Chapter Summaries

After Tang Hao’s death, the Clear Sky Sect’s elders agreed to let his body return if Tang San met three severe conditions. Ye Hao went to the City of Slaughter, exposed the danger Tang San’s poison posed to the Hell Road, and completed his Third Trial, receiving a new challenge to claim the Asura Demon Sword.

• Tang Xiao asked the Clear Sky Sect’s elders to bring Tang Hao’s body home, and the Second Elder agreed on condition that Tang San kill a Spirit Hall Titled Douluo, kill Ye Hao, and reach Level 80 with a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring within ten years.
• Ye Hao returned to the City of Slaughter and told the Hell Messenger he had come to save it, then asked to meet the King of Slaughter.
• Ye Hao revealed that Tang San had tampered with the Hell Road and disclosed that the King of Slaughter was Tang Chen’s body-stealing impostor, whom he called Old Bat.
• The King of Slaughter opened the Hell Road, where Ye Hao used his Asura power to remove the poisonous danger and prevent the City of Slaughter’s destruction.
• Ye Hao passed his Third Trial, raising his Asura Affinity to 30%, and received a Fourth Trial to seize the Asura Demon Sword from its former inheritor within one year.

Ye Hao received the Asura Demon Sword from the King of Slaughter and passed the Fourth Trial, then learned that Tang San had been challenged to fulfill three conditions to return to the Clear Sky Sect. As the Top Three Sects prepared to meet secretly, Ye Hao decided to attend and assess their plans.

• The King of Slaughter gave Ye Hao the Asura Demon Sword, and Ye Hao passed the Fourth Trial and gained 20% Asura Affinity.
• The King of Slaughter asked Ye Hao to kill the Asura King, and Ye Hao agreed before leaving the City of Slaughter.
• Tang San mourned Tang Hao and vowed to destroy Spirit Hall; Tang Yuehua told him the Clear Sky Sect would accept them back if he met three conditions, including killing Ye Hao.
• Tang Yuehua urged Tang San to spend a year studying music and noble etiquette at Moonlight Pavilion before going to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Ye Hao considered his plans for the Top Three Sects and learned that they would hold a secret meeting at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect the next day.

Ye Hao secretly listened as the Top Three Sects discussed resisting Spirit Hall, then revealed himself and announced that Tang Chen was dead. He attacked the gathering with the Asura Demon Sword, leaving the sect leaders facing an enemy who claimed he could kill them all.

• Ye Hao entered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect unseen and overheard Ning Fengzhi, Second Elder, and Yu Luomian discuss an alliance against Spirit Hall.
• Ning Fengzhi revealed that Bibi Dong had reached Rank 100, and Second Elder wondered whether Tang Chen had found a way to break through Rank 99.
• Ye Hao appeared and declared that Tang Chen was already dead, then struck Bone Douluo and shattered Second Elder’s Clear Sky Hammer with the Asura Demon Sword.
• Sword Douluo rescued Second Elder, while the gathering questioned Ye Hao about his weapon and he challenged the Top Three Sects.
• Ye Hao killed Tang Tian with a single sword strike and warned that Clear Sky Sect’s Clan Leader Tang Chen was dead, so he had nothing to fear.

Ye Hao confronted the leaders of the Top Three Sects and declared that Spirit Hall would destroy them as obstacles to unification. He attacked Ning Rongrong and reduced her Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda to an ordinary Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda, then faced Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo as they charged him.

• Ye Hao told the Top Three Sects that Tang Chen was dead and warned that none of them would escape Spirit Hall’s destruction.
• After concealing himself, Ye Hao went to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s garden and confronted Ning Rongrong, explaining why Spirit Hall targeted the sects and empires.
• Ye Hao drew the Asura Demon Sword and cut away two levels of Ning Rongrong’s Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda, then healed her while restoring it as an ordinary Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Fengzhi swore that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would oppose Ye Hao until death after Ye Hao said he had reclaimed the power granted by the Aromatic Silk Beauty.
• Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo attacked Ye Hao, who raised the Asura Demon Sword to fight them.

Ye Hao destroyed the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda and fought Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo after Ning Fengzhi aided them. He killed Sword Douluo, imprisoned Bone Douluo, and blamed Ning Fengzhi for choosing the other sects; as the Clear Sky Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan joined the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ye Hao declared that the game had begun.

