Chapter Summaries

Tang Xiao led the Clear Sky Sect Team in unleashing the Clear Sky Battle Formation against Yun Yuan and Bibi Dong. Yun Yuan shrugged off its first attack and met its stronger Hammer Shatters Mountains strike with his powered-up Atlas Spear.

• Tang Xiao and the other six Clear Sky Sect members formed the Clear Sky Battle Formation, with Tang Xiao at its center.
• Bibi Dong released her Death Poison Fog, and Tang Xiao warned Tang Hao to protect himself while maintaining the formation.
• Tang Xiao sent the formation’s Collapse Formula crashing down on Yun Yuan, who countered it with Wind Chasing Lightning and emerged uninjured.
• Tang Hao grew furious after Yun Yuan mocked the attack, and the Clear Sky Sect Team launched its stronger Hammer Shatters Mountains technique.
• Yun Yuan activated Endless Battle Spear and leaped up to meet the descending hammer phantom with his Atlas Spear.

Yun Yuan defeated the Clear Sky Sect Team by breaking its Clear Sky Battle Formation, and the Spirit Hall Team won the Soul Master Tournament. Spirit Hall celebrated Yun Yuan and Bibi Dong’s coronation as Saint Son and Saintess, while news of their achievements spread across the Continent.

• Yun Yuan shattered the Clear Sky Battle Formation’s hammer phantom, then used his True Damage Soul Skill to pierce the Clear Sky Barrier and defeat Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect Team.
• The Red Cardinal announced the Spirit Hall Team as the tournament champion, and Bibi Dong hugged Yun Yuan to celebrate their victory.
• Tang Zhen comforted Tang Xiao, Hao'er, and the other defeated Clear Sky Sect members, telling them Yun Yuan had been too powerful to overcome.
• Spirit Hall began the champion awards and the coronation ceremony for Yun Yuan and Bibi Dong as Saint Son and Saintess.
• Three days later, news of Yun Yuan and Bibi Dong’s tournament achievements spread across the Continent, and Spirit Hall members took pride in their leaders.

Ye Qingxian struggled to hide her feelings for Yun Yuan after her mother warned her that he and Bibi Dong were a better match. Meanwhile, Yun Yuan and Qian Daoliu searched the Star Dou Great Forest for a suitable Fifth Soul Ring, and their efforts were finally rewarded.

• Ye Qingxian heard a tavern storyteller describe Yun Yuan's victory over the Clear Sky Sect Team and learned that he was only eight or nine years old.
• Ye Zhiyung told Ye Qingxian that Yun Yuan and Bibi Dong were a perfect match, and Ye Qingxian claimed she only worried about Yun Yuan while privately admitting she could not forget him.
• Yun Yuan prepared to seek a rule-based Lock-type skill for his Fifth Soul Ring, considering the rare Star Luo Divine Falcon and Sky Scar Dragon Hawk among his options.
• Qian Daoliu accompanied Yun Yuan into the Star Dou Great Forest to search for a Soul Beast with a Year Limit of roughly forty to sixty thousand years.
• Yun Yuan and Qian Daoliu searched for days, rejected a Star Luo Divine Falcon whose Year Limit was below ten thousand years, and finally found a promising result.

After capturing a Sky Scar Dragon Hawk in the Star Dou Great Forest, Yun Yuan absorbed his Fifth Soul Ring and gained a powerful fate-locking skill. Back in Spirit City, he agreed with Qian Xunji to reveal Whale Rubber’s effects and claim credit for its discovery, while Spirit Hall prepared to profit from its monopoly.

• Qian Daoliu captured a fifty-thousand-year-old Sky Scar Dragon Hawk, and Yun Yuan killed it to obtain his Fifth Soul Ring.
• Yun Yuan reached rank fifty-four and gained the rule-type Soul Skill Dragon Hunt Destiny, which guaranteed a hit on a marked target and reduced its attributes by twenty percent.
• Qian Daoliu observed that Yun Yuan’s Atlas Spear had grown stronger and discussed its potential with him.
• Qian Xunji told Yun Yuan that Spirit Hall had monopolized Whale Rubber and proposed revealing its effects while crediting Yun Yuan with the discovery; Yun Yuan agreed.
• Spirit Hall announced that Whale Rubber let Soul Masters absorb Soul Rings beyond their Year Limit, and Yun Yuan gained the title of Grandmaster as Spirit Hall sold the monopolized supply at a steep price.

