Chapter Summaries

After killing Li Yuntian and learning that Xue Qinghe was Qian Renxue, Tang Hao decided to leave the Heaven Dou Empire and head for the sea. When Ye Xilan failed to meet him outside Seven Treasure City, he returned to the city, uncertain whether the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would release her.

• Li Yuntian died, and Tang Hao picked up the light orb that instructed him to bury the corpse beneath a kapok tree.
• Tang Hao learned that Xue Qinghe was Qian Renxue and decided to leave the Heaven Dou Empire for the sea to pursue Spirit Bones and a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Tang Hao waited outside Seven Treasure City for Ye Xilan, whom he had asked the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to release using a Clear Sky Sect Elder Token.
• When Ye Xilan did not arrive, Tang Hao headed back into Seven Treasure City to find out what had happened.
• A white-clothed disciple recognized Tang Hao at the city gate and hurried to alert a Soul Fighting Master.

Tang Hao learned that Ye Xilan had volunteered to attend the Covenant Conference on his behalf, believing she could protect the Clear Sky Sect’s reputation. Her decision alarmed him, and he questioned the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Great Elder about Ning Fengzhi’s reaction to Xue Qinghe’s death.

• A disciple reported Tang Hao’s arrival to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Great Elder, who invited Tang Hao into the side room to hear Ye Xilan’s message.
• The Great Elder told Tang Hao that Ye Xilan had chosen to represent him at the Covenant Conference and promised not to disgrace the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Hao realized Ye Xilan had acted according to the original Tang Hao’s loyalty to the Clear Sky Sect and condemned the reckless decision.
• The Great Elder assured Tang Hao that Ning Fengzhi had promised the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would protect Ye Xilan.
• Tang Hao asked whether Ning Fengzhi had left him any words, since he had killed Ning Fengzhi’s student, Xue Qinghe.

Tang Hao accepted Ning Fengzhi’s arrangement for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to claim that he killed Qian Renxue rather than Xue Qinghe, but he planned to leave and later finish making the bomb. After confirming Ye Xilan had departed with the sect’s convoy, he decided to pursue her through the dangerous eastern mountains and realized he had begun hiding his identity as a Transmigrator from his Hometown Fellows.

• The white-haired Great Elder told Tang Hao that the sect master had taught Xue Qinghe, not Qian Renxue, and Tang Hao understood the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s attempt to satisfy both the Heaven Dou Imperial Family and the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Hao agreed to Ning Fengzhi’s arrangement and promised to finish making the bomb, then left the compartment and disappeared from Seven Treasure City.
• The white-haired Great Elder reflected that the sect had sided with Tang Hao because it feared his ruthlessness and did not want to provoke a Titled Douluo.
• Tang Hao used his [add money] ability to verify that Ye Xilan had left at noon with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s convoy.
• After studying the map and considering the landslides, miasma, and poisonous soul beasts along the eastern route, Tang Hao decided he needed a guide to catch up with Ye Xilan.
• Tang Hao realized he was reluctant to reveal to his Hometown Fellows that he was a Transmigrator and admitted to himself that he had been the first to be corrupted by this world.

The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect discussed the dangers Tang Hao would face if he attended the Covenant Conference after his attack on Xue Qinghe. Bone Douluo suspected Tang Hao had sent Ye Xilan so the sect would feel compelled to protect her, but Sword Douluo feared that would not be enough to save Tang Hao.

• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo complained about the terrible roads through the eastern region and discussed repairing them for the coming war against soul beasts.
• Ye Xilan emerged from her carriage, prompting Sword Douluo to ask whether Tang Hao would attend the Covenant Conference.
• Ning Fengzhi explained that Spirit Hall might try to kill Tang Hao because of its recent losses, and that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect might not be able to stop it.
• Bone Douluo argued that Tang Hao might have sent Ye Xilan because her reputation as the world's foremost healer could make the sect protect her.
• Sword Douluo remembered the Clear Sky Sect's abandoned affiliated families and doubted that Ye Xilan's status would keep Spirit Hall from acting.

Ning Bubai suspected Tang Hao might be a dangerous transmigrator and wondered whether he would follow the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s convoy. Tang Hao arrived in Mist Flower City to intercept Ye Xilan and noticed its kapok flowers might help him meet a requirement from Li Yuntian’s orb.

• Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo stopped arguing when Ning Bubai emerged, and Ning Bubai asked about their conversation concerning Tang Hao.
• Ning Bubai speculated that Tang Hao might be following the convoy and considered whether he was a powerful transmigrator who needed to be eliminated.
• Ye Xilan watched the forest behind the convoy nervously and wondered whether she would survive.
• Tang Hao used the route from the white-haired Great Elder to reach Mist Flower City ahead of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s convoy, intending to take Ye Xilan away.
• Tang Hao saw kapok flowers for sale and realized they might fulfill the key requirement in Li Yuntian’s orb, so he approached the flower-selling child.

