Chapter Summaries

After the arena battles ended, Tian Hao received an honorary badge and a master-crafted Green Peak Sword from the Suo Tuo Great Soul Arena. Yue Guan and Gui Mei then asked him whether he would sell them his Body Technique, leaving Tian Hao poised to answer with an unexpected offer.

• Tian Hao waited for more Advanced Soul Master Academy teams to challenge him, but none entered the arena.
• Ao Ye and Yingzi presented Tian Hao with a Soul Bone Fragment badge and a new Green Peak Sword, and he accepted both gifts.
• Ao Ye led Tian Hao to meet Yue Guan and Gui Mei, who revealed that they had taken Sun Lingling and Zi Xia as disciples.
• Yue Guan asked Tian Hao whether he would sell his Body Technique, promising that a refusal would not harm their friendship.
• Tian Hao offered Yue Guan a Sunflower Manual and asked whether he was interested.

Tian Hao gave Yue Guan and Gui Mei martial arts tailored to their abilities, gaining another favor from each before leaving Suo Tuo Great Soul Arena. He departed with Yang Potian and the others for Plant Academy, intent on avoiding pursuit and developing quietly.

• Tian Hao transmitted the Sunflower Manual and related techniques to Yue Guan and the Bixie Sword Manual and related techniques to Gui Mei, then asked them to repay him a favor in the future.
• Zi Xia asked about Tian Hao's statement concerning Azure Edge, and he explained that he expected to become a Soul Ancestor and had advanced his Sword Dao.
• Yue Guan worried about the debt he had incurred, while Gui Mei accepted his own favor and encouraged the young women to win Tian Hao over through their hearts rather than their beauty.
• Gui Mei told Sun Lingling and Zi Xia that Tian Hao was blind, shocking them as they considered his strength despite his disabilities.
• Tian Hao met Yang Potian outside the room and ordered him to the rooftop so they could leave immediately.
• Tian Hao joined Meng Yuyan and the others on the rooftop and prepared to fly away on Snow White Clothes toward Plant Academy.

Tang Yuehua became interested in the masked swordsman’s techniques, while Tian Hao led Yang Potian and the Breaking Clan away from Suotuo City and taught them how to walk on water and through the air. He left them with a new technique, Lingbo Weibu, as he continued building support beyond Spirit City.

• Tang Xiao learned that Tian Hao and Yang Potian’s group had left Suotuo City, and Tang Yuehua told a Speed Clan scout to watch the Breaking Clan.
• Tang Yuehua watched the masked swordsman’s fight in a projection and wondered if she could learn his swordsmanship.
• Tian Hao and the others traveled more than a hundred li through the air before stopping beside a mountain pool.
• Yang Potian asked whether the Breaking Clan could learn to fly, and Tian Hao explained how Soul Power could help them walk through the air and across water.
• Tian Hao introduced Lingbo Weibu as an advanced technique to learn after Shénxíng Bǎi Biàn and offered to teach it to the Breaking Clan.

Tian Hao brought the Breaking Clan to Plant Academy, where Yang Potian completed the transformation of all his Soul Rings to crimson. He told Dean Lin Qianyue that he wanted to join the Plant Team for the Soul Master Competition and leave behind a powerful domain suited to Plant System Martial Souls.

• After dinner, Tian Hao used a Mental Link to teach Yang Potian, Yang Zhan, and Yang Baiying the Bright Force method and his cultivation experience.
• Yang Potian quickly developed Bright Force and showed Tian Hao a book by Yu Xiaogang describing the same Strength System; Tian Hao warned him not to confront Yu Xiaogang or try the book’s dangerous conjectures.
• The group hid by day and traveled by night for four days, reaching Plant Academy after Yang Potian’s Soul Rings had all turned crimson.
• Tian Hao sent Yang Baiying to deliver a calling card, and Lin Qianyue followed its map to meet the group in a secluded valley.
• Tian Hao told Lin Qianyue that he wanted to join the Plant Team and leave an inheritance, then spread a blue-red domain that made Lin’s Banyan Tree Martial Soul stir excitedly.

