Chapter Summaries

Tang Hao grew suspicious of Tian Hao after learning that Ah Yin had revealed her transformed soul-beast identity, and he set out to protect her and the Clear Sky Sect’s interests. He secretly ordered Tang Jue to destroy Tian Hao’s village, but Golden Crocodile Douluo intercepted Tang Hao and Ah Yin and demanded that the soul beast in their carriage stay.

• Ah Yin told Tang Hao that Tian Hao had guessed she was a transformed soul beast, and Tang Hao secretly decided Tian Hao and the village were threats.
• Ah Yin gave Tang Hao Tian Hao’s notebook of theoretical conjectures, and Tang Hao accepted it while planning to keep the theories secret.
• Tang Hao ordered Tang Jue to deliver a letter to the Clear Sky Sect and secretly kill everyone in Tian Hao’s village, starting with the Blue Silver Tree and Tian Hao.
• Tang Hao and Ah Yin left the city by carriage, but Golden Crocodile Douluo stopped them on the road and identified Ah Yin as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

Ah Yin and Tang Hao ambushed Golden Crocodile Douluo with a coordinated attack, briefly restraining and injuring him before Ah Yin continued the fight alone. The battle remained unresolved as Ah Yin pressed her assault against his defensive soul bone armor.

• Ah Yin used her Blue Silver Treasury to launch over a hundred Blue Silver Overlord Spears, releasing stacked Blue Silver Domains that immobilized Golden Crocodile Douluo.
• Tang Hao exploded his eight soul rings and struck Golden Crocodile Douluo with the Great Sumeru Hammer, cracking his Martial Soul Avatar.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo detonated his Martial Soul Avatar to escape the domains and unleashed Crocodile Dance at the weakened Tang Hao.
• Ah Yin killed the incoming crocodiles with her spear, then attacked Golden Crocodile Douluo at high speed.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo protected himself with his torso soul bone armor, but Ah Yin's unpredictable strikes drove him backward.

Ah Yin forced Golden Crocodile Douluo back with a fused-ring attack, then fled with Tang Hao after a crocodile soul skill tore off his right arm and stole his inherited Soul Bone. Golden Crocodile Douluo ordered his attendants to tell the Pope that Tang Hao had colluded with a hundred-thousand-year transformed soul beast, setting Spirit Hall against them.

• Ah Yin fused her fifth soul ring into the Blue Silver Overlord Spear and pierced Golden Crocodile Douluo's limbs, but he remained confident he could outlast her.
• A crocodile soul skill ambushed Tang Hao from underground, tore off his right arm, and carried away the Clear Sky Sect's inherited right arm Soul Bone.
• Ah Yin pulled Tang Hao away and flew into the sky, then destroyed Golden Crocodile Douluo's Death Golden Light with her spear to make their escape.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo identified Ah Yin as a hundred-thousand-year soul beast in human form and laughed that Tang Hao's actions could anger Tang Zhen.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo ordered a Soul Sage to return to Spirit City and tell the Pope that Tang Hao had joined forces with a transformed soul beast to harm him.

Golden Crocodile Douluo pursued Tang Hao and Ah Yin after claiming a powerful soul bone, while Tian Hao sensed that Ah Yin was in danger and prepared to investigate. Before he could leave, Tang Jue attacked him, then discovered the God Creation Plan in Tian Hao’s room.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo ordered his men to pursue Tang Hao and Ah Yin while he refined the arm soul bone he had taken from Tang Hao.
• Ah Yin carried the injured Tang Hao away at speed, sensed that their pursuers were closing in, and flew faster.
• Tian Hao sensed the Thousand-Year Blue Silver Grass’s alarm, packed his things, and planned to head toward Ah Yin and Tang Hao’s location.
• Tang Jue stormed into Tian Hao’s courtyard, smashed the Thousand-Year Blue Silver Grass, and struck Tian Hao with a homing hammer shadow that crushed his chest.
• Tang Jue searched Tian Hao’s room, found his Martial Soul Academy identification card and the God Creation Plan, and memorized the letter’s contents.

