Chapter Summaries

Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen fought above Spirit City after Tang Chen challenged him over Spirit Hall’s treatment of the Clear Sky Sect. Qian Daoliu decisively defeated Tang Chen with his Holy Sword Judgment, leaving the gathered crowd to question whether Tang Chen still deserved his reputation as one of the Soul Master world’s two greatest figures.

• Tang Chen challenged Qian Daoliu to battle, and the two Peerless Douluo rose into the sky before the gathered forces.
• Tang Chen attacked with the Clear Sky Hammer and Heavenly Nine Absolutes, but Qian Daoliu calmly blocked and countered with his Angel’s Sword.
• After several dozen exchanges, Tang Chen recognized that Qian Daoliu had grown stronger and proposed that they each unleash their strongest ordinary-state attack.
• Tang Chen used Nine-Nine Convergence, while Qian Daoliu answered with his Ninth Soul Skill, Holy Sword Judgment.
• Qian Daoliu’s holy sword beam erased Tang Chen’s attack and sent him crashing into the plaza, decisively winning the battle.
• The crowd witnessed Tang Chen’s defeat, and someone suggested that the Soul Master world’s famed Two Mountains should now be called One Mountain.

After losing to Qian Daoliu, Tang Chen admitted that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had severely injured him before the duel. Yun Yuan challenged Tang Chen to a life-or-death battle in five years, and Tang Chen had yet to answer.

• Tang Hao claimed Tang Chen had lost because he was injured, and Tang Chen confirmed he had been wounded by a powerful Whale-type Soul Beast at sea.
• Clear Sky Sect members defended Tang Chen’s reputation while Qian Daoliu prepared to end the dispute over the Breaking Clan.
• Tang Chen accepted his defeat and began to leave Spirit City with the Clear Sky Sect.
• Yun Yuan demanded an explanation for Tang Chen’s conduct, but relented when Qian Daoliu asked him not to press the matter.
• Yun Yuan challenged Tang Chen to a five-year appointment to decide victory, defeat, and life and death; Tang Chen’s response was not shown.

Yun Yuan challenged Tang Chen to a life-or-death battle in five years, and Tang Chen accepted before leaving Spirit City. Yun Yuan then launched the Pill Hall’s first pill sale, while Tang Chen told Tang Zhen to succeed him as Clear Sky Sect Master after realizing he still had room to grow.

• Qian Daoliu reassured Qian Xunji that Yun Yuan had the strength and reasons to make the five-year appointment with Tang Chen.
• Yun Yuan insisted on the challenge, and Tang Chen accepted before leading the Clear Sky Sect away from Spirit City.
• Yu Xiaogang smugly imagined that Yun Yuan’s death would leave him alone to claim the title of Theory Master.
• Yun Yuan began the Pill Hall’s first pill sale, and the gathered forces reluctantly accepted the high prices for the pills.
• Tang Chen told Tang Zhen to take over as Clear Sky Sect Master and explained that Qian Daoliu and a Whale-type Soul Beast had shown him he had not reached the limits of the Peerless Douluo path.

Tang Chen entered seclusion to recover and grow stronger before his five-year fight with Yun Yuan, while Yun Yuan prepared to condense his first Soul Core. With Qian Daoliu guarding him, Yun Yuan successfully formed a Spiritual Soul Core in his Upper Dantian.

• Tang Chen told Tang Hao and Tang Xiao that he planned to recover and improve his strength so he could kill Yun Yuan at their appointed battle in five years.
• Tang Zhen agreed to manage the sect while Tang Chen cultivated, and news of the Five-Year Appointment and Spirit Hall’s Alchemy System spread across the continent.
• Yun Yuan continued teaching Alchemy and training while studying Soul Core condensation with Qian Daoliu, then began attempting to form three Soul Cores for Essence, Qi, and Spirit.
• Qian Daoliu revealed that he had prepared Angel Divine Power as a safeguard while Yun Yuan entered meditation in the Worship Hall.
• Yun Yuan compressed his Spiritual Power into a vortex despite its backlash, then successfully condensed a white-and-gold Spiritual Soul Core in his Upper Dantian.

After condensing his First Soul Core, Yun Yuan sparred with Falling Devil Douluo to test his strength. Yun Yuan forced Falling Devil back and was judged to have combat strength at Level 96, while Falling Devil escalated the fight with his Seventh and Eighth Soul Skills.

• Falling Devil Douluo challenged Yun Yuan to a spar, and Yun Yuan accepted.
• Qian Daoliu agreed to judge the match and promised to prevent accidents as Yun Yuan and Falling Devil took their positions above the Worship Hall.
• Yun Yuan and Falling Devil revealed their martial spirits and Soul Rings, then began fighting with the Atlas Spear and Panlong Rod.
• Yun Yuan used five Soul Skill effects to empower himself and the Atlas Spear, whose weight reached a thousand jun, and launched a fierce assault that forced Falling Devil back.
• Falling Devil judged Yun Yuan's combat strength to be at Level 96 and activated his Seventh Soul Skill, Panlong True Body, and Eighth Soul Skill, Falling Devil Panlong Ring.

