Chapter Summaries

Qian Xunji left Spirit Hall to spend two years traveling among the common people before returning to become Pope. Back at Murong Mansion, Murong Huai failed to identify an indestructible black stone, and his Second Martial Soul, Austin Griffin, awakened and offered to help.

• Qian Daoliu sealed Qian Xunji’s Angel Martial Soul, gave him a golden sword, and sent him to travel the continent for two years before taking over as Pope.
• Murong Huai encouraged Qian Xunji to begin his trial and promised to prepare Spirit Hall for his reforms.
• Murong Huai returned to Murong Mansion and tried without success to damage the black stone he had brought back from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Austin Griffin emerged from Murong Huai and explained that it had gained consciousness after devouring a bird and sensing Murong Huai’s increased spiritual power.
• Austin Griffin told Murong Huai that it had appeared to help him solve the problem of the black stone.

Murong Huai and Heavenly Condemnation opened a mysterious stone and discovered it was a time-powered Spirit Bone shaped like an eye. Murong Huai began absorbing it while Xiao Tian recovered some strength, and Qian Xunji was left lost in the wilderness outside Spirit City.

• Heavenly Condemnation cracked open the stone, releasing a brief time-reversal effect across the courtyard before he suppressed it.
• Heavenly Condemnation identified the stone as a Spirit Bone containing weak time power and warned Murong Huai that he could only hope to gain a minor ability from absorbing it.
• Murong Huai gave Heavenly Condemnation one leaf of Forget-Me-Not Heaven Soul Grass, helping him recover, and named him Xiao Tian.
• Murong Huai lifted the eye-shaped Spirit Bone with Soul Power and began absorbing it after Heavenly Condemnation said its resentment had been erased.
• A purplish-black flash made Heavenly Condemnation briefly lose his train of thought and wonder who he was.
• Outside Spirit City, Qian Xunji found himself lost in a desolate wilderness without a map or sense of direction.

Murong Huai discovered that his new brow eye could reveal opponents’ Soul Power flows and combat openings, though it had no time-related skill yet. He named it the Heavenly Eye of Watching Ripples and let Heavenly Condemnation stay in his Sea of Consciousness, while remaining wary of the consciousness’s dangerous origin.

• Murong Huai found that the eye between his brows seemed to have no skill, but Heavenly Condemnation explained that its ability was passive and urged him to test it.
• Murong Huai sparred with Yue Guan and used the eye to predict his moves, find weaknesses in his Soul Power, break his Golden Phosphor Chain, and shatter his Soul Power shield.
• Murong Huai realized the eye could expose trajectories and openings, then thanked Yue Guan and sent him to rest.
• Heavenly Condemnation said the eye came from a one-eyed mantis and might eventually develop a time-related skill as Murong Huai grew stronger.
• Murong Huai named the eye the Heavenly Eye of Watching Ripples and learned that Heavenly Condemnation lived in his Sea of Consciousness as a fragment of divine consciousness.
• Murong Huai worried that Heavenly Condemnation’s identity as the ninth head made him dangerous, but decided to let him stay and focus on growing stronger.

Murong Huai gave the Engineering Department plans for a machine tool and told its craftsmen that his weapon designs were meant for sale. He then entered the Great Soul Arena, where he defeated the Soul King Mad Blade and decided to seek stronger opponents to improve his combat skills.

• Murong Huai gave Mo Heng and three master craftsmen machine-tool blueprints, explained that the weapons he had previously designed were meant to be sold, and asked them to estimate the time needed to build the tools.
• Murong Huai went to the Great Soul Arena and registered as the level-thirty-six Soul Elder Immortal Lord.
• Murong Huai chose to challenge the level-fifty-four Soul King Mad Blade instead of a Soul Ancestor.
• Murong Huai used his Immortal Lord Nine-Arrival Sword and soul skills to withstand Mad Blade's attacks and defeat him.
• Murong Huai left the arena with Gui Mei and returned to Murong Mansion, planning to find more skilled opponents.