• Ning Fengzhi used the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda to strengthen Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo, while Ye Hao summoned a clone to fight them both.
• Ye Hao's Asura Demon Sword overwhelmed Sword Douluo, and his Heart of the God of Death bound Bone Douluo despite Sword Douluo's attempt to destroy it.
• Sword Douluo transformed into his Seven Kill Sword True Body and attacked Ye Hao, but Ye Hao's Asura Judgment broke the sword and pierced Sword Douluo.
• Ye Hao said he had spared Sword Douluo's life but crippled his Seven Kill Sword Martial Soul, then sealed Bone Douluo inside the Heart of the God of Death.
• Ye Hao accused Ning Fengzhi of rejecting Spirit Hall to preserve his status and said he had taken back Ning Rongrong's Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• The Second Elder and Yu Luomian sided with Ning Fengzhi, and Ye Hao announced that the game had begun against the three sects.

After crippling Sword Douluo and capturing Bone Douluo, Ye Hao discovered Ning Fengzhi was seeking an alliance with the Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire against Spirit Hall. Ye Hao ordered Xue Qinghe to let Ning Fengzhi’s plan proceed while secretly placing forces inside the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, setting up a strike from within and without.

• Ye Hao left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while Ning Fengzhi lamented its losses and resolved to keep opposing Spirit Hall rather than surrender.
• After resting in Heaven Dou City, Ye Hao followed Ning Fengzhi to the imperial palace and secretly listened as he asked Xue Qinghe to join the Top Three Sects and Star Luo Empire against Spirit Hall.
• Ning Fengzhi left believing he had secured Xue Qinghe’s support, and Xue Qinghe prepared to report the proposed alliance to the Great Consecrator.
• Ye Hao revealed himself to Xue Qinghe and ordered Heaven Dou Royal Knights and two thousand soul masters to be stationed at each of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Ye Hao told Xue Qinghe to delay contacting the Star Luo Empire and said they would destroy the two sects by attacking from within and without.

Ye Hao returned to Spirit Hall, imprisoned Bone Douluo, and prepared to destroy the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan before infiltrating the Clear Sky Sect. He visited the broken Yu Xiaogang in the dungeon and declared that his time to die had come.

• Xue Qinghe stationed the Royal Knight Order and two thousand soul masters at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, reassuring Ning Fengzhi.
• Ye Hao released Bone Douluo at the Elder Hall, where Qian Daoliu subdued him; Ye Hao told Bone Douluo that Sword Douluo was alive but crippled.
• Ye Hao reunited with Qian Renxue and their daughter, then said he planned to infiltrate the Clear Sky Sect using Qian Renxue’s Angel Soul Bone disguise and revealed his Asura God Inheritance Mark.
• After spending three months refining his plans, Ye Hao went to the Spirit Hall Dungeon to bring Yu Xiaogang along to witness the sects’ destruction.
• Ye Hao confronted the deranged Yu Xiaogang, accused him of plotting against him with Tang Xiao and Tang Hao, and announced that Yu Xiaogang’s time to die had come.

Ye Hao sent Yu Xiaogang back to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and forged letters to lure Tang San and Liu Erlong there. As they traveled to the clan, Ye Hao arrived ahead of them and set his undercover forces in motion.

• Ye Hao had Yu Xiaogang dragged from Spirit Hall’s dungeon and forced him to go to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Ye Hao ordered a Spirit Hall disciple to forge Yu Xiaogang’s handwriting and send letters to Tang San and Liu Erlong, claiming Yu Xiaogang had escaped and returned home.
• Tang San received the letter at Moonlight Pavilion and, despite suspecting a trap, went to Shrek Academy to confirm it with Liu Erlong and Flender.
• Liu Erlong found her letter, learned Yu Xiaogang was supposedly alive, and set out with Tang San and Flender for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Two days later, Ye Hao arrived at the clan’s mountain gate and ordered the Royal Knight Order soldiers and the thousand undercover soul masters to act.

Ye Hao led the slaughter of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and forced Yu Xiaogang to witness its destruction before ordering him killed. Flender, Liu Erlong, and Tang San arrived to find the clan burned and its lake filled with corpses.

