi made the assembled factions fear Blue Lightning’s future, prompting Tang Wei and Ning Zhenyuan to join forces against him. Yu Yuanzhen defended his son from the attackers, but Tang Wei’s hammer left him badly wounded.

• Yu Xiaoheng stood bloodied after striking Yang Wudi down, shocking the gathered clans and making them fear his potential.
• Tang Wei launched an all-out attack on Yu Xiaoheng, while Ning Zhenyuan amplified him with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Yu Yuanzhen transformed into a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon and blocked Tang Wei’s hammer to protect his son.
• The gathered factions attacked Blue Lightning’s forces, while Tang Wei kept Yu Yuanzhen occupied.
• A Feng Family Soul Douluo sent a Wind Blade toward Yu Xiaoheng, forcing Yu Yuanzhen to expose his back and destroy the attack.
• Tang Wei struck Yu Yuanzhen from behind, blasting away his scales and leaving him badly wounded.

Yu Xiaoheng gave Yu Yuanzhen a Dragon Blood Vine, healing his wounds and helping him break through to level ninety-three. With his strength and Soul Power restored, Yu Yuanzhen crushed a Feng Family Soul Douluo and unleashed a relentless barrage of powerful skills against Tang Wei and the besieging forces.

• Yu Xiaoheng threw Yu Yuanzhen a Dragon Blood Vine and told him to eat the whole thing.
• Yu Yuanzhen swallowed the vine, healed his injuries, replenished his Soul Power, and broke through to level ninety-three.
• Yu Yuanzhen seized the Feng Family Soul Douluo with lightning and crushed him into bloody mist.
• Yu Yuanzhen attacked Tang Wei with his ninth soul skill, forcing Tang Wei to defend with Clear Sky Protection.
• Yu Yuanzhen continued firing off powerful Spirit Skills, driving the besieging experts into retreat.

Tang Wei used Ring Detonation and Ning Zhenyuan’s amplifications to overwhelm Yu Yuanzhen, who was fighting to protect Yu Xiaoheng. Yu Xiaoheng fed his father Aromatic Silk Beauty, raising him to rank ninety-four, but Tang Wei then detonated four more rings for a still more devastating attack.

• Tang Wei detonated his first black Spirit Ring and struck Yu Yuanzhen with the Great Sumeru Hammer, forcing him to one knee.
• Tang Wei detonated his second and third black Spirit Rings while Ning Zhenyuan amplified his attack, smashing Yu Yuanzhen into the earth and gravely injuring him.
• Yu Xiaoheng fed Yu Yuanzhen Aromatic Silk Beauty, healing his injuries, strengthening his foundation, and raising his cultivation to rank ninety-four.
• Tang San watched Yu Yuanzhen recover and lamented that the Immortal Herbs had been meant for the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Wei ordered four Ten Thousand Year Spirit Rings detonated together as Ning Zhenyuan poured every amplification into him.

Yu Yuanzhen, pushed to the brink by Tang Wei and Ning Zhenyuan, used the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s Dragon Transformation technique and prepared to sacrifice himself to protect Yu Xiaoheng. As Yu Yuanzhen charged Tang Wei in a suicidal attack, Tang Wei drew on Ning Zhenyuan’s Soul Power and detonated his final three Spirit Rings.

• Tang Wei blasted Yu Yuanzhen through hills and into a ravine, leaving him unable to move as he prepared to strike again.
• Yu Yuanzhen saw Yu Xiaoheng in danger and used Dragon Transformation, burning his life and compressing his Soul Power to prepare to self-destruct.
• Yu Yuanzhen attacked Tang Wei without defending himself, forcing Tang Wei backward while surrounding Soul Douluo joined the assault.
• Tang Wei demanded all of Ning Zhenyuan’s Soul Power, then detonated his Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Spirit Rings at once.

Yu Xiaoheng’s Purple Fire burned away Yang Wudi’s Martial Soul, frightening the gathered Soul Masters and driving Tang Wei to resume his attack on Yu Yuanzhen. Yu Yuanzhen abandoned his defense to save his son, and the chapter ended with the Purple Fire burning into his arm.