Murong Huai assigned the Engineering Department to build manual machine tools and promised to explain their electric drive systems. Meanwhile, Qian Xunji rescued Tianning Village from a Crimson Flame Tiger and stayed to share a meal, leaving the villagers hoping he would awaken their children's Martial Souls.

• Murong Huai told Mo Heng that the Engineering Department could build the machine tools within a month, then promised to explain the electric drive pump and wires.
• Qian Xunji reached Tianning Village and saw the Crimson Flame Tiger attacking its villagers.
• Nuo Ke charged the tiger with his rake, but it knocked him down and prepared to kill him.
• Qian Xunji split the tiger's fireball and killed it with a palm strike, then refused the villagers' payment and accepted a meal instead.
• Qian Xunji ate tiger meat with the villagers and reflected on their poverty as they savored the simple food.
• The villagers asked Nuo Ke to seek Qian Xunji's help awakening the Martial Souls of children who had turned six.

Qian Xunji awakened the Martial Souls of seven village children, while Murong Huai tested the newly built machine tools in Spirit City and organized the craftsmen to expand their production. Murong Huai ordered them to make five hundred sets of weapons and began teaching them to operate the lathes.

• Nuo Ke asked Qian Xunji to awaken the Martial Souls of eight village children, and Qian Xunji agreed.
• Nuo Ke brought seven children for the awakening after one of the eight had died from injuries caused by a Crimson Flame Tiger.
• Qian Xunji awakened the children and found that the last boy had innate level-one Soul Power.
• A month later, Mo Heng showed Murong Huai ten machine tools built from his blueprints and reported that they had been electrified.
• Murong Huai used the machines to make a precise hexagonal iron block and told the craftsmen to specialize in operating different tools.
• Murong Huai ordered the craftsmen to build more machine tools and produce five hundred sets of weapons, then began teaching them to use lathes.

At the Great Soul Arena, Murong Huai fought Man Xiong in a fierce match that pushed both Soul Masters to their limits. Murong Huai prepared to finish the battle with his self-created sword skill, Look Down Upon the World.

• Murong Huai used his sword skills against Man Xiong, who countered with his Tyrannical Demon Bear’s powerful Soul Skills.
• Man Xiong urged Murong Huai to surrender and offered to recommend him to the Martial Soul Academy, but Murong Huai refused.
• Gui Mei, Yue Guan, and Dugu Bo watched tensely, recalling how Murong Huai had been gravely injured in an earlier match against a level-sixty-nine Soul Emperor.
• Murong Huai and Man Xiong’s strongest attacks collided, and Man Xiong conceded the match while praising Murong Huai’s swordsmanship.
• Murong Huai asked Man Xiong to continue and told Gui Mei, Yue Guan, and Dugu Bo to keep his family from retaliating if he was badly injured.
• Murong Huai summoned his self-created Soul Skill, Look Down Upon the World, as Man Xiong prepared to face it.

Murong Huai defeated Man Xiong in a Soul Fighting match, then learned that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had arrived to negotiate a weapons deal. He explained that Spirit Hall intended to use the trade to bring the sect under its control, and the chapter ended as Fu Hai arrived to help with negotiations.

• Murong Huai defeated Man Xiong with Look Down Upon the World, and both fighters survived the clash with injuries.
• At Murong Mansion, the steward told Murong Huai that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had arrived at the Martial Soul Sanctuary.
• Ning Xiuyuan told Wu Xianyun that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect wanted to discuss business and possible cooperation with Spirit Hall.
• Murong Huai told Wu Xianyun that he planned to trade pistols and grenades to bring the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect under Spirit Hall's control, and she agreed after learning the Pope approved the plan.
• Wu Xianyun worried that she and the elders would be outmatched in negotiations, but Fu Hai arrived with two armed men.

