Chapter Summaries

Tian Hao helped Ye Shengyu form a symbiosis between her One Heart Begonia and two Immortal Grass Divine Medicines, then uncovered that Clear Sky Sect spies had followed the Breaking Clan. After learning Tang Xiao had ordered them to intercept a lightning-attribute soul bone and hearing Yang Zhan recount his grandfather’s visit to the Speed Clan, Tian Hao began piecing together a larger scheme.

• Tian Hao explained that the two Immortal Grass Divine Medicines could help Ye Shengyu’s martial soul grow, and Ye Shengyu confirmed she could still activate its soul ring to release a powerful healing skill.
• Ye Shengyu dressed and resolved to use the opportunity to grow stronger and take revenge on the Undying Begonia Sect for her family’s deaths.
• Second Elder led Tian Hao to Fourth Elder and eight captured spies, six from the Speed Clan and two from the Clear Sky Sect, whom the elders had poisoned and tracked down.
• Tian Hao used the Nightmare Soul-Devouring Skull to search the captives’ memories and learned that Tang Xiao had ordered them to intercept a lightning-attribute soul bone from First Elder.
• Fourth Elder recalled that the Clear Sky Sect and three allied clans had recently settled their debts to the Breaking Clan with supplies, prompting Tian Hao to summon Yang Zhan.
• Yang Zhan recounted what his grandfather had said and done during his visit to the Speed Clan, leaving Tian Hao and both elders increasingly grim.

Tian Hao learned that Clear Sky Sect suspected the Breaking Clan had acquired a powerful soul bone and planned to use the resulting tension to secure the clan’s independence. After hearing that hunted soul masters were fleeing to the City of Slaughter, he prepared to take the clan there to train and obtain a Slaughter Domain.

• Tian Hao told Second Elder to use Clear Sky Sect’s suspicions as an opportunity for the Breaking Clan to break away, and ordered him to move the special metals to Banyan Tree Forest for research.
• Second Elder left to arrange the transfer, while Fourth Elder assumed Tian Hao wanted the eight unconscious visitors killed; Tian Hao instead stored them in his Soul Sea to study their Martial Souls and soul rings.
• Fourth Elder told Tian Hao that the spread of Thousand Core Competencies of Martial Soul had caused widespread hunting and that many persecuted soul masters were fleeing to the City of Slaughter.
• Tian Hao welcomed the news and explained that he planned to take the clan there to pursue a Slaughter Domain, while training Yang Potian and the others in the Strength System.
• Tian Hao entered his Soul Sea, where the Life Seed devoured the eight captives’ bodies and power, and the Nightmare Soul-Devouring Skull consumed their souls.

Tian Hao absorbed the martial souls of eight attackers and fused his Innate Soul Power with Pure Yang Boy Qi, greatly improving his cultivation speed. Meanwhile, Tang Yuehua decided to investigate the Breaking Clan elders at Plant Academy as Tang Xiao’s killing intent began feeding the seed of Divine Slaughter's Domain.

• Tian Hao had the Life Tree devour six Sharp-tailed Swallow origins and gave the two Clear Sky Hammer origins to the Black God Battle Suit.
• Tian Hao fused his Innate Soul Power with Pure Yang Boy Qi, more than doubling his efficiency at refining elemental energy despite the return of his Evil Fire.
• Tang Yuehua suggested the Breaking Clan elders might have gone to Plant Academy to seek treatment from a former member of the Undying Begonia Sect.
• Tang Xiao refused to let Tang Yuehua investigate alone, but she left to persuade him and pursue her own plan.
• Tang Xiao’s hatred for Spirit Hall stirred his killing intent and caused the seed of Divine Slaughter's Domain on his Clear Sky Hammer to grow, while its influence subtly eroded his will.

Tang Yuehua disguised herself as a noblewoman to negotiate an alliance between her family and Clear Sky Sect with Tang Xiao. After he discovered her identity, she won permission to travel with a hidden escort, then broke down as she admitted her regret over seeking help from Xue Ye.

• Tang Xiao received a disguised Tang Yuehua, who claimed she had come to discuss a possible alliance after missing their appointment.
• Tang Yuehua explained that her family and Clear Sky Sect could help each other, and Tang Xiao reviewed and signed their alliance agreement.
• Tang Yuehua revealed herself using the bracelet Tang Xiao had given her, proving she could disguise her identity well enough to travel safely.
• Tang Xiao agreed to let Tang Yuehua see the world if a clansman secretly guarded her, and urged her not to return to Heaven Dou City to seek Xue Ye.
• Tang Yuehua promised not to seek Xue Ye again and wept in Tang Xiao's embrace as she regretted helping him gain his position.

