Chapter Summaries

Di Yao returned to the Fasnuo Branch Hall and led an audit that uncovered a five-year pipeline of Spirit Hall resources to Yu Xiaogang’s private warehouse and possibly the Black Market Soul Hunting Group. After catching a Deacon trying to burn records, Di Yao planned to visit Notting Academy the next day and bait anyone who reacted to the investigation.

• Di Yao sealed the Fasnuo Branch Hall’s Accounting Department, warehouse, and vaults, then assigned the Law Enforcement Team to investigate five years of records.
• Di Yao and Hu Liena found repeated resource transfers to Notting Academy, including entries bearing Yu Xiaogang’s name, with no returned results.
• The audit revealed frequent shortages of low-level supplies, suggesting someone had used Spirit Hall resources to cultivate a person or a small circle.
• A Deacon tried to burn old records, but Hu Liena pressured him into confessing that much of the diverted stock had gone to Yu Xiaogang’s private warehouse and that some supplies may have reached the Black Market Soul Hunting Group.
• Di Yao ordered the testimony sealed, announced that Spirit Hall would not touch the academy, and planned to visit Notting Academy the next day to see who reacted.

Di Yao led Spirit Hall’s Law Enforcement Team to Notting Academy to investigate missing resources and confronted Yu Xiaogang over altered records linked to Tang San. After ordering Tang San to take another Soul Power test, Di Yao faced a tense standoff as Tang San concealed a needle in his sleeve.

• Di Yao used the Pope Palace's Temporary Enforcement Token to enter Notting Academy and announced that Spirit Hall would seal and investigate its records, warehouses, and accounts.
• Yu Xiaogang challenged the investigation, but Di Yao demanded evidence of his claimed research and ordered Yu Xiaogang's residence and storerooms searched.
• The Law Enforcement Team found Spirit Hall research materials and an altered awakening record naming Tang San and hinting at Twin Martial Souls.
• Di Yao accused Yu Xiaogang of concealing Tang San's abilities and misusing Spirit Hall resources, while Yu Xiaogang defended his decision to protect his disciple.
• Tang San appeared and defended Yu Xiaogang, but Di Yao demanded that he take another Soul Power test.
• Tang San gripped a needle inside his sleeve as Di Yao warned him not to move and Hu Liena sensed killing intent.

Di Yao exposed Tang San’s poisoned Hidden Weapon attack during the investigation into Yu Xiaogang’s misuse of Spirit Hall resources. After detecting Tang San’s Twin Martial Souls, Di Yao let him and Yu Xiaogang retreat so they might lead him to more suspects.

• Tang San tried to redirect attention from the resource case by claiming Yu Xiaogang had concealed his talent to protect him, but Di Yao demanded that he retest his Soul Power.
• Tang San secretly fired a poisoned needle at the recording deacon, and Di Yao burned it before it struck, publicly identifying Tang San as an assassin using a Hidden Weapon.
• Tang San resisted the search with Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and Bone Piercing Needles, while Di Yao and Hu Liena suppressed him; Tang San cut off his sleeve to destroy its hidden mechanism and burned his wrist in the process.
• Di Yao ordered the attack and resistance recorded, then sensed Tang San’s concealed Tool Spirit and identified him as a Twin Martial Soul bearer.
• Di Yao sealed the academy and continued the search of Yu Xiaogang’s residence and storeroom, but let Tang San and Yu Xiaogang retreat so they could draw out others.
• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang that Di Yao could not be allowed to live, while Yu Xiaogang told him to protect the evidence first.

Di Yao publicly exposed Yu Xiaogang’s misuse of Spirit Hall resources, altered records, and reliance on old materials for his Ten Core Competencies, then ordered him and Tang San placed under restrictions. As Di Yao investigated the Black Market and the Title Douluo behind Tang San, he discovered that Xiao Wu was a 100,000-Year Soul Beast in human form.

• Di Yao presented records showing Yu Xiaogang used Spirit Hall resources for Tang San, altered Tang San’s awakening file, and concealed the risks of his Twin Martial Souls.
• Di Yao revealed that at least six of Yu Xiaogang’s Ten Core Competencies were based on Spirit Hall’s old materials, while Yu Xiaogang had failed to cite or submit his sources.
• Yu Xiaogang tried to invoke his past connection with Bibi Dong, but Di Yao rejected it and ordered Yu Xiaogang restricted to Notting Academy and Tang San placed under surveillance.
• Di Yao told Hu Liena that he was still tracking Yu Xiaogang’s Black Market ties and the Title Douluo behind Tang San, while a Law Enforcement Team member reported that a Black Market Soul Hunting Group was asking about Xiao Wu.
• Di Yao sensed Xiao Wu’s Soul Beast Origin and identified her as a 100,000-Year Transformation.

