Chapter Summaries

Yu Xiaogang grieved the destruction of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon clan and questioned the worth of his research as he drank alone. He remembered his unrequited love for Bibi Dong, whose fate remained uncertain.

• Yu Xiaogang watched a rat drown in a filthy ditch and drank as he mourned the dead.
• Yu Xiaogang recalled the family members and clansmen who had rejected him, then confronted the loss of the entire Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon clan.
• Yu Xiaogang smashed an empty wine jar and dismissed his martial soul research as worthless because he had failed to protect his family.
• Yu Xiaogang remembered falling in love with Bibi Dong and writing his theories for her, then recalled hearing conflicting reports about what had happened to her.

Yu Xiaogang learned that Bibi Dong had been released after more than twenty years but remained under surveillance, and he sank into grief and drink. He dreamed of an old man in the ruins who spoke two words he later understood, though the chapter did not reveal them.

• Yu Xiaogang heard that Bibi Dong had been released from prison but was still watched and forbidden to contact the outside world.
• Teacher Liu brought Yu Xiaogang dinner, but Yu told him to put it down and did not eat.
• Yu Xiaogang drank alone through the night and thought he heard someone calling his name.
• Yu Xiaogang dreamed of an old man in a blue robe standing among ruins, who spoke two words before disappearing.
• Yu Xiaogang woke beside shards of a broken wine jar, hurt his fingers on them, and eventually understood the words the old man had said.

After breaking down over someone calling him “Home,” Yu Xiaogang decided to travel to Spirit Hall and ask Bibi Dong for answers. As he packed his few belongings, he found the Honorary Elder Token Bibi Dong had given him and remembered the day she gave it to him.

• Yu Xiaogang cried until he exhausted himself and fell asleep in the darkness.
• After waking, Yu Xiaogang decided to go to Spirit Hall and ask Bibi Dong.
• Yu Xiaogang packed his patched clothes, provisions, short sword, and his mother’s jade pendant for the journey.
• Yu Xiaogang found his Spirit Hall Honorary Elder Token at the bottom of his chest and recalled that Bibi Dong had personally given it to him.

Yu Xiaogang remembered receiving Spirit Hall's Honorary Elder Token from Bibi Dong and reflected on how it preserved his dignity despite Spirit Hall's fall. As he left his academy dormitory, childhood memories of being shunned for his martial soul resurfaced, and Dean Ma's reaction suggested he was glad to see Yu Xiaogang go.

• Yu Xiaogang recalled how Bibi Dong gave him the Honorary Elder Token and how he relied on it for food and shelter over the years.
• Yu Xiaogang tucked the token beside his jade pendant and left his unlocked dormitory with his bundle.
• Yu Xiaogang listened to the children reciting martial soul lessons and remembered being mocked and excluded for having Luo Sanpao.
• Yu Xiaogang turned away from the classroom and saw Dean Ma approach, then realized the dean likely thought he was finally leaving.

Yu Xiaogang left the academy to search for someone and began the painful journey toward Spirit City. As he traveled, he recalled his failed attempt to reach Bibi Dong and the choices that had left him feeling adrift.

• Yu Xiaogang told Teacher Ma he would find someone, and Teacher Ma wished him well as he departed the academy.
• Yu Xiaogang limped along the road toward Heaven Dou City and Spirit City, stopping to rest when his old leg injuries hurt.
• Yu Xiaogang remembered his earlier journey to Spirit City with a manuscript on Martial Soul theory and how Bibi Dong never met him.
• Yu Xiaogang recalled that Bibi Dong sent him money each year, while he struggled to live on it and sometimes relied on Spirit Hall branches for food.
• Yu Xiaogang continued through fields and villages as the day passed.

Yu Xiaogang reached Spirit City after a half-month journey and approached its guarded gate, remembering Bibi Dong and wondering whether she still remembered him. He presented his Honorary Elder Token to a soldier for inspection.

