Chapter Summaries

Dai Tianfeng and Zhu Tianlin plotted to eliminate Lin Yuantu by provoking his son into a clash with Qian Cheng, while secretly detaining the Speed Clan. The Speed Clan was surrounded by imperial troops, and Bai Yan’s maid hinted that she had a way to help her escape.

• Dai Tianfeng learned that Lin Yuantu and many officials opposed withdrawing troops, and Zhu Tianlin proposed using Lin Yaozu to provoke Qian Cheng into destroying the Lin Family.
• Dai Tianfeng and Zhu Tianlin decided to detain the Speed Clan and lure Lin Yaozu into Qian Cheng’s path.
• Zhu Tianjun led imperial soldiers to surround the Speed Clan residence and forbid its members from leaving.
• Bai Xiang resisted the lockdown but hesitated to fight, while clan members worried that Bai He had not returned from the Clear Sky Sect.
• Bai Yan complained that the lockdown had ruined her plans, and her maid offered a way for her to leave the residence.

Qian Cheng, Qian Renxue, and Hu Liena dined at the Drunken Immortal Restaurant, where Xu Xuerong and Bai Yan caused a commotion by demanding the restaurant be cleared. Lin Yaozu then tried to seize Xu Xuerong, and her maid attacked his guard Ada.

• Qian Cheng led Qian Renxue and Hu Liena into the Drunken Immortal Restaurant, where they sampled its dishes.
• Xu Xuerong arrived with Bai Yan, who demanded that everyone leave the restaurant she claimed to have reserved.
• Qian Cheng remarked that the Speed Clan would not remain arrogant much longer, while Hu Liena dismissed its strength.
• Lin Yaozu entered, spotted Xu Xuerong, and ordered his guard Ada to bring her to him.
• Xu Xuerong's maid stepped in front of her and used her Third Soul Skill, Void-Splitting Slash, against Ada.

Qian Cheng killed two Soul Emperor guards and beheaded Lin Yaozu after Lin Yaozu’s men attacked Xu Xuerong and Bai Yan in a tavern. He revealed that Dai Tianfeng had offered six cities for the Lin family’s lives, and Lin Yaozu died begging for mercy.

• Ada shattered Xu Xuerong’s maid’s sword light, dragged Xu Xuerong away, and wounded the maid.
• Bai Yan tried to rescue Xu Xuerong, but Ada struck her with his sixth spirit skill and sent her crashing into Qian Cheng’s table, splashing sauce onto Qian Renxue’s dress.
• Qian Cheng killed Abin with a gesture, frightening Ada into releasing Xu Xuerong and retreating to Lin Yaozu’s side.
• Lin Yaozu invoked his family’s ties to the Grand General’s Manor, and Qian Cheng mocked Dai Tianfeng and revealed that six cities had been offered for the Lin family’s lives.
• Lin Yaozu begged for his life and offered to persuade his father to surrender, but Qian Cheng pulled him close and beheaded him.

Dai Tianfeng arranged for Qian Cheng to kill Lin Yaozu and offered him six cities to remove the threat, then led Qian Cheng to the Speed Clan. Qian Cheng killed Lin Yuantu and three thousand cavalrymen before ordering Dai Tianfeng to annihilate the Speed Clan, leaving Tang Yuehua and Tang Hao for later.

• Zhu Tianlin told Dai Tianfeng that Qian Cheng had killed Lin Yaozu and was moved by the offer of six cities, so Dai Tianfeng ordered the army to act.
• Qian Cheng killed Ada and the other guards at the Drunken Immortal Restaurant, then left with Qian Renxue and Hu Liena to hunt Bai Yan of the Speed Clan.
• Lin Yuantu charged Qian Cheng with three thousand cavalrymen, but Qian Cheng froze them into ice sculptures and beheaded Lin Yuantu.
• Dai Tianfeng arrived with black-armored soldiers holding the Speed Clan members and presented them to Qian Cheng.
• Qian Cheng ordered Dai Tianfeng to leave none alive, and Dai Tianfeng’s troops killed over a thousand members of the Speed Clan.

