Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ming saw Xu Heng awaken a pale golden hourglass Martial Soul that seemed to affect time, then left the Xu Family Sword Hall after Xu Heng refused his offer of guidance. A month later, Jiang Ming visited Xue Qinghe in Heaven Dou City to request Spirit Hall’s help finding a ninety-thousand-year space Soul Beast.

• Xu Youyou brought Jiang Ming to the Xu Family Sword Hall, where Xu Heng’s awakening revealed Innate Full Soul Power and a pale golden hourglass Martial Soul.
• Jiang Ming sensed that Xu Heng’s Martial Soul briefly slowed his thinking and told Xu Jianghe that it was not a support-type Martial Soul.
• Xu Jianghe asked Jiang Ming to take Xu Heng as his disciple, but Xu Heng insulted Jiang Ming and rejected the idea.
• Jiang Ming said goodbye to Xu Jianghe and left for Heaven Dou Imperial City.
• One month later, Jiang Ming visited Xue Qinghe and asked Spirit Hall to help him hunt a ninety-thousand-year space Soul Beast.

Jiang Ming revealed Qian Renxue’s identity and arranged with her to obtain a ninety-thousand-year-old Space Soul Beast. After the Spirit Hall Seven Consecrators brought the beast to Qian Family Village, Jiang Ming killed it and began absorbing its Soul Ring as spatial fluctuations gathered around him.

• Jiang Ming identified Xue Qinghe as Qian Renxue, and she agreed to arrange for him to hunt a Space Soul Beast.
• Jiang Ming learned that the Clear Sky Sect planned to return, the Upper Three Sects were pressuring Xue Ye, and Tang San and Tang Hao remained missing.
• Qian Renxue decided to have Snake Lance Douluo poison Xue Ye and disguise his death as the effects of poison.
• Three days later, Jiang Ming met Qian Daoliu and the other six Consecrators at a hidden village, where they had captured a ninety-thousand-year-old Space Soul Beast.
• Jiang Ming beheaded the beast, absorbed its black-crimson Soul Ring, and caused spatial fluctuations to spread as the chapter ended.

Jiang Ming completed his sixth Soul Ring absorption and learned that Xue Ye’s death had thrown the Heaven Dou Empire into turmoil. Three days later, he attacked the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, killing Chen Jian with a fragment of his own sword.

• Qian Daoliu and the offerings discussed Jiang Ming’s unusual Soul Ring absorption and decided he was not their enemy.
• Jiang Ming thanked Qian Daoliu, who told him that something had happened to Xue'er; Xue Ye’s death had sparked a succession crisis and pressure from the Upper Three Sects.
• Three days later, Jiang Ming entered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and killed the disciples who encountered him on the way in.
• Ning Zhi and Chen Jian confronted Jiang Ming with a patrol, and Chen Jian attacked using his fifth Soul Skill.
• Jiang Ming stopped Chen Jian’s sword between two fingers, shattered it, and killed him by firing a broken sword tip through his head.

Jiang Ming slaughtered the patrol disciples and Ning Zhi on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect mountainside, then advanced toward the sect’s main hall. He revealed a silver domain covering the sect’s core area as Ning Rongrong waited for her father and Grandpa Bone to return from Gengxin City.

• Jiang Ming used Dimensional Slash to kill more than thirty patrolling Soul Masters without moving from his spot.
• Jiang Ming recognized Ning Zhi as his longtime enemy and killed him with Spatial Disintegration, reducing him to powder.
• Jiang Ming swept the bodies into a spatial rift and continued up the mountain, destroying buildings along the way.
• Jiang Ming shattered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s gold plaque and enveloped its core area in his newly expanded silver domain.
• Ning Rongrong wondered why Grandpa Bone and her father had not returned, while Sword Douluo said they had gone to Gengxin City in the Star Luo Empire.

Jiang Ming returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and confronted Sword Douluo, Ning Rongrong, and Oscar after years away. He threatened them and forced Oscar to make him noodles, leaving Sword Douluo drawing his sword to defend the others.

• Sword Douluo told Ning Rongrong that Ning Fengzhi had gone to Gengxin City to collect Hidden Weapons for Clear Sky Sect, while Shrek Academy's former members had scattered after Yu Xiaogang's death.
• Sword Douluo reassured Ning Rongrong and said Clear Sky Sect had found a lead on Tang Chen's whereabouts.
• Oscar told Ning Rongrong he would leave to train and break the belief that support-type soul masters could not fight, despite her warning that he would be in danger.
• Jiang Ming entered the hall, claimed he had killed everyone else, and said he would spare Ning Rongrong if Oscar made him a bowl of noodles.
• Jiang Ming threatened to kill Oscar if the noodles displeased him, and Sword Douluo drew his Seven Kill Sword.

