Chapter Summaries

Murong Huai discovered a high-quality oil deposit and ordered it guarded so it could support future industrial development. At Martial Soul Academy, Ning Fengzhi and Shu Qingning confessed their mutual love, while Tu Zhanyue and Qin Tianzhen also reaffirmed their relationship.

• Gui Mei and Yue Guan found oil nearly two thousand meters underground, and Murong Huai collected it before ordering them and Dugu Bo to guard and seal the site.
• Murong Huai gave the stored oil to Mo Heng to refine into gasoline and diesel for future automobiles and trains.
• Ning Fengzhi confessed his feelings to Shu Qingning, who revealed she loved him too and gave him an Ice Spirit Pearl; they embraced.
• Tu Zhanyue made Qin Tianzhen promise not to run away again and to bring a betrothal gift to the Tu Clan, and he agreed to marry only her.
• Xuan Tianming and Wu Chuan smoked Liqun cigarettes together at the academy's rear mountain cliff.

Chen Jianjun challenged Qian Daoliu in the rear mountains of Spirit City's Worship Hall, hoping the battle would help him break through to level ninety-eight before his time ran out. Their clash left Chen Jianjun badly injured but still fighting, and his eighth attack made Qian Daoliu's golden barrier tremble.

• Chen Jianjun argued with Murong Chayue, then revealed he had come to challenge Qian Daoliu and explained that he hoped to break through before his life ended.
• Murong Chayue told Chen Jianjun that Qian Daoliu was waiting in the rear mountains and sent someone to summon the Holy Son to watch.
• Chen Jianjun arrived at the sparring platform and exchanged sword attacks with Qian Daoliu, whose defenses withstood his opening strikes.
• Chen Jianjun unleashed increasingly powerful Kill characters, including attacks that burned, devoured, and pierced through Qian Daoliu's defenses.
• Qian Daoliu's golden sun overwhelmed Chen Jianjun's seventh attack, blasting him into rubble and leaving his left arm broken.
• Chen Jianjun forced his arm back into place and launched a transparent eighth Kill character, which struck Qian Daoliu's golden barrier and made it tremble.

Qian Daoliu defeated Chen Jianjun in a duel of swordsmanship while Murong Huai watched and learned. Chen Jianjun died satisfied that he had glimpsed the ultimate sword realm, and Murong Huai buried him on the mountain where he had first practiced swordsmanship.

• Qian Daoliu challenged Chen Jianjun to a sword-only duel so Murong Huai could witness their swordsmanship.
• Chen Jianjun unleashed his sixth and seventh Soul Skills, but Qian Daoliu countered his attacks and left him badly injured.
• Chen Jianjun and Qian Daoliu unleashed their ninth Soul Skills in a final clash, and Qian Daoliu won as the Seven Kill Sword shattered.
• Chen Jianjun died after declaring that he had seen the ultimate realm of swordsmanship and that his path was not lonely.
• Murong Huai buried Chen Jianjun beside an ancient pine and vowed to reach the ultimate realm, while Qian Daoliu praised his sword talent.
• Qian Daoliu carved “[Sword Hero of Xili—Chen Jianjun.]” into the ancient pine.

Murong Huai ordered the Ministry of Works to begin building a strategically important Grand Canal, backed by machinery, fifty thousand workers, and three billion Gold Soul Coins. Qian Daoliu then invited him and Bibi Dong to travel to the Clear Sky Sect and onward to Sea God Island.

• The Ministry of Works presented Murong Huai with three canal routes, and he selected the longer route that bypassed the Star Luo Empire and passed near Suotuo City.
• Murong Huai assigned fifty thousand people and three billion Gold Soul Coins to finish the canal within a year, and gave Mo Heng authority over the canal and Xili City projects.
• Murong Huai reflected on his recent work and resolved to focus on reaching Spirit Douluo.
• Qian Daoliu summoned Murong Huai and said he planned to visit the Clear Sky Sect to meet Tang Chen before traveling with him to Sea God Island.
• Murong Huai agreed to go and asked to bring Bibi Dong, and Qian Daoliu approved their departure in two days.

Murong Huai and Bibi Dong accompanied Qian Daoliu to Clear Sky Sect, where Qian Daoliu reunited with Tang Chen. Murong Huai demanded the promised Great Sumeru Hammer technique in return for saving Tang Hao, but the elders objected and Tang Zhan appeared ready to renege.

• Qian Daoliu took Murong Huai and Bibi Dong to Clear Sky Sect, where Tang Chen welcomed him and praised his breakthrough to Limit Douluo.
• Tang Chen sensed that Murong Huai and Bibi Dong had extraordinary strength, then invited the visitors into the sect for a banquet.
• Tang Chen and Qian Daoliu left the hall to spar while Tang Zhan praised Murong Huai and Tang Hao thanked Murong Huai and Bibi Dong for saving him.
• Murong Huai reminded Tang Zhan that he had promised the Great Sumeru Hammer in exchange for saving Tang Hao.
• Tang Zhan explained the agreement to the elders, who objected to giving Clear Sky Sect's secret technique to an outsider.
• Murong Huai accused Clear Sky Sect of breaking its word as Tang Zhan began to respond.

