Chapter Summaries

Qian Cheng attacked the Strength Clan stronghold, and Bai Baoshan tried to shield Bai Hao and the soldiers from his enormous falling sphere. Qian Cheng crushed Bai Baoshan despite Xue Ye's plea for mercy, leaving Meng Shenji and Zhi Lin to find the Committee Member dead in the ruins.

• Qian Cheng dropped a sphere over five hundred meters wide toward Bai Hao and the soldiers, scattering their formation and driving them into despair.
• Bai Baoshan arrived and used his Martial Soul Avatar to catch the sphere, but Qian Cheng increased its force and Bai Hao fled with the soldiers.
• Xue Ye offered two Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones to spare Bai Baoshan, but Qian Cheng refused and intensified the sphere's weight.
• Qian Cheng's sphere crushed Bai Baoshan and devastated the stronghold, while the shockwave hurled Xue Ye, Meng Shenji, and Zhi Lin away.
• Meng Shenji and Zhi Lin saw Bai Baoshan's corpse in the rubble as Xue Ye mourned arriving too late.

Qian Cheng pressured Xue Ye into explaining the executions and ceding three cities to Spirit Hall. After accepting the Imperial Edict, Qian Cheng prepared to leave the palace with Qian Renxue.

• Qian Cheng asked Xue Ye how he would explain the deaths of Bai Baoshan and Bai Hao, and Xue Ye presented their alleged crimes to his subjects.
• Qian Cheng led Qian Renxue and Xue Ye to the palace to sign a cession agreement, while Xue Xing and two Committee Members followed behind.
• Qian Cheng and Qian Renxue sat together on the dragon throne as Xue Ye waited for the prime minister and general to arrive.
• Xue Ye introduced Prime Minister Qin Hui and General Ge Long, who supported ceding three cities to Qian Cheng.
• Qian Cheng accepted the Imperial Edict ceding Jiaomu City, Xingyue City, and Liutu City, then declined Ge Long's invitation to a banquet.

Qian Cheng led the Spirit Hall group to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where he planned to gather young soul masters and refine the valley’s herbs into pills. His arrival disturbed Dugu Bo, who emerged from his cave to confront the intruders.

• After Qian Cheng and Qian Renxue left, Xue Ye and Ge Long acknowledged they could not oppose him and vowed to wait for a chance to retaliate.
• Qian Cheng brought his companions to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and cut a passage through the poisonous mist surrounding it.
• Qian Cheng sent Qingluan Douluo to Spirit City to fetch promising young soul masters and ordered him to bring Qian Daoliu and an alchemy furnace.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo recognized the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, and Qian Cheng promised to refine the valley’s herbs into pills for everyone.
• Dugu Bo flew out of his cave and angrily accused the group of trespassing in his herb garden.

Qian Cheng drove Dugu Bo from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and used Chaos Guixu to rewind Qian Renxue’s time, leaving her physically six years old. He prepared to reshape her soul rings after erasing the ones she had absorbed.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo recognized Dugu Bo, and Qian Cheng forced him to kneel and surrender the herb garden.
• Dugu Bo agreed to leave immediately, unaware that Qian Cheng had secretly planted something in his body to detonate if he pursued biochemical weapons.
• Qian Cheng asked Qian Renxue to release her martial soul and soul rings, then explained that he could alter them by reversing time.
• Qian Cheng used Time Reversal on Qian Renxue, returning her body to the age of six and removing her existing soul rings.
• Qian Renxue marveled at the change while Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo feared the consequences of Qian Cheng’s power.

Qian Cheng refined pills from the harvested Immortal Grade herbs and distributed them among Spirit Hall’s enshrined, elders, and younger generation. He then ordered Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, and the other girls to take pills made from the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot and enter a dangerously hot spring, leaving them surrounded by alternating blue and red light.

