Chapter Summaries

After the promotion matches, Li Xuan and Zhu Zhuqing relaxed in Star Luo City, where they found the Li-Fire Burning Heaven Wood that could become Li Xuan’s seventh Soul Ring. They then set out with their companions for Spirit City and the tournament finals.

• Li Xuan and Zhu Zhuqing left the imperial banquet, rested at the Star Luo Royal Restaurant, and spent their free days shopping around Star Luo City.
• Li Xuan invited Lou Gao and the others to Spirit City; after discussing the plans, Lou Gao sent the sea vessel through the Small Cave-Heaven and agreed to bring everyone.
• At a flower market, Zhu Zhuqing bargained for a red potted plant that Li Xuan recognized as the Immortal Grade Spirit Plant Li-Fire Burning Heaven Wood.
• Li Xuan appraised the plant, learned it was 471 years old and suited to become his seventh Soul Ring, then planted it in the Heaven-Grasping Bottle’s space.
• Two days later, Li Xuan and his companions departed for Spirit City in carriages escorted by the Star Luo Royal Knights.

Li Xuan met Chrysanthemum Douluo at Black Scale Canyon and negotiated to save the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum in exchange for a Yin Dragon Elixir that could restore Chrysanthemum Douluo’s fertility. Chrysanthemum Douluo spared Li Xuan and promised to give him the plant after he had a child, while Li Xuan secretly kept his Five-Thunder Puppets and cannons ready in case the meeting turned hostile.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo blocked the Star Luo Royal Knights at Black Scale Canyon and demanded that Li Xuan come with him.
• Li Xuan left the convoy after persuading Black Tiger to continue toward Spirit City, then accompanied Chrysanthemum Douluo to a nearby mountaintop.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo explained that he sought to grow the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum to cure his family’s infertility and showed Li Xuan the withering plant.
• Li Xuan offered Chrysanthemum Douluo a Yin Dragon Elixir that could restore his fertility but would kill him within ten years, and Chrysanthemum Douluo took it.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo promised Li Xuan the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum after he had a child, then took Li Xuan back toward Spirit City.

Li Xuan arrived in Spirit City, reunited with Lou Gao and the Ladi Canyon group, and prepared for the upcoming voyage and tournament. After learning the Heaven Dou teams had taken a dangerous pill, he arranged to meet Ning Fengzhi the next day and ended the night planning what to gain from him.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo left Li Xuan at Spirit City's gate, and guards explained that he would need to register at Spirit Hall's Deacon Hall.
• Li Xuan toured Spirit City, found Lou Gao and Bai Chuan, and joined the Ladi Canyon group at their courtyard.
• Lou Gao confirmed the ships were ready to sail, while Xu Li reported that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Shrek Academy had disrupted graves across the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Li Xuan warned the group about a strength-enhancing pill that could destroy its users' souls, and Bai Chuan revealed that every Heaven Dou team in the finals had taken it.
• Li Xuan sent Zhou Chen to deliver a calling card to Ning Fengzhi, who invited Li Xuan to discuss a transaction at a restaurant the following day.
• After drinking with the group, Li Xuan sat awake with Enlightenment Tea and considered what he could gain from Ning Fengzhi.

Li Xuan met Ning Fengzhi at Tianwu Restaurant, accepted a large supply of cannon materials, and demanded the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud in exchange for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s cure. Ning Fengzhi agreed, but Li Xuan left determined to destroy the sect with a poison hidden in the prescription he had given them.

• Li Xuan went to Tianwu Restaurant while Lou Gao and Bai Chuan waited outside, and Ning Fengzhi welcomed him with Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo.
• Ning Fengzhi gave Li Xuan a Soul Tool containing enough high-quality materials to make a hundred Heaven-Shaking Cannons as an apology.
• Bone Douluo attempted a sneak attack, but Li Xuan destroyed the bone claw and warned that only he could solve the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s problem.
• Li Xuan demanded the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud in exchange for what Ning Fengzhi wanted, and Ning Fengzhi agreed to provide it before Li Xuan set sail.
• Sword Douluo secretly sent sword qi into Li Xuan as they left, but Li Xuan neutralized it and revealed that his prescription would become a deadly poison when it encountered Luoyunlang.
• Li Xuan packed food from the restaurant, gave Lou Gao the cannon materials, and returned with Lou Gao and Bai Chuan to the courtyard.