Murong Huai confronted Tang Zhan and Clear Sky Sect’s elders over the promised Great Sumeru Hammer, then wagered that defeating the Council of Elders would earn him all three of the sect’s secret arts. The battle began with Murong Huai facing four Title Douluo, while Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen watched from a nearby peak.

• Tang Zhan and the elders refused to hand over the Great Sumeru Hammer directly and offered Murong Huai a choice of two other secret arts.
• Tang You proposed that Murong Huai endure the elders’ assault for the time it took two incense sticks to burn, but Murong Huai challenged the entire council instead.
• Murong Huai wagered that he would take all three secret arts if he defeated the elders, and would leave without further demands if he lost.
• Murong Huai assured Tang Zhan that he would not use the attack that had killed two Title Douluo, while Bibi Dong trusted him and Tang Xiao, Tang Hao, and Tang Yuehua feared for him.
• Murong Huai and the four elders took opposing mountain peaks and summoned their martial souls as Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen watched.

Murong Huai fought the four Clear Sky Sect elders and revealed a sword technique powerful enough to overcome their combined formation. He left the elders defeated and their Clear Sky Hammers damaged.

• The Fifth Elder attacked Murong Huai, but Murong Huai’s sword forced him back.
• Murong Huai evaded the Second Elder’s hammer strikes and shattered the Third Elder’s earthen wall, wounding him.
• The Fourth Elder used his Tool Soul Avatar and eighth spirit skill, but Murong Huai’s giant sword knocked away his hammer and sent him crashing into a cliff.
• The four elders formed the Clear Sky Formation and summoned a colossal hammer to strike Murong Huai.
• Murong Huai unleashed his sword technique, Silence, dissolving the giant hammer and defeating all four elders.
• The Second Elder asked what technique Murong Huai had used, and Murong Huai identified it as Silence, which annihilated all things.

After Murong Huai defeated four Clear Sky Sect elders, Tang Chen reprimanded them and apologized, then gave Murong Huai the sect’s three secret manuals. Tang Chen agreed to take Bibi Dong as his goddaughter, leaving her poised to gain the protection of the Clear Sky Sect’s Great Elder.

• Murong Huai returned to the hall after defeating the four elders, and Tang You tried to claim that he still had to defeat Great Elder Tang Chen.
• Tang Chen stormed in, knocked Tang You unconscious, scolded the elders and Tang Zhan for breaking their word, and declared Murong Huai’s Immortal Lord Nine-Arrival Sword the world’s number one tool Martial Soul for the next sixty years.
• Tang Chen told Tang Xiao and Tang Hao to win the title back someday, welcomed Tang Yuehua behind him, and apologized to Murong Huai for the Clear Sky Sect’s conduct.
• Tang Chen gave Murong Huai the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, Clear Sky Nine Absolutes, and Great Sumeru Hammer, allowing him to teach them to three pure-hearted people.
• Tang Chen offered to make Murong Huai his godson, but Murong Huai declined; Qian Daoliu then suggested Bibi Dong become Tang Chen’s goddaughter, and Tang Chen agreed.

Bibi Dong became Tang Chen’s adopted daughter and received a Spirit Bone as a gift while Murong Huai and his companions stayed at the Clear Sky Sect. In Spirit City, Gu Changfeng revived Qingyu but left Murong Fuhai a letter revealing his curse and farewell, leaving Fuhai devastated.

• Bibi Dong accepted Tang Chen as her adoptive father, and Tang Xiao, Tang Hao, and Tang Yuehua greeted her as Aunt Dong’er.
• Tang Chen gave Bibi Dong a poison-attributed Spirit Bone, and she removed the safeguard poison she had placed in Tang Hao.
• Tang Chen reprimanded Tang Zhan for breaking his promise, and Murong Huai later reflected on how he had defeated the four elders using Silence and Ring Fusion.
• Gu Changfeng met Murong Fuhai in Spirit City and showed him the revived Qingyu before disappearing and leaving a letter.
• Murong Fuhai read that Gu Changfeng had revived Qingyu with divine power, incurred the Asura God’s curse, and entrusted her to him; Fuhai broke down in grief.

Murong Huai and Bibi Dong investigated a mysterious scythe that resonated with Bibi Dong’s martial soul, then learned from Gui Mei that it shared an aura with a weapon that had transformed his martial soul. The chapter ended with Murong Huai deciding to investigate Death Valley for answers.

