Chapter Summaries

Xue Xing confronted Xue Beng over his lack of ambition and reconsidered his support for him, deciding Xue Qinghe was better suited to rule. Meanwhile, the Clear Sky Sect prepared to send Seventh Elder to Heaven Dou City, where Tang San’s auction of Tang Hao’s Spirit Bones threatened to draw the sect into a major conflict.

• Xue Beng dismissed the confiscation of Cui’s property as irrelevant to him, while Xue Xing warned that Xue Qinghe’s decisive reforms made him a capable and potentially dangerous emperor.
• Xue Xing told Xue Beng he could do nothing beyond pursuing leisure, then sent him away and concluded he was not fit to be emperor.
• Xue Xing recalled that Tang Hao’s two Spirit Bones would be auctioned in Heaven Dou City in three months and anticipated that Tang Xiao would react to the public sale.
• Tang San returned from Gengxin City with a large supply of metal, though he had not met Lou Gao.
• Tang Yuehua’s message reached Tang San, reporting that Seventh Elder would lead people from the Clear Sky Sect to Heaven Dou City, but the sect had little money to spare.

Tang San accepted that he might have to seize his father's auctioned Spirit Bones if he could not buy them. At Dugu Manor, Zhou Qiubai predicted that the auction would draw powerful factions to Heaven Dou City, while Xie Ru arrived to hear about Zhou Qiubai's research into self-created Soul Rings.

• Tang San told Tai Tan that he might use force to reclaim his father's Spirit Bones if no one secured them at auction.
• Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun discussed Xue Qinghe's confiscations and the wealth they had brought into the treasury.
• Zhou Qiubai predicted that the auction in three months would draw the Clear Sky Sect, Spirit Hall, and other powerful figures to Heaven Dou City.
• Xie Ru visited Dugu Manor, greeted Zhou Qiubai, Yang Guyun, and Chen Xuan, and asked about Zhou Qiubai's research into self-created Soul Rings.
• Zhou Qiubai began explaining the traditional theory that Soul Rings were Soul Power imprints left by dead Spirit Beasts.

Zhou Qiubai explained his plan to create a soul ring using his own Soul Power, while Chen Xuan warned him that auctioning Tang Hao’s Spirit Bones could bring powerful enemies. Xie Ru ordered them to keep any coming fight outside the city and began explaining why ordinary people must not pay for the conflicts of Soul Masters.

• Zhou Qiubai told Xie Ru he hoped to create a soul ring by using his own Soul Power to reproduce the energy resonance that formed one.
• Chen Xuan warned Zhou Qiubai that the auction of Tang Hao’s Spirit Bones could expose him and Yang Guyun to enemies beyond Tang Hao’s allies.
• Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun accepted the danger, and Zhou Qiubai said Dantai Canglan was bringing Ghost Leopard to Heaven Dou City for a transaction with Spirit Hall.
• Xie Ru instructed them to fight outside the city if their enemies came, no matter whether they were Title Douluo, consecrated elders, or Qian Daoliu.
• Xie Ru explained that people who chose identities such as nobles or Soul Masters had to accept their risks, then began to distinguish those who had no right to choose.

Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun discussed protecting commoners from the fallout of battles over Tang Hao’s Spirit Bones, while Qian Renxue learned that the bones’ sellers lived at Dugu Manor. She concluded that Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun were strong enough to kill a Title Douluo, forcing Spirit Hall to reconsider its approach to them.

• Zhou Qiubai agreed with Xie Ru that commoners should not suffer for others’ conflicts and said he and Yang Guyun must hold to that principle.
• After Xie Ru left, Zhou Qiubai asked Yang Guyun about Xie Ru’s strength, and Yang Guyun declined to speculate.
• Zhou Qiubai told Yang Guyun that Dantai Canglan and Ghost Leopard would arrive near Heaven Dou City in three or four days for the Spirit Bone transaction, prompting him to wonder whom Bibi Dong would send.
• She Long reported to Qian Renxue that the two young men living in Dugu Manor were selling Tang Hao’s inherited Spirit Bones.
• Qian Renxue concluded that Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun had killed Tang Hao and now possessed the strength to kill a Title Douluo.

