Chapter Summaries

Tian Hao continued defending his arena against challengers, drawing a packed crowd with his skill and post-battle advice. The Great Soul Arena moved his fights to the Main Soul Arena and opened registration to more challengers, while Tian Hao replenished his strength during the transfer.

• Tian Hao defeated the beautiful female soul master, advised her on strengthening her Vine Shield, and continued fighting without taking a rest.
• After Tian Hao defeated thirty challengers, the audience filled Sub Arena Number Twenty, and Steward Ao arranged to move the fights to the Main Soul Arena.
• The manager warned Steward Ao not to interfere with Tian Hao and ordered him to make proper arrangements for the fights.
• After Tian Hao won his thirty-first match, the host announced the move and invited Soul Elders of any badge level to challenge him for the prize pool.
• Tian Hao met Meng Yuyan during the transfer and ate costly life-force-rich fruits to replenish himself before continuing the arena challenge.

Tian Hao invited Sun Lingling to fight in terrain suited to her Phantom Spirit Monkey Martial Soul and defeated her in a fast-paced chase. He then offered advice on improving her physical skills, Martial Soul compatibility, and Mental Power.

• The audience gathered to watch Tian Hao defend his Hundred Battles Arena title as the masked Gentleman Sword Yue Buqun.
• Sun Lingling entered as the challenger and complained that the arena’s flat terrain disadvantaged her speed-focused fighting style.
• Tian Hao invited Control System soul masters to create complex terrain and explained that adapting to unfavorable conditions would help him improve.
• Sun Lingling used her Phantom Spirit Monkey Martial Soul and speed-boosting soul skills to hide and flee through the terrain, but Tian Hao tracked her with Mental Power perception.
• Tian Hao copied a Soul Power circulation method to accelerate, caught Sun Lingling, and took her earring to end the match.
• Tian Hao advised Sun Lingling to train her physical abilities, imitate Phantom Spirit Monkeys, and develop her Mental Power.

Tian Hao defended his arena title by teaching a Bamboo Sword soul master to use his Martial Soul’s strengths instead of imitating metal weapons. After demonstrating a Tai Chi-inspired technique with a branch, he left the challenger reconsidering his path.

• Sun Lingling returned Tian Hao’s earring and hurried out of the arena, though she stayed to watch him defend his title.
• Tian Hao began his next match against Battle Soul Elder Anda, whose Bamboo Sword Martial Soul had been reinforced with Metal Attribute soul rings.
• Tian Hao criticized Anda’s approach and used a branch to demonstrate how its plant-based nature could extend and control a Soul Power blade.
• Anda attacked with his Thousand Leaves Dance, but Tian Hao trapped the sword-shaped leaves in a rotating vortex and flung them back.
• Anda thanked Tian Hao for the guidance and left, resolved to develop the Bamboo Sword’s own advantages.

After defending the arena for a hundred consecutive battles, Tian Hao arranged to stay at Suo Tuo Great Soul Arena and refined ice-attributed Soul Power. He and his companions discovered hidden listening devices in Steward Ao’s suite, suggesting the Soul Arena was not as peaceful as it seemed.

• Tian Hao gave Meng Yuyan the prize money and asked Steward Ao to arrange a quiet suite for his month-long stay.
• Sun Lingling confronted Tian Hao about rejecting her earring, but he pushed her aside, and Meng Yuyan comforted her with a mistaken explanation of his intentions.
• Tian Hao moved into Steward Ao’s room and refined Snow White Clothes’ Soul Blood to gain a trace of ice-attributed Soul Power.
• Tian Hao tried to make his ice-attributed Soul Power resonate with the Divine Wind Soul Blood Power, then rested after working for most of the day.
• Meng Yuyan and Snow White Clothes searched the suite and found several concealed listening devices that had apparently been there for a long time.

Tian Hao continued his Hundred Battles Arena defenses while refining the Hundred Beast Fist from remembered Soul Skills. In his hundredth battle, Suo Luo exposed Tian Hao's mechanical left arm, and Tian Hao prepared to test his strongest sword technique against him.

