Chapter Summaries

Yan killed the five Soul Hunting Squad members who had begged him to spare them, leaving Oscar as his sole target. As Yan approached, he told Oscar that his bond with Tang San had led him to his death, while Oscar resolved that he could not die before returning to Ning Rongrong.

• The two Soul Emperors and three Soul Kings pleaded with Yan to spare them and claimed they had no real connection to Oscar.
• Yan killed all five Soul Hunting Squad members with streams of crimson-gold flame, reducing them to ash.
• Yan walked toward Oscar as the pressure of his killing intent left Oscar unable to flee.
• Oscar asked Yan why he wanted to kill him, and Yan said that being Tang San's teammate had led Oscar to his death.
• Oscar recalled the Shrek Seven Devils and Ning Rongrong, then vowed to survive and return to her.

Yan killed Oscar in the Frozen Forest despite Oscar’s desperate pleas, promises, and insistence that he had a reason to live. Thousands of miles away, Ning Rongrong felt a sudden, overwhelming grief and collapsed unconscious, leaving Oscar’s fate to reach her through an unexplained bond.

• Oscar begged Yan to spare him, offering to join Spirit Hall and betray Tang San, Tang Hao, and the Clear Sky Sect.
• Yan mocked Oscar for abandoning the Shrek Seven Devils’ loyalty, and Oscar said he had a reason he could not die.
• Yan declared Oscar a dangerous potential variable and killed him with a white blaze, leaving charred marks that the snow soon covered.
• At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Rongrong felt a piercing pain and immense grief, coughed up blood, and collapsed unconscious.
• Ning Rongrong’s maid noticed her collapse and cried out in alarm.

Ning Rongrong collapsed after sensing an agonizing emptiness and feared something had happened to Oscar. Her father and grandfathers calmed her, then Ning Fengzhi ordered an investigation into Oscar’s whereabouts while Yan settled in a frontier city near the Frozen Forest and considered his next move.

• Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo Chen Xin, and Bone Douluo Gu Rong rushed to Ning Rongrong’s chambers and found her unconscious with disordered Soul Power.
• Ning Rongrong woke in tears, described feeling as though she had lost something precious, and worried that something had happened to Little Ao.
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong reassured Ning Rongrong until she fell asleep, and Ning Fengzhi instructed the maid to report any unusual changes.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Chen Xin and Gu Rong whether Ning Rongrong’s premonition was real, and Chen Xin advised him to use the sect’s intelligence network to locate Oscar.
• Yan stayed in a frontier city near the Frozen Forest instead of returning to the Martial Soul Sub-Hall, feeling urgency as he considered what to do next.

After killing Oscar, Yan left town and headed south through the Heaven Dou Empire toward Starfall Empire, hoping to recruit Divine Craftsman Lou Gao and the Breaking Clan. He planned to use rare forging knowledge to win over Lou Gao, while recognizing that Yang Wudi’s hatred and grief would make the Breaking Clan difficult to recruit.

• Yan reflected that Oscar’s death would leave Ning Rongrong without the immortal herbs and Martial Soul Fusion Skill that had made her dangerous.
• Yan left town after breakfast and set out for Starfall Empire through the Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit City.
• Yan planned to recruit Lou Gao in Gengxin City by offering treasure-refining knowledge and Soul Tool forging methods.
• Yan intended to bring Lou Gao’s Blacksmith Team to Extreme Ice City and prevent Tang San from recruiting them.
• Yan considered recruiting Yang Wudi and the Breaking Clan, whose losses had fueled their hatred of the Clear Sky Sect and Spirit Hall.
• Yan judged the Breaking Clan more likely to join him than the other Single-Attribute Clans, whose leaders were inclined to support Tang San.

Yan traveled to the Star Luo Empire to recruit the Breaking Clan and located its secluded village after weeks of searching. He studied its formidable defenses from concealment and narrowed down the possible locations of Yang Wudi’s residence.

• Yan crossed into the Star Luo Empire and spent nearly a month following leads to find the Breaking Clan.
• Yan learned that Spirit Hall’s past attacks had driven the cautious clan into a remote mountain hollow, where it had established a heavily guarded village.
• Yan reached the village’s outskirts and detected its medicinal scents, layered sentries, and hidden traps with his spiritual power.
• Yan concealed his presence, studied the village’s layout and patrol patterns, and identified several likely residences or important sites for Yang Wudi.