Qian Cheng revealed that he had controlled Tang Yuehua’s mind and forced her to disclose how she sent messages to Tang Hao. He planned to use her to lure Tang Hao into a trap, while the chapter ended as a scarred stranger entered Yu Xiaogang’s dormitory.

• Qian Cheng confronted Tang Yuehua in the woods and told her that he had controlled her mind.
• Qian Cheng made Tang Yuehua reveal how she passed messages to Tang Hao through osmanthus cakes and refugees.
• Qian Cheng proposed that Tang Yuehua write Tang Hao a letter claiming she had found a secret passage to rescue Tang Xiao and Tang Zhen, then arrange a meeting.
• Late the next night, Yu Xiaogang received a visitor at his dormitory in Nuoding Junior Spirit Master Academy.
• A scarred, mud-stained man entered Yu Xiaogang’s room, his face obscured by messy black hair.

Tang Hao entrusted the infant Tang San to Yu Xiaogang before leaving, while Tang San secretly woke and resolved to overcome Spirit Hall. In Heaven Dou City, Qian Renxue entered Qian Cheng’s room and asked to sleep with him, leaving Qian Cheng poised to answer her request.

• Tang Hao asked Yu Xiaogang about mind-controlling martial souls and Qian Cheng, but Yu Xiaogang could not identify Qian Cheng or explain the Clear Sky Sect’s destruction.
• Tang Hao left the infant Tang San with Yu Xiaogang, asking him to raise the child and reveal his origins when he came of age.
• Tang San woke during their conversation, learned that Tang Hao had left him with his teacher, and vowed to defeat Spirit Hall by pursuing Dual God Integration.
• Qian Cheng found Qian Renxue hiding under his quilt and asked why she had come to his room.
• Qian Renxue insisted that she wanted to sleep with Qian Cheng, and he hinted that he would respond to something he had said before.

Qian Cheng punished Qian Renxue before she fell asleep in his arms, then confronted Tang Hao in a forest and revealed that Tang Yuehua, Tang Xiao, and Tang Zhen had become his Yin Souls. Tang Hao attacked in rage, but Qian Cheng effortlessly dispelled his Divine Slaughter's Domain and gave him one more chance to entertain him.

• Qian Cheng gave Qian Renxue several slaps as punishment, and she eventually settled into his embrace for the night.
• Qian Cheng and Qian Renxue discussed her training before she fell asleep, and he promised to take her to watch a show the next day.
• Tang Hao waited in a forest outside Heaven Dou City for Tang Yuehua, but Qian Cheng appeared instead.
• Qian Cheng summoned the Human Emperor Banner and revealed Tang Zhen, Tang Xiao, and Tang Yuehua as Yin Souls bound to serve him.
• Tang Hao attacked Qian Cheng with Divine Slaughter's Domain, but Qian Cheng dispelled it with a fingertip and warned Tang Hao he had one more chance.

Qian Cheng used his spatial abilities to overpower Tang Hao, then forced Tang Hao to fight his resurrected family, whose souls he controlled. After wearing Tang Hao down, Qian Cheng knocked him unconscious and took him away to prepare a grand stage for his death.

• Tang Hao attacked Qian Cheng with his eighth soul skill, Sky-Piercing Strike, but Qian Cheng teleported behind him and struck him down.
• Qian Cheng gave Tang Yuehua the power of a Yin Soul and made her attack Tang Hao, then summoned Tang Zhen and Tang Xiao to join her.
• Tang Hao dropped his Clear Sky Hammer and refused to fight his family, but their attacks continued as they begged him to destroy their souls.
• Qian Cheng explained that the family's cultivation had weakened after becoming Yin Souls, while Tang Hao endured their assault and gradually lost strength.
• Qian Cheng knocked Tang Hao unconscious, bundled him up, and took him away to prepare a grand stage for his death.