• Tang Wei hesitated before striking Yu Yuanzhen, wary of Ning Zhenyuan taking advantage of his weakness afterward.
• Titan and Bai He discovered that Yang Wudi’s Martial Soul had been burned away by Yu Xiaoheng’s Purple Fire.
• The onlookers feared Yu Xiaoheng’s power, and Tang Wei resolved to kill him and Yu Yuanzhen despite the cost.
• Tang Wei launched his Clear Sky Hammer at Yu Yuanzhen, who turned away from the attack to rescue the Purple Fire-wrapped Yu Xiaoheng.
• Yu Yuanzhen caught Yu Xiaoheng, and the Purple Fire spread onto his arm as Yu Xiaoheng explained that he was waiting for his body to adapt.

Yu Yuanzhen extinguished the flames consuming Yu Xiaoheng, but Xiaoheng’s body then dissolved into purple-gold Core Flame, leaving his fate uncertain. Tang Wei decided against striking Yu Yuanzhen and withdrew with the Clear Sky Sect.

• Yu Yuanzhen redirected his Soul Power to extinguish the purple flames on Yu Xiaoheng, sacrificing his chance to attack Tang Wei and Ning Zhenyuan.
• The flames collapsed inward, and Yu Xiaoheng’s body disintegrated into purple-gold Core Flame; Yu Yuanzhen sensed a faint trace of life and pretended his son was dead.
• Tang Wei halted his Clear Sky Hammer strike and weighed the danger of Yu Yuanzhen’s self-destruction and Ning Zhenyuan’s intervention.
• Tang Wei lowered his hammer, spoke as if he did not know who had died, and announced that the Clear Sky Sect would leave.
• Tang Wei led his people away with the unconscious Yang Wudi and injured Niu Gao while Yu Yuanzhen guarded the Core Flame.

After the Clear Sky Sect and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect withdrew, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan mourned Yu Xiaoheng, who had burned himself out in battle. Yu Xiaogang learned that his brother was dead, and Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi arrived at the devastated sect asking where he was.

• Ning Zhenyuan led the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect away, and Yu Yuanzhen roared at the departing imperial observers until they also left.
• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan disciples knelt and mourned Yu Xiaoheng as violet-gold flames flickered in Yu Yuanzhen's arms.
• Yu Xiaogang emerged from the ruins, and an Elder told him Yu Xiaoheng had crippled Yang Wudi and burned himself out to reach the Soul Ancestor realm.
• Yu Xiaogang learned what had happened, collapsed, and stared blankly at the sky.
• Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi reached the devastated plaza and anxiously asked where Yu Xiaoheng was.

Yu Xiaoheng survived as a Purple Gold Ember, but he and Yu Yuanzhen staged his death to protect him and the weakened Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. As the sect mourned him, Rou'er and Liu Erlong arrived and learned that something terrible had happened.

• Yu Changkong told Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi that Yu Xiaoheng was dead, and the sisters collapsed in grief.
• Yu Xiaoheng secretly told Yu Yuanzhen to keep his survival hidden so their enemies would believe he was gone and leave the sect alone.
• Yu Xiaoheng explained that his body had collapsed under the power of his Third Spirit Ring, leaving him as an ember that could eventually reshape itself with resistance to Purple Fire.
• Yu Xiaoheng absorbed the medicinal ingredients stored in his melted Soul Tool and asked Yu Yuanzhen to take him near the Thunder Pool.
• Yu Yuanzhen ordered the sect to wear white mourning clothes, seal the mountain gate, and announce that Yu Xiaoheng had died protecting the sect.
• Liu Erlong and Rou'er returned to the ruined sect, found Yu Xiaogang, and demanded to know where Yu Xiaoheng was.

Rou'er, Liu Erlong, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan mourned Yu Xiaoheng after finding only his ashes, while rumors across the continent turned his death into a heroic legend. Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi returned to Skywater Academy and confirmed the news, leaving Chen Wan stunned.

• Rou'er searched Yu Xiaoheng's ashes in disbelief, while Liu Erlong cried out in grief and Yu Changkong tried to comfort them.
• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan held days of mourning, and Yu Yuanzhen appeared devastated by the loss of his favored heir.
• Stories spread that Yu Xiaoheng, a Soul Ancestor, had defeated Yang Wudi and died in the battle, while major factions allowed the tale to stand.
• Shui Yun'er and Shui Lingxi returned to Skywater Academy, where Shui Yun'er confirmed Yu Xiaoheng's death to the students.
• Chen Wan remembered meeting Yu Xiaoheng in the Far North and regretted that she had expected to hear of his future greatness, not his death.