Tian Hao sought the Banyan Tree King’s support for a human–Soul Beast cultivation system and research into preserving Soul Rings. The Banyan Tree King was persuaded to consider cooperation, and Tian Hao demonstrated a gem containing a compressed hundred-year Soul Ring.

• Tian Hao led the Fourth Elder, Fifth Elder, Lin Qianyue, Ye Shengyu, and Snow White Clothes into Banyan Tree Forest to meet the Banyan Tree King.
• The Banyan Tree King recognized the Golden Tree and listened as Tian Hao explained his plans for humans and Soul Beasts to cultivate together.
• After inspecting the Fourth and Fifth Elders’ Breaking Soul Rings and consulting Snow White Clothes, the Banyan Tree King asked what help Tian Hao needed.
• Tian Hao proposed building an academy in the forest and collecting Soul Rings left by Soul Beasts killed by other Soul Beasts to reduce Soul Master hunting.
• Tian Hao showed the Banyan Tree King a tiny gem containing a compressed white hundred-year Soul Ring, explaining that he had developed a way to preserve them.

Tian Hao showed the Banyan Tree King how he condensed a soul ring into a gem and proposed fusing the Golden Tree sapling with it to help both grow. After they discovered the Banyan Tree King's vast Soul Power and a nearby metal-rich mineral vein, Tian Hao began the fusion with Lin Changjun, Lin Qianyue, and Ye Shengyu.

• Tian Hao gave the Banyan Tree King a condensed soul-ring gem, which the Banyan Tree King broke apart and recognized as a ring refined by a human soul master.
• Tian Hao explained that he had taken the ring from an evil soul master and proposed fusing the Golden Tree sapling with the Banyan Tree King to accelerate the tree's growth and potentially transform the king.
• Tian Hao and the Banyan Tree King completed a Soul Power fusion, and Tian Hao was astonished by the king's immense reserves accumulated over countless years.
• The Banyan Tree King revealed that its roots reached a mineral vein more than thirty li away, though it could not absorb the metal-element power there.
• Tian Hao began the fusion process with Lin Changjun and the Golden Tree sapling, while Lin Qianyue and Ye Shengyu joined the Soul Power exchange and the others stood guard.

Tian Hao guided a fusion between Lin Changjun and his daughter’s Golden Banyan Tree Martial Soul and the Banyan Tree King, allowing the king to absorb light and metal elements. The successful cooperation benefited everyone present and left Tian Hao considering an even bolder idea.

• Tian Hao merged Ye Shengyu and Lin Qianyue into Lin Changjun’s Golden Banyan Tree Martial Soul, creating a powerful fused tree.
• Tian Hao guided the Golden Banyan Tree to fuse with the Banyan Tree King, who gained the ability to absorb light and metal elements.
• The Banyan Tree King drew in sunlight and metal from a deep mineral vein, strengthening himself and providing energy for Tian Hao and the others to cultivate.
• Ye Shengyu, Lin Changjun, Lin Qianyue, Tian Hao, and the Fourth Elder and Fifth Elder used the fusion’s energy to strengthen their abilities and Martial Souls.
• The Banyan Tree King shared his life force and origin with Lin Changjun and Lin Qianyue, while the forest’s plants and animals also benefited.
• Tian Hao found the cooperation more successful than expected and began considering a bolder plan.

Tian Hao’s Grass Root Martial Soul completed its evolution and, with the Jade Disc of Creation’s new engraving ability, gained many attributes and became Nine-Leaf Sword Grass. Conflicting light and darkness attributes caused a backlash that tore off its darkness leaf, leaving it as Eight-Leaf Sword Grass.

• Tian Hao and A Lan expanded the Blue Silver Domain across the Banyan Tree Forest, healing beast-type soul beasts and accelerating plant growth.
• Tian Hao’s Grass Root Martial Soul grew into Foxtail Grass and its Innate Soul Power rose from rank one to rank two.
• The Jade Disc of Creation unlocked its engraving function, and Tian Hao engraved Soul Blood characteristics and attributes onto his Martial Soul.
• Tian Hao’s Martial Soul gained nine elemental leaves and other traits, leading him to call it Nine-Leaf Sword Grass.
• The light and darkness leaves clashed, tearing away the darkness leaf and causing Tian Hao internal injuries, so his Martial Soul became Eight-Leaf Sword Grass.