Tang Jue discovered the secret God Creation Plan and decided to sell it, but an ambush by Tian Hao interrupted his search. Their fierce battle left Tang Jue badly wounded and wary as Tian Hao withdrew to reach for his spear.

• Tang Jue decided to trade the God Creation Plan for soul bones and money, then realized returning to the Clear Sky Sect could get him killed.
• Tang Jue searched Ah Yin’s room, where Tian Hao lay apparently dead, and was struck from behind by Tian Hao’s sudden sword attack.
• Tian Hao used swift swordsmanship to keep Tang Jue off balance, wounding his chest and groin as Tang Jue fled around the courtyard.
• Tang Jue used Vajra Shakes the Earth to stagger Tian Hao and shattered his sword, but Tian Hao rushed in and overwhelmed him with close-range National Martial Arts.
• Tian Hao broke off the assault and leaped toward his iron mother steel spear while Tang Jue, drenched in cold sweat, wondered how Tian Hao had survived his earlier hammer blow.

Tian Hao survived Tang Jue’s attack with the help of the Thousand-Year Blue Silver Grass, though Tang Jue escaped after being wounded. Tian Hao summoned the armed villagers to the orchard, where they gathered around him protectively.

• Tian Hao tricked Tang Jue into charging toward the crater, where the Thousand-Year Blue Silver Grass detonated the Blue Silver Overlord Spear and briefly suppressed him.
• Tian Hao stabbed Tang Jue through the chest with a Steel Spear, but Tang Jue survived and fled into the orchard.
• Tian Hao recovered the Thousand-Year Blue Silver Grass’s remaining root and used his Blue Silver Soul Power and Life Force to stabilize it.
• Tian Hao struck a bronze gong with a special rhythm to summon the villagers and lead them to safety.
• Tian Dagou and the armed villagers arrived at Tian Hao’s courtyard and surrounded him protectively.

After surviving a Soul Emperor’s ambush, Tian Hao stabilized the Blue Silver Domain within himself and prepared to leave Sanba Village. He began his journey with the Thousand-Year Blue Silver Grass, which he named A Lan, and headed toward the site of a battle to search for useful corpses and supplies.

• Tian Hao fused the injured Thousand-Year Blue Silver Grass with his body, stabilizing the Blue Silver Domain through its resonance with the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Blood in his rib.
• Tian Hao sent Brother Big Dog and the villagers to pursue the wounded attacker from a distance, then ordered Old Li Tou to relocate everyone and erase signs of the village.
• After the villagers left, Tian Hao burned his home, made paper offerings at his parents’ graves, and departed Sanba Village with weapons and a handful of soil.
• Tian Hao named the Thousand-Year Blue Silver Grass A Lan and ran toward the earlier battle site, aided by her Blue Silver Domain as she recovered and absorbed Ah Yin’s remaining Soul Power.

Tian Hao reached the battlefield where Tang Hao had fought Ah Yin and a Spirit Hall worshipper, collected lingering Soul Power, and created Soul Blood from traces left by Tang Hao and the mysterious opponent. As he searched the ruined site, someone confronted him from behind.

• Tian Hao found the battlefield and urged A Lan to absorb the pure Soul Power Ah Yin had left behind.
• Tian Hao embedded Ah Yin's Purple Crystal Thorn Emperor Soul Bone spike in his sternum so it could help contain her Soul Power.
• Tian Hao found Tang Hao's severed arm and used its blood to create Haotian Soul Blood from his lingering Soul Power.
• Tian Hao identified a dark-golden bloodstained clump of soil and collected another drop of Soul Blood from the powerful opponent's traces.
• A sharp feminine voice demanded to know why Tian Hao was sneaking around the battlefield.

Tian Hao was brought by Ling Yuan to the forest camp where Golden Crocodile Douluo was recovering from the backlash of Tang Chen’s soul power in a right arm soul bone. After identifying Golden Crocodile Douluo, Tian Hao began explaining why he had come, despite Ling Yuan’s attempts to silence him.