• Meng Yuyan asked Steward Ao to search the room after finding suspicious items, and Steward Ao apologized and offered Tian Hao the suite permanently.
• Tian Hao stayed in the room, accepted Steward Ao's offer of a new Soul Tool lock, and went to the Main Soul Arena for his defenses.
• Tian Hao used his Memory Dreamscape to study opponents' Soul Skills and refine the Ten Beast Fist into the Hundred Beast Fist.
• Spectators noticed Tian Hao had grown stronger as he continued to defeat opponents at the arena.
• During his hundredth battle, Suo Luo cut off Tian Hao's mechanical left arm after figuring out that Tian Hao had been hiding its weakness.
• Tian Hao told Suo Luo that he had one or three sword strikes left, and hoped Suo Luo could endure until the third.

Tian Hao defeated Suo Luo with a rapid three-strike sword technique, which Suo Luo understood through their duel. Ning Fengzhi realized Tian Hao’s movement skill could help protect the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and decided to seek him out.

• Suo Luo activated his Split Soul Skill, but Tian Hao used three increasingly fast sword strikes to disarm him and place the Green Peak Sword at his throat.
• Tian Hao named his technique the Death-Defying Chain Three Divine Swords and left after his hundredth match of the night.
• Suo Luo asked for guidance, then realized he had already grasped the technique’s principle and bowed respectfully toward the exit.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Chen Xin to estimate how long Tian Hao would need to reach his level, and Chen Xin said no more than forty years.
• Gu Rong pointed out that Ning Fengzhi could adapt Tian Hao’s movement skill by spinning his Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and Ning Fengzhi decided to find Tian Hao.

Tian Hao hosted Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo Chen Xin, and Bone Douluo Gu Rong, agreeing to trade Shénxíng Bǎi Biàn for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Mind Control Technique. He then challenged Chen Xin to a swordsmanship duel, and their blades kept shifting toward each other's openings without making contact.

• Tian Hao sensed two powerful Soul Power auras, then opened the door to find Ning Fengzhi accompanied by Chen Xin and Gu Rong.
• Tian Hao guessed that Ning Fengzhi wanted Shénxíng Bǎi Biàn and recognized that Chen Xin and Gu Rong had joined the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Tian Hao led the group to the rooftop and offered Shénxíng Bǎi Biàn in exchange for the sect's Mind Control Technique, while also challenging Chen Xin and Gu Rong.
• Ning Fengzhi accepted the trade, and Gu Rong teased Chen Xin about his earlier prediction that Tian Hao would need forty years to challenge him.
• Tian Hao challenged Chen Xin to a swordsmanship duel, and Chen Xin agreed to match Tian Hao's speed and strength.
• Tian Hao and Chen Xin repeatedly adjusted their sword strikes to target each other's openings without their blades touching.

Tian Hao lost a swordsmanship duel to Chen Xin but collected sword-infused flesh and recovered by cutting away the wounded area. After Ning Fengzhi taught him the Mind Control Technique, Tian Hao prepared to teach Gu Rong Shénxíng Bǎi Biàn.

• Chen Xin pierced Tian Hao’s shoulder, while Tian Hao cut the back of Chen Xin’s hand, and Tian Hao conceded the exchange.
• Chen Xin explained that his sword qi prevented Tian Hao’s wound from healing, so Tian Hao cut out the affected flesh and healed himself.
• Tian Hao looked toward Gu Rong, eager to obtain the Bone Dragon Martial Soul’s Soul Blood, and Gu Rong agreed to a possible challenge while warning that he would use Martial Soul abilities.
• Ning Fengzhi taught Tian Hao the Mind Control Technique and warned him that practicing it could be dangerous.
• Tian Hao said Shénxíng Bǎi Biàn was too risky for Ning Fengzhi to learn first and decided to teach Gu Rong instead.

Tian Hao taught Gu Rong the Shénxíng Bǎi Biàn Body Technique while secretly collecting traces of his Soul Power, then challenged him to a fight using a flexible Golden Snake Sword. His unpredictable swordsmanship impressed Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin as the battle continued.

