Chapter Summaries

After Ma Hongjun’s death, Tang San focused on Shrek’s failing tournament prospects and decided to secretly strengthen his Second Martial Soul. He left Spirit City for a Soul Hunting Forest, intent on adding Soul Rings to his Clear Sky Hammer and pursuing a chance to enter Dao Seeking Academy.

• Zhang Yulan thanked Flender, promised to care for her pregnancy, and left while Flender watched in grief.
• Dai Mubai mourned Ma Hongjun, while Flender was devastated by the death of the disciple he had regarded as a son.
• Shrek lost a team match after Ma Hongjun’s death left them short-handed, convincing Tang San that the Team Competition was hopeless.
• Tang San decided to attach Soul Rings to his Clear Sky Hammer and seek a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast to improve his chances in the Individual Competition.
• Tang San left a letter saying he would cultivate in seclusion, then secretly headed south out of Spirit City.

Qian Renxue persuaded Bibi Dong to try an unconventional plan to conceive a child with their Teacher, and Bibi Dong asked Qian Renxue to help. A day later, Tang San reached level forty after gaining three thousand-year Soul Rings but worried that he could not safely defeat a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

• Bibi Dong stopped twisting Qian Renxue’s ear after Qian Renxue offered a way to help her conceive their Teacher’s child.
• Qian Renxue suggested involving other women and switching Bibi Dong in at a critical moment, and Bibi Dong agreed to call Ling Yuan and the Bai Qingqing sisters.
• Bibi Dong apologized for treating Qian Renxue harshly and promised to help her with anything that did not violate her principles if she conceived.
• Qian Renxue agreed to help and advised Bibi Dong to make their Teacher happy to improve her chances.
• A day later, Tang San absorbed three thousand-year Soul Rings into the Clear Sky Hammer and broke through to level forty.
• Tang San considered hunting a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast but feared that even victory would leave him too exhausted to absorb its Soul Ring.

Qian Renxue persuaded Bibi Dong to try her scheme for conceiving a child with their teacher, and the two reconciled enough to plan it together. Meanwhile, Tang San reached level forty after absorbing three thousand-year Soul Rings but worried he could not safely hunt a ten-thousand-year Soul Beast for his next ring.

• Qian Renxue stopped Bibi Dong from punishing her by promising a method to help Bibi Dong get pregnant.
• Qian Renxue suggested that Bibi Dong join their teacher and several other wives at the right moment to improve her chances of conceiving.
• Bibi Dong acknowledged that she had treated Qian Renxue too harshly and asked her to help, promising to assist her in return.
• Zhao Linchuan watched Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong make their plans and anticipated the events ahead.
• Tang San absorbed his third thousand-year Soul Ring, broke through to level forty, and resolved to obtain one more Soul Ring to become a Soul Ancestor.
• Tang San recalled the powerful Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts he had observed and feared that hunting one would leave him too exhausted to absorb its Soul Ring.

Tang San reunited with Wang Sheng, who helped him find a ten-thousand-year Cave Earth Demon Spider and hunt its Soul Ring. After parting, Tang San searched alone for a fourth Soul Ring for the Clear Sky Hammer and defeated a roughly thirteen-thousand-year Spirit Beast, leaving him badly wounded and drained.

• Tang San reunited with Wang Sheng in the forest and learned that Wang Sheng worked as an assistant instructor at a junior Soul Master Academy under Spirit Hall.
• Tang San persuaded Wang Sheng to help him search for a ten-thousand-year Soul Beast, and Wang Sheng led him to a Cave Earth Demon Spider.
• Tang San and Wang Sheng hunted the spider, then shared drinks and stories at a Soul Master tavern, where Tang San privately resented Wang Sheng's stable life and blamed Yu Xiaogang for his own setbacks.
• Wang Sheng parted with Tang San the next morning and headed toward Spirit City, while Tang San returned to the Soul Hunting Forest to seek a fourth Clear Sky Hammer Soul Ring.
• After searching for nearly a day and night, Tang San fought and killed a roughly thirteen-thousand-year Spirit Beast with Chaotic Cloak, suffering deep wounds and losing more than half his Soul Power.

Tang San nearly died while absorbing a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring for his Clear Sky Hammer, but the Asura God secretly stabilized him and pushed the absorption onto a safe path. The Asura God also sent a blood-red sword toward Tang Hao and Tang Xiao, while Tang San recovered in the forest and prepared to return to Spirit City.

• Tang San’s body began breaking down as the Soul Ring’s power made his Clear Sky Hammer and Blue Silver Grass energies clash.
• The Asura God sensed Tang San’s crisis, used divine power to stabilize him, and scanned memories that revealed his desire for Great Emperor Shenwu’s recognition.
• The Asura God sent a blood-red sword toward Tang Hao and Tang Xiao, who mistook its arrival for an offer of inheritance for the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang San completed the absorption, discovered that his Soul Power had risen to Level forty-five, and decided to return to Spirit City.

