Chapter Summaries

Han Yu arranged to fund Ling Tian Sect’s defenses by trading advanced Soul Tool blueprints to the Heaven Dou Imperial Family. After Xue Ye paid him sixty thousand Gold Soul Coins, Xue Qinghe asked about the sect’s planned tournament team, leaving Han Yu to respond.

• Han Yu told Niu Gao to plan the defensive works for Ling Tian Sect and promised to find the money for eight Crossbow Cannons and four Soul Power Sensing Arrays.
• Han Yu decided to trade advanced Soul Tool blueprints to the Heaven Dou Imperial Family rather than ask the Nine Heart Begonia Family for more funds.
• Xue Ye agreed to pay Han Yu sixty thousand Gold Soul Coins for blueprints detailing Level One through Level Three Fixed Soul Cannons.
• Xue Qinghe asked Han Yu whether Ling Tian Sect was forming an academy team for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.

Han Yu rejected Xue Qinghe’s offer to join his team, while Tang San trained to master the Clear Sky Hammer and struggled with grief over Xiao Wu. In Mingdu, Han Feng and Gu Yu became Sun Moon Empire consecrated officials and gained access to its Soul Tool Research Institute, though its core blueprints would depend on their contributions.

• Han Yu told Xue Qinghe that his team needed no more people, then explained to Gu Rong that the Heaven Dou Empire had paid for valuable Soul Tool blueprints.
• Tang San practiced the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer as Tang Xiao corrected his rhythm and urged him to focus on training rather than revenge.
• Kong Zhao introduced Han Feng and Gu Yu to the Sun Moon Empire’s emperor, and Han Feng offered their service to the Empire.
• The emperor appointed Han Feng and Gu Yu as third-rank consecrated officials and granted them a residence and access to the Soul Tool Research Institute.
• Kong Zhao told Han Feng and Gu Yu that access to seventh-grade Soul Tool blueprints would depend on their contributions to the Empire.

Han Feng and Gu Yu settled into their roles as guest elders in the Sun Moon Empire while hoping to learn Soul Tool technology and eventually bring it back to Douluo Continent. At the Research Institute, Level 7 Soul Engineer Yu Lingfeng tested Han Feng by giving him three days to redraw a complex Soul Power circuit.

• Han Feng and Gu Yu agreed to establish themselves as guest elders and learn Soul Tool technology before making plans to take it back to Douluo Continent for Yu'er.
• Yu Lingfeng heard that two Titled Douluo from Douluo Continent had become guest elders and decided to wait before meeting them, suspecting they might have other motives.
• Kong Zhao guided Han Feng and Gu Yu through the Research Institute and introduced its workshops and Soul Engineers, including its director, Yu Lingfeng.
• Yu Lingfeng questioned Han Feng about his motives, and Han Feng openly admitted that he hoped to restore Soul Tools on Douluo Continent.
• Yu Lingfeng gave Han Feng a metal plate with a disordered Soul Power circuit and ordered him to redraw it within three days to earn basic instruction.

Han Feng passed Yu Lingfeng’s test to study Soul Tools, while Han Yu reached level seventy and went with Gu Rong to hunt the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger in Star Dou Forest. They found the tiger fighting a Black Mamba Snake Emperor, and Gu Rong struck it down after Han Yu told him to keep it alive.

• Han Feng and Gu Yu returned to their residence to reconstruct the Soul Power circuit diagram, and Han Feng delivered the completed drawing three days later.
• Yu Lingfeng approved Han Feng’s reconstruction and told him to report to the workshop in seven days to begin learning first-level Soul Tools.
• Han Yu emerged from seclusion at level seventy, and he and Gu Rong entered Star Dou Forest to search for the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.
• Gu Rong detected the tiger’s chaotic spatial traces and brought Han Yu to a clearing where it killed a Black Mamba Snake Emperor.
• The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger sensed Han Yu and Gu Rong, lunged at them, and was smashed into a pit by Gu Rong’s skeletal claw as Han Yu insisted it be kept alive.

