Chapter Summaries

Tang Hao carried Tang Yuehua and the others to the Clear Sky Sect, where five powerful elders challenged him over the deaths of their kin and demanded that he either defeat them or surrender his title. Tang Hao decided he needed the entire sect to submit so he could begin transforming the Clear Sky True Body with his Great Bright Hand Seal, and he accepted the challenge.

• Tang Hao used the Great Bright Hand Seal to carry Tang Yuehua and the others across the cliffs and iron-chain ravine to the Clear Sky Sect.
• The Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Seventh Elders joined their auras with the Clear Sky Formation to pressure Tang Hao at the sect gate.
• Tang Xiao warned Tang Hao that the formation could raise the Second Elder and the others to level ninety-eight.
• Blazing Sun Douluo blamed Tang Hao for the deaths of Clear Sky Sect members, and the Second Elder demanded that Tang Hao defeat them or surrender his Clear Sky Douluo title.
• Tang Hao decided he needed the sect to submit before he could merge the Great Bright Hand Seal into the Clear Sky True Body, then accepted the elders' challenge.

Tang Hao faced the five elders of the Clear Sky Sect, who used the Clear Sky Formation to empower Blazing Sun Douluo. He crushed Blazing Sun Douluo’s flaming hammer with the Great Bright Hand Seal, leaving the elders defeated and the sect’s disciples watching in silence.

• Tang Hu told the gathered disciples that the battle between Tang Hao and the five elders would be difficult to predict, while a red-clad girl watched from the front.
• The five elders activated the Clear Sky Formation and transferred their Soul Power to Blazing Sun Douluo.
• Blazing Sun Douluo used his Hammer Soul Control, Martial Soul Clone, and Weapon Soul True Body before attacking Tang Hao with an enormous flaming hammer.
• Tang Hao caught the flaming hammer with the Great Bright Hand Seal and smashed it into the ground, forming a crater shaped like a palm print.
• The formation backlashed against the five elders and left them coughing blood as Tang Hao remained standing in the sky.

Tang Hao returned to the Clear Sky Sect, defeated its elders in one strike, and reunited with Tang Xiao and Tang Yuehua after twelve years apart. After paying respects to his father, he learned that Spirit Hall had attacked the sect five years earlier and asked why Tang Chen's return two years ago had not ended the sect's isolation.

• Tang Hao defeated Seventh Elder and the other elders with the Great Bright Hand Seal, impressing the Clear Sky Sect disciples.
• Tang Hao reunited with Tang Xiao and Tang Yuehua, and the three siblings discussed their twelve years apart.
• Tang Hao learned that Tang Chen had returned two years earlier, then followed Tang Xiao and Tang Yuehua to pay respects to his father.
• Tang Yuehua explained that Spirit Hall had attacked the Clear Sky Sect five years earlier, but Heaven Dou Imperial Family troops and representatives of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had restrained them.
• Tang Yuehua said Xue Beng had visited the sect after the attack, prompting Tang Hao to recall his dealings with him and realize he had forgotten something important.

Tang Hao learned how the Clear Sky Sect had rescued Tang Chen from Slaughter City, only to find him corrupted by the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King and trapped in a sealed sleep. After seeing Tang Chen, Tang Hao offered the Great Bright Hand Seal as a possible path to godhood and a way to save him.

• Tang Yuehua told Tang Hao that Xue Beng had sought the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer and promised future help rescuing Tang Chen in exchange for it.
• Tang Yuehua explained that the sect had brought Tang Chen back two years earlier after the Beast Tide, but his consciousness remained corrupted and confused.
• Tang Xiao and Tang Yuehua took Tang Hao to see Tang Chen, whose blood-red wings and demonic mark revealed his connection to Slaughter City and the King of Slaughter.
• Tang Xiao explained that the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King had parasitized Tang Chen during the Asura God Examination, forcing him to seal himself and sleep.
• Tang Hao recited the Great Bright Hand Seal’s cultivation mantra, urging the Clear Sky Sect to master it and pursue a path to the dharma form to save Tang Chen.