Tang Hao visited the Ansa Family to buy a blooming kapok tree, which he needed to open Li Yuntian’s light orb. He paid the Ansa Patriarch to transplant it to the outskirts and keep his visit and the tree’s location secret.

• Tang Hao asked a flower-selling child where to find a blooming kapok tree and learned that Great Lord Ansa's manor had one.
• A servant mistook Tang Hao’s ragged clothes for those of a beggar and dismissed him from the manor gate.
• After changing into fine clothes, Tang Hao returned and asked to meet the Ansa Patriarch about a business deal.
• Tang Hao asked the Ansa Patriarch to transplant a blooming kapok tree to the outskirts and keep the arrangement secret.
• Tang Hao agreed to pay ten thousand Gold Soul Coins, and the Ansa Patriarch accepted.

Tang Hao buried Li Yuntian beneath the transplanted kapok tree and acquired Li Yuntian’s Golden Finger, which let him inspect his luck through fortune sticks. He drew a great misfortune lot for traveling to the Covenant Conference and realized how dangerous it would be.

• The Ansa Patriarch transplanted the kapok tree, and Tang Hao paid him the remaining balance.
• Tang Hao buried Li Yuntian beneath the tree and placed a gravestone bearing his name.
• Tang Hao obtained Li Yuntian’s Inspect Luck ability and shaped its visions into a fortune-stick cylinder.
• Tang Hao decided to draw a lot concerning the Covenant Conference and walked ten li toward the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• The fortune stick showed great misfortune, and Tang Hao considered the threat posed by Qian Daoliu and Bibi Dong, who was undergoing the Rakshasa God’s examination and had at least rank ninety-eight strength.

Tang Hao drew a lot that foretold great misfortune and realized that exposing his identity could provoke the Clear Sky Sect and the major powers to turn against him. He headed for Mist Flower City to find a way to protect both himself and Ye Xilan, believing he could overcome his lack of firepower through invention.

• Tang Hao returned to Li Yuntian's grave and drew a lot that predicted great misfortune.
• Tang Hao considered how the Clear Sky Sect could produce hundreds of cannons and become a prize the Heaven Dou Imperial Family and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would fight to recruit.
• Tang Hao realized that exposing his identity would force the Clear Sky Sect out of seclusion and leave him facing the hostility of Douluo Continent's major powers.
• Tang Hao decided not to expose himself or sacrifice Ye Xilan and went toward Mist Flower City to seek another solution.
• Tang Hao believed [Inspect Luck] could help him make up for his lack of firepower through invention.

Tang Hao learned that Ye Xilan had survived the covenant negotiations and reunited with her as she returned to Mist Flower City. Five days later, as the human-soul beast war prepared to intensify and Ye Xilan faced conscription, Tang Hao looked over the notice while she knelt before him.

• Tang Hao read that Begonia Pavilion and Ye Xilan had joined the covenant, and realized his letter had helped keep her alive without exposing his identity.
• Tang Hao watched the Heaven Dou Empire and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect arrive in Mist Flower City, where Sword Douluo called out to him and Ye Xilan greeted him tearfully.
• Tang Hao returned with Ye Xilan to Seven Treasure City and sought a safer bomb fuse, settling on an alarm clock soul tool from Dugu Aotian's collection.
• The covenant set limited terms for the coming war, while the Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire began mobilizing and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Ye Xilan faced deployment to the front lines.
• Tang Hao examined the Heaven Dou Imperial Family's conscription notice as Ye Xilan knelt before him.

After Ye Xilan departed for the front, Tang Hao promised to help her hunt a Ninth Soul Ring in two months and began preparing to grow stronger and fulfill that promise. Meanwhile, the Heaven Dou Empire, Star Luo Empire, and Spirit Hall launched a claimed ten-million-strong offensive against the Star Dou Great Forest, and Tang Hao started studying the Alarm Clock Soul Tool’s core formation.

• Ye Xilan solemnly bid farewell to Tang Hao before joining the Heaven Dou Empire’s army, and Tang Hao promised to help her hunt her Ninth Soul Ring in two months.
• Ye Xilan left for the city gates, suppressing her desire for a hundred-thousand-year soul ring because the coming Beast Tide made such a hunt nearly impossible.
• Tang Hao resolved to adapt the Alarm Clock Soul Tool’s core formation for the Super Heavy Bomb and absorb the soul bones from Porcupinefish Douluo and Snake Lance Douluo within two months.
• The Heaven Dou Empire, Star Luo Empire, and Spirit Hall assembled forces they claimed totaled ten million and attacked the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Tang Hao copied the Alarm Clock Soul Tool’s formations, consulted Soul Tool makers, drew an ominous fortune stick, and rejected the plans they proposed.