• Qian Daoliu told Qian Cheng that he had found twenty-seven suitable young Spirit Masters, and Qian Cheng sent him to collect mature Immortal Grade herbs.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo explained how to harvest several herbs while Spirit Hall’s elders and enshrined gathered them.
• Hu Liena told Yan and Xie Yue that her teacher had taken her out to kill people, while Qian Renxue argued and wrestled with Tian Yue over her smaller body.
• Qian Cheng finished refining pills and distributed them to Chrysanthemum Douluo, the other elders, and the younger Spirit Masters.
• Qian Cheng gave eight red-and-blue pills to Qian Renxue, Hu Liena, and the other girls, then ordered them to enter the hot spring after taking them.
• The girls swallowed the pills and began glowing with alternating blue and red light as Qian Cheng urged them into the spring.

Qian Cheng arranged for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to be guarded and chose soul rings for Qian Renxue and Hu Liena. In Heaven Dou City, Tang Yuehua told Tang Hao that Spirit Hall had destroyed the Clear Sky Sect and was using their captured father and eldest brother to lure him to his death, then hinted she had a way to foil the scheme.

• Qian Cheng told Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile Douluo that the hot spring could grant resistance to ice and fire, then assigned Golden Crocodile Douluo to guard the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Qingluan Douluo and Mighty Lion Douluo.
• Qian Cheng ordered Qian Daoliu and Golden Crocodile Douluo to find soul beasts for Qian Renxue, and they returned the next afternoon with three beasts whose soul rings went to Qian Renxue and Hu Liena.
• Qian Cheng left enshrined members and elders to guard the well before returning to Spirit Hall to handle the ceded cities and the Clear Sky Sect matter.
• Tang Hao arrived at Moonlight Pavilion, and Tang Yuehua told him that Spirit Hall had destroyed the Clear Sky Sect and captured their father and eldest brother alive.
• Tang Yuehua explained that Spirit Hall had demanded Tang Hao kneel and kowtow from Spirit City to Papal Hall, and warned him the demand was a trap meant to kill him.
• Tang Hao understood the dilemma Spirit Hall had created, and Tang Yuehua said she had another way to break its scheme.

Tang Yuehua offered to take Tang Hao’s place in Spirit Hall’s demands, and Tang Hao reluctantly accepted her plan. In Spirit City, Qian Cheng ordered sweeping measures against the Clear Sky Sect and non-affiliated Soul Masters, then set out with Qian Renxue to capture Tang Hao.

• Tang Yuehua insisted on going to Spirit City in Tang Hao’s place, arguing that his child needed him to survive, and Tang Hao finally agreed.
• Tang Yuehua hinted that she loved Tang Hao as he embraced her, and he left Heaven Dou City after asking her to contact him if anything changed.
• Qian Cheng ordered the public execution of Tang Zhen and Tang Xiao, the removal of the Clear Sky Sect from the Upper Three Sects, and restrictions on awakenings and subsidies for Soul Masters outside Spirit Hall.
• Qian Cheng told the enshrined that Spirit Hall would use six newly acquired cities to support its plans and that he would find people capable of governing them.
• Qian Cheng took Qian Renxue to capture Tang Hao, explaining that Tang Hao’s appearance would let Spirit Hall kill him along with Tang Zhen and Tang Xiao.

Qian Cheng set out for Sacred Soul Village to capture Tang Hao, while Tang Hao learned that villagers had mocked him and his family and slaughtered them in a fit of rage. In the God Realm, the Five God Kings planned to use a pawn against the awakened Qian Cheng as they waited for Douluo Star’s will to be erased.

• Qian Cheng told Qian Renxue that they were heading to Sacred Soul Village to find Tang Hao and complained that Qian Daoliu had failed to devise a plan against Clear Sky Sect.
• Old Jack and the villagers mocked Tang Hao and repeated rumors about his child and Clear Sky Sect’s destruction.
• Tang Hao revealed that he was a Titled Douluo, summoned his Clear Sky Hammer, and killed a villager who mocked him.
• Tang Hao rejected Jack and the villagers’ pleas, killed them, and walked toward the rest of Sacred Soul Village.
• The Five God Kings discussed Qian Cheng’s awakening and planned to use a pawn as their vanguard while they waited twenty-five days to erase Douluo Star’s will.