Jiang Ming used the Void Blade and overwhelming swordsmanship to suppress Sword Douluo in their battle inside the hall. Sword Douluo was left badly wounded and struggling to keep up as Jiang Ming continued his assault.

• Sword Douluo launched an all-out attack on Jiang Ming, but Jiang Ming's First Sword drained its force.
• Jiang Ming wounded Sword Douluo with the Second Sword and drove him back with the Third Sword.
• Jiang Ming's Fourth Sword struck Sword Douluo with seven simultaneous attacks, while Ning Rongrong and Oscar were injured by the battle's shockwaves and debris.
• Jiang Ming's Fifth Sword appeared behind Sword Douluo and sent him flying when he tried to block it.
• Jiang Ming pressed Sword Douluo with a storm of sword strikes until Sword Douluo was covered in wounds and his attacks slowed.

Jiang Ming forced Oscar to make noodles, then rejected the plain bowl because it contained broth and used Sword Douluo’s desperate attack to break the Seven Kill Sword and fatally wound him. Sword Douluo revealed that the Clear Sky Sect had learned Tang Chen’s whereabouts and warned Jiang Ming that he could not oppose a Peerless Douluo.

• Jiang Ming withdrew his sword from Sword Douluo’s throat and ordered Oscar to make noodles, while Ning Rongrong begged him to kill her instead.
• Oscar brought Jiang Ming a bowl of plain noodles, but Jiang Ming pointed out that he did not drink broth and accused Oscar of misunderstanding his promise.
• Sword Douluo rose and attacked Jiang Ming with Man and Sword as One, but Jiang Ming caught the Seven Kill Sword between two fingers and shattered it.
• The broken sword tip pierced Sword Douluo’s chest and pinned him to the wall.
• Sword Douluo told Jiang Ming that the Clear Sky Sect had learned Tang Chen’s whereabouts and warned that a Peerless Douluo was beyond Jiang Ming’s reach.

Jiang Ming revealed a devastating power that created a second moon and unleashed a silver torrent over the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. As the sect and its people began disappearing, Oscar tried to reach Ning Rongrong but started to crumble before he could touch her.

• Jiang Ming destroyed the main hall roof and rose into the air, revealing a silver moonlike manifestation above the sect.
• Jiang Ming gathered the spiritual energy of the surrounding land into the Void Blade and declared, "I am nothingness!"
• Sword Douluo watched the silver moon descend and smiled, realizing that he had misjudged Jiang Ming.
• Ning Rongrong's Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda shattered as the silver light erased her body piece by piece.
• Oscar ran toward Ning Rongrong, but his outstretched hand began to crumble before it reached her.

Jiang Ming erased the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and its mountain with the Void Blade, leaving a vast circular depression. As Heaven Dou City recoiled from the destruction, Clear Sky Sect disciples learned the sect had vanished, while Jiang Ming flew toward the city to restore his mana before dealing with the coup.

• Jiang Ming's silver attack disintegrated Oscar, Sword Douluo, Ning Rongrong, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's buildings and mountain.
• Heaven Dou City residents and guards saw a second moon-like light swallow the western hills and the land around the sect.
• Jiang Ming put away the Void Blade, saw the hundred-li-wide depression left behind, and flew toward Heaven Dou City to restore his mana.
• Clear Sky Sect disciples in eastern Heaven Dou City debated what had happened, and Tang Yuan volunteered to investigate the west.
• Tang Yuan returned and told Tang Long and the other disciples that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and its entire mountain were gone.

Tang Long reported that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and its mountain had been wiped away, convincing Tang Xiao that Jiang Ming might be responsible. Tang Xiao ordered the Clear Sky Sect to evacuate and wait for his second brother and Tang San near Slaughter City.

• Tang Yuan told Tang Long that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had become a vast, smooth pit with no sign of survivors or Soul Power.
• Tang Long informed Tang Xiao, Tang Lie, and the Fourth Elder that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had been destroyed.
• Tang Lie suggested that Jiang Ming might have returned, and Tang Xiao judged that Jiang Ming’s strength had likely advanced to Soul Emperor and could rival a level ninety-eight Titled Douluo.
• Tang Xiao ordered the Clear Sky Sect to evacuate, while Tang Lie prepared to pack their valuables.
• Tang Xiao said they would wait near Slaughter City for his second brother and Tang San.

Tang Xiao ordered the Clear Sky Sect to flee Heaven Dou City and seek its old Sect Master, while Jiang Ming recruited Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan to go with him to the imperial palace. Tang Xiao then found Tang Yuehua rallying nobles against Xue Qinghe and summoned her upstairs.

