Chapter Summaries

Tang Zhen sacrificed himself to wound Daming and Erming, but Qian Xunji returned and took the Clear Sky Sect's inheritance Spirit Bones. He blamed Tang Hao for his father's death, then ordered the Soul Beasts to withdraw, leaving Daming furious over Aunt Rou's death.

• After Qian Xunji departed, Daming and Erming resumed their attack, and Tang Zhen charged them and detonated himself to protect Tang Hao, Tang Xiao, and the others.
• Tang Zhen's explosion badly wounded Daming and Erming and killed many Soul Beasts, while his inheritance Spirit Bones remained among the ruins.
• Qian Xunji reappeared and took Tang Zhen's Spirit Bones before Tang Hao could reach them.
• Qian Xunji told Tang Hao that his greed had caused Tang Zhen's death, leaving Tang Hao speechless with grief and guilt.
• Qian Xunji declared the deaths of Tang Zhen and Aunt Rou an equal exchange and ordered the Soul Beasts to withdraw.
• Daming rejected Qian Xunji's settlement because he wanted Aunt Rou brought back to life, and Qian Xunji warned him against starting another Beast Tide.

Qian Xunji forced Tang Xiao to make the Clear Sky Sect accept responsibility for Soul Hunting Town’s destruction and the coming conflict with the Star Dou Great Forest’s Soul Beasts. The beasts withdrew after declaring the sect their enemy, while Qian Xunji took Ah Rou’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bone and left Tang Hao to face the consequences of his scheme.

• Qian Xunji blamed the Clear Sky Sect for the destruction of Soul Hunting Town and warned that it would bear responsibility for future Soul Master casualties in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Tang Xiao accepted responsibility for rebuilding the town and compensating its victims to prevent Spirit Hall from attacking the weakened sect.
• Daming declared the Star Dou Great Forest and the Clear Sky Sect enemies to the death, then left with Erming as the Soul Beasts retreated.
• Qian Xunji took Ah Rou’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Right Arm Bone, dismissed Tang Hao’s protest, and departed with Yue Guan and Gui Mei.
• The Four Affiliated Clans’ chiefs regarded Tang Hao with suspicion, and Tang Xiao told him to absorb the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.

Tang Hao absorbed the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, reaching Level 92 as his Clear Sky Hammer mutated into a black, evil Martial Soul. He revealed his two new ninth Soul Skills to Tang Xiao, who had confirmed that Tang Hao was unharmed.

• Tang Hao endured the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring's violent energy by drawing on his grief, humiliation, and hatred, causing his Clear Sky Hammer to turn pitch black.
• Tang Xiao watched helplessly as Tang Hao completed the absorption after three hours, releasing Titled Douluo pressure and awakening at Level 92.
• Tang Hao discovered that his mutated hammer could absorb the souls of creatures it killed, while Tang Xiao found his meridians and Soul Power reserves were healthy.
• Tang Hao told Tang Xiao that his first ninth Soul Skill, [Resentment of the Pink Rabbit], greatly increased his hammerhead's hardness and density.
• Tang Hao explained that his second ninth Soul Skill, [Charm Rabbit Gaze Lock], charmed nearby enemies into believing they must take his attack head-on.

After Tang Zhen sacrificed himself, Tang Hao embraced his new power and returned to the Clear Sky Sect with Tang Xiao and the four clan patriarchs. Qian Xunji publicized a distorted account blaming the Clear Sky Sect for the Beast Tide and demanded compensation, leaving the sect facing widespread outrage and Spirit Hall's scrutiny.

• Tang Hao accepted his fall from the Clear Sky Sect's orthodox path, then he and Tang Xiao mourned Tang Zhen at the crater where he had died.
• Tang Xiao led Tang Hao and the four affiliated clan patriarchs back to the Clear Sky Sect, taking responsibility as its new sect master.
• Qian Xunji ordered Yue Guan to publish a report blaming Tang Hao and the Clear Sky Sect for the Beast Tide and demanded that the sect pay for Soul Hunting Town's losses within a month.
• Qian Xunji sent Gui Mei to watch the Clear Sky Sect and prevent it from relocating before paying its debts.
• Spirit Hall's newspaper portrayed the Clear Sky Sect as responsible for the destruction of Soul Hunting Town and the Beast Tide, provoking furious condemnation across the continent.