• Ye Hao's forces, led by Spider Spider, Zhu'er, and Evil Tiger, attacked the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and overwhelmed its defenders.
• Ye Hao removed Yu Xiaogang's blindfold at the clan gate, showed him the massacre, and cut down the clan's dragon statue as Yu Xiaogang charged at him.
• Spider Spider reported that Yu Yuanzhen had died by self-detonation, the clan had been wiped out, and their forces had lost over eleven hundred soul masters; Zhu'er gave Ye Hao Yu Yuanzhen's three Soul Bones.
• Ye Hao ordered Yu Xiaogang killed, then stopped the execution to taunt him about Tang Hao's death and Flender's life with Liu Erlong before ordering Yu Xiaogang taken away.
• A Spirit Hall disciple reported that Flender, Liu Erlong, and Tang San were approaching, so Ye Hao ordered his forces to withdraw and said he would bring Yu Xiaogang to meet them.
• Tang San sensed the bloodshed, and Liu Erlong, Flender, and Tang San reached the lake, where they saw the clan in ruins and Liu Erlong collapsed in grief.

Liu Erlong, Tang San, and Flender found the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan destroyed and discovered that Flender had accidentally killed Yu Xiaogang. Ye Hao admitted responsibility for the clan’s destruction, and the grieving survivors attacked him.

• Liu Erlong, Tang San, and Flender arrived at the ruined Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and found its members dead.
• Tang San and Flender concluded that Spirit Hall had lured them there with forged letters written in Yu Xiaogang’s handwriting.
• Flender mistook the wounded Yu Xiaogang for an enemy and pierced his chest before Tang San could stop him.
• Yu Xiaogang died after accusing Liu Erlong of becoming involved with Flender, and Liu Erlong blamed Flender for his death.
• Ye Hao revealed himself, admitted destroying the clan, and defended the act as part of unifying Douluo Continent.
• Tang San, Liu Erlong, and Flender attacked Ye Hao.

Ye Hao defeated Liu Erlong and Flender, crippling their martial souls, then moved on to attack the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. He revealed that Spirit Hall had replaced Xue Qinghe and offered Ning Fengzhi and Ning Rongrong a chance to surrender as the sect came under assault.

• Liu Erlong, Flender, and Tang San attacked Ye Hao, but his Asura Demon Sword shattered their attacks and sent Tang San tumbling off a cliff.
• Ye Hao spared Liu Erlong and Flender but crippled their martial souls, then left Yu Xiaogang's corpse to burn in the Sea of Fire.
• Liu Erlong blamed Flender for Yu Xiaogang's death as the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan burned down.
• Ye Hao arrived at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Heaven Dou Royal Knights and royal soul masters launched an attack under his orders.
• Ye Hao told Ning Fengzhi that Xue Qinghe had always been a Spirit Hall infiltrator and that the original Xue Qinghe had been killed and replaced.
• Ye Hao revealed that Sword Douluo was crippled and Bone Douluo captured, then urged Ning Fengzhi and Ning Rongrong to surrender to save the sect's disciples.

Ye Hao captured Ning Fengzhi, Ning Rongrong, and Jian Daochen Xin as Spirit Hall destroyed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, leaving only the Clear Sky Sect among the Top Three Sects. As news spread, Flender disbanded Shrek Academy, while Tang Xiao considered recalling the Clear Sky Sect’s remaining subordinate clans.

• Ye Hao revealed that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had been destroyed, then captured Ning Fengzhi, Ning Rongrong, and Jian Daochen Xin with the Heart of the God of Death.
• By morning, Spirit Hall had reduced the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to ashes and killed more than two thousand of its disciples; Ye Hao returned to Spirit Hall and considered how to approach the Clear Sky Sect.
• Flender returned to Shrek Academy with Liu Erlong, who grieved over her clan’s destruction and her lost Soul Power, and announced that he would disband the academy.
• The fewer than five students left at Shrek Academy fled, while Zhao Wuji chose to stay with Flender, who planned to care for Liu Erlong there.
• After learning that the two other great sects had fallen, Tang Xiao ordered increased patrols and proposed recalling the Clear Sky Sect’s three remaining subordinate clans; the Seventh Elder objected.