Tian Hao explained that he wanted Plant Academy to help him complete his Life Domain and offered the struggling school a partnership with the Breaking Clan. Lin Qianyue heard the proposal, but Plant Academy’s future remained uncertain because of its financial crisis and outside pressure.

• Tian Hao explained that his incomplete blue-and-red domain needed the power of Lovesick Heartbreak Red to evolve into a Life Domain.
• Lin Qianyue agreed with Tian Hao’s ideas about academies but revealed that Plant Academy had lost its funding, most of its teachers, and nearly all its students.
• Tian Hao introduced Yang Potian as the Breaking Clan’s Grand Elder, and Yang Potian revealed his Titled Douluo strength and hundred-thousand-year soul ring.
• Lin Qianyue feared the Breaking Clan intended to take control of Plant Academy, but Tian Hao said the clan wanted cooperation rather than control.
• Tian Hao proposed that Plant Academy cultivate medicinal herbs for the Breaking Clan, with profits split equally and reserved for the academy’s teaching, research, and commoner students.

Tian Hao persuaded Lin Qianyue to ally Plant Academy with the Breaking Clan and proposed relocating it to Banyan Tree Forest. Lin Qianyue agreed to the plan, and Tian Hao revealed he would also try to help evolve his Martial Soul.

• Tian Hao explained how Plant Academy and the Breaking Clan could make up for each other's weaknesses, and Lin Qianyue accepted their alliance.
• Tian Hao proposed moving Plant Academy to Banyan Tree Forest and said his domain could help him persuade the Banyan Tree King.
• Lin Qianyue agreed to relocate the academy if Tian Hao could secure the Banyan Tree King's cooperation.
• Tian Hao set a visit to Banyan Tree Forest for one month later and asked Lin Qianyue to bring Ye Shengyu and train with him beforehand.
• Tian Hao offered to help Lin Qianyue evolve his Martial Soul and overcome his level eighty bottleneck, prompting Lin Qianyue to ask whether Martial Soul Evolution was real.

Tian Hao tested whether Lin Changjun and Ye Shengyu could merge with his domain to help the Banyan Tree King break through, while Lin Qianyue hoped his daughter’s Martial Soul could evolve. After digging a stone residence with Snow White Clothes, Tian Hao found that both women’s Soul Blood fused with his, especially Ye Shengyu’s with Lovesick Heartbreak Red.

• Lin Qianyue asked Tian Hao to take his daughter Lin Changjun, whose Banyan Tree Martial Soul had rank-nine Innate Soul Power, and Tian Hao agreed to accept anyone with a Banyan Tree Martial Soul.
• Tian Hao used Nine Strikes of the Broken Army—Storm and a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Snow White Clothes to drill a stone cave with ten rooms and a living room.
• Lin Qianyue brought Ye Shengyu and Lin Changjun to meet Tian Hao, and they introduced their Begonia Flower and Banyan Tree Martial Souls and their Soul Power ranks.
• Tian Hao collected a drop of blood and Soul Power from each woman and tested their compatibility by merging their Soul Blood with his own.
• Tian Hao mixed Lovesick Heartbreak Red and Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng into the women’s mixed Soul Blood and found that Ye Shengyu’s blend with Lovesick Heartbreak Red fused with almost no rejection.

Tian Hao investigated Ye Shengyu’s One Heart Begonia and sensed unusual attributes in Lin Changjun’s Soul Power, tracing them to a golden wooden pendant. Recognizing it as a possible Golden Tree, he paused his plan to use Soul Blood and went to try to revive the pendant.

• Tian Hao considered using Soul Blood from Lovesick Heartbreak Red to evolve Ye Shengyu’s One Heart Begonia.
• Tian Hao asked Lin Qianyue about his wife’s Martial Soul and learned that Lin Changjun’s mother had a Peach Tree Martial Soul.
• Lin Changjun showed Tian Hao a wooden pendant that glowed and made her feel comfortable, and he detected powerful Light and Metal Attributes within it.
• Tian Hao suspected the pendant came from the legendary Golden Tree and set aside his Soul Blood experiment to awaken its vitality.
• Meng Yuyan led Lin Changjun and Ye Shengyu to choose rooms in the stone cave.