Tang Hao won the elders’ trust by sharing the Great Bright Hand Seal, and they appointed him Chief Elder of the Clear Sky Sect. His celebration was cut short when he learned he had a daughter, Tang Huo'er, whose mother, Huo Ying'er, had died after leaving her with the sect.

• Tang Hao demonstrated the Great Bright Hand Seal to the elders, who apologized for misjudging him and asked him to become Chief Elder.
• Tang Hao accepted the position, but Tang Xiao mentioned that Tang Huo'er would be happy her father had become Chief Elder.
• Tang Hao learned that Tang Huo'er was the child Huo Ying'er had sent to the Clear Sky Sect six years earlier.
• Tang Hao recalled a drunken night with Huo Ying'er while he and Ah Yin were hiding from Spirit Hall, but could not remember what had happened clearly.
• Tang Xiao told Tang Hao that Huo Ying'er had died after bringing Tang Huo'er to the sect, and Tang Hao looked at the girl coldly.

Tang Hao struggled to accept that Tang Huo'er was his daughter, while Tang Xiao explained her place in the Clear Sky Sect. Tang Hao later confided his confusion to Ye Xilan, who learned that he had a daughter.

• Tang Hao asked Tang Huo'er to show her Martial Soul and learned that it was a mutated blood-red ring of fire, while Tang Xiao confirmed her Clear Sky Sect bloodline and praised her help.
• Tang Xiao told Tang Hao that Tang Huo'er had long hoped he would return and that Tang Chen was more likely to wake briefly when she was nearby.
• Tang Hao wondered what special ability Tang Huo'er had and considered whether her transmigration came from a group-favorite story.
• Tang Long showed Tang Hao his room, and Tang Hao then visited Ye Xilan, who was studying the Great Bright Hand Seal manual.
• Tang Hao asked Ye Xilan what it felt like to suddenly have a daughter, then admitted that he had one.

Tang Hao spoke with Ye Xilan and met Tang Tiantian before returning to the room the Clear Sky Sect had assigned him. He resolved to investigate Tang Huo'er's Golden Finger and, after reviewing sect records, noticed that the elders had advanced unusually quickly since her arrival.

• Ye Xilan thanked Tang Hao for helping her obtain a two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and told him she would always stand by his side.
• Tang Hao met Tang Tiantian, the daughter of Tang Tiantian's third-generation chief Tang Tiantian, who came to collect the tableware; he sent her inside and left.
• Tang Hao considered how to identify Tang Huo'er's Golden Finger, weighing a Group Favorite template against a possible Martial Soul mutation, and decided to observe her cautiously.
• Tang Hao settled into the Clear Sky Sect, took up the Chief Elder position, and made improving his cultivation a priority while overseeing research into the Great Bright Hand Seal.
• Tang Hao reviewed the sect's records and noticed that the elders had broken through their cultivation levels unusually quickly since Tang Huo'er arrived.

Tang Hao and the Clear Sky Sect elders discussed how to integrate the Great Bright Hand Seal into the Clear Sky True Body by studying Soul Force through Martial Soul Avatar. The elders looked to Tang Hao as the peerless genius who could lead the research, and he realized he could not easily escape that role.

• Tang Hao considered whether Tang Huo'er’s Golden Finger was connected to temperament while the Clear Sky Sect debated how to combine the Great Bright Hand Seal with the Clear Sky True Body.
• The elders concluded that the technique depended on learning to use Soul Force, knowledge their sect lacked.
• Tang Xiao suggested studying how Soul Force moved through the Martial Soul and Soul Ring during Martial Soul Avatar.
• Tang Hao noted that the brief duration and long recovery period of Martial Soul Avatar made the research extremely difficult without exceptional talent.
• The elders, Tang Xiao, Tang Yuehua, and Ye Xilan all looked at Tang Hao as the peerless genius who could undertake the work.
• Tang Hao realized that his reputation as Clear Sky Douluo made the role difficult to refuse.

