Chapter Summaries

Li Xuan learned that only sufficiently powerful, hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts could sacrifice themselves, so he postponed the experiment and promised Bai Chuan a future hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring. While he waited to win over the Speed Clan, Li Xuan began preparing to improve his cultivation technique.

• Li Xuan failed to make a hundred-year Blue Silver Grass sacrifice itself to an unconscious beggar, and Bangchui explained that a Soul Beast needed hundred-thousand-year cultivation and sufficient bloodline power to perform a sacrifice.
• Li Xuan chose to cultivate a fifty-thousand-year Purple Thunder Walnut Tree for future sacrifice experiments and warned Bangchui never to sacrifice himself; he then burned the beggar's corpse with the Burning Heart Clarifying Spirit Flame.
• Li Xuan told Bai Chuan he could cultivate hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts and offered to arrange a hundred-thousand-year Gengjin Grass sacrifice after testing the process, and Bai Chuan chose to wait for it.
• Li Xuan asked Bai Chuan to renovate the City Lord's Mansion while they patiently tried to recruit the Speed Clan, and Bai Chuan left to gather workers.
• Li Xuan reviewed his plans for finding a fire-attributed Immortal Grade Spirit Plant and improving Douluo No. 1, then entered the Heaven-Grasping Bottle's space and set up to study the Filthy Flame Yin Lotus's meridian diagrams.

Li Xuan studied the Asura Killing Canon and discovered techniques he could incorporate into a new cultivation method. He won over the impoverished Speed Clan by promising to support its people and train its children, then planned to arrange their relocation to Ladi Canyon.

• Li Xuan spent fourteen hours analyzing the Asura Killing Canon and found methods for purifying Soul Power and strengthening the heart.
• Bangchui told Li Xuan that Bai He had invited him to a banquet at the Speed Clan's residence.
• Bai He agreed to lead the Speed Clan into Li Xuan's territory after Li Xuan promised work, wages, and training for its talented children.
• Li Xuan hosted a feast for the Speed Clan and gave Bai Chuan ten Wine God Flower pouches to distribute among the children.
• Bai Chuan reported that the Speed Clan had 149 members, including 92 children and only 15 young, able-bodied adults.
• Li Xuan planned to discuss relocating the Speed Clan with Bai He the next morning, then returned to studying the Asura Killing Canon.

Li Xuan arranged for Huang Shang’s caravan to bring the Speed Clan from Wusi City to Ladi Canyon while preparing to leave the city unnoticed. He finished analyzing the Asura Killing Canon and was about to begin designing his own cultivation method when Huang Shang sent word.

• Li Xuan visited Bai He and proposed using his territory’s merchant caravan to relocate the Speed Clan to Ladi Canyon.
• Li Xuan contacted Zhou Chen through the Small Cave-Heaven and learned that Huang Shang was away trading in the Star Luo Empire.
• After Huang Shang returned to Ladi Canyon, Li Xuan sent him instructions and Soul Tools to prepare a Heaven Dou Empire trade route and bring back the Speed Clan.
• Li Xuan ordered Zhou Chen to give Huang Shang a Void Eye and told them to manage the territory until he returned.
• Li Xuan spent twenty days analyzing the Asura Killing Canon and decided to include Soul Power purification in his own cultivation method.
• Just as Li Xuan prepared to start designing the method, Huang Shang sent word through the Small Cave-Heaven.

Li Xuan arranged for the Speed Clan to leave Wusi City and meet Huang Shang’s caravan in Dela City, then staged a public feud with Bai He to conceal their departure. The group set out for Dela City, while Bai Chuan went ahead to find them a place to stay.

• Li Xuan read Huang Shang’s letter and learned the caravan would reach Dela City in about half a month, then discussed the route and departure with Bai He.
• Li Xuan and Bai He agreed to disguise Speed Clan members as beggars and recruit them into the City Lord’s Mansion, then use a staged argument to conceal their escape from Wusi City.
• Li Xuan told Bai Chuan to announce a theft and replace two-thirds of the mansion’s servants with Speed Clan members while he designed sixteen cultivation methods.
• Li Xuan and Bai He staged a public quarrel over a supposed marriage proposal, and Li Xuan returned to the mansion pretending to flee in anger.
• Li Xuan offered the servants severance pay, gathered the departing Speed Clan members into carriages, and left Wusi City for Dela City.
• Li Xuan sent Bai Chuan ahead to buy a courtyard and settle the group, then continued toward Dela City with Bangchui and the others.