Tian Hao used the Immortal Grass Divine Medicines to revive the Golden Tree pendant, which produced a phantom Life Seed and revealed its connection to Douluo Planet’s ancient Life Tree. After deciding the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well could help solidify the seed, he set out for Sunset Forest with Yang Potian and Snow White Clothes.

• Tian Hao used a semi-Life Domain enhanced by the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng to awaken the Golden Tree pendant.
• The herbs in Tian Hao’s Soul Sea poured their power into the pendant, restoring its vitality and making it grow a root.
• A phantom Life Seed emerged from the Golden Tree and entered Tian Hao’s Grass Root Martial Soul, revealing that high-quality plants could help strengthen it.
• Tian Hao decided to visit the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to gather the Life Tree power needed to solidify the Life Seed.
• Tian Hao summoned Yang Potian and Snow White Clothes, then departed with them for Sunset Forest.

Tian Hao and his companions infiltrated the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where he harvested hidden life power from its plants and let the Life Seed absorb the spring’s energy. As they left, the Life Seed sprouted into a Life Tree and awakened a powerful innate ability that astonished Tian Hao.

• Tian Hao led Yang Potian and Snow White Clothes through Dugu Bo’s poisonous miasma and found three gravestones, including one for a young friend.
• Tian Hao suppressed the divine forces hidden in the immortal herbs and extracted their inherited power from the Ancient Life Tree.
• Yang Potian discovered the Aromatic Silk Beauty and wanted to seize the herbs, but Tian Hao warned him that a god owned them.
• Tian Hao placed the Life Seed in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, collected spring water, and let the seed drain its energy before stopping it from reaching the dangerous depths.
• Tian Hao and his companions left Sunset Forest, and he discovered that the Life Seed had rooted and sprouted into a Life Tree with a powerful innate ability.

Tian Hao sensed the Life Tree’s new domain and considered how to sustain its growth while avoiding the dangers of dark soul-bone influences. After a long journey, he returned to Plant Academy and found Zhao Wuji badly injured.

• Tian Hao discovered that the Life Tree’s Life Domain produced red life energy, which restored and accelerated the growth of the surrounding Immortal Grass Divine Medicine.
• The Life Tree told Tian Hao that it needed more energy to keep growing, so he considered seeking the blood pool beneath Hell Road in the City of Slaughter and eventually teaching the tree to draw energy from the world.
• Tian Hao decided to rely on himself to form a Spirit Soul Core and a compatible head soul bone, wary that dark soul bones could influence a Soul Master’s character.
• Tian Hao traveled back to Plant Academy with Snow White Clothes and Yang Potian guarding him.
• Zhao Wuji rushed to Tian Hao in a battered state, and Tian Hao wondered who had beaten him so badly.

Tian Hao demonstrated his healing power to the Breaking Clan elders and confirmed Yang Potian’s hundred-thousand-year soul ring, winning their acceptance as Clan Head. He then explained his hypothesis that fully refining soul rings could strengthen Martial Souls and help the elders become Titled Douluo.

• Meng Yuyan repeatedly kicked Zhao Wuji through the air after he complained about her, while Yang Zhan worried that his fiancée might become violent too.
• Tian Hao used his Blue Silver Soul Power and Life Domain to restore the frail Breaking Clan elders, allowing Yang Potian’s second uncle to stand again.
• Yang Potian revealed his Soul Breaking Spear and hundred-thousand-year soul ring, prompting the elders to kneel and acknowledge Tian Hao as Clan Head.
• Yang Potian’s second uncle announced that Yang Potian would be First Elder and that the other elders would fill the remaining ranks of the Nine Great Elders.
• The elders asked how Tian Hao planned to help them become Titled Douluo, and he proposed fully refining soul-ring origins to strengthen their Martial Souls.

Tian Hao proposed adjusting the Breaking Clan elders’ soul rings and explained how Weapon Martial Souls could evolve into artifacts. After learning the Ancestor’s Spear’s history, he suppressed its resistance and entered its interior, where he sensed something that shocked him.