Tian Hao used a martial soul fusion with the Banyan Tree King to help it begin transforming, then explained his belief that gods should rise through self-cultivation rather than faith. The Banyan Tree King and the Breaking Clan elders were impressed by Tian Hao’s account and the golden-pattern soul ring origin he revealed.

• Tian Hao fused the Dark Attribute leaf with the Banyan Tree King’s power and planned to repeat the process daily to help it evolve.
• The Banyan Tree King did not evolve into a Golden Banyan Tree King, but it gained faint golden lines from the Golden Tree’s origin power.
• Tian Hao told the Banyan Tree King that faith-based godhood could bring dependence and conflict, and argued that power should come from self-cultivation.
• Tian Hao described how an elder’s soul ring had become a barrier to reaching godhood, moving Fourth Elder and Fifth Elder to tears.
• Tian Hao showed the Banyan Tree King the elder’s golden-pattern soul ring origin, which impressed it and encouraged the two elders to pursue their own cultivation.

Tian Hao proposed a symbiotic cultivation system for humans and Soul Beasts, and the Banyan Tree King revealed that humans descended from transformed Soul Beasts. After the group completed their transformation and broke through, Lin Changjun and Lin Qianyue discovered they had each gained an unexplained ten-thousand-year soul ring.

• Tian Hao argued that humans and Soul Beasts could cultivate together and that humans could learn to become gods by following the Soul Beasts' path.
• The Banyan Tree King revealed that Soul Beasts developed human transformation to escape Lightning Tribulations, and that the transformed Soul Beasts became the first Soul Masters.
• Tian Hao reasoned that humans originated from transformed Soul Beasts and urged the Banyan Tree King to help develop a symbiotic system that could strengthen both races against Lightning Tribulations.
• The Banyan Tree King accepted Tian Hao's proposal and wished him success in creating a path for both humans and Soul Beasts.
• Tian Hao noticed that Ye Shengyu, Lin Changjun, and Lin Qianyue had broken through and that their Martial Souls had evolved.
• Lin Changjun and Lin Qianyue manifested unexplained black ten-thousand-year soul rings despite not having hunted Soul Beasts for them.

Tian Hao proposed replacing Lin Changjun and Lin Qianyue’s soul rings with colorless banyan tree soul rings, then gradually filling them with their Martial Soul origins so they could be improved. Lin Changjun agreed to the experiment, and Tian Hao began by extracting her first soul ring and returning its banyan tree origin to her Martial Soul.

• The Banyan Tree King bestowed soul rings on Lin Changjun and Lin Qianyue, explaining that their matching origins gave them exceptional compatibility.
• Tian Hao proposed replacing their existing soul rings, and the Banyan Tree King suggested waiting until they became Titled Douluo so it could grant them powerful rings.
• Tian Hao explained that colorless, transparent soul rings could serve as vessels for Martial Soul origin, which would let them advance as the origin and soul power within them grew.
• Lin Changjun and Lin Qianyue agreed to try the experiment, and Lin Changjun volunteered to go first.
• Tian Hao stabilized Lin Changjun’s Golden Banyan Tree Martial Soul, extracted its first yellow soul ring, and returned the ring’s banyan tree origin to her Martial Soul.

Tian Hao tested a method for replacing and compressing Soul Rings, then recruited Lin Qianyue and the Banyan Tree King for a plan to raid Dream City during its grand festival. The group agreed to prepare for the assault, while the Banyan Tree King warned Tian Hao about the dangerous nature of his head soul bone.

• Tian Hao helped Lin Changjun replace his first yellow Soul Ring with a Colorless Soul Ring, then extracted and returned the Banyan Tree King's origin while stabilizing the new ring.
• The Banyan Tree King compressed a hundred-year Soul Ring into a yellow gemstone, confirming that Soul Rings could be stored in compressed form.
• Tian Hao told Lin Qianyue he planned to wipe out Dream City during its festival in three months and offered to split its wealth with him.
• Lin Qianyue agreed to help seal Dream City, and Tian Hao proposed raising the Breaking Clan's elders to Titled Douluo so they could join the assault.
• The Banyan Tree King agreed to lend his origin but asked whether Tian Hao had ulterior motives and warned him about the dark, devouring nature of his head soul bone.

