Chapter Summaries

Xiao Tian and Xiao Wu teased each other after spending the night together, then freed Da Ming and Er Ming from Xiao Tian’s Sea of Consciousness. Zhu Zhuqing searched for Xiao Wu and, finding her dorm room empty, went alone to the mimicry training room.

• Xiao Wu complained that Xiao Tian had been too rough, then bit his forearm after he teased her about limping.
• Xiao Wu said she and Xiao Tian needed to visit Zhu Qing and make up for a missed day of cultivation.
• Xiao Wu worried that Da Ming and Er Ming had witnessed their private moments, and Xiao Tian explained that he had sealed his Sea of Consciousness.
• Xiao Tian released Da Ming and Er Ming, and Da Ming told him to take care of Xiao Wu before leaving with Er Ming to explore the city.
• Zhu Zhuqing found Xiao Wu’s dorm room empty, guessed that Xiao Wu had gone to see Xiao Tian, and headed to the mimicry training room alone.

Ning Rongrong returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and revealed that her Martial Soul had evolved into the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda. She gained her father’s approval to teach Xiao Tian the sect’s Distraction Control and Soul Fusion Ring methods, then asked what had made the sect leaders look so serious.

• Ning Rongrong arrived at the sect and confirmed that Xiao Tian and Dugu Bo had returned, though that was not the only reason for her excitement.
• Ning Rongrong revealed her Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda, and Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong excitedly checked its nine floors and her physical condition.
• Ning Rongrong told the three that her Soul Power had reached rank thirty-eight after receiving an Immortal Herb from Xiao Tian.
• Ning Rongrong asked permission to teach Xiao Tian Distraction Control and Soul Fusion Ring, and Ning Fengzhi agreed.
• Chen Xin explained the differences between Soul Fusion Ring and Soul Detonation Ring, while Ning Fengzhi offered to help Ning Rongrong prepare to teach the techniques.
• Ning Rongrong noticed the three had seemed serious when she entered and asked whether something had happened in the sect.

Ning Rongrong revealed that Xiao Tian had taught her to control her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, giving Ning Fengzhi a possible path to develop the sect's own offensive techniques. She left her father urging him to research Tower Control into a self-created Soul Skill while offering to study it herself if he could not.

• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong discussed whether to keep buying Hidden Weapons from Tang San, and Ning Rongrong argued that the sect should end the trade if Tang San tried to use it to force their allegiance.
• Ning Fengzhi explained that the sect's sample Godly Zhuge Crossbow had fallen apart during examination, leaving them dependent on Tang San for more weapons and worried about the sect's lack of attack-type talent.
• Ning Rongrong remembered that she had forgotten to show Xiao Tian her progress and demonstrated how she could control her Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda through the air.
• Chen Xin and Gu Rong recognized Tower Control as a possible offensive direction for the sect, and Ning Fengzhi praised Xiao Tian for teaching it to Rongrong.
• Ning Rongrong urged Ning Fengzhi to research a self-created Tower Control Soul Skill and said she might study one herself if her father could not.

Ning Fengzhi and the elders discussed Ning Rongrong’s feelings for Xiao Tian and the sect’s need for his support. Xiao Tian received the Wine God Curse and told Xiao Wu he wanted to establish a sect to spread Sword Cultivation, leaving her concerned about how difficult it would be.

• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong discussed Ning Rongrong’s feelings for Xiao Tian and whether they would support her pursuing him despite his relationship with Xiao Wu.
• Ning Rongrong blushed and fled to her room, disappointed that Xiao Tian already had Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Tian received the Wine God Curse, a powerful technique that could multiply his strength but severely damage his body and could be used at most nine times below God Level.
• Xiao Tian told Xiao Wu he wanted to establish a sect after the Soul Master Competition and spread his Sword Control Technique to reduce soul masters’ hunting of soul beasts.
• Xiao Wu questioned how Xiao Tian could establish Sword Cultivation as a new profession on a continent long dominated by soul masters.

Xiao Tian explained his theory that soul-ring remnants made precise soul-power control and self-created skills harder, and revealed his plan to build a new cultivation system centered on Sword Cultivation. He suspected that gods had established the rules of the lower realm and wondered whether they could condense their own God Rings.