The major sects bought Whale Rubber from Spirit Hall while planning to secure their own supplies, and Yu Xiaogang decided to pursue fame as a theorist after hearing Yun Yuan praised. In Spirit City, Yun Yuan proposed a scheme to Qian Xunji that would trade Whale Rubber for medicinal herbs and help him begin preparing a path to godhood through faith.

• Ning Fengzhi learned from Ning Qingzhou why the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had to buy high-year-limit Whale Rubber from Spirit Hall, despite its inflated price.
• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan chose to buy Whale Rubber for now, and Yu Xiaogang decided to abandon Soul Power cultivation and become a renowned Master through theory.
• Tang Chen ordered Tang Zhen to buy Whale Rubber for Tang Hao and Tang Xiao, then planned to hunt high-year-limit Whale-type Soul Beasts in distant waters.
• Yun Yuan asked Qian Xunji to exchange Spirit Hall's Whale Rubber for medicinal herbs and offered to explain a plan to enrich Spirit Hall and increase its strength.
• Yun Yuan decided to begin preparing a faith-based path to godhood while continuing to advance his Soul Power and Spear Dao.

Yun Yuan persuaded Qian Xunji to establish Spirit Hall’s Pill Hall and received authority to use its resources. After a year of gathering medicinal herbs and developing Pills, Yun Yuan had initially perfected the alchemy system and set out to recruit Alchemists.

• Yun Yuan proposed creating the Pill Hall and expanding alchemy across the Continent, and Qian Xunji warned him about the challenges of recipes, herbs, and finding Alchemists.
• Yun Yuan committed to the plan, and Qian Xunji gave him a token authorizing him to mobilize Spirit Hall’s resources, except for Elders above Title Douluo level.
• Yun Yuan planted medicinal-herb seeds at the Ice Fire Yin Yang Eye, ordered Spirit Hall’s branch halls to cultivate herbs, and traded Whale Rubber with major forces to acquire more.
• Yun Yuan developed Soul Ascension Pills in nine grades along with Soul Condensing, Soul Gathering, Rejuvenation, and Injury Recovery Pills.
• After a year of work, Yun Yuan reached Soul Power Level fifty-nine and the Spear Heart Realm, then decided to recruit Alchemists.

Yun Yuan returned to Heaven Dou City to recruit the Ye Family into Spirit Hall’s Pill Hall, believing their knowledge of herbs and Alchemy would make them valuable Alchemists. He reunited with Ye Qingxian, who supported the proposal and brought him to Ye Zhiyung, leaving them ready to discuss the family’s decision.

• Yun Yuan left Spirit Hall for Heaven Dou City to recruit the Ye Family into the Pill Hall.
• Yun Yuan arrived at the Ye Family Mansion and surprised Ye Qingxian at her window.
• Ye Qingxian hugged Yun Yuan, learned he was the Pill Hall’s Hall Master, and heard why he had come.
• Ye Qingxian decided the Ye Family should join the Pill Hall and led Yun Yuan to her mother.
• Ye Qingxian greeted Ye Zhiyung in the courtyard while holding Yun Yuan’s hand and announced that she had good news.

Yun Yuan demonstrated his Alchemy System to Ye Zhiyung and secured the Heaven Dou Ye Family's agreement to join the Pill Hall. Ye Zhiyung also offered to recruit fellow alchemists and suggested approaching the Breaking Clan, which was connected to the Clear Sky Sect.

• Ye Zhiyung weighed the costs and benefits of joining the Pill Hall and asked Yun Yuan to explain his Alchemy System.
• Yun Yuan described alchemist ranks and his pills, then demonstrated the system by refining a rank-four Soul Ascension Pill for Ye Qingxian.
• Ye Qingxian urged her mother to join, and Ye Zhiyung agreed that the Heaven Dou Ye Family would join the Pill Hall.
• Yun Yuan asked Ye Zhiyung to recruit other alchemists, and she said she could approach minor factions and rogue cultivators.
• Ye Zhiyung suggested that Yun Yuan try to recruit from the Breaking Clan, another Medicine Refining Clan associated with the Clear Sky Sect.