• Tian Hao proposed adjusting the nine elders’ soul rings so they could develop elemental domains and combine their Nine Strikes of the Broken Army, and the elders agreed to take the risk.
• Yang Potian asked Second Elder for the Breaking Clan’s Ancestor’s Spear, and Second Elder brought out the heavy inheritance weapon.
• Yang Potian explained that the clan ancestor had fused a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone into the spear while trying to reach godhood.
• Tian Hao explained his theory that Weapon Martial Souls could evolve into artifacts, then tried to connect with the Ancestor’s Spear but met resistance.
• Tian Hao stored the spear in his Soul Sea and used the Life Domain to suppress its resistance, then entered its interior with his consciousness and was shocked by what he sensed.

Tian Hao investigated the Ancestor's Spear and concluded that its golden-patterned Soul Ring pointed to a path for Martial Soul evolution and godhood. After the Life Tree consumed the spear's power, he discovered that external Soul Ring origins could remain imperfectly refined and resolved to be more cautious with A Lan's devouring.

• Tian Hao sensed the Ancestor's Spear's immense origin power and found a golden-patterned Soul Ring whose origin surpassed the spear's own.
• Tian Hao theorized that the Soul Breaking Spear could advance toward godhood by strengthening its origin and evolving its own Soul Rings, unlike Soul Masters who relied on external power.
• Tian Hao used the Life Tree to devour the Ancestor's Spear, revealing its soul-bone foundation and releasing its Soul Rings and traces of unrefined origin.
• Tian Hao had the Life Tree refine the remaining Soul Ring origins and sealed away the higher-quality origin from the golden-patterned Breaking Soul Ring.
• Tian Hao examined A Lan and found traces of external origin she had failed to refine, so he decided her future devouring would need to pass through the Life Tree.

Tian Hao used the Ancestor's Spear's source power to strengthen Yang Potian and the other eight elders' Soul Breaking Spears, transforming their Soul Rings and generating new ones. The elders examined their altered martial souls while waiting for Tian Hao to return from urgently using the bathroom.

• Tian Hao extracted the refined Soul Ring source power from the nine Soul Breaking Spears and infused them with divided portions of the Ancestor's Spear's source power.
• The Soul Breaking Spears grew stronger, with eight developing hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings and all nine generating additional Soul Rings.
• Tian Hao reasoned that Soul Breaking Spears could generate multiple self-made Soul Rings when they had enough source power and empty Soul Ring slots.
• Tian Hao sent filtered Soul Ring source power to the Immortal Grass Divine Medicine and looked forward to gathering more nourishment in the City of Slaughter.
• Tian Hao returned the altered Soul Breaking Spears to Yang Potian and the other eight elders, then left to relieve himself.
• Yang Potian and the elders marveled at their transformed martial souls and blood-red Soul Rings as they waited for Tian Hao to answer their questions.

Tian Hao strengthened Yang Potian and eight other Breaking Clan members, giving them hundred-thousand-year Breaking Soul Rings and planting elemental Soul Bone Fragments in them to support new combat techniques. The nine became Tian Hao’s first bodyguards, while the elders’ repaired Martial Souls also let them break through their cultivation bottlenecks.

• Tian Hao told Yang Potian and the others that the Ancestor’s Spear revealed a possible path to godhood through ten self-generated Breaking Soul Rings fused into a God-Slaying Spear.
• Tian Hao explained that they needed elemental powers to learn the Nine Strikes of the Broken Army, and Yang Potian volunteered to break the Soul Bone Badge into nine fragments.
• Yang Potian and the other eight chose elemental attributes, and Tian Hao fused their blood with the matching elemental origins to create Soul Bone Fragments.
• Tian Hao implanted the nine fragments in their chests and urged them to nurture their elemental powers, develop self-created Soul Skills, and pursue elemental domains.
• Tian Hao resolved to rely on the nine as bodyguards against threats such as the Asura God, while planning to test his Soul Core Condensation Method on them.
• The five elders who had been stuck at level seventy-nine broke through after their Martial Soul origins were repaired, rising to levels eighty-three or eighty-four.

Tian Hao conditioned the remaining Breaking Clan elders and explained why they needed to conceal their blood-colored Soul Rings. He then prepared to use the Golden Tree’s power to evolve Lin Changjun’s Banyan Tree Martial Soul, leaving her embarrassed when he told her to remove her shirt for the procedure.