Tang Hao continued cultivating and investigating the Dharma Form while wondering about Tang Huo’er’s unusual luck and her role in the sect. He accepted Tang Xiao’s plan to hold a banquet in half a month, leaving him curious about the changes in the outside world and his fellow transmigrators.

• Tang Hao assessed his progress in Soul Power cultivation and the Dragon Transformation Secret Method, then decided to focus on training while postponing his concern over the Soul Bone he still needed.
• Tang Hao noticed that Tang Huo’er spent much of her time with the sect’s disciples and in the kitchen, and he headed there to investigate her.
• Tang Huo’er interrupted Tang Hao’s Dharma Form research by summoning Tang Tiantian and feeding her a pastry before heading to the council of elders.
• Tang Xiao proposed a celebration for Tang Hao’s return to the Clear Sky Sect, and Tang Hao agreed to hold it in half a month and invite the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Tang Hao reflected on the truce between Spirit Hall and the Star Dou Great Forest and wondered what had happened to his fellow transmigrators.

Tang Hao continued cultivating as the Clear Sky Sect prepared for his celebration ceremony, while Tang Huo'er and Tang Xiao worked to awaken Tang Chen. Two days before the ceremony, Tang Hao left his cultivation room and asked Ye Xilan about her investigation into his daughter's Martial Soul.

• The Seventh Elder directed preparations for Tang Hao's ceremony, and Tang Xiao ordered Tang Tian to deliver invitations.
• Tang Xiao took Tang Huo'er into the ancestral hall, where she inspected Tang Chen's blood cocoon and asked Tang Xiao to help awaken him with blood.
• Tang Xiao fed his blood into Tang Chen's cocoon while Tang Huo'er traced a blood-red pattern between Tang Chen's brows.
• Tang Hao woke from cultivation and realized his improved technique might let him reach level ninety-seven within a day.
• Tang Hao walked through the busy sect, then visited Ye Xilan and asked about her investigation into his daughter's Martial Soul.

Tang Hao learned that no one had ever seen a Martial Soul like Tang Huo'er’s and grew more convinced that something was wrong within the Clear Sky Sect. After suppressing the Asura God Examination’s demand to kill, he decided to confront Tang Huo'er after breaking through and summoned Ye Xilan to his room that night.

• Ye Xilan told Tang Hao that her research and inquiries had revealed no previous blood-red Martial Soul like Tang Huo'er’s.
• Tang Hao reflected on Tang Huo'er’s popularity, her apparent avoidance of him, and his growing suspicions about the celebration ceremony.
• Tang Hao realized that his Divine Slaughter's Domain had received an Asura God Examination message urging him to kill tens of millions.
• Tang Hao suppressed the examination’s killing urge and resolved to raise his strength before questioning Tang Huo'er about the sect’s abnormalities.
• Tang Hao sent Ye Xilan a message telling her to come to his room that night.

Tang Huo'er prepared to complete her plans at the Clear Sky Sect while Tang Hao cultivated under Ye Xilan’s watch, and Tang Xiao welcomed powerful guests ahead of the sect’s celebration. That night, two young visitors from Heaven Dou Royal Academy investigated the gathered Clear Sky Sect disciples and worried about their past encounters with Tang Hao.

• Ye Xilan went to Tang Hao’s house to keep watch while he cultivated, and Tang Huo'er noticed her movement and decided to act that night.
• Tang Huo'er watched Tang Chen’s blood cocoon and Gouyu multiply, confident that her preparations would soon yield what she wanted.
• Tang Xiao welcomed Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, Prince Xue Xing, Meng Shenji, and other guests who had arrived early for the celebration.
• Tang Xiao summoned the Great Elders, his third sister, and direct disciples to urge them to ensure the celebration went smoothly.
• The black-haired youth dragged the Golden-Haired Youth out to investigate the gathered disciples, and the pair discussed their fear that their past encounters with Tang Hao had brought bad luck.

Heaven Dou Royal Academy students watched the Clear Sky Sect from afar as blood-red snow began to fall. Tang Chen arrived at the sect, apparently freed from the Blood Red Nine-Headed Bat King's parasitism and having passed the Asura God's eighth trial, then vowed to kill anyone from Spirit Hall who threatened the Clear Sky Sect.

