Chapter Summaries

Xue Beng gave Tang Hao dossiers on the Hometown Fellows in Heaven Dou City, and Tang Hao decided to go there before the plot resumed. When Meng Shenji reported a plague spreading on the city's outskirts, Xue Beng realized the nobles who had been trapped there were preparing to fight to the death.

• Xue Beng handed Tang Hao intelligence dossiers on the Hometown Fellows in Heaven Dou City, including Qingli and You Yu.
• Xue Beng identified Qingli's Illusion Technique as the greatest threat and said Feng Yan had terrified the nobles.
• Xue Beng warned Tang Hao that a Second-level God might be waiting in Heaven Dou City, but Tang Hao went with Ye Xilan using the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Meng Shenji told Xue Beng that a plague had broken out on the outskirts of Heaven Dou City and that most nobles who could flee had already escaped.
• Xue Beng realized the trapped nobles were allowing the plague to spread because they were preparing to fight back.

Tang Hao arrived in Heaven Dou City to remove Shrek Academy’s teachers before dealing with Hometown Fellows whose powers he wanted to absorb. While scouting the academy, he discovered Feng Yan with Dai Mubai, Oscar feeding a girl sausages, and Ning Rongrong being drained to refine a magic artifact, leaving him aware of a grave threat to the new Soul Master civilization.

• Tang Hao reached Heaven Dou City, planning to take Shrek Academy’s teachers away and kill Qingli and You Yu to warn the other Hometown Fellows.
• Tang Hao used the Water Mirror Technique to search Shrek Academy for Flender and the other teachers.
• Tang Hao saw Feng Yan riding Dai Mubai in his beast form in the principal’s office and erased the image.
• Tang Hao found Oscar feeding sausages to a loli-like girl in the cafeteria and was baffled by the scene.
• Tang Hao saw Ning Rongrong confined and drained of her Martial Soul essence by a Nine Treasures Ruyi for artifact refining.
• Tang Hao recognized that using others’ Martial Souls and origins to refine artifacts could devastate the new Soul Master civilization.

Tang Hao finished investigating Shrek Academy and confronted Lily after she objected to his aura disturbing Heaven Dou City. He subdued her and handed her to Ye Xilan, who planned to strip off Lily’s magical accessories for Qin Ming and the others to study.

• Tang Hao searched Shrek Academy with his Water Mirror and, after concluding his investigation, unleashed his aura.
• Xia You, Feng Yan, and Lily reacted to Tang Hao’s arrival, with Feng Yan hiding and Lily teleporting to confront him.
• Lily scolded Tang Hao for disturbing the public and began to leave, but he broke through her defensive spells and captured her.
• Tang Hao sealed Lily with Soul Power and tossed her to Ye Xilan, telling her to remove Lily’s magical accessories for research.
• Ye Xilan told Lily that she had recorded what Lily was doing in the cafeteria, leaving Lily horrified and embarrassed.

Tang Hao arrived at Shrek Academy to confront the Hometown Fellows hiding there, while Heaven Dou City's nobles watched and hoped to exploit the conflict. You Yu sent a clone to persuade Tang Hao to retreat, leaving Tang Hao stunned that anyone would try to stop him with a clone.

• Tang Hao sensed four Second-level Gods hiding inside Shrek Academy and concluded they could not freely interfere with the outside world.
• Heaven Dou City's great nobles revealed they had let the plague spread to draw Tang Hao into conflict with Shrek Academy, planning to blame their subordinates afterward.
• You Yu watched Tang Hao approach and decided that stopping him might earn even stronger cards.
• You Yu created a clone, gave it high-level cards, and teleported away, leaving the clone to confront Tang Hao.
• You Yu's clone warned Tang Hao that five Second-level Gods could overwhelm him and urged him to retreat.
• Tang Hao fell silent, surprised that You Yu had dared to challenge him with a clone.

Tang Hao confronted You Yu over the devastation caused by his card-condensing, then crushed You Yu’s clone and used its aura to track his true body. He turned toward Shrek Academy, intent on pursuing those who acted against his heart.

• You Yu tried to make Tang Hao retreat, then told him that a plague had ravaged the slums and more than ten thousand people had died.
• Tang Hao asked You Yu about the aftermath of his card-condensing and cited the destruction of 32,832 people’s homes across sixteen streets.
• You Yu dismissed the suffering as an unavoidable cost and argued that transmigrators should do whatever they wanted.
• Tang Hao seized You Yu’s clone, crushed it, and declared that he would find You Yu’s true body.
• Tang Hao used the clone’s remaining aura to track You Yu and then looked toward Shrek Academy.