Qian Cheng found Sacred Soul Village slaughtered and concluded that forces from the God Realm had manipulated Tang Hao to provoke him. He ordered Tang Hao’s face publicized, driving Tang Hao to scar himself while vowing to escape with Tang San and raise him into a powerful fighter.

• Qian Cheng and Qian Renxue entered Sacred Soul Village and found its residents murdered, each corpse’s head crushed.
• Qian Cheng sensed the same eerie aura found on Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo and concluded that someone had provoked Tang Hao to target them.
• Qian Cheng explained that the God Realm had sent two Rank 1 Gods to interfere, but he had suppressed and killed them, then ordered the Nuoding City Spirit Hall Branch Hall master to issue a wanted notice for Tang Hao.
• The Branch Hall master posted Tang Hao’s portrait in Nuoding City, where townspeople spread accusations about his crimes as Tang Hao listened from the crowd with Tang San in his arms.
• Tang Hao hid Tang San in a grove, vowed to survive and take revenge on Spirit Hall, then cut his own face repeatedly to change his appearance.

Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo discussed Spirit Hall’s trap for Tang Hao as Tang Yuehua headed to Spirit City with Moonlight Pavilion graduates. At a meeting led by Qian Renxue, Qian Cheng proposed deceiving Tang Hao about Tang Xiao and Tang Zhen’s fate while witnesses saw their execution.

• Sword Douluo and Ning Fengzhi concluded that Tang Hao faced disgrace whether he went to Spirit City or stayed away, and worried Spirit Hall’s growing power threatened the sects.
• A disciple reported that Tang Yuehua was taking Moonlight Pavilion graduates to Spirit City, and Ning Fengzhi decided to go there with Sword Douluo to witness the ceremony.
• Qian Cheng put Qian Renxue in charge of a meeting with Qian Daoliu and the worshippers to discuss Tang Yuehua’s arrival and Tang Hao’s relatives.
• Qian Cheng said Spirit Hall could make Tang Yuehua hallucinate that Tang Xiao and Tang Zhen were alive while executing them in front of visiting sects, leaving Tang Hao unsure whom to believe.
• Qian Daoliu remarked on Qian Cheng’s shifting moral standards, and Qian Cheng pulled out a brick.

Tang Yuehua arrived at Spirit City and was ordered to cross a thorn-covered road to Papal Hall, kneeling and kowtowing while her relatives were lashed. After Xue Luochuan and Ge Hu refused the humiliating substitute punishment, Tang Yuehua took off her shoes and stepped onto the thorns.

• Tang Yuehua arrived in Spirit City with Xue Luochuan, Ge Hu, and Moonlight Pavilion graduates, and criticized Spirit Hall for removing the Clear Sky Hammer relief.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo mocked Tang Hao and the Clear Sky Sect, angering Tang Yuehua.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo told Tang Yuehua to cross the thorn-covered road to Papal Hall barefoot, kneeling every three steps and kowtowing every nine, while her father and eldest brother were lashed.
• Xue Luochuan and Ge Hu offered to take Tang Yuehua's punishment, but Chrysanthemum Douluo told them to strip naked and roll to Papal Hall instead.
• Tang Yuehua declined their offer, handed Xue Luochuan her shoes, and stepped onto the thorns.

Tang Yuehua endured a bloody pilgrimage to the Papal Hall, hoping to atone for Tang Hao’s crimes and save her family. There she discovered the bound Tang Zhen and Tang Xiao were impostors, while Qian Cheng ordered them flayed.

• Tang Yuehua crossed thorn-covered gauze on her knees and bowed every nine steps, bleeding as she approached the Papal Hall.
• Onlookers praised Tang Yuehua’s resolve and discussed sending disciples to her Moonlight Pavilion.
• Tang Yuehua recognized that the men bound before Qian Cheng were not her father or brother, though Tang Zhen and Tang Xiao’s identities convinced the assembled sects.
• Tang Yuehua demanded Qian Cheng release her family and offered to bear Tang Hao’s guilt herself.
• Qian Cheng dismissed Tang Yuehua as useless and ordered the bound men flayed.