Shui Hanyan and Ye Muyun led the Three Elements Academy delegation to Spirit City, where they sensed their teacher and anticipated meeting him. At the gathering before Papal Hall, Shui Hanyan taunted Yu Yuanzhen over the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s fallen rivals, while Yu Yuanzhen brooded over evidence that Qian Cheng had killed Yu Luomian and his inability to challenge him.

• Feng Xiaotian asked Feng Yao whether Shui Hanyan was the Shui Family ancestor’s younger sister, and Feng Yao said the family genealogy confirmed her identity.
• Shui Rou warned Shui Qiushuang and Feng Xiaotian to obey Shui Hanyan and focus on cultivation, recalling that Shui Hanyan had scolded them for their earlier remarks.
• Shui Hanyan and Ye Muyun discussed the Shui Family and Ye Family descendants, then sensed their teacher in Spirit City and planned to show him their cultivation results.
• Three days later, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and representatives of the Lower Four Sects gathered before Papal Hall to discuss the Upper Three Sects.
• Shui Hanyan mocked Yu Yuanzhen about the former head of the Upper Three Sects, and Ning Fengzhi warned him that confronting Qian Cheng could bring the same ruin that had befallen the Clear Sky Sect.

Qian Cheng announced a new selection of the Upper Three Sects and presented Tang Hao as a traitor captured by Spirit Hall. After Qian Cheng freed Tang Hao from his Soul Tool restraints, Tang Hao fought Demon Subduing Douluo, who quickly overpowered him; Tang Hao remained determined to inflict a serious wound before dying.

• Qian Cheng declared that the Clear Sky Sect had been removed and announced that the Upper Three Sects would be selected anew.
• Qian Cheng had the shackled Tang Hao brought before the crowd and offered him a chance to leave Spirit City alive if he defeated Demon Subduing Douluo.
• Qian Cheng broke Tang Hao's Soul Tool chains, and Tang Hao summoned his Clear Sky Hammer and Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Ring.
• Tang Hao attacked Demon Subduing Douluo with Chaotic Wind, but Demon Subduing Douluo blocked his strikes with the Coiling Dragon Staff and drove him back.
• Tang Hao steadied himself and resolved to wound Demon Subduing Douluo, even if the fight cost him his life.

Demon Subduing Douluo killed Tang Hao by pounding him into beef paste, then Qian Cheng began the Upper Three Sects election. Hu Yan Zhen and Shui Hanyan revealed their Titled Douluo strength, leaving the crowd stunned as Shui Hanyan claimed the Sacred Spirit Sect wanted to lead the Upper Three Sects.

• Demon Subduing Douluo overwhelmed Tang Hao, pierced his chest, and pounded his body into beef paste with his Coiling Dragon Staff.
• Qian Cheng announced the start of the Upper Three Sects election after temple guards cleared away Tang Hao's remains.
• Hu Yan Zhen entered the arena, revealed his level 91 Titled Douluo strength, and challenged the assembled sects.
• Shui Hanyan declared that the Sacred Spirit Sect wanted to lead the Upper Three Sects and released a powerful aura without displaying her soul rings or martial soul.
• Chen Xin and Ning Fengzhi speculated about Shui Hanyan's immense strength and what it meant for the Clear Sky Sect.

Shui Hanyan’s overwhelming strength secured the Sacred Spirit Sect a place among the Upper Three Sects after the Lower Four Sects withdrew. When Yu Yuanzhen challenged her over the sect’s ranking, she froze his lightning attack and half his body, leaving the duel unresolved.

• Shui Rou recalled that the Three Elements Academy had once been a single sect, and the academy leaders considered reuniting to face powerful enemies.
• Hu Yan Zhen and the leaders of the other Lower Four Sects withdrew from the selection after feeling Shui Hanyan’s aura.
• Qian Cheng announced the Sacred Spirit Sect as one of the Upper Three Sects and said each sect would receive three owner-bound Pope’s Tokens.
• Shui Hanyan challenged the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and Yu Yuanzhen accepted after objecting to her claim.
• Yu Yuanzhen used his Martial Soul Avatar, Dragon Transformation, and Raging Thunder Heavenly Tribulation against Shui Hanyan.
• Shui Hanyan froze Yu Yuanzhen’s lightning and half his body with Ice Seal Three Thousand Miles.

