Chapter Summaries

Murong Huai visited Sunset Forest to gather Immortal Grade Herbs, then absorbed the Empty Realm Severed Thought Bamboo and awakened the Sword Domain Empty Realm. The group marveled at his new domain, while Dugu Bo lamented the herbs they had taken.

• Murong Huai brought Murong Fuhai and Wu Xianyun to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well with Gui Mei, Yue Guan, and Murong Fuhai's companions.
• Yue Guan found the Nine Heavens Sword Soul Herb for Wu Xianyun and the Scorching Delusion Nightshade Flower for Murong Fuhai, who went to cultivate in quiet chambers under Jiang Mo's protection.
• Murong Huai asked Yue Guan for a spatial-attribute herb, and Yue Guan brought him the Empty Realm Severed Thought Bamboo.
• Murong Huai absorbed the bamboo's energy and awakened the Sword Domain Empty Realm, a domain that let him and his attacks move freely through space within its reach.
• Murong Huai demonstrated the domain to Qian Jun, Gui Mei, and Yue Guan, who envied his achievement, while Dugu Bo mourned the herbs they had taken.

Murong Huai shared plans to distribute Immortal Grade Herbs and set out to find his third Spirit Ring. After Murong Fuhai intimidated Dugu Bo, Dugu Bo joined Spirit Hall and became one of Murong Huai’s guards.

• Murong Fuhai said the Immortal Grade Herb had burned away his hidden injuries and restored his Soul Power, while Wu Xianyun said her Nine Heavens Sword had evolved and her Soul Power had risen to level eighty-seven.
• Murong Huai told Yue Guan to find Immortal Herbs for Spirit Hall’s injured elders and the others, and to send one to Dong'er at the Martial Soul Academy.
• Murong Huai left with his parents to find a third Spirit Ring, then offered Dugu Bo the choice of taking an herb and leaving or joining Spirit Hall and receiving an herb and a cure for his poison.
• Murong Fuhai pressured Dugu Bo until he agreed to join Spirit Hall voluntarily.
• Murong Huai welcomed Dugu Bo as a guard and sent him to Yue Guan to find an Immortal Herb.

Murong Huai hunted a ten-thousand-year Sky-Shattering Soul-Tearing Eagle for his third Spirit Ring and broke through to the Soul Elder realm after absorbing it. He tested his new sword-flying attack on a Heavy Armor Demon Ox, then returned with his parents to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

• Murong Huai chose the largest Sky-Shattering Soul-Tearing Eagle, and Wu Xianyun killed it with her fourth Soul Skill.
• Murong Huai delivered the final blow and absorbed the eagle’s ten-thousand-year Spirit Ring while Murong Fuhai and Wu Xianyun guarded him.
• Murong Huai overcame the eagle’s resentment in his Sea of Consciousness and awakened his third Soul Skill, Riding the Sword to the Nine Heavens, Sword Falls Breaking the Cloud Pass.
• Murong Huai used his new skill to fly above a charging Heavy Armor Demon Ox and pierce its armor, then finished it with the Angel Sword Technique.
• Murong Fuhai and Wu Xianyun praised Murong Huai’s new Soul Skill, and the family found no Spirit Bones before returning to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

Murong Huai returned to Spirit City after gaining a powerful domain and reaching level thirty-six, while the elders and Dugu Bo benefited from the Immortal Herbs. At Pope Palace, he offered Qian Daoliu and Qian Xunji two herbs, and Qian Daoliu teased his eager disciple by pretending to take away the one he wanted.