• Xiao Wu demonstrated that she had learned basic sword control, while Rongrong could use Tower Control and Zhu Qing struggled to keep her Wooden Sword from breaking.
• Xiao Tian theorized that soul-ring remnants interfered with fine soul-power control and helped explain why powerful Soul Masters created so few satisfying Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Xiao Wu pointed out the contradiction between developing cultivation and creating skills, and Xiao Tian blamed the limitations of the existing cultivation system.
• Xiao Tian told Xiao Wu that he planned to create a Sword Cultivation system that broke through human limits without relying on soul rings, though he feared drawing trouble.
• Xiao Tian suspected gods had set the lower realm's rules and reasoned that they might condense God Rings themselves, reconsidering how God-given Soul Rings were made.

Xiao Tian and Xiao Wu discussed the hidden source of God-given Soul Rings and planned to establish the Shushan Sword Sect. At Blue Tyrant Academy, Tai Nuo confronted Tang San after Tang San defeated Tai Long in a sparring match.

• Xiao Tian reasoned that God-given Soul Rings came from divine power and worried that Soul Spirits could not end the conflict between Soul Masters and Soul Beasts.
• Xiao Wu pledged to support Xiao Tian, and the two discussed founding the Shushan Sword Sect, recruiting disciples and blacksmiths, and finding a mountain location.
• Xiao Tian left Xiao Wu with Zhu Zhuqing and went to look for Old Monster.
• Tai Nuo arrived at Blue Tyrant Academy with Tai Long and demanded to see Tang San over Tai Long's defeat.
• Oscar brought Tang San to meet Tai Nuo, who said he was curious how Tang San's Blue Silver Grass had beaten Tai Long's Great Strength Gorilla.

Tang San fought Tai Nuo, a Soul King, and revealed his Clear Sky Hammer to defeat him. After recovering with Oscar’s sausage, Tang San faced Tai Nuo’s urgent questions about his connection to the Clear Sky Sect.

• Tai Nuo summoned his Great Strength Gorilla martial soul and challenged Tang San, who used Blue Silver Grass, poison, and hidden weapons against him.
• Tai Nuo used his fourth soul skill to break free and attack, while Oscar warned the watching students to flee from Tang San’s poisoned weapons.
• Tang San decided to reveal his Clear Sky Hammer and struck Tai Nuo with it, leaving him badly injured and exhausting his own Soul Power.
• Flender caught Tang San, and Yu Xiaogang reassured him that the Clear Sky Hammer’s appearance was acceptable; Tang Long explained that Tai Nuo had insisted on confronting Tang San.
• Tai Nuo rushed to Tang San and demanded to know how he had the Clear Sky Hammer and what his relationship was to the Clear Sky Sect.

Xiao Tian secured Dugu Bo’s support as a guest elder for his plan to establish the Shushan Sword Sect, while learning that Tang San had gained the Strength Clan’s allegiance. The chapter left Xiao Tian considering how to recruit the clan’s skilled blacksmiths before Tang San could use them to build the Tang Sect.

• Liu Erlong confronted Tai Nuo, but Yu Xiaogang revealed that Tang San was Tang Hao’s son, prompting Tai Nuo to take Tai Long away and summon the clan leader.
• Dugu Bo explained that Dugu Yan had absorbed her Spirit Bone and was using an Immortal Herb after transferring her toxins into the Eight Spider Lances and forming an inner core.
• Xiao Tian told Dugu Bo that Xiao Wu and Zhu Qing had reached rank forty and proposed leaving for Sunset Forest the next day to obtain their spirit rings.
• Xiao Tian asked Dugu Bo to become a Guest Elder for the Shushan Sword Sect, and Dugu Bo agreed to support him as he began planning the sect’s foundation.
• Da Ming and Er Ming told Xiao Tian that Tai Tan had knelt before Tang San and acknowledged him as the Strength Clan’s young master.
• Xiao Tian realized Tang San could use the Strength Clan’s blacksmiths to mass-produce Hidden Weapons, and reaffirmed his plan to bring the three single-attribute clans under his command.

Xiao Tian explained why he had never intended to recruit the Strength Clan, then arranged to study how Xiao Wu condensed Spirit Rings on her own. By observing her Fourth Soul Ring, he discovered that its Soul Power circulation differed from ordinary cultivation and required a deep foundation.