• Two Heaven Dou Royal Academy students wondered why they had been sent to observe the Clear Sky Sect instead of Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan.
• Blood-red snow began falling, terrifying the students watching from a rockery.
• Tang Xiao told the Clear Sky Sect disciples to prepare for the celebration in two days and asked Tang Huo'er about Tang Chen.
• Tang Huo'er said Tang Chen had arrived, and the Clear Sky Sect's elders burst open the hall doors when they sensed a bone-chilling presence.
• Tang Chen appeared holding the Asura Sacred Sword, and Tang Xiao and the elders rejoiced at his return.
• Tang Chen halted the snowfall with his killing intent and declared that all who dared offend the Clear Sky Sect would die.

Tang Huo'er manipulated Tang Chen into slaughtering the Clear Sky Sect, then revealed that she had poisoned the survivors for years. Tang Hao arrived as the remaining sect members lay weakened and helpless.

• Tang Chen mistook the Clear Sky Sect disciples for Spirit Hall invaders and killed them with a single sword strike, devastating Tang Xiao and the others.
• The Seventh Enshrined attacked Tang Chen in grief and fury, but Tang Chen killed him and struck Tang Tiantian's corpse behind him.
• Tang Huo'er revealed she had dispelled an illusion and was provoking Tang Chen to awaken his Blood Wheel Eye by making him suffer.
• Tang Xiao and the others tried to kill Tang Huo'er, but a compound poison incapacitated them; Tang Xiao recognized it as the Yang family's poison they had consumed for six years.
• Tang Hao's Soul Power erupted as he rushed from the cultivation chamber and appeared before the sect hall.

Tang Hao arrived at the Clear Sky Sect and found Tang Chen amid the corpses, while Tang Huo'er revealed her Kaleidoscope Blood Wheel Eye and explained that the slaughter had unlocked a divine artifact. As Tang Huo'er manipulated Tang Chen with an illusion, Tang Hao dodged his attacks and surged toward her.

• Tang Hao emerged from his cultivation chamber and found the sect hall filled with corpses, with Tang Chen and Tang Huo'er standing among them.
• Tang Huo'er said that consolidating everything to unlock a divine artifact was normal, and Tang Hao realized she had used an illusion to make the sect appear to be Spirit Hall invaders.
• Prince Xue Xing, Meng Shenji, Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo arrived and watched in shock, while Ning Bubai recognized Tang Huo'er's Kaleidoscope Blood Wheel Eye and considered how Tang Chen might awaken his own.
• Tang Huo'er assigned Tang Hao the identity of Golden Crocodile Douluo in Tang Chen's illusion, prompting Tang Chen to attack him with a massive blood-red sword beam.
• Tang Hao repeatedly evaded Tang Chen's powerful strikes, then surged toward Tang Huo'er and conjured a massive golden hand before her.

Tang Hao fought Tang Chen and discovered that Tang Huo'er had been manipulating the Clear Sky Sect through an Illusion Technique while pursuing the power of the Reincarnation Eye. As Tang Chen escaped beyond Tang Hao's reach, Tang Hao rejected the idea of becoming indifferent to the slaughter around him.

• Tang Huo'er used Kamui to evade Tang Hao's physical attacks, but he suppressed her with the Clear Sky Domain and exposed her presence as an Illusion Technique.
• Tang Hao realized Tang Huo'er planned to make Tang Chen slaughter his relatives, awaken the Kaleidoscope Blood Wheel Eye, and ultimately take its power for herself.
• Tang Chen forced Tang Hao back and flew away from the Clear Sky Sect, while Tang Hao reflected that his fortune and behavior made him feel like a passerby.
• Tang Hao resolved not to sink into such depravity and used the Clear Sky Domain against the fleeing Tang Chen, but it failed to suppress him or break Tang Huo'er's long-established Illusion Technique.
• Tang Hao shouted, "Explode Ring."