Yun Yuan fought Jiang Mo seriously and proved himself invincible among Level 96 Soul Masters. After recognizing that he lacked a secret art of his own, he asked the Worships to help him create one through sparring and study.

• Jiang Mo used his Seventh and Eighth Soul Skills, but Yun Yuan's Dragon Hunt Destiny weakened him and let Yun Yuan's spear attack break through the Falling Devil Panlong Ring.
• Jiang Mo blocked Yun Yuan's strike, then ended the sparring match after gauging Yun Yuan's strength.
• Jiang Mo declared Yun Yuan invincible at Level 96 unless a Level 97 Super Douluo appeared, and the Worships praised him.
• Yun Yuan realized he had strong attributes and Soul Skills but lacked a secret art, so he decided to create one while his elders could teach him.
• Yun Yuan asked the Worships to spar with him and help refine his secret art, and they offered their techniques and knowledge.

Yun Yuan tested his newly created Atlas Spear techniques against Golden Crocodile and gained a slight advantage before they stopped fighting. Back at the palace, he announced to Bibi Dong and Ye Qingxian that he was leaving to seek a Soul Beast at least a hundred thousand years old for his seventh Soul Ring.

• Yun Yuan used the Yuan Character Technique and Ling Character Technique to battle Golden Crocodile, growing stronger as their fight continued.
• Golden Crocodile called a halt when Yun Yuan's accumulating force began to overwhelm him.
• Bibi Dong and Ye Qingxian each demanded that Yun Yuan practice with her or help her, then argued over who should have him first.
• Yun Yuan told Bibi Dong and Ye Qingxian he had reached level 70 and was leaving to obtain his seventh Soul Ring from a Soul Beast at least a hundred thousand years old.

Yun Yuan chose the Titan Snow Demon King in the Extreme North as his seventh Soul Ring target and absorbed a hundred-thousand-year right leg bone given to him by Qian Daoliu. After gaining control over wind and thunder, he left Spirit City and headed for the Extreme North.

• Yun Yuan told Bibi Dong and Ye Qingxian he would obtain his seventh Soul Ring, then went to inform Qian Daoliu.
• Yun Yuan explained why the Titan Snow Demon King was his best target, and Qian Daoliu accepted his decision to hunt it alone.
• Qian Daoliu gave Yun Yuan the hundred-thousand-year right leg bone he had obtained from Di Tian.
• Yun Yuan absorbed the Soul Bone and gained Wind Lock Thunder Prison and Wind Thunder Control.
• Yun Yuan packed his luggage and left Spirit City for the Extreme North.

Yun Yuan found the Titan Snow Demon King in the Extreme North and lured him away from the core region before confronting him. After revealing his strength and countering the beast’s attacks, Yun Yuan launched a powerful spear technique as the Titan Snow Demon King fought back with his domain and a diving punch.

• Yun Yuan tracked the Titan Snow Demon King to the Extreme North’s core region and used his Soul Power pressure to provoke it into chasing him toward the Inner Ring.
• Yun Yuan revealed his full strength and blocked the Titan Snow Demon King’s sonic attack and blue beams with his Jie Character Technique.
• Yun Yuan activated all six Soul Skills, locked onto the Titan Snow Demon King, and unleashed his Guan Character Technique.
• The Titan Snow Demon King released his Ice and Snow World domain, leapt into the air, and dove at Yun Yuan with a devastating punch.
• Yun Yuan swung the Atlas Spear to meet the Titan Snow Demon King’s attack.

Yun Yuan killed the Titan Snow Demon King, absorbed its Soul Ring and Soul Bone, and advanced to level seventy-seven. After testing the power of his Atlas Avatar by destroying a thousand-meter iceberg, he faced an angry presence demanding to know why he had trespassed into the Extreme North and killed its heavenly king.

• Yun Yuan killed the Titan Snow Demon King and absorbed its two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, advancing from level seventy to level seventy-five.
• Yun Yuan found the Titan Snow Demon King's left-arm Soul Bone, absorbed it, and advanced to level seventy-seven while gaining the Extreme Ice Impact Cannon and Myriad Ice Locking Array skills.
• Yun Yuan summoned his Atlas Avatar and judged that his strength could rival a Peerless Douluo.
• Yun Yuan swept his spear and shattered a thousand-meter iceberg with a single attack.
• An unknown presence dropped the temperature around Yun Yuan and demanded to know why he had trespassed into the Extreme North and killed its heavenly king.