Di Yao exposed Xiao Wu as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in human form but spared her because she was too weak to be useful. After capturing the Black Market Soul Hunting Group, he began investigating who inside Notting Academy had revealed her identity, while Yu Xiaogang and Tang San planned to move their hidden things that night.

• Tang San rushed to the forest to protect Xiao Wu from the Black Market Soul Hunting Group, but Di Yao and Spirit Hall's Law Enforcement Team arrived and captured the attackers.
• Di Yao revealed that Xiao Wu was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in human form and chose to spare her, saying she was too weak to be worth killing yet.
• Hu Liena interrogated the Bloodthirsty Hyena Spirit Ancestor, who said the Black Market had received its information from someone inside Notting Academy.
• Di Yao ordered an investigation of the Black Market's contacts and the academy records, then told Xiao Wu to hide herself better.
• Di Yao called Xiao Wu bait, Tang San a line, and Yu Xiaogang a knot; Yu Xiaogang then told Tang San to move everything that night.

Yu Xiaogang and Tang San planned to move evidence and escape, while Tang San prepared a hidden-weapon trap for Di Yao’s Law Enforcement Team. Di Yao anticipated the trap and sent decoys into the old warehouse, where Tang San triggered the mechanisms as Di Yao and Hu Liena watched from above.

• Tang San urged Yu Xiaogang to move or destroy the evidence and use the Black Market to delay Spirit Hall, then prepared Tang Sect hidden weapons for a trap.
• Yu Xiaogang revealed an abandoned freight route through the academy’s old warehouse, and Tang San planned visible and concealed layers of traps.
• Di Yao reviewed reports of materials bought near the academy and concluded that Tang San was setting traps.
• Di Yao and Hu Liena arranged for cloaked dummies and Defensive Soul Guidance Devices to enter the old warehouse as decoys while they watched from a rooftop.
• Tang San saw the cloaked figures enter the trap zone, gave the signal, and triggered a burst of hidden weapons.

Di Yao exposed Tang San’s warehouse trap and followed the evidence to a Black Market Soul Hunting Group hideout. As Di Yao’s team surrounded the manor, Tang San learned that his teacher’s escape route was threatened and prepared to act.

• Di Yao identified Tang San’s decoy figures in the warehouse, and Hu Liena forced Tang San to retreat with a spiritual attack.
• The Law Enforcement Team found Black Market materials at the warehouse, and Di Yao ordered them to trace the source and recover the group’s Account Ledger.
• Xiao Wu confronted Tang San about the trap, then secretly followed Di Yao and Hu Liena to learn who had targeted her.
• Xiao Wu sensed soul beasts and blood at an Abandoned Manor, and Di Yao ordered the Law Enforcement Team to surround it and capture its occupants alive.
• A Spirit King ordered his subordinates to burn the Account Ledger if necessary and escort Yu Xiaogang’s people out, while Tang San decided to intervene.

Di Yao led the Law Enforcement Team in raiding the Black Market Soul Hunting Group’s manor, using the team and his tactics to defeat a Soul King and recover the Account Ledger. As Tang San launched a poisoned concealed weapon at Hu Liena, Di Yao realized another enemy was still hidden nearby.

• Di Yao and Hu Liena joined Deacon Zhou and the Law Enforcement Team in surrounding the manor, where Di Yao identified an Iron-Back Wolf King Soul King inside and chose not to fight him head-on.
• Di Yao used Ten Thousand Demon Edict to weaken the Beast Spirit soul masters while Hu Liena disrupted their judgment, allowing the Law Enforcement Team to advance.
• Di Yao lured the Iron-Back Wolf King Soul King into Deacon Zhou’s reach, and the Soul Emperor struck him down before the enforcers restrained him.
• Di Yao stopped Xiao Wu from touching poisoned cages and ordered Hu Liena to have the Law Enforcement Team remove the Poison Locks and rescue the wounded soul beasts.
• Di Yao exposed the Soul King’s lie about burning the Account Ledger, and Hu Liena’s interrogation led him to reveal it was hidden beneath the third stone slab in the Underground Wine Cellar.
• The Law Enforcement Team recovered ledgers listing Fasnuo Branch Hall, Notting Academy, Yu Xiaogang, and other names, just as Tang San fired a poisoned concealed weapon at Hu Liena from the shadows.