Ning Fengzhi exploited the backlash against the Clear Sky Sect to recruit Soul Masters and spread a fabricated rumor accusing Tang Hao of killing his wife for her Spirit Ring. Yu Yuanzhen recognized the rumor’s source but welcomed the distraction that kept the secret of Yu Xiaogang’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Bone hidden.

• Soul Masters across the continent condemned the Clear Sky Sect, whose affiliated members fled and hid their identities.
• Ning Fengzhi ordered Uncle Lin to publish attacks on Tang Hao and falsely claim that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was aiding Soul Hunting Town and welcoming new members.
• Ning Fengzhi told Uncle Lin to spread a rumor that Tang Hao had loved a transformed Man Faced Demon Spider Emperor, fathered a child with her, and killed her for her Spirit Ring.
• Yu Yuanzhen recognized Ning Fengzhi’s rumor as a cover-up involving Yu Xiaogang, but noted that the uproar concealed the secret of Yu Xiaogang absorbing a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Bone.
• Yu Yuanzhen prepared to have the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan respond publicly alongside the Spirit Hall and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

The Clear Sky Sect faced public hatred and financial ruin after Spirit Hall demanded compensation for the Beast Tide, while Tang Xiao struggled to control the sect’s elders. He brought Tang Hao a newspaper exposing the accusations spreading about him, including claims about his wife and child.

• Yu Yuanzhen ordered the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to condemn the Clear Sky Sect and offer shelter to people abandoned by it.
• People across the continent attacked Clear Sky Sect members and looted businesses bearing its insignia, while false claims drove Spirit Hall’s compensation bill higher.
• Tang Xiao paid the claims until the Clear Sky Sect’s inner treasury was empty and its remaining supplies could last only three months.
• The Seventh Elder and other elders confronted Tang Xiao over their persecution, poverty, and Tang Hao’s role in the crisis.
• Tang Xiao promised to resolve the sect’s troubles within half a month, then visited Tang Hao and showed him a newspaper accusing him of trying to kill his wife for her ring.

Tang Hao announced that he would split from the Clear Sky Sect and lead a hidden branch that would use violence and plunder to restore the sect’s wealth. Tang San realized that his father had killed Xiao Wu’s mother, leaving him powerless and bound to a blood feud with Xiao Wu as the departing branch set out.

• After reading the accusations against him, Tang Hao told Tang Xiao he would take willing disciples down the mountain to seize wealth and resources for the sect.
• Tang Hao proposed that Tang Xiao publicly expel him while he led a separate branch underground, attacking enemies and secretly sending its spoils back to the Clear Sky Sect.
• While tending to newborn Tang San, Tang Hao focused on his power and future revenge as Tang San pieced together that Tang Hao had killed Ah Rou, Xiao Wu’s mother, and taken her Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• A week later, Tang Hao left the Clear Sky Sect with Tang San and a quarter of its clansmen, and Tang Xiao let them go.

Tang Hao established the blood-soaked Meteor Heaven Sect to reclaim compensation from people who had profited from Spirit Hall's claims, while the Clear Sky Sect denied responsibility for the resulting murders. Dugu Bo joined the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect after suppressing his poison and breaking through to Level 90, and Ning Fengzhi promised to help him obtain his ninth Spirit Ring.

• Tang Hao founded the Meteor Heaven Sect in the Star Luo Empire and ordered it to plunder those who had taken the Clear Sky Sect's compensation.
• Tang Hao and Meteor Heaven Sect disciples killed and robbed the compensation recipients, sending their wealth back to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Xiao denied the Clear Sky Sect's involvement and dismissed Tang Hao's actions as unrelated, while using the stolen wealth to replenish the sect's supplies.
• Dugu Bo knelt before Ning Fengzhi, thanked him for his help, and pledged himself to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect after breaking through to Level 90.
• Ning Fengzhi welcomed Dugu Bo as an honored elder and promised to accompany Sword Douluo on a hunt for his ninth Spirit Ring.