• Yang Potian and the other six returned to the Breaking Clan to prepare for its relocation, while Tian Hao restored their bodies and infused each with Life Water.
• The Second Elder asked Tian Hao to create more perfect Soul Breaking Spears, but Tian Hao said the clan’s nine members were enough and urged them to compress their conspicuous Soul Rings.
• The Second Elder reported that his Soul Power felt easier to control without soul beast Soul Rings, and Tian Hao explained that such rings left flaws in their owners’ bodies.
• Tian Hao considered using the Golden Tree Pendant to evolve the Banyan Tree King and called Lin Changjun in to discuss merging Golden Tree power with her Martial Soul.
• Tian Hao told Lin Changjun to remove her shirt so he could transplant Golden Tree Soul Blood into her bone marrow, leaving her blushing in surprise.

Tian Hao operated on Lin Changjun to fuse Golden Tree power into his body and evolve his Banyan Tree Martial Soul, leaving it on the path to becoming a Golden Banyan Tree. He then advised Meng Yuyan on developing her Firebird Spear and changing her soul ring configuration for the coming Soul Master Competition.

• Tian Hao disinfected Lin Changjun's chest, knocked him unconscious, and fused Golden Tree-infused Soul Blood into his rib bone marrow.
• Tian Hao connected the bone marrow to Lin Changjun's heart and used a trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill and the Life Tree's Life Domain to transform his Banyan Tree Martial Soul.
• Tian Hao separated the fusion after golden threads appeared in Lin Changjun's Martial Soul, then sent the embarrassed Lin Changjun to the bathroom.
• Meng Yuyan asked Tian Hao how to change her soul ring configuration, and he told her to seek both Life Force and fire attributes rather than focusing only on fire.
• Tian Hao said Meng Yuyan would need a special soul skill as well as the Fire Phoenix Spear evolution, and thought of an opponent from the Suo Tuo Great Soul Arena.

Tian Hao transformed Meng Yuyan’s Firebird Spear into the Firebird Soul Breaking Spear by replacing its Soul Ring origins and adding the Soul Breaking Spear’s origin. After giving her the weapon and setting her new training tasks, he planned to use the growing Lovesick Heartbreak Red to help Ye Shengyu.

• Meng Yuyan trusted Tian Hao with her Firebird Spear, and he extracted its fused Soul Ring origins while preserving the spear’s strengthened Martial Soul origin.
• Tian Hao replaced the origins in the first three Soul Rings with powers refined from Life Water, fire-attributed resources, and Phoenix-related energies; the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower resonated with Phoenix Flame Soul Power.
• Tian Hao filtered the fourth Soul Ring’s origin and fused the Ancestor’s Spear of the Breaking Clan’s origin into the weapon, creating the Firebird Soul Breaking Spear.
• Tian Hao gave Meng Yuyan the transformed spear and told her to refine it, master the Two-Handed Mutual Combat Technique, and then learn his imitation Split Soul Skill.
• After Meng Yuyan left to cultivate, Tian Hao considered using the nearly mature Lovesick Heartbreak Red and Soul Blood to help Ye Shengyu’s One Heart Begonia Martial Soul.

Tian Hao explained his cold-air training method to the Breaking Clan and began helping Ye Shengyu fuse with Lovesick Heartbreak Red and Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng. The procedure went smoothly, with both Immortal Grass Divine Medicines taking root in her body.

• Tian Hao explained how cold-air stimulation could train Soul Power to circulate instinctively, and the Breaking Clan members continued cultivating in the ice chamber.
• Tian Hao called Ye Shengyu to his room to help her fuse with Lovesick Heartbreak Red Soul Blood and potentially transform her One Heart Begonia Martial Soul.
• Ye Shengyu entered Tian Hao's room and agreed to the procedure after he covered his eyes and reassured her.
• Tian Hao fused Lovesick Heartbreak Red Soul Blood near Ye Shengyu's heart and brought out the Lovesick Heartbreak Red; her One Heart Begonia merged into the plant and helped its bud respond.
• Tian Hao inserted Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng into Ye Shengyu's chest, where it joined with Lovesick Heartbreak Red and rapidly healed her surgical wounds.