Qian Renxue decided to negotiate with Zhou Qiubai over the Clear Sky Sect’s inherited Spirit Bones and Ghost Leopard’s ransom rather than confront him openly. As the auction approached, Dantai Canglan arrived at Dugu Manor with Shui Bing’er and a bound Ghost Leopard in tow.

• Qian Renxue judged that Spirit Hall could not safely attack Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun, whose strength and standing among Rogue Cultivators made open conflict too risky.
• Qian Renxue sent She Long and Salas to sound Zhou Qiubai out about selling the Spirit Bones and to discuss Ghost Leopard’s ransom.
• Qian Renxue told She Long not to threaten Zhou Qiubai or act like a Title Douluo, and said she would meet him after the auction.
• Dantai Canglan entered the city with Shui Bing’er and Ghost Leopard bound to the rear of a carriage.
• Zhou Qiubai saw the group arrive at Dugu Manor and was surprised by Ghost Leopard’s miserable condition.

Zhou Qiubai received Ghost Leopard, who had been captured and brought to Canghai City, while Dantai Canglan reported on the city's growth and a proposed partnership with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. The chapter ended with Dantai Canglan explaining why Canghai City's people despised Spirit Hall's privileged Soul Masters.

• Dantai Canglan brought the bound, Soul Power-sealed Ghost Leopard to Zhou Qiubai's courtyard, where Dugu Bo mocked him.
• Shui Bing'er told Zhou Qiubai that Ghost Leopard had tried to escape but had failed to get far without his Soul Power.
• Dantai Canglan reported that the Wind, Fire, and Water families had relocated to Canghai City, bringing its registered Soul Masters to more than three thousand.
• Dantai Canglan told Zhou Qiubai that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had proposed a long-term exchange of goods and supplies, and Zhou Qiubai left the negotiations to Lu Qinghou and the others.
• Dantai Canglan said Canghai City's people despised Spirit Hall's Soul Masters for relying on ordinary people while monopolizing fertile land and refusing to work it themselves.

She Long and Salas arrived at Dugu Manor to negotiate with Zhou Qiubai and the others, while Ghost Leopard reflected on Spirit Hall’s belief that Soul Masters stood above ordinary people. She Long approached the meeting knowing Spirit Hall had lost and that its forces in Heaven Dou City could not match the people before him.

• Dantai Canglan said Canghai City would not interfere with other factions unless they threatened the city, and Zhou Qiubai pointed out Ghost Leopard’s helplessness after his Soul Power was sealed.
• Ghost Leopard admitted that Spirit Hall’s doctrine had made its members feel superior and that he now understood his status depended on his Soul Power.
• She Long and Salas entered Dugu Manor, where She Long introduced himself as Snake Lance Douluo.
• She Long greeted the people in the courtyard humbly, while Salas followed him in fear of Zhou Qiubai’s strength.
• She Long considered that Spirit Hall’s forces could not win a confrontation in Heaven Dou City unless Qian Daoliu intervened, so he prepared to negotiate from a position of defeat.

She Long negotiated with Zhou Qiubai over Ghost Leopard’s ransom and the Clear Sky Sect’s inherited Spirit Bones, while Zhou Qiubai tested whether She Long was acting for Spirit Hall or the person in Heaven Dou Palace. She Long admitted whom he represented, but Zhou refused to lower the ransom and postponed any decision on the Spirit Bones until after the auction.

