Chapter Summaries

Meng Yiran invited Han Yu to dinner and asked to help with sect affairs, while Han Yu agreed to have Ye Lingling teach her. Later, Han Yu began developing a soul skill using his Light Sacred Dragon and Dark Sacred Dragon powers, discovering that coordinated release was possible even though fusion was not.

• Meng Yiran invited Han Yu to a home-cooked meal to thank him for helping her hunt a soul beast.
• Meng Yiran asked Han Yu whether her grandparents would be away long and said she wanted to help manage the sect.
• Han Yu agreed to have Ye Lingling teach Meng Yiran the sect's daily procedures.
• Han Yu practiced combining his golden and black-purple Soul Power streams, but they repelled each other when he tried to merge them.
• Han Yu released the two powers along separate paths and found he could coordinate them without fusion, though his technique remained slow and unstable.

Dai Mubai used the Clear Sky Sect’s support to strengthen his position in Star Luo, prompting Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun to seek an outside ally. Dai Weisi decided they should try to win over the Sun Moon Empire.

• Dai Mubai met three Clear Sky Sect elders, who said they would use their influence to make Star Luo’s powerful factions choose a side.
• The Clear Sky Sect’s backing drew visits and messages from Star Luo officials and nobles, while Dai Mubai agreed to meet Crown Prince Dai Weisi the next afternoon.
• Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun discussed how the Clear Sky Sect’s support could sway their father, the emperor, toward Dai Mubai.
• Zhu Zhuyun urged Dai Weisi to find a backer beyond Star Luo, and he proposed seeking the Sun Moon Empire’s aid.

Dai Weisi and Dai Mubai discussed the succession struggle, while Zhu Zhuyun went to Eastsea City to offer the Sun Moon Empire trade and mining rights in exchange for support. Yu Lingfeng refused to commit before Ling Tian Sect stated its position, leaving the proposed alliance unresolved.

• Dai Weisi told Zhu Zhuyun to negotiate with the Sun Moon Empire, and she agreed to leave for Eastsea City.
• Dai Mubai met Dai Weisi, who offered him a fief and military authority if he did not seek the throne; Dai Mubai left the question of his intentions unsettled.
• Dai Weisi kept their plan unchanged and sent Zhu Zhuyun to negotiate with the Sun Moon Empire.
• Yu Lingfeng learned Zhu Zhuyun had arrived and sent a letter to Ling Tian Sect before meeting her.
• Zhu Zhuyun offered border-port trade rights and overseas mining rights in exchange for Sun Moon Empire support, but Yu Lingfeng said the empire would not take sides until Ling Tian Sect made its position clear.

Yu Lingfeng stalled Zhu Zhuyun’s proposal while waiting for Ling Tian Sect’s position, and Han Yu sent Meng Yiran to Eastsea City to monitor the negotiations. At the Sacred Dragon Sect, Tuoba Xi remained troubled by an unresolved matter.

• Yu Lingfeng told Zhu Zhuyun he would discuss her proposal with Kong Zhao before replying, then waited for Ling Tian Sect’s response.
• Han Yu instructed Yu Lingfeng that he could negotiate with Zhu Zhuyun on terms no lower than Heaven Dou’s share and said Ling Tian Sect would send someone to observe.
• Han Yu sent Meng Yiran to Eastsea City, telling her to watch Zhu Zhuyun’s terms and any private discussions with Yu Lingfeng.
• Meng Yiran arrived at the Sun Moon Empire outpost, where Yu Lingfeng said Zhu Zhuyun had visited and Kong Zhao would return in three to five days.
• At the Sacred Dragon Sect, Tuoba Ping found Tuoba Xi still brooding over the matter.

Tuoba Xi and Tuoba Ping decided to approach Ling Tian Sect by invoking their distant kinship with Han Yu and offering Dragon Scale Iron in exchange for protection. They reached Heaven Dou City and sent Han Yu a request for an audience.

• Tuoba Xi told Tuoba Ping that Spirit Hall wanted Sacred Dragon Sect to declare its position, while Ling Tian Sect had grown powerful enough that the sect could not assume it would welcome them.
• Tuoba Xi revealed that the Tuoba family shared an ancient Golden Earth Dragon King bloodline with Han Feng, Han Yu’s father, and that their families had once addressed each other as clan brothers.
• Tuoba Xi proposed offering their ancestral Dragon Scale Iron to Han Yu and submitting to Ling Tian Sect in exchange for nominal affiliation that might deter Spirit Hall.
• Tuoba Ping retrieved the Dragon Scale Iron from the treasury, and he and Tuoba Xi traveled to Heaven Dou City without attendants.
• Tuoba Xi had Tuoba Ping deliver a calling card requesting an audience with Sect Master Han.

