Chapter Summaries

Qian Renxue forced Ning Fengzhi to choose which members of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would die, then destroyed the martial souls, soul power, meridians, and vitality of his last three surviving relatives. The chapter left the three crippled and aging children writhing in agony on the summit.

• Qian Renxue stopped Ning Fengzhi from killing himself and threatened to kill the entire sect if he died.
• Ning Fengzhi chose thirteen clansmen, including his daughter and granddaughter, to die so that thirteen direct relatives could survive.
• Over the next two days, Qian Renxue’s forced selections reduced the survivors from thirteen to three.
• Qian Renxue dissolved the final three relatives’ martial souls and soul power, ruined their meridians, and rapidly aged their bodies.
• The three children collapsed, screaming and convulsing from the torture.

Qian Renxue destroyed the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and left Ning Fengzhi and his surviving descendants to suffer. As news of the massacre spread, fear gripped the Heaven Dou Empire, which she named as her next destination.

• Qian Renxue condemned Ning Fengzhi's three grandchildren to three days of agony, destroyed his martial soul and soul power, and left him with at most three months to live.
• Ning Fengzhi bound the children to stone pillars and muffled their screams, then discovered that Qian Renxue and her companions had departed.
• Qian Renxue explained to Qian Renyou that she had chosen to leave Ning Fengzhi alive as punishment, and told Gu Yuena that Tang San and his companions would suffer before she killed them.
• Qian Renxue declared that she and her companions would go to Heaven Dou City next.
• Survivors spread news that Qian Renxue had massacred the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and fear and turmoil seized the Heaven Dou court.

Xue Beng panicked over Qian Renxue’s return, but Prince Xue Xing convinced him that Heaven Dou could defeat her and proposed using a hunting ceremony as bait. At the ceremony, Xue Beng waited tensely for Qian Renxue to enter their trap.

• Xue Beng feared Qian Renxue after hearing that she had destroyed the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while Prince Xue Xing reassured him that Heaven Dou’s forces could withstand her.
• Prince Xue Xing suggested luring Qian Renxue into a trap by appealing to Xue Beng’s desire to possess her, and Xue Beng grew eager at the prospect.
• Heaven Dou’s army spent seven days driving powerful soul beasts into a sealed valley in the imperial Soul Hunting Forest.
• Xue Beng led officials and guards to the forest for a grand hunting ceremony, and Prince Xue Xing assured him that Qian Renxue would come.

Xue Beng and Xue Xing began their trap for Qian Renxue under cover of a royal hunt, unaware that Qian Renxue and Qian Renyou already knew about the ambush. Qian Renxue and Qian Renyou entered the forest and began cutting through the attackers, while Chen Qingxuan and Gu Yuena watched from above.

• Xue Xing told Xue Beng that three Titled Douluo, thirteen Soul Douluo, and two hundred thousand soldiers were concealed in the Soul Hunting Forest to kill Qian Renxue.
• Xue Beng promised Xue Xing a hereditary princely title if the plan succeeded, then Xue Xing announced the hunting competition and offered a Thousand-Year Soul Bone to its winner.
• Qian Renyou and Qian Renxue discussed the imperial family's trap with Chen Qingxuan, who stayed in the tree with Gu Yuena while the two women went to meet Xue Beng.
• Qian Renxue cut down concealed attackers and killed a Steel Mantis Soul Saint with a single sword strike.
• Hundreds of soldiers and Soul Masters ambushed Qian Renxue and Qian Renyou with arrows, but Qian Renxue reversed the barrage and killed many of the attackers.

Qian Renxue and Qian Renyou cut through Xue Beng’s forces before Xue Beng sprang his ambush and surrounded them with a massive army. Qian Renyou activated a formation that sealed the battlefield, and Qian Renxue recognized Dugu Bo and Meng Shenji among the enemy ranks.

• Qian Renxue and Qian Renyou slaughtered thousands of Heaven Dou troops as they advanced toward Xue Beng’s Imperial Carriage.
• Xue Beng ordered three elders to attack, while Prince Xue Xing fired a signal arrow to summon more troops.
• Xue Beng taunted Qian Renxue and demanded that she surrender, then eyed Qian Renyou with greed.
• Qian Renyou activated hundreds of hidden Formation Flags, raising a barrier that sealed the battlefield.
• Qian Renxue greeted Dugu Bo and Meng Shenji, and Meng Shenji warned that no one could save her from the trap.

Qian Renxue fought through Heaven Dou’s encirclement, secretly replenishing her power from the lives she took while Xue Beng mistook her endurance for weakness. When he sent hundreds of high-ranking Soul Masters to overwhelm her, she charged into their attacks and began cutting them down.