Ning Fengzhi led Sword Douluo, Dugu Bo, and Bibi Dong toward the Star Dou Great Forest to find Dugu Bo’s ninth Spirit Ring, while Bibi Dong worried that Dugu Bo’s allegiance had disrupted her plans. At Spirit Hall, Yue Guan revealed that Tang Hao’s Meteor Heaven Sect was murdering people who had received compensation from the Clear Sky Sect, and Qian Xunji recognized the scheme as the Clear Sky Sect’s work.

• Ning Fengzhi brought Bibi Dong along on the Spirit Ring hunt because he distrusted her and wanted to demonstrate the sect’s strength.
• Ning Fengzhi chose the Star Dou Great Forest, explaining that the recent Beast Tide would expose rare Soul Beasts, and Sword Douluo and Dugu Bo agreed to proceed.
• Bibi Dong followed the group toward the forest while privately worrying that Dugu Bo’s loyalty to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect threatened her plans.
• Yue Guan reported to Qian Xunji that a captured killer had confessed to massacres committed by the Meteor Heaven Sect against people who had received compensation from Spirit Hall.
• Yue Guan explained that the Meteor Heaven Sect was Tang Hao’s breakaway group, using murder and robbery to replenish the Clear Sky Sect’s depleted coffers.
• Qian Xunji laughed at the Clear Sky Sect’s attempt to hide its responsibility behind a new name.

Qian Xunji tracked Tang Hao to the Meteor Heaven Sect and confronted him over his banditry, while Tang Hao defended his actions and challenged the Pope to fight. Qian Xunji drew the Original Sin Demon Sword and taunted Tang Hao about the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring as their confrontation began.

• Qian Xunji left the city, tracked Tang Hao's savage aura to the Meteor Heaven Sect, and entered its Main Hall unnoticed.
• Qian Xunji confronted Tang Hao over the sect's raids and killings, while Tang Hao claimed he was reclaiming wealth taken from the Clear Sky Sect.
• Qian Xunji blamed Tang Hao for the Beast Tide and its destruction, and Tang Hao admitted the deaths no longer mattered to him.
• Tang Hao summoned his mutated Clear Sky Hammer and nine Spirit Rings, then challenged Qian Xunji to fight.
• Qian Xunji drew the Original Sin Demon Sword and mocked Tang Hao for displaying the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring gained through his father's sacrifice.

Tang Hao challenged Qian Xunji in the mountains and unleashed his strongest attack, but Qian Xunji defeated him with a single counterstrike. As Tang Hao lay wounded, Qian Xunji discovered that the mutated Clear Sky Hammer held the souls of people Tang Hao had killed.

• Tang Hao drew Qian Xunji into the mountains to fight on ground that favored his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang Hao detonated two Spirit Rings and attacked with his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Skill, but Qian Xunji resisted its mental control and pinned him to the ground with [Judgment of Pride].
• Qian Xunji used [Rebellious Retribution] to turn Tang Hao's attack against him, shattering the Clear Sky Hammer and injuring Tang Hao.
• Tang Hao fell to his knees, bloodied and shaken by the gulf between their strength, while Qian Xunji chose to spare him for his plans against Ning Fengzhi and the rival powers.
• Qian Xunji noticed more than a dozen enslaved human souls among the remnants of Tang Hao's hammer.

Qian Xunji crushed Tang Hao, renamed his sect the Holy Spirit Cult, and returned to Spirit City, where he learned Dugu Bo had joined the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Tang San witnessed his father’s defeat and wondered how Qian Xunji had become so powerful.

• Qian Xunji warned Tang Hao not to harm innocents or threaten his infant son, then kicked him through the Main Hall doors and left him badly injured.
• Qian Xunji renamed Meteor Heaven Sect the Holy Spirit Cult before tearing open space and returning to Pope Hall.
• Yue Guan reported that Dugu Bo had become a Titled Douluo and joined the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bibi Dong were taking him to the Star Dou Great Forest for a ninth Spirit Ring.
• Qian Xunji dismissed Dugu Bo’s recruitment as no threat and considered how it had disrupted Bibi Dong’s plans against the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• After Qian Xunji left, Tang Hao ordered his disciples to rename the sect the Holy Spirit Cult and silently marked those who had abandoned him for punishment.
• Tang San heard the battle from his cradle and was shocked that Qian Xunji had defeated his father so easily.