Han Yu killed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, claimed its Evil God Pearl, and absorbed its Spirit Ring, reaching level seventy-three and gaining the Evil God Domain. The Titan Giant Ape emerged from the forest, and Han Yu stopped Gu Rong from attacking as the two faced the new threat.

• Gu Rong pinned and crippled the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, and Han Yu killed it and took the Evil God Pearl that emerged from its corpse.
• Han Yu began absorbing the tiger’s Spirit Ring while Gu Rong stood guard and noticed a watcher in the forest.
• Han Yu identified the watcher as the Titan Giant Ape and told Gu Rong not to attack while he completed the absorption.
• Han Yu absorbed the Spirit Ring, reached level seventy-three, and gained the Martial Soul Avatar and Evil God Domain.
• The Titan Giant Ape charged from the forest, and Han Yu held Gu Rong back as Gu Rong prepared to strike.

Han Yu returned to Ling Tian Sect with the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s corpse and began refining the Evil God Pearl, whose power attracted the God of Evil’s attention. The God of Evil discovered that Han Yu was only twelve or thirteen years old, yet already had rank seventy-three Soul Power and a seventh Spirit Ring from the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.

• The Titan Giant Ape accused Han Yu of killing Xiao Wu, but Han Yu said she had chosen to sacrifice herself, and Gu Rong’s pressure kept the beast from attacking.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python called the Titan Giant Ape away, and Han Yu and Gu Rong left with the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger’s corpse.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape discussed Han Yu’s seventh Spirit Ring and domain, and the Sky Azure Bull Python said it would confront him when he returned.
• Han Yu went into seclusion in the Back Mountain and took out the Evil God Pearl, which began releasing Evil God Power that brushed away his Soul Power.
• The God of Evil sensed the pearl’s power, viewed Han Yu through a divine mirror, and was startled by his age, rank, and seventh Spirit Ring.

The God of Evil watched Han Yu absorb the Evil God Pearl’s origin power and decided he was an ideal successor. The power transformed Han Yu’s Dark Sacred Dragon, leaving him to discover it had gained the Ultimate Evil attribute alongside Ultimate Darkness.

• The God of Evil examined Han Yu’s twin Sacred Dragons, Spirit Rings, and innate domain, then watched the Evil God Pearl’s power enter him.
• Han Yu endured the Evil God’s Law and gradually tamed the origin power, impressing the God of Evil with how quickly the pearl acknowledged him.
• The God of Evil decided Han Yu was exceptionally suited to inherit his divine position.
• The Dark Sacred Dragon devoured the incoming Evil God Power, and the Evil God Pearl emptied and fell back into Han Yu’s palm.
• Han Yu’s Dark Sacred Dragon transformed with a violet-black aura, and Han Yu sensed that it now possessed both Ultimate Darkness and Ultimate Evil.

Han Yu absorbed the Evil God Pearl’s origin power, drawing God of Evil’s attention as a potential successor. The power transformed Han Yu’s Dark Sacred Dragon, and he sensed that its attribute had changed, though the chapter ended before he finished naming it.

• God of Evil examined Han Yu’s Spirit Rings and twin Dark Sacred Dragon and Light Sacred Dragon Martial Souls, then wondered whether Han Yu could inherit his divine position.
• The Evil God Pearl’s power surged into Han Yu, flooding him with fragments of the Evil God’s Law.
• God of Evil watched as Han Yu endured and gradually tamed the power, and he was impressed by how quickly the pearl acknowledged Han Yu as its master.
• The Evil God’s Origin left the pearl and entered Han Yu, causing his Dark Sacred Dragon to erupt in black-purple radiance.
• Han Yu sensed a change in his Dark Sacred Dragon and began to say that it had gained Ultimate Darkness and Ultimate, but the chapter ended before he completed the thought.

