Chapter Summaries

Ma Xiaotao killed Xiao Wu and absorbed her 100,000-Year Soul Ring and soul bone with Ye Mu’s help. After revealing a possible way for Soul Beasts and Soul Masters to coexist through Spirit Souls and equal contracts, Ye Mu left the Silver Dragon Princess eager for him to make the idea real.

• Ma Xiaotao killed Xiao Wu, producing a 100,000-Year Soul Ring and a Torso Soul Bone.
• Tang Xiao gathered Tang Hao’s body and head and left the arena, while Bibi Dong let him go.
• Ye Mu helped Ma Xiaotao absorb Xiao Wu’s soul ring and soul bone, giving her a blood-red Seventh Soul Ring.
• Ye Mu explained that dying Soul Beasts could become Spirit Souls and form equal contracts with Soul Masters without being killed for their soul rings.
• The Silver Dragon Princess urged Ye Mu to develop the method quickly so her people could provide Spirit Souls.

After killing Tang Hao, Ye Mu gave Bibi Dong a complete guide to establishing the Spirit Soul system. She agreed it was feasible, and they discussed placing Spirit Soul Pagodas near major spirit beast habitats rather than at Spirit Hall.

• Ye Mu received the Compendium of Spirit Soul Systems, five Soul Power levels, and a fifty-thousand-year increase to all his Spirit Bone ages.
• News that Ye Mu had killed Tang Hao spread across the continent, and the Heaven Dou and Star Luo courts debated his strength and ties to Spirit Hall.
• The Heaven Dou Royal Academy education committee members rejected claims that Ye Mu had betrayed the empire, noting that the academy had given him no resources and owed him no claim.
• Ye Mu brought Bibi Dong a complete Spirit Soul system guide, and she studied its contract methods and training plans.
• Bibi Dong agreed the Spirit Soul system was feasible, and Ye Mu proposed building Spirit Soul Pagodas near the Star Dou Great Forest and the Extreme North.

After Bibi Dong left for the Star Dou Great Forest, Ye Mu escaped the Pope’s paperwork and made Martial Soul Academy’s teachers study his Contractor materials. Bibi Dong’s group reached the forest’s core region and found the lake without meeting any resistance.

• Bibi Dong told Ye Mu she would visit Gu Yuena about the Spirit Soul Pagoda and ordered him to teach Contractors.
• Bibi Dong and the women left Spirit Hall for the Star Dou Great Forest, leaving Ye Mu with the Pope’s documents.
• After four hours of paperwork, Ye Mu dumped the remaining documents on Ju Douluo and left, while Ghost Douluo also walked away.
• Ye Mu summoned Martial Soul Academy’s teachers and gave them Contractor teaching materials to master.
• Bibi Dong’s group reached the forest’s core region without encountering the Titan Giant Ape or the Sky Azure Bull Python, then came upon a lake.

Di Tian led Bibi Dong's group into the hidden Small World, where they met several transformed savage beasts before reaching Gu Yuena's pavilion. Gu Yuena sent the others away and rose to face her visitors.

• Di Tian appeared by the lake and led Bibi Dong's group into the Small World.
• Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan saw Soul Beasts that were thought extinct living in the sanctuary.
• Xiong Jun questioned Gu Yuena's plan to cooperate with humans, and Di Tian silenced him.
• Di Tian led the group to Gu Yuena's pavilion, where she ordered the fierce beasts to leave the area.
• Gu Yuena rose from her stone chair as Bibi Dong's group waited inside the pavilion.

Gu Yuena reviewed Ye Mu’s completed Spirit Soul plan and agreed to begin implementing it with Bibi Dong. Di Tian and Bi Ji took charge of organizing suitable Soul Beasts, while Ye Mu finished teaching teachers at Martial Soul Academy.

• Ma Xiaotao, Zhang Lexuan, and the other women were struck by Gu Yuena’s beauty when she arrived.
• Gu Yuena read Ye Mu’s Spirit Soul plan and told Bibi Dong she had no objections and could begin immediately.
• Gu Yuena summoned Di Tian and Bi Ji, explained the plan, and asked them to help reduce conflict between Soul Beasts and Soul Masters.
• Di Tian agreed to select suitable Soul Beasts and establish screening standards, while Bibi Dong said individuals who killed for Spirit Bones would bear the consequences themselves.
• Di Tian and Bi Ji recruited Xiong Jun to help with the work, and Gu Yuena shared tea with Bibi Dong as Ning Rongrong played nearby.
• Ye Mu finished answering teachers’ questions at Martial Soul Academy and closed his lecture notes.

Ye Mu and Spirit Hall prepared to establish Spirit Soul Contract training and the first Spirit Soul Pagoda, while Bibi Dong brought Ye Mu and Bi Ji to the Extreme North to meet its rulers. The Ice Empress confronted them at the edge of the snowfields, demanding to know why Bi Ji had brought two humans.