• Ling Yuan challenged Tian Hao, then checked his Martial Soul Academy student ID and brought him to the forest camp after seeing Bibi Dong’s signature.
• Tian Hao observed Ling Yuan and the guards as they waited near Golden Crocodile Douluo, who coughed up blood and blamed Tang Chen for the soul power hidden in the soul bone.
• Ling Yuan told Golden Crocodile Douluo she had found Tian Hao near the battle site and explained that Bibi Dong had personally processed his student ID.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo asked where Tang Hao and the soul beast were, while Tian Hao identified him as the Second Worship of the Elder Hall.
• Tian Hao said he had come specifically to find Golden Crocodile Douluo, ignored Ling Yuan’s warning, and explained that Spirit Hall’s news had brought him there.

Tian Hao persuaded Golden Crocodile Douluo to see Tang Chen’s Soul Power inside Tang Hao’s right arm soul bone as a chance to advance toward Peak Douluo, then explained how Soul Masters could master their martial souls’ influence. Golden Crocodile Douluo praised Tian Hao’s insight despite his apparent lack of talent, leaving Ling Yuan and the others astonished.

• Tian Hao inferred that Tang Chen’s Soul Power inside Tang Hao’s right arm soul bone had injured Golden Crocodile Douluo and argued that studying it could help him break through his bottleneck.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo accepted that the strand of Soul Power could be an opportunity and received congratulations from Ling Yuan and the other three.
• Tian Hao explained that Soul Masters could transcend their martial souls’ influence and control their characteristics, then singled out Ling Yuan as an example of someone still being influenced.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo praised Tian Hao’s understanding but regretted that his apparent lack of talent might limit his future, shocking Ling Yuan and the others.

Tian Hao advised Golden Crocodile Douluo to balance reason with a Martial Soul’s instincts, prompting the elder to ponder his past breakthroughs. After a comic clash with Ling Yuan, Tian Hao reconsidered his plan to use Ah Yin to enter the Clear Sky Sect, concluding that Spirit Hall’s exposure of her identity had made that route too dangerous.

• Tian Hao accepted Golden Crocodile Douluo’s praise, then argued that the elder’s overly cultivated mindset might be hindering his attempt to reach Peak Douluo.
• Tian Hao explained that a Soul Master should balance rational control with a Beast Martial Soul’s instinctive power, and Golden Crocodile Douluo fell into deep thought.
• Ling Yuan followed Tian Hao into the bushes, saw him relieve himself, and grew furious when he called her an auntie and guessed she was at least forty.
• Tian Hao returned to the clearing to eat, and Ling Yuan snatched his flatbread and water while the other Spirit Hall guards also took out their provisions.
• Tian Hao decided he could not go to the Clear Sky Sect because Golden Crocodile Douluo had exposed Ah Yin as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, leaving her and the sect vulnerable to Spirit Hall’s authority and others’ greed.

Tian Hao earned Golden Crocodile Douluo’s gratitude and a personal token granting him access to Martial Soul Academy’s Great Library. After learning that Tang Zhen and four Clear Sky Sect elders were heading to meet Tang Hao, Tian Hao began planning to intervene before they could claim Ah Yin.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo emerged from a night of reflection with renewed resolve and thanked Tian Hao for helping him regain his youthful mindset.
• Tian Hao asked to search the Great Library for a way to overcome his poor aptitude, and Golden Crocodile Douluo gave him a dark golden token granting broad access.
• Ling Yuan reported that Tang Zhen and four Clear Sky Sect elders were traveling south to meet Tang Hao in Sata City within two days.
• Tian Hao recognized that Ling Yuan had a fire-attributed avian Martial Soul and considered using her help to keep Ah Yin from falling into the Clear Sky Sect’s hands.

Tian Hao helped Ling Yuan turn her Martial Soul Avatar into a steam-powered flyer so they could pursue Tang Hao and the Soul Beast to Sata City. Golden Crocodile Douluo ordered the group to watch the Clear Sky Sect while Ling Yuan patrolled from the air, then teased her about Tian Hao.