• She Long asked Zhou Qiubai to reduce Ghost Leopard’s ransom and privately sell Spirit Hall the Clear Sky Sect’s two inherited Spirit Bones before the auction.
• Zhou Qiubai asked whether She Long had come on behalf of Spirit Hall or the person in Heaven Dou Palace.
• When Zhou Qiubai tried to end the meeting, Salas objected, but She Long admitted he had come on behalf of that person.
• Zhou Qiubai refused to reduce Ghost Leopard’s ransom, citing the costs of keeping him in Canghai City’s dungeon.
• Zhou Qiubai said he would discuss selling the Spirit Bones only after the next day’s auction.

She Long reported his meeting with Zhou Qiubai to Qian Renxue, who decided to meet him after the auction. As Heaven Dou City’s factions gathered for the sale of Tang Hao’s Spirit Bones, Tang San and Clear Sky Sect elders prepared to reclaim them.

• She Long told Qian Renxue that Zhou Qiubai would reveal the truth after the auction, and she resolved to meet him in person afterward.
• The Heaven Dou Grand Auction House filled with powerful families, merchant guilds, sects, and Title Douluo ahead of the auction.
• Tang Qingqing and Tang Lie questioned Tang Yuehua about the Spirit Bones said to have belonged to Tang Hao, while Tang Lie condemned Tang Hao for losing them.
• Tang San left the elders’ room and listened outside as Tang Lie denounced his father, then Tang Yuehua assured him the sect would reclaim Tang Hao’s things.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin watched from a private room as the crowded Auction House awaited the auction.

Ning Fengzhi, Spirit Hall, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan weighed the risks of competing for two Clear Sky Sect Spirit Bones as the auction began. The Clear Sky Sect arrived, and the chapter ended with an unidentified voice demanding that the Spirit Bones be returned.

• Ning Fengzhi told Chen Xin that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would stay out of the bidding to avoid trouble with the Clear Sky Sect.
• Yue Guan and Ghost discussed Spirit Hall’s plan to reclaim the Spirit Bones, while Salas and Yu Luomian grew uneasy about the auction.
• The auctioneer prepared to present the sole item, fearing the powerful factions would make him a scapegoat.
• Tang Qingqing, Tang Lie, Tang San, and Tang Yuehua arrived at the auction house, with Tang Lie’s aura pressing over the hall.
• The auctioneer revealed the two Spirit Bones, and an unidentified speaker demanded their return.

Tang San recognized his father’s Spirit Bones at auction, prompting the Clear Sky Sect and Spirit Hall to clash over them. As their bidding standoff grew tense, Zhou Qiubai challenged the Clear Sky Sect’s claim by recalling that it had expelled Tang Hao.

• Tang San recognized the two Spirit Bones as his father’s and reacted with fury and grief.
• Tang Qingqing identified himself as a Clear Sky Sect elder and asked the crowd to yield the Spirit Bones to his sect.
• Yue Guan challenged Tang Qingqing’s claim, and Tang Lie and the Spirit Hall elders escalated the confrontation with their Soul Power.
• She Long bid ten million Gold Soul Coins, Tang Qingqing raised the offer to fifty million, and She Long countered with eighty million.
• Zhou Qiubai asked how the Clear Sky Sect could claim Tang Hao’s Spirit Bones after expelling and disowning him.

At the auction, Zhou Qiubai and Spirit Hall challenged the Clear Sky Sect’s claim to Tang Hao’s Spirit Bones, and Yue Guan offered a deliberately impossible exchange. Tang Lie struggled to contain his rage as the standoff threatened to turn violent.

• Zhou Qiubai pointed out that the Clear Sky Sect had expelled Tang Hao, and She Long and Yue Guan argued that his Spirit Bones had belonged to him personally.
• Yue Guan proposed that the Clear Sky Sect trade Spirit Bones of equal grade for the inherited bones, while Ning Fengzhi recognized the offer as a trap.
• Tang Qingqing rejected the proposal, and Tang Lie erupted, insisting the Spirit Bones could not fall into Spirit Hall’s hands.
• Tang Lie’s Soul Power surged as Tang San and Tang Yuehua retreated, while Yue Guan and Ghost warned that a fight at the auction house would give Spirit Hall grounds to intervene.