• Murong Huai and his companions returned to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, where Qian Jun and Jiang Mo thanked him for the Dragon Soul Flower that strengthened their Martial Souls.
• Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and Dugu Bo finished absorbing their Immortal Herbs, gaining stronger abilities, and agreed to serve as Murong Huai's guards.
• Dugu Bo asked Murong Huai to cure his son's poison, and Murong Huai instructed Yue Guan to treat the boy and consider finding him an herb before joining Spirit Hall.
• Murong Huai returned to Spirit City and told Qian Daoliu and Qian Xunji that he had reached level thirty-six after taking an Immortal Herb.
• Murong Huai offered Qian Daoliu and Qian Xunji a Dawn Nebula Fruit and a Sacred Flame Radiance Lotus, and Qian Daoliu playfully pulled the lotus away when Qian Xunji hesitated to take it.

Qian Xunji absorbed the Sacred Flame Radiance Lotus and evolved his Six-Winged Angel into the Sacred Radiance Seraph, earning the Angel God's Blessing. Qian Daoliu congratulated his son while privately regretting that he had let him take the better herb.

• Murong Huai read Spirit Hall memorials and complained about their disorder, noting that Spirit Hall's policies had problems.
• Qian Daoliu finished absorbing the Dawn Nebula Fruit and said it had strengthened his Six-Winged Angel's light power by at least twenty percent.
• Qian Xunji absorbed the Sacred Flame Radiance Lotus, evolving his Martial Soul into the Sacred Radiance Seraph as its light, flame, and holiness attributes fused.
• The Angel God Statue sent a blessing into Qian Xunji, and Qian Daoliu recognized it as Angel's Blessing.
• Qian Daoliu praised Qian Xunji while regretting that he had given his son the herb that triggered the evolution and blessing.

Murong Huai proposed reforms to Spirit Hall’s subsidy program and administration, persuading Qian Daoliu and Qian Xunji to consider his ideas. He urged them to investigate conditions among ordinary people, and Qian Daoliu chose Qian Xunji to go to the grassroots.

• Qian Xunji awoke after his Martial Soul evolved, and Murong Huai congratulated him.
• Murong Huai argued that Soul Master subsidies should have time limits and proposed paid temporary work for Soul Masters whose benefits ran out.
• Qian Daoliu and Qian Xunji approved Murong Huai’s work-relief proposal.
• Murong Huai proposed dividing Spirit Hall’s administration into six ministries to sort regional reports and handle different duties.
• Murong Huai urged Qian Daoliu and Qian Xunji to visit the grassroots and observe people’s needs firsthand.
• Qian Daoliu decided Qian Xunji should go, leaving Qian Xunji surprised.

Qian Xunji agreed to travel among ordinary people and learn about their lives before succeeding Qian Daoliu as Pope. After Murong Huai proposed a bold plan to expand Spirit Hall’s power, Qian Xunji chose to pursue it, beginning with the major sects.

• Qian Daoliu assigned Qian Xunji to spend two years observing commoners and told him to attend the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s old sect master’s birthday banquet with Murong Huai.
• Murong Huai explained to Qian Xunji how vulnerable commoners and low-level Soul Masters were, and why Spirit Hall’s beneficial policies could provoke the two empires.
• Murong Huai whispered a radical proposal to Qian Xunji, who was shocked and initially struggled to respond.
• Murong Huai outlined a plan to bring the Seven Great Sects under Spirit Hall’s influence and weaken the empires by starting with their vassal kingdoms.
• Qian Xunji decided to act on Murong Huai’s proposal, and they planned to use the birthday banquet to approach the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Murong Huai brought four sets of blueprints to the Engineering Department and commissioned chief Mo Heng and his craftsmen to build two of each design within half a month. The chapter ended with Mo Heng ordering the craftsmen to return from leave and work on the mysterious weapons.

• Murong Huai sent Ju Qinglan to treat Spirit Hall's wounded and arranged for Tu Zhen to join the Black Flame Army as a chief instructor.
• Murong Huai traveled with Gui Mei to the Engineering Department and asked Zhang Wu to gather master craftsmen in a quiet room.
• Mo Heng, the Engineering Department's chief and a divine blacksmith, examined Murong Huai's four sets of blueprints and praised their designs.
• Murong Huai asked Mo Heng to make two of each design within half a month and warned him to prevent sparks or static electricity near the gunpowder items.
• After Murong Huai and Gui Mei left, Mo Heng ordered the craftsmen to summon those on leave and devote themselves to building the designs.