Yun Yuan decided to recruit the Breaking Clan and set out alone to challenge its leader, Yang Lie, hoping to win the clan's allegiance. After arriving at their residence, he introduced himself and challenged Yang Lie to a Spear Dao contest.

• Yun Yuan rejected Ye Zhiyung's offer to invite the Breaking Clan leader to Heaven Dou City and asked her to recruit minor alchemy forces and independent cultivators instead.
• Ye Zhiyung persuaded her family to join the future Pill Hall, then began inviting their associates to Heaven Dou City.
• Yun Yuan followed Ye Zhiyung's map to the Breaking Clan's residence and confronted them from above, releasing his Atlas Spear and Qingtian's Intent.
• Yang Wudi recognized Yun Yuan as the Martial Soul Hall Saint Son who had defeated the Clear Sky Sect Team's formation during the Soul Master Tournament.
• Yun Yuan challenged Yang Lie to a Spear Dao contest, and Yang Lie accepted, summoning his Soul Breaking Spear.

Yun Yuan defeated Yang Lie in a spear duel despite being a Soul King facing a Soul Douluo, earning the Breaking Clan patriarch’s admiration. He then revealed that his real purpose was to discuss a transaction with Yang Lie, intending to recruit members from the Clear Sky Sect.

• Yun Yuan activated Extreme Sublimation and opened the fight by thrusting his Atlas Spear at Yang Lie.
• Yang Lie used Demon Breaking Spear Aura, but Yun Yuan’s Spear Heart Realm let him match Yang Lie and gradually gain the upper hand.
• Yun Yuan warned Yang Lie before combining all five Soul Skills into a powerful attack, while Yang Lie answered with his Martial Soul Avatar and Soul Breaking World Shattering.
• Yun Yuan’s attack overwhelmed Yang Lie, sent him crashing to the ground, and left Yun Yuan uninjured.
• Yang Wudi rushed to his father, and Yang Lie praised Yun Yuan’s strength and the Atlas Spear.
• Yun Yuan told Yang Lie he had come to discuss a transaction, with plans to recruit members from the Clear Sky Sect.

Yun Yuan demonstrated his alchemy skill to Yang Lie and Yang Wudi by refining a Grade Six Soul Ascension Pill, helping Yang Wudi break through to Soul Emperor. He invited the Breaking Clan to join Spirit Hall’s new Pill Hall, but Yang Lie refused because he had already pledged himself to the Clear Sky Sect.

• Yang Lie welcomed Yun Yuan to the Breaking Clan’s Alchemy Room to discuss alchemy.
• Yun Yuan explained his Dao of Alchemy, astonishing Yang Lie and Yang Wudi with his knowledge of pills.
• Yun Yuan refined a Grade Six Soul Ascension Pill and gave it to Yang Wudi to consume.
• Yang Wudi used the pill to break through to Soul Emperor and promised to repay Yun Yuan’s kindness.
• Yun Yuan invited the Breaking Clan to join Spirit Hall’s Pill Hall, but Yang Lie refused, citing his commitment to the Clear Sky Sect.

Yun Yuan persuaded Yang Lie to leave the Clear Sky Sect and bring the Breaking Clan into the Pill Hall, promising to settle them in Spirit City. After winning over the clan elders, Yang Lie asked Yun Yuan to uncover the secret of the Breaking Clan’s ancient clan-suppressing treasure.

• Yun Yuan confronted Yang Lie over his reluctance to betray the Clear Sky Sect, and Yang Wudi described how badly the sect had treated the Breaking Clan.
• Yang Lie decided to join Yun Yuan’s Pill Hall and asked whether the promised conditions still stood; Yun Yuan assured him they did.
• Yang Lie and Yun Yuan planned to relocate the Breaking Clan to Spirit City to protect them from retaliation by Tang Chen.
• Yang Lie persuaded the Breaking Clan’s elders to approve the move, and they gathered with Yun Yuan and Yang Wudi that night.
• Yang Lie explained that the clan’s ancient treasure contained a secret only a gifted Spear Dao Soul Master could comprehend, then asked Yun Yuan to examine it.

Yun Yuan awakened the Breaking Clan’s ancient Wooden Spear and gained insight into its ancestor’s life, advancing to the Great Achievement Spear Heart Realm. After revealing the spear’s secret, he returned to Spirit City to prepare the Pill Hall for its incoming members.