• Dugu Bo and two other Titled Douluos attacked Qian Renxue, but she evaded them and killed more than a thousand soldiers and low-ranking Soul Masters with her sword energy.
• Qian Renyou stayed at the battlefield’s edge and killed anyone who approached her, while Xue Beng believed Qian Renxue would soon tire and be captured.
• After two hours, Qian Renxue had killed more than twenty thousand soldiers and over two thousand Soul Masters, and an invisible force absorbed energy from their corpses to replenish her.
• Xue Beng ordered the gathered Soul Douluos, Soul Saints, and other Soul Masters to join the attack, while Prince Xue Xing remained uneasy.
• Qian Renxue charged into the massed Soul Skills and fighters, dodging their attacks and killing high-ranking Soul Masters with precise sword strikes.

Qian Renxue annihilated Heaven Dou’s forces through the night, forcing Xue Beng and Xue Xing to flee toward Heaven Dou City. After absorbing a Titled Douluo’s power, she broke through her cultivation bottleneck and unleashed overwhelming angelic pressure.

• Qian Renxue kept the battle moving around Xue Beng’s carriage while the fighting continued through the night.
• A Soul Emperor reported that Heaven Dou had suffered more than 150,000 deaths, and Xue Beng saw that most of his powerful fighters had fallen.
• Xue Xing told Xue Beng to retreat and wait for Tang San, so Xue Beng escaped toward Heaven Dou City with his guards.
• Qian Renyou watched Xue Beng flee as Qian Renxue destroyed a mental-type Titled Douluo and absorbed his power.
• Qian Renxue broke through her cultivation bottleneck, blasted nearby survivors away, and forced those within three hundred yards to their knees.

Qian Renxue revealed that she had feigned weakness to lure the enemy army into a trap, then broke through to Level 98 and displayed her divine-level power. She wiped out the surviving forces and left Dugu Bo and Meng Shenji as the only ones standing, with Dugu Bo badly weakened after his attack failed.

• Qian Renxue absorbed the battlefield’s vital essence and advanced to Level 98 Super Titled Douluo.
• Dugu Bo and Meng Shenji learned that Qian Renxue had acted weak to draw their entire army into a single battle.
• Qian Renxue revealed her eight-winged angel martial soul and six red and three golden soul rings.
• Qian Renxue used Angel’s Sigh to destroy every surviving soldier and Soul Master below Titled Douluo rank, leaving only Dugu Bo and Meng Shenji.
• Dugu Bo attacked Qian Renxue with Medusa’s Gaze, but her barrier stopped it and the backlash left him unable to fight.

Qian Renxue crippled Dugu Bo but gave him three days to save Dugu Yan with his skull bone, then recruited Meng Shenji and set out with Qian Renyou to find Xue Beng. Trapped behind an impenetrable barrier, Xue Beng and his guards exhausted themselves trying to escape, leaving the emperor overwhelmed by despair.

• Qian Renxue told Dugu Bo that Dugu Yan’s poison would kill her and offered to spare her if he sacrificed himself.
• Qian Renxue purged most of the poison from Dugu Bo’s skull bone, destroyed his martial soul, stripped away his cultivation, and gave him three days to reach Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo thanked Qian Renxue and staggered away to save his granddaughter.
• Qian Renxue offered Meng Shenji a chance to live, and he swore loyalty to her.
• Qian Renyou said she knew where Xue Beng was hiding and led Qian Renxue and Meng Shenji toward him.
• Xue Beng and his guards repeatedly attacked the barrier blocking their escape, but it absorbed every strike, and Xue Beng realized they were trapped.

Xue Beng and his followers failed to escape the barrier by digging underground, and Meng Shenji revealed his betrayal by slaughtering the guards and capturing Xue Beng. Qian Renxue ordered Xue Beng taken to Heaven Dou City, while Qian Renyou recalled the Formation Flags and dismantled the barrier.

• Xue Xing urged Xue Beng and the guards to dig beneath the barrier, but they discovered it extended underground without end.
• Qian Renyou, Qian Renxue, and Meng Shenji arrived and mocked the trapped Heaven Dou forces.
• Xue Beng confronted Meng Shenji, who declared his loyalty to Qian Renxue and his intent to punish Xue Beng for usurping the throne.
• Meng Shenji used his Eighth Soul Skill-Phantom Shadows to kill Xue Xing and the remaining guards, leaving Xue Beng as the sole survivor.
• Meng Shenji captured Xue Beng and brought him before Qian Renxue, who ordered him taken to Heaven Dou City.
• Qian Renyou recalled the Formation Flags, causing the barrier to fade, and the three proceeded toward Heaven Dou City.

Dugu Bo struggled toward Heaven Dou City while Meng Shenji’s forces purged the capital, killing more than three hundred thousand people. In the palace, Qian Renxue rejected Xue Ke’s plea for mercy, and Qian Renyou ordered a blade given to the fallen Xue Beng.