Bai He followed advice from Yang Wudi and Niu Gao to offer the Ling Tian Sect an Immortal Herb and consider placing his granddaughter Bai Chenxiang by Han Yu’s side. He presented the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng to Han Yu and proposed that Chen Xiang serve him, leaving Han Yu to question whether Bai He was seeking security for the Speed Clan.

• Bai He agreed to retrieve the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng after Yang Wudi advised him to offer it to the Sect Master.
• Bai He visited Niu Gao, who suggested he offer Bai Chenxiang to Han Yu as well as the Immortal Herb.
• Bai He brought the sealed Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng to Bai Chenxiang and told her of his plan, and she said she would leave the decision to him.
• Bai He presented the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng to Han Yu and offered Chen Xiang to serve at his side.
• Han Yu asked Bai He whether the proposal was his own idea and whether he was trying to secure the Speed Clan’s place in the sect.

Bai He secured Bai Chenxiang a place in the Ling Tian Sect, where she began learning sect affairs under Ye Lingling. Bai Chenxiang was left studying the sect’s accounts as Dugu Yan arrived and teased her.

• Han Yu reassured Bai He that the Speed Clan’s scouting skills would be useful and agreed to have Bai Chenxiang learn from Ye Lingling.
• Bai He told Bai Chenxiang that she would join Ye Lingling and that the Speed Clan’s honor would depend on her own efforts.
• Bai Chenxiang left the Speed Clan residence the next morning and reported to Ye Lingling in the main hall.
• Ye Lingling asked Bai Chenxiang about her experience and gave her the previous month’s expense ledger to inspect.
• Dugu Yan arrived, asked Bai Chenxiang’s age, and teased her until Ye Lingling told her to stop.

Han Yu left Bai Chenxiang to learn account management from Ye Lingling while Gu Rong teased him about marriage and asked about his missing parents. Han Yu returned to the main hall, assigned Bai Chenxiang to help manage the sect’s accounts, and she promised not to disappoint him or the Speed Clan.

• Bai Chenxiang studied the sect’s ledgers under Ye Lingling’s guidance while Dugu Yan left to find her grandfather.
• Han Yu visited Gu Rong on the Back Mountain, where Gu Rong asked about Bai Chenxiang and urged Han Yu to start a family.
• Han Yu told Gu Rong that Ling Yuan was likely refining the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower and had not contacted him.
• Han Yu remembered his missing parents, and Gu Rong promised to help search for them once Han Yu reached Titled Douluo.
• Han Yu tested Bai Chenxiang’s knowledge of the accounts and appointed her to help Ye Lingling manage them.
• Bai Chenxiang promised Han Yu that she would study hard and not bring shame to the Speed Clan or him.

Han Yu gave Ye Lingling the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and asked her to see whether she could earn the Sea God's recognition, since he expected to pursue the God of Evil's inheritance instead. The Shroud briefly responded to Ye Lingling, and the chapter ended as Dugu Yan teased her about Han Yu's private meeting.

• Han Yu decided the Sea God's inheritance was optional for him and considered Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan as possible candidates for it.
• Han Yu showed Ye Lingling the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and explained that it could initiate the Sea God's Nine Trials.
• Ye Lingling touched the Shroud and felt it respond, so Han Yu gave it to her to test with Soul Power over time.
• Ye Lingling infused the Shroud with Soul Power at her residence, causing a brighter flash before it went dim again.
• The next morning, Dugu Yan asked Ye Lingling what Han Yu had wanted with her, and Ye Lingling rebuked her teasing.

Ye Lingling told Dugu Yan about the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and her chance to attempt the Sea God's Nine Trials, while Han Yu sought a spar with Gu Rong to test his strength. The two began fighting in the Back Mountain Martial Arts Arena, with Gu Rong increasingly surprised by Han Yu's attacks.

