Chapter Summaries

Tian Hao taught Yang Zhan and Bai Ying about spear foundations and the development of soul-ring skills, while spinning an elaborate account of the Nine Strikes of the Broken Army. Yang Zhan became more determined to recruit Tian Hao into the Breaking Clan, and Tian Hao left to study how Yang Zhan’s self-generated soul ring had formed.

• Tian Hao healed most of Yang Zhan’s injuries and invited him to practice spearwork, prompting Yang Zhan to ask to learn his Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Tian Hao described the Nine Strikes of the Broken Army as a system of increasingly powerful elemental fusions, leaving Yang Zhan and Bai Ying astonished.
• Tian Hao advised Yang Zhan and Bai Ying to build their foundations through unarmed training, body cultivation, Soul Power, and Mental Power.
• Tian Hao explained four stages of developing soul-ring skills and warned that shattering soul rings to strengthen a Martial Soul could contaminate it.
• Tian Hao stored the Breaking Army Overlord Spear and left to use the memory dreamscape to review how Yang Zhan’s self-generated soul ring had manifested.

After completing another hundred arena battles, Tian Hao learned that Ao Ye’s daughter had been abducted and offered to investigate the arena stewards. He uncovered the mastermind’s connection to Suotuo City’s lord and sent Ao Ye to seek help from Spirit Hall, promising to provide evidence.

• Tian Hao defended the arena through all one hundred three-person team battles, then asked Ao Ye what was troubling him.
• Ao Ye told Tian Hao that his daughter had been drugged and abducted, and Tian Hao offered to interrogate the twenty-three other stewards.
• Ao Ye and the old supervisor gathered the stewards for a drinking party, leaving them unconscious for Tian Hao to search their memory dreams with his Nightmare Soul Bone.
• Tian Hao identified the mastermind as the city lord’s illegitimate son and learned that the lord’s Fallen Soul Master ally led a team that abducted infants for cultivation.
• Tian Hao told Ao Ye to take the son to the Spirit Hall Main Temple and ask its two Soul Douluo to act against the city lord, offering to show them evidence.

Ao Ye sought Spirit Hall’s help to rescue his daughter from the City Lord’s Manor, and Tian Hao gave Yue Guan evidence that the city lord was raising Fallen Soul Masters. Spirit Hall launched an assault, while Tian Hao and Snow White Clothes prepared to search for Ao Ye’s daughter without interfering in the battle.

• Ao Ye decided to ask Spirit Hall for help, then flew toward its main hall with the unconscious city lord’s illegitimate son.
• Tian Hao and Snow White Clothes met Ao Ye and two Spirit Hall Soul Douluo in an alley near the City Lord’s Manor.
• Tian Hao shared memory fragments with Yue Guan, who ordered Spirit Hall’s forces to surround the manor and capture the city lord.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei entered the manor, where fighting broke out and a mental-type Fallen Soul Master revealed the purpose of the stolen infants.
• Tian Hao told Ao Ye to search for his daughter without joining the fighting, then prepared to act with Snow White Clothes.

Tian Hao joined Yue Guan and Ghostly Specters in their fight against a powerful mental-type Soul Douluo, using his fusion with Snow White Clothes to break through her defenses. After she launched a soul-devouring attack, the Jade Disc of Creation suppressed her consciousness, allowing Tian Hao to extract the infant souls she had consumed and devour her soul and Mental Power.

• Snow White Clothes fused with Tian Hao, greatly boosting his Soul Power, vitality, and physical strength while giving him a wolf tail, wolf ears, white hair, and a wolf claw in place of his missing arm.
• Tian Hao charged into the City Lord's Mansion and attacked the noblewoman battling Yue Guan and Ghostly Specters, breaking her Mental Power barrier with an Ice Shield and spear before striking her with his left wolf claw.
• The wounded noblewoman unleashed her eighth soul skill, Soul Devouring, sending a Soul Devouring Spider Emperor phantom after Tian Hao.
• The Jade Disc of Creation suppressed the noblewoman's consciousness, and Tian Hao used the Nightmare Soul Bone's Dream Stealing Space to separate and seal away more than ten thousand infant souls she had devoured.
• With the infant souls removed, Tian Hao devoured the noblewoman's soul and Mental Power and considered using her Soul Devouring Spider Emperor soul ring to strengthen the Nightmare Soul Bone.