• Tian Hao showed Ling Yuan how heating water into steam could propel her Martial Soul Avatar, and Golden Crocodile Douluo confirmed she could try the method.
• Ling Yuan took Tian Hao with her, used steam thrust to fly toward Sata City, and stabilized their flight after Tian Hao advised her to shrink the Avatar’s wings.
• Ling Yuan and Tian Hao reached Sata City before sunset, where a Spirit Hall attendant reported that Tang Hao and the Soul Beast had not appeared, while the Clear Sky Sect party had arrived and remained there.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo told Ling Yuan to patrol from the air and protect Tian Hao while the others watched the Clear Sky Sect, then jokingly called Tian Hao her little man.

Ling Yuan struggled with the awkward attention surrounding her and Tian Hao while Ah Yin chose to leave Tang Hao to protect him and the Clear Sky Sect. Tang Hao reunited with his father and elders in Sata City and presented Ah Yin’s notebook, whose contents shocked Tang Zhen.

• Ling Yuan kicked Tian Hao after colleagues mistook their interaction for romance, while Tian Hao focused on the approaching Ah Yin and Tang Hao.
• Ah Yin told Tang Hao she would return to Blue Silver Forest, then left him and said they should never meet again.
• Tang Hao blamed Spirit Hall and Tian Hao for exposing Ah Yin, vowed to reunite with her after reaching his grandfather’s realm, and traveled to Sata City.
• Tang Zhen demanded to know where Ah Yin was and said the Clear Sky Sect needed to capture and kill her to answer the public outcry.
• Tang Hao gave Tang Zhen Ah Yin’s notebook of Hundred Great Conjectures, and Tang Zhen became increasingly shocked as he read it.

Tang Zhen relented after reading Yu Xiaogang’s Hundred Great Conjectures, but Golden Crocodile Douluo’s arrival sparked a battle in which Tang Zhen was badly injured. The Clear Sky Sect elders tried to smooth over the conflict while facing Golden Crocodile Douluo and the youth who had interfered with Tang Zhen’s hammer.

• Tang Zhen read the Hundred Great Conjectures and agreed not to interfere in Tang Hao’s relationship with Ah Yin.
• Tang Zhen shared the notebook with the four elders, then warned them that Yu Yuanzhen’s son might possess a fuller version and that they must avoid conflict with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo called Tang Zhen outside, and Tang Zhen attacked him with the Great Sumeru Hammer after exploding his soul rings.
• Tang Zhen exploded his Hundred-Thousand-Year soul ring, shattered Golden Crocodile Douluo’s Martial Soul Avatar, and suffered severe injuries from the backlash.
• A mysterious youth disrupted Tang Zhen’s attempt to recall his hammer and attacked him, prompting Tang Hao and the four elders to come to his aid.
• The oldest Clear Sky elder claimed that someone had impersonated Tang Hao and tried to provoke a conflict, while Golden Crocodile Douluo faced the assembled elders.

Qian Daoliu arrived to confront the Clear Sky Sect, and Tian Hao provoked Tang Hao into appearing to admit his scheme involving a hundred-thousand-year soul beast. Qian Daoliu attacked the sect, but a transformed soul beast rescued Tang Hao at the cost of his left leg, while Golden Crocodile Douluo considered taking control of the Clear Sky Hammer.

• Qian Daoliu appeared and joined Golden Crocodile Douluo in confronting Tang Zhen, Tang Hao, and the four Clear Sky elders.
• Tian Hao accused Tang Hao of arranging for Ah Yin to sacrifice herself, and Tang Hao’s furious reaction exposed him to the watching spies.
• Tian Hao urged Golden Crocodile Douluo to use Tang Chen’s Soul Power to resonate with Tang Zhen’s Clear Sky Hammer, worsening Tang Zhen’s injuries.
• Qian Daoliu unleashed his Angel Domain and ninth soul skill, killing Tang Zhen and the four elders while Tang Hao fought back with the Great Sumeru Hammer.
• A transformed soul beast broke through Qian Daoliu’s domain, took Tang Hao through a spatial rift, and lost his left leg to Golden Crocodile Douluo’s attack.
• Qian Daoliu asked whether Golden Crocodile Douluo could claim Tang Zhen’s Clear Sky Hammer as a second martial soul.