Di Yao thwarted Tang San’s attempt to poison Hu Liena and publicly declared Tang San wanted while naming Yu Xiaogang an accomplice. When a Soul Emperor attacked the estate, Di Yao’s soul skill disrupted the man’s Beast Spirit long enough for Gui Mei to restrain him.

• Tang San’s Poison Needle nearly struck Hu Liena, but Di Yao burned it away and wounded Tang San as he fled.
• Di Yao exposed Tang San’s attacks and publicly issued a warrant for him, while Yu Xiaogang was named an accomplice; Tang San and Yu Xiaogang escaped together.
• A Crimson Blood Berserk Bear Soul Emperor broke into the estate and attacked Di Yao’s team to recover the Account Ledger.
• Di Yao used Ten Thousand Demon Edict to briefly disrupt the Soul Emperor’s Beast Spirit, allowing Gui Mei to bind and pin him with Ghost Shadow Chains.

Di Yao exposed the Black Market operation’s ties to the Clear Sky remnants, seized a Sun Crystal Core, and advanced to the peak of level twenty-nine. Tang Hao appeared in the Southwest Forest, took Tang San and Yu Xiaogang away, and marked Di Yao as a threat.

• Di Yao questioned the captured Crimson Blood Berserk Bear, and Hu Liena and Gui Mei uncovered a Clear Sky Remnants ledger marking, a damaged Contact Talisman, and a Sun Crystal Core.
• Di Yao claimed the Sun Crystal Core as his spoils and absorbed its energy, raising his Soul Power to the peak of level twenty-nine.
• A Law Enforcement Team member reported that Tang San and Yu Xiaogang had escaped Nuoding City and been protected by a powerful aura in the Southwest Forest.
• Di Yao, Hu Liena, and Gui Mei confronted Tang Hao in the forest after he appeared to rescue Tang San and Yu Xiaogang.
• Tang Hao carried Tang San and Yu Xiaogang away, while Di Yao called Tang Hao the biggest fish and Tang Hao warned Tang San that Di Yao had to die.

After Di Yao returned to Spirit City with the Black Market operation’s evidence, he secured approval for his Third Soul Ring, access to rare-resource information, and clearance to investigate in Heaven Dou City. He left with Hu Liena and a Law Enforcement Team to meet Xue Qinghe and begin the second phase of the Resource Case.

• Di Yao reported the Black Market’s destruction, the captured Crimson Blood Berserk Bear Soul Emperor, and the evidence implicating Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, and the Clear Sky Remnants.
• Di Yao asked Bibi Dong for Third Soul Ring approval, access to information on soul bones and Immortal Herbs, and operational clearance in Heaven Dou City; Bibi Dong granted his requests and confirmed his share of the recovered resources.
• Bibi Dong warned Di Yao that Tang Hao had targeted him, and Di Yao admitted he was afraid but would not recklessly confront him alone.
• Bibi Dong gave Di Yao a sealed letter for Xue Qinghe and ordered Hu Liena to accompany him to Heaven Dou City.
• Three days later, Di Yao departed with Hu Liena and a Law Enforcement Team, planning to meet Xue Qinghe before investigating the Heaven Dou Chamber of Commerce.

Di Yao arrived in Heaven Dou City and met Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, sensing a hidden angel aura within him as Xue Qinghe sensed Di Yao’s unusual power. Xue Qinghe gave Di Yao a list of suspicious trade channels, and Di Yao left prepared to investigate them, including routes linked to the Seven Treasures Chamber of Commerce.

• Di Yao and Hu Liena entered Heaven Dou City quietly and went to the Crown Prince’s Mansion.
• Di Yao sensed an angel aura in Xue Qinghe, while Xue Qinghe felt that Di Yao could threaten his disguise.
• Xue Qinghe questioned Di Yao’s independence from Bibi Dong, and Di Yao said he would follow whichever path led higher.
• Xue Qinghe gave Di Yao a list of trade channels connected to laundered stolen goods, including outer routes operating under the Seven Treasures Chamber of Commerce’s name.
• Di Yao recognized Xue Qinghe’s hidden significance and left to investigate the listed accounts.
• Alone, Xue Qinghe identified Di Yao as Demon Emperor Di Jun and called him a monster.