Tuoba Xi brought the Sacred Dragon Sect under the Ling Tian Sect’s command to escape becoming Spirit Hall’s pawn, offering Han Yu an ancient Dragon Scale Iron in exchange for protection. After accepting the submission and discovering the iron could refine his bloodline, Han Yu decided to move against Tai Tan and the Strength Clan.

• Tuoba Xi told Han Yu that Spirit Hall was forcing the Sacred Dragon Sect to become its vassal and offered the sect’s submission to the Ling Tian Sect.
• Tuoba Ping presented Dragon Scale Iron, and Han Yu accepted it as the price of the Sacred Dragon Sect’s allegiance.
• Han Yu ordered Tuoba Xi to publicly declare the Sacred Dragon Sect a subordinate sect and place its intelligence and troop deployments under Ling Tian Sect control.
• Han Yu tested the Dragon Scale Iron and absorbed its ancient dragon power, slightly refining his bloodline.
• Han Yu told Gu Rong that Tai Tan had plotted to steal Soul Tool blueprints and sell sect intelligence, and said it was time to deal with the Strength Clan.

Han Yu planned to seize Tai Tan and use him as bait to draw out Tang Hao and Tang San, then visited Xue Ke, who offered to marry him so their child could inherit the Heaven Dou throne. He left the proposal unresolved and prepared to act against the Strength Clan after learning Tai Tan had gone to a blacksmith shop.

• Han Yu told Gu Rong he would capture Tai Tan and announce his execution to lure Tang Hao and Tang San into rescuing him.
• Han Yu visited Xue Ke in the palace, where she complained about her confinement and offered to marry him so their child could inherit the Heaven Dou throne.
• Han Yu neither accepted nor refused Xue Ke's proposal and returned to the Ling Tian Sect compound.
• Gu Rong told Han Yu that Tai Tan had visited a blacksmith shop in the south of the city, then asked when they would act.

Han Yu ordered Tai Tan and the Strength Clan arrested, then announced Tai Tan’s public execution to draw out Tang San and Tang Hao. Tang San decided to rescue Tai Tan despite recognizing the trap, planning to attack from outside Han Yu’s net.

• Han Yu ordered Yang Wudi and Bai He to surround the Strength Clan estate and arrest Tai Tan.
• Yang Wudi defeated Tai Tan when he resisted, and the Breaking Clan and Speed Clan disciples apprehended the Strength Clan.
• Han Yu ordered Tai Tan’s crimes publicized and scheduled his beheading in Heaven Dou City in three days.
• Tang San learned of Tai Tan’s capture and execution order, then told Tang Hao he would go rescue him.
• Tang San acknowledged Han Yu’s trap and said they would attack from outside the net.

Tang San and Tang Hao planned to rescue Tai Tan and the Strength Clan from Heaven Dou City using Tang San’s Barrier-Breaking Smoke. After blaming Han Yu for the losses that had befallen them, they reached the city at night, where Tang San went ahead to scale the northern wall.

• Tang San revealed his improved Barrier-Breaking Smoke and proposed using it to break Tai Tan and the Strength Clan out before the execution.
• Tang Hao told Tang San that he believed Han Yu was responsible for Ah Yin’s missing relics, the Blue Silver King’s death, and their other misfortunes, then agreed to join the rescue.
• Tang San planned to leave that night, while Tang Hao arranged for two Clear Sky Sect elders to wait at Three-Li Slope as support.
• Tang San and Tang Hao left with the elders, avoided a patrol, and traveled toward Heaven Dou City after dark.
• At the city walls, Tang San chose a northern stretch with fewer patrols and told Tang Hao to wait outside because his injured leg made climbing dangerous.
• Tang San headed alone toward the northern wall with the Barrier-Breaking Smoke.

Tang San’s attempt to infiltrate Heaven Dou City failed when Han Yu and his allies trapped him, and Tang Hao arrived to rescue him. Han Yu crushed Tang Hao with a single dragon claw and dismissed the God of Wrath’s power, leaving both father and son at his mercy.

• Tang San used a smoke bomb to cross Heaven Dou City’s wall, but Han Yu, Gu Rong, and Yang Wudi were waiting for him.
• Gu Rong immobilized Tang San with spatial control, and Han Yu ordered Yang Wudi to capture him.
• Tang Hao burst through the city wall and attacked Han Yu with his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Han Yu blocked the hammer with his dragon claw and struck Tang Hao into a crater, severely injuring him.
• Gu Rong identified divine power from the God of Wrath in Tang Hao’s aura, but Han Yu said the God of Wrath and his power posed no threat.

Han Yu captured Tang San after crippling Tang Hao and sealed Tang San’s Soul Power, then ordered Yang Wudi and Gu Rong to destroy the Clear Sky Sect. Han Yu revealed that he knew Tang San’s Tang Sect techniques and claimed Xiao Wu had told him, leaving Tang San shocked and fearful.