Yun Yuan fought the Snow Empress after she confronted him for killing the Titan Snow Demon King, but her power in the Extreme North overwhelmed his defenses. As her Peerless Emperor Sword bore down on him, Yun Yuan began to escape with his Wind and Thunder Wings.

• The Snow Empress appeared before Yun Yuan and vowed to kill him for slaying the Titan Snow Demon King.
• Yun Yuan challenged the Snow Empress, then combined his soul skills and Atlas Spear to block her giant palm strike.
• The Snow Empress recognized Yun Yuan's strength and intensified her attacks, while Yun Yuan used the Ling Character Technique with his other self-created techniques to hold her off.
• The Snow Empress unleashed her domain, Emperor Cold Heaven, Snow Dance Shining Sun, and formed her strongest single-target attack, Emperor Sword, Ice Extreme Peerless.
• Yun Yuan tried to teleport away with his Wind and Thunder Wings, but the Peerless Emperor Sword crushed his Atlas Avatar and continued toward him.

Yun Yuan escaped Snow Empress after killing the Titan Snow Demon King, and Snow Empress warned Ice Empress that he was a formidable human who might surpass her. After returning to Spirit City, Yun Yuan faced the Seven Worships, whose members sensed that his strength had risen dramatically.

• Yun Yuan vanished before Snow Empress's Peerless Emperor Sword struck, leaving her furious that he had escaped.
• Ice Empress arrived, learned that Yun Yuan had killed the Titan Snow Demon King and escaped Snow Empress, and promised to face any future danger alongside Snow Empress.
• Yun Yuan reached a town outside the Extreme North and planned to condense a Second Soul Core using the Yin-Yang Complementary method.
• After resting for a night, Yun Yuan traveled leisurely for a month to Spirit City and went to the Worship Hall.
• Jin'e sensed an immense threat from Yun Yuan and wondered whether his strength had already reached the level of a Peerless Douluo.

Yun Yuan explained the strength tiers of Peerless Douluo and revealed the Soul Beast clan’s strongest fighters to the Seven Worships. After leaving the Worship Hall, he considered the preparations needed to condense Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Cores during the Soul Saint stage.

• Yun Yuan told the Seven Worships that he had reached Peerless Douluo and possessed roughly Quasi-Demigod combat strength.
• Yun Yuan explained that Peerless Douluo were classified as Quasi-Demigod, Demigod, or Quasi-God, and identified Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen as Demigods and Di Tian as a Peak Quasi-God.
• Yun Yuan revealed that the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King was also a Peak Quasi-God with a Year Limit nearing one million years, and named Di Tian, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, and Snow Empress as the Soul Beast clan’s three Quasi-Gods.
• Yun Yuan recounted killing the Titan Snow Demon King, clashing with Snow Empress, and escaping the Extreme North before leaving the Worship Hall for his palace.
• Yun Yuan decided he needed to build a sufficient foundation for condensing his Second Soul Core, including two opposing Yin-Yang power systems and a body strong enough to withstand their collision.

Yun Yuan pursued the three requirements for condensing Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Cores, steadily improving his Spear Dao, physical body, and Spiritual Power. After breaking through to the Spirit Domain Realm, he still judged that he needed to become stronger before he could begin condensing the cores.

• Yun Yuan planned to create opposing Yin and Yang origins from his Atlas Spear and Spatial Annihilation, temper his body with Celestial Herbs, and raise his Spiritual Power to the Demigod Level.
• Yun Yuan focused on comprehending Spatial Annihilation, refining Pills and taking medicinal baths, and developing methods to cultivate Spiritual Power, while Qian Xunji struggled to procure the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects he required.
• Three months later, Yun Yuan's Soul Power reached level eighty, but he postponed obtaining his Eighth Soul Ring until after condensing the Dual Soul Cores.
• Eight months later, Yun Yuan broke through to the Spear Soul Realm, stirring the Power of Heaven and Earth across Spirit City and drawing the attention of Qian Daoliu and the Six Worships.
• After continued training, Yun Yuan broke through from the Lingyuan Realm into the Spirit Domain Realm, where his Spiritual Power could form objects and create a vast Spirit Sense Domain.

After years of strengthening his body and Spiritual Power, Yun Yuan traveled with Qian Daoliu to the Ice Fire Yin Yang Eye to condense Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Cores. He endured the dangerous process and successfully formed the two cores, leaving him with a continuous Yin-Yang cycle.

• Yun Yuan spent years tempering his body, comprehending Spatial Annihilation, and raising his Spiritual Power to the Demigod Level.
• Yun Yuan asked Qian Daoliu to accompany him to the Ice Fire Yin Yang Eye, where the abundant energy and Great Yin-Yang Field could aid his attempt.
• Yun Yuan began forming a second Soul Core by drawing Soul Power into his Middle Dantian, restraining his First Soul Core, and compressing Yin attribute power.
• Yun Yuan endured the Yin-Yang Great Tribulation as the opposing Soul Cores attacked each other, then stabilized and balanced them.
• Yun Yuan set the Yang Soul Core rotating clockwise and the Yin Soul Core counterclockwise, successfully forming Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Cores.