Tang San realized that Qian Xunji was an unknown variable behind the changes to this life. In the Star Dou Great Forest, Ning Fengzhi’s group found a seventy-thousand-year Nether Sky Poison Python for Dugu Bo’s ninth Spirit Ring, and Bibi Dong and Sword Douluo attacked it.

• Tang San concluded that Qian Xunji’s unusual strength and the altered events of this life could not be explained by his own rebirth.
• Ning Fengzhi led Bibi Dong, Sword Douluo, and Dugu Bo through the unsettled Star Dou Great Forest while keeping Bibi Dong under watch.
• Dugu Bo detected potent poisonous miasma and led the group to a vast bog filled with the shed scales of a powerful serpent.
• Sword Douluo’s strike drove a Nether Sky Poison Python from the bog, and Ning Fengzhi identified it as a seventy-thousand-year beast with awakened dragon blood.
• Ning Fengzhi boosted Sword Douluo and Bibi Dong, who joined forces to attack the python while Dugu Bo prepared to claim it as his ninth Spirit Ring.

Ning Fengzhi and his companions captured a wounded Nether Sky Poison Python, but its distress call brought the Sky Azure Bull Python after them. As they fled, Ning Fengzhi tried to redirect the beast’s fury toward Tang Hao by blaming him for the hunt and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s losses.

• The Nether Sky Poison Python hissed for help, and Daming answered from the Star Dou Great Forest’s Core Area with a furious roar.
• Chen Xin, Dugu Bo, and Bibi Dong used their Martial Soul Avatars to subdue the nearly dead python, then fled with it alongside Ning Fengzhi.
• Daming reached the swamp, saw the wounded python being carried away, and pursued the four humans.
• Ning Fengzhi realized they could not escape Daming and sent him a message blaming Tang Hao for killing his companion and attacking the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Ning Fengzhi and his allies surrendered the Nether Sky Poison Python to Sky Azure Bull Python to avoid a fight, then Ning accused Tang Hao of murdering his Soul Beast wife for her Soul Ring and Spirit Bone. Daming listened in disbelief as Ning claimed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had caught Tang Hao in the act.

• Daming used its Slow Domain to halt Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, Dugu Bo, and Bibi Dong, then demanded that they return the Nether Sky Poison Python and answer for Tang Hao.
• Ning Fengzhi chose to avoid fighting a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and signaled Dugu Bo and Chen Xin to release the Nether Sky Poison Python.
• The wounded Nether Sky Poison Python recovered enough to crawl behind Daming, easing the Sky Azure Bull Python's killing intent and domain pressure.
• Ning Fengzhi told Daming that Tang Hao's wife had been a Hundred-Thousand-Year Man Faced Demon Spider Emperor in human form.
• Ning claimed Tang Hao discovered his wife's identity near Level 90 and tried to kill her for her Soul Ring and Spirit Bone, but Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect members interrupted him.

Ning Fengzhi persuaded Daming that Tang Hao was a treacherous enemy and received an azure scale that could summon Daming if Tang Hao entered the Star Dou Great Forest. Daming then punished Ning Fengzhi’s group for hunting Soul Beasts, and Ning Fengzhi revealed he still intended to pursue their target once Daming was absent.

• Ning Fengzhi blamed Tang Hao for his wife’s death and for seeking a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, stirring Daming’s anger.
• Ning Fengzhi offered to share information about Tang Hao in exchange for Daming killing him, and Daming gave Ning Fengzhi an azure scale for summoning it.
• Daming struck Ning Fengzhi’s group with its tail, but Chen Xin blocked the blow with his Seven Kill Sword and was injured.
• Daming spared the group because they might help kill Tang Hao, then warned them never to enter the Core Area again.
• Ning Fengzhi healed Chen Xin and said they would not leave, suggesting they could act when Daming was away.