Li Xuan settled the Speed Clan in Dela City while waiting for Huang Shang, then arranged to meet Yang Wudi and recruit the Breaking Clan. Bai He brought Yang Wudi to Li Xuan before the clans’ gathering, and Li Xuan offered him a rare medicinal herb and an unknown bottle.

• Li Xuan and Bang Chui led the Speed Clan to Dela City, where Bai Chuan had bought a large warehouse for them to stay in.
• After Bai He arrived with the remaining Speed Clan members, he told Li Xuan about the Four Single-Attribute Spirit Master Clans and asked him to take in the Breaking Clan.
• Li Xuan agreed to meet Yang Wudi after the clans’ gathering and gave Bai He wine pouches, which Bai He declined.
• Four days later, Bai He brought Yang Wudi to meet Li Xuan, who confirmed he had Wine God Flowers and offered Yang Wudi a five-thousand-year Drunken Moon Rouge.
• Li Xuan handed Yang Wudi a porcelain bottle, leaving both Yang Wudi and Bai He wondering what it contained.

Li Xuan won Yang Wudi’s agreement to bring the Breaking Clan into his territory by demonstrating how to refine Mystic Spirit Pills. As Huang Shang’s caravan arrived in Dela City, Li Xuan began arranging the clans’ secret departure from the Heaven Dou Empire.

• Yang Wudi recognized the Mystic Spirit Pill’s value, then left to consider Li Xuan’s offer while Bai He followed him.
• Four days later, Yang Wudi and Bai He visited Li Xuan, who refined seven high-quality Mystic Spirit Pills and persuaded Yang Wudi to join his territory.
• Li Xuan, Yang Wudi, and Bai He planned to move the Breaking Clan and Speed Clan toward the border, with Bai He gathering the Breaking Clan members.
• Huang Shang’s caravan arrived in Dela City, and he proposed hiding the Speed Clan members among the caravan while stocking up on supplies for Ladi Canyon.

Li Xuan and Huang Shang arranged a secret route to move the Speed Clan members and caravan toward Ladi Canyon while avoiding Spirit Hall. In Heaven Dou City, Li Xuan found the seed of the Extreme Spirit Ice Stamen in the auction catalog and tasked Huang Shang with buying it so he could use it for his fourth Soul Ring.

• Huang Shang planned for Bai He and Yang Wudi to travel to the Breaking Clan residence before heading to the border, where they would rendezvous with the caravan and enter Star Luo Empire.
• Bai He and Yang Wudi left quietly, and Huang Shang kept the caravan in Dela City for two days to buy furs before setting out toward Heaven Dou City.
• Li Xuan and Bangchui stayed hidden as Huang Shang bought supplies along the route and transferred the excess goods into the Small Cave-Heaven.
• After fifteen days, the caravan reached Heaven Dou City, where Li Xuan told Huang Shang to purchase supplies quickly and avoid drawing attention.
• Huang Shang brought Li Xuan the Heaven Dou Royal Auction House catalog, and Li Xuan recognized the gemstone in an item of intimate clothing as an Extreme Spirit Ice Stamen seed.
• Li Xuan gave Huang Shang funds and ordered him to win the item at auction, then decided to remain hidden in the caravan to avoid Ning Fengzhi and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Li Xuan returned to Ladi Canyon with the Breaking Clan and Speed Clan after securing an Extreme Spirit Ice Stamen seed, then settled both clans in Medicine City and convened a meeting with Ladi Canyon’s leaders. The chapter left him beginning to thank those who had managed the territory during his absence.

• Huang Shang delivered the Extreme Spirit Ice Stamen seed to Li Xuan, who confirmed its identity, planted it in the Heaven-Grasping Bottle, and prepared for the caravan’s departure.
• Two months later, Li Xuan arrived at Ladi Canyon and decided to send the Breaking Clan and Speed Clan to Medicine City together.
• Li Xuan showed Bai He and Yang Wudi the empty Medicine City and designated it as a home for both clans, asking them to help process medicinal herbs.
• Li Xuan returned to the Main City, supervised the unloading of supplies, and met Zhou Chen’s selected farmstead stewards, warning them to manage their farms fairly.
• Li Xuan gathered Ladi Canyon’s leaders and began thanking them for keeping the territory prosperous during his five-month absence.

