Chapter Summaries

Cheng Xiao used Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew to restore Tian Meng's Spiritual Origin, hoping to increase the age of his Soul Rings. The first seal succeeded, and Cheng Xiao and Tian Meng continued sealing the rapidly growing power inside his Spiritual Sea.

• Cheng Xiao decided to use Tian Meng's Spiritual Origin to strengthen his Soul Rings and called Tian Meng out of his Spiritual Sea.
• Cheng Xiao showed Tian Meng the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and explained that it could repair and increase Spiritual Origin.
• Cheng Xiao and Tian Meng agreed to contain the recovering Spiritual Origin together, using Cheng Xiao's control of the Spiritual Sea and a seal modeled on the Silver Dragon King's.
• Cheng Xiao collected the dew, and the immortal herb withered to ashes; Tian Meng drank the dew and returned to Cheng Xiao's Spiritual Sea.
• Cheng Xiao restrained Tian Meng as his Spiritual Origin rapidly recovered, and the two completed the first seal before beginning the next ones.

Cheng Xiao sealed most of Tian Meng's Spiritual Origin and raised his first two Soul Rings to sixty thousand years, gaining a greatly expanded binding skill. At Spirit City, Bibi Dong rewarded the Golden Generation with Soul Bones, but Bishop Suoluo challenged her authority and she began to revise the arrangement.

• Cheng Xiao and Tian Meng sealed Tian Meng's Spiritual Origin, though a broken seal nearly shattered Cheng Xiao's Spiritual Sea.
• Cheng Xiao discovered that his first and second Soul Rings had risen to sixty thousand years and that Touch of Soul Binding could restrain a large area.
• Bibi Dong welcomed Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena back from training and offered each of them a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone.
• Bishop Suoluo objected that the Golden Generation had not earned the rewards and argued that the Worship Hall jointly controlled Spirit Hall's treasury.
• Bibi Dong acknowledged Suoluo's objection, and his faint smile froze as she began to change the arrangement.

Bibi Dong awarded three Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones as prizes for the upcoming tournament and warned Hu Liena that she must secure her position as Saintess against Cheng Xiao. She ordered Hu Liena and Elder Ju to bring Cheng Xiao back from Heaven Dou City, leaving Hu Liena to prepare for the mission.

• Bibi Dong made three Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones the champion team's prize for the continent-wide Advanced Soul Master Tournament, and Suoluo accepted her decision.
• Bibi Dong told Hu Liena that her position as Saintess was not secure and that she must not lose to Saint Son Cheng Xiao.
• Bibi Dong explained that Cheng Xiao's Beyond-Limit Spirit Ring Absorption Method and theories were reasons Spirit Hall had appointed him Saint Son.
• Bibi Dong ordered Hu Liena and Elder Ju to retrieve Cheng Xiao from Heaven Dou City without using force and told Hu Liena to learn more about him.
• Hu Liena left to prepare for the next day's departure, while Bibi Dong reflected on how Hu Liena reminded her of her former self.

Cheng Xiao tried to smooth over Dugu Yan’s absence from Ye Lingling and then visited Dugu Yan to settle their strained relationship. He offered her the Eight Spider Lances and Snow-Colored Swan Kiss, but she refused, leaving him to argue that she had to accept them to keep his lie from being exposed.

• Cheng Xiao told Ye Lingling that Dugu Yan was preparing to absorb the Eight Spider Lances and had been cultivating.
• Cheng Xiao promised Zhu Zhuqing he would arrange her enrollment at Heaven Dou Royal Academy under a different identity.
• Dugu Bo teased Cheng Xiao when he arrived at the Dugu residence and sent him upstairs to see Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Yan opened her bedroom door after Cheng Xiao said Ye Lingling had been asking about her, and she asked what he had told Ye Lingling.
• Cheng Xiao offered Dugu Yan the Eight Spider Lances and Snow-Colored Swan Kiss, but she refused them because her family could not repay the favor.
• Cheng Xiao entered Dugu Yan’s room and argued that she had to accept the Eight Spider Lances or his lie to Ye Lingling might be exposed.