• Yang Lie showed Yun Yuan the Breaking Clan’s ancient Wooden Spear, and Yun Yuan’s Spiritual Power resonated with its patterns.
• Yun Yuan experienced an Epiphany, witnessing the Breaking Clan Ancestor’s lifelong journey in the Spear Dao while Yang Lie explained his state to Yang Wudi.
• Yun Yuan awoke with his Spear Dao advanced to the Great Achievement Spear Heart Realm, surprising Yang Lie and Yang Wudi.
• Yun Yuan told Yang Lie and Yang Wudi that the Wooden Spear held the ancestor’s life and insights, but its Intent Realm could be comprehended only twice more.
• Yun Yuan rested, then returned to Spirit City several days later to plan how to teach alchemy to the Pill Hall’s incoming members.

Yun Yuan welcomed Ye Qingxian and the newly arrived forces to Spirit City, then explained that he would lead the newly created Pill Hall. Bibi Dong grew jealous of Ye Qingxian and decided to join the Pill Hall so she could stay near Yun Yuan.

• The Breaking Clan, the Heaven Dou Ye Family, minor forces, and independent cultivators settled in Spirit City.
• Ye Qingxian visited Yun Yuan using his token, and Bibi Dong grew wary when Ye Qingxian hugged him.
• Yun Yuan explained the Pill Hall to Bibi Dong and confirmed that he was about to become its hall master.
• Bibi Dong decided to join the Pill Hall to keep close to Yun Yuan and guard him from Ye Qingxian.
• Yun Yuan led the new Pill Hall members to the Pill Tower and announced its official establishment in three months, naming Ye Zhiyung and Yang Lie as vice hall masters.

Yun Yuan taught the Pill Hall his Alchemy System while Bibi Dong asked to join and learn, revealing her jealousy over Ye Qingxian and receiving Yun Yuan’s promise that he would marry her first. Meanwhile, the Breaking Clan settled in Spirit City after leaving the Clear Sky Sect, and two months later Yun Yuan’s senior students had become capable alchemists.

• Yun Yuan began teaching the Pill Hall to refine Soul Ascension Pills, and Ye Zhiyung, Yang Lie, and Ye Qingxian learned to make them on the first day.
• Bibi Dong told Yun Yuan she wanted to join the Pill Hall and learn alchemy, and he guessed she feared Ye Qingxian would win his affection.
• Yun Yuan promised Bibi Dong she would be the first person he married, then carried her back to her palace when she pressed him about marrying someone else.
• A Clear Sky Sect disciple told Tang Zhen that the Breaking Clan had moved to Spirit City and joined the Spirit Hall, and Tang Zhen decided to wait for Tang Chen before responding.
• Two months later, Ye Zhiyung and Yang Lie had become Fifth-Grade Alchemists, while most Pill Hall members had reached First Grade and a few had advanced further.

Yun Yuan reached Level 60 and went with Qian Daoliu to the Star Dou Great Forest to find a Sixth Soul Ring. There, Yun Yuan found a powerful Dingxuan Star Turtle and began fighting it, while Qian Daoliu watched.

• Yun Yuan told the Seven Worships he had reached Level 60 and asked Qian Daoliu to accompany him to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Qian Daoliu revealed that he had condensed his First Soul Core, and Jin'e said the other Worships were preparing to do the same.
• Qian Daoliu and Yun Yuan searched several geocentric ore veins before Yun Yuan found the Dingxuan Star Turtle he wanted as his Sixth Soul Ring.
• Yun Yuan declined Qian Daoliu's offer to capture the beast and unfolded his Wind and Thunder Wings, summoned his Atlas Spear, and faced the turtle as it released its Weight Domain.

Yun Yuan fought and killed the Dingxuan Star Turtle, then absorbed its Soul Ring as his Sixth Soul Ring. He reached Level 64 and gained the skill Weight Lifting as Lightness, which let him change the Atlas Spear’s weight without changing how it felt in his hand.