• Han Yu sealed Tang San’s Soul Power and took his Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges storage Soul Tool.
• Han Yu urged Yang Wudi to avenge the Breaking Clan by leading the attack on the Clear Sky Sect, and Yang Wudi pledged his life to the Ling Tian Sect.
• Tang San argued that the Clear Sky Sect had been forced into seclusion, but Yang Wudi condemned the sect for abandoning the Breaking Clan.
• Gu Rong and Yang Wudi entered a spatial rift to attack the Clear Sky Sect, while Tang Hao and Tang San protested.
• Han Yu named the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record and Tang San’s secret arts, then claimed Xiao Wu had revealed them to him.

Han Yu captured Tang San and Tang Hao, maimed Tang Hao, and took Tang San’s possessions before imprisoning them both. In the God Realm, God of Evil noticed traces of God of Wrath’s Divine Power around Tang Hao.

• Han Yu told Tang San that Xiao Wu’s soul and origin were inside his soul ring and soul bone, then had Tang San sealed and imprisoned.
• Han Yu severed Tang Hao’s right arm, extracted its soul bone, and reduced Tang Hao’s cultivation from Rank 93 to Rank 83.
• Han Yu ordered Tang Hao’s remaining limbs crippled and had him chained in the cell beside Tang San.
• Han Yu erased Tang San’s spiritual imprint on the Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges and took its Hidden Weapon blueprints and Snow Lotus.
• God of Evil examined Tang Hao through a Divine Power mirror and detected traces of God of Wrath’s Divine Power around him.

Gu Rong and Yang Wudi led Ling Tian Sect and the four single-attribute clans to besiege Clear Sky Sect. The elders learned that Tang Hao had been crippled and Tang San captured, leaving them facing an attack with their sect surrounded.

• God of Evil observed Tang Hao and Tang San in neighboring cells and praised Han Yu for crippling and imprisoning them.
• Gu Rong and Yang Wudi arrived at Clear Sky Sect, where Gu Rong ordered Ling Tian Sect forces to seal every route down the mountain.
• Spirit Hall scouts spotted the attackers and fled to report to Pope Palace, while Gu Rong and Yang Wudi prepared to assault the sect.
• Clear Sky Sect’s elders sensed Gu Rong’s pressure and feared Tang Hao and Tang San had been captured during the failed rescue of Tai Tan.
• The elders confronted Gu Rong at the mountain gate, and he revealed that Han Yu had crippled Tang Hao and imprisoned both him and Tang San.

The God of Evil observed Han Yu’s treatment of Tang Hao and Tang San with interest as Gu Rong and Yang Wudi led Ling Tian Sect forces to besiege the Clear Sky Sect. The elders confronted them at the mountain gate and learned that Tang Hao had been crippled and Tang San captured.

• The God of Evil saw Han Yu imprisoning Tang Hao and Tang San and approved of his approach.
• Gu Rong and Yang Wudi arrived at the Clear Sky Sect, ordered the exits sealed, and let Spirit Hall scouts escape to warn Bibi Dong.
• The Clear Sky Sect elders sensed Gu Rong’s pressure and feared Tang Hao and Tang San had been captured after their rescue mission failed.
• The elders went to the mountain gate to face Gu Rong and Yang Wudi, insisting Tang Hao’s actions had nothing to do with their sect.
• Gu Rong told the elders that Tang Hao had been crippled and reduced to level 83, and that Tang San was imprisoned with him in Ling Tian Sect’s dungeon.

Gu Rong and Yang Wudi led Ling Tian Sect and the single-attribute clans to surround the Clear Sky Sect, while Spirit Hall scouts fled to report the attack. At the gates, Gu Rong revealed that Han Yu had crippled Tang Hao and captured him and Tang San, leaving the Clear Sky elders stunned.

• Gu Rong and Yang Wudi arrived at the Clear Sky Sect and ordered their forces to seal every route down the mountain.
• Two Spirit Hall scouts spotted the assault and escaped to report it to the Pope Palace.
• The Clear Sky Sect elders realized the rescue mission for Tai Tan had likely failed and rushed to confront Gu Rong and Yang Wudi.
• Gu Rong dismissed the elders’ claim that Tang Hao’s actions had nothing to do with the sect and revealed Tang Hao and Tang San were imprisoned by Ling Tian Sect.
• The Clear Sky elders learned Tang Hao had lost an arm and a leg and that his cultivation had fallen to level 83.

Gu Rong and Yang Wudi led Ling Tian Sect and the Four Single-Attribute Clans to surround the Clear Sky Sect, seeking to settle old grievances. The elders learned Tang Hao and Tang San had been captured and crippled, then faced Gu Rong at the gates as the attack began.