After Yu Xiaoheng’s death, the continent’s sects and academies reflected on his power and mourned or feared what he might have become. Spirit Hall debated how to honor him, and Qian Daoliu ordered an eternal memorial tablet established in Douluo Hall’s side hall under the posthumous title Hidden Dragon.

• Chen Wan heard the Shui Family Sisters’ grief and concluded Yu Xiaoheng may truly have defeated Yang Wudi before dying.
• Ning Zhenyuan told Ning Fengzhi that Yu Xiaoheng’s purple flame and strength had made him terrifying, and that his death spared the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Tang Wei celebrated Yu Xiaoheng’s death, while Tang Hao acknowledged his courage and Tang San left to visit Senior Yang.
• The Lower Four Sects and several academies reacted to Yu Xiaoheng’s death, with Feng Che and Huo Ning mourning the loss of a remarkable rival.
• Spirit Hall’s bishops debated how to honor Yu Xiaoheng, and Qian Daoliu ordered a side-hall memorial tablet and bestowed the posthumous title Hidden Dragon.

Qian Xunji returned to Spirit Hall with a pregnant woman chosen to bear the Angel God’s heir, and named their unborn child Qian Renxue. In Heaven Dou City, Bibi Dong learned that Yu Xiaoheng had died and was consumed by grief and anger.

• Qian Daoliu questioned whether Yu Xiaoheng’s death meant the Angel God’s warning concerned someone else.
• Qian Xunji brought his pregnant relative before Qian Daoliu and explained that the Angel God had blessed him to produce a powerful heir.
• Qian Daoliu sensed the sacred aura of the unborn child, and Qian Xunji named her Qian Renxue.
• Bibi Dong received a secret letter reporting that Yu Xiaoheng had died after fighting Yang Wudi during the siege of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Bibi Dong crushed her teacup and blamed the Clear Sky Sect, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Yang Wudi for Yu Xiaoheng’s death.

After learning that Yu Xiaoheng had been killed, Bibi Dong attacked a Clear Sky Sect outpost in a frenzy, only for Qian Xunji to arrive and order her back. Convinced that her enemies had taken everything from her, she launched a suicidal assault on her teacher.

• Bibi Dong left a teahouse after hearing about Yu Xiaoheng's death and set out to kill those she blamed.
• Bibi Dong slaughtered Clear Sky Sect outer disciples at a secret outpost near the border between the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire.
• Tang San urged Tang Hao to kill Bibi Dong, but Tang Hao refused because doing so could provoke Spirit Hall and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Qian Xunji arrived, praised Bibi Dong's strength, and ordered her to return with him.
• Bibi Dong screamed that she would kill everyone and attacked Qian Xunji with venomous spikes and the Spider Emperor phantom.
• Qian Xunji summoned the Angel Holy Sword and prepared to subdue Bibi Dong by force.

After Yu Xiaoheng’s death, Bibi Dong witnessed Tang Hao slaughter captured Blue Lightning Sect Disciples and was taken back to Spirit Hall, where Qian Xunji left her unconfined. Yu Yuanzhen’s breakthrough to Level Ninety-Five deterred the great powers, while Yu Xiaogang began managing the clan’s expanding trade.

• Tang Hao revealed that the Clear Sky Sect had abducted Blue Lightning Sect Disciples as leverage against Yu Yuanzhen, then killed them after Yu Xiaoheng’s death made them useless.
• Bibi Dong attacked Tang Hao in grief, but Qian Xunji struck her down and ordered Red Robe Bishops to take her away.
• Two days later, Bibi Dong awoke in her former quarters at Spirit Hall and learned she could not leave Spirit City, though she was not imprisoned.
• Yu Yuanzhen entered seclusion, broke through to Level Ninety-Five, and caused the major powers to halt their pressure on the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Liu Erlong continued grieving at Yu Xiaoheng’s old cultivation place while Yu Xiaogang took over his trade caravans and began selling goods such as soap, glass, and perfume.