Di Yao sealed the Seven Treasures Chamber of Commerce’s outer branch after records linked its routes to stolen Spirit Hall goods, leaving Ning Rongrong unable to stop the investigation. As the Law Enforcement Team sealed a third warehouse, a powerful sword aura arrived, and Ning Rongrong recognized it as Sword Grandpa’s.

• Di Yao ordered the outer branch sealed and had its manager arrested after presenting records linking three stolen shipments to the chamber of commerce.
• Ning Rongrong confronted Di Yao, but the account ledger showed that goods had passed through her family’s routes.
• Hu Liena and Di Yao confronted the manager with manifests and receipts, and he confessed that Viscount Luo’s people had arranged the shipments.
• Di Yao ordered the accounts and goods sealed, the manager taken away, and the involved noble warehouses added to the investigation; he told Ning Rongrong that Seven Treasures would have to explain or pay compensation.
• A sharp sword aura descended as the Law Enforcement Team sealed a third warehouse, and Ning Rongrong recognized the arrival as Sword Grandpa.

Di Yao withstood Sword Douluo Chen Xin’s sword intent while pressing Seven Treasures to compensate Spirit Hall for stolen goods moved through its outer trade routes. Seven Treasures accepted his revised terms, and Di Yao agreed to meet Sect Master Ning the next day, leaving Ning Rongrong intrigued and unsettled by him.

• Di Yao resisted Chen Xin’s sword intent without kneeling, while his Demon Emperor Di Jun spirit suppressed the chamber’s beast-type soul beasts.
• Di Yao presented evidence that Seven Treasures’ outer trade routes had handled stolen Spirit Hall goods and demanded compensation or threatened to send the evidence to Spirit City.
• Chen Xin let the sword intent fade after testing Di Yao’s resolve and spirit, and a Seven Treasures disciple delivered the Sect Master’s offer to compensate Spirit Hall and investigate the stewards jointly.
• Di Yao demanded the compensation list before accepting the invitation to meet Sect Master Ning, then negotiated additional fire-beast clues, yang-attributed herbs, and ten percent more Gold Soul Coins.
• Seven Treasures accepted Di Yao’s revised compensation terms, and he agreed to meet Sect Master Ning the next day.
• Hu Liena asked Di Yao why he had stood firm despite fearing Chen Xin, while Chen Xin told Ning Rongrong to remember Di Yao.

Di Yao reported his dealings with the Seven Treasures Chamber of Commerce to Xue Qinghe, and the two probed each other’s motives and identities. Xue Qinghe gave him intelligence about Dugu Bo’s herb garden in Sunset Forest, prompting Di Yao to set out with Hu Liena and secret support from Chrysanthemum Douluo.

• Di Yao told Xue Qinghe that he had raised the price on Seven Treasures and assessed Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Ning Rongrong.
• Xue Qinghe and Di Yao tested each other during a discussion of Heaven Dou, Bibi Dong, and their conflicting allegiances, while Di Yao recognized a clue to Xue Qinghe’s hidden identity.
• Xue Qinghe gave Di Yao a scroll describing Dugu Bo’s herb garden in Sunset Forest and its foundation-changing herbs.
• Di Yao accepted the intelligence despite the risk, and he and Hu Liena left the Crown Prince's Mansion.
• Di Yao ordered preparations to travel to Sunset Forest, with Chrysanthemum Douluo set to follow them in secret.

Di Yao entered Sunset Forest with Hu Liena and two enforcers to reach Dugu Bo’s Herb Garden, burning through Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphorus Snake Poison with his Great Sun Golden Flame. After Di Yao exposed the poison slowly killing Dugu Yan and admitted he had come for the garden’s resources, Dugu Bo arrived and confronted the group with a far stronger wave of poison.

• Di Yao and Hu Liena entered Sunset Forest with two enforcers, and Di Yao used Great Sun Golden Flame to burn a path through Dugu Bo’s poison formation.
• Dugu Yan confronted the intruders and attacked Di Yao with Jade Phosphorus Snake Poison, but his flames burned through her poison.
• Di Yao used Ten Thousand Demon Edict to make Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent falter, then stopped his flames just short of her face.
• Di Yao told Dugu Yan that her poison was poisoning her from within and described the symptoms she had been suffering.
• Dugu Yan demanded to know whether Di Yao had come for the Herb Garden, and he admitted he wanted its resources and wanted to discuss a deal.
• Dugu Bo’s emerald poison swept through the forest, and he called Di Yao a brat who knew too much.