Tian Hao explained how he planned to use Dream Devouring Soul Space and a knockoff Ice Heart Art to help condense a Soul Core, then helped Lin Qianyue become a Titled Douluo. The chapter left Lin Qianyue preparing to expand the Banyan Tree Forest and train his newly strengthened abilities ahead of the attack on Dream City.

• Tian Hao explained that he would devour the souls of Dream City's evildoers to gather Mental Power, while the Banyan Tree King warned that the soul bone's influence could accumulate dangerously.
• Tian Hao showed the Banyan Tree King how his cold-minded secret art could suppress outside influences, and the Banyan Tree King offered to help him condense a Soul Core.
• Tian Hao removed and preliminarily refined his Nightmare Soul Devouring Soul Bone, then used Soul Power Fusion to replace Lin Qianyue's soul rings with rings provided by the Banyan Tree King.
• After three days, Lin Qianyue reached level ninety, became a Titled Douluo, and evolved his martial soul into the Banyan Tree King martial soul.
• Tian Hao told Lin Qianyue to adapt to his new soul rings, plant Banyan Tree seeds to expand the forest, and train in the Ring Fusion method before they attacked Dream City.

After the Banyan Tree King developed a Wood Domain, Tian Hao discussed ways to sustain it and checked on the Breaking Clan’s secret relocation. The clan was traveling toward a remote landing point, and Tian Hao planned to transport its members to the Banyan Tree Forest with Snow White Clothes and the Divine Wind Demon Wolves.

• The Banyan Tree King formed a Wood Domain with help from the Blue Silver Domain and the Life Tree, gaining tendrils that could devour energy.
• Tian Hao suggested ways for the Banyan Tree King to replenish the Wood Domain by absorbing and converting Vital Energy, light-element energy, and Life Force.
• The Fourth Elder and Fifth Elder told Tian Hao that the Great Elder’s soul rings had been exposed, though the Black Flame concealed the Soul Breaking Spear and its compressed ring.
• The elders reported that the Breaking Clan had left the Star Luo Empire by river and sea, but the journey from its landing point to the Banyan Tree Forest would be difficult to conceal.
• Tian Hao explained that Snow White Clothes and over a hundred Divine Wind Demon Wolves would carry the roughly thousand clan members over the route, aided by Zhao Wuji’s gravity-weakening soul skill.

Tian Hao learned that the Breaking Clan had broken away from the Clear Sky Sect and that Tang Hao’s Divine Slaughter’s Domain had changed into the Slaughter Domain. He planned to go to the City of Slaughter after the Soul Master Competition, while devising a way to help Snow White Clothes’s pack suppress its Demon Blood and Demon Eye.

• The Fourth Elder reported that the Breaking Clan had declared its independence from the Clear Sky Sect after a confrontation with Tang Hao and the other clans.
• Tian Hao read a letter describing Tang Hao’s blood-mist Slaughter Domain and concluded that its evolution had cut Tang Hao off from the Asura God’s inheritance.
• Tian Hao told the elders to train and planned to travel with Snow White Clothes to Plant Academy the following night.
• Snow White Clothes’s Divine Wind Demon Wolves reported that their Ice Heart Art training was slow and had made their Demon Blood more unstable.
• Tian Hao rejected giving the wolves Cold Poison Soul Blood and proposed that they refine Snow White Clothes’s soul blood and use a group fusion skill to accelerate their Ice Heart Art cultivation.

Tian Hao guided the Divine Wind Demon Wolves in cultivating the Ice Heart Art, drawing most of their demonic energy into his glabella as their bloodlines transformed. After Zhao Wuji showed off his newly learned fused martial skills, Tian Hao tested his own combat strength against him.

• Tian Hao fused with the Divine Wind Demon Wolves and used Snow White Clothes and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass to help them cultivate the Ice Heart Art and suppress their Demon Blood and Demon Eyes.
• Black demonic energy flowed from the wolves into Tian Hao's glabella, while their freed bloodline power resonated with the immature Wind Attribute immortal herb.
• After several hours of cultivation, Snow White Clothes became an emperor-tier Divine Wind Demon Wolf, and the ten Ten-Thousand-Year wolves gained king-tier bloodlines.
• Tian Hao told Snow White Clothes that he could remove the demonic energy if necessary, while suspecting that it was breeding a Demon Eye in his glabella.
• Zhao Wuji demonstrated how his Self-Created Soul Skills fused with his Soul Ring skills, strengthening his Great Strength Vajra Transformation and Gravity Enhancement.
• Tian Hao used his Nine-leaf Foxtail Grass Martial Soul to reinforce his body and traded Great Strength Vajra Palms with Zhao Wuji, meeting his charge head-on.