Yan infiltrated the Breaking Clan village and found Yang Wudi in a hidden stone house. After Yan’s aura provoked him, Yang Wudi mistook him for a Spirit Hall Title Douluo and attacked with his Soul-Breaking Spear.

• Yan bypassed the village’s sentries and traps while searching for Yang Wudi.
• Yan found Yang Wudi in an inconspicuous stone house filled with medicinal supplies and books.
• Yan released and immediately withdrew his Martial Artist aura, making Yang Wudi sense a deadly threat.
• Yang Wudi summoned his Soul-Breaking Spear and revealed his eight Soul Rings as he searched for the intruder.
• Yan moved to the stone house entrance too quickly for Yang Wudi to follow, and Yang Wudi hurled his spear at him.

Yan lured Yang Wudi away from the Breaking Clan and revealed that he belonged to Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation. Yang Wudi’s hatred of Spirit Hall overwhelmed his questions, and he attacked before Yan could explain his purpose.

• Yang Wudi’s spear thrusts failed to hit Yan, who dodged effortlessly and left the village.
• Yang Wudi decided to pursue Yan, and the two raced into the mountains.
• Yan stopped in a secluded valley, where Yang Wudi demanded to know who he was and why he had come.
• Yan identified himself as Yan, a member of Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation, and began to explain his purpose.
• Yang Wudi cut Yan off, declaring that anyone from Spirit Hall had to die.

Yang Wudi attacked Yan with the Soul-Breaking Spear, but Yan effortlessly overpowered his first strike with the Flame God Halberd. Yang Wudi then unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar and clashed with Yan again, leaving their weapons locked in a fierce struggle.

• Yang Wudi combined his first, second, and fourth Soul Skills to thrust his Soul-Breaking Spear at Yan.
• Yan formed the Flame God Halberd and blocked Yang Wudi’s attack, burning away its power and forcing him backward.
• Yang Wudi activated his sixth Soul Skill and Martial Soul Avatar, covering himself and his spear in black flames as he charged again.
• Yan stood his ground and met Yang Wudi’s transformed attack with the Flame God Halberd.
• Yang Wudi and Yan locked their weapons together as Yan’s crimson-gold flames suppressed Yang Wudi’s black flames, while Yang Wudi strained to push forward.

Yan outclassed Yang Wudi in spear technique, then revealed the Flame Emperor Martial Soul and stopped Yang Wudi’s all-out attack with his bare hand. He pursued Yang Wudi through the air and struck toward his chest.

• Yan repeatedly deflected Yang Wudi’s Soul-Breaking Spear with precise halberd techniques, leaving Yang Wudi stunned by the gap in their skill.
• Yang Wudi unleashed a storm of spear strikes, but Yan calmly blocked every attack with the Flame God Halberd.
• Yang Wudi gathered all his Black Soul Flame into one desperate, defense-abandoning thrust.
• Yan summoned the Flame Emperor Martial Soul, whose scarlet-gold armor and flames suppressed Yang Wudi’s power.
• Yan caught the Soul-Breaking Spear in his palm, flung Yang Wudi into the air, and chased after him.
• Yang Wudi slashed at Yan, who took the blow and drove a flaming fist toward Yang Wudi’s chest.

Yan defeated Yang Wudi and revealed that he wanted to recruit the Breaking Clan to the Far North, not to reclaim his place in Spirit Hall but to overthrow its current order. Yang Wudi learned that Yan promised him vengeance, but had not yet answered the offer.

• Yan struck Yang Wudi out of his Martial Soul Avatar and left him gravely injured.
• Yang Wudi accused Yan of coming to exploit the Breaking Clan and refused to trust a member of Spirit Hall.
• Yan explained that he had offended the Pope and refused recruitment by the Worship Hall, prompting Yang Wudi to hear him out.
• Yan asked to recruit the Breaking Clan and bring it to the Far North.
• Yang Wudi challenged Yan's motives, citing the Breaking Clan's blood feud with Spirit Hall.
• Yan said he wanted to overthrow Spirit Hall's existing order and promised to hand the chief culprit behind the clan's persecution over to Yang Wudi.

Yan tried to recruit Yang Wudi and the Breaking Clan by revealing divine inheritances and promising revenge, a place in his new Spirit Hall, and a rare immortal herb. Yang Wudi began to waver when Yan offered him an Aromatic Silk Beauty in exchange for joining him and traveling to the Far North.