Tang San returned to Shrek Academy after a few days away, revealing that he had reached level forty-five and persuading Flender to abandon the Team Competition in favor of the Individual Competition. Huang San privately judged that Tang San had ruined his future potential by adding Soul Rings to his Second Martial Soul.

• Dai Mubai and Oscar discussed Shrek Academy's forfeited matches and Tang San's unexplained absence.
• Tang San returned and told Flender he had advanced to level forty-five through his own efforts.
• Tang San urged Flender to forfeit the remaining Team Competition matches and focus on the Individual Competition.
• Flender accepted Tang San's proposal and decided that Tang San and Huang San would compete individually.
• Huang San learned of Tang San's breakthrough and inwardly condemned his decision to add Soul Rings to his Second Martial Soul.

After the Team Competition rankings were announced, Shui Bing'er questioned Ling Qingyue about why she had been forbidden to use Heavenly Snow Woman in the final. Zhao Linchuan arrived, comforted Shui Bing'er, and encouraged her to prepare for the Individual Competition.

• Spirit Hall's team won the Team Competition, Shui Bing'er's academy placed second, and a Qian Renxue-backed academy took third.
• The rankings sparked public debate over whether Shui Bing'er or Spirit Hall's team deserved greater praise.
• Shui Bing'er asked Ling Qingyue why she, Shui Yue'er, and Xue Wu had been forbidden to use Heavenly Snow Woman in the final.
• Zhao Linchuan arrived at the manor, and Shui Bing'er rushed into his arms with joy.
• Zhao Linchuan comforted Shui Bing'er and told her to cultivate and prepare for the Individual Competition.

Shui Bing'er vowed to win the Individual Competition for Zhao Linchuan, while the Ice Empress and Ling Qingyue urged him to spend more time with his family and have more children. Zhao Linchuan invoked the family law, and the chapter ended with the two women exhausted after his intimate attention in the Great Thousand World.

• Shui Bing'er promised Zhao Linchuan she would bring him the Individual Competition champion's medal.
• The Ice Empress told Ling Qingyue how Shui Yingyue and Shui Qinglan had agreed to join the Immortal Spirit Pavilion because of their devotion to Zhao Linchuan.
• Ling Qingyue asked Zhao Linchuan to have another child, and the Ice Empress complained that he had neglected her.
• Zhao Linchuan declared he would enforce the family law and carried Ling Qingyue and the Ice Empress away to the Great Thousand World.
• Afterward, the Ice Empress challenged Zhao Linchuan to face all the sisters at once, while Ling Qingyue blamed her for provoking him.
• Ling Qingyue complained that the Ice Empress had dragged her into the ordeal, and the Ice Empress defended herself by saying Ling Qingyue had enjoyed it.

Tang Lie, Tang Xiao, and Tang Hao tested the Clear Sky Sect for the divine inheritance but found no response, then suspected Tang San was the intended heir. At the Spirit City tournament, Zhao Linchuan announced that Qian Renxue would succeed him in three years, leaving her privately dreading the burden of ruling the Empire.

• Tang Xiao recounted the Deep Sea oracle and blood-red sword to Tang Lie, who hurried with Tang Xiao and Tang Hao to the Clear Sky Sect’s residence.
• Tang Lie tested all 327 Clear Sky Hammer users, but the blood-red sword did not react to anyone.
• Tang Wu suggested Tang San might be the intended heir, and Tang Lie decided to bring him out for a discreet test.
• Zhao Linchuan appeared at the Individual Competition and announced that he would abdicate in three years, with Qian Renxue succeeding him.
• Qian Renxue maintained her composure in public but feared she would be left to shoulder the Empire’s vast responsibilities alone.

At Zhao Linchuan’s abdication ceremony, he publicly announced that he would visit the Ice Snow Goddess, provoking tension with the Immortal Spirit Pavilion. After the opening ceremony, the first day of the Individual Competition began with young contestants fighting fiercely to impress the watching powers.

• Ling Qingyue teased Qian Renxue about having to shoulder the empire’s burdens, and Qian Renxue delivered a prepared speech despite her distress.
• Zhao Linchuan declared that he wanted to see the Ice Snow Goddess, and Ling Qingyue told him he could visit Immortal Spirit City and pray before her statue.
• Zhao Linchuan agreed to visit Immortal Spirit City in a few days and vanished, while Ling Qingyue also disappeared from the VIP seats.
• The official opened the Individual Competition, and the first contestants fought with everything they had to display their strength.
• Two matches pitted teammates from the same academy against each other, and they attacked without holding back as their Teacher watched from below.