Shui Hanyan crippled Yu Yuanzhen before Qian Cheng healed him, then she and Ye Muyun confronted Qian Cheng in a clash of Peerless Douluo. The three secretly agreed to stage a draw and lure Spirit Hall’s opponents into gathering, while preparing for the coming descent of the God Realm; Ning Fengzhi then urged them to stop fighting.

• Shui Hanyan shattered Yu Yuanzhen’s arm with a single flick, showing the sect leaders the gulf between their strengths.
• Qian Cheng regenerated Yu Yuanzhen’s arm, and Ye Muyun challenged Qian Cheng over his intervention and the Clear Sky Sect massacre.
• Ye Muyun and Shui Hanyan joined forces against Qian Cheng, while the sect leaders watched in shock at the three Peerless Douluo’s power.
• Qian Cheng privately agreed with Shui Hanyan and Ye Muyun to stage a draw so their enemies would gather, and learned that both women had reached minor completion in their respective laws.
• Qian Cheng warned Shui Hanyan and Ye Muyun that the God Realm would soon descend, and the three ended their staged clash.
• Ning Fengzhi and the other sect leaders urged Qian Cheng, Ye Muyun, and Shui Hanyan to stop fighting.

Six years after the Crimson King appeared, a reborn Tang San trained with the Clear Sky Hammer and began preparing to attend Nuoding Junior Spirit Master Academy. Yu Xiaogang struck him twice for wanting a plant-type soul ring over five hundred years old, insisting that it would kill him.

• Ning Fengzhi urged Shui Hanyan and Ye Muyun to form an alliance against Spirit Hall, but they dismissed him as too weak to be their equal.
• Ning Fengzhi claimed that finding Tang Chen would give them a chance to fight Qian Daoliu, and Ye Muyun told him to return after they found him.
• Six years passed, and Tang San, reborn from twenty years in the future, practiced the Clear Sky Hammer on a hill outside Nuoding City.
• Tang San decided to enroll at Nuoding Junior Spirit Master Academy the next day and thought about seeing Xiao Wu again.
• Tang San asked Yu Xiaogang to let him absorb a plant-type soul ring over five hundred years old, and Yu Xiaogang slapped him twice while warning that the ring would kill him.

Tang San suppressed his anger toward Yu Xiaogang and received a booklet said to be left by his father. Meanwhile, Qian Cheng brought Qingluan Douluo and Radiant Feather Douluo to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, where they confronted the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python.

• Tang San decided to endure Yu Xiaogang's flawed Spirit Ring theories rather than risk provoking Bibi Dong, and Yu Xiaogang gave him a booklet he called his father's relic.
• Qian Cheng entered the Star Dou Great Forest with Qingluan Douluo and Radiant Feather Douluo and announced they would kill two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts for their soul bones and meat.
• Qian Cheng's group reached the Lake of Life, where the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python discussed Xiao Wu's safety among humans.
• Qian Cheng spoke from behind the beasts, and the Titan Giant Ape smashed a tree aside to reveal Qian Cheng and the two offerings.

Qian Cheng defeated the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python at the Lake of Life, killing both with his time-stopping and space-cutting abilities. He had Qingluan Douluo and Radiant Feather Douluo collect their spirit bones and meat, then warned the beings beneath the lake not to emerge.