• Tang Xiao canceled the plan to force the emperor to abdicate and ordered the Clear Sky Sect to evacuate, avoid fighting Jiang Ming, and find the old Sect Master.
• Jiang Ming arrived at Dugu Bo's courtyard and found Dugu Yan breaking through to level 52.
• Dugu Yan learned that Dugu Bo and Jiang Ming had staged the apparent attempt on Jiang Ming's life in Spirit City.
• Jiang Ming, Dugu Bo, and Dugu Yan set off for the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace to confront the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Xiao reached Moonlight Pavilion and heard Tang Yuehua urging nobles to oppose Xue Qinghe and support the Upper Three Sects Alliance.
• Tang Xiao called Tang Yuehua to the second floor while the nobles prepared to march on the imperial palace.

Tang Xiao warned Tang Yuehua that Jiang Ming had destroyed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and urged her to flee Heaven Dou City while they searched for their grandfather. At the palace, Xue Qinghe refused to join the Anti-Spirit Hall Alliance, so the Clear Sky Sect elders and Yu Yuanzhen backed Xue Beng’s claim to the throne and declared him the new monarch.

• Tang Xiao told Tang Yuehua that Jiang Ming had razed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and was likely powerful enough to defeat anyone in the Clear Sky Sect except their missing grandfather.
• Tang Xiao convinced Tang Yuehua to abandon Heaven Dou City and search for their grandfather through places connected to Divine Miracle, leaving the nobles behind as a distraction.
• Elder Tang and Yu Yuanzhen pressed Xue Qinghe to join the Anti-Spirit Hall Alliance, but Xue Qinghe delayed his answer until Emperor Xue Ye was laid to rest.
• Xue Beng and Xue Xing entered the palace hall and criticized Xue Qinghe for hesitating while Heaven Dou faced danger.
• Second Elder demanded a final answer, and Elder Tang declared Xue Beng the new monarch of Heaven Dou.

Jiang Ming returned to Heaven Dou Imperial Palace after the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was destroyed and confronted the Second Elder and Yu Yuanzhen. He trapped them with spatial power and the battle erupted, leaving Yu Yuanzhen attacking the Second Elder amid the chaos.

• The Fourth Elder reported that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and its mountain had been destroyed, terrifying the Second Elder and Yu Yuanzhen.
• Xue Qinghe began to reveal his golden true form, but Jiang Ming arrived with Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan and warned him to stop.
• The Second Elder and Yu Yuanzhen tried to flee, but Jiang Ming froze them in place with a spatial seal.
• The Second Elder and Fourth Elder attacked Jiang Ming with their Clear Sky Hammers, while Yu Yuanzhen launched lightning dragons, but Jiang Ming blocked them all.
• Jiang Ming tore through the Second Elder’s Clear Sky Hammer and compressed the space around him, while Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan fought the others.
• Yu Yuanzhen used Thunderous Fury and struck the Second Elder with Thunder Dragon Claw.

Jiang Ming overwhelmed Yu Yuanzhen, using Spatial Disintegration to destroy his legs, while Dugu Yan fought Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng. Dugu Yan killed Yu Tianxin and pinned Yu Tianheng, but two Clear Sky Sect Soul Kings intervened and forced her back.

• Jiang Ming walked through Yu Yuanzhen's thunder attacks and destroyed his nine thunder dragons with his domain.
• Jiang Ming used Spatial Disintegration to erase Yu Yuanzhen's legs, leaving him screaming on the floor.
• Yu Tianxin froze at his grandfather's scream, and Dugu Yan struck him before poisoning him and Yu Tianheng.
• Dugu Yan killed Yu Tianxin with her Eight Spider Lances, then pinned Yu Tianheng to a stone pillar.
• Two Clear Sky Sect Soul Kings attacked Dugu Yan with their Clear Sky Hammers, forcing her back.

Jiang Ming and Dugu Bo crushed the Clear Sky Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan forces, killing their elders and leaving Dugu Yan to face Yu Tianheng’s sudden attack. The chapter ended as Yu Tianheng lunged at Dugu Yan, convinced he could take her hostage.

• Dugu Bo poisoned the Clear Sky Sect’s Fourth Elder after the elder was distracted by Yu Yuanzhen’s plight.
• Jiang Ming banished Yu Yuanzhen into a dimensional rift, preventing his attempted self-destruction.
• Jiang Ming killed the Clear Sky Sect’s Second Elder by extracting his heart and crushing his body with spatial abilities.
• Jiang Ming killed the Fourth Elder, while Dugu Bo unleashed poison that killed most of the sect and clan disciples in the side hall.
• Yu Tianheng begged Dugu Yan for mercy, then lunged at her with his Thunder Dragon Claw to take her hostage.

After the conspirators’ attack was stopped, Xue Qinghe executed Xue Beng and Prince Xue Xing, and Jiang Ming warned her that revealing her identity as Qian Renxue would turn the succession struggle into a war against Spirit Hall. Xue Qinghe then disclosed her true identity to Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, leaving Dugu Bo baffled by Jiang Ming’s decision to help Bibi Dong’s daughter.