• Tian Hao guided Gu Rong through the Soul Power variations of Shénxíng Bǎi Biàn and secretly gathered traces of Gu Rong's Soul Power.
• Gu Rong used his fourth Soul Skill, Bone Prison, to create a complicated rooftop course, and Tian Hao demonstrated the Body Technique before Gu Rong imitated him.
• Tian Hao retrieved a flexible Golden Snake Sword and faced Gu Rong in his bone armor, while Chen Xin warned Gu Rong not to underestimate the weapon.
• Tian Hao used swift movement and flexible-sword techniques to evade Gu Rong's attacks and target gaps in his bone armor.
• Ning Fengzhi admired the swordsmanship, and Chen Xin explained that combining it with the sect's other techniques would be impractical, though Ning Fengzhi considered teaching it to a talented child.

Tian Hao used Gu Rong’s and Chen Xin’s blood and Soul Power to forge Soul Blood, then fused Chen Xin’s lingering Seven Kill Swords into a permanent sword that carried the Seven Kill Domain. The three elders were caught in a spatial storm, while Tian Hao finished his work and preserved a remnant of Gu Rong’s Soul Power.

• Tian Hao defeated Gu Rong in a spar by piercing his elbow, and Gu Rong conceded after acknowledging the hit.
• Tian Hao persuaded Chen Xin to display his Seven Kill Sword at its peak, and Chen Xin unleashed Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Sect within the Seven Kill Domain.
• Gu Rong took Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin through a spatial passage, but a spatial storm swallowed them before they could escape.
• Tian Hao collected Gu Rong’s and Chen Xin’s blood and Soul Power, refined them into Soul Blood, and infused the blood into two ribs.
• Tian Hao fused the ten thousand lingering Seven Kill Swords into a solid, permanent sword that incorporated the Seven Kill Domain.
• Tian Hao found a remnant of Gu Rong’s Soul Power, refined by the Seven Kill Domain, and judged it to be its essence.

After recovering from the rooftop battle, Tian Hao strengthened his Bone Dragon Soul Blood and discovered that it let him control bones. He resumed his Hundred Battles Arena Defense and received intelligence on the Heaven Dou Empire academies, preparing for the Soul Master Competition and his plans for the City of Slaughter.

• Tian Hao slept for a day and two nights to recover from the strain of his rooftop battle and repeated states of enlightenment.
• Tian Hao fused Gu Rong's liquid Soul Power into the Bone Dragon Soul Blood and gained a weaker form of the Bone Dragon Martial Soul's bone-control ability.
• Tian Hao decided to strengthen his bones in preparation for transforming them into soul bones once he condensed Blood Essence.
• Tian Hao told Steward Ao that his Hundred Battles Arena Defense would continue, and Steward Ao left to arrange it.
• Meng Yuyan gave Tian Hao reports on teams from the Heaven Dou Empire's Advanced Soul Master Academies.

Tian Hao developed Cold Poison Soul Blood from Snow White Clothes’ power and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass juice, then helped Snow White Clothes fuse with it. The fusion succeeded, but Snow White Clothes could only barely withstand the resulting cold poison Soul Power.

• Meng Yuyan reported that she had mastered Bright Force, and Snow White Clothes said he had mastered Dan Force.
• Tian Hao postponed choosing a Soul Master Academy team until his month of training at the Great Soul Arena was complete.
• Steward Ao finished arranging the Hundred Battles Arena Defense, and Tian Hao resumed fighting nightly as more Soul Masters arrived to challenge him.
• Tian Hao fused Snow White Clothes’ wind and ice-attribute Soul Power, then combined Snow White Clothes’ Ice-Snow Soul Blood with Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass juice to create Cold Poison Soul Blood.
• Snow White Clothes tried to refine the Cold Poison Soul Blood, but struggled against its intense cold and poison.
• Tian Hao merged with Snow White Clothes and used his enlightened state to guide the wolf’s ice-attribute Soul Power into the Cold Poison Soul Blood, producing cold poison-attribute Soul Power that Snow White Clothes could barely bear.