Tian Hao fought Zhao Wuji to test new variations of the Great Strength Vajra techniques, overwhelming him with vibrating strikes and joint-breaking attacks. The battle helped Tian Hao break through, while Zhao Wuji was left battered and questioning the gap between them.

• Tian Hao and Zhao Wuji exchanged blows as the onlookers wondered what kind of Martial Soul Tian Hao possessed.
• Zhao Wuji combined his Great Strength Vajra Palm with his First Soul Skill and forced Tian Hao back, earning his praise for improving his combat strength.
• Zhao Wuji used Gravity Weakening to increase his speed, but Tian Hao adapted and broke through his vajra defense with the Great Strength Vajra Fist, Palm, and Leg.
• Tian Hao used the Great Strength Vajra Claw to dislocate Zhao Wuji’s joints, then repeatedly smashed him into the ground until his remaining vajra defense shattered.
• Tian Hao sensed that he had broken through, while Zhao Wuji lay battered and wondered why the gap between them remained so large.

Tian Hao broke through to Pill Strength Blood Essence after the battle, while those present discussed the power of his techniques. He taught Zhao Wuji several copied skills and advised him on how to develop his strength further.

• Tian Hao circulated Pill Strength through his body and condensed Postnatal Blood Essence, breaking through his bottleneck unnoticed by the others.
• The Fourth Elder compared Tian Hao's vibrating attacks to the Clear Sky Sect's Tremor Character Secret, while Meng Yuyan and Snow White Clothes recognized similarities to Niu Dali's War Stomp.
• Snow White Clothes sensed Tian Hao's blood essence, and Tian Hao confirmed that his new cultivation realm rivaled a four-ring Soul Ancestor.
• Tian Hao made Zhao Wuji reset his dislocated joints, then sent him copies of the Great Strength Vajra Fist, Great Strength Vajra Leg, and Great Strength Vajra Claw.
• Tian Hao advised Zhao Wuji to vary Gravity Enhancement and Gravity Weakening, then recommended that he partner with a ten-thousand-year Great Strength Vajra Bear to cultivate together.

Yang Potian confronted Clear Sky Sect and the Strength, Speed, and Defense Clans over the Breaking Clan’s withdrawal, exposing their old debts and accusing them of plotting against him. The other clans and the Tang brothers attacked, and Bai Niao led the charge toward Yang Potian.

• Yang Potian showed the ancient account books and accused Clear Sky Sect of owing the Breaking Clan more than twenty million Gold Soul Coins at cost.
• Yang Potian said the others had refused to lend him cash for a soul bone and had sent people to follow him; he admitted poisoning and killing their men.
• Tang Hao and Bai Niao accused Yang Potian of killing their people, and Yang Potian pointed out that they had targeted his clan first.
• Tang Xiao attacked with his Clear Sky Hammer, while Tang Hao spread his Slaughter Domain around Yang Potian and his sons.
• Tai Wei, Bai Niao, and Niu Meng joined the attack, and Bai Niao charged first with Gale Infinite Chain Slash.

Yang Potian used Spirit Hall’s intervention to expose the Clear Sky Sect’s attack on the Breaking Clan and secure evidence against them. After the Clear Sky Sect withdrew, Yang Potian chose the title Thunder Punishment and planned to travel through the Star Dou Great Forest, while Qian Xunji ordered Plan Two.

• Tang Hao sensed Spirit Hall’s people in the forest, ending the impending clash between the Clear Sky Sect and the Breaking Clan.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei emerged, and Yang Potian handed them a recording of the attack and account books as evidence against the Clear Sky Sect.
• Ling Yuan arrived, and Bai Niao persuaded Tang Xiao and Tang Hao to withdraw rather than fight Spirit Hall and Yang Potian.
• Yang Potian thanked Spirit Hall and chose Thunder Punishment as his Titled Douluo title, explaining that his breakthrough had consumed much of his lightning soul bone’s power.
• Yang Potian declined an escort and said he would take the Breaking Clan through the Star Dou Great Forest; Ling Yuan left to report to the Pope, and Qian Xunji ordered Plan Two.