Li Xuan observed the Heaven Dou Empire’s poisoned Medicine People and later joined the Star Luo Empire’s teams in Spirit City for the tournament. After learning his team would face a Heaven Dou team the next morning, he gave Star Luo participants antidote pills and promised to fight alongside his teammates.

• Li Xuan watched Tang San and the Heaven Dou teams arrive, noticed the contestants’ poisoning, and concluded the poison had already caused severe harm to some of them.
• Three days later, Li Xuan reunited with Black Tiger and Zhu Zhuqing as the Star Luo Royal Knights arrived, then registered and settled into Spirit Hall’s assigned courtyard.
• Pang Tianhao delivered Li Xuan’s match schedule and said his team would face a relatively weak Heaven Dou team.
• Li Xuan gave Pang Tianhao Detoxification-Transforming Pills for the Star Luo teams after learning Spirit Hall had not responded to reports about the Heaven Dou contestants’ medicine.
• Li Xuan told his teammates he would fight with them in the next morning’s match and could cure them if the Medicine People poisoned them.

Li Xuan defeated Snow Mountain Academy alone after removing the poison from its members, leaving their cultivation crippled. At the Deacon Hall, Cardinal Delas tried to expel Li Xuan, but Ghost Douluo delivered the Pope’s decree banning Snow Mountain Academy and clearing Star Luo Royal Team Third Squad to compete.

• Li Xuan faced Chen Tian and Snow Mountain Academy, then fought them alone while Zhu Zhuqing and the others watched from the edge of the stage.
• Li Xuan purged the Medicine Person poison from the Snow Mountain Academy members, but their damaged foundations left them with crippled cultivation; Bangchui healed their immediate injuries.
• The referee declared Star Luo Royal Team Third Squad the winner, and Golden Guards took Li Xuan to the Deacon Hall after Snow Mountain Academy complained.
• Cardinal Delas accused Li Xuan of maliciously crippling the opponents and tried to have him punished, but Pang Tianhao presented a report that Snow Mountain Academy had used prohibited drugs.
• Ghost Douluo announced the Pope’s decree banning Snow Mountain Academy from the tournament for life and clearing Star Luo Royal Team Third Squad of punishment.
• Pang Tianhao warned Li Xuan against risking a fight with Delas and against wasting kindness on the Heaven Dou Empire students, then sent him back to rest before the next match.

Li Xuan confronted Tang San over the poisonous Medicine People and faced the Shrek Seven Devils in the tournament championship match. As their teams battled, Li Xuan and Tang San began a duel, and Li Xuan burned away Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass trap.

• Zhu Zhuqing scolded Li Xuan for recklessly attempting to treat the Medicine People and causing trouble in the Deacon Hall, and Li Xuan admitted he had acted impulsively.
• Li Xuan’s team advanced through the tournament after a series of byes and forfeits, while the Shrek Seven Devils defeated the Spirit Hall Golden Generation to reach the championship match.
• Li Xuan observed that Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and another Shrek member had been poisoned, then challenged Tang San over the harm his prescription had caused.
• Dai Mubai attacked Li Xuan as both teams began fighting, while Tang San targeted Xu Li and Bangchui before dueling Li Xuan.
• Tang San used scattered Blue Silver Grass seeds to bind Li Xuan, but Li Xuan activated his Burning Heart Array and burned the grass away.

Li Xuan and the Shrek Seven Devils fought fiercely, and Li Xuan revealed that he was a Soul Saint under fifteen while defeating Dai Mubai’s forcibly enhanced tiger form. With their teammates removed from the arena, Li Xuan and Tang San remained for a final confrontation, and Tang San hinted that he still had a powerful trump card.

• Li Xuan engulfed the Battle Platform in Burning Heart Clarifying Spirit Flame, while Zhu Zhuqing and Bai Feng used the flames to knock Oscar and Ning Rongrong off the arena.
• Ma Hongjun absorbed the flames until Li Xuan withdrew them and rendered him unconscious; Tang San and Dai Mubai then knocked Zhu Zhuqing and Bai Feng off the arena.
• Tang San used silver needles to drive Dai Mubai into a berserk Martial Soul Avatar, and Li Xuan revealed his level seventy Soul Saint cultivation before fighting him.
• Li Xuan trapped Dai Mubai in a flame prison, restored his awareness, and healed him, then sent Yang Lin and Luo Yuan off the arena with the injured teammates.
• Tang San sent Xiao Wu off the arena and faced Li Xuan alone, claiming that he still had another method to fight him.