Murong Fuhai joined Murong Huai and Wu Xianyun to lead negotiations with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, planning to demonstrate the Red Barbarian Cannon to secure the sect’s submission to Spirit Hall. Murong Huai set an asking price of ten thousand Gold Soul Coins per weapon set, though the group agreed not to accept less than a thousand, and they prepared to begin negotiations.

• Murong Fuhai arrived to help negotiate and said he could persuade the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to submit after showing them the Red Barbarian Cannon’s power.
• Murong Huai ordered Mo Heng to set up ten Red Barbarian Cannons and construct simulated buildings at the Testing Ground.
• Mo Heng reported that a standard weapon set cost one hundred Gold Soul Coins to produce with their equipment, or at least five or six hundred without it.
• Murong Huai proposed charging ten thousand Gold Soul Coins per set, while Murong Fuhai and the others argued over the price.
• Murong Fuhai suggested ten thousand Gold Soul Coins as the asking price and one thousand as the minimum, and the group agreed to begin negotiations.

Murong Fuhai confronted Ning Xiuyuan and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect about submitting to Spirit Hall, then demonstrated the Red Barbarian Cannon’s destructive power. The sect members left the demonstration shaken by the weapon and uncertain whether their defenses could withstand it.

• Ning Xiuyuan prepared his negotiators before Murong Huai and Wu Xianyun arrived with Murong Fuhai, whose killing intent unnerved the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect members.
• Murong Fuhai asked whether the sect would submit to Spirit Hall or remain with Heaven Dou, and Ning Xiuyuan said they would consider submission if they knew its benefits.
• Murong Fuhai explained that Spirit Hall wanted the sect’s submission and that submitting could give it an advantage over other sects.
• Chen Jianjun asked whether Spirit Hall had Red Barbarian Cannons capable of gravely wounding a Soul Saint from a thousand meters away, and Murong Fuhai invited the group to see them.
• Murong Fuhai had the Black Flame Army fire repeated cannon volleys that demolished the simulated buildings, leaving Ning Xiuyuan and the others fearful of the weapons’ power.

After Spirit Hall demonstrated the Red Barbarian Cannon, Ning Xiuyuan agreed to submit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, provided they could leave if Spirit Hall endangered them. The two sides then bargained over a weapons order, settling on half price for five hundred sets and discussing separate bullet purchases.

• Ning Xiuyuan agreed to submit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect while reserving the right to leave if Spirit Hall led them to ruin.
• Murong Fuhai left the negotiations to Murong Huai and Wu Xianyun after the sect agreed to submit.
• Mo Heng presented Ning Xiuyuan with a weapons set containing a Desert Eagle, magazines, a bayonet, grenades, and smoke bombs.
• Wu Xianyun and Ning Xiuyuan bargained over the set’s price and agreed on fifty percent of the listed price.
• Ning Xiuyuan ordered five hundred weapons sets and asked whether the sect could buy bullets separately.

Murong Huai and Ning Xiuyuan negotiated the sale of weapons and Red Barbarian Cannons after the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect joined the Spirit Hall. The meeting ended with Ning Xiuyuan unknowingly paying far more than the Spirit Hall expected, while both sides agreed on secrecy and future cooperation.

• Murong Huai offered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect ammunition for its five hundred pistols and agreed to sell two Red Barbarian Cannons if Ning Fengzhi enrolled at the Martial Soul Academy.
• Ning Xiuyuan and Chen Jianjun accepted the condition, and Ning Xiuyuan agreed to pay ten times the stated price for the cannons.
• Mo Heng delivered the weapons and ammunition, and Chen Jianjun handed over a box of Gold Soul Coins.
• Wu Xianyun and Murong Huai realized Ning Xiuyuan had interpreted their price gesture as one million Gold Soul Coins per weapon set, leaving him to pay 261.5 million Gold Soul Coins.
• Murong Huai accepted the payment and gave the sect an additional three hundred thousand rounds of ammunition, while Ning Xiuyuan thanked him without realizing the misunderstanding.
• Ning Xiuyuan said the sect would need time to distance itself from the Heaven Dou Empire, and Murong Huai warned him not to sell the weapons or reveal the cannons.