• Yang Wudi challenged Yan’s belief that he could overthrow Spirit Hall, citing Qian Daoliu’s strength and Tang Chen’s former power.
• Yan told Yang Wudi that gods existed, that Spirit Hall inherited the Angel God’s legacy, and that Tang Chen was trapped in Slaughter City after a failed divine trial.
• Yan used his Martial Soul Possession to suggest that he was also a divine inheritor, then offered Yang Wudi revenge and the Breaking Clan a place in his new Spirit Hall.
• Yang Wudi asked what would happen if he refused, and Yan warned that the Breaking Clan would cease to exist.
• Yan presented an Aromatic Silk Beauty and offered it to Yang Wudi if he accepted recruitment and accompanied him to the Far North.

Yan recruited Yang Wudi and the Breaking Clan by giving Yang Wudi the Aromatic Silk Beauty, then traveled to Gengxin City to seek Divine Craftsman Lou Gao. He reached the Blacksmith Association Headquarters and learned about the continent’s blacksmith ranks and its three Divine Craftsmen.

• Yang Wudi accepted Yan’s recruitment after Yan promised to help the Breaking Clan take revenge and gave him the Aromatic Silk Beauty.
• Yan returned Yang Wudi to the Breaking Clan’s territory, told him to recover and wait, and set out for Gengxin City to recruit Lou Gao.
• After several days of travel, Yan arrived in Gengxin City and observed its many smithies and the fire element filling the city.
• Yan entered the Blacksmith Association Headquarters, examined its trading floors, and learned about the blacksmith ranks and the three Divine Craftsmen.

Yan visited the Blacksmith Association Headquarters to persuade Divine Craftsman Lou Gao to forge a weapon using a Soul Cannon blueprint. Lou Gao became eager to meet him after seeing the complete plans and took Yan to his forging room to discuss his other business.

• Yan showed Si Long an incomplete Soul Cannon blueprint, and Si Long recognized it as a rare low-grade offensive Soul Tool design.
• Si Long brought Yan to meet Lou Gao, who asked to see the complete blueprint.
• Yan gave Lou Gao the full Soul Cannon plans, and Lou Gao eagerly welcomed him as an honored guest.
• Lou Gao pulled Yan toward his forging room and told Si Long to prepare tea, while Yan asked Si Long to leave them to talk.

Yan recruited Lou Gao by offering him Soul Tool blueprints and a new forging method, and Lou Gao agreed to join him on an expedition to the Far North. Lou Gao appointed Si Long acting president of the Blacksmith Association before preparing to leave.

• Yan explained that restoring Soul Tools could raise blacksmiths’ status and showed Lou Gao several blueprints and a booklet of forging methods.
• Lou Gao recognized that Yan had restored incomplete blueprints and was astonished by the forging method in the booklet.
• Yan offered the complete method in exchange for Lou Gao joining him, and Lou Gao agreed to bring two blacksmith grandmasters and ten master blacksmiths.
• Yan said their destination was the Far North, and Lou Gao agreed to prepare before setting out.
• Lou Gao summoned Si Long and appointed him acting president of the Blacksmith Association while he traveled.

Yan led Lou Gao, the blacksmiths, and the Breaking Clan toward the Far North to establish a base for Soul Tool research. As they entered the Heaven Dou Empire, rumors about Tang San and Poison Douluo suggested that Tang San had returned from Slaughter City and was active in Heaven Dou City.

• Si Long asked to study Soul Tools with Lou Gao, who appointed Sidi acting president and chose Si Long, Si Yu, and ten blacksmith masters for the expedition.
• Lou Gao and Yan left Gengxin City with the blacksmith team and traveled for nearly a month to join Yang Wudi and the Breaking Clan.
• Yang Wudi split the Breaking Clan and blacksmiths into seven teams, and Yan escorted them as they traveled toward the Far North.
• The seven teams entered the Heaven Dou Empire by way of the Balak Kingdom and avoided major cities and Spirit Temple attention.
• Yan heard that Tang Yin had caused a stir at Moonlight Pavilion and that Poison Douluo had broken through to level ninety-one, leading him to suspect Tang San had solved Poison Douluo's poison problem.
• Yan wondered whether Tang San had graduated from Moonlight Pavilion and whether Tang Hao was preparing to send him to the Clear Sky Sect after sacrificing a limb for its Soul Bone.

