Chapter Summaries

Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun left Spirit City and headed east after deciding to seek out Canghai City. As their fame attracted people coveting their Spirit Bones, Ning Fengzhi spread word that the treasures were protected by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Dugu Bo, driving the would-be thieves away.

• Chen Xuan explained that Canghai City treated Soul Masters and commoners equally and punished anyone who broke its rules.
• Gu Rong, Ning Fengzhi, Ning Rongrong, Dugu Bo, and Dugu Yan left the tavern, while Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun chose to travel east toward the East Sea.
• Dugu Bo warned Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun that their next meeting might astonish people, and Zhou Qiubai promised Chen Xuan they should fight next time they met.
• Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun passed through Spirit City's gates and departed as stories of their tournament victory spread across the continent.
• Ning Fengzhi used the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's network to claim that the sect and Dugu Bo held the Spirit Bones, discouraging factions from targeting Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun.
• Ning Fengzhi told Gu Rong he had spread the story to protect Zhou Qiubai and repay the favor of receiving the Spirit Bones.

Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong discussed strengthening ties with the Breaking Clan and Dugu Family as Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun stayed away from Heaven Dou City. At the victory ceremony and banquet, the empire honored the tournament teams while Shrek faced gossip about earning second place through luck.

• Ning Fengzhi told Gu Rong to strengthen cooperation with the Breaking Clan and have Ning Rongrong spend more time with Dugu Yan.
• Xue Ye welcomed the tournament teams to Heaven Dou City and praised the empire's championship before announcing rewards.
• Chen Xuan accepted the champions' awards on behalf of Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun, who were granted the titles of marquis without fiefs.
• Flender kept Ma Hongjun's prize money and urged him to use it to support his plan to lose weight.
• Dai Mubai invited Ma Hongjun to Willow Catkin, but Ma Hongjun claimed he had lost interest in vulgar women.
• Other academy representatives criticized Shrek's runner-up finish as a result of Spirit Hall Academy's injuries, while Flender admitted luck had helped them.

After hiding in Spirit City, Tang San was ambushed by two Spirit Hall Titled Douluo who demanded his Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Bone. Outmatched and unable to find Tang Hao, he tried to buy time by challenging them to a bet.

• Tang San secretly remained in Spirit City after the Heaven Dou group left and slipped out at night to meet his father, unaware that several people had been watching him.
• Tang Hao followed Tang San from the shadows and planned to take him away once he left Spirit City's range.
• Demon Bear Douluo and Ghost Leopard Douluo trapped Tang San on a deserted trail and demanded that he surrender his Soft Bone Rabbit Right Arm Spirit Bone.
• Tang San warned that Xiao Wu's Teleportation skill could help him escape, but Ghost Leopard Douluo said his speed would overwhelm it.
• Realizing he was no match for the two Titled Douluo and that Tang Hao was absent, Tang San proposed a bet, but they refused to negotiate and demanded the Spirit Bone.

Tang Hao arrived to protect Tang San from four Spirit Hall Title Douluo, but his old injuries left him far weaker than before. Tang San fled while Tang Hao faced the attackers alone, and the chapter ended with Magic Bear blocking his hammer strike.

• Tang Hao confronted Magic Bear and Ghost Leopard, then faced Yue Guan and Ghost when they joined the fight.
• Tang Hao secretly assessed the four enemies and gave Tang San a Storage Soul Tool, ordering him to escape.
• Tang San fled east using Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track while Tang Hao unleashed his Soul Power and attacked with the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Ghost, Magic Bear, Ghost Leopard, and Yue Guan coordinated their assault, preparing to use the Polar Static Domain.
• Magic Bear blocked Tang Hao's hammer with his bear paws and redirected the impact into the ground as Ghost and Ghost Leopard moved to surround him.

Tang Hao endured a coordinated assault by Yue Guan, Ghost, Magic Bear, and Ghost Leopard while buying Tang San time to escape. He detonated his Soul Rings to break their Polar Static Domain and vanished into the night, leaving the four Title Douluo furious and searching for him.

• Ghost Leopard and Ghost attacked Tang Hao from opposite sides as Yue Guan and Magic Bear joined the assault, but Tang Hao survived their first combined attack.
• Tang Hao realized he needed to keep the four Title Douluo occupied long enough for Tang San to escape, then find a chance to flee himself.
• Yue Guan and Ghost activated the Polar Static Domain, freezing movement and trapping Tang Hao with them.
• Tang Hao detonated his first four Soul Rings, tearing through the domain and injuring Yue Guan and Ghost, but Magic Bear and Ghost Leopard struck him with their Soul Skills.
• Tang Hao detonated two more Soul Rings, then sacrificed Ah Yin’s 100,000-year Soul Ring to blast the four Title Douluo back and escape into the night.
• Yue Guan, Ghost, Magic Bear, and Ghost Leopard recovered to find Tang Hao gone and angrily wondered where he had fled.