Two years later, Qian Xunji and the Soul Masters traveling with him saved a village from a beast tide in the Ghost Soul Forest. After sending Zi Ning to request reinforcements, they entered the forest to hunt its overlord, while Qian Daoliu remained in seclusion, nearing the Limit Douluo stage.

• Qian Xunji and his seven companions arrived at a village under attack and fought the Soul Beasts, rescuing villagers and driving the beasts away.
• Qian Xunji counted the casualties, advised a group of young Soul Masters to tend their wounds, and concluded that the forest overlord had caused the beast tide.
• Qian Xunji gave Zi Ning an Elder Token and sent her to Earth Star City to request a Spirit Hall mission clearing the surrounding Soul Beasts.
• Qian Xunji and his other companions entered the Ghost Soul Forest to kill the overlord.
• Qian Daoliu had reached the peak of Level 98 after emerging from seclusion, then returned to seclusion to pursue the Angel's Eighth Trial.

Qian Xunji broke Qian Daoliu’s seal and awakened his Radiant Seraph Martial Soul to defeat an Evil Soul Beast in Ghost Soul Forest. He stopped his companions from pursuing the fleeing beasts and led the group to leave the forest.

• Qian Xunji and his companions discovered that an evil force had corrupted a sixty-thousand-year Blue Spirit Meditative Deer, making it stronger and commanding a horde of Soul Beasts.
• Qian Xunji began breaking his Martial Soul seal while Man Zhen and five other Soul Saints formed a defense against the attacking beasts.
• The Blue Spirit Meditative Deer joined the battle, and a venomous python attacked Qian Xunji as the group’s barrier began to fail.
• Qian Xunji awakened his Radiant Seraph Martial Soul, opened Angel Domain, purified the poisonous mist, and killed the venomous python.
• Qian Xunji used his Seraph Avatar and Ninefold Sacred Judgment to kill the Blue Spirit Meditative Deer, leaving behind a Spirit Ring and Head Soul Bone.
• Qian Xunji stopped his companions from chasing the fleeing Soul Beasts and led them out of Ghost Soul Forest.

After finishing his two-year journey, Qian Xunji returned to Spirit City with the seven companions he had met along the way and reunited with Murong Huai. He revealed his identity as Spirit Hall’s young master and invited his companions to join Spirit Hall, which they accepted.

• At camp, Qian Xunji told Zi Ning and the others that he was the son of Spirit Hall’s Pope and its young master, though they initially thought he was joking.
• Ten days later, Qian Xunji and his seven companions arrived in Spirit City after helping Zi Ning obtain her Seventh Spirit Ring.
• Murong Huai, Gui Mei, Yue Guan, and Dugu Bo met Qian Xunji at the city gates, and Qian Xunji introduced his traveling companions to Murong Huai, Spirit Hall’s Holy Son.
• Murong Huai arranged a feast at the Spirit City Hotel, and Qian Xunji explained Spirit Hall’s changes before inviting his seven companions to join.
• Man Zhen spoke for the seven companions and accepted Qian Xunji’s invitation, and the group toasted their decision.

After two years of traveling, Qian Xunji resolved to abolish the aristocracy and create a world of equality. Murong Huai showed him Spirit Hall's secret weapons factory and its powerful new firearms, then revealed that he was secretly building a King of War.

• Qian Xunji told Murong Huai that his travels had shown him the hardships ordinary people faced, and declared his goal of creating equality and bringing Soul Masters under control.
• Murong Huai took Qian Xunji to Star Dome Valley and led him through a concealed entrance into a secret factory.
• Murong Huai showed Qian Xunji CNC Machines and a workshop where craftsmen assembled new weapons under Mo Heng's leadership.
• Murong Huai gave Qian Xunji an AK and an M24 Sniper Rifle, explaining their destructive power and range.
• Murong Huai listed Spirit Hall's other advanced weapons and said he was secretly building a King of War.