Chang Yao and his companions discussed their belief that Zhao Linchuan was gravely ill and might take on the Immortal Spirit Pavilion before he died. Their hopes for a power vacuum were interrupted when Lin Zhao Xue began expressing sympathy and admiration for him.

• After the tournament ended, Chang Yao gathered the remaining members of his group around a campfire outside Spirit City and asked whether Zhao Linchuan was dying.
• Lin Zhao Xue claimed Zhao Linchuan looked corpse-pale and said Qian Renxue appeared to know the truth and was panicking.
• Chang Yao and Zhang Mojie speculated that Zhao Linchuan's old injuries had flared up and that he intended to fight the Immortal Spirit Pavilion before his death.
• Zhang Mojie argued that a devastating clash between Spirit Hall and the Immortal Spirit Pavilion could free sects and clans from imperial control.
• Lin Zhao Xue admitted that she admired Zhao Linchuan's appearance, strength, and devotion to Bibi Dong, prompting the others to react with disbelief.

Chang Yao ordered the Asura God Cult Soul Masters to keep monitoring Spirit City while he reported back to headquarters. At the Great Soul Arena, Huang San drew Xiao Wu as his opponent, and the system assigned him a mission to help her regain her freedom.

• Hu Qing declared that she would sacrifice her family for Zhao Linchuan's love, and Chang Yao rebuked her and Lin Zhao Xue.
• Chang Yao told Zhang Mo and the other Soul Masters to monitor Spirit City's developments and left to report to the Asura God Cult headquarters.
• Flender brought Tang San and Huang San to the Individual Competition, where Tang San drew a level-forty-four control-type Soul Ancestor as his opponent.
• Huang San drew Xiao Wu's name, remembered hearing she had been taken by Spirit Hall, and wondered whether she was still alive.
• The system ordered Huang San to help Xiao Wu regain her freedom before an audience and threatened that an important part of his body would never rise again if he failed.

Huang San faced the system’s humiliating “Set the Bird Free” task just as he was matched against Xiao Wu, whom he recognized from his previous life. Xiao Wu did not recognize him, and the chapter ended as she attacked him at the start of their match.

• Huang San realized that completing the system task would ruin his reputation, while refusing it would leave him unable to rise again.
• Shao Xin and Li Yusong warned Flender that Xiao Wu was a six-ringed Soul Emperor who had defeated powerful opponents with her close-range attacks.
• Huang San took the stage and tearfully called Xiao Wu by name, but she treated him as a stranger and asked whether he was cursing her.
• The match began, and Xiao Wu used Teleport to appear behind the dazed Huang San and strike his lower back.

Xiao Wu defeated Huang San, and the Wicked Fun God King System’s punishment left him convinced he could never rise again. While Tang San advanced to the top twenty-four and prepared for the next stage, Huang San withdrew into despair; the chapter ended when a messenger arrived asking for Tang San.

• Xiao Wu struck Huang San down, and he realized the system’s punishment had come true as he was carried from the arena.
• Tang San easily defeated a level forty-four control-type Soul Ancestor and believed he could reach the Individual Competition’s top sixteen.
• Tang San advanced from the winners’ bracket into the top twenty-four, while Huang San shut himself away and stopped eating and speaking.
• After days without food or water, Huang San left his room and answered the residence’s front door.
• A messenger asked Huang San whether Tang San was there.

Huang San learned that Tang San’s father and uncle were waiting to meet him west of Spirit City, while Tang San revealed the Clear Sky Hammer to defeat a powerful opponent and reach the top sixteen. The spectators connected his Twin Martial Souls to the scandal surrounding Tang Hao and A Die, leaving Tang San facing dangerous questions about his parentage and reputation.

• A messenger told Huang San that Tang San’s father and uncle were waiting fifty li west of the city and gave him a letter for Tang San.
• Tang San fought the Ground Splitting Rhinoceros Soul King for nearly half an hour before using the Clear Sky Hammer and Chaotic Cloak to knock him off the platform.
• The referee declared Tang San the victor, but the Spirit Arena met his win with silence and scattered applause.
• Spectators recognized the Clear Sky Hammer and speculated that Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass was the Blue Silver Emperor inherited from A Die.
• The crowd questioned whether Tang San was Tang Xiao’s or Tang Hao’s son and feared that his possible connection to Tang Hao’s crimes would bring him rejection.

After Tang San's Clear Sky Hammer was exposed, he and Shrek Academy's teachers and teammates were taken for questioning while the Inspection Department searched their lodgings. Tang San escaped and met Huang San near the western gate, but Shi Ruijin secretly watched them as they tried to leave the city.