Di Yao confronted Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo about their Jade Phosphorus Snake poison, offering to suppress its backlash in exchange for access to Dugu Bo’s Herb Garden. After proving his treatment worked, Di Yao followed Dugu Bo into the forest to negotiate for Immortal Herbs.

• Di Yao told Dugu Yan her poison was damaging her body, then demanded access to her grandfather’s Herb Garden in exchange for easing the backlash.
• Dugu Bo emerged from the poison mist and pressured Di Yao, who described the Title Douluo’s own internal poison symptoms and explained that the Herb Garden’s resources were needed for a complete cure.
• Di Yao offered to suppress Dugu Yan’s poison once and asked to choose suitable Immortal Herbs; Dugu Bo agreed after Dugu Yan urged him to let Di Yao try.
• Di Yao used a fine thread of Great Sun Golden Flame to suppress the poison in Dugu Yan’s wrist, convincing her and Dugu Bo that his treatment worked.
• Dugu Bo took Di Yao into the forest toward the Herb Garden while Hu Liena stayed behind, reassured that Chrysanthemum Douluo was nearby.

Di Yao endured Dugu Bo’s poisonous pressure and negotiated access to three Immortal Herbs in exchange for helping Dugu Yan and protecting the Herb Garden. At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Di Yao selected three herbs that responded to his martial soul, while Dugu Bo began considering him a future threat.

• Di Yao argued that injuring him would hinder his work on Dugu Yan’s poison and explained that his Great Sun Golden Flame and Dugu Bo’s Immortal Herbs were both needed to help her.
• Di Yao negotiated access to the Herb Garden’s outskirts and three Immortal Herbs, and Dugu Bo agreed while forbidding him from touching the spring’s center or damaging the garden’s foundation.
• Di Yao entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and used the prototype of the Hetu Luoshu to assess the herbs and choose those best suited to Demon Emperor Di Jun.
• Di Yao chose the Fusang Red Heart Lotus, the Great Sun Blazing Grass, and the Golden Crow Vine, and all three responded to his martial soul.
• Dugu Bo recognized that Di Yao could replenish his martial soul’s source with the herbs and considered the danger of letting him leave, while Di Yao reminded him their transaction was not over.

Di Yao secured three solar Immortal Herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then used his Great Sun Golden Flame to suppress the poison afflicting Dugu Yan. Dugu Bo turned against him for learning the Herb Garden’s secrets, and the chapter ended as Dugu Bo prepared to attack.

• Di Yao collected the Fusang Red Heart Lotus, Great Sun Blazing Grass, and Golden Crow Vine, which responded to his martial soul.
• Di Yao carefully forced Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphorus Snake Poison back into her martial soul’s poison channels, easing her symptoms without curing her.
• Di Yao warned Dugu Yan that the poison would worsen with future breakthroughs and that suppressing it was only a temporary measure.
• Dugu Bo confronted Di Yao over the Immortal Herbs and the secrets he had learned, while Dugu Yan and Hu Liena objected.
• Yue Guan appeared to warn Dugu Bo against harming Di Yao, but Dugu Bo summoned his emerald serpent phantom as poison mist surged.

Di Yao survived Dugu Bo’s attack by borrowing the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s power, then refined two Immortal Herbs and broke through to Level Thirty Soul Power. He renewed his deal with Dugu Bo and set out to seek a third soul ring worthy of his transformed martial spirit.

• Dugu Bo unleashed a poisonous strike at Di Yao, who used the embryonic Hetu Luoshu and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to raise a barrier and survive it.
• Yue Guan shielded the injured Di Yao from Dugu Bo, while Dugu Yan rushed to his side.
• Di Yao swallowed the Great Sun Blazing Grass and Fusang Red Heart Lotus, using their power to suppress the Ice and Fire backlash and stabilize his martial spirit.
• Di Yao broke through to Level Thirty Soul Power, and Yue Guan and Hu Liena watched as his Golden Crow phantom and Demon Emperor Di Jun Dharma Image grew stronger.
• Di Yao insisted on continuing his deal with Dugu Bo and declared that he would seek his third soul ring in Sunset Forest.