• Yun Yuan stacked his first four Soul skills and battled the Dingxuan Star Turtle, dodging its attacks and piercing its shell with the Atlas Spear.
• The Dingxuan Star Turtle struck Yun Yuan hard enough to send him flying and injure his arm, but he recovered in midair and used his fifth Soul Skill, Dragon Hunt Destiny, to weaken and lock onto it.
• Yun Yuan pierced the Dingxuan Star Turtle’s head with the Atlas Spear and killed it as Qian Daoliu watched.
• Yun Yuan began absorbing the Dingxuan Star Turtle’s deep black Soul Ring while Qian Daoliu guarded him from nearby Soul Beasts.
• After three hours, Yun Yuan completed the absorption, rose to Level 64, and told Qian Daoliu his Sixth Soul Skill was Weight Lifting as Lightness.

Yun Yuan obtained a near-hundred-thousand-year Dingxuan Star Turtle Right Arm Bone but chose not to absorb it, while Spirit Hall announced the creation of its Pill Hall. Tang Chen returned to the Clear Sky Sect gravely wounded and confessed that his companions, including Great Elder Ayi, had died during his voyage across the Great Sea.

• Yun Yuan found and dug out the Dingxuan Star Turtle's near-hundred-thousand-year Right Arm Bone, then refused to absorb it because he wanted all six major Soul Bones to exceed a hundred thousand years.
• Qian Daoliu accepted Yun Yuan's decision and took him back to Spirit City, leaving the Soul Bone in Yun Yuan's possession.
• Spirit Hall announced that it had established the Pill Hall and would hold its founding ceremony in ten days, prompting the Continent's major forces to realize why Spirit Hall had gathered medicinal herbs.
• Tang Zhen asked his seriously injured father Tang Chen who had harmed him, and Tang Chen blamed his arrogance and underestimation of the Great Sea.
• Tang Chen revealed that the Clear Sky Sect members who had joined his voyage had all died, including Great Elder Ayi, and lamented that he had failed them.

Tang Chen returned from the Great Sea grieving the Clear Sky Sect members lost to a terrifying Demon Whale Soul Beast, then learned the Breaking Clan had joined the Spirit Hall and planned to confront them at the Pill Hall ceremony. In Spirit City, Tang Chen and Qian Daoliu both appeared at the ceremony, drawing the attention of the assembled powers.

• Tang Chen told Tang Zhen how the Demon Whale Soul Beast defeated him, killed the Clear Sky Sect members, and cost them their Whale Rubber.
• Tang Zhen revealed that the Breaking Clan had left the Clear Sky Sect and pledged allegiance to the Spirit Hall, enraging Tang Chen.
• Tang Xiao reported that the Spirit Hall had established the Pill Hall and would hold its founding ceremony in ten days, so Tang Chen vowed to confront the Breaking Clan and demand an explanation from Qian Daoliu.
• Ten days later, Tang Chen arrived at the Pill Hall ceremony in Spirit City with the Clear Sky Sect, and the assembled Soul Masters recognized him as the Clear Sky Douluo.
• Yun Yuan, Ye Zhiyung, Yang Lie, and the Pill Hall Alchemists appeared in their rank-marked garments, while Qian Xunji and Qian Daoliu attended the ceremony.
• The older-generation Soul Masters recognized Qian Daoliu, remarking that the Soul Master World's Two Mountains had appeared together.

At the Pill Hall’s establishment ceremony, Yun Yuan introduced the Alchemy System and defended the Martial Soul Hall when Tang Chen confronted Qian Daoliu over the Breaking Clan’s departure from the Clear Sky Sect. After Qian Daoliu backed Yun Yuan’s response, Tang Chen challenged him to battle in the skies.

• Yun Yuan announced himself as the Pill Hall Master and explained the Pills, Alchemists, and his goal of advancing the Soul Master World.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang Hao watched Yun Yuan receive praise and resented how far he had surpassed them.
• Tang Chen demanded an explanation from Qian Daoliu and accused Yang Lie of betraying the Clear Sky Sect by joining the Martial Soul Hall.
• Yang Lie defended the Breaking Clan’s departure, and Tai Tian insulted him and the Martial Soul Hall.
• Yun Yuan severed Tai Tian’s arm with his Darkgold Fearclaw and told Tang Chen that the Clear Sky Sect was responsible for losing its affiliated clans.
• Qian Daoliu agreed with Yun Yuan, and Tang Chen released his Soul Power before challenging him to battle in the skies.