Tang Qingqing asked Ning Fengzhi to help Clear Sky Sect reclaim Tang Hao’s Spirit Bone, but Ning refused to commit Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s resources. As Spirit Hall’s victory became clear, Tang San’s hatred intensified, and Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin waited to see how Clear Sky Sect would respond.

• Tang Qingqing asked Ning Fengzhi for Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s assistance, but Ning politely refused, claiming the sect lacked available funds and could not risk its resources.
• Tang Qingqing argued that the Upper Three Sects should stand together against Spirit Hall, but Ning turned the argument around and maintained his refusal.
• Tang Qingqing gave up trying to persuade Ning and returned his attention to the auction, while Tang San seethed with hatred toward Spirit Hall, Zhou Qiubai, Ning Fengzhi, and the unknown seller of his father’s Spirit Bone.
• Tang Yuehua urged Tang San to endure, and he vowed to make his enemies pay.
• Ning Fengzhi told Chen Xin that Spirit Hall had effectively won the auction and suggested that the real show would begin with Clear Sky Sect’s reaction.

The Clear Sky Sect tried to stop Spirit Hall from taking Tang Hao’s Spirit Bones after losing them at auction. Tang Lie’s fight with She Long continued as Tang Qingqing sought to negotiate their return, leaving the Spirit Bones still on the platform.

• Spirit Hall won the bid, but Tang Lie attacked the auction platform with his Clear Sky Hammer as Yue Guan and Ghost blocked him.
• She Long taunted the Clear Sky Sect while Tang Lie fought him, and Tang Qingqing used courteous words to stall for time.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin watched the fight, while Tang San restrained himself from using his hidden weapons after Tang Yuehua warned him not to act.
• Tang Qingqing asked Spirit Hall to let the Clear Sky Sect redeem the Spirit Bones, but Yue Guan rejected the request and She Long challenged the sect’s claim to Tang Hao’s legacy.
• Dugu Bo, Zhou Qiubai, and Yang Guyun criticized the Clear Sky Sect’s double standards as Tang Lie suddenly lunged for the Spirit Bones.

Tang Lie's fight with Yue Guan, Ghost, and She Long devastated the auction hall until Dantai Canglan stopped their attacks with a wall of moonlight and ordered them to take the fight outside. The Clear Sky Sect and Spirit Hall withdrew their soul abilities, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Tang Lie, Yue Guan, Ghost, and She Long clashed with their martial soul abilities, collapsing the hall's ceiling and endangering the civilians inside.
• Zhou Qiubai, Yang Guyun, and Chen Xuan helped civilians escape and kept falling debris from injuring them.
• Dantai Canglan appeared and used a wall of moonlight to block Tang Lie's hammer while calming the spreading Soul Power.
• Dantai Canglan ordered both sides to fight outside or stop, warning he would deal with whoever harmed another uninvolved person.
• Tang Qingqing accepted Dantai Canglan's demand, and Tang Lie, Yue Guan, Ghost, and She Long withdrew their soul abilities.

After Dantai Canglan ended the auction-house confrontation, Zhou Qiubai’s group met the Clear Sky Sect outside Heaven Dou City, where Yang Guyun rejected its claim over the Breaking Clan. The two sides remained poised over the Spirit Bones as Zhou Qiubai reflected on the Clear Sky Sect’s arrogance.

• Dantai Canglan withdrew the Moonlight Wall and ordered everyone to leave the city or end the fight, and the Spirit Hall and Clear Sky Sect groups departed without claiming the Spirit Bones.
• Ning Fengzhi remarked to Chen Xin that Dantai Canglan had divided the situation and that Heaven Dou City’s powers would be reshuffled.
• Zhou Qiubai’s group followed the Clear Sky Sect outside the city, where Tang Lie demanded to know who they were.
• Tang Qingqing identified Yang Guyun as a descendant of the Breaking Clan and demanded that he bow to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Yang Guyun refused, saying the Breaking Clan and he owed the Clear Sky Sect nothing, and condemned its treatment of the clan.
• Dugu Bo and Zhou Qiubai criticized the Clear Sky Sect’s past conduct and arrogance.