Li Xuan reviewed Ladi Canyon’s finances, library, residents, wine production, farms, and weapons with his subordinates, then discussed Medicine City’s purpose and Alchemy training with Yang Wudi and Bai He. He planned to prepare an Alchemy manual and return to oversee the city after handling the territory’s affairs.

• Li Xuan heard Sun Mu report that the territory had 70,000 Gold Soul Coins left after five months of spending and income.
• Han Shucheng reported progress copying ancient books, organizing more than thirty thousand purchased volumes, and registering 123,426 residents, including fifty-four Spirit Masters.
• Tao Lin said Wine City’s distilleries were operating at full capacity and that ten distilleries were ready to brew Dragon Tooth Rice wine.
• Zhou Chen reported that Dragon Tooth Rice harvest would begin in three days, and Li Xuan outlined plans to improve the soil before later planting medicinal herbs.
• Si Yu reported that Tool City’s improved Tier 4 Heaven-Shaking Cannon had become much cheaper and nearly matched a Tier 5 cannon, prompting Li Xuan to plan a discussion with Lou Gao.
• Li Xuan visited Medicine City, explained its Earth Fire Rooms to Yang Wudi and Bai He, and promised to compile an Alchemy book for their clansmen to study.

Li Xuan hosted Yang Wudi and Bai He at a banquet before bringing Bai Chuan and Bangchui to the Heaven-Grasping Bottle to begin experimenting with Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Sacrifice. He learned the ritual’s formations from the Purple Thunder Walnut Tree’s bloodline memories and was ready to attempt the first Sacrifice.

• Li Xuan welcomed Yang Wudi and Bai He to Ladi Canyon and revealed that Ander was a false identity, then Bangchui arranged for the two seniors to be sent back to Medicine City while Li Xuan pretended to be drunk.
• Bai He wondered whether he and Yang Wudi would live in Medicine City, and Yang Wudi persuaded him to settle there rather than return to their unstable lives in the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Li Xuan brought Bai Chuan and Bangchui into the Heaven-Grasping Bottle and explained that he would test Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring Sacrifice on captured bandits instead of risking his own people.
• Li Xuan controlled the Hundred-Thousand-Year Purple Thunder Walnut Tree and awakened its inherited memories, learning the Sacrifice ritual and its different levels.
• Li Xuan memorized the Sacrifice formations and prepared to begin the experiment.

Li Xuan successfully led a sacrifice that gave a bandit a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone, then arranged to monitor him for possible side effects. He left Bai Chuan and Bangchui to observe the test subject while he recorded the ritual and Alchemy techniques before the Dragon Tooth Rice harvest.

• Li Xuan performed a complete sacrifice using the Purple Thunder Walnut Tree, and the bandit absorbed its Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring without apparent difficulty.
• The newly empowered bandit attacked Li Xuan and his companions, but Bai Chuan knocked him unconscious and removed his lightning-attribute left arm Soul Bone.
• Bangchui treated the bandit's injuries, and Li Xuan decided they would monitor him for several days before offering Bai Chuan a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone.
• Li Xuan locked the bandit in a secret chamber and gave Bai Chuan and Bangchui responsibility for recording his condition while he focused on the coming Dragon Tooth Rice harvest.
• Li Xuan wrote down the sacrifice process and the foundational Fire Control Technique for Alchemy.

Li Xuan oversaw a successful ten-day harvest of dragon tooth rice, then confirmed that his first sacrifice experiment had caused no harm and begun preparing a second sacrifice. He brought Bai Chuan to the hundred-thousand-year Gengjin Grass, where Bai Chuan readied himself to receive its soul ring.

• Li Xuan and Bang Chui examined the bandit who had received a hundred-thousand-year soul ring, finding his health sound and his soul power greatly increased.
• Li Xuan asked Bai Chuan and Bang Chui to monitor the test subject while he inspected Ladi Canyon’s farms with Zhou Chen.
• Li Xuan worked alongside the farmers as they harvested the dragon tooth rice, and the harvest finished smoothly after ten days.
• Li Xuan counted thirty thousand tons of rice and decided to keep ten tons for use and turn the rest into wine and medicinal wine.
• Bang Chui reported that the test subject had reached rank forty without adverse effects, so Li Xuan ordered a final examination before Bai Chuan’s sacrifice.
• Li Xuan killed the test subject with the Burning Heart Clarifying Spirit Flame, then brought Bai Chuan to the hundred-thousand-year Gengjin Grass, where Bai Chuan calmed himself and declared he was ready.