Yan returned to the Far North, arranged funding and construction for Extreme Ice City, then traveled to the Ten Thousand Year Cold Jade Ice Cave. There, the Snow Empress and Ice Empress confronted him with a vast domain and declared they would end his threat to the Far North.

• Yan returned to the Far North, where the Breaking Clan and Lou Gao's blacksmiths had settled in Extreme Ice City, and entrusted the city's expansion to the North Wind Chamber of Commerce.
• Yan divided the proceeds from Ten Thousand Year Cold Jade among the Breaking Clan, Lou Gao's preparatory Soul Tool Hall, and the city's expansion, then set out for the core region to replenish his supply.
• Mo Cheng saw the strength of the Breaking Clan and the value of Lou Gao's blacksmiths, raised the chamber's purchase price for Ten Thousand Year Cold Jade, and worked to maintain his relationship with Yan.
• Near the Ten Thousand Year Cold Jade Ice Cave, Yan encountered a vast Ice Jade Scorpion swarm and learned from Sky Dream Ice Silkworm that the Ice Empress might be present.
• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress appeared together, formed a powerful Domain of Ice and Snow with the Ice Jade Scorpion clan, and told Yan they would end his threat to the Far North.

Ice Empress and Snow Empress joined forces to attack Yan with the full power of the Domain of Ice and Snow, but he summoned his Flame Emperor Avatar and broke through their assault. The two Empresses then invoked the Pride of the Ice and Snow Emperors, unleashing the Far North’s immense cold power against him.

• Ice Empress attacked Yan with her Ice Empress Pincers and Ice Emperor’s Wrath while Snow Empress trapped him in a powerful ice-and-snow domain.
• Yan summoned his Flame Emperor Avatar and established a fire domain that tore through the Empresses’ domain.
• Yan swept his Flame God Halberd through the incoming attacks, severing Ice Empress’s scorpion-tail phantom and destroying the ice assault.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress joined their powers and drew upon the Far North’s core ice source to unleash the Pride of the Ice and Snow Emperors at Yan.

Yan unleashed the secret technique Flame Emperor, transforming the Flame Emperor Avatar with the Law of Fire and overwhelming the Ice and Snow Emperors. Snow Empress and Ice Empress were left gravely wounded and helpless on the flattened ice plain.

• Yan summoned a colossal pillar of fire that melted a vast opening through the frozen sky and empowered the Flame Emperor Avatar.
• The Avatar’s armor and Flame God Halberd transformed as blazing-white flames of law suppressed the Far North’s icy power.
• The transformed Avatar swept his halberd through the Pride of the Ice and Snow Emperors, annihilating the technique and vaporizing the tops of ice peaks for dozens of miles.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress suffered a severe backlash, lost their strength, and fell onto the flattened ice plain.

Yan defeated Snow Empress and Ice Empress but spared them, ordering them to gather resources and protect the Cold Jade miners in exchange for their lives. After promising to share secrets about soul beasts becoming gods, Yan left the Far North, while the lasting effects of his battle spread across the region.

• Yan defeated Snow Empress and Ice Empress with the Emperor Flame Verdict, leaving them gravely injured.
• Yan refused to kill them and required them to find resources, deliver them to Extreme Ice City, and protect Soul Masters mining the Cold Jade vein.
• Snow Empress asked whether Yan was a god’s inheritor, and he promised to share secrets about soul beasts becoming gods if they fulfilled his orders.
• Yan gathered Cold Jade and left, and Snow Empress and Ice Empress agreed to carry out his tasks.
• Yan’s strike left a lasting mark on the Far North, and the surviving Ice Jade Scorpion clans retreated in fear.

Yan broke through to level eighty after using the Flame Emperor Secret Technique, drawing the attention of powerful figures across the continent and in the God Realm. He chose the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King as his eighth Soul Ring target and reached Vast Sea City to begin his search.

• Bibi Dong, Qian Daoliu, Bo Saixi, and the God Realm's deities sensed the power released when Yan connected the Flame Emperor Origin with the Law of Fire.
• Yan recovered from the technique's backlash and broke through his level-seventy-nine bottleneck, reaching level eighty.
• Yan considered potential eighth Soul Ring targets and settled on the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, hoping to seize it before Poseidon closely guarded it for a successor.
• Yan handed the Ten Thousand Year Cold Jade to Sun Nian and Kuteng, then traveled from the Far North toward the West Sea.
• Yan reached Vast Sea City and stayed there for two days, finding few soul masters because land-based soul masters were barred from entering the sea.