Zhou Qiubai forced Tang Lie and Tang Qingqing back, but two more Clear Sky Sect elders joined them to surround him. Yang Guyun then charged all four Title Douluo alone and traded serious wounds with Tang Lie and Tang Fangrui.

• Zhou Qiubai's sword strike passed through Tang Lie and Tang Qingqing's attacks and drove both elders back.
• Tang Lie called for help, and Tang Ziyi and Tang Fangrui appeared, bringing the Clear Sky Sect's force to four Title Douluo.
• Tang Qingqing demanded that Zhou Qiubai hand over the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone, while Yang Guyun challenged Zhou Qiubai and charged the four elders.
• Yang Guyun deflected Tang Lie's hammer with his spear and pressed forward despite Tang Fangrui's lightning attack.
• Tang Fangrui struck Yang Guyun's shoulder, but Yang Guyun cut Tang Fangrui's calf deeply with his spear.

Yang Guyun and Zhou Qiubai fought four Clear Sky Sect elders to a standstill, and Zhou Qiubai took Tang Fangrui hostage. As Tang San prepared to intervene with hidden weapons, Chen Xuan stopped him and declared that the fight needed no outsider.

• Yang Guyun charged through Tang Ziyi’s water barrier while Zhou Qiubai wounded Tang Lie and struck at the elders from the flank.
• Tang Ziyi spread a mist that slowed Yang Guyun and Zhou Qiubai, and Tang Fangrui attacked Zhou Qiubai with his Thunder Hammer.
• Zhou Qiubai dodged Tang Fangrui’s hammer and held his sword at Tang Fangrui’s throat as Yang Guyun blocked the other elders’ attack.
• Tang San prepared to throw three Bone-Piercing Nails, but Chen Xuan appeared behind him and warned him not to act.

Tang San backed down after Chen Xuan silently deterred him, while Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun faced the Clear Sky Sect's four elders as they unleashed a combined attack. Zhou Qiubai shattered their hammer phantom, and Yang Guyun pierced through their hastily raised defenses, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Tang San put away his hidden weapons and retreated behind Tang Yuehua after Chen Xuan's presence made him afraid to act.
• Tang Yuehua warned Tang San not to cause trouble, and he turned his attention back to the battle.
• The four Clear Sky Sect elders combined fire, wind, water, and lightning into a torrent aimed at Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun.
• Zhou Qiubai split the energy torrent with his sword, then used Four Swords, Four Seasons to crack and destroy the elders' hammer phantom.
• Yang Guyun charged through the elders' defenses with dragon-shaped Spear Intent and pierced their hastily raised barrier.

Yang Guyun and Zhou Qiubai killed four Clear Sky Sect Title Douluo, shocking the witnesses and deepening Tang San’s jealousy. By dawn, the battle had become a continent-wide rumor, while Tang San watched the Power and Agility Clan disciples load carriages at the Tang Sect’s temporary residence.

• Yang Guyun killed Tang Lie, Tang Qingqing, Tang Ziyi, and Tang Fangrui with his spear.
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, Yue Guan, Ghost, and She Long reacted to the two Soul Saints’ overwhelming strength, while Tang San retreated with Tang Yuehua.
• Zhou Qiubai checked on the wounded Yang Guyun, and the group left before the city patrol arrived.
• Shui Bing'er gave Zhou Qiubai a handkerchief to wipe blood from his face.
• By dawn, crowds gathered outside Heaven Dou City as rumors spread that Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun had killed four Title Douluo.
• Tang San, having stayed awake all night, watched Power and Agility Clan disciples load boxes onto carriages at the Tang Sect’s temporary residence.