• The Titan Giant Ape struck Qian Cheng, but Qian Cheng blocked its punch with one finger and sent it crashing into a cliff.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python attacked with lightning and its tail, but Qian Cheng used Chaos Guixu and Time Stop to freeze both beasts and the surrounding area.
• Qian Cheng used Space Cut to slice the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python into pieces, leaving behind two red spirit rings and two spirit bones.
• Qian Cheng told Qingluan Douluo and Radiant Feather Douluo to collect the spirit bones and meat, and they packed everything into their Soul Tools.
• Qian Cheng warned the beings in the Lake of Life that he would kill them if they came out, while reflecting that he still had a use for the Silver Dragon King.

The Silver Dragon King chose to avoid provoking Qian Cheng, while Flender traveled to Turkey Village to awaken children’s Martial Souls and discovered Ma Hongjun had Rank 9 Innate Soul Power. Flender took Ma Hongjun to Shrek Academy, leaving the village chief still wondering whether he could receive Spirit Hall subsidies.

• The Silver Dragon King told Di Tian to let Qian Cheng go, explaining that he had once defeated two Rank 1 Gods and that she was still injured.
• Flender reflected on Xiao Gang and Sister Erlong’s success before traveling to Turkey Village to earn money by awakening children’s Martial Souls.
• Flender gathered the children from three villages at Turkey Village and began the awakening ceremony, displaying his seven soul rings.
• Flender discovered that Ma Hongjun’s gamecock-mutated Martial Soul had Rank 9 Innate Soul Power and asked him to become his disciple.
• Ma Hongjun asked Pu Duandiao for advice, and Flender left with him for Shrek Academy while Pu Duandiao asked about Spirit Hall subsidies.

Ning Fengzhi arranged for Lor Diarra to abduct Oscar and falsely claim Spirit Hall was responsible, then had Oscar castrated to prevent his rare talent from threatening the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Oscar was left unconscious and bleeding as Ning Fengzhi took control of the aftermath.

• Lor Diarra abducted Oscar, brought him to a grove, and claimed to be an elder of Spirit Hall.
• Lor Diarra told Oscar that Spirit Hall wanted him because he was a Food System Spirit Master with Innate Full Soul Power, then attacked him when he refused to join.
• Lor Diarra castrated Oscar and left him unconscious from pain.
• Ning Fengzhi emerged from hiding and revealed that he had arranged the attack to keep Oscar from endangering the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

After six years of cultivation, Qian Cheng sent Qian Renxue and the young Spirit Hall fighters to Suotuo City to deal with a Shrek Academy that was using Spirit Hall’s name to swindle people. Qian Renxue eagerly led Hu Liena, Yan, Xie Yue, and Bai Zhi away from training and toward their assignment.

• Qian Cheng completed his Chaos Law cultivation and welcomed Qian Renxue, who told him she had finally understood what Qian Daoliu had said the previous year.
• Qian Cheng ordered Qian Renxue to take the young fighters to Suotuo City and deal with Shrek Academy for tarnishing Spirit Hall’s reputation.
• Demon Subduing Douluo continued putting Hu Liena, Yan, Xie Yue, and Bai Zhi through punishing gravity and combat training.
• Qian Renxue arrived at the training grounds and told the four fighters that the Pope had assigned them to clean up Spirit Hall’s reputation.
• Hu Liena, Yan, Xie Yue, and Bai Zhi eagerly agreed to go after the people responsible.

Qian Renxue and Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation planned to earn money at Suotuo City’s Spirit Dueling Arena when Zhu Zhuqing stumbled onto the road seeking help. After Yan struck her and her pursuers arrived, Qian Renxue revealed her strength as a Soul Saint and overwhelmed the men in black.

• Qian Renxue proposed betting on Bai Zhi’s Spirit Dueling Arena matches to earn money and gain combat experience.
• Wounded Zhu Zhuqing emerged from the woods and begged Qian Renxue’s group to save her.
• Yan punched Zhu Zhuqing into a tree, breaking her ribs as her pursuers closed in.
• The leader of the men in black found Zhu Zhuqing and ordered his men to kill Qian Renxue’s group to keep them from revealing what they had seen.
• Qian Renxue summoned her golden angel phantom and seven spirit rings, terrifying the men in black with her Soul Saint-level power.