• Murong Huai gave Qian Daoliu a booklet before Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen departed for Sea God Island.
• Murong Huai showed Bibi Dong the broken scythe he had found in the Star Luo Empire’s treasury, and she sensed a connection between it and her Death Spider Emperor martial soul.
• Bibi Dong touched the scythe and saw a vision of a powerful black-robed figure wielding a purple-black scythe.
• Gui Mei told Murong Huai that a similar weapon had transformed his martial soul when he was a child in a forest within Death Valley.
• Murong Huai decided to take Bibi Dong and investigate Death Valley.

Murong Huai, Bibi Dong, and Gui Mei searched Death Valley after Murong Huai's scythe resonated with something in a poisonous forest. They found a cave and were confronted by a gigantic, deadly soul beast.

• Murong Huai decided to explore Death Valley with Bibi Dong and asked Gui Mei to lead them to the forest where he had encountered a mysterious figure.
• Gui Mei guided Murong Huai and Bibi Dong through Death Valley, warning them about its dangerous terrain and poisonous creatures.
• Murong Huai's scythe began glowing in the forest, and Bibi Dong sensed that it was guiding them southeast toward something that might share its source.
• The trio followed the scythe's signal to a cave, where a burst of purple energy emerged and Gui Mei shielded them before attacking inside.
• A huge, venomous dragon-serpent soul beast charged out of the cave, and Gui Mei recognized it.

Murong Huai and Bibi Dong entered a hidden secret realm beneath Death Valley, where a black-mist swordsman attacked them before joining with Bibi Dong’s broken scythe. The realm collapsed and transported them to an ancient altar, where a black crystal filled with struggling soul shadows awaited them.

• Murong Huai sent Gui Mei to hold off the Necrotic Poison Flood Dragon while he and Bibi Dong searched the cave.
• Bibi Dong used the broken scythe to find an altar and open a gate into a secret realm.
• A black-mist swordsman attacked Murong Huai, then lowered its blade when it sensed Bibi Dong’s scythe.
• Bibi Dong touched the broken scythe to the black-mist blade, and the blade fused with it to restore the weapon.
• The secret realm collapsed and transported Murong Huai, Bibi Dong, and the black mist to an ancient altar surrounded by nine skeleton-bound pillars and a black crystal.

Bibi Dong encountered the Death God’s phantom and agreed to undergo the Reincarnation Death God’s inheritance trials. The first trial required her to kill one hundred undead demons within a year.

• The Death God’s phantom emerged from the black crystal, reclaimed the Death God’s Magic Sickle, and recognized Xiao You.
• The Death God named Bibi Dong as his inheritor and explained that he had fallen during his ninth cycle of death and rebirth amid the Dragon God War.
• After Murong Huai confirmed that the phantom showed no malice, Bibi Dong accepted the inheritance trials despite their deadly risks.
• Bibi Dong touched the Reincarnation Death God Stele and received the divine mark and the first of the nine trials: kill one hundred undead demons within one year.

Bibi Dong accepted the Death God's First Trial and learned that she had to slay one hundred poison-immune necromantic monsters within a year. She entered the Necromantic Space with Murong Huai and Xiao You, where Murong Huai destroyed their first opponent with his sword.

• Bibi Dong told Murong Huai that she had accepted the Death God's Nine Trials and learned her first task was to kill one hundred necromantic monsters within a year.
• Xiao You explained that necromantic monsters were undead beings created from lingering souls, were immune to poison, and could be fought with the Death God's Magic Sickle.
• Xiao You gave Bibi Dong the Death God's Magic Sickle and explained how she could awaken the power of death.
• Bibi Dong, Murong Huai, and Xiao You entered the Death God's trial space to inspect the necromantic monsters.
• A necromantic monster attacked Bibi Dong, resisted her poison, and survived Murong Huai's initial sword strike.
• Murong Huai summoned the Immortal Lord Nine-Arrival Sword and cut the monster in two, destroying it and leaving a black crystal.

Murong Huai helped Bibi Dong learn to fight undead monsters with the Death God Magic Sickle, and Xiao You revealed that its matching techniques were called the Nine Forms of the Magic Sickle. After learning she had to complete the sixth trial to leave the Death God Secret Realm, Bibi Dong accepted Murong Huai's protective barrier and prepared to train while he left, promising to return within five years.

• Xiao You explained that undead monsters were vulnerable to Murong Huai's metal and holy light attributes, while Bibi Dong would need the Death God Magic Sickle to fight them.
• Murong Huai injured an undead monster and urged Bibi Dong to test the sickle; she studied its attack rhythm, exploited its weakness, and killed it.
• Xiao You told Bibi Dong that the Death God Magic Sickle had a matching technique set called the Nine Forms of the Magic Sickle, and Murong Huai advised her to train with it for several months or half a year.
• Xiao You said Bibi Dong could leave the Death God Secret Realm only after completing the sixth trial, so Murong Huai arranged a protective barrier for her with Heavenly Condemnation's help.
• Murong Huai told Bibi Dong he had to leave the secret realm, and she promised to train hard as he vowed to return within five years.