After Spirit Hall’s four elders failed to capture Tang Hao and Tang San, Tang Hao struggled onward while Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun traveled toward Canghai City. The two sensed a hidden presence in the forest, and Zhou Qiubai wondered whether it was injured.

• Ghost Leopard, Magic Bear, Yue Guan, and the fourth elder abandoned their pursuit of Tang Hao and Tang San, deciding to wait for Tang San to seek supplies.
• Tang Hao reached a stream, bandaged his wounds, and continued into the night to find Tang San.
• Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun discussed Canghai City’s layout and its rule against Soul Masters oppressing commoners.
• Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun took a quiet road east toward Canghai City and entered a dense forest.
• Zhou Qiubai sensed a hidden, intermittent presence in the forest, and Yang Guyun prepared his spear.

Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun confronted the badly injured Tang Hao in a valley, where Zhou challenged his habit of killing to protect Tang San. Tang Hao wavered under Zhou’s accusations as the two young men stood ready to fight, and Zhou pressed him to consider what Tang San truly needed from a father.

• Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun left the forest for open ground, where Zhou called out the person following them.
• Tang Hao emerged, and Zhou recognized his injuries and guessed that he had fought someone from Spirit Hall.
• Zhou criticized Tang Hao for clearing the way for Tang San and recounted how Tang San had struggled to accept defeat.
• Tang Hao released his remaining Soul Power and ordered the two juniors to leave, while Zhou and Yang Guyun prepared to fight.
• Zhou told Tang Hao that Tang San might need a father who taught him he did not have to kill, and Tang Hao told him to shut up.

Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun fought the gravely injured Tang Hao, using their coordinated sword and spear attacks to exploit his weakness. Tang Hao unleashed Divine Slaughter's Domain and prepared to risk everything, while Zhou Qiubai spotted a brief opening in his old injuries.

• Zhou Qiubai realized Tang Hao was severely weakened, but warned Yang Guyun that a cornered Title Douluo remained dangerous.
• Zhou Qiubai guarded against Tang Hao's shockwave with Sword Guard while Yang Guyun endured it and readied his spear.
• Zhou Qiubai forced Tang Hao to dodge a strike at his wrist, then cut his robe as Yang Guyun drove him back with a spear thrust.
• Tang Hao unleashed Divine Slaughter's Domain, slowing Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun's Soul Power as he prepared another attack.
• Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun held their positions, and Zhou Qiubai noticed Tang Hao's Soul Power faltered at the sites of his old wounds.

Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun coordinated their attacks against Tang Hao, but he concentrated his Divine Slaughter's Domain and detonated a 100,000-year Soul Ring. The two prepared to meet his Great Sumeru Hammer with their strongest techniques as Tang Hao resolved that they could not be allowed to live, and Zhou Qiubai drew his sword.

• Zhou Qiubai disrupted Tang Hao with his sword while Yang Guyun used Returnless Spear to strike at openings in Tang Hao's defense.
• Tang Hao concentrated Divine Slaughter's Domain around himself, slowing Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun, then detonated his 100,000-year Soul Ring.
• Yang Guyun gathered his Soul Power into Returnless Spear and unleashed Blood Dragon Transformation while Zhou Qiubai summoned moonlight into White Clothes Sword.
• Tang Hao decided Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun were too dangerous to spare and brought his Great Sumeru Hammer down with the force of the exploded Soul Ring.
• Zhou Qiubai drew his sword to meet Tang Hao's hammer strike head-on.

Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun combined their Sword Intent and Spear Intent to break through Tang Hao’s Clear Sky Hammer, leaving all three badly injured. Tang Hao unleashed a final, desperate attack, but Zhou Qiubai began dismantling its force with his self-created techniques and Autumn Intent.

• Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun joined their Sword Intent and Spear Intent to tear open the Clear Sky Hammer’s hammer wind and strike its core.
• Tang Hao, Zhou Qiubai, and Yang Guyun suffered injuries from the collision, and a crack appeared on Tang Hao’s Martial Soul.
• Tang Hao raised his hammer and unleashed a final attack, filling the valley with violent currents meant to kill Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun.
• Zhou Qiubai used his Way of Clever Acquisition to borrow the hammer wind’s momentum and avoid confronting it directly, while Yang Guyun attacked through its gaps with his spear.
• Zhou Qiubai sheathed his sword and spread Autumn Intent, freezing and dismantling Tang Hao’s hammer force from within.

Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun defeated Tang Hao in a brutal battle, and Zhou Qiubai killed him after hearing his final plea to spare Tang San. The two young men stood over Tang Hao’s corpse as Zhou Qiubai began searching it for the Spirit Bone.

• Zhou Qiubai’s Autumn Intent weakened Tang Hao’s Clear Sky Hammer, allowing Yang Guyun to join his spear strike with Zhou Qiubai’s sword and overwhelm him.
• The combined attack gravely wounded Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun, shattered Tang Hao’s hammer, and left Tang Hao dying from his injuries and the backlash of detonating his 100,000-year Soul Ring.
• Tang Hao asked Zhou Qiubai not to harm Tang San, and Zhou Qiubai said he would leave Tang San alone unless Tang San provoked him.
• Tang Hao accepted his defeat and asked Zhou Qiubai to finish him, so Zhou Qiubai cut his throat and killed him.
• Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun stood silently beside Tang Hao’s corpse before Zhou Qiubai used a jade knife to examine it for the Spirit Bone.

Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun stripped six Spirit Bones from Tang Hao, burned his corpse, and escaped the scene while injured. By a stream, they reflected on the battle and recognized that luck and Tang Hao’s existing injuries had helped them survive.

• Zhou Qiubai identified Tang Hao’s six remaining Spirit Bones, including two Clear Sky Sect inheritance pieces, and he and Yang Guyun speculated that Tang San had the missing 100,000-year Spirit Bone.
• Zhou Qiubai stored the Spirit Bones and set Tang Hao’s corpse alight to conceal his identity and their actions.
• Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun left the valley and stopped at a stream to clean their wounds and recover.
• Yang Guyun said the battle had brought him closer to becoming stronger and helped him understand how to improve his spear technique.
• Zhou Qiubai noted that Spirit Hall’s Title Douluo had already weakened Tang Hao and that their victory depended largely on luck.

After defeating Tang Hao, Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun recovered by a stream and discussed how the battle had strengthened them and confirmed their fighting method. They decided to sell their Spirit Bones, heal, and continue east toward Canghai City once Yang Guyun reached Soul Emperor.

• Zhou Qiubai told Yang Guyun that luck had helped them defeat Tang Hao and wondered where Tang San had gone with the Clear Sky Sect's location and the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.
• Zhou Qiubai discovered that his Soul Power had risen three levels during the battle, while Yang Guyun had risen two, and they agreed to stabilize their gains before attempting another breakthrough.
• Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun reflected on how their tactics had outmaneuvered Tang Hao and concluded that their path of cultivating Soul Power quality was working, though they still had a long way to go.
• Zhou Qiubai proposed selling their Spirit Bones and heading east to Canghai City after they recovered and grew stronger.
• Yang Guyun said they would wait until he reached Soul Emperor before entering Canghai City, and Zhou Qiubai agreed.

Tang San fled from Spirit City and fused his mother's Spirit Bone, gaining powerful healing and flight abilities. Believing Tang Hao would meet him at the Capital of Slaughter, he studied the Clear Sky Sect techniques and resolved to accelerate his cultivation, unaware that his father was likely dead.

• Tang San rested in the forest after days of fleeing, using his awakened Blue Silver Emperor senses to watch for approaching people.
• Tang San opened Tang Hao's Storage Soul Tool, found his mother's Spirit Bone, and fused it with his left leg.
• Tang San learned that the Spirit Bone granted rapid regeneration and flight, and he felt that Tang Hao had given him everything.
• Tang San wondered why Tang Hao had not caught up, but reassured himself that his father was powerful and might have been delayed.
• Tang San studied the Clear Sky Sect's secret techniques and planned to master them before going to the Capital of Slaughter.
• Tang San put off visiting his aunt and the Clear Sky Sect, focused on becoming stronger, and looked forward to confronting Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun.

Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun reached a nearly deserted town and learned that Soul Masters had been dying there mysteriously after going out at night. They stayed despite the innkeeper's warning, and Zhou Qiubai grew interested in investigating the deaths.

• Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun followed the stream east until they reached a remote town with few residents and almost no open shops.
• Zhou Qiubai paid for two rooms at the town's inn, and the innkeeper warned them to leave because of strange incidents involving Soul Masters.
• The innkeeper explained that Soul Masters had been found dead in alleys after going out after dark, with no visible wounds or signs of poison.
• The innkeeper said a hired Soul King had also died after patrolling the town at night, and that the townspeople feared hiring stronger Soul Masters.
• Zhou Qiubai became more curious about the deaths, while Yang Guyun questioned the innkeeper about the timing of the incidents.

Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun bought medicine in a town where residents warned them that Soul Masters died after dark. They returned to the inn, barricaded themselves inside, and Zhou Qiubai decided they would investigate the ghost once Yang Guyun recovered.

• Zhou Qiubai took the innkeeper’s key and asked where to find an apothecary before nightfall.
• Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun bought medicine from an elderly apothecary, who warned them that hired Soul Masters had all died and urged them to stay inside after dark.
• The apothecary explained that the elderly stayed in town because it was their home and they had nowhere else to go.
• The innkeeper let Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun inside, reinforced the door, and told them not to go out after dark.
• After treating their wounds, Zhou Qiubai told Yang Guyun they would investigate the ghost when Yang Guyun recovered, and Yang Guyun agreed.

Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun investigated the supposedly haunted town at night and encountered a force that warped the street and concealed their reflections. After the strange phenomenon vanished, they remained on guard, unsure whether a person or something supernatural was behind it.

• Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun slipped out of the inn and searched the silent, shuttered streets.
• Zhou Qiubai questioned whether Fallen Soul Masters were responsible, but Yang Guyun argued that the intact corpses did not match their methods.
• An untraceable laugh sounded, and water appeared on the road without reflecting Zhou Qiubai or Yang Guyun.
• The town’s walls turned pale, the lantern went dark, and strange footsteps closed in from every direction.
• Zhou Qiubai drew the White Clothes Sword, and the darkness, water, and footsteps vanished as the moonlight returned.
• Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun stood back-to-back, alert to the possibility that someone had caused the haunting.

Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun faced a growing swarm of emotionless, intangible beings that hunted Soul Masters and could not be harmed by physical attacks. As the creatures surrounded them and one chilled Zhou Qiubai’s ankle, they decided to try magical attacks instead.

• Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun concluded that the beings were not wraiths and seemed to follow rules, appearing at night to hunt Soul Masters.
• The creatures returned as clouds covered the moon, and Zhou Qiubai sensed them closing in from every direction.
• Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun’s sword and spear passed through the creatures, which quickly reformed unharmed.
• Yang Guyun asked whether they should retreat, but Zhou Qiubai argued that the street had become the creatures’ domain and fleeing would leave them at a greater disadvantage.
• The beings surrounded the two men, and Zhou Qiubai realized one had touched his ankle and made it icy cold.
• Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun decided to abandon physical attacks and try magical ones.

Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun discovered that released Soul Power could damage the Gray Shadows, but the swarming enemies threatened to exhaust them. Zhou Qiubai then realized they could recall their Martial Souls and reform them from Soul Power, leaving him wielding two glowing swords.

• Zhou Qiubai used a Soul Power sword wave to knock back the Gray Shadows, and Yang Guyun destroyed one with a Soul Power-infused spear thrust.
• Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun struggled against the growing horde as their injuries and dwindling Soul Power made prolonged fighting impossible.
• A Gray Shadow struck Zhou Qiubai's wounded arm, and he realized their Martial Souls might be more effective if recalled and reforged.
• Zhou Qiubai recalled the White Clothes Sword and condensed it again from Soul Power, while Yang Guyun followed his lead and understood how to unite with his spear.
• Zhou Qiubai formed a second Soul Power sword in his left hand and faced the Gray Shadows with twin blades.

Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun used their Soul weapons to turn the fight against the gray shadows, but their rapidly draining Soul Power left them close to collapse. Zhou Qiubai realized the shadows were condensations of Negative Energy that could be harmed by attribute-less Soul Power, though the chapter ended before they acted on this discovery.

• Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun attacked the gray shadows with their Soul Sword and Soul Spear, destroying them instead of letting them reform.
• The shadows grew hesitant and fearful, while Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun continued fighting despite their worsening injuries and dwindling Soul Power.
• Zhou Qiubai recognized that the shadows only appeared at night, hunted Soul Masters for their Soul Power, and avoided places filled with the presence of living people.
• Zhou Qiubai concluded that the shadows were Negative Energy formed from suppressed emotions and that attribute-less Soul Power could purify them.