Yu Xiaogang rose within the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan by using Luo Buhui to rapidly cultivate and taking over the clan work Yu Xiaoheng had once handled. While privately tormented by jealousy and regret over his brother’s death, Yu Xiaogang was left behind as a powerful arm burst from the purple-gold flames in the forbidden Thunder Pool.

• Yu Xiaogang fed spiritual herbs to Luo Buhui, whose ability rapidly raised his Soul Power to Level Twenty-One.
• Uncle Liu praised Yu Xiaogang’s clan work and recalled how Yu Xiaoheng had once managed the clan’s affairs from the same seat.
• After Uncle Liu left, Yu Xiaogang confessed his resentment and jealousy toward Yu Xiaoheng, while wondering how his brother had died.
• Months later, a powerful arm emerged from the purple-gold flames in the Thunder Pool and gouged deep marks into the Lightning ore.

After being reborn in the Purple-Gold Flame, Yu Xiaoheng reunited with Yu Yuanzhen and revealed his strengthened body and evolved Martial Soul abilities. He planned to visit Sunset Forest and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well before obtaining his Fifth Spirit Ring, while demonstrating his new powers to his father.

• Yu Xiaoheng emerged from the Thunder Pool with a rebuilt body and called Yu Yuanzhen, who rushed to meet his son.
• Yu Xiaoheng told Yu Yuanzhen that the Purple-Gold Flame had fused his herbs into his body, raised him to Level Fifty, and granted him strong resistance to attacks.
• Yu Xiaoheng said he planned to visit Dugu Bo's Herb Garden at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well before seeking his Fifth Spirit Ring, and Yu Yuanzhen agreed to arrange the trip.
• Yu Xiaoheng revealed that his evolved Purple Gold Sacred Dragon could become a Martial Soul Possession Form that doubled his attributes.
• Yu Xiaoheng demonstrated how his First Soul Skill amplified the form further and how it could shape Heavenly Punishment Power into weapons that burned Soul Power and destroyed Martial Souls.
• Yu Xiaoheng showed that his Second Soul Skill had become a close-fitting Thunder Fire armor and could launch precise, explosive beams.

Yu Xiaoheng disguised his identity by scarring his face and masking his Spirit Rings, then learned how Blue Lightning Sect had suffered while he was asleep. He resolved to retaliate against the powers that had been weakening the sect and asked Yu Yuanzhen to take him outside.

• Yu Xiaoheng cut and burned a scar into his cheek so others would not recognize him.
• Yu Xiaoheng used Heavenly Punishment Purple Fire to disguise his Spirit Rings as five uniform purple rings.
• Yu Yuanzhen showed Yu Xiaoheng a ledger documenting the dead and injured Blue Electric Guard members, including Yu Lin, whose Martial Soul had been crippled.
• Yu Yuanzhen explained that the opposing sects and empires were slowly attacking Blue Lightning Sect, while Yu Xiaogang used profits from the sect's businesses to sustain it.
• Yu Xiaoheng vowed that the Clear Sky Sect, Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Heaven Dou Empire, and Star Luo Empire would pay, then asked Yu Yuanzhen to take him outside.

Yu Xiaoheng learned that Spirit Hall was offering three dragon-type Soul Bones as the tournament’s champion reward and decided to enter under a false identity to claim the Rainbow Dragon left leg bone. After learning Rou'er had disappeared, he changed his plan to hunt for his fifth soul ring in Sunset Forest, where Yu Yuanzhen revealed that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was gone.

• Yu Yuanzhen showed Yu Xiaoheng the tournament flyer and explained that Liu Erlong had entered to avenge him.
• Yu Xiaoheng recognized the Rainbow Dragon left leg bone among the champion’s rewards and vowed to take it.
• Yu Xiaoheng arranged to compete under an obscure academy rather than represent the Blue Lightning Sect.
• Yu Yuanzhen told Yu Xiaoheng that Rou'er had left the sect and had not registered for the tournament.
• Worried Rou'er might expose his deception to Da Ming and Er Ming, Yu Xiaoheng abandoned his plan to hunt in Star Dou Great Forest and chose Sunset Forest instead.
• Yu Yuanzhen warned Yu Xiaoheng that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was gone.