Qian Cheng had Tang Xiao and Tang Zhen brutally sliced apart while Ning Fengzhi and others watched. Tang Yuehua was attacked by an angry crowd and carried unconscious out of Spirit City, and Qian Cheng ordered the brothers’ remains to be cast into bronze statues and made to kneel at the city gates.

• Qian Cheng had Deng Qi and Franz slice Tang Xiao and Tang Zhen into thin strips, then fed some of the meat to two black dogs.
• Ning Fengzhi recoiled at the execution, while Sword Douluo expected Tang Hao to go mad and attack the Spirit Hall Branch Hall.
• Spirit City residents and others hurled rotten food and stones at Tang Yuehua as she defended her brothers and condemned their hypocrisy.
• A crowd member struck Tang Yuehua unconscious with a floor tile, and Xue Luochuan, Ge Hu, and Moonlight Pavilion graduates carried her away.
• Qian Cheng ordered molten bronze poured over Tang Zhen and Tang Xiao so they would become statues kneeling at Spirit City's gates.

Qian Cheng ordered Salas to watch Tang Yuehua and her associates while encouraging information to reach Tang Hao as bait. Tang Yuehua sent a blue signal telling Tang Hao that Tang Zhen and Tang Xiao were alive, while the chapter revealed that Qian Cheng had fabricated what she saw; Tang Hao waited outside Heaven Dou City, still puzzled about Qian Cheng’s identity and secrets.

• Qian Cheng told Salas to monitor Tang Yuehua and anyone connected to her, then promised him a Soul Power Pill to secure his cooperation.
• Qian Cheng instructed Salas not to suppress information, and Salas realized they were luring Tang Hao into a trap.
• Tang Yuehua awoke outside Spirit City and had Xue Luochuan fire a blue signal flare to tell Tang Hao that Tang Zhen and Tang Xiao were alive.
• Tang Hao saw the blue flare near Heaven Dou City and believed Spirit Hall had spared Tang Zhen and Tang Xiao.
• The chapter revealed that Tang Yuehua had seen an illusion arranged by Qian Cheng, while Tang Zhen and Tang Xiao had already been executed.
• Tang Hao wondered about Qian Cheng’s identity and secrets as he waited for Tang Yuehua to return.

Qian Cheng, Qian Renxue, and Hu Liena visited Hu Liena’s former home and discovered Du Hui’s men torturing the Zhao Family for Whale Rubber. After the men decided to kill them for witnessing the crime, Qian Cheng faced three Soul Kings who boasted about their Body Spirits.

• Hu Liena told Qian Renxue how evil soul masters had killed her family and asked Qian Cheng to enter her former manor.
• At the manor entrance, Qian Renxue noticed the strange gatekeepers smelled of blood, while screams came from inside.
• Du Hui and his men dragged out an elderly member of the Zhao Family and demanded the family’s Whale Rubber.
• Du Hui ordered Steward Tong to deal with the rest of the Zhao Family and had three Soul Kings surround Qian Cheng, Qian Renxue, and Hu Liena.
• The three Soul Kings revealed their Body Spirits and threatened to kill the visitors, but Qian Cheng dismissed their boasting.

Qian Cheng killed three of Du Hui’s Soul King deacons with ease after they attacked him. He let Qian Renxue and Hu Liena face Du Hui, whose threats and confidence crumbled when Qian Renxue’s attack proved beyond his ability to withstand.

• The long-armed deacon attacked Qian Cheng, who severed his arm and killed him with a punch.
• At Du Hui’s command, Iron Deacon attacked Qian Cheng and was killed after his arm was shattered and his skull crushed.
• Zhu Deacon swept at Qian Cheng, who cut off his legs and stomped his head, killing him.
• Du Hui threatened to take revenge on Qian Cheng and his family, while Qian Cheng explained that Body Spirit users were generally not very bright.
• Qian Cheng sent Qian Renxue and Hu Liena to fight Du Hui, and Qian Renxue’s Angel Assault left Du Hui unable to block her punch.