• Xiao Tian told Da Ming and Er Ming that he planned to recruit the other three single-attribute clans, not the Strength Clan, and said the Blacksmith Association could replace it.
• Da Ming and Er Ming returned to Xiao Tian's Mental Space when Dugu Yan was about to wake, and Xiao Tian arranged to meet Dugu Bo at the academy gate the next morning.
• Xiao Tian asked Xiao Wu to condense her Fourth Soul Ring that night so he could study how she formed Spirit Rings without hunting soul beasts.
• Xiao Wu began slowly condensing her ring as Xiao Tian used Sword Insight to observe the gathering energy and the flow of her Soul Power.
• Xiao Tian discovered that condensing a Spirit Ring used a different Soul Power circulation route from cultivation and required a deep foundation of Soul Power.

Xiao Tian explained the conditions for Soul Masters to condense Spirit Rings on their own and identified pills that help absorb natural energy as a possible solution to their lack of Soul Power foundation. The next morning, he and Xiao Wu waited at the academy gate for Dugu Bo, where Ning Rongrong arrived with Gu Rong and learned Zhu Zhuqing was going with Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan to Sunset Forest.

• Xiao Wu condensed a seven-thousand-five-hundred-year Fourth Soul Ring and reached Soul Power level forty-four.
• Xiao Tian told Xiao Wu, Er Ming, Da Ming, and Ah Yin that precise Soul Power control, Mental Power, and sufficient Soul Power foundation were needed to condense Spirit Rings, and he proposed researching pills with Old Monster.
• Xiao Tian and Xiao Wu spent the night together after he returned Da Ming and the others to his Mental Space.
• Xiao Tian and Xiao Wu waited at the academy gate the next morning, and Zhu Zhuqing arrived and asked Xiao Wu why she had not returned to the dorm.
• Gu Rong used spatial transfer to bring Ning Rongrong and himself to the group, and Zhu Zhuqing explained she was accompanying Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan to Sunset Forest for a Spirit Ring.

Ning Fengzhi thanked Xiao Tian for helping Ning Rongrong evolve her martial soul and offered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s support, while Xiao Tian asked for help finding a mountain to establish the Shushan Sword Sect. After Xiao Tian left with Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan to hunt soul beasts, Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong discussed Dugu Bo’s changed strength and his close bond with Xiao Tian, while Qian Renxue decided to meet Ning Fengzhi to get introduced to Xiao Tian.

• Ning Rongrong said she would accompany Zhu Zhuqing to hunt soul beasts after reaching rank forty.
• Ning Fengzhi thanked Xiao Tian for Ning Rongrong’s Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda and offered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s help.
• Xiao Tian asked Ning Fengzhi to find a steep mountain for the Shushan Sword Sect and declined to provide more Immortal Herbs.
• Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan arrived, and Ning Fengzhi noticed their changed appearance before leaving his daughter in Dugu Bo’s care.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong discussed Dugu Bo’s improved strength and close friendship with Xiao Tian, then went to visit Emperor Xue Ye.
• Qian Renxue learned Ning Fengzhi had entered the palace and decided to meet him so she could be introduced to Xiao Tian.

Xiao Tian and his companions searched Sunset Forest for Fourth Soul Ring spirit beasts, then used the Aromatic Silk Beauty to lure a crowd to Dugu Bo’s poison formation. They found a suitable Man Faced Demon Spider and a younger-than-ideal Ghost Tiger, and Xiao Tian left Zhu Zhuqing to decide whether to take it.

• Dugu Bo asked whether Xiao Tian would return to the academy or travel to Gengxin City to establish his sect, and Xiao Tian explained his plans.
• Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Dugu Yan agreed to travel with Xiao Tian, and he promised they could all become Vice Sect Masters.
• The group searched Sunset Forest for three days without finding suitable Fourth Soul Ring spirit beasts, so Xiao Tian proposed using the Aromatic Silk Beauty to attract them.
• Dugu Bo gave the group antidote pills, and Xiao Tian placed the Aromatic Silk Beauty in the poison formation to lure spirit beasts.
• A five- or six-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider and a Ghost Tiger of just over four thousand years appeared, and Xiao Tian asked Zhu Zhuqing whether she wanted to take the tiger or keep waiting.

Xiao Tian’s group hunted spirit beasts while avoiding unnecessary deaths, securing a Man Faced Demon Spider for Dugu Yan and a six-thousand-year Ghost Tiger for Zhu Zhuqing. Dugu Yan completed her Fourth Soul Ring and reached level forty-eight, while Zhu Zhuqing began absorbing the Ghost Tiger’s ring.