After waking, Tian Hao confirmed that Yue Guan and Gui Mei had secured the City Lord's Manor and learned that a hidden cave lay beneath it. He suggested that Yue Guan and Gui Mei could develop a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, then began extracting Soul Blood from the noblewoman's corpse to strengthen his Mental Power.

• Yue Guan and Snow White Clothes checked on Tian Hao after he woke, and Tian Hao said his teacher's contingency had erased the Fallen Soul Master.
• Tian Hao and Yue Guan identified the noblewoman's Martial Soul as the Charm Demon and suspected her eighth soul skill had caused her corruption.
• Gui Mei reported finding a hidden natural cave two hundred meters underground beneath the City Lord's Manor.
• Yue Guan invited Tian Hao to explore the manor and choose a reward, while Gui Mei revealed that his Martial Soul was Dark Shadow.
• Tian Hao proposed that Yue Guan's Light- and Metal-aligned Martial Soul and Gui Mei's Dark Shadow might form a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and both men agreed to experiment.
• Tian Hao stored his spear and began extracting Soul Blood from the noblewoman's corpse to aid his Mental Power cultivation.

Tian Hao secretly removed the noblewoman’s head soul bone and collected Yue Guan and Gui Mei’s blood to refine Soul Blood before joining them in the underground cavern. After finding evidence of the city lord’s crimes against infants, he asked for the victims’ identities to be reported and requested the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor’s corpse and the captured soul master for research.

• Tian Hao used the Nightmare Soul Bone to distract a Spirit Hall guard, removed the noblewoman’s head soul bone, and repaired the damage to conceal what he had done.
• Tian Hao collected Yue Guan and Gui Mei’s blood and refined it into Soul Blood, then followed Spirit Hall soul masters down into the cavern.
• Tian Hao found tiny skulls impaled on spikes and saw the dead Soul Devouring Spider Emperor mounted on an altar.
• Tian Hao urged Yue Guan and Gui Mei to find the infants’ names and return them to their families, and they agreed to report his suggestion to the Pope.
• Tian Hao asked Yue Guan for the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor’s corpse after the case was settled and requested that the captured soul master be sent to him for research.
• Tian Hao returned to the Great Soul Arena, where Ao Ye had secretly brought his daughter back.

Spirit Hall publicly investigated the infant disappearances while Tian Hao experimented on the kidnapper’s space-type Martial Soul. He extracted spatial power, which activated the Space Control talent in Gu Rong’s Bone Dragon Soul Blood and gave him a new way to pursue his plan.

• Yue Guan and Gui Mei kept Ao Ye out of the scandal and announced that Spirit Hall had uncovered the infant disappearances and their culprit.
• Qian Xunji went to Balak Royal City and Heaven Dou City to publicize the investigation and punish everyone involved, despite Xue Ye’s attempt to dissuade him.
• Tian Hao killed the woman who had abducted Ao Ye’s daughter, devoured her soul and corpse, and made her Universe Bag Martial Soul parasitize his body.
• Tian Hao began extracting spatial power from the Universe Bag Martial Soul and its five Soul Rings to pursue a way to expand his Soul Sea.
• Gu Rong’s Bone Dragon Soul Blood resonated with the extracted spatial power, absorbed it, and activated a weak Space Control talent.

Tian Hao used the Bone Dragon Soul Blood’s spatial ability to absorb power from a shattered Storage Soul Tool, expand his Soul Sea, and transform his Nightmare Soul Bone with the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor’s remains. He left to begin his Hundred Battles Arena Defense after asking Ao Ye to procure more low-grade Storage Soul Tools.