• Ye Lingling showed Dugu Yan the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and explained that Han Yu hoped she could earn the Sea God's recognition.
• Dugu Yan encouraged Ye Lingling not to pressure herself, and Ye Lingling later felt the Shroud's glow strengthen slightly without activating.
• Han Yu decided he needed to test his strength and asked Gu Rong to spar with him.
• Gu Rong agreed to suppress his Soul Power to level seventy-five, and they went to the Martial Arts Arena.
• Han Yu attacked Gu Rong with his Dark Sacred Dragon Martial Soul, and Gu Rong's surprise grew as he received Han Yu's increasingly powerful strikes.

Han Yu tested his strength against Gu Rong, while Ling Yuan evolved her Martial Soul and advanced to level ninety-six, earning a place as the Worship Hall's Eighth Elder. After leaving Spirit City overnight, Ling Yuan arrived at Ling Tian Sect, where Han Yu recognized the approaching golden light as an ally.

• Han Yu fought Gu Rong using the Evil God Domain, teleportation, and his Dark Sacred Dragon power, impressing Gu Rong with his strength and battle instincts.
• Ling Yuan refined the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, evolved her Martial Soul into the Supreme Fire Phoenix, and rose from level ninety-four to level ninety-six.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo recognized Ling Yuan's qualification to enter the Worship Hall and named her its Eighth Elder.
• Ling Yuan left Spirit City overnight after thinking of Han Yu and packing several changes of clothes.
• At Ling Tian Sect, Gu Rong prepared to confront a streak of golden light, but Han Yu stopped him and said it was one of their own.

Ling Yuan arrived at the Ling Tian Sect as a level-ninety-six worshipper after evolving her martial soul, and she discussed her history with Han Yu and Spirit Hall’s attitude toward his sect. She left Han Yu with the news that Spirit Hall currently hoped to recruit the Ling Tian Sect rather than oppose it.

• Ling Yuan told Han Yu and Gu Rong that refining the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower had raised her to level ninety-six and evolved her martial soul into the Supreme Fire Phoenix, allowing her to enter the Worship Hall.
• Ling Yuan teased Han Yu about repaying him for the gift, then admired the Ling Tian Sect’s rapid growth and praised his accomplishments.
• Ling Yuan asked Han Yu whether he had planned to leave the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and he said Ning Rongrong’s affair had been the fuse, but he would have left anyway.
• Ling Yuan joked that Han Yu’s independence had helped attract her to him, and the two then went inside to discuss business.
• Ling Yuan explained that Spirit Hall wanted to recruit the Ling Tian Sect because of its strength and lack of conflict with Spirit Hall, and said Bibi Dong did not know about her deeper relationship with Han Yu.

Han Yu and Ling Yuan discussed keeping Ling Tian Sect out of conflict with Spirit Hall and searching for Han Yu’s missing parents. Ling Yuan later teased Han Yu by making Bai Chenxiang think he was unavailable, then urged him to consider having heirs.

• Han Yu and Ling Yuan agreed that Ling Tian Sect should avoid confronting Spirit Hall for now, and Ling Yuan offered to protect the sect’s standing in the Worship Hall.
• Ling Yuan told Han Yu she would use the Worship Hall’s intelligence network to search for his parents, Han Feng and Gu Yu.
• Ling Yuan kissed Han Yu and led him toward the rear palace, but Bai Chenxiang knocked to ask whether he would review the account summary.
• Ling Yuan deliberately stopped Han Yu from answering Bai Chenxiang, who eventually left believing he was not in the hall.
• Later, Ling Yuan teased Han Yu about Bai Chenxiang liking him and said that he and Gu Rong were anxious for Han Yu to have heirs.

Ling Yuan returned to the Worship Hall after promising Han Yu she would discreetly search for his parents, while Han Yu gave her a token granting free entry to the Ling Tian Sect. Gu Rong revealed that his cultivation breakthrough was near, leaving Han Yu with greater confidence in the sect’s ability to face Spirit Hall.