Ning Fengzhi returned to Soul Hunting Town, used disaster relief to recruit unaffiliated Soul Masters, and later set out with his companions to hunt the Nether Sky Poison Python. In Spirit City, Qian Renhan asked Qian Xunji for permission to gain experience in the Heaven Dou Empire, recalling Qian Renxue’s failed infiltration there.

• Ning Fengzhi persuaded Dugu Bo and the others to retreat, recover, and return to the Star Dou Great Forest to capture the Nether Sky Poison Python.
• Ning Fengzhi arranged free supplies and reconstruction support in Soul Hunting Town, drawing praise and recruitment interest while Bibi Dong watched with disgust.
• After a week of recovery, Ning Fengzhi and his three companions left the town at night and re-entered the forest to hunt the Nether Sky Poison Python.
• Qian Renhan, a nine-year-old Level 53 Soul King, asked Qian Xunji to let him leave Spirit City to gain experience.
• Qian Renhan named the Heaven Dou Empire as his destination, prompting Qian Xunji to remember Qian Renxue’s failed years-long infiltration there.

Qian Renhan asked Qian Xunji to help him assassinate Emperor Xue Ye and impersonate him to seize the Heaven Dou Empire, explaining that he wanted revenge for his previous life and to confront Tang San on his own terms. Qian Xunji agreed to support the plan if Qian Renhan kept training, but sent him to get Snow Empress’s permission first.

• Qian Renhan proposed killing Emperor Xue Ye, using the Angel God Bone to disguise himself, and taking the Heaven Dou throne.
• Qian Xunji warned that Qian Renhan could safely grow stronger in Spirit City, but Qian Renhan explained his desire to avenge his previous defeat and act independently.
• Qian Xunji approved the plan on the condition that Qian Renhan’s cultivation did not fall behind.
• Qian Xunji learned Qian Renhan had not told Snow Empress and sent him to ask her for permission before he arranged support.

Qian Renhan secured permission to travel to the Heaven Dou Empire, where he planned to pursue his schemes with protection from three Titled Douluo and support from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. After Renhan departed, Qian Xunji went to notify Yu Yuanzhen and discovered him cradling his newborn daughter.

• Qian Renhan wore Snow Empress down until she agreed to let him train in the Heaven Dou Empire, provided three Titled Douluo secretly protected him and he kept up his cultivation.
• Qian Xunji assigned Porcupinefish Douluo, Snake Lance Douluo, and Lingyuan Douluo to accompany Qian Renhan, and promised that Yu Yuanzhen and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan would support him.
• Qian Renhan set out for the Heaven Dou Empire, confident in his powerful allies and his memories of his previous life.
• Qian Xunji traveled through a spatial rift to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's inner hall and found Yu Yuanzhen holding a baby.
• Yu Yuanzhen explained that the baby was his daughter, born after he had followed Qian Xunji's earlier advice and answered his call.

Yu Yuanzhen thanked Qian Xunji for inspiring him to have another child and named his newborn daughter Yu Xiaozhu. He then asked Qian Xunji to take her to Spirit City and personally arrange her training.

• Yu Yuanzhen explained that Qian Xunji's old advice had inspired him to have another child, and Qian Xunji declined to name the baby.
• Yu Yuanzhen named his daughter Yu Xiaozhu and explained that he hoped she would be resilient and upright like bamboo.
• Yu Yuanzhen told Qian Xunji that Yu Xiaogang had reached Spirit Emperor, gone out to gain experience, and formed the Golden Iron Triangle with Flender and Liu Erlong.
• Qian Xunji warned Yu Yuanzhen to protect Yu Xiaogang because the Ten Thousand Year Left Arm Bone he carried could attract danger; Yu Yuanzhen said he had sent two trusted clan members to guard him.
• Qian Xunji said Spirit Hall would soon make a move in the Heaven Dou Empire and would contact Yu Yuanzhen when his cooperation was needed.
• Yu Yuanzhen knelt before Qian Xunji and asked him to take Yu Xiaozhu to Spirit City and personally arrange her training.