• The Inspection Department escorted Tang San away for questioning and brought Flender, Dai Mubai, Oscar, Shao Xin, Li Yusong, and others in for questioning as well.
• Shi Ruijin led a search of Shrek Academy's lodgings, then ordered his officers to withdraw, saying Tang San had already escaped.
• Huang San crawled out of a grass-covered hiding place, read a letter about an inheritance at Sunset Slope, and headed for the western gate.
• Huang San ran into Tang San, who said his Clear Sky Hammer had been exposed and urged them to leave the city at once.
• Tang San and Huang San approached the western gate together while Shi Ruijin watched them through surveillance and went to report to Your Majesty.

Tang Xiao and Tang Hao rescued the injured Tang San and fled with him to a secluded valley, where Tang Hao and Tang Lie condemned him for revealing and cultivating his Clear Sky Hammer. Tang San broke down over years of blame and lost opportunities, then accused Tang Hao of causing the family’s and sect’s tragedies as Tang Hao’s Titled Douluo pressure bore down on him.

• Tang Xiao and Tang Hao met Tang San and Huang San on Sunset Slope and carried them west to a secluded valley.
• Tang Hao and Tang Lie scolded Tang San for using and revealing his Second Martial Soul and endangering the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang San accused the elders of treating him as a tool of the sect and lamented losing his chance to enter Dao Seeking Academy.
• Tang Hao struck Tang San after he blamed Tang Hao for his hardships, and Tang San revealed he knew the truth about his parents.
• Tang San accused Tang Hao of causing the Clear Sky Sect’s downfall and his mother’s fate, prompting Tang Hao to unleash his Titled Douluo pressure.

Tang San and the Clear Sky Sect elders were stunned when the divine inheritance sword chose the unconscious Huang San instead of Tang San. Tang San revealed his uncertainty about his true father and pledged to abandon the sect, just as Zhao Linchuan arrived; Tang Hao, Tang Xiao, and Tang Lie were forced to kneel before him.

• Tang Hao nearly forced Tang San to his knees, but Tang Lie intervened and urged Tang Xiao to present the inheritance token.
• Tang Xiao revealed the blood-red sword, but it flew into Huang San's chest and knocked him unconscious.
• Tang San accused Tang Hao, Tang Xiao, and Tang Lie of belonging to the Asura God Cult, then kowtowed to Tang Hao and Tang Xiao and said he did not know which was his true father.
• Tang San declared that he would abandon darkness and turn toward the light as Zhao Linchuan, a woman, and Shi Ruijin emerged into the valley.
• Tang San paid homage to Zhao Linchuan, and Shi Ruijin threatened the elders with the fate of the Clear Sky Sect members in the valley.
• Tang Lie, Tang Hao, and Tang Xiao knelt and paid their respects to Zhao Linchuan.

Zhao Linchuan freed Tang San from the Clear Sky Sect’s old grievances and revealed the truth about Ah Yin, Tang Chen, and A Die to Tang Hao, Tang Xiao, and Tang Lie. The chapter left the three men reeling after Tang Chen and A Die knelt to Zhao Linchuan and called him Master.

• Zhao Linchuan pardoned Tang San and permitted him to study at Dao Seeking Academy as a commoner Soul Master.
• Shi Ruijin carried the unconscious Huang San and Tang San away to Spirit City for treatment.
• Tang Hao recognized Ah Yin as the Blue Silver Emperor, and Tang Xiao questioned what that meant for A Die.
• Zhao Linchuan summoned Tang Chen and A Die, revealing that both were alive.
• Tang Chen and A Die knelt before Zhao Linchuan and addressed him as their Master, shocking Tang Hao, Tang Xiao, and Tang Lie.

A Die revealed how she had deceived Tang Hao and Tang Xiao while disguised at the Clear Sky Sect, then blamed Tang Hao's choices for the sect's ruin. Tang Hao struggled against his brother and uncle as A Die insisted his cowardice had caused the tragedy.

• A Die taunted Tang Hao and Tang Xiao, revealing that she had been their grandmother's daughter-in-law and had deceived Tang Hao as his lover.
• A Die explained that Tang Hao's father had not seen through her disguise, which the Mistress had placed on her.
• Tang Hao realized why he had never detected anything wrong with A Die and erupted in rage, but Tang Xiao and Tang Lie restrained him.
• Tang Hao accused A Die of manipulating him before Tang Xiao's wedding and causing their father's death; A Die argued that his hesitation and refusal to confess their relationship had led to the disaster.
• A Die described how the Clear Sky Sect might have grown stronger if Tang Hao had acted openly, then declared that his cowardice had pushed the sect into ruin.