After leaving Death Valley, Murong Huai told Gui Mei that Bibi Dong had stayed behind to cultivate after gaining the Death God’s inheritance. Back at Murong Mansion, he met Yan Qingyu, accepted her gift of Gold of Life, and told his family he would leave for the Dragon Spine Mountain Range to continue his training.

• Murong Huai left Death Valley with Gui Mei and explained that Bibi Dong had been recognized by the Death God and remained in the cave to cultivate.
• Murong Huai sent Gui Mei to inform Qian Xunji about Bibi Dong, then returned to Murong Mansion and met Yan Qingyu.
• Yan Qingyu gave Murong Huai a piece of Gold of Life, and Wu Xianyun learned that he planned to leave for further training.
• Murong Huai shared dinner with his family and departed for the Dragon Spine Mountain Range early the next morning.

Murong Huai returned to the Dragon Spine Mountain Range to learn the Dragon Kings’ remaining supreme techniques and found Time Dragon King had passed away. Mountain Dragon King urged him to begin cultivating his second martial soul, and Murong Huai agreed to face it.

• Murong Huai flew past the canal construction site in the Cangwu Desert and approved of the security and progress before continuing to the Dragon Spine Mountain Range.
• Wind Dragon attacked Murong Huai upon his arrival, and Amethyst Shining Thunder Dragon joined them and escorted him toward the Dragon Fall Secret Realm.
• Murong Huai met Murong Zhige and the eight Dragon Kings, who told him that Time Dragon King had passed away.
• Mountain Dragon King explained that Time Dragon King’s four-times-faster cultivation secret realm remained available for Murong Huai to use.
• Mountain Dragon King urged Murong Huai to cultivate his second martial soul, and Murong Huai agreed to face it.

Murong Huai began cultivating his second martial soul, Austin Griffin, and absorbed the Thunder Dragon’s spirit ring to gain control over its power. After surviving the lightning body tempering, he reached level seventy-six and greatly strengthened his body and abilities.

• Murong Huai resolved to stop fearing Heavenly Punishment and begin cultivating Austin Griffin under the Dragon Kings’ guidance.
• The Emerald Dragon King summoned the Thunder Dragon, and the Dragon Kings explained how its lightning attribute would temper Murong Huai’s body and aid his cultivation.
• The Thunder Dragon sacrificed itself for the Divine Beast Clan, and its lightning origin became a spirit ring that Austin Griffin absorbed into Murong Huai.
• Murong Huai endured the lightning’s agony as it widened his meridians, strengthened his bones, and tempered his body.
• Murong Huai absorbed the nearly two-hundred-thousand-year spirit ring and a 190,000-year right arm bone, reaching level seventy-six and advancing his Mountain Dragon King technique.

Murong Huai trained in the Dark Dragon King's Nirvana Dark Soul, learning to balance dark power with light, then spent three years before beginning the Wind Dragon King's Hurricane Cloud-Breaker. He grasped the technique's basic form and continued learning ways to wield wind.

• Murong Huai chose to train in the Dark Dragon King's ultimate art first, following the order of his masters.
• The Dark Dragon King taught Murong Huai to use light power to guide dark souls, and his origin dragon blood helped him form a Yin-Yang Diagram of light and darkness.
• Murong Huai drew dark aura into himself and learned that he must use darkness for protection and punishment rather than slaughter.
• Three years later, Murong Huai trained with the Wind Dragon King, learned to deflect gale force with the Wind-Unloading Formula, and condensed a wind core.
• Murong Huai unleashed Hurricane Cloud-Breaker against the secret realm's restriction, then learned more wind techniques from the Wind Dragon King.

Murong Huai learned to sense and guide earth-element energy under the Earth Dragon King's instruction, then completed the beginner stage of Earthly Law of the World. He began training in the Fire Dragon King's World-Burning Heavenly Execution, where he faced the fear that had once held him back from his Heavenly Scourge Power.

• Murong Huai entered the Earth Dragon King's dragon pillar space to learn Earthly Law of the World.
• The Earth Dragon King taught Murong Huai to coexist with earth elements rather than control them, and Murong Huai used them to block and command stone spikes.
• Three years later, Murong Huai completed the beginner stage of Earthly Law of the World and went to the Fire Dragon King's dragon pillar space.
• The Fire Dragon King began teaching World-Burning Heavenly Execution by challenging Murong Huai to burn away his cowardice.
• Murong Huai recalled the fear he had felt when Austin Griffin's power first awakened and resolved to take control of his own power.