Cheng Xiao helped Dugu Yan absorb and control the Eight Spider Lances, then left after she caught him looking at her exposed chest. Half a month later, he returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, harvested two rare treasures, and watched the Gold of Life rise from the spring.

• Cheng Xiao persuaded Dugu Yan to accept the Eight Spider Soul Bone as a gift and helped her suppress its violent power during absorption.
• Dugu Yan gained control of the Eight Spider Lances, then screamed at Cheng Xiao and ordered him out after realizing her sleepwear had been destroyed.
• Half a month later, Cheng Xiao returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as promised to the Silver Dragon King.
• Cheng Xiao harvested the Star Luo Spirit Pearl and the Primordial Immortal Herb, leaving the well's future plants for Tang San to find.
• The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well trembled, and the Gold of Life rose from its depths.

The Silver Dragon King emerged from the Gold of Life, and Cheng Xiao negotiated two years of protection by promising to reveal a way to reduce humans' slaughter of soul beasts after finding the Dragon Tomb. Before returning to his Spiritual Sea, she told him her name was Gu Yue.

• The Silver Dragon King left the Gold of Life, and Cheng Xiao sensed that her power had grown.
• The Silver Dragon King demanded to hear Cheng Xiao's method for reducing humans' slaughter of soul beasts, but he said he would not tell her yet.
• Cheng Xiao insisted she could not force him to do anything against his will and reminded her that he had promised to take her to the Dragon Tomb within two years.
• Cheng Xiao offered to reveal the method after finding the Dragon Tomb if the Silver Dragon King protected him for the next two years, and she agreed.
• Cheng Xiao asked what to call her, and the Silver Dragon King said, "My name is Gu Yue!" before returning to his Spiritual Sea.

Spirit Hall Soul Masters arrived at the Ye Family to take Cheng Xiao back, but Dugu Bo and Ye Renxin stood in their way. When Cheng Xiao appeared and agreed to go with them, he hurried inside and gave the two elders immortal herbs to absorb.

• Yue Guan confronted Dugu Bo at the Ye Family gates, and their clash revealed that Dugu Bo had advanced to level ninety-two.
• Ye Renxin emerged and displayed his Nine Heart Begonia, joining Dugu Bo in resisting Yue Guan and Hu Liena.
• Hu Liena accused Ye Renxin and Dugu Bo of interfering in Spirit Hall's affairs, while Dugu Bo claimed Cheng Xiao had already left.
• Cheng Xiao arrived, and Yue Guan identified him to Hu Liena; Cheng Xiao agreed to go with her, then walked into the estate.
• Cheng Xiao shut the courtyard gates and gave Dugu Bo and Ye Renxin the Star Luo Spirit Pearl and Primordial Immortal Herb, urging them to absorb the herbs at once.

Cheng Xiao gave Ye Renxin and Dugu Bo immortal herbs to help them condense Soul Cores before he went to Spirit City to work with Spirit Hall on the Soul Spirit Plan. Ye Renxin absorbed the Star Luo Spirit Pearl, recovered his youth, and began a breakthrough that left Yue Guan wary outside the courtyard.

• Cheng Xiao urged Dugu Bo and Ye Renxin to absorb their immortal herbs before he traveled to Spirit City, explaining that he wanted Spirit Hall’s help with the Soul Spirit Plan.
• Dugu Bo agreed to wait until after their breakthroughs to confront Yue Guan, and Ye Renxin took the Star Luo Spirit Pearl first.
• The Star Luo Spirit Pearl surrounded Ye Renxin with starlight, restoring his youth and vitality as his Soul Power surged.
• Yue Guan rushed toward the courtyard after sensing the breakthrough, but Dugu Bo stopped him with poison mist and threatened Hu Liena.
• Yue Guan suspected a hidden Soul Douluo was breaking through, while Dugu Bo returned to the courtyard and warned him to stay out.