• Ling Yuan told Han Yu she would return to the Worship Hall and arrange a discreet search for his parents, and Han Yu said he only wanted to learn whether they were alive and where they had gone.
• Before dawn, Han Yu gave Ling Yuan a Ling Tian Sect token so she could visit without reporting her arrival, and she left in a flash of golden light.
• Han Yu reviewed the account book Bai Chenxiang had organized and told her to bring such matters to him during the day.
• In the Back Mountain courtyard, Gu Rong discussed Spirit Hall’s likely future hostility and said he could handle several of its Titled Douluo.
• Gu Rong revealed that Ling Yuan’s rank ninety-six aura had loosened his bottleneck, and he expected to approach rank ninety-eight within half a year.

Han Yu discussed possible candidates for the Sea God’s divine position with Gu Rong, while Han Feng and Gu Yu worked to earn the Sun Moon Empire’s trust and learned of its proposed cross-sea expedition. Han Feng accepted a Level 4 Soul Cannon blueprint as they continued their covert effort to bring Soul Tool technology back to Douluo Continent.

• Han Yu told Gu Rong that Ye Lingling had not yet activated the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and considered Dugu Yan and other candidates for the Sea God trials.
• Han Yu promised Gu Rong they would find her parents, and Gu Rong reflected on how much she had changed since arriving at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Han Feng told Gu Yu he had failed for the thirty-seventh time to complete a Level 4 Energy Gathering Circuit, and they agreed to earn the institute’s trust before seeking core blueprints.
• Gu Yu told Han Feng that Kong Zhao had invited them to guide the Sun Moon Empire’s proposed cross-sea expedition, and Han Feng advised accepting without appearing eager.
• Yu Lingfeng gave Han Feng and Gu Yu three months to build his improved Level 4 Soul Cannon and warned them never to take the Empire’s technology back to Douluo Continent.

Han Feng and Gu Yu completed a Level 4 Soul Cannon and received Level 5 blueprints from Yu Lingfeng, while secretly planning to reach his hidden archive and return to the Douluo Continent. Meanwhile, Ling Tian Sect’s construction, alchemy, and intelligence work progressed.

• Han Feng and Gu Yu agreed to obtain Soul Tool blueprints as quickly as possible and planned to return home within two years.
• Han Feng told Gu Yu about the secret chamber in Yu Lingfeng’s workshop and proposed waiting for a safe chance to enter it.
• After forty-seven days of work, Han Feng completed the Level 4 Soul Cannon, and Yu Lingfeng gave them three introductory sets of Level 5 blueprints.
• Han Feng revealed that he had located the secret chamber and studied the sequence of its Soul Power Restrictions, but said they would wait until Yu Lingfeng trusted them enough to provide access.
• At Ling Tian Sect, Niu Gao’s fortifications advanced, Yang Wudi’s Alchemy Room opened, and Bai He began building the Intelligence Network at Han Yu’s direction.

Two years after Han Feng and Gu Yu arrived on the Sun Moon Continent, the Sun Moon Empire’s expeditionary fleet sailed toward Douluo Continent with them as guides. Before the chapter ended, Kong Zhao explained that the Empire preferred diplomacy but sought a foothold there, and assured Han Feng that the Emperor had considered his and Gu Yu’s ties to their homeland.

• Ye Lingling told Han Yu that the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud was glowing brighter and guiding her Soul Power, and Han Yu advised her to keep trying while trusting her with the artifact.
• Gu Rong told Han Yu there was no rush to visit Sea God Island and advised him to reach level eighty first.
• Two years later, Han Feng and Gu Yu guided the Sun Moon Empire’s expeditionary fleet toward Douluo Continent, expected to reach its coast in seven days.
• Yu Lingfeng gave Han Feng and Gu Yu his complete Level 7 Fixed Soul Cannon blueprint and urged them to use Soul Tools to protect rather than kill.
• Kong Zhao explained that the expedition officially sought exploration and trade but aimed to establish an imperial foothold, and he assured Han Feng that the Emperor had considered his and Gu Yu’s family and sect ties.