Tang San awoke among the ruins of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and heard a majestic voice in his mind, while Ye Hao returned to Spirit Hall and dealt with the captured leaders of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. He crippled their Martial Souls and left them alive under constant surveillance, while the Clear Sky Sect faced an uncertain future.

• Tang Xiao and the elders worried that the isolated Clear Sky Sect might be destroyed by Spirit Hall, while Tang San woke in the lake and mourned his losses.
• Tang San blamed Flender for his teacher's death and then heard an immensely majestic voice resound in his mind.
• Ye Hao returned to Spirit Hall, told Bibi Dong that Yu Yuanzhen was dead and Ning Fengzhi, Jian Daochen Xin, Ning Rongrong, and Gu Rong were imprisoned, and proposed sparing them while keeping them watched.
• Ye Hao brought Ning Fengzhi, Jian Daochen Xin, and Ning Rongrong to meet Gu Rong and let them choose whether to live or die.
• Ning Fengzhi, Jian Daochen Xin, and Gu Rong chose death, but Ye Hao used the Asura Demon Sword to cripple their Martial Souls and erase their Soul Power instead.
• Ye Hao left the four under Spirit Hall surveillance, and Ning Fengzhi, Jian Daochen Xin, and Gu Rong struggled with the destruction of their sect and their new helplessness.

Ye Hao continued his undercover mission as Tang Yu in the Clear Sky Sect while the Sea God confronted the Asura God over Ye Hao’s use of the Asura Demon Sword against Tang San. As Ye Hao waited to escort Tang San to the sect, Tang San attacked him and the other disciples, leaving their clash about to begin.

• The Sea God demanded that the Asura God stop the God of Death’s successor from interfering with Tang San before Tang San completed the Sea God Nine Trials, and the Asura God warned that Tang San would become vulnerable afterward.
• During six months of Spirit Hall’s preparations to unite the continent, Ye Hao infiltrated the Clear Sky Sect as Tang Yu and learned its secret techniques.
• Tang Xiao and Tang Yuehua ordered Ye Hao to meet Tang San, while they discussed the threat Spirit Hall posed to the sect.
• Ye Hao waited three days with Tang Long and Tang Hu for Tang San, and the disciples debated whether the sect would accept him back into the family.
• Tang San arrived in disguise and attacked the three men with a Clear Sky Hammer, prompting Ye Hao to prepare to fight back.

Tang San arrived at the Clear Sky Sect and attacked Ye Hao, who was disguised as Tang Yu, after demanding an apology. After Tang Long and Tang Hu joined the fight, Ye Hao and the others humiliated and defeated Tang San; Tang San then sabotaged the Iron Chain Bridge, but Ye Hao caught his foot and stopped him from escaping.

• Tang San confronted Ye Hao with his Clear Sky Hammer, but Ye Hao blocked and overpowered his attack.
• Tang Long and Tang Hu identified themselves as Clear Sky Sect disciples, apologized for their earlier insult, and joined Ye Hao against Tang San when he continued demanding an apology.
• Ye Hao and the others beat Tang San, slowed his throwing knives with the Sluggish Domain, and stopped him from releasing the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud before Ye Hao slapped him repeatedly.
• As the group crossed the Iron Chain Bridge toward the Clear Sky Sect, Tang San cut the chains with a throwing knife, endangering himself and Ye Hao.
• Ye Hao grabbed Tang San's foot as he tried to reach the shore, then approached him angrily after they narrowly escaped the abyss.

Tang Yu exposed Tang San’s attempt to send him off the Iron Chain Bridge, and the Clear Sky Sect disciples beat Tang San severely. Tang Xiao ordered Tang San to be treated while the sect debated his place, and Tang Yu left believing his infiltration plan was succeeding.

• Tang Yu confronted Tang San on the Iron Chain Bridge and called Tang Long, Tang Hu, and the Clear Sky Sect disciples to witness Tang San’s attempted murder.
• Tang Yu showed the dagger embedded in the cliff, and Tang Long confirmed it belonged to Tang San.
• Tang San tried to escape with the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, but Tang Yu stopped him and the Clear Sky Sect disciples beat him until he was nearly unconscious.
• Tang Long and Tang Hu brought the battered Tang San into the Council Hall, where Tang Yuehua and Tang Xiao were stunned to see his condition.
• Tang Yu presented the dagger to Tang Xiao and explained Tang San’s scheme, while the Seventh Elder and disciples demanded that Tang San be expelled.
• Tang Xiao ordered Tang San to be treated and warned the sect to prepare for Spirit Hall; Tang Yu secretly believed Tang San’s reputation was ruined and his plan could continue.