• Dugu Bo forced his failing body onward toward Heaven Dou City to reach his granddaughter Yan Yan.
• Meng Shenji and the twenty thousand remaining defenders carried out a three-day purge of Heaven Dou City, killing over three hundred thousand people.
• Qian Renxue and Qian Renyou confronted the captive Xue Beng and the kneeling members of his family in the imperial palace.
• Xue Ke addressed Qian Renxue as “Imperial Brother” and pleaded for her life by invoking their past closeness.
• Qian Renxue said Xue Ke was innocent but refused to spare her, while Qian Renyou snapped Xue Beng’s chains and ordered a blade brought to him.

Qian Renyou forced Xue Beng to slaughter the Heaven Dou Imperial Family, then made Xue Ke kill him in exchange for her life. Qian Renxue accepted the outcome and ordered Meng Shenji to protect Xue Ke and let her live peacefully.

• Qian Renyou ordered Xue Beng to kill his relatives, promising to spare Xue Ke, while Meng Shenji's guards restrained the fleeing imperial family.
• Xue Beng killed Consort Shu and the other members of the Heaven Dou Imperial Family, leaving only Xue Ke alive.
• Xue Beng tried to kill himself, but Qian Renyou broke his saber and ordered Xue Ke to kill him instead.
• Xue Beng urged Xue Ke to live peacefully, then guided her hand so the saber pierced his heart; he died after telling her not to seek revenge.
• Qian Renxue accepted the outcome, and Meng Shenji agreed to protect Xue Ke and ensure she was not mistreated.

Dugu Bo reached the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect's territory in a dying state and used his family's distress signal to summon Dugu Yan. She found him and, after asking where her grandfather was, learned that the ravaged old man before her was Dugu Bo himself.

• Dugu Bo staggered to a deserted road near the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect and fired his family's emergency signal arrow.
• Dugu Yan spotted the Jade Phosphorous Serpent signal from the sect and rushed to its source.
• Dugu Yan found a poison-shrouded old man whose Jade Phosphorous Serpent poison matched her family's martial soul.
• Dugu Yan tried to revive the old man with her soul power but discovered his body was destroyed and his life nearly over.
• Dugu Bo awakened, recognized Dugu Yan, and told her that he was her grandfather.

Dugu Yan discovered that her grandfather, Dugu Bo, was dying and heard his final warning to absorb his Medusa Skull soul bone to survive. After Dugu Bo died, Qian Renyou, Qian Renxue, Gu Yuena, and Chen Qingxuan watched from concealment and realized Yu Tianheng was lying in wait to take the soul bone.

• Dugu Bo told Dugu Yan to absorb his Medusa Skull soul bone and transfer her accumulated venom into it, then urged her not to seek revenge.
• Dugu Bo died on the mountain path, and Dugu Yan clung to his body and wept.
• Qian Renyou teased Qian Renxue for sparing Dugu Yan, while Chen Qingxuan spotted Yu Tianheng hiding nearby.
• Qian Renxue recognized Yu Tianheng, and Chen Qingxuan explained that Dugu Bo's valuable soul bone could tempt even loved ones to betray one another.
• Gu Yuena said Yu Tianheng was waiting for Dugu Yan to remove the soul bone and for the lingering venom to dissipate before taking it.

After Dugu Bo died, Dugu Yan buried him and began fusing with his Medusa Skull Soul Bone, breaking through to level seventy-nine. Yu Tianheng ambushed her and stole the bone, leaving her poisoned and dying as he revealed his scheme to use it to restore the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect.

• Dugu Yan buried Dugu Bo in an unmarked grave and vowed to honor his final wishes.
• Dugu Yan began fusing with the Seventy-Thousand-Year Medusa Skull Soul Bone and broke through to level seventy-nine.
• Yu Tianheng interrupted the fusion and forcibly ripped the Soul Bone from Dugu Yan, triggering a deadly poison backlash.
• Yu Tianheng admitted he had planned to let Dugu Yan absorb the poison before stealing the Soul Bone for himself.
• Dugu Yan confronted Yu Tianheng about her sacrifices and learned that he had once loved her but now prioritized becoming a Titled Douluo and reviving his sect.
• As Dugu Yan lay dying, Yu Tianheng promised to care for their child and keep their bloodline alive.

Qian Renxue saved Dugu Yan from death, killed Yu Tianheng, and reclaimed his soul bone. Dugu Yan followed Qian Renxue toward the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect to protect her son, then learned Qian Renxue had crippled her grandfather Dugu Bo.

• Qian Renxue returned the Medusa Skull soul bone to the dying Dugu Yan, who began absorbing it.
• Qian Renxue killed Yu Tianheng with one strike and extracted the thirty-thousand-year soul bone from his right arm.
• Dugu Yan fully recovered after absorbing the Medusa Skull soul bone and followed Qian Renxue toward the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect to protect her son, Yu Shilei.
• Dugu Yan caught up with Qian Renxue, thanked her for saving her, and heard that Qian Renxue had crippled Dugu Bo's martial soul and dispersed his soul power.