Tian Hao helped Snow White Clothes cultivate her cold poison attribute with diluted Ice Fire Spring Water while advising Meng Yuyan to refine her Phoenix Soul Blood. He then began forming an imitation inner cultivation method from three medicinal energies, leaving the problem of merging the Primal Chaos Soul Power unresolved.

• Tian Hao warned Snow White Clothes that the Cold Poison Soul Blood was damaging her marrow and gave her Ice Fire Spring Water to help condense a Cold Poison Soul Core.
• Meng Yuyan brought clean water, and Tian Hao used a chopstick dipped in Ice Spring Water to freeze it so Snow White Clothes could cultivate her cold poison attribute.
• Tian Hao urged Snow White Clothes to merge her Divine Wind Soul Core and Cold Poison Soul Core, and reminded Meng Yuyan to refine her Phoenix Soul Blood and fuse with Phoenix Flame.
• Tian Hao strengthened and thickened his bones while considering how to imitate an inner cultivation method and condense a Soul Core.
• Tian Hao combined the medicinal properties of the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, Primal Chaos Immortal Grass, and Nine-Rank Purple Ganoderma, then began slowly merging their transformed Soul Power.

Tian Hao completed the beginner stage of his improvised Boy Skill by fusing Soul Power from three immortal herbs, then prepared to continue refining the technique and teach Meng Yuyan a complementary skill. As challengers grew scarce, the Hundred Battles Arena Defense began allowing two-person teams, and Tian Hao faced Yang Zhan and Bai Ying.

• Tian Hao used the Primal Chaos Immortal Grass, Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, and Nine-Rank Purple Ganoderma to create Pure Yang Boy Qi and enter the first level of Boy Skill.
• Tian Hao decided to study the herbs’ medicinal-power circulation paths further before completing the Childlike Heart Art.
• Tian Hao told Meng Yuyan that he had begun cultivating Boy Skill and promised to teach her the Jade Maiden Skill after he completed its first level.
• With too few new challengers available, Tian Hao changed the Hundred Battles Arena rules to allow two-person teams and repeat challengers.
• Yang Zhan, whose martial soul was the Soul Breaking Spear, and Bai Ying, whose martial soul was the Sharp-tailed Swallow, entered to challenge Tian Hao.

Tian Hao faced Yang Zhan in the arena and discovered that Yang Zhan possessed an unusually powerful soul ring generated by his Innate Full Soul Power. He used secret knowledge and a forged spear to bluff the Breaking Clan, leaving Yang Potian uncertain about the clan’s history and allegiance.

• Yang Zhan challenged Tian Hao alone and revealed that his level-thirty-nine Soul Breaking Spear had a naturally generated soul ring that could grow stronger with his Soul Power.
• Tian Hao recognized Yang Zhan’s Innate Full Soul Power and sensed Yang Potian, a Soul Douluo, watching from a VIP room.
• Yang Potian became alarmed when Tian Hao appeared to know the secret potential of Yang Zhan’s soul ring.
• Tian Hao introduced himself as Yang Guo and displayed a spear resembling the Soul Breaking Spear, calling it the Breaking Army Overlord Spear.
• Tian Hao claimed the Breaking Clan had forgotten its ancestor’s legacy and become the Clear Sky Sect’s dogs, enraging Yang Zhan but making Yang Potian suspicious.

Tian Hao defeated Yang Zhan’s strongest attack without injury, then battered him with spear strikes while preaching the Breaking Army’s creed. Yang Zhan returned to fight again, increasingly convinced Tian Hao belonged to the Breaking Clan, while Yang Potian wondered if he was a lost clan member.

• Yang Zhan combined four Soul Skills in a powerful spear thrust, but Tian Hao blocked it with his Breaking Army Overlord Spear and remained unharmed.
• Tian Hao struck Yang Zhan with Breaking Army—Lightning Punishment, sending him skidding into the arena wall.
• Tian Hao recited the Breaking Army’s forty-eight-word creed, and Yang Zhan returned to face him after taking its words to heart.
• Tian Hao’s Flame Explosion strike blasted Yang Zhan into the wall and left him coughing blood.
• Yang Zhan staggered back into the arena, suspecting Tian Hao was a Breaking Clan member, while Yang Potian considered whether Tian Hao might be a lost relative.