Tang Hao continued cultivating Sword Douluo’s method and strengthened his Soul Power as a Beast Tide advanced on Seven Treasure City. Suspecting the Beast God Cult was behind the attack, he leapt beyond the city walls to meet the charge.

• Tang Hao found that ten percent of his Soul Power had turned pale gold, greatly enhancing his Clear Sky Hammer.
• A Beast Tide charged toward Seven Treasure City, and the white-haired Great Elder warned Tang Hao that the Beast God Cult might be responsible.
• Tang Hao recalled that Beast Seeds had been used to mutate soul beasts and disrupt the empires’ supply lines.
• The city’s defenders prepared their crossbows and cannons as Tang Hao resolved to stop the Beast God Cult’s interference with his plans.
• Tang Hao stepped beyond Seven Treasure City’s walls to confront the Beast Tide.

Tang Hao crushed the Beast Tide’s three leading ten-thousand-year soul beasts, then pinned the hidden Cave Demon Spider that had sprung from underground. As he began to crush it, his expression changed, leaving the reason unclear.

• The white-haired Great Elder watched Tang Hao face the Beast Tide and ordered the city’s artillery to fire.
• Tang Hao shattered the King of Earth’s, Ghost Tiger’s, and Man Faced Demon Spider’s attacks with three Clear Sky Hammer blows, killing all three.
• Tang Hao suspected Beast God Cult members were guiding the Beast Tide, but he could not locate them.
• The white-haired Great Elder realized a Cave Demon Spider might be underground and warned Tang Hao.
• A Cave Demon Spider burst from beneath Tang Hao and trapped him in a Web Cage, but Tang Hao used a miniature Clear Sky Domain to pin it down.
• Tang Hao began crushing the Cave Demon Spider, then his expression changed.

Tang Hao captured a Beast God Cult member fused with a Cave Demon Spider and learned that mutated soul beasts had no Soul Rings because their vitality and souls were drained. The Great Elder arranged an interrogation as the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect faced new questions about the cult’s methods and the cost of [Beast Seed].

• Tang Hao broke free of the Cave Demon Spider’s Web Cage, subdued it, and discovered a human scream came from inside it.
• The white-haired Great Elder warned Tang Hao that the fused Cave Demon Spider was trying to kill itself, and Tang Hao knocked it unconscious.
• Tang Hao asked the white-haired Great Elder to find an interrogation expert to question the Beast God Cult member.
• Tang Hao observed that the three Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts he had killed left no Soul Rings.
• The white-haired Great Elder explained that [Beast Seed] mutations drained soul beasts’ vitality and souls, letting them grow stronger but limiting their lives to three days.

While the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect collected the defeated soul beasts, Tang Hao found the Eight Spider Lances and rewarded Ning Buqun with a Skull Soul Bone. Interrogation revealed that the Beast God Cult members came from the duchy occupied by soul beasts, though Tang Hao noticed they were all farmers.

• Ning Buqun discovered an External Soul Bone shaped like eight spider lances in the Man Faced Demon Spider’s body.
• Tang Hao recognized the bone as the Eight Spider Lances and gave Ning Buqun a three-thousand-year Skull Soul Bone as a reward.
• Tang Hao decided to absorb the Eight Spider Lances into his body after nourishing its weakened energy.
• An interrogator from Seven Treasure City extracted information showing that the Beast God Cult members came from the duchy occupied by soul beasts.
• Tang Hao noticed that all the identified Beast God Cult members were farmers.

Tang Hao burned a Beast God Cult slogan and continued searching for the Alarm Clock Soul Tool’s core formation. Meanwhile, a group of transmigrators at Shrek Academy discussed how to preserve the upcoming Star Dou Great Forest plot despite the war, and the fox-eyed girl proposed using her illusions to send Zhao Wuji there.

• The white-haired Great Elder passed intelligence about the Beast God Cult to the Heaven Dou Imperial Family and its allies.
• Tang Hao burned a Beast God Cult slogan and headed to the blacksmith’s shop to keep searching for the Alarm Clock Soul Tool’s core formation.
• A silver-haired youth and other transmigrators at Shrek Academy discussed how the Star Dou Great Forest’s war had disrupted the plot and their chances to gain rewards.
• The fox-eyed girl offered to use her illusions to make Zhao Wuji lead the group into the forest, but asked who would handle the later plot.
• A Golden Holy Dragon youth suggested recreating the upcoming famous scenes without seeking out the Dragon Duke and Snake Lady or Radiance Academy.

A group of collaborators agreed that the silver-haired youth would handle Xiao Wu’s situation while they continued trying to preserve the collapsing plot. Tang Hao weighed two apparent traps involving Ye Xilan and Qing Yuhuan, then was interrupted by someone announcing that something had worked.