• Zhu Zhuqing asked to wait for a stronger Ghost Tiger, and Xiao Tian reminded Dugu Bo to avoid killing other spirit beasts unnecessarily.
• Xiao Tian, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong crippled the Man Faced Demon Spider, and Dugu Yan killed it with her Eight Spider Lances before absorbing its remaining energy to strengthen them.
• Dugu Bo used the Medusa Skull to petrify nearby spirit beasts and control a ten-thousand-year Cave Demon Spider while the group waited for another Ghost Tiger.
• A six-thousand-year Ghost Tiger appeared, and Zhu Zhuqing used Dark Night Soul Chase to defeat it with Ning Rongrong’s boosts.
• Zhu Zhuqing began absorbing the Ghost Tiger’s Soul Ring, and Dugu Yan finished absorbing hers and discovered she had reached level forty-eight.

Dugu Yan revealed her poison-laden fourth soul skill, while Xiao Tian and his companions continued toward Gengxin City to recruit the Blacksmith Association. Xiao Tian told Dugu Bo about his plan to let Soul Masters condense their own Soul Rings, leaving Dugu Bo worried that success might provoke the maker of the world's rules.

• Dugu Yan explained that Bi Lin Poison Severing Slash doubled her attack power and speed and launched a tracking blade containing four toxins, prompting Dugu Bo to warn her to prepare Antidote Pills for her teammates.
• Xiao Tian and Dugu Bo concealed that Xiao Wu had not absorbed a fourth Soul Ring, while Zhu Zhuqing finished absorbing her ring and gained Netherworld Shadow Clone.
• The group camped overnight, then set out for Gengxin City in two carriages so they could keep cultivating during the journey.
• Xiao Tian showed Dugu Bo blueprints for a Milk Bottle Soul Tool and a Level One Soul Tool Sword, and Dugu Bo believed they could entice Lou Gao to join Xiao Tian's sect.
• Xiao Tian told Dugu Bo about his plan to let Soul Masters condense Soul Rings themselves, and Dugu Bo feared that success would draw out the maker of the world's rules.

Xiao Tian explained his plan to create a cultivation system accessible to commoners and gained Dugu Bo’s support, with the Breaking Clan as a potential partner. After arriving in Gengxin City, the group went to the Blacksmith Association to meet its president, Lou Gao.

• Xiao Tian told Dugu Bo he wanted Shushan Sword Sect to develop cultivation methods that could help commoners and soul masters with weak martial souls.
• Dugu Bo agreed to support Xiao Tian and said he could try to develop a pill, though he would need help.
• Xiao Tian identified the Breaking Clan as potential collaborators because of their medicine-making skills and planned to win Yang Wudi over.
• After twenty-five days of travel, Xiao Tian and his companions arrived in Gengxin City, where everyone except Dugu Bo had gained a Soul Power level.
• A blacksmith apprentice led the group to the Blacksmith Association, and Xiao Tian asked its guards to inform President Lou Gao of their visit.

Xiao Tian visited the Blacksmith Association to offer Lou Gao a Milk Bottle Soul Tool and propose teaching its craftsmen how to make Soul Tools in exchange for joining his sect. Lou Gao was impressed by the device but refused to commit the independent association, noting that he had rejected Spirit Hall as well.

• Si Long initially refused to bring Xiao Tian and his companions to Lou Gao, but Dugu Bo revealed his nine Spirit Rings and Ning Rongrong identified herself as Ning Fengzhi’s daughter.
• Xiao Tian persuaded Si Long to fetch Lou Gao by promising that his item could change the Blacksmith Association’s fortunes.
• Xiao Tian demonstrated that the Milk Bottle Soul Tool could store and release Soul Power, captivating Lou Gao and Si Long.
• Xiao Tian offered to teach Lou Gao’s blacksmiths Soul Tool-making techniques and said they could become Soul Engineers.
• Lou Gao saw that Xiao Tian wanted him and the Blacksmith Association to join his sect, then refused on the grounds that the association was independent.
• Si Long explained that Lou Gao had also rejected Spirit Hall’s attempt to recruit the Blacksmith Association.