After recovering from his injuries, Tang San was summoned before Tang Xiao and the five elders of the Clear Sky Sect, where the disciples demanded that he leave. Seventh Elder’s insults drove Tang San to challenge Tang Yu, and Tang Yu stepped forward to accept.

• Tang San remained bedridden for a month while Tang Yuehua cared for him, and he vowed to kill Tang Yu.
• Disguised as Tang Yu, Ye Hao gathered information about the Clear Sky Sect and planned to remove Tang Yuehua and its strongest leaders.
• Tang Yuehua visited Tang Yu to ask him to forgive Tang San, but Tang Yu refused and warned her to stay away from her nephew.
• After recovering, Tang San entered the Council Hall and faced the disciples’ demands that he leave the Clear Sky Sect.
• Second Elder and Seventh Elder confronted Tang San about his attempt to kill Tang Yu, and Seventh Elder insulted Tang San’s parents and Xiao Wu.
• Tang San challenged Tang Yu, and Tang Yu stepped forward to fight him.

Tang Yu fought Tang San in the Clear Sky Sect’s Council Hall and overwhelmed him while hiding Ye Hao’s identity and power. He stopped Tang San from using the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and beat him severely, leaving the sect’s elders and disciples watching.

• Tang San challenged Tang Yu, and the Second Elder ordered Tang Yu to use every trump card the Clear Sky Sect possessed.
• Tang San attacked with Blue Silver Grass and Divine Slaughter’s Domain, but Tang Yu broke free, slapped him twice, and kicked him away.
• Tang San and Tang Yu exchanged hammer blows, and Tang Yu smashed through Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass defenses and injured his chest.
• Tang San tried to unleash a skill from the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, but Tang Yu pressed it back into his brow and shattered his wrist with the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang Yu continued beating Tang San as the Second Elder and Seventh Elder watched with approval, while Tang Xiao looked troubled and Tang Yuehua watched tearfully.

Tang Yu defeated Tang San in a brutal duel, winning the Clear Sky Sect's praise and earning consideration as the next sect master's heir. That night, he told Tang Yuehua he would not accept Tang San in the sect unless he fulfilled the elders' three conditions, while she promised to take Tang San away once he recovered.

• Tang Yu battered Tang San until he could no longer stand, warned him against a hidden-weapon attack, and declared the duel over.
• Tang Xiao ordered Tang Yuehua to take the injured Tang San for treatment, while the elders praised Tang Yu and the sect disciples celebrated him.
• Tang Yuehua visited Tang Yu that night and reproached him for breaking Tang San's bones, but Tang Yu said Tang San had earned his hostility by trying to kill him on the Iron Chain Bridge.
• Tang Yuehua told Tang Yu that the five elders were considering him as the next sect master's heir and that Tang San was unlikely to be admitted to the sect.
• Tang Yu refused to treat Tang San better or let him enter the sect unless he met the three conditions, and Tang Yuehua promised to take Tang San away after his recovery.

Tang Yu was unexpectedly chosen as the Clear Sky Sect’s next Sect Master and received the Great Sumeru Hammer manual, while Tang San’s hostility toward the sect closed off his hopes of joining it. Tang Yu began memorizing the secret technique overnight, still concealing that he was Spirit Hall’s Young Master Ye Hao.

• Tang Yuehua told Tang San that the Second Elder’s three conditions remained valid for ten years, but urged him to leave the Clear Sky Sect after recovering.
• Tang Xiao and the five elders agreed that Tang Yu should inherit the Sect Master position, rejecting Tang San because he had wanted to kill a sect disciple.
• The elders decided to pass the Great Sumeru Hammer to Tang Yu so the secret technique would be safeguarded if Spirit Hall attacked.
• Tang Yuehua summoned Tang Yu to the main hall, where Tang Xiao formally named him heir and gave him the original Great Sumeru Hammer manual.
• Tang Yu accepted the inheritance and began studying the manual overnight with Tang Xiao and Tang Yuehua present.