• The group worried that Xiao Wu’s aura could attract ferocious beasts and get Tang San killed, so the silver-haired youth said he would handle her situation.
• The silver-haired youth refused to reveal his plan, and the others trusted that he could manage any ferocious beasts while they pursued their rewards.
• Tang Hao struggled for half a month to find the timing formation in the Alarm Clock Soul Tool and feared he would fail to keep his promise.
• Tang Hao read Ye Xilan’s letter describing the stalled front lines and warning that Spirit Hall intended to ambush and assassinate him.
• Tang Hao studied intelligence placing Qing Yuhuan near the Star Dou Great Forest and realized Spirit Hall was baiting him with traps near both Ye Xilan and Qing Yuhuan.
• A figure burst into Tang Hao’s room and exclaimed that it had worked.

Tang Hao and Shi the Blacksmith reconstructed the Alarm Clock Soul Tool’s core formation array and used it to make a timed bomb. After testing it on a mountain, Tang Hao and the white-haired Great Elder saw the peak collapse, leaving Tang Hao to draw a lot marked Great Fortune.

• Tang Hao learned that Shi the Blacksmith had found the correct inscription method for the Alarm Clock Soul Tool’s core formation array.
• Tang Hao and Shi the Blacksmith gathered the blacksmiths and forged a timed bomb overnight.
• Tang Hao activated the fuse, and the bomb’s timer triggered an explosion inside the smithy.
• Five days later, Tang Hao and the white-haired Great Elder tested the bed-sized bomb at a mountain peak.
• The bomb detonated and collapsed the mountain, and Tang Hao drew a lot marked Double Supreme and Great Fortune.

Tang Hao learned that Spirit Hall had used Ye Xilan’s marriage proposal to lure him into a trap, but he decided to attend its banquet after strengthening himself and obtaining a heavy bomb. He left Seven Treasure City for the front lines while the white-haired Great Elder watched, uncertain whether Tang Hao could overcome Spirit Hall’s power.

• Tang Hao received a letter from Platinum Bishop Salas seeking permission to marry Ye Xilan and recognized it as Spirit Hall’s attempt to provoke and lure him.
• Tang Hao decided he had to go to the alliance conference despite the trap, since refusing would also damage his reputation and influence.
• Tang Hao acquired a heavy bomb from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect in exchange for a Thousand Year Soul Bone.
• Tang Hao used the spiritual essence of a Thousand Year Soul Bone to reach the Second Realm of the Dragon Transformation Secret Method, with two dragon markings on his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang Hao left for the city gates with his wounds healed, and Ning Buqun urgently asked the white-haired Great Elder to stop him.
• The white-haired Great Elder told Ning Buqun that a Titled Douluo could not go against their heart and watched Tang Hao depart, still doubtful that he could defeat Spirit Hall.

Xue Beng learned that Tang Hao had left Seven Treasure City and feared that Spirit Hall would overwhelm him, while Ye Xilan discovered Salas’s intentions at the front lines. Tang Hao avoided Spirit Hall’s planned ambush by setting out to reach the battlefield through the sea and the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Xue Beng learned Tang Hao had left Seven Treasure City, but the eunuch and Gray Robe prevented him from acting, leaving him worried about Tang Hao and the blacksmiths.
• Ye Xilan treated wounded soldiers at Yellow Sand City and learned Tang Hao was coming to the front lines.
• Salas tried to intimidate Ye Xilan and revealed his desire to claim her Nine Heart Begonia bloodline for his family.
• Ye Xilan feared Spirit Hall had prepared a dangerous trap for Tang Hao and urged him to be careful.
• Tang Hao reached the eastern coastline and chose to cross the sea and circle through the Star Dou Great Forest to surprise Spirit Hall.

The Demon Spirit sensed an unfamiliar aura near Balak Kingdom while guarding the Star Dou Great Forest, as Tang San and the Titan Giant Ape clashed nearby. A silver-haired youth used Immortal Magic to teleport Zi Ji and the others, but the spell sent them to Yellow Sand City, where the arrival of the Mirror Demon and a terrifying aura sparked chaos.

• The Demon Spirit sensed a strange aura near Balak Kingdom but left it to Zi Ji and continued guarding the forest.
• Tang San fought the Titan Giant Ape in an attempt to save Xiao Wu while nearby youths watched and commented.
• Zi Ji arrived, and the silver-haired youth used the Mirror Demon to teleport her, Qing Yuhuan, and the others away.
• The bewitching girl asked where Zi Ji had been sent, while the silver-haired youth worried that his spell might have sent them to Shrek Academy.
• The Mirror Demon appeared above Yellow Sand City, and its disappearance followed by a hellish aura triggered chaos among the city's residents and soldiers.