Li Xuan defeated Tang San in the tournament final after their giant forms clashed and both were injured by poison and resentment. Bibi Dong declared Star Luo Royal Academy the winner, and Li Xuan received the champion’s Spirit Bones, but warned his teammates that something major was about to happen.

• Tang San used a secret technique to raise his Soul Power to nearly level seventy and formed a Poison Miasma Giant, while Li Xuan transformed into a Flame Giant to face him.
• Li Xuan and Tang San exchanged blows until Tang San struck Li Xuan with Yama's Invitation, while Li Xuan's Filthy Flame ignited the resentment clinging to Tang San.
• Xiao Wu rushed onto the Battle Platform and absorbed Tang San's resentment, exposing herself as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, while Li Xuan forced the poison out of his body by cutting open his arm.
• Bibi Dong ruled that Shrek Academy had violated the rules and declared Star Luo Royal Academy the winner; Bangchui treated Li Xuan's wrist as his teammates celebrated.
• Li Xuan declined Bibi Dong's invitation to join Spirit Hall, accepted the three champion Spirit Bones, and gave them to Bai Feng, Xu An, and himself.
• Li Xuan told his teammates not to absorb the Spirit Bones yet because something major was about to happen.

Li Xuan refused Tang San’s plea to remove the resentment from Xiao Wu, and Bibi Dong ordered her capture after revealing that she was a transformed Soul Beast. Tang San summoned Dugu Bo as a Medicine Puppet and threatened to destroy Spirit City, prompting Bibi Dong to call in Spirit Hall’s Worshippers as the arena descended into panic.

• Li Xuan told Tang San he could not cure Xiao Wu’s severe resentment and warned that Tang San might soon no longer want it removed.
• Bibi Dong ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to seize Xiao Wu, while Tang San and Yu Xiaogang tried to defend her and Ning Fengzhi urged Bibi Dong to let them go.
• Tang San protected Xiao Wu and watched as Li Xuan returned to the stands with Lou Gao and the others.
• When Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo charged, Tang San released Dugu Bo, whose poisonous mist forced the two Title Douluo to retreat.
• Tang San threatened to have Dugu Bo self-destruct unless Bibi Dong let them leave, causing panic among the spectators and prompting Li Xuan to gather those affiliated with Ladi Canyon.
• Bibi Dong refused to yield and summoned six of Spirit Hall’s Worshippers to contain Dugu Bo.

Tang Hao rescued Tang San and Xiao Wu by striking Spirit Hall’s Title Douluos with his Clear Sky True Body, then escaped after warning Bibi Dong. After the battle, Li Xuan sent his companions toward Beihai Village and approached Ning Fengzhi to settle their pending transaction.

• Bibi Dong ordered Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo to seize Tang San, but Tang Hao arrived and knocked them away to protect his son and Xiao Wu.
• Tang Hao unleashed his Clear Sky True Body against Spirit Hall’s nine Title Douluos, while Li Xuan and Lou Gao protected those nearby from the shockwave.
• Tang Hao took the unconscious Tang San and Xiao Wu away, and Bibi Dong ordered her forces to let Flender and the others leave Spirit City.
• Li Xuan arranged for Lou Gao and Bai Chuan to prepare Heaven-Shaking Cannons in case his transaction with Ning Fengzhi went badly, then sent his companions toward Beihai Village.
• Li Xuan approached Ning Fengzhi as he spoke with Yu Xiaogang about the vanished chief engineer behind the Medicine People project.

Li Xuan traded the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud for a method to evolve the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, then offered Ning Fengzhi several other valuable items laced with hidden schemes. After the deal, Ning Fengzhi and the two Douluo elders tried to seize Li Xuan, trapping him inside Bone Douluo’s Spatial Domain.

• Ning Fengzhi congratulated Li Xuan on winning the tournament and offered him a gift, then proposed that Li Xuan marry into the Ning Family; Li Xuan refused.
• Li Xuan confirmed that Ning Fengzhi’s pouch held the genuine Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud by activating it, then gave Ning Fengzhi a prescription for evolving the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Li Xuan traded Ning Fengzhi an Elixir and a Sanskrit Sound Glazed Flower seed, concealing harmful side effects and accepting ores, supplies, records, and rare treasures in return.
• After Li Xuan said he would soon leave the continent, Ning Fengzhi signaled Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo to attack him and take his possessions.
• Bone Douluo trapped Li Xuan inside his Spatial Domain when Li Xuan tried to teleport away, while Ning Fengzhi demanded that he surrender and again offered him marriage into the Ning Family.