• Yu Xiaogang bought and slowly ate a skewer of Candied Hawthorn, recalling his mother and the sweets of his childhood.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived outside Spirit City and saw the imposing walls and the soldiers inspecting everyone entering the city.
• Yu Xiaogang remembered first meeting Bibi Dong and entered the queue at the gate despite his pain and uncertainty.
• A soldier stopped Yu Xiaogang, questioned his identity and purpose, and examined the Honorary Elder Token he presented.

Yu Xiaogang went to Spirit City with an old honorary elder token, but a soldier declared it invalid and accused him of trying to freeload. The soldiers attacked him at the gate, and Yu Xiaogang was left being beaten.

• Yu Xiaogang told Teacher Ma he was going to Spirit City.
• A soldier examined Yu Xiaogang’s token, said it had been invalidated, and warned him against invoking Bibi Dong’s name.
• Yu Xiaogang said the token had been issued when he served in Spirit Hall, but the soldier accused him of pretending to be an old member and kicked it away.
• The soldiers surrounded Yu Xiaogang and ordered him to leave.
• When Yu Xiaogang tried to explain himself, the soldier ordered the others to beat him, and they struck him repeatedly.

Yu Xiaogang was brutally beaten by the soldiers at Spirit City’s gate and thrown into a filthy prison cell. He lay injured and stripped of his belongings as the minor leader left him alone.

• Yu Xiaogang curled up to protect himself as the soldiers kicked and beat him, crushing his hand and badly injuring his legs.
• The minor leader ordered the soldiers to stop before they killed Yu Xiaogang and have him locked up.
• The soldiers dragged Yu Xiaogang down a hidden staircase into the prison, where his knees and forehead were further injured.
• The soldiers threw Yu Xiaogang into a cell and left him without his bundle, sword, jade pendant, or token.
• Yu Xiaogang lay on the damp straw in pain until footsteps approached and someone told him to stay put and not cause trouble.

Yu Xiaogang was brought before Qian Xunji after being imprisoned and asked what he had done to Bibi Dong. Qian Xunji ordered his execution, and the guards dragged Yu Xiaogang outside to kill him.

• Yu Xiaogang heard Qian Xunji arrive at the dungeon and recognized his voice.
• Qian Xunji recognized Yu Xiaogang and asked whether he was tired of living.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Qian Xunji what he had done to Bibi Dong, but Qian Xunji did not answer.
• Qian Xunji ordered the guards to give Yu Xiaogang a quick death, then told them to drag him outside.
• As the guards prepared to kill him, Yu Xiaogang remembered Bibi Dong and the courtyard where he had once heard her cry.

Bibi Dong intervened when the guards were about to kill Yu Xiaogang, and Qian Xunji ultimately spared him while banishing him from the Spirit Hall Empire. Qian Xunji ordered Bibi Dong back to her courtyard, and she left without speaking to Yu Xiaogang.

• Bibi Dong ordered the guards to release Yu Xiaogang, but Qian Xunji arrived and commanded them to carry out the execution.
• Bibi Dong pleaded with Qian Xunji to spare Yu Xiaogang, saying he was the only one who still remembered her.
• Qian Xunji recalled Yu Xiaogang's past work and said he had attended one of his lectures.
• Qian Xunji spared Yu Xiaogang on the condition that he leave the Spirit Hall Empire and never return.
• Qian Xunji ordered Bibi Dong back to her courtyard, and she walked away without speaking to Yu Xiaogang.

After Bibi Dong sent Yu Xiaogang away from Martial Soul Capital, Ling Feng received the second trial of the Nine Trials of Destruction: he had to kill Tang Chen in Slaughter City within one year. He prepared to leave alone, despite Qian Renxue's fears, and faced the dangerous next step on his path to godhood.

• The guards gave Yu Xiaogang a healing pill, left him outside the city, and he struggled south after remembering his past with Bibi Dong.
• Bibi Dong sat awake beneath the Old Locust Tree, recalling how she had once ignored Yu Xiaogang's farewell and how she had saved him but could do no more.
• Ling Feng received the second trial from the God of Destruction: he had to take Tang Chen's head in Slaughter City within one year, alone.
• Ling Feng told Qian Renxue about the trial and refused her offer to accompany him because the rules required him to go alone.
• Qian Renxue gripped Ling Feng's hand as he promised to return alive, then he released her hand and prepared to depart.