• Tian Hao shattered a small Storage Soul Tool inside the Black God Battle Suit and calmed its released spatial energy with the Bone Dragon Soul Blood.
• The Bone Dragon Soul Blood absorbed half the spatial energy, and Tian Hao used the rest to expand his Soul Sea from egg-sized to watermelon-sized.
• The Nightmare Soul Bone transformed into a spider-shaped headpiece and greatly increased Tian Hao’s Mental Power.
• Tian Hao initially refined the noblewoman’s Soul Devouring Spider Emperor skull, which resonated with the Nightmare Soul Bone and formed a protective spider-shaped face mask.
• Tian Hao named the combined ability the Dream Devouring Soul Space and considered testing soul bone devouring with another head soul bone.
• Tian Hao asked Ao Ye to buy as many low-grade Storage Soul Tools as possible so he could gather more spatial energy.

Bai Ying demonstrated how effectively she had mastered Gale Infinite Chain Slash, prompting the Speed Clan to trade the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng for its cultivation method. Yang Potian completed the exchange and prepared to deliver the medicine, while Bai Niao tried to persuade him to stay.

• Bai Ying used her modified Soul Skills and Gale Infinite Chain Slash to defeat a same-level clan cousin with her twentieth strike.
• Yang Potian presented the Gale Infinite Chain Slash manuscripts, and Bai He agreed to exchange the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng for them.
• Bai Niao questioned how the unknown benefactor had learned of the ginseng, and Yang Potian warned that the benefactor was a Titled Douluo's disciple.
• Bai He handed Yang Potian the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng, and the Speed Clan members eagerly examined the cultivation method.
• Yang Potian announced he had to leave to deliver the medicine, but Bai Niao urged him to stay for a feast and give Bai Ying time with the younger clan members.

Yang Potian grew angry when Bai Niao tried to verify Gale Infinite Chain Slash, demanded repayment from the Speed Clan, and sent letters calling in the other clans’ and Clear Sky Sect’s debts. Tang Yuehua suspected his sudden need for money was connected to something happening in the Balak Kingdom.

• Yang Potian confronted Bai Niao, demanded five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins from the Speed Clan, and insisted they address him as Clan Head Yang.
• Yang Potian stayed for three days to oversee Bai Ying teaching Gale Infinite Chain Slash, then arranged to collect goods worth six hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Niu Meng and Tai Wei arrived at the Speed Clan to ask why Yang Potian had demanded repayment, and Tang Xiao arrived with Tang Yuehua and a similar letter.
• Tang Yuehua reasoned that Yang Potian must urgently need money and asked where he had been; Bai Niao said he had been in the Balak Kingdom, prompting her to suspect it was related to an intelligence report.

Tang Yuehua and the clan leaders mistakenly concluded that Yang Potian had fallen out with them over a powerful soul bone, while Tang Xiao agreed to negotiate their debts and secretly sought the bone for himself. Yang Potian reached Suotuo City and discovered Tian Hao using Evil Fire to help cultivate a preliminary form of Pure Yang Boy Qi.

• Tang Yuehua speculated that Yang Potian had gone to the Balak Kingdom to seek a roughly ninety-thousand-year lightning soul bone, and the clan leaders believed it could help him become a Titled Douluo.
• Tai Wei and Niu Meng asked Tang Xiao to negotiate settling their debts to Yang Potian with goods, metals, and weapons instead of cash, and Tang Xiao agreed to speak with him.
• Tang Xiao and the others sent people to track Yang Potian and try to obtain the suspected soul bone before him.
• Yang Potian arrived in Suotuo City with Yang Zhan and Bai Ying and found Tian Hao cultivating amid crimson flames that made those present feel hot and restless.
• Tian Hao explained that he was using sealed Evil Fire to ease the rejection of the Primal Chaos Immortal Grass and fuse its Soul Power with that of the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower and Nine-Rank Purple Ganoderma into a preliminary Pure Yang Boy Qi.

Tian Hao treated Yang Potian’s accumulated medicinal toxins and hidden injuries as the first step toward helping him break through his level-eighty-nine bottleneck. Yang Potian named Tian Hao the Breaking Clan’s patriarch, and the treatment was set to continue the next day.

• Tian Hao revealed the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng and told Yang Potian he had a seventy-percent chance of helping him break through to Titled Douluo.
• Tian Hao said Yang Potian needed to guard Yang Zhan, and Yang Potian promised him the Breaking Clan patriarch position while he would become Grand Elder.
• Tian Hao accepted the position but declined responsibility for managing the clan’s affairs.
• Tian Hao sent Meng Yuyan and Bai Ying outside, then used his Blue Silver Domain and Devouring Golden Silk to remove medicinal toxins and damaged tissue from Yang Potian.
• Tian Hao finished the first stage of treatment after an hour and told Yang Potian to return the next day for the second stage.