Li Xuan lured Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo into an ambush and blasted them with thirty Heaven-Shaking Cannons. He escaped with Lou Gao and Bai Chuan, recovered Bai Chuan’s ancestral Spirit Bone, and set off to meet Zhou Chen.

• Li Xuan escaped Bone Douluo’s Spatial Domain, evaded Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo, and led the three pursuers toward his ambush site.
• Three kilometers outside Spirit City, Li Xuan activated thirty Heaven-Shaking Cannons, then launched a second barrage while Lou Gao and Bai Chuan watched.
• Sword Douluo fled with a severed arm, while Bone Douluo died in the bombardment; Li Xuan recovered the severed arm and Bone Douluo’s corpse before leaving with Lou Gao and Bai Chuan.
• Li Xuan extracted two Ten Thousand Year Spirit Bones from Bone Douluo and returned Bai Chuan’s ancestral left-arm Spirit Bone to him.
• Lou Gao received Zhou Chen’s reply, and Bai Chuan drove the group toward a city where they had arranged to meet.

Li Xuan arrived at the city and held a meeting to prepare Ladi Canyon’s people and ship for their voyage. After distributing duties and sorting the spoils taken from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, he went to sleep before the group’s departure at dawn.

• Li Xuan reunited with Zhou Chen at the city gates, then joined the people of Ladi Canyon for a meal at the inn.
• Li Xuan told the core members that they would sail to seek the Sea God Inheritance and avoid the coming conflict over the Medicine People.
• Lou Gao reported that the ship was ready, while Zhou Chen and Huang Shang reported on the expedition’s personnel and the intelligence network left behind.
• Li Xuan ordered Huang Shang to monitor the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and assigned Yang Wudi and Bai He’s clansmen to patrol the ship.
• Li Xuan gave Ning Fengzhi’s books to Han Shucheng to copy and destroy, then divided the ores, seeds, and valuables from the Soul Tools belonging to Ning Fengzhi, Bone Douluo, and Sword Douluo.
• Li Xuan finished sorting the remaining items and fell asleep from exhaustion.

Li Xuan and the people of Ladi Canyon set sail aboard the newly built Ba Hai Hao, a heavily armed sea-going ship. After naming the vessel and rewarding its captain, Li Xuan encouraged everyone to enjoy the voyage, then went fishing with Zhu Zhuqing as the ship headed out to sea.

• Lou Gao showed Li Xuan the enormous ship he had designed and built, equipped with Soul Tools and Heaven-Shaking Cannons.
• Zhou Chen, Han Shucheng, and Sun Mu confirmed the passengers and supplies were ready, and Li Xuan ordered everyone to board.
• Li Xuan asked Lou Gao to arrange rooms, while Si Kai completed the ship's inspection and was appointed captain.
• Li Xuan named the ship Ba Hai Hao, and Si Kai sounded the horn as it departed the dock.
• Li Xuan authorized Spirit Masters to collect Elixirs and use the ship's facilities, then went fishing with Zhu Zhuqing.
• Li Xuan caught a large sea fish and asked Bai Chuan to gather people for a barbecue on deck.

Li Xuan and the crew of the Ba Hai Hao celebrated their first night at sea before spending a month sailing toward Sea God Island. When they reached an island, Li Xuan brought Zhu Zhuqing ashore, and Zhou Chen organized the crew to investigate and prepare the landing site.

• Li Xuan hosted a seafood bonfire party aboard the Ba Hai Hao, where he cooked for the crew and discussed the brewing conflict over Medicine People with Bai Chuan and Yang Wudi.
• After the party, Li Xuan escorted Zhu Zhuqing to her room, then cultivated his Mental Power with the Fusang Divine Tree instead of sleeping.
• A month later, Si Kai told Li Xuan that the lookout had spotted an island, and Li Xuan ordered the Ba Hai Hao to dock so everyone could rest on land.
• Li Xuan carried a seasick Zhu Zhuqing from the ship to a reef and soothed her with Soul Power as the crew came ashore.
• Zhou Chen assigned Yang Wudi and Bai Chuan to investigate the island, directed Lou Gao, Bai Chuan, and Tao Lin to organize tents, and sent Sun Mu to find a site for a dock.