• Ye Mu graduated the teachers who had learned the Spirit Soul Contract process, and they began training Spirit Hall's first students and Contractors.
• Spirit Hall and the Soul Beasts expanded the Star Dou Great Forest's protected zone and built the first Spirit Soul Pagoda as rumors stirred the empires and other sects.
• Bibi Dong asked Ye Mu to help persuade the Snow Empress and Ice Empress in the Extreme North, and he agreed.
• Bi Ji's presence at the edge of the Extreme North drew the Ice Empress and another figure from a distant glacier.
• The Ice Empress stopped before Bi Ji, noticed Ye Mu and Bibi Dong, and challenged Bi Ji for bringing two humans.

Ye Mu opened a Portal across ten thousand years to show the Snow Empress and Ice Empress the future and persuade them to support Spirit Souls. He returned with the future Snow Empress, who came face to face with her past self while Ice Empress and Bi Ji watched in shock.

• Bi Ji explained Spirit Souls, but Snow Empress from ten thousand years ago worried that building a Spirit Soul Pagoda in the Extreme North would disrupt its balance without bringing many short-term benefits.
• Ye Mu opened a Portal and told the Snow Empress and Ice Empress that he would bring their future selves to convince them.
• Ye Mu traveled ten thousand years forward, explained Spirit Souls to the future Snow Empress, and asked her to help persuade her past self.
• The future Snow Empress agreed to go with Ye Mu, and they returned through the Portal to the Ice Crystal Palace.
• Ice Empress and Bi Ji watched as the two Snow Empresses greeted each other face to face.

The Snow Empress from ten thousand years ago agreed to establish Spirit Soul Pagodas and Protection Zones in the Extreme North, while the Ice Empress took charge of protecting her clan. The Snow Empress from ten thousand years later stayed behind to search for Soul Beasts that had gone extinct in her time and restore their populations.

• The Snow Empress from ten thousand years ago trusted her future self and agreed to the Spirit Soul system, with Ye Mu outlining where the Spirit Soul Pagodas would be built.
• Ye Mu explained the Protection Zone plans, and the Ice Empress asked to oversee a zone for the Ice Jade Scorpion clan.
• The Snow Empresses vouched for the Ice Empress, so Ye Mu entrusted her with registering the Soul Beasts and dividing the protected areas.
• After leaving the Extreme North, the Snow Empress from ten thousand years later decided to stay and explore, having already left the Ice Empress a message.
• The Snow Empress from ten thousand years later began searching for Soul Beasts extinct in her time so she could restore them and establish Protection Zones.

Spirit Hall publicly announced Spirit Souls, which let Soul Masters obtain Soul Rings without hunting Soul Beasts, and revealed that its Pagodas would provide them. The Clear Sky Sect weighed the announcement’s threat and benefits, while the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect decided to investigate the offerings and use them if they proved genuine.

• Bibi Dong and Ye Mu approved the announcement after Spirit Hall prepared its first batch of Spirit Souls and completed internal trials.
• Spirit Hall released the announcement through branch halls across the continent, and the news spread within three days.
• Tang Xiao presented the Spirit Soul price list to the Clear Sky Sect elders, who worried that Spirit Souls could let weaker Soul Masters catch up and leave their sect behind.
• Yu Yuanzhen ordered the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect to inspect the Spirit Soul Pagoda’s lightning-type offerings and said core disciples would use Spirit Souls if the goods were real.

Ning Fengzhi, the empires, and Spirit Hall assessed the impact of Spirit Hall's Spirit Soul announcement as the new pagodas drew customers across the continent. When the pagodas opened, a poor Soul Grandmaster began contracting for a Hundred-Year lightning Spirit Soul.

• Ning Fengzhi recognized that Spirit Hall's announcement was a business offer designed to turn Soul Masters across the continent into customers.
• Emperor Xue Ye heard ministers debate how Spirit Souls threatened Heaven Dou's recruitment advantage and worried over Spirit Hall's growing military strength.
• The Star Luo Emperor feared Soul Masters would stop risking their lives for the empire and wondered whether the Star Dou Great Forest's Soul Beasts would aid Spirit Hall in a war.
• Bibi Dong reviewed reports showing Spirit Souls had spread across the continent in three days, while factions recognized Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Souls as bargaining cards for Spirit Hall.
• Half a month later, Spirit Soul Pagodas opened across the continent, and Soul Beasts helped Spirit Hall maintain orderly queues.
• At the Spirit City pagoda, a poor middle-aged Soul Grandmaster paid for a Hundred-Year lightning Spirit Soul and began forming a contract with a Contractor.

Spirit Soul Pagodas drew growing crowds as Soul Masters celebrated safely obtained Spirit Rings, while rival factions feared Spirit Hall’s influence and equal-access rules. The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Chen Xin and Gu Rong gained five 100,000-Year Soul Rings each, leaving the sect with formidable strength against Clear Sky Sect.