Qian Cheng and his companions defeated Du Hui and his men, then claimed the ten-thousand-year Whale Rubber from the survivors of Zhao Family Manor. After learning the location of Du Hui’s sect, Qian Cheng decided to head to Moon Wheel City and deal with the threat completely.

• Qian Renxue and Hu Liena defeated Du Hui, while Qian Cheng killed Steward Zhou and left Du Hui at their mercy.
• Qian Renxue tricked Du Hui into revealing that his sect was in a mountain northwest of Moon Wheel City.
• Qian Cheng read Du Hui’s memories, confirmed he had told the truth, and killed him despite Qian Renxue’s promise to spare him.
• Qian Renxue and Hu Liena brought the surviving residents of Zhao Family Manor to Qian Cheng, who demanded the ten-thousand-year Whale Rubber as payment for saving them.
• The residents handed over the Whale Rubber and left Zhao Family Manor, and Qian Cheng said they would go to Moon Wheel City to finish dealing with Du Hui’s family.

Qian Cheng brought Qian Renxue and Hu Liena to the Body Sect to confront it over the Young Sect Master’s fate. After the girls killed the guards at the mountain’s foot, Qian Cheng unleashed the God-Slaying Spear’s Stars Fall attack on the sect, leaving the mountain under a rain of black spears.

• Qian Cheng ordered Qian Renxue and Hu Liena to defeat four Body Sect patrol disciples, and the girls killed all four within thirty seconds.
• Qian Cheng warned the girls not to become consumed by killing as they climbed the mountain to the Body Sect.
• Qian Cheng told the Body Sect disciples he had come to inform their Sect Master about the Young Sect Master’s trip to obtain Whale Rubber.
• Qian Cheng killed the leading disciple when he pressed for an answer, and the other disciples realized he had likely killed their Young Sect Master.
• Qian Cheng shielded Qian Renxue and Hu Liena, then used the God-Slaying Spear’s Second Strike, Stars Fall, to rain black spears down on the Body Sect’s mountain.

Qian Cheng leveled the Body Sect’s mountain, then killed Du Zhe with one spear strike and plundered his memories. He explained the vast strength gap between Titled Douluo ranks to Qian Renxue and Hu Liena before turning his attention toward the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

• Qian Cheng’s black spears flattened the Body Sect’s mountain and its buildings, though he said he had spared some survivors.
• Du Zhe, a rank 91 Titled Douluo and Du Hui’s grandfather, emerged from the ruins and attacked Qian Cheng with his ninth spirit skill, Primordial Divine Mountain.
• Qian Cheng killed Du Zhe with the God-Slaying Spear’s fourth strike and plundered memories containing knowledge of Du Zhe’s eight soul skills.
• Hu Liena wondered how Du Zhe had vanished in one blow, and Qian Cheng explained the differences in strength between Titled Douluo ranks.
• Qian Cheng warned Qian Renxue and Hu Liena to avoid people who claimed ten rank 91 Titled Douluo could hold back a rank 99 Peerless Douluo, then looked toward the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

At a Spirit Hall awakening in Hidden Leaf Village, Er Ya learned that the Clear Sky Sect had been wiped out and revealed her hatred for it. Her icy-blue eagle martial spirit and rank-nine Innate Soul Power led the deacon to arrange for her to travel to Spirit City, where she might meet Spirit Hall’s upper ranks.

• A Spirit Hall deacon told the village chief and five children that anyone who signed the agreement and awakened with Innate Soul Power had to join Spirit Hall.
• Er Ya asked about the Clear Sky Sect, and the deacon said the Pope had exterminated its several thousand Soul Masters at its 444th anniversary celebration.
• Er Ya celebrated the sect’s destruction and said she had once accidentally bumped into one of its members before agreeing to the terms.
• The deacon awakened four children, then revealed that Er Ya’s martial spirit was an icy-blue eagle and her Innate Soul Power was rank nine.
• The deacon planned to take Er Ya to the Spirit Hall Branch Hall in Heaven Star City and then to Spirit City, while Er Ya wondered if she would meet Spirit Hall’s upper ranks.