Ling Feng awakened his dormant Radiant Sacred Dragon and entered a Purification state stronger than his Dark Sacred Dragon form. He and Qian Renxue began fighting to help him master the new power.

• Ling Feng reached the silent Radiant Sacred Dragon within his Martial Soul and awakened it by touching its scales.
• The Radiant Sacred Dragon appeared beside the Dark Sacred Dragon, and its power transformed Ling Feng, his Coiling Dragon Staff, and his aura.
• Qian Renxue recognized the Radiant Sacred Dragon and agreed to fight Ling Feng so he could grow accustomed to its power.
• Ling Feng and Qian Renxue fought in the Martial Arts Arena, exchanging powerful blows that cracked the Cyan Gold Stone floor.
• Ling Feng’s movements, reactions, and control improved as he fought Qian Renxue from morning until dusk.

Ling Feng tested the Radiant Sacred Dragon’s abilities with Qian Renxue, then left Spirit City to travel toward Slaughter City and face Tang Chen within a year. He followed the God of Destruction’s token north and encountered a skeletal, half-dead creature beside a dried riverbed.

• Ling Feng adapted to the Radiant Sacred Dragon’s speed and clashed with Qian Renxue’s Angel’s Judgment using his eighth spirit skill, Sigh of the Radiant Dragon God.
• Ling Feng told Qian Renxue he planned to leave in three days and enter Slaughter City, and they clasped hands before parting.
• Ling Feng left Spirit City alone with his Coiling Dragon Staff, the Token of the God of Destruction, and the two sleeping dragons within him; Qian Renxue watched him go from the city wall.
• Ling Feng traveled north on foot, intending to defeat Tang Chen head-on within a year, and followed the purple light from the token toward Slaughter City.
• On the thirteenth day, Ling Feng encountered a skeletal creature that had once been a dog beside a dried-up riverbed.

Ling Feng crossed a swamp and a wasteland before reaching Slaughter City, where he entered without using his powers and observed its brutal streets and arena. After hearing that King lived in the city’s tallest tower, Ling Feng left the tavern and headed toward it.

• Ling Feng crossed the misty swamp and scorched wasteland, then reached the black river before Slaughter City.
• Ling Feng used the Radiant Sacred Dragon’s power to repel the river’s souls and entered Slaughter City as an ordinary person.
• Ling Feng walked through the city and watched a bald fighter kill a lean young man in an arena before leaving.
• Ling Feng listened to tavern patrons discuss King and learned that King was in the tallest tower.
• Ling Feng left Gold Soul Coins on the tavern table and walked out toward the tower.

Ling Feng entered the Slaughter City tower to challenge Tang Chen, the level ninety-nine Peerless Douluo, and revealed the power of his Radiant Sacred Dragon. Tang Chen overwhelmed him with repeated sword strikes, leaving Ling Feng bloodied and disarmed on the ground.

• Ling Feng called Tang Chen from outside the Iron Gate and entered the passage after Tang Chen opened it.
• Ling Feng met Tang Chen in the stone chamber and declared that he had come to kill him.
• Tang Chen recognized Ling Feng as the inheritor of the Radiant Sacred Dragon and said he had waited for him for many years.
• Ling Feng's Radiant Sacred Dragon power neutralized Tang Chen's killing intent, surprising Tang Chen.
• Tang Chen attacked with a series of rapid sword strikes, breaking Ling Feng's defenses and draining his strength.
• Tang Chen's eighth strike knocked the Coiling Dragon Staff from Ling Feng's hands and sent him crashing to the ground, bloodied.

Qiangu Lingfeng survived Tang Chen’s lethal strike when the Token of the God of Destruction shielded him, revealing him as the God of Destruction’s inheritor. Tang Chen let him leave and challenged him to return at rank ninety-five, while the Asura God recognized the God of Destruction as a rival.