• Soul Masters flocked to the Spirit Soul Pagodas, where the Contractor helped them contract Spirit Souls and gain Soul Rings.
• The Spirit Soul Pagodas sold out their limited daily quotas, and Spirit Hall refused higher bids or attempts to skip the line.
• Observers from rival factions reported that Soul Masters were turning toward Spirit Hall, while their own leaders could not bypass its equal-treatment policy to buy Spirit Souls.
• Bibi Dong sold two 100,000-Year Spirit Souls to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect because of its ties to Spirit Hall and Ning Rongrong’s relationship with Ye Mu.
• Chen Xin and Gu Rong each displayed five 100,000-Year Soul Rings, and Ning Fengzhi judged that their power could threaten Clear Sky Sect.

Spirit Hall’s Spirit Soul Pagodas became the center of the continent’s Soul Master world, while Spirit Hall’s blockade left the Clear Sky Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect unable to buy Spirit Souls. Bibi Dong and Ye Mu monitored the two sects and prepared for Spirit Hall’s future campaign against the empires.

• Ning Fengzhi saw the two Sect Protecting Douluo displaying ten red soul rings and returned to the Council Hall.
• Spirit Hall barred the Clear Sky Sect, Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, and their subordinate forces from entering Spirit Soul Pagodas, while other powers bought Spirit Souls and gained strength.
• Tang Xiao considered the blockade and the risks of seizing Spirit Souls, while Clear Sky Sect disciples complained that other sects could buy them.
• Yu Yuanzhen rejected negotiation and warned that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect had no safe way to obtain Spirit Souls.
• The Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire paid higher prices for Spirit Souls, and Spirit Hall used the money to prepare its Soul Master Legion and logistics system.
• Bibi Dong told Ye Mu that Spirit Hall was watching the two sects, and Ye Mu said their good days would not last much longer.

Ye Mu and Bibi Dong discussed the Brocade Guard’s intelligence and Spirit Hall’s plans for dealing with the Two Great Empires. The Snow Empress returned to ten thousand years later with Soul Beast embryos and young, while Ye Mu asked her to investigate major events on the continent for Bibi Dong.

• Bibi Dong reported that the Brocade Guard was investigating both empires and that their armies were poorly equipped compared with Spirit Hall’s forces.
• Ye Mu proposed winning over some nobles before settling accounts with them after unification, and Bibi Dong agreed.
• The Snow Empress told Ye Mu she had gathered embryos and young from dozens of Soul Beast species and was ready to return.
• Ye Mu asked the Snow Empress to investigate major events and pass the information to Bibi Dong, and she agreed before entering the Portal.
• The Snow Empress returned to the Extreme North, where the Ice Empress welcomed her and asked about seeing their past selves.

Tang Xiao and Yu Yuanzhen negotiated with Bibi Dong for their sects to buy spirit souls from the Spirit Soul Pagoda. She allowed them access only at double price, with Spirit Bones accepted as payment, and reminded them they still had to wait in line.

• Tang Xiao and Yu Yuanzhen arrived at Spirit City and asked Bibi Dong to let their sects purchase spirit souls.
• Bibi Dong cited the Clear Sky Sect's and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect's past conflicts with Spirit Hall as she rejected their claims that old grudges no longer mattered.
• Tang Xiao and Yu Yuanzhen accepted Bibi Dong's terms of double prices and Spirit Bones as compensation.
• Bibi Dong added the terms to the agreements and told the two sect masters that they could not cut in line at the Spirit Soul Pagoda.
• Tang Xiao and Yu Yuanzhen left to send disciples with money and Spirit Bones to the nearest Spirit Soul Pagoda.

Ye Mu and Bibi Dong agreed to wait before moving against the Heaven Dou Empire, while Spirit Hall’s double-price deal with the Clear Sky Sect left its members facing steep costs. The chapter ended with the sect accepting the agreement despite the burden, especially for those needing ten-thousand-year Spirit Souls.

• Ye Mu met Bibi Dong after Tang Xiao and Yu Yuanzhen left, and she told him Spirit Hall had negotiated a double price for Spirit Souls with their sects.
• Bibi Dong explained that Qian Renxue had nearly secured control of Tiandou City and that Spirit Hall already controlled at least thirty percent of the Heaven Dou Empire’s cities.
• Ye Mu and Bibi Dong decided to wait about three months before taking the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Tang Xiao returned to the Clear Sky Sect and told its gathered members that Spirit Hall had reopened access to Spirit Souls at twice the normal price.
• A Clear Sky Sect elder protested the doubled price, but Tang Xiao reminded him of the sect’s conflict with Spirit Hall and Tang Hao’s death.
• The Clear Sky Sect members accepted that they had little choice, though the doubled cost of ten-thousand-year Spirit Souls would strain both Soul Masters and the sect.