• The God of Evil watched Han Yu’s treatment of Tang Hao and Tang San with interest, noting that the God of Anger’s mark on Tang Hao had been shallow.
• Gu Rong and Yang Wudi arrived at the Clear Sky Sect and ordered Ling Tian Sect forces and clan experts to seal every route down the mountain.
• Spirit Hall scouts spotted the force and fled to report to Pope Palace, while Gu Rong refused Yang Wudi’s offer to pursue them.
• The Clear Sky Sect elders sensed Gu Rong’s pressure and rushed to the gates, fearing Tang Hao and Tang San had fallen into Ling Tian Sect’s hands.
• Gu Rong told the elders that Han Yu had crippled Tang Hao and captured both him and Tang San, leaving the elders stunned.

Gu Rong captured Zhu Yu and Dai Min after defeating them, then helped destroy the Clear Sky Sect and found a map signed by Tang Chen in its treasury. He returned to Ling Tian Sect with the prisoners and the map, where Han Yu asked who the two captives were.

• Gu Rong severed the Hell White Tiger's Soul Power node, defeated Zhu Yu and Dai Min, and sealed their Soul Power.
• Gu Rong brought the captives to the mountain opposite the Clear Sky Sect, where Yang Wudi reported that Tang Xiao and the remaining elders had been killed.
• Yang Wudi showed Gu Rong the Clear Sky Sect's treasury and a hidden map bearing Tang Chen's signature, marked deep in the Extreme North.
• Gu Rong took the map and returned to Ling Tian Sect with Zhu Yu and Dai Min.
• Han Yu entered the Council Hall, saw the prisoners, and asked Gu Rong who they were.

Gu Rong defeated Zhu Yu and Dai Min, then brought them to the Ling Tian Sect as prisoners after the Clear Sky Sect was destroyed. He also found a map signed by Tang Chen that pointed to a mysterious location deep in the Extreme North, and Han Yu arrived to learn about the captured pair.

• Gu Rong shattered the Hell White Tiger, sealed Zhu Yu and Dai Min's Soul Power, and carried them to a mountain overlooking the burning Clear Sky Sect.
• Yang Wudi reported that Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect's remaining elders had been killed and showed Gu Rong the looted treasury.
• Gu Rong found a hidden map signed by Tang Chen that marked a location deep in the Extreme North and took it for himself.
• Gu Rong brought the unconscious Zhu Yu and Dai Min to the Ling Tian Sect and told the guards he had brought back two 'cats.'
• Han Yu entered the Council Hall and asked Gu Rong who the two prisoners were.

Han Yu held Zhu Yu and Dai Min in the Ling Tian Sect, then tried to force Tang San to surrender the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record by threatening to delay Xiao Wu’s revival and invoking Tang Hao’s condition. Meanwhile, the three-day deadline arrived, and the Strength Clan was assembled for execution outside Heaven Dou City.

• Han Yu told Zhu Yu that he and Dai Min would remain in the Ling Tian Sect until the Star Luo Empire negotiated, and Zhu Yu accepted his captivity.
• Han Yu demanded the complete Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record from Tang San, who refused despite Han Yu threatening to postpone Xiao Wu’s revival and revealing Tang Hao’s injuries and weakened Soul Power.
• Han Yu planned to use Tang San and Tang Hao to force Ah Yin to sacrifice herself for Ye Mengxue once Ah Yin regained one hundred thousand years of cultivation.
• More than four hundred members of the Strength Clan, including Tai Tan, Tai Nuo, and Tai Long, were chained and made to kneel beneath a guillotine outside Heaven Dou City as the three-day deadline expired.
• Crowds and nobles watched the execution preparations, recognizing that Han Yu’s Ling Tian Sect controlled Heaven Dou City and that the Strength Clan was being punished for supporting the Clear Sky Sect and Tang San.

Han Yu publicly executed the Strength Clan after Tai Tan refused to submit to the Ling Tian Sect, revealing that Tang San was imprisoned and could not avenge them. The chapter ended with Han Yu asking Yang Wudi, Niu Gao, and Bai He whether they resented his decision to wipe out Tai Tan’s family.

• Feng Bailong ordered the Wind Sword Sect to show absolute loyalty to Han Yu, while Yang Wudi rejected Niu Gao and Bai He’s pleas to spare Tai Tan.
• Tai Long begged Tai Tan for help, but Tai Tan insisted Tang San would avenge the Strength Clan.
• Han Yu arrived at the execution and revealed that Tang San was imprisoned in the Ling Tian Sect’s dungeon and could not even save Tang Hao.
• Han Yu declared that those who submitted to him would prosper and those who opposed him would perish, overwhelming the crowd with his pressure.
• Han Yu asked Yang Wudi, Niu Gao, and Bai He whether they held grievances over his plan to wipe out Tai Tan’s entire family.