Tian Hao defeated Yang Zhan with a new spear technique, then used the match to draw the Breaking Clan to him. Yang Potian arrived with Yang Zhan and Bai Ying, and Tian Hao let him believe he was a descendant of the clan members who had left after the Breaking Clan pledged allegiance to the Clear Sky Sect.

• Tian Hao used Breaking Army—Storm to defeat Yang Zhan, shatter his Soul Breaking Spear, and secretly collect some of its source power.
• Tian Hao completed his hundredth arena defense and announced that future challengers would face him in teams of three, prompting Steward Ao to open a betting pool on his limits.
• Tian Hao fused Yang Zhan’s martial soul source power and bloodstains into Soul Breaking Spear Soul Blood.
• Steward Ao brought Yang Potian, Yang Zhan, and Bai Ying to meet Tian Hao, who invited them inside.
• Yang Potian guessed that Tian Hao belonged to the branch that had left the Breaking Clan, and Tian Hao’s silence confirmed the guess in his eyes.

Tian Hao persuaded Yang Potian that the Breaking Clan should reject its subservient role to Clear Sky Sect, while warning that Yang Zhan could not yet challenge Tang Chen. Yang Potian left Yang Zhan and Bai Ying with Tian Hao, and Bai Ying faced a choice between her Speed Clan and Yang Zhan.

• Tian Hao rejected Yang Potian's offer to return the branch to the Breaking Clan and argued that the Soul Breaking Spear should be used to break free of Clear Sky Sect.
• Tian Hao convinced Yang Potian that his father had named him Potian in hopes that he would shatter Clear Sky Sect's hold over the Breaking Clan.
• Yang Zhan vowed to surpass human limits and defeat Tang Chen, and Tian Hao praised his determination.
• Yang Potian asked Tian Hao to let Yang Zhan and Bai Ying stay, then left with Bai Ying to discuss her situation.
• Bai Ying stopped Yang Zhan from following and considered the conflict between her Speed Clan's alliance with Clear Sky Sect and her feelings for him.

Tian Hao offered the Speed Clan a powerful Wind Attribute Self-Created Soul Skill in exchange for its Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng, hoping to study the herb and use it to regrow his left arm. After Bai Ying demonstrated her Soul Skills, he rapidly optimized her Wind Cut and began teaching her the improved technique.

• Yang Potian told Yang Zhan and Bai Ying that he would take them to the Speed Clan in three days to arrange their marriage.
• Tian Hao asked Yang Potian to offer Bai He the Gale Infinite Chain Slash in exchange for the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng.
• Yang Potian agreed to take Bai Ying to the Speed Clan in three days, and Tian Hao said he would teach her the technique before then.
• Bai Ying demonstrated her Gale Impact, Cat Eye, and Wind Cut Soul Skills to Tian Hao on the Great Soul Arena rooftop.
• Tian Hao optimized Bai Ying's Wind Cut and guided her Soul Power through the new circulation path, astonishing her and Yang Zhan.

Tian Hao helped Bai Ying refine her self-created wind blades and restored Yang Zhan’s Soul Breaking Spear while studying its self-generated soul ring. He treated Yang Zhan’s injuries by drawing out old blood and toxins to feed his spear, leaving Yang Zhan full of questions about Tian Hao’s training and martial soul.

• Bai Ying condensed sword-shaped wind blades from her own Soul Power, and Tian Hao judged them while advising her to strengthen and speed up their circulation.
• Tian Hao guided Yang Zhan’s martial soul origin back into the shape of the Soul Breaking Spear and observed its self-generated soul ring manifest.
• Tian Hao extracted Yang Zhan’s stagnant blood, damaged tissue, and medicinal toxins, then used the blood to nourish the Blood Soul Gold in his Breaking Army Overlord Spear.
• Yang Zhan questioned why Tian Hao used a forged spear instead of a martial soul, and Tian Hao claimed he had inherited his martial soul from his father.
• Yang Zhan assumed Tian Hao’s mother was from the Yang Clan and asked how Tian Hao had mastered spear techniques and what his Body Martial Soul was.