Xiao Tian demonstrated a Level One Soul Tool Sword to Lou Gao and offered him its blueprints in exchange for joining the Shushan Sword Sect. Lou Gao rushed off to study the design, while Xiao Tian’s group stayed at the Blacksmith Association and prepared to attend its auction.

• Xiao Tian explained why Si Long had refused Spirit Hall’s recruitment and introduced the Shushan Sword Sect’s interest in soul tools.
• Lou Gao tested the Soul Tool Sword, praised its power, and became eager when Xiao Tian offered to teach him how to make soul tools if he joined the sect.
• Xiao Tian gave Lou Gao the sword’s blueprint and a carving knife, and Lou Gao hurried into his office to study them.
• Si Long arranged guest rooms for Xiao Tian’s group and grew anxious over the prospect of the Blacksmith Association changing its status by joining the sect.
• Xiao Tian reassured Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong that he would not kill Lou Gao if he refused, earning a system reward of a fifty-thousand-year Custom Soul Bone.
• Xiao Tian told the group to rest before the auction, and Ning Rongrong volunteered to look for bargains.

Lou Gao agreed to leave with Xiao Tian and help bring the Blacksmith Association into his sect, while Si Long took over the association to gauge the blacksmiths’ interest in making soul tools. After a month of travel, the group reached the city of the Breaking Clan, where Zhu Zhuqing resolved to grow stronger and defeat Dai Weisi and her sister.

• Ning Rongrong used her Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda’s treasure-hunting ability to buy valuable ores and materials for one Gold Soul Coin each, astonishing Si Long.
• After completing a Level One Soul Tool Sword, Lou Gao learned Xiao Tian was leaving and announced that Si Long would become president of the Blacksmith Association.
• Lou Gao decided to accompany Xiao Tian and asked Si Long to learn whether the association’s blacksmiths would accept making soul tools, while Xiao Tian gave Lou Gao Level Two through Level Five sword blueprints.
• Lou Gao asked whether mass-producing soul tools would lead Xiao Tian to start a war, and Xiao Tian said he would fight back if others provoked him.
• Lou Gao joined Xiao Tian’s group on their journey to the Breaking Clan, and Si Long waved them off before they traveled for a month to the clan’s city in the Star Luo Empire.
• Zhu Zhuqing told Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong that she had nothing to miss about her family and wanted to become strong enough to defeat Dai Weisi and her sister in the Soul Master Competition.

Xiao Tian, accompanied by Dugu Bo and the others, visited Yang Wudi to recruit the Breaking Clan into the Shushan Sword Sect. Yang Wudi was intrigued by an Aromatic Silk Beauty and astonished by Xiao Tian’s talent and Dugu Bo’s strength, but he had not yet agreed to join.

• Xiao Tian and his group arrived at the Breaking Clan residence, where Yang Wudi refused to invite them inside until Xiao Tian showed him an Aromatic Silk Beauty.
• Yang Wudi eagerly brought the group inside, and Xiao Tian explained that he had founded the Shushan Sword Sect and wanted to recruit the Breaking Clan.
• Yang Wudi doubted the new sect, but Ning Rongrong revealed that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect cooperated with it, and Dugu Bo vouched for its potential.
• Yang Wudi asked about Xiao Tian’s strength, and Xiao Tian revealed that he was a fifty-seventh-rank Soul King who was almost fourteen.
• Dugu Bo told Yang Wudi he was a level 96 Super Douluo and released his aura and nine Spirit Rings.

Xiao Tian tried to recruit Yang Wudi’s Breaking Clan and explained that the Strength Clan had already pledged itself to Tang San. Yang Wudi agreed to join Xiao Tian’s sect after demanding a duel to test his strength, and the two prepared to fight.

• Yang Wudi learned that Dugu Bo had reached Rank 96 with Xiao Tian’s help and asked whether the other Single Attribute Clans could join Xiao Tian too.
• Xiao Tian revealed that Tai Tan’s Strength Clan had acknowledged Tang San, prompting Yang Wudi to angrily condemn Tai Tan and Tang Hao.
• Xiao Tian asked Yang Wudi to decide whether he could commit to the sect despite the Strength Clan’s support for Tang San.
• After ten minutes, Yang Wudi agreed to join Xiao Tian’s sect on the condition that they fought, warning that his Soul Breaking Spear showed no mercy.
• Yang Wudi and Xiao Tian announced their Martial Souls and levels, then faced each other in the hall.