After Qian Daoliu returned to the Angel God Temple, Golden Crocodile Douluo and Ling Yuan dealt with the aftermath of the battle and set out for Spirit City with Tian Hao. The group arrived three days later with captured Soul Bones and a Storage Soul Tool, while Golden Crocodile Douluo prepared to refine Tang Chen's Soul Power.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo failed to use Tang Chen's Soul Power, and Qian Daoliu left after the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast escaped and the Clear Sky Sect's leaders were killed.
• Tian Hao preserved Tang Zhen and the four elders' Clear Sky Hammers by using Soul Power from their corpses, then Golden Crocodile Douluo extracted Soul Bones from the dead and Tang Hao's severed leg.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo gave Tian Hao a Clear Sky Sect elder's Storage Soul Tool and awarded Ling Yuan Tang Zhen's Hundred-Thousand-Year fire-element Torso Soul Bone.
• The spies fled to spread news of the battle, while Golden Crocodile Douluo stored the remaining Soul Bones and ordered the group to return to Spirit City.
• Tian Hao, Ling Yuan, and Golden Crocodile Douluo reached Spirit City on the third day, and Golden Crocodile Douluo planned to refine Tang Chen's Soul Power in seclusion.

After returning to Spirit City with Ling Yuan, Tian Hao used her basement to process the remains of Tang Zhen, Tang Hao, and the four elders. He combined their Soul Blood and Innate Soul Power to begin fusing five Clear Sky Hammers, but their attraction and repulsion left the result uncertain.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo told Ling Yuan to take Tian Hao home and keep him safe, and she brought him to her residence in Spirit City.
• Ling Yuan assigned Tian Hao a first-floor room and allowed him to use the basement, where he took out the five Clear Sky Hammers and the corpses and severed leg from his Storage Soul Tool.
• Tian Hao had A Lan use her Blue Silver Domain to devour energy from the remains while he fused Tang Zhen and Tang Hao's Soul Blood with the four elders' Soul Blood and then his own.
• Tian Hao fused the Haotian Soul Blood into his rib and found that it converted Haotian Soul Power with nearly one hundred percent efficiency.
• Tian Hao used the men's Innate Soul Power and Soul Blood as a catalyst to draw the five Clear Sky Hammers together, but their repulsive force resisted fusion.

Tian Hao combined the source power of five Clear Sky Hammers and their Soul Rings into a black sphere that could change its weight and shape. He turned it into an imitation Black God Battle Suit, but its heavy Life Force cost forced him to take it off before answering Ling Yuan's knock.

• Tian Hao and A Lan fed energy into the Haotian Soul Blood, creating a vortex that drained the five Clear Sky Hammers and shattered their Soul Rings.
• The vortex devoured forty-four Soul Rings, then shattered Tang Zhen's hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, whose source power shot away before it could be absorbed.
• The vortex became a dense black sphere that devoured Tian Hao's Soul Power, but he established a faint connection with it by supplying Life Force.
• Tian Hao discovered that the sphere could adjust its weight and spread over his body as a durable black suit.
• The suit rapidly consumed Tian Hao's Life Force, so he returned it to ball form and stored it when Ling Yuan knocked at the door.

Ling Yuan thanked Tian Hao for helping her obtain and strengthen a Hundred Thousand Year Torso Soul Bone, then asked him to explain his theories about mental cultivation and martial soul traits. Tian Hao later went to Pope Palace, where Qian Xunji summoned him for a friendly conversation after hearing Golden Crocodile Douluo praise him.

• Ling Yuan thanked Tian Hao for helping her obtain the soul bone and asked whether he had strengthened it with energy from Tang Zhen's Blood-colored Soul Ring.
• Tian Hao shared his conjectures about realms of the mind with Ling Yuan, who listened closely as she considered how they might help her reach the Titled Douluo level.
• Tian Hao left for the Great Library of Martial Soul Academy, but a staff member relayed Qian Xunji's summons from Pope Palace.
• Tian Hao waited in a side hall and sensed that the notebook had reached Clear Sky Sect, bringing him a large influx of fortune.
• Qian Xunji entered the side hall, praised Tian Hao based on Golden Crocodile Douluo's recommendation, and said he had summoned him for a private chat.