Half a month after Bibi Dong gained new poisons from an Immortal Herb, Murong Huai, Qian Xunji, and their companions traveled to Heaven Dou City on the way to a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect birthday banquet. There, Murong Huai intervened when Prince Xue Xing attacked an elderly couple, and Yue Guan drove off the prince’s soldiers.

• Bibi Dong challenged Murong Huai to a sparring match and lost, showing off the power of her two poisoned Martial Souls.
• Qian Xunji reminded Murong Huai that they were traveling to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s birthday banquet, and Murong Huai invited Bibi Dong to join them.
• The group arrived in Heaven Dou City and encountered Xue Xing whipping an elderly woman for blocking his path.
• Murong Huai stopped Xue Xing from attacking the woman’s husband, shattered Xue Xing’s wrist, and threw him aside.
• Yue Guan used his Aura Barrier to subdue Xue Xing’s soldiers, then broke their legs and sent them away with the unconscious prince.

Murong Huai and his companions ate breakfast in Heaven Dou City before witnessing a fruit seller and his wife being abused by the Xiao Mu Marquis Mansion’s steward. Murong Huai refused to help, explaining that people who would not resist or save themselves were not worth saving, leaving Qian Xunji to wonder how many people on the continent had given up.

• Murong Huai gave an old man one Gold Soul Coin to treat his wife and leave Heaven Dou City, then departed with Qian Xunji and Bibi Dong.
• Murong Huai and his companions ate an extravagant breakfast, and Qian Xunji joked that he had learned to eat at banquets after his hundred-day celebration.
• The Xiao Mu Marquis Mansion’s steward took a fruit seller’s entire stock for one Copper Soul Coin and ordered his men to beat the seller and his wife.
• Murong Huai watched the assault but refused to intervene, saying the couple had surrendered rather than resist.
• Murong Huai explained that he had helped the old couple because the old man fought back, prompting Qian Xunji to consider how many people had given up on themselves.

Murong Huai and Qian Xunji traveled to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect for former sect master Ning Zhaoming’s seventieth birthday banquet, where leaders from major sects and both empires gathered. Spirit Hall arrived, and Ning Xiuyuan welcomed Qian Xunji after learning his father was cultivating in seclusion.

• Murong Huai, Qian Xunji, and their companions traveled to Seven Treasure City for Ning Zhaoming’s birthday celebration.
• Yu Mingshan and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan arrived, and Ning Xiuyuan and Chen Jianjun welcomed them.
• Tang Chen and the Clear Sky Sect arrived and greeted Ning Xiuyuan, Yu Mingshan, and Chen Jianjun.
• Crown Prince Xue Dang and Zhu Xuan arrived on behalf of the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires, and Ning Xiuyuan escorted them inside.
• Qian Xunji and Murong Huai arrived with Spirit Hall, and Ning Xiuyuan welcomed them.
• Qian Xunji told Ning Xiuyuan that his father was cultivating in seclusion, and Ning Xiuyuan invited the group into the banquet hall.

At Ning Zhaoming’s birthday banquet, the gathered powers paid their respects as Spirit Hall introduced its gifted young Holy Son, Murong Huai, and Bibi Dong. The banquet moved on to the birthday gifts, with the major factions presenting lavish offerings to Ning Zhaoming.

• Ning Zhaoming arrived at the banquet, and the gathered guests rose to greet him before taking their seats.
• Ning Zhaoming spoke with Qian Xunji and Tang Chen, then greeted Tang Xiao and Tang Hao as Tang Chen’s grandsons.
• Qian Xunji introduced Murong Huai and Bibi Dong, and announced that Murong Huai was the Holy Son of Spirit Hall, discouraging other powers from pursuing him.
• Ning Fengzhi recognized Murong Huai and Bibi Dong as the people he had met while obtaining his First Soul Ring, and Ning Zhaoming asked Murong Huai about his family.
• The master of ceremonies announced the gift presentation, and the Elephant Armored Sect, Earth Dragon Sect, Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and Clear Sky Sect offered lavish birthday gifts to Ning Zhaoming.