Tian Hao used the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng and the Lovesick Heartbreak Red to regenerate his severed arm, then explained his plan to use Yang Potian’s breakthrough to provoke conflict between the Breaking Clan and the weakened Clear Sky Sect. He left confident that he had accounted for the risks.

• Tian Hao stored the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng in his expanded Soul Sea space, where it joined with the Lovesick Heartbreak Red’s root near the miniature Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Tian Hao fused with the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng and the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, using their medicinal power and Bone Dragon Soul Blood to regenerate his severed arm in seven hours.
• Meng Yuyan and Snow White Clothes congratulated Tian Hao, who noted that his new arm was still weak and would need time to recover.
• Meng Yuyan asked whether helping Yang Potian break through would create hidden dangers, and Tian Hao assured her that everything was under control.
• Tian Hao planned for Yang Potian’s rise to Titled Douluo status to unsettle the weakened Clear Sky Sect and potentially drive the Breaking Clan into conflict with it.

Tian Hao used the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng and Lovesick Heartbreak Red to temporarily restore Yang Potian’s body, then urged him to break through to Titled Douluo before the effects faded. Yang Potian and Yang Zhan prepared to enact their plan to free the Breaking Clan from its long-standing dependence on the Clear Sky Sect.

• Tian Hao fused his Soul Power with Yang Potian’s and used the medicinal properties of the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng and Lovesick Heartbreak Red to repair Yang Potian’s body.
• Yang Potian marveled that the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng could be used repeatedly without being consumed, and Tian Hao described how it could become a lasting protector of the Breaking Clan.
• Tian Hao warned Yang Potian that the treatment would last only a day and told him to break through to Titled Douluo that day to preserve his restored condition.
• Yang Potian agreed to proceed with the breakthrough, and Tian Hao told Yang Zhan to prepare as well.
• Yang Zhan welcomed his role in the plan and reflected on how the Clear Sky Sect had left the Breaking Clan with unpaid debts and demands for money.

Tian Hao helped Yang Potian restore his Soul Breaking Spear and break through the Rank 89 bottleneck, then used Yang Zhan’s Innate Full Soul Power to push Yang Potian’s self-generated soul ring into the Hundred-Thousand-Year tier. The ring had begun transforming but still needed Soul Power before Yang Potian could use it.

• Tian Hao suppressed Yang Potian with the Seven Kill Domain while Yang Potian shattered his eight beast soul rings’ power inside his Soul Breaking Spear.
• Tian Hao struck the weakened spear until it shattered, then he and Yang Potian guided its reformation and restored its missing source.
• Yang Potian’s restored Soul Breaking Spear broke his bottleneck, raising him to Rank 92 and transforming his Soul Power.
• Tian Hao used Yang Zhan’s Soul Breaking Spear to fuse with Yang Potian’s spear and drive Yang Potian’s forming self-generated soul ring past the Hundred-Thousand-Year threshold.
• Yang Potian sensed that the new ring had one enhanced Breaking Soul Skill, but said he still needed to provide Soul Power before its transformation was complete.

After helping Yang Potian create a self-generated soul ring, Tian Hao planned to strengthen the Breaking Clan and prepare for a campaign to the City of Slaughter. He left Yang Potian to gather the clan’s elders at Plant Academy, where Tian Hao would stay while preparing for the Soul Master Competition and his next plans.

• Tian Hao concluded that raising self-generated soul rings required improving the quantity and quality of source power.
• Yang Potian told Tian Hao that the Breaking Clan had one level-eighty-nine Soul Douluo, two other Soul Douluo, and sixteen Soul Sages, including five stuck at level seventy-nine.
• After confirming the clan members’ character, Tian Hao ordered Yang Potian to bring the Soul Douluo and five level-seventy-nine Soul Sages to him, promising to help them reach Titled Douluo status and obtain an imitation Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• Tian Hao warned Yang Potian that his method would erase the candidates’ soul rings and soul skills, but Yang Potian agreed that the clan elders would accept the cost.
• Tian Hao told Yang Potian to send the candidates to Plant Academy, where he would stay for the next half year before the All-Continent Soul Master Competition.