Ye Renxin successfully broke through to level ninety, and his Nine Heart Begonia evolved. As Dugu Bo used the Primordial Immortal Herb to break through and attempt to condense a Soul Core, Gu Yue warned Cheng Xiao that their method was wrong but refused to help.

• Ye Renxin awakened at level ninety, and Cheng Xiao noticed that his Nine Heart Begonia had evolved to draw upon the Star-Moon Essence.
• Cheng Xiao asked Ye Renxin to guard them and guided Dugu Bo in using the Primordial Immortal Herb to increase his Soul Power.
• Dugu Bo broke through to level ninety-three and then level ninety-four as the herb's power continued to surge.
• Cheng Xiao urged Dugu Bo to condense a Soul Core, and the herb's medicinal power helped stabilize his violent Soul Power.
• Gu Yue told Cheng Xiao that their Soul Core method was completely wrong, then refused to explain the correct method because it was outside their deal.

Cheng Xiao obtained Gu Yue’s Soul Core method and used it to guide Dugu Bo through a dangerous breakthrough. Dugu Bo successfully formed a Soul Core and reached rank ninety-six, but his surging Soul Power destroyed the courtyard walls.

• Cheng Xiao pressured Gu Yue by arguing that he needed the Soul Core method to survive the journey to the Dragon Tomb, and Gu Yue sent the method into his mind.
• Cheng Xiao told Ye Renxin to make Dugu Bo absorb more Soul Power despite the danger, and Ye Renxin followed his instructions.
• Cheng Xiao directed Dugu Bo to use the medicinal power to form a core and place it in the Soul Power vortex.
• Dugu Bo let the vortex consume the medicinal core, which drew in the excess Soul Power and condensed into a Soul Core.
• Dugu Bo reached rank ninety-six as his Soul Power erupted and collapsed the courtyard walls.

Yue Guan confronted Dugu Bo after Spirit Hall forces assembled outside Ye Renxin’s courtyard, but Dugu Bo’s overwhelming strength shocked him. The chapter ended with Yue Guan recognizing that Dugu Bo had broken through to Rank 96.

• Yue Guan learned that Hu Liena had left Heaven Dou City and ordered Harris and the other Soul Douluo to prepare to seize Cheng Xiao.
• A powerful surge of Soul Power scattered Dugu Bo’s poison mist and collapsed the courtyard wall, making Yue Guan fear a peak Douluo had arrived.
• Dugu Bo attacked Yue Guan with his Fourth Soul Skill, and his serpent strike shattered Yue Guan’s chrysanthemum-petal blades.
• Dugu Bo struck Yue Guan and sent him crashing through a building, leaving him badly injured.
• Yue Guan recognized Dugu Bo as the Rank 96 Douluo who had just broken through.

Dugu Bo revealed that Cheng Xiao’s help had raised him from level ninety-two to level ninety-six, while Yue Guan discovered that Ye Renxin had recovered and reached level ninety through the evolved Nine Heart Begonia. Ye Renxin then enhanced Dugu Bo further, leaving him strong enough to challenge a level ninety-seven Titled Douluo.

• Dugu Bo displayed his stable level-ninety-six strength, and Yue Guan struggled to believe he had advanced four levels in a few hours.
• Dugu Bo credited his transformation to Cheng Xiao and resolved to help him obtain a Dragon Core.
• Yue Guan spotted the Star Luo Spirit Pearl in the Nine Heart Begonia and guessed that Dugu Bo had consumed the Primordial Immortal Herb.
• Dugu Bo shielded Ye Renxin and Cheng Xiao with poisonous mist as Ye Renxin used the evolved Nine Heart Begonia and acupuncture to heal and strengthen Dugu Bo.
• Ye Renxin’s enhancements raised Dugu Bo’s power enough to give him the ability to fight a level-ninety-seven Titled Douluo.