At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s banquet, Tang Hao defeated Huyan Tian in the opening Soul Fighting match. Bibi Dong then faced Tang Hao and trapped him with her Death Hunt skill, leaving the duel unresolved.

• Ning Xiuyuan offered a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone as the prize for the best young fighter.
• Tang Hao defeated Huyan Tian with the Clear Sky Hammer and the Clear Sky Sect’s Chaotic Cloak technique.
• Ning Zhaoming invited Bibi Dong to challenge Tang Hao, and she revealed her thousand-year second Spirit Ring.
• Tang Hao and Bibi Dong exchanged attacks until Tang Hao used Fierce Explosive Hammer.
• Bibi Dong ensnared Tang Hao with her Death Hunt skill and stopped his attack.

Bibi Dong defeated Tang Hao in their match, and Murong Huai accepted Tang Chen’s challenge to fight Tang Xiao. Murong Huai revealed a Ten Thousand Year Third Spirit Ring and gained the upper hand, but Tang Xiao trapped him with his fourth Soul Skill and prepared a finishing attack.

• Tang Hao broke Bibi Dong’s webs with Quake Absolute, but Bibi Dong dodged his hammer and was knocked off the platform; Murong Huai stopped her from using Blood Pattern.
• Tang Chen asked Murong Huai to demonstrate his abilities, and Murong Huai challenged Tang Xiao to a match.
• Murong Huai revealed his Ten Thousand Year Third Spirit Ring, astonishing the spectators, while Tang Xiao disclosed that he was a level forty-two Soul Ancestor.
• Murong Huai deflected Tang Xiao’s attacks and struck him with his scabbard, then evaded more than twenty exchanges without drawing his sword.
• Tang Xiao used Oscillating Rock Thunder Charge to hinder Murong Huai with lightning before leaping up and invoking Instant Absolute.

Murong Huai defeated Tang Xiao with a single sword strike and received a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone. After the gathering, Ning Fengzhi took Murong Huai and Bibi Dong to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Treasure Pavilion, where they began exploring its floors.

• Murong Huai defeated Tang Xiao with a sword strike infused with sacred sword intent and Ultimate Gold power.
• Ning Zhaoming awarded Murong Huai a purple Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone, and Murong Huai thanked him.
• Ning Fengzhi led Murong Huai and Bibi Dong on a tour of the sect and invited them to choose gifts from the Treasure Pavilion.
• Ning Fengzhi persuaded Zui Feng to let Murong Huai and Bibi Dong enter the pavilion, with permission to explore up to the fifth floor.
• Ning Fengzhi led Murong Huai and Bibi Dong past the ordinary items on the first floor and began explaining the second floor’s contents.

Ning Fengzhi showed Murong Huai and Bibi Dong the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s immense wealth and let them choose Spirit Bones from its collection. Murong Huai chose an unidentified Spirit Bone, gave Ning Fengzhi gifts, and left with Bibi Dong for Spirit Hall.

• Ning Fengzhi opened chests of Gold Cards on the third floor and gave Murong Huai and Bibi Dong several cards each.
• Ning Fengzhi showed Murong Huai and Bibi Dong rare artifacts on the fourth floor and Spirit Bones on the fifth.
• Bibi Dong chose a thirty-thousand-year-old Crystal Armor Spider Emperor torso bone, while Murong Huai chose an unidentified black Spirit Bone.
• Zui Feng watched Murong Huai and Bibi Dong leave and remarked that their Spirit Bones had been worth the price.
• Murong Huai gave Ning Fengzhi an Aromatic Silk Beauty herb and a weapon, then he and Bibi Dong departed for Spirit Hall.