Tang Hao attacked Shrek Academy to take Flender, Zhao Wuji, Shao Xin, Ning Rongrong, and the others away, despite Wang Hengrong’s warning that four Second-level Gods would oppose him. Wang Hengrong failed to stop Tang Hao and was badly injured, then recognized the Dragon Vein Aura surrounding him and asked whether he came from the Dragon Realm.

• Tang Hao decided to take the people he wanted from Shrek Academy and rejected Wang Hengrong’s offer to let him leave peacefully.
• Tang Hao reached for the people at Shrek Academy as Xia You and Qingli watched from afar; Qingli lamented that Tang Hao had disrupted her plan to gain the Nine-tailed Fox Cat’s power.
• Wang Hengrong used Eight Trigrams Swimming Dragon Palm to try to catch and redirect Tang Hao’s golden hand.
• Tang Hao activated Clear Sky Domain, overwhelmed Wang Hengrong’s defense, shattered his arms, and hurled him through buildings.
• Wang Hengrong saw Tang Hao’s Dragon Vein Aura and asked whether Tang Hao came from the Dragon Realm.

Tang Hao confronted the Western Second-level Gods at Shrek Academy and peacefully took away its former teachers, including Ning Rongrong. After he left, the Hometown Fellows discussed the vast gap between his strength and theirs, while Xia You admired him.

• Tang Hao asked the three Western Second-level Gods to come out, and they said their church preferred peaceful settlements as long as he left its core interests alone.
• Tang Hao agreed not to interfere with them if they did not interfere with him, then took Shao Xin, Flender, Zhao Wuji, Ning Rongrong, and Shrek Academy's other former teachers away.
• After Tang Hao disappeared, people across Heaven Dou City relaxed and remarked that he had faced four Second-level Gods and left without a scratch.
• Two Hometown Fellows complained that Tang Hao was stronger despite their systems, while another explained that Tang Hao had begun as a level ninety-five Titled Douluo and they had started as Soul Grandmasters.
• Xia You dismissed the Hometown Fellows' claims that they could have surpassed Tang Hao and said he hoped to become as strong as him.

Xue Beng mobilized people and supplies to contain the plague in Heaven Dou City, while Tang Hao arrived with captured Soul Masters and Lily. Tang Hao had sent Ye Xilan to suppress the outbreak and asked Xue Beng to enter the city to help stabilize it.

• Xue Beng began assembling personnel and emergency medical supplies, relying on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect for medicine because he could not access royal funds and supplies.
• Tang Hao arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy with Flender, Zhao Wuji, Ning Rongrong, Lily, and other Soul Masters, and asked Xue Beng to arrange for them.
• Tang Hao singled out Lily and suggested that a Titled Douluo examine her magical accessories, while Xue Beng recognized the value of her knowledge of magic formations.
• Xue Beng warned Tang Hao that the plague threatened hundreds of thousands or more people in Heaven Dou City.
• Tang Hao said Ye Xilan was already suppressing the outbreak and asked Xue Beng to accompany him into the city to help restore its people and organization.

After Tang Hao took someone away from the four Second-level Gods, Heaven Dou City's grand nobles lamented their continued vulnerability and dismissed concerns about Meng Shenji and Crown Prince Xue Beng learning of the plague. In the western district, Ye Xilan healed plague victims, and Xue Beng announced that Tang Hao had arrived.

• The grand nobles realized that the four Second-level Gods' deep conflicts had allowed Tang Hao to leave safely, but they remained afraid of the Otherworlders from Shrek Academy.
• A younger grand noble asked how they should respond to Meng Shenji's presence in the western part of the city, and the nobles decided not to warn Xue Beng.
• The nobles resumed their drinking and entertainment while the plague-stricken district remained neglected.
• Ye Xilan arrived in the western part of Heaven Dou City and used her Nine Heart Begonia to ease the suffering of plague victims.
• Ye Xilan recognized that her healing only treated symptoms and that the plague's source still needed to be found.
• A skeletal giant approached the patients, and Xue Beng announced that Clear Sky Your Excellency had arrived and could save them.

Tang Hao and Xue Beng organized relief after Ye Xilan helped control the plague, then discovered that great nobles had trapped victims and exploited them. Tang Hao ordered Xue Beng to kill those responsible before morning, but Xue Beng warned that their deaths could disrupt Heaven Dou City's supplies, leaving Tang Hao to ask how they should proceed.

• Tang Hao brought Heaven Dou Royal Academy's treatment team and the displaced people to the disaster site, where Xue Beng organized isolation, sanitation, rubble clearing, and relief.
• Ye Xilan used her Healing Soul Skill to save nearly ten thousand people, easing the strain on medical care as the plague came under control.
• Tang Hao and Xue Beng learned that more than ten thousand people had died after great nobles barred them from leaving and raised the prices of essential supplies.
• Tang Hao told Xue Beng to station himself in Heaven Dou City and have the guilty nobles killed before morning, with their heads displayed at a memorial for the victims.
• Xue Beng warned that five noble families controlled vital businesses and supply routes, and Tang Hao asked him what they should do about the consequences.