Dugu Bo defeated Yue Guan in their battle, leaving Yue Guan badly wounded and conceding. As Dugu Bo moved to threaten him further, Cheng Xiao intervened and asked Yue Guan to escort him to Spirit City.

• Yue Guan and Dugu Bo transformed into their Martial Soul Avatars and clashed in the sky, with Dugu Bo gaining the upper hand.
• Yue Guan unleashed his ninth soul skill, but Dugu Bo countered with Time Freeze and struck him with Blade of Poison Fang.
• Yue Guan conceded defeat as Harris and the others rushed to protect him.
• Dugu Bo continued toward Yue Guan, prompting Yue Guan to warn him against provoking Spirit Hall into a desperate fight.
• Cheng Xiao stepped forward and asked Dugu Bo to let Yue Guan escort him to Spirit City.

Cheng Xiao agreed to return to Spirit City as Spirit Hall’s Saint Son, despite Dugu Bo’s concerns and warnings to Yue Guan. Spirit Hall staged a public welcome to bind Cheng Xiao to its ranks, but he recognized the scheme and faced Hu Liena without hesitation.

• Dugu Bo revealed his new strength, forced Yue Guan to promise Cheng Xiao’s safety, and agreed to let him travel to Spirit City.
• Cheng Xiao told Dugu Bo he needed the Saint Son identity for his Soul Spirit Plan, and Dugu Bo warned Spirit Hall not to harm him.
• Cheng Xiao teased Yue Guan by calling him Elder Ju, and Yue Guan formally welcomed him back as the Saint Son.
• Harris gathered Spirit Hall soul masters at the city gate, where they publicly welcomed Cheng Xiao and Hu Liena before the watching crowd.
• Cheng Xiao saw that Spirit Hall’s grand welcome was meant to bind him publicly to the organization, then strode toward the hostile-looking Hu Liena.

Cheng Xiao returned to Spirit Hall and asserted his status over Hu Liena as they traveled toward Spirit City. In the Star Dou Great Forest, Di Tian decided to gather the fighting soul beasts and force Cheng Xiao to reveal himself by attacking humanity.

• Cheng Xiao and Hu Liena exchanged sarcastic remarks before boarding the golden carriage, and Cheng Xiao made sure she remained half a step behind him.
• Cheng Xiao rode toward Spirit City with Hu Liena and a procession of Spirit Hall soul masters, using their public rivalry to establish his authority.
• Di Tian and the other ferocious beasts discussed how they had been deceived and worried about finding their Lord, who remained in Cheng Xiao's Spiritual Sea.
• Di Tian refused to send the ferocious beasts into the human world and ordered them to gather the Star Dou Great Forest's fighting soul beasts.
• Di Tian vowed to make humans pay for their slaughter of soul beasts and planned to force Cheng Xiao to come out.

During the journey, Cheng Xiao rebuffed Hu Liena’s attempts to draw him out and cautiously began building goodwill with Yue Guan. Their campfire conversation was interrupted by ragged survivors in Heaven Dou military uniforms, leaving Cheng Xiao worried that something had happened to the army.

• Hu Liena tried to seduce and provoke Cheng Xiao into sharing information, but he ignored her and left the carriage to roast a Soft Bone Rabbit.
• Yue Guan and Hu Liena joined Cheng Xiao at the campfire, where Yue Guan accepted his offer to roast a rabbit.
• Yue Guan deduced that Cheng Xiao had taken Aromatic Silk Beauty and asked where he had found the immortal herbs.
• Cheng Xiao offered to reveal the herbs’ source in exchange for an unspecified future condition, but Yue Guan refused.
• A group of exhausted people emerged from the forest, and Cheng Xiao recognized their clothes as Heaven Dou military uniforms and feared something had happened to the army.