Murong Huai showed Qian Xunji the unfinished tank project and explained that his weapons were intended for Qian Xunji’s coup. As they left, they discussed Murong Huai’s plan to hunt a thirty-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear and Qian Xunji gave him a Spirit-Concentrating Wisdom Skull.

• Murong Huai showed Qian Xunji the tank blueprint, explaining that the weapon could take years to build and would serve as a fast, heavily armored cannon.
• Murong Huai told Qian Xunji that he had prepared weapons for Qian Xunji’s coup, and Qian Xunji praised their chances of success.
• Murong Huai revealed that he planned to obtain a thirty-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear as his fourth Spirit Ring, and Qian Xunji agreed that Marshal Murong could help hunt it.
• Qian Xunji explained that his Martial Soul had evolved into a Radiant Seraph and that he had reached level seventy-nine.
• Qian Xunji gave Murong Huai a sixty-thousand-year Spirit-Concentrating Wisdom Skull that enhanced spiritual power.

Murong Huai visited the Black Flame Army Camp to deliver a letter from his grandfather, Qian Xunji, asking Murong Fuhai to help him hunt a thirty-thousand-year-old Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear for a Spirit Ring. Murong Fuhai agreed after reading a second letter, and the pair prepared to go together.

• Murong Huai accepted the Head Soul Bone from Qian Xunji, who told him to prepare to take charge of Spirit Hall.
• Murong Huai arrived at the Black Flame Army Camp with Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and their companions, and the soldiers recognized him as the Young Marshal.
• Murong Huai watched the fifteen thousand recruits drill and learned that only about a third would pass the Black Flame Army's brutal three-year selection.
• Murong Huai gave Murong Fuhai a letter from Qian Xunji requesting that he take Murong Huai to hunt the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear for a Spirit Ring.
• Murong Fuhai initially tried to refuse because of recruit training, but Murong Huai showed him a second letter, prompting him to agree to go.

Murong Huai and Murong Fuhai led the Ghost Flower Snake group into the Star Dou Great Forest to find a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, but Heavenly Condemnation guided them to the Life Lake and its rulers. Murong Fuhai confronted the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python, and just as battle was about to begin, someone called for Da Ming and Er Ming to stop.

• Murong Fuhai brought Murong Huai and the three members of the Ghost Flower Snake group into the forest, and Heavenly Condemnation directed them west toward a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear.
• The group reached the Life Lake, where they found the Titan Giant Ape, and Heavenly Condemnation clarified that Xiong Jun was deep beneath the lake while another Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear was farther north.
• The Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python confronted the group, and Murong Fuhai warned Murong Huai that he could not defeat both beasts together.
• Murong Fuhai summoned his Demonic Flame Heavenly Dragon and stood against the two rulers as the Ghost Flower Snake group guarded Murong Huai.
• Just as Murong Fuhai and the two beasts prepared to clash, a clear voice told Da Ming and Er Ming to stop.

Murong Fuhai led his group away from Life Lake after Aunt Rou warned that his Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring came from a dangerous desert ruler. He then defeated a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear so Murong Huai could absorb its Spirit Ring, while Heavenly Condemnation dealt with the bear’s resentment and proposed confronting the beasts at the lake.

• Aunt Rou stopped the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape from attacking Murong Fuhai, explaining that his Spirit Ring came from the Blood Fiend Soul-Exploding Demon Dragon and its deadly Soul Explosion.
• Murong Fuhai found the thirty-thousand-year-old Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear in a northern valley and crushed it with his strength and Dragon Body technique.
• Murong Huai killed the weakened bear with the Immortal Lord Nine-Arrival Sword and began absorbing its Spirit Ring.
• The bear’s resentment overwhelmed Murong Huai’s Sea of Consciousness, but Heavenly Condemnation subdued it and absorbed its energy.
• Heavenly Condemnation asked Murong Huai when they would deal with the beasts in the middle of Life Lake.