Li Xuan settled his group on an island and chose a fifth Soul Ring for Zhu Zhuqing while planning to harvest resources beneath the sea using specialized Puppets. After arranging the Puppet designs and discussing their route toward Sea God Island, he received the first components from his Carpenters and prepared to begin construction.

• Lou Gao, Bang Chui, Yang Wudi, and Bai He led groups to survey the island while Tao Lin established camp, and Li Xuan told everyone to protect the island's ecosystem.
• Li Xuan selected a sixty-thousand-year Nether Fruit as Zhu Zhuqing's fifth Soul Ring and ordered the Puppets in the Heaven-Grasping Bottle to strengthen it with Green Spirit Liquid.
• The scouts found no major resources on the island, and Li Xuan decided the group would rest there for about a week before sailing again.
• Li Xuan chose six types of seabed-exploration Puppets and had Carpenters make their parts from lumber taken from Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.
• Li Xuan asked Si Kai about the voyage's nautical charts and said he would mark Sea God Island's location before they set sail.
• The Carpenters completed components for two surveying and mining Puppets, and Li Xuan took the parts and more lumber before preparing to build the Puppets.

Li Xuan created Tan Hai No. 1, a seabed-prospecting Puppet equipped with an Eye of Investigation that let him see underwater through synchronized vision. After successfully testing the view-sharing helmets with Lou Gao, Li Xuan realized the Carpenters could help mass-produce the Puppets and hurried off to revise the blueprints.

• Li Xuan assembled the Tier 4 surveying Puppet, named it Tan Hai No. 1, and began making an Eye of Investigation from a Void Pearl.
• After eight attempts, Li Xuan refined a Void Pearl into an Eye of Investigation, installed it on Tan Hai No. 1, and watched the Puppet survey the seabed.
• Li Xuan devised wooden helmets and Spiritual Bridges so other people could share the Puppet's underwater vision, then had the Carpenters make fifty helmets.
• Li Xuan tested a helmet and Spiritual Bridge on Lou Gao, who saw the seabed through Tan Hai No. 1's perspective and urged him to mass-produce the equipment.
• Li Xuan realized the Carpenters among the seafarers could help process the Puppets, so he rushed out to revise the blueprints while Lou Gao continued using the helmet.

Li Xuan organized the people in Ladi Canyon to make Puppet components while he built Eyes of Investigation and Mental Power Bridges. Before they set sail, he used the Lucky Four-Leaf Clover to locate Sea God Island, collected the components for finishing, and assembled twenty-one Sea Exploration Puppets with matching helmets.

• Li Xuan distributed Puppet blueprints, tools, and lumber to the camp, promising to prioritize contributors for a chance to try his new invention.
• Lou Gao agreed to have his disciples make tools and components after Li Xuan let him keep playing Deep Sea No. 1, while Li Xuan continued making Eyes of Investigation and Mental Power Bridges.
• Si Kai visited Li Xuan to confirm their next destination, and Li Xuan used the Treasure Hunting Compass and Lucky Four-Leaf Clover to mark Sea God Island on the nautical chart.
• Li Xuan collected the camp's rough Puppet components, told everyone they would set sail the next morning, and gave the parts to Head Carpenter Old Du for refinement.
• Head Carpenter Old Du gave Li Xuan components for twenty-one investigation-type Puppets, and Li Xuan assembled twenty-one Sea Exploration Puppets and matching Deep Sea Somatosensory Helmets before boarding.

Li Xuan completed the first Deep-Sea Somatosensory Experience room and deployed Exploration Puppets, then spent two months making a large fleet of specialized Puppets. The chapter leaves him asleep after Si Kai carried him to Bangchui for treatment when exhaustion from nonstop work left him in a severe state.

• Li Xuan deployed fifty Exploration Puppets into the sea and set up a Somatosensory Room aboard the Ba Hai Hao with helmets linked to their underwater viewpoints.
• Li Xuan asked Zhou Chen to distribute time slots according to the workers’ contributions and gave helmets to Si Kai and several others.
• After sleeping for two days, Li Xuan resumed making Puppets and continued working through the next two months without rest.
• Li Xuan completed hundreds of Exploration, Mining, Herb Gathering, Surveying, Treasure Hunting, and Swimming Fish Puppets as the Ba Hai Hao approached another island.
• Si Kai found Li Xuan exhausted in his smoke-filled room, carried him to Bangchui, and Bangchui treated him with life force until he fell asleep.