• Ling Feng refused to admit defeat as Tang Chen raised a killing-intent sword to strike him down.
• The Asura God watched Tang Chen attack Qiangu Lingfeng and recognized the boy as the God of Destruction’s inheritor.
• Qiangu Lingfeng’s Token of the God of Destruction unleashed purple power that blocked Tang Chen’s blood-red pillar of light.
• Qiangu Lingfeng declared his identity and vowed to claim Tang Chen’s head, but Tang Chen sheathed his sword and told him to return at rank ninety-five.
• Qiangu Lingfeng left the black tower and Slaughter City with his Coiling Dragon Staff as the Asura God accused the God of Destruction of opposing him.

The Asura God assessed the power of the Spirit Hall Empire and decided to use Sun Moon Continent to create a war that would buy time for Tang Hao and Tang San. He prepared to accelerate the continent’s merger with Douluo Continent.

• The Asura God noticed a bloodied young man leaving a black city, whose second martial soul radiated the sacred light of the Radiant Sacred Dragon.
• He surveyed Yu Xiaogang, the Spirit Hall leaders and consecrated, and Bibi Dong, judging the Spirit Hall Empire’s strength and its obstacles to his plans.
• The Asura God concluded that Tang Hao could not defeat Spirit Hall alone and needed time to recover while Tang San grew stronger.
• He considered Sun Moon Continent’s Soul Tool technology and its imperial family, noting that it would naturally take six thousand years to join with Douluo Continent.
• The Asura God raised his God King-level Origin Power and planned to bring the continents together early, provoking war and chaos that would distract Spirit Hall from Tang Hao and Tang San.

The Asura God accelerated the Sun Moon Continent’s drift so it would collide with the Douluo Continent in four years, intending to distract Spirit Hall and hinder the God of Destruction’s chosen inheritor. The God of Destruction confronted him and brought him before the God Realm Committee, where the other God Kings awaited.

• The Asura God accelerated the Sun Moon Continent’s drift, making it set to connect with the Douluo Continent in four years and causing its people to fear an impending disaster.
• The Asura God explained that he wanted the Sun Moon Continent to delay Spirit Hall, giving Tang Hao and Tang San time while obstructing Qiangu Lingfeng.
• The God of Destruction discovered what the Asura God had done and warned that the continents’ collision would endanger billions of lives.
• The God of Destruction told the Asura God that the Goddess of Life had gone to the God Realm Committee and seized his wrist to take him there.
• The God of Destruction dragged the Asura God into the God Realm Committee, where the God of Goodness and the God of Evil were already waiting.

The God Realm Committee confronted the Asura God over his acceleration of Sun Moon Continent’s drift toward Douluo Continent. The God of Destruction negotiated seven years for the continents to connect, leaving Qiangu Lingfeng and others time to prepare.

• The God of Goodness and the God of Evil questioned the Asura God about accelerating Sun Moon Continent’s drift, and he admitted he had done so to interfere with Spirit Hall.
• The Goddess of Life asked how many people might die when the continents connected, and the Asura God estimated several hundred thousand or more.
• The God of Destruction demanded that the connection be delayed, and he and the Asura God agreed to change the timeline from four years to seven.
• The Asura God left the God Realm Committee, while the God of Destruction promised the Goddess of Life that he would protect her people and the lower realm.
• The God of Destruction considered Qiangu Lingfeng’s prospects and looked down at the young boy below the palace.

Xu Tianxing sensed that a god was driving the Sun Moon Continent toward the Douluo Continent and prepared the empire for contact. He sent Xu Tiangang with an advance party to scout the distant continent, where their voyage began amid a storm.

• Xu Tianxing told Xu Shaoyang that an unknown god was pushing their continent toward the Douluo Continent and ordered preparations for the encounter.
• Xu Shaoyang offered to lead the advance party, but Xu Tianxing refused and began training him to shoulder the empire’s future.
• Xu Tianxing announced the scouting mission in court, and Xu Tiangang volunteered to lead three hundred Soul Engineers and their ships.
• Half a month later, Xu Tiangang’s advance party departed to study the Douluo Continent and find a way for the Sun Moon Continent to survive.
• As the ships crossed the sea, a lookout warned Xu Tiangang that a storm lay ahead.