Cheng Xiao and the Spirit Hall group were attacked by a massive Beast Tide, while Xue Qinghe’s army was routed by soul beasts at Lingfeng City. The chapter ended with both forces discovering that soul beasts had joined the war.

• Star Luo soldiers told Cheng Xiao that soul beasts had ambushed their army and pursued them as they retreated from Lingfeng City.
• Cheng Xiao sensed more than ten thousand soul beasts approaching, including a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and warned Yue Guan.
• A colossal soul beast used gravity to pin Yue Guan down and struck at him as the Beast Tide attacked the Spirit Hall group.
• Xue Qinghe’s army captured Lingfeng City’s walls, but a black torrent attacked its rear and threw the Heaven Dou troops into disarray.
• A scout reported that soul beasts had routed the army, leaving Xue Qinghe stunned by the news.

Xue Qinghe’s Heaven Dou army collapsed under a coordinated Beast Tide, and the spirit beasts then turned on the Star Luo army as well. Bear Lord appeared above Lingfeng City and destroyed its walls with one claw strike, leaving the city breached.

• A messenger told Xue Qinghe and General Nie that powerful spirit beasts were attacking the army’s rear in coordinated ranks, and Xue Qinghe rejected the idea that Star Luo controlled them.
• Caught between the spirit beasts and Star Luo’s army, the Heaven Dou forces suffered an irreversible defeat, and General Nie helped Xue Qinghe escape.
• Xue Qinghe spotted the spirit beasts attacking Star Luo’s counterattacking troops, driving them back into Lingfeng City.
• Bear Lord appeared above the city walls, and his claw strike tore through the walls and destroyed Lingfeng City’s southern gate.

Bear Lord destroyed Lingfeng City and demanded that the humans hand over Cheng Xiao alive to end the Beast Tide. As the Titan Giant Ape attacked Yue Guan and overwhelmed Spirit Hall’s forces, Cheng Xiao invoked a mysterious power by commanding, “Stand Up!”

• Xue Qinghe saw Bear Lord devastate Lingfeng City and decided to return to the Heaven Dou Empire to warn his grandfather.
• Bear Lord declared that the Beast Tide was retribution for humans’ slaughter of soul beasts and demanded that Cheng Xiao be handed over alive.
• The Titan Giant Ape attacked Yue Guan while leading soul beasts toward the human world to find and rescue Xiao Wu before Scarlet King could reach her.
• Yue Guan blocked the Titan Giant Ape’s hammer with his Martial Soul Avatar, but the Titan Giant Ape and ten thousand soul beasts began overwhelming Spirit Hall’s two hundred soul masters.
• Cheng Xiao shielded himself from the battle’s impact and commanded, “Stand Up,” as countless black shadows emerged with a terrifying aura.

Cheng Xiao summoned a powerful Shadow Legion and turned the battle against the Soul Beasts into a slaughter, shocking Hu Liena and Yue Guan with his strength. As the Titan Giant Ape recognized Cheng Xiao and leapt to capture him, Yue Guan launched his ninth Soul Skill at its back.

• Cheng Xiao summoned Yegrit and the Shadow Soldiers, and Yue Guan realized Cheng Xiao's shadow-controlling Soul Skill had grown powerful enough to command a Soul Saint.
• Yue Guan resolved to report Cheng Xiao's abilities to the Pope while fending off the Titan Giant Ape's earth attack.
• Cheng Xiao ordered Yegrit to kill every Soul Beast and revealed himself as a thirteen-year-old Soul Ancestor with two ten-thousand-year Soul Rings, alarming Hu Liena.
• Cheng Xiao bound the Soul Beasts with his first Soul Skill, allowing the Shadow Legion and Spirit Hall Soul Masters to attack.
• The Titan Giant Ape recognized Cheng Xiao as the human the Beast Tide sought and leapt toward him, so Yue Guan struck at its back with his ninth Soul Skill.