Tian Hao announced that he would challenge complete teams at the Suo Tuo Great Soul Arena, but first accepted Zhao Wuji’s request for a one-on-one battle. The chapter ended as Zhao Wuji unleashed his Immovable Ming King Body against Tian Hao’s escalating sword thrusts.

• Tian Hao asked the audience to stay quiet during the team battles and introduced his Green Peak Sword before inviting challengers.
• Zhao Wuji jumped into the arena and protested that he had given up a nearly acquired Fourth Soul Ring for a chance to fight Tian Hao.
• Tian Hao invited anyone in Zhao Wuji’s situation to challenge him first, but no one else came forward, so he accepted Zhao Wuji’s challenge.
• Zhao Wuji used Gravity Enhancement, but Tian Hao resisted its effects and explained that his physique could withstand the increased gravity.
• Tian Hao pierced Zhao Wuji’s Great Strength Vajra Palm twice with Green Peak, breaking the Soul Skill and injuring Zhao Wuji.
• Zhao Wuji activated Immovable Ming King Body as Tian Hao prepared another powerful thrust, while Yue Buqun urged Tian Hao to use the Bixie Sword Manual.

Tian Hao defeated Zhao Wuji and invited him to seek training at Plant Academy, then faced the Violent Tiger Team in the first full-team battle. He defeated all seven with his newly named Bixie Sword Manual and waited for the next team.

• Tian Hao cut through Zhao Wuji's defenses and secretly invited him to find him at Plant Academy for gravity-type training.
• Zhao Wuji eagerly left the arena, while the spectators fell silent and Ao Ye and the old supervisor praised Tian Hao's influence.
• The Violent Tiger Team entered the arena, confident that their coordination would end Tian Hao's undefeated record.
• Tian Hao used his Wind Cloak and Dark Shadow Soul Power to slip past the team's attacks and place his sword at the support Soul Master's chest.
• Tian Hao called his technique the Bixie Sword Manual, and the Violent Tiger Team conceded defeat before he returned to await the next battle.

Tian Hao defeated the Violent Tiger Team and Black Rock Team with his speed and precise swordsmanship, while offering Black Rock advice on improving his combat style. Afterward, Yue Guan urged Ghost Douluo to seek a trade for Tian Hao’s unusual Body Technique, and Gui Mei wondered whether Tian Hao might be his long-lost son.

• The Violent Tiger Team showed Black Rock the blood spots Tian Hao had placed on their vital points, and its captain described Tian Hao’s speed, precision, and restraint.
• Black Rock led the Black Rock Team into the arena, but Tian Hao quickly struck every member and defeated them, then advised Black Rock to learn a movement-restricting Soul Skill.
• The Black Rock Team left eager to train after discovering flaws in their defenses and coordination during the fight.
• Teams in the stands discussed how Tian Hao’s nimble Body Technique and deceptive swordsmanship made him difficult to counter.
• Yue Guan urged Ghost Douluo to ask Tian Hao about trading for the Body Technique, while Gui Mei wondered about Tian Hao’s power and speculated that he might be his son.

Tian Hao defeated Zi Xia’s team after revealing a sword technique that shattered incoming Soul Skills, then secretly collected her blood and purple Soul Power to study. Yue Guan and Gui Mei discussed taking talented fighters as disciples and wondered who had taught Tian Hao.

• Sun Lingling’s team unleashed their purple-qi trump card and coordinated long-range attacks against Tian Hao.
• Tian Hao used a sword technique powered by his X-ray Vision to collapse the team’s Soul Skills, then freed himself from their restraints.
• Tian Hao defeated the team, collected Zi Xia’s blood and purple Soul Power, and learned the captain’s name was Zi Xia.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei considered taking Zi Xia and Sun Lingling as disciples and admitted they could not understand Tian Hao’s sword technique.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei speculated about Tian Hao’s unknown teacher and the hidden Titled Douluo across the continent.