The Clear Sky Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect accepted Spirit Hall’s doubled prices for Spirit Souls, while Ye Mu and Bibi Dong ordered Qian Renxue to begin her takeover of Tiandou. Qian Renxue prepared to seize the city after Xue Ye’s planned death, sparing Princess Xue Ke and ordering her sent to Spirit City.

• A Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect youngster protested Spirit Hall’s doubled prices, but Yu Yuanzhen explained that the sect could not afford to fall behind in replacing Soul Rings with Spirit Souls.
• The Clear Sky Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect counted their funds, then joined the queues at Spirit Soul Pagodas with double-price purchase vouchers.
• Ye Mu and Bibi Dong sent Qian Renxue a secret order to take action, and she burned the letter in the Crown Prince Mansion.
• Dugu Bo reported that his poison would kill Xue Ye that night, while Snake Lance Douluo and Pufferfish Douluo confirmed their control of the imperial palace and most of Tiandou City’s troops.
• Qian Renxue ordered the palace sealed, Tiandou City placed under curfew, and Prince Xue Xing and Xue Beng killed; she spared Xue Ke and ordered her sent to Spirit City.

After Emperor Xue Ye died, Qian Renxue and Spirit Hall carried out a swift coup in Tiandou City, sealing the palace and streets while eliminating officials and rival claimants. Xue Xing and Xue Beng were killed, leaving the city under the new regime’s control.

• Dugu Bo confirmed Emperor Xue Ye’s death, and Qian Renxue ordered the takeover to proceed.
• Snake Lance Douluo sealed the imperial palace, arrested people on a prepared list, and arranged executions while Porcupinefish Douluo imposed a citywide curfew.
• City Defense Battalion soldiers stopped the Vice Minister of Revenue as he tried to flee Tiandou City and killed him and his family.
• Porcupinefish Douluo confronted Prince Xue Xing, who drank poisoned wine and died in his ancestral hall.
• Imperial Guards caught Xue Beng trying to escape his residence, and Snake Lance Douluo killed him before ordering a burial with princely rites.

Qian Renxue’s forces quietly took control of Tiandou City and the Heaven Dou Empire overnight, killing Xue Beng and other targets. At dawn, officials entered the palace and discovered signs of a bloody purge.

• Qian Renxue received reports that the imperial palace and city defenses were under control and that Prince Xue Xing and Xue Beng were dead.
• Qian Renxue marked off the completed names on her list as dawn approached, while Tiandou City’s people slept through the change of power.
• Officials gathered outside the palace after hearing the emperor’s funeral bell, but no one had been summoned to keep vigil.
• Chen Wending and Zhou Jing led the officials into the palace, where Chen Wending noticed the smell of an execution ground.
• Zhou Jing found pale-red water in the flagstones’ cracks and red gravel in a clearing behind a side hall.

After Emperor Xue’s death, Qian Renxue summoned the officials, announced that she would inherit the throne, and set the enthronement ceremony for three days later. Chen Wending and Zhou Jing later learned that Prince Xue Xing and Prince Xue Beng had been executed for rebellion, and Chen doubted the official account.

• Chen Wending and Zhou Jing saw signs of bloodshed in the palace and were told to wait before being summoned to the great hall.
• Qian Renxue announced the late emperor’s death, declared she would inherit the throne, and scheduled her enthronement for three days later.
• Qian Renxue assigned Chen Wending the personnel arrangements for the ceremony, and the officials bowed without questioning her.
• After leaving the palace, Chen stopped Zhou from discussing the matter in the street, and officials gathered secretly at the Ministry of Personnel yamen.
• Chen told the gathered officials that Prince Xue Xing and Prince Xue Beng had been executed for rebellion, then questioned whether they had truly rebelled.

Qian Renxue consolidated her rule over the Heaven Dou Empire while Spirit Hall prepared an invasion. Three months after the troops mustered, Spirit Hall's two armies set out toward Tiandou City.

• Chen Wending and other officials realized that Xue Qinghe had purged the imperial family and seized control of Tiandou City.
• Qian Renxue ascended the throne, and the officials attended her enthronement ceremony.
• Bibi Dong and Ye Mu watched as Mo Xiong Douluo and Ghost Leopard Douluo prepared to lead Spirit Hall's two armies toward the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Over three months, Qian Renxue removed resistant officials and generals, replaced them with Spirit Hall loyalists, and secured control of Tiandou City's defenses and supplies.
• Qian Renxue learned from Snake Lance Douluo that Spirit Hall had set out and calmly watched Tiandou City's lights.
• The five-thousand-strong Soul Master Legion departed Spirit City in two armies led by Mo Xiong Douluo and Ghost Leopard Douluo.