Tang Hao repeatedly used Explode Ring and the Clear Sky Domain to fight Tang Chen and disrupt Tang Huo'er’s illusion, while the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect prepared to intervene against the slaughter of relatives. Tang Yuehua’s Noble Ring erupted as she died, breaking the illusion and sending Tang Chen to attack Tang Huo'er on a distant cliff.

• Tang Hao repeatedly smashed Tang Chen down and used the Clear Sky Domain, gradually disturbing Tang Huo'er’s illusion.
• Ning Fengzhi agreed with Sword Douluo that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect could not tolerate the slaughter of relatives, and Sword Douluo drew his sword to support Tang Hao.
• Tang Hao’s final Clear Sky Domain briefly halted Tang Chen, but Tang Huo'er believed her illusion would hold.
• As Tang Yuehua lay dying, she released her Noble Ring domain, which erupted and broke Tang Huo'er’s illusion over Tang Chen.
• Tang Chen appeared before Tang Huo'er in his Clear Sky True Body and brought a golden palm down, shattering the cliff and triggering an avalanche.

Tang Hao reflected on Tang Yuehua’s final domain and doubted Tang Chen could survive his assault on Tang Huo'er. After Tang Chen returned as a dying Deity, he dismissed the gathered factions and gave them the Dharma Image Secret Method in exchange for a promise to kill Tang Huo'er and every otherworlder.

• Tang Hao realized Tang Yuehua’s domain had amplified Tang Chen’s emotions and feared that breaking free of Tang Huo'er's illusion had fatally damaged Tang Chen’s consciousness.
• Tang Chen returned to the Clear Sky Sect after the avalanche, carrying his crimson sword and emanating the Slaughter Domain.
• Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and the other gathered factions saluted Tang Chen, who ordered them to leave the ruined sect.
• Tang Chen sent the Dharma Image Secret Method into the minds of the departing soul masters and demanded they kill Tang Huo'er and every otherworlder.
• Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, Bone Douluo, and most of the others accepted Tang Chen’s demand before leaving Tang Hao and Tang Chen alone on the mountain.

After Tang Chen left the massacre site, Tang Hao and Ye Xilan buried the Clear Sky Sect’s dead. Tang Hao realized Tang Chen had spread the Dharma Image Secret Method and enlisted the major powers to pursue Tang Huo'er as his final act of revenge.

• Ye Xilan broke free of the Illusion Technique and stood behind Tang Hao despite sensing Tang Chen’s Deity aura and killing intent.
• Tang Hao picked up a shovel to bury his slain relatives, and Tang Chen split the snowfield open before flying away from the Clear Sky Sect without a word.
• Ye Xilan helped Tang Hao and the remaining affiliated clansmen gather and bury the dead without asking about Tang Hao’s secrets.
• Tang Hao reflected that Ye Xilan might have known his identity when she promised to stand by him, and he valued her loyalty despite gaining no material reward at the sect.
• Tang Hao concluded that Tang Chen had left him alive, spread the Dharma Image Secret Method, and rallied major powers to hunt Tang Huo'er because Tang Chen was dying and wanted revenge.

After the Clear Sky Sect massacre, Tang Hao recognized that his weakness had left him unable to stop Tang Huo'er and resolved to kill her. He sought a way to overcome her ninjutsu by turning to Lan Changsheng's immortal cultivation methods, wondering whether they could accelerate his Dragon Transformation Secret Method.

• Tang Hao reflected on the Clear Sky Sect's downfall and concluded that his weakness had made him powerless to save its members or stop Tang Huo'er from escaping.
• Tang Hao reasoned that Tang Huo'er would return because she needed him to awaken the Eternal Kaleidoscope Blood Wheel Eye, and decided that killing her was his best option.
• Tang Hao assessed Tang Huo'er's ninjutsu and concluded that he needed a way to locate and prevent her from escaping, since his current Golden Fingers could not help him track her.
• Tang Hao thought of Lan Changsheng's immortal cultivation system as a way to counter illusions and track Tang Huo'er, then wondered whether Lan Changsheng knew how to speed up the Dragon Transformation Secret Method.