Li Xuan oversaw Bai Chuan’s hundred-thousand-year Gengjin Grass sacrifice, which restored Bai Chuan’s missing arm and gave him a Domain and powerful new abilities. After celebrating, Li Xuan turned to improving his cultivation method and built a spiritual model of his body to test it safely.

• Li Xuan used the Gengjin Grass’s inherited sacrificial method, and Bai Chuan absorbed its hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Bai Chuan’s missing right arm regrew, and he awakened the Gengjin Domain, Blade Waterfall, and two right-arm Spirit Bone skills.
• Bai Chuan stabilized at level eighty-five, and Li Xuan gave him a Sanskrit Sound Glazed Flower before they celebrated with a drink.
• Li Xuan planned to pursue a hundred-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring and improve his cultivation method while Zhou Chen and Tao Lin handled the territory’s affairs.
• Li Xuan created a detailed spiritual model of his body, simulated Soul Power circulating through it, and began testing his cultivation method.

Li Xuan spent more than three months designing and testing a new cultivation technique, ultimately completing Douluo No. 2, which improved on Douluo No. 1. After leaving the Heaven-Grasping Bottle, he handled the letters that had accumulated during his seclusion and went to rest.

• Li Xuan tested more than one hundred cultivation techniques on dummies, then refined the eight promising candidates until one worked safely on a dummy.
• Li Xuan guided ten bandits through the completed technique for ten days and confirmed their meridians remained unharmed, though he collapsed from exhaustion afterward.
• After recovering, Li Xuan cultivated the technique himself without incident and named it Douluo No. 2; it allowed twenty-four hours of uninterrupted cultivation, strengthened the body, and increased cultivation speed by one-third.
• Li Xuan organized his research materials, left the Heaven-Grasping Bottle, and found dozens of letters waiting for him.
• Li Xuan read the letters, recorded his decisions, and sent two young servants to deliver them before returning to his room to rest.

Li Xuan began absorbing the Hundred-Thousand-Year Extreme Spirit Ice Stamen as his fourth Soul Ring, with Bai Chuan and Bangchui guarding him. After the sacrifice succeeded, his Soul Power Level surged to fifty, and he prepared to test his new Soul Skills.

• Li Xuan showed Bai Chuan and Bangchui the cultivation technique he had developed and asked them to keep it secret.
• Li Xuan led Bai Chuan and Bangchui to the Extreme Spirit Ice Stamen and explained that its special flame suited his fourth Soul Ring.
• Li Xuan began the Extreme Spirit Ice Stamen's sacrifice while Bai Chuan and Bangchui stood guard.
• The Extreme Spirit Ice Stamen's sacrifice formed a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, which Li Xuan absorbed as his fourth Soul Ring.
• Li Xuan's Soul Power Level rose from forty to fifty, and he asked Bai Chuan and Bangchui to help him test his new Soul Skills.

Li Xuan tested the abilities and Spirit Bone skills he gained from absorbing the Extreme Spirit Ice Stamen’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, then remembered the Earth Flame Golden Lotus he was growing for his fifth Soul Ring. After leaving seclusion, he recalled the Tao Family’s Dragon Tooth Rice liquor should be ready.

• Li Xuan demonstrated Ice Soul Spirit Fire and his two fourth Soul Skills, Ice Overflows the Heavens and Extreme Spirit Realm, while explaining their effects and limitations to Bai Chuan and Bangchui.
• Li Xuan revealed his Hundred-Thousand-Year Head Spirit Bone and tested its Ice Halo and Soul Power Affinity abilities, which boosted his cultivation and Soul Power efficiency.
• After reaching Soul Power level fifty, Li Xuan remembered the Earth Flame Golden Lotus, found its bud beside the hot spring, and decided to cultivate it for three months before using it as his fifth Soul Ring.
• Li Xuan decided to temper his Soul Power and refine Elixirs rather than rush to absorb more Soul Rings, then left seclusion with Bai Chuan and Bangchui.
• Li Xuan returned to Ladi Canyon, found that its work no longer needed much of his attention, and remembered the Dragon Tooth Rice liquor brewed by the Tao Family in Wine City.