After condensing Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Cores, Yun Yuan challenged Qian Daoliu to test his newfound strength. Yun Yuan won their clash by a slight advantage, and the two returned to the Ice Fire Yin Yang Eye, where Yun Yuan offered Qian Daoliu a Ninth Grade Pill.

• Yun Yuan awoke after condensing the Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Cores and challenged Qian Daoliu to a fight.
• Yun Yuan and Qian Daoliu flew above the Sunset Forest to battle without endangering the Soul Beasts below.
• Yun Yuan and Qian Daoliu exchanged hundreds of attacks, with Yun Yuan's superior Soul Power pressing Qian Daoliu.
• Yun Yuan unleashed Three Forces Combined against Qian Daoliu's Holy Sword Judgment and gained a slight advantage, shattering the Angel's Sword.
• Yun Yuan and Qian Daoliu withdrew their Martial Souls and returned to the Ice Fire Yin Yang Eye, where Yun Yuan gave Qian Daoliu a Ninth Grade Pill to restore him.

Yun Yuan planned to hunt the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King for his Eighth Soul Ring and arranged to enlist Qian Daoliu and Bo Saixi. Back in Spirit City, he learned that Qian Xunji had found Sea God Island, and revealed it was a Godhood inheritance force whose Peerless Douluo he hoped to recruit.

• Qian Daoliu recovered with Yun Yuan's Pills, and Yun Yuan said he was preparing to obtain his Eighth Soul Ring.
• Yun Yuan named the Million-Year Deep Sea Demonic Whale King as his target and explained that he would need Qian Daoliu and Bo Saixi to hunt it.
• Qian Daoliu prepared to borrow the Angel God's Angel Holy Sword for the hunt.
• Yun Yuan returned to Spirit City and asked Qian Xunji about the search for Sea God Island.
• Qian Xunji reported that Spirit Hall had located Sea God Island, and Yun Yuan explained that he wanted to cooperate with its Peerless Douluo, Bo Saixi.

Yun Yuan confirmed that he had condensed the Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Cores and received Qian Xunji’s map to Sea God Island before preparing to negotiate with Bo Saixi. After resting, he reunited with Bibi Dong and Ye Qingxian, who competed for his affection, and embraced them both.

• Yun Yuan told Qian Xunji that he had successfully condensed the Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Cores and had gained the upper hand in a spar with Qian Daoliu.
• Qian Xunji gave Yun Yuan a map showing Sea God Island’s location after they reminisced about Yun Yuan’s early years.
• Yun Yuan rested, then planned to prepare bargaining chips before seeking cooperation with Bo Saixi.
• Bibi Dong ran to Yun Yuan and embraced him, while Ye Qingxian complained that she wanted a turn too.
• Yun Yuan pulled Ye Qingxian into the embrace with Bibi Dong, and the two women accepted each other more than they had before.

Yun Yuan spent a tender evening with Bibi Dong and Ye Qingxian before telling them he would leave on a long journey. After Ye Qingxian departed, Bibi Dong got Yun Yuan to carry her into his palace by pretending to fall asleep outside its gates.

• Ye Qingxian teased Bibi Dong about her figure, and Yun Yuan calmed the two women when they began to argue.
• Yun Yuan told Bibi Dong and Ye Qingxian he would leave for several weeks or months, and he comforted them about the separation.
• Bibi Dong warned Yun Yuan not to become involved with other women, and he reassured her that he was happy with her and Ye Qingxian.
• After Ye Qingxian left, Bibi Dong followed Yun Yuan into his palace, but he carried her back outside and shut the gates.
• Bibi Dong pretended to fall asleep at the gates, and Yun Yuan eventually carried her inside without realizing she had been awake.

Yun Yuan traded a discount on Pills for the Heaven Dou Empire’s Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and used his blood to awaken the Sea God’s Divine Sense. Impressed by Yun Yuan’s abilities, the Sea God chose him as his Inheritor, and the Nine Trials began.

• Yun Yuan offered the Heaven Dou emperor a thirty-percent discount on Pills in exchange for the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, and the emperor accepted.
• Yun Yuan took the treasure outside Heaven Dou City and dripped his blood onto it while considering the Sea God’s inheritance.
• The Sea God’s Divine Sense sensed Yun Yuan’s extraordinary abilities and contacted the Sea God in the God Realm.
• The Sea God decided Yun Yuan was his ideal Inheritor and sent the Nine Trials of the Sea God to him.
• A Divine Trial Mark appeared on Yun Yuan’s forehead, and the Sea God announced that the Nine Trials had begun.