Xue Beng learned that Soul Masters could temporarily replace the nobles’ workers and agreed to gather them, while Tang Hao summoned Xia You to propose forming a construction crew. The chapter ended with Xia You surprised by Tang Hao’s offer.

• Ye Xilan explained to Xue Beng that Soul Masters could fill the vacancies left by the nobles, and Xue Beng realized he would have to force them to cooperate.
• Xue Beng called Meng Shenji and said they were going to kill people.
• Tang Hao summoned Xia You to a place outside Shrek Academy, making Xia You worry that Tang Hao could read his mind.
• Xia You overheard two Hometown Fellows accusing Tang Hao of having a powerful system cheat and hurried away before they noticed him.
• Tang Hao asked Xia You whether he wanted to form a construction crew for Douluo Continent.

Tang Hao recruited Xia You to organize Cursed Spirits into a construction crew to build and repair housing for the people of Heaven Dou City. He then learned that Heaven Dou’s great nobles were seeking his protection from the Otherworlders and told them to follow Xue Beng’s stance.

• Tang Hao asked Xia You to form an engineering crew, and Xia You admitted he had no building experience.
• Xia You realized some of his Cursed Spirits had knowledge of construction, and Tang Hao suggested they supervise and teach the others.
• Tang Hao took Xia You to the Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s temporary base and left Xue Beng to discuss the construction work and gather information about housing needs.
• Tang Hao noticed that Xue Beng had left and learned from Ye Xilan that the great nobles had sent stewards to offer supplies and submit to him.
• Tang Hao told the stewards that Xue Beng’s attitude was his own, leaving the nobles to deal with Xue Beng.

Five great nobles worried that Tang Hao would punish them over the western district plague, but his message directed anyone seeking his support to Xue Beng. The nobles felt reassured by the Crown Prince’s position until they learned he had arrived.

• Five great nobles feared Tang Hao’s arrival in the western district and discussed how to avoid becoming his target.
• A young noble urged the others to offer Tang Hao supplies and manpower, while the nobles admitted they feared the Shrek Academy demoness who had enslaved the grain merchant Count.
• A subordinate delivered Tang Hao’s Telegraph message saying that the Crown Prince’s attitude was his attitude.
• The plumper noble was relieved that the nobles would have to approach Xue Beng first, then heard that the Crown Prince had arrived.

Xue Beng led the Heaven Dou Knights in a surprise attack that destroyed the five great noble families in Heaven Dou City. After killing their leaders and hidden Titled Douluo, he ordered the families’ heads sent to every Soul Master family as a warning.

• The five great noble families emerged from their estate smiling, and Xue Beng’s troops surrounded them with cannons and Godly Zhuge Crossbows.
• Ge Long explained that the capable nobles had already been killed by the Otherworlders, and Xue Beng ordered the estate bombarded.
• The Heaven Dou Knights charged and quickly slaughtered the noble families’ Soul Masters.
• The plump noble pleaded with Xue Beng to spare him because they were related, but Xue Beng had him beheaded.
• Number Two killed two Titled Douluos with the Seven Kill Sword, and Xue Beng ordered his troops to kill the survivors and send their heads to Soul Master family leaders.

Xue Beng suppressed resistance in Heaven Dou City and began using Soul Masters’ abilities to rebuild it, while Tang Hao considered the difficulties of making their labor sustainable. Tang Hao suspected that people from another Earth were helping Qingli hide, but chose to wait for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament; Xue Beng then raised a matter concerning his father, the emperor.

• Xue Beng ordered the crackdown in Heaven Dou City and relied on Tang Hao’s authority to keep the Otherworlders from interfering.
• Over the following week, Soul Masters resisted their assigned work, and hundreds were executed before cooperation and order took hold.
• Ye Xilan and the people of Begonia Pavilion were presented as examples of cooperation, while Soul Masters and construction crews used their abilities to repair the city.
• Tang Hao recognized that forced labor could not create lasting cooperation and concluded that Soul Masters’ work would need to earn corresponding rewards.
• After failing to find Qingli, Tang Hao suspected that Second-level Gods from another Earth had concealed her and decided to wait for the upcoming tournament.
• Xue Beng agreed that Qingli and the others would likely appear at the tournament, then brought up a matter concerning his father, the emperor.

Xue Beng told Tang Hao that Xue Ye had escaped with the Steam Fleet, technical experts, and allied clans, likely heading for Sun Moon Continent. After stabilizing Heaven Dou City, Tang Hao focused on strengthening himself and ordered an investigation into the Hometown Fellow in Star Dou Great Forest.