Li Xuan visited Wine City to sample Dragon Tooth Rice wine, then took Bangchui and Bai Chuan to Tool City to see Lou Gao. Lou Gao revealed that he could not make a Tier 5 Heaven-Shaking Cannon because he lacked the Mental Power required, and Li Xuan asked whether lending him his own Mental Power would make the weapon possible.

• Li Xuan and Bai Chuan went to Wine City, where Li Xuan sampled Tao Lin's Dragon Tooth Rice wine and explained its powerful effects on Spirit Masters.
• Li Xuan gave Tao Lin medicinal ingredient packets for brewing and named the wine Chi Xuan Wine; Bangchui drank from a jar and fell asleep.
• Li Xuan collected thirty jars of wine and traveled with Bai Chuan and the sleeping Bangchui to Tool City to visit Lou Gao.
• Li Xuan found Lou Gao and his disciples studying a component at Burning Heaven Pavilion, and Lou Gao arranged a banquet after noticing the wine's fragrance.
• Lou Gao told Li Xuan that making a Tier 5 Heaven-Shaking Cannon required the Mental Power of a Title Douluo, which Lou Gao believed he could no longer attain.
• Li Xuan asked Lou Gao whether he could make the cannon if Li Xuan let him use his Mental Power.

Li Xuan learned that Lou Gao's Tier 5 Heaven-Shaking Cannon needed a mental-power inscribing method beyond the blacksmiths' abilities, while Tier 4 cannons could suppress Title Douluo but were costly. He discovered Sky Dream Ice Silkworm could connect spiritual worlds to lend his mental power, opening a path to finish the Tier 5 cannon.

• Lou Gao explained that the Tier 5 Heaven-Shaking Cannon's core components required intricate formations that the blacksmiths could not inscribe without immense mental power.
• Lou Gao said the blacksmiths had developed 189 varieties of Tier 4 Heaven-Shaking Cannons that could suppress Title Douluo below Level 91, and Li Xuan decided to spend Ladi Canyon's available funds on them.
• After returning to the City Lord's Mansion, Li Xuan realized he could not lend Lou Gao his mental power directly and sought Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's help.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm told Li Xuan that he could connect their spiritual worlds so Lou Gao could use Li Xuan's mental power, and Li Xuan arranged to meet him the next day.

Li Xuan used Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s Mental Sharing ability to lend Lou Gao spiritual power, allowing him to forge the first core component of a Tier 5 Heaven-Shaking Cannon. Lou Gao succeeded but was exhausted, so the remaining components were left for the next day.

• Li Xuan woke Lou Gao and promised to provide the spiritual power needed to forge a Tier 5 Heaven-Shaking Cannon, prompting Lou Gao and his disciples to prepare materials and blueprints overnight.
• Li Xuan entered the shared spiritual world with Lou Gao, where Sky Dream Ice Silkworm connected their spiritual powers and gave Li Xuan a Mental Power Bridge.
• With Li Xuan’s spiritual power, Lou Gao and his disciples forged, inscribed, and quenched a diamond-shaped alloy core.
• Lou Gao infused the core with Soul Power, causing it to absorb energy across Tool City and shine brightly as he declared the forging successful.
• Lou Gao explained that the core could power ten shots comparable to attacks from a level 95 Title Douluo, then agreed to rest before forging the remaining components the next day.

Li Xuan lent Elder Lou his mental power and helped him forge the components of the Tier 5 Heaven-Shaking Cannon, then put the exhausted group to sleep. After Elder Lou and the Si brothers assembled the cannon, they prepared to coat it and asked Li Xuan to finish it with his flames.

• Li Xuan severed the Spiritual Bridge after Elder Lou forged the cannon’s core component, and discovered that the borrowed soul power had become more refined.
• Elder Lou rested, then resumed forging with Li Xuan’s mental power while Si Di, Si Long, and Si Yu prepared materials and blueprints.
• Li Xuan helped control the furnace flames, and Elder Lou completed the remaining components after three days of work.
• Li Xuan used Sanskrit Sound Glazed Flower powder to put Elder Lou and the three Si brothers to sleep, stored the cannon components, and then fell asleep himself.
• Elder Lou checked the stored components the next day, and he and the Si brothers assembled them into a massive black cannon.
• Elder Lou told Li Xuan that the cannon still needed a protective coating and high-temperature baking, and Li Xuan agreed to provide the flames.