• Dugu Bo restrained Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan kicked him, and Jiang Ming erased him with Spatial Disintegration.
• Dugu Bo vowed to destroy the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan after they targeted Dugu Yan.
• Xue Qinghe killed Xue Beng and Prince Xue Xing when they begged for mercy.
• Jiang Ming warned Xue Qinghe that exposing herself as Qian Renxue would unite the Heaven Dou Empire against Spirit Hall.
• Xue Qinghe revealed that she was Qian Renxue, the real Xue Qinghe having been killed long ago.
• Dugu Bo questioned why Jiang Ming was helping Bibi Dong’s daughter, and Jiang Ming said Bibi Dong and Spirit Hall were separate matters.

Qian Renxue explained Spirit Hall’s power structure and sought Dugu Yan’s help with establishing an empress, while Jiang Ming and Dugu Bo prepared to deal with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Xue Qinghe told Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s education committee that he had executed Xue Xing and Xue Beng, then tested whether they would obey his order to attack the clan.

• Qian Renxue explained that the Worship Hall, not Bibi Dong alone, determined Spirit Hall’s direction, and Dugu Bo met Snake Lance Douluo and Puffer Douluo, who had secretly protected Jiang Ming.
• Qian Renxue asked Dugu Yan to help with establishing an empress after she ascended the throne, and Dugu Bo agreed to settle the matter later.
• Dugu Bo planned to visit the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, but Jiang Ming suggested sealing the mountain with poison and going together the next day.
• Xue Qinghe summoned Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin and told them he had executed Xue Xing and Xue Beng for colluding with foreign enemies and plotting rebellion.
• Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin objected to Xue Qinghe’s private executions and refused his order to surround and exterminate the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

Xue Qinghe and three Title Douluo killed Meng Shenji, Zhi Lin, and the third official before moving against the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Dugu Bo and the Imperial Guards surrounded the clan with poisonous mist, leaving Yu Luomian and the elders trapped as the clan’s resistance faltered.

• Xue Qinghe revealed Snake Lance Douluo and Puffer Douluo, then ordered them and Dugu Bo to kill Meng Shenji, Zhi Lin, and the third official.
• Xue Qinghe agreed to mobilize the Imperial Guards while Dugu Bo planned to use poisonous mist to encircle the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Yu Luomian and the elders waited anxiously for the missing Clan Master until a disciple reported that poisonous mist and tens of thousands of Imperial Guards surrounded the mountain.
• Yu Luomian recognized Dugu Bo as the one controlling the poisonous mist, while Dugu Bo, Snake Lance Douluo, and Puffer Douluo confronted the clan.
• A Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan Soul Emperor rushed into the mist and died from the poison, frightening the clan’s disciples into retreating.
• Yu Luomian and the elders withdrew to the council hall as Dugu Bo declared that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan would be exterminated.

Yu Luomian sent the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s young disciples through a secret passage before Dugu Bo, Snake Lance Douluo, Puffer Douluo, and Jiang Ming led an assault that slaughtered the clan. Jiang Ming confronted the poisoned Yu Luomian, who explained his hatred of Yu Xiaogang and his opposition to the relationship between Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong.

• Yu Luomian arranged for over thirty promising young disciples to escape through the clan’s secret passage.
• Jiang Ming ordered the Imperial Guards to advance as Dugu Bo’s poisonous mist tightened around the mountain.
• Dugu Bo’s poison killed the weaker disciples, while Snake Lance Douluo and Puffer Douluo killed those still resisting.
• Jiang Ming took a separate path up the mountain and found the poisoned Yu Luomian alone.
• Yu Luomian told Jiang Ming that he had wanted Yu Xiaogang dead and hated that Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong could be together.

Jiang Ming killed Yu Luomian and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s remaining forces, while Xue Qinghe ordered captured clan disciples executed. Seven days later, Jiang Ming reached the Blacksmith Association in Gengxin City and found it guarded by troops bearing the emblems of the Upper Three Sects and the Star Luo Empire.

• Yu Luomian unleashed his eighth soul skill, but Jiang Ming split the lightning storm with the Void Sword and killed him.
• Dugu Bo ordered the Imperial Guards to search the mountain, kill every survivor, and take every coin.
• At a banquet, Xue Qinghe told Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan that Jiang Ming had gone to Gengxin City to deal with Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong.
• A guard reported that patrolmen had captured Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan youths after they fought villagers over a meal, and Xue Qinghe ordered them executed.
• Seven days later, Jiang Ming found soldiers guarding the Blacksmith Association in Gengxin City, their uniforms marked with the emblems of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, Clear Sky Hammer, Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda, and Star Luo Empire.