Ning Fengzhi consumed the Aromatic Silk Beauty and began absorbing its power, while Ning Zhaoming revealed that Spirit Hall had used Murong Huai’s Red Barbarian Cannon and deliberately exposed the information to force the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to choose a side. Ning Zhaoming left the sect facing a choice between continuing to support the Heaven Dou Empire and adapting to Spirit Hall’s growing power.

• Ning Fengzhi ate the Aromatic Silk Beauty and sat down to absorb its medicinal energy as two hazy forms appeared atop his Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Xiuyuan and Chen Jianjun praised Bibi Dong and Murong Huai’s talents, and Ning Zhaoming raised the question of changing the sect’s allegiance.
• Ning Xiuyuan recommended that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect stay allied with Heaven Dou while maintaining its relationship with Spirit Hall.
• Ning Zhaoming showed Ning Xiuyuan a confidential report describing Spirit Hall’s attack on Sea God Island and its thousand-meter Red Barbarian Cannon, invented by Murong Huai.
• Ning Zhaoming explained that Spirit Hall had eliminated spies who witnessed the weapon and had deliberately allowed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to learn about it to intimidate them and force a choice.

Ning Zhaoming told Ning Xiuyuan that he expected to die within three years and hoped to see a descendant awaken the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. Ning Fengzhi then revealed that an Immortal Grade Herb had raised his Soul Power to level twenty, and the chapter ended when his family noticed something strange about his Martial Soul.

• Ning Xiuyuan warned Ning Zhaoming that Spirit Hall's support for commoners threatened the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's aristocratic interests.
• Ning Zhaoming said his accumulated injuries would likely kill him within three years and shared his wish to witness a descendant awaken the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Fengzhi rushed in and announced that eating Murong Huai's Aromatic Silk Beauty had raised his Soul Power from level fifteen to level twenty.
• Chen Jianjun examined Ning Fengzhi and found that his body was healthy and his constitution had grown stronger.
• Ning Fengzhi summoned his Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and Chen Jianjun cried out that something was wrong with it.

Ning Fengzhi showed his family the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and the weapons Murong Huai had given him. After testing the pistol and bayonet, the group learned about the grenade and smoke bomb, leaving the weapons’ potential under discussion.

• Ning Fengzhi revealed his Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and Ning Zhaoming celebrated its return while acknowledging Spirit Hall’s gift.
• Ning Fengzhi brought out Murong Huai’s weapon case and read the instructions for the Desert Eagle pistol.
• Ning Fengzhi fired the pistol at a vase, and Chen Jianjun tested a bullet and judged its power and limitations.
• Ning Xiuyuan drove the triangular military bayonet through a refined iron table and praised its strength.
• Ning Fengzhi read that the remaining items were a grenade and a smoke bomb, and warned that the grenade had a fifteen-meter killing radius.

After a grenade test demonstrated Spirit Hall’s weapons, Ning Zhaoming concluded that Murong Huai was courting and pressuring the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to submit. Ning Xiuyuan chose to gamble on joining Spirit Hall’s emerging order while keeping ties with the Heaven Dou Empire for now.

• Ning Zhaoming tested a grenade, and its blast destroyed the hall before Chen Jianjun shielded everyone from the explosion.
• Chen Xin and Gu Rong arrived, but Chen Jianjun dismissed the damage as a Soul Skill test, and the disciples left.
• Ning Zhaoming interpreted Murong Huai’s Immortal Herb and weapons gift as Spirit Hall’s attempt to win over the sect while demonstrating its power.
• Ning Xiuyuan and Ning Zhaoming concluded that Spirit Hall intended to bring the continent’s sects under its control and that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect faced a choice between submission and destruction.
• Ning Zhaoming left the decision to Ning Xiuyuan, who chose to gamble on Spirit Hall’s new order while avoiding an immediate break with the Heaven Dou Empire.