• Xue Beng recounted how Xue Ye had taken the Steam Fleet, the Defense Clan, the Strength Clan, and his technical personnel before leaving the empire.
• Tang Hao realized Xue Ye might have sailed to Sun Moon Continent, a place the Transmigrators had long failed to find.
• Heaven Dou City recovered after a bloody reshuffling, and Tang Hao finally had time to rest in the palace.
• Tang Hao considered the unresolved disaster You Yu had warned about, but chose to set it aside and focus on becoming stronger.
• Tang Hao looked toward Star Dou Great Forest and sent people to investigate whether anything unusual had happened there.

Tang Hao trained his Skeleton True Body and found that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well strengthened his control over water and fire while awakening Susanoo’s power. As Tang Ling and the other Second-level Gods worried that his growth would ruin their plans, the Western Youth Second-level God claimed they had a way to deal with him.

• Tang Hao created a giant fireball with his Skeleton True Body and continued practicing energy-rune control through Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Tang Hao realized that further training could let him manifest flesh and blood in his Skeleton True Body and eventually unleash Susanoo’s full power.
• Tang Hao absorbed the Water Dragon King and Fire Dragon King aura at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while Tang San forged Hidden Weapons nearby.
• Tang Ling warned that Tang Hao’s strength might surpass theirs before the Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament and criticized the three Western Second-level Gods for failing to stop him.
• The Western Youth Second-level God explained that Heaven’s Will restricted their actions, then said they had a way to deal with Tang Hao.

Tang Hao learned that Spirit Hall wanted him to join an attack on the Star Dou Great Forest because Soul Rings were disappearing as Beast God Cult Soul Beasts fused with humans. He and Xue Beng dismissed the request, leaving the threat and the Beast God’s role unresolved.

• Tang Ling rejected the Western Youth Second-level God's claim that a being in this world could threaten Tang Hao, but he named the Beast God as a possible ally.
• Tang Hao continued cultivating at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while awaiting Xue Beng's investigation into the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xue Beng told Tang Hao that Spirit Hall had asked him to join an attack on the Star Dou Great Forest, and Tang Hao read the request-for-aid letter.
• Tang Hao recognized the Beast God Cult and recalled meeting Spirit Hall's Holy Maiden, Hu Liena, and a Hometown Fellow acting as an old-man Golden Finger.
• Xue Beng explained that Beast God Cult Soul Rings dissipated after about one minute, while Spirit Hall reported that some newly born Soul Beasts had stopped producing Soul Rings and were fusing with humans.
• Tang Hao asked Xue Beng what he thought of Spirit Hall's request, and they decided to ignore it.

Xue Beng explained the future Douluo Continent stories to Tang Hao, including Gu Yuena and her fate with Tang Wulin. When Xue Beng seemed to drift into a strange state, Tang Hao gave him the Clear Sky Hammer for protection.

• Xue Beng speculated that Spirit Hall had suffered losses in the Star Dou Great Forest and suggested a dragon might have awakened.
• Xue Beng told Tang Hao about the four Douluo Continent novel eras and described Gu Yuena as the Dragon God’s split and the Beast God of elements.
• Xue Beng said Tang Wulin and Gu Yuena were frozen together for ten thousand years, leaving Tang Hao baffled by the story.
• Xue Beng reflected on the river of time and his own distant descendants, then seemed to drift away briefly.
• Tang Hao sensed that Xue Beng’s soul was in danger and lent him the Clear Sky Hammer to protect him.

Tang Hao entered Sunset Forest to fill the Dragon Cauldron Martial Soul’s empty Soul Ring slots, turning a Thousand-Year Soul Ring into a 100,000-year ring with his divine power. Elsewhere, the Western Youth Second-level God used footage of Tang Hao’s hunt to warn the Silver Dragon King that the Soul Beasts’ hopes of breaking free from the gods would fail.

• Tang Hao dismissed Spirit Hall’s call to attack the Star Dou Great Forest and postponed seeking the Dragon God clone’s blood until he knew more about Gu Yuena’s strength.
• Tang Hao chose to hunt in Sunset Forest and used the Dragon Cauldron Martial Soul to kill a Blue Electric Dragon and absorb its Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Tang Hao raised the purple Soul Ring’s age to 100,000 years with his power as a Second-level God.
• Tang Hao reflected that Soul Rings had hindered Douluo Continent’s cultivation development and continued searching for eight more rings to unlock the Dragon Cauldron’s inheritance.
• The Western Youth Second-level God told the Silver Dragon King that Tang Hao would prevent the Soul Beasts